Way of Overlord

Her husband is no common man.

Ruling the world, commanding the armies, fighting wars while laughing and drinking, his horses stepping onto the Steppe and shaking the world

A great man, a great warrior, a great king.

And now, he had even pacified the western tribes.

And she knew her husband would not hesitate to cut off her head if the situation demands it.

His husband is doing it for power, for dreams, for himself, for the tribe.

For fame and fortune, for legacy and ease of mind

People are not one dimensional. Just because they are doing it for themselves, does not mean that is the only reason

She knew how her husband cares about the people. He did not need to. All the other chief, even if they wanted to pretend to love the people, do not do the way Aeryon did it

He really cares about the people of the tribe. And this care is not some superficial care.

He truly cares for them. And even after he had become Khan, he try not to become distant with his tribesman.

He still revere the older people of the Brolgadhr that when these old men and women wanted to meet him, his action are more respectful than when he met a scholar.

He is not heartless.

He believes that a chief should have the mentality of a chief. And a king should have the mentality of a king

And a king most pressing duty is to his people.

This is something that even her father did not emphasizes.

Does his father care about the people?

Yes, but that was because they are family.

But the kind of care that Aeron has upon his people is not that divided.

To him....all of the Steppe people are his people.

All of those people who surrender and submit to him....is then under his umbrella of protection.

And as a king it is not only a disgrace if you could not protect your people, it is a dereliction of duty

As her husband put it, the people gave you a lot and you also must bear a lot.

He wants those who sits in his position to not only understand that it is a place of duty and responsibility

That you have the sacred duty of protecting your people.

Yes, he does it for fame, for fortune, for legacy, he does it for all of this.

But he was also sincere about protecting the people. his magnanimities truly something that she has never seen on any other chief.

Probably that is why he could promote people not of his own tribes.

In any other tribes, no matter how you trusted the other tribe, there is this feeling of tribalism that would always affect political and military decision

But Aeryon did not. From the moment he started his conquest, he truly believes what he was saying.

And so, from that she knew, if he has to choose between the kingdom and her, between him endangering the kingdoms he had created and saving her, even fi eh loved her, even if it would break his heart, even if he would cry tears of blood, his hand would not hesitate to swing his sword and cut off her head

He would probably mourn her, probably took her head and cries with her head on his lap and she would be given a state funeral like no other woman in the Steppe had experienced before

But he would never hesitate.

That sword in his hand is not a decoration

Because he himself had made it clear.

He is the king of this new kingdom

This new kingdom did not yet have a name yet

But he is the king.

And she is the queen.

And as much as she benefited from that position, she too must know her duty

She is given all the convenience of life because of that title. And now she must be expected to honour her duty

And if she did not do it, she did not honour it, then as the king, Aeryon would surely made her pay.

Because she enjoys the privilege, she also has a responsibility. If she did not enjoy any of the privileges then Aeryon would not care about it that much

She understand it and she did not mind having the responsibility of the queen. She herself...believe she is the queen of this new kingdom

But there is a difference between her and her husband

She could not just forget her tribe and care about other tribes unconditionally. This is the limitation of the era for her.

If her husband was just a common chief, he would allow her to do the things that she wanted to do.

But she knows her husband. His ambition lies not only on the Southern Great Steppe. This is a man with ambition that is reaching to the heavens.

And now he is even stronger than before. At least before, even if her tribesmen fear her husband they would not just be subdued with only one shout

But now after the victory in the west...how could wise men in the world could not see the wind?

The unification of the Southern Great Steppe is near. It is so close now. And everyone knows the one with the biggest potential to unify the Southern Great Steppe is none other than her husband

Which warriors in the entire Southern Great Steppe would intentionally provoke such a future behemoth of the Steppe?

And now, he have the support of Chagai, Ultar and Nergui.

And she also knows that the Khagai has some secret agreement with the Khan.

The Khagai chief and Khagai tribe is probably also Aeryon side.

There is probably other such secret agreements and deals and alliances.

She knows Aeryon would fight Dama in the East.

And if this was any other time, her husband would support her. But not now. But how could he understand her feeling right now?

Right now the soldiers of the tribe are returning for winter but when summer came, they would fight again.

And this time, the west could be fully conquered.

All of the tribes that would not submit would be destroyed.

With the help of the three tribes of the west, the other tribes that is still waiting to wait and watch could no longer do it

Aoshi, Toghrul, Tare, Oglan tribe, all of these tribes in the west that are still hoping for some miracle could no longer wait.

But right now if they try to stop the momentum of the Khan it would be like trying to destroy a boulder by throwing eggs at it

Right now they are safe.

Unless something fundamentally change between the leaders of the Chagai, Nergui and Ultar tribe with the Khan, those other tribes in the west are living on borrowed time

Ayera could only sighed

"What is hard for others, is easy for him. It was almost like all the luck and fortune in the world gathers on him" she could not help but think of such things

In just a year, the victory snowballed almost without stop, the momentum is like an unstoppable storm sweeping everything away.

Her father once said that when Aeryon break the two tribes and begins expanding his tribe he had created a comeback story that would never be forgotten for hundreds of years in the stories of the Steppe

Even a hundred years from now, people would remember the comeback.

Even if Aeryon did not achieve anything after that, the stories of how he manage to stage a comeback victory against the Xewa and Ghar tribe would always be remembered.

But he did not only just do that.

He manage to position himself as the protector of the tribe and the protector of the Southern Great Steppe and an avenger of them when he attack Nurshira and sack that city.

And then taking over the Wall and expanding.

Since then her father also expands the tribe and took over the tribe around it.

Because of the marriage alliance between the two tribes, Utgard also could expand and become powerful

Her father said that her husband brought about a wind of change .

The wind of the Steppe is to calm for too many decades.

There is no longer heroes, and there is no longer rulers that wanted to strive.

Aeryon action harm the interest of some of this chief but it stirs the calm lake.

The warriors that have to become bandits could join him and those who wanted to use their talent could now be used

And Aeryon dare uses them.

He incorporate the other tribe army into his and instead of loyalty to the tribe, it is loyalty to him, the new state he is about to establish, and the new ideology that he is now espousing.

The people of the Steppe is one and they should not kill among each other.

Instead, they should raise their horses, rear them and ride all over the world so that the hooves of the Steppe horses could reach the four directions of the world

A wind of change

But even her father underestimated this wind of change

Her father is no longer here and could not see this changes.

If he could see it, knowing her father, he would probably feel happy and his fighting spirit would surely surge.

Her father probably would also want to compete with the heroes of the world

This is no longer just a wind of change.

His husband had achieved what many had tried to do for a lifetime and failed

A wind of change is not enough to describe what Aeryon had brought to the stale Steppe politics

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