The night guard captain hesitated to say but then he takes a breath and reveal to him what is happening outside
"There is soone outside is challenging my lord"
Aeryon frowned.
"Challenging ?"
If this was any other tis, Aeryon would have accepted this duel in a heartbeat.
After all, this is not the first ti he duels the warriors of the tribes. Most tribes surrender after their best warriors was defeated.
It is also a way for him to command the warriors. A chief that could not fight, could not win the admiration of their people.
In so other cultures, not being able to fight does not an they are unable to lead.
So uses scholars to command the soldiers; so uses senators and orders of the emperor to command the soldiers.
But in the Steppe, only those who could lead them to battle and win could win the admiration of the arrogant warriors of the Steppe.
Defeating their best and winning their support is sothing that everyone in the Steppe understood and no one pretend not to understand
Hence, Aeryon sotis uses this cultural advantage to his side.
Each ti he cos into a tribe, the best way to subdue them is to challenge their best warriors.
Defeat them and he could get the loyalty of these tribes. This is in a way preserve the power of that tribe and strengthen Aeryon forces
When a tribe pledges their loyalty, unless the superior tribe is in so kind of hard situation, the subordinate tribe would not rebel
That is because Aeryon is a Marynku, and the people he fights with are the Marynku people, the people of the Steppe.
So, they adhere to the rule.
They do not find it humiliating to serve under him and the more victories
Every ti he won, the more they identify with him and the more they are proud to serve under him
If Aeryon was a Yan people, regardless of how many warriors that the Yan people defeated or how many they killed, they would only be a few of them that would surrender.
The chief might surrender but they surrender because most of the tribespeople are their families.
After all, the killing by the Yan people toward the people of the Steppe is nurous.
Aeryon when he heard about the challenge also wanted to set out.
After all, being cooped up inside the tent does make him want so entertainnt.
Unless the one who cos is an innate warrior, he fears no one
He did not drink Ayrag when in war and he himself is not fond of it. He does drink it but when he drinks it, it serves a purpose. He rarely drinks it for his convenience.
So, there is nothing fun to do in a war which is to be expected.
Aeryon main force himself did not yet engage the enemy as they are now in the process of testing each other.
For a mont Aeryon thought of defeating this person and then everything is settled but this naïve thought only lingers for a second before he stops entertaining such thoughts
Because he knows his enemy too well
Chadha would not give up what he had created with one loss. He had created a foundation in the west
This is a foundation for a family to last for generations. This is a foundation of creating a legacy.
Chadha himself is probably shocked when he finds himself in that position.
So, Chadha would not behave like those small chiefs and those small clans.
Even if he lost his best warriors in a battle, it would not change the opinion of those people who are bound tightly by Chadha ships.
This would be unlike the battle Aeryon fight in the Steppe. This would truly be like fighting a newly rising kingdom that already has its heart united,
This is not like the battle he fought before where defeating the commander of the enemy would change the tide and made them surrender
"The circumstances are different, the stake is different, and the scale in one own heart is also different"
The chief that had surrenders to him send a warrior to fight him and then surrender afterwards simply because from the very beginning they know they could not have won against the superior forces of the Brolgadhr army
However, the battle between Aeryon forces and the Cha Ner Ul Alliance is different. There are many generals and commanders.
There is also many people in these three regions.
Aeryon himself before departing from the west acknowledged that even if he wins, it will take so ti to pacify the region if they do win.
The people are many, the warriors are nurous, one loss would not change the minds of the rulers of this battle
Since it would not change anything why send soone to challenge him?
Aeryon was silent when he is thinking of this. In front of his low table, there is still tow kneeling person. These two are the current captain of this shift.
"My Khan, you must not go. There might be so sche in this matter" hearing this Aeryon could not help but suddenly startled himself.
It was just for a mont, but sothing flashed in his mind and that flash of inspiration makes him suddenly turns solemn. Aeryon nodded
"I never think of that"
"Assassination"
He never thinks of it not because he could not think of such matter.
But because while there were a few attempts on his life all of this is dismantle even before it could reach him.
And another because he never expected that soone would dare to do it in front of so many witnesses.
But Chadha.... that guy would do it.
Killing him would not be the sa as killing any other person.
Killing him and the movent he had started, all of it would end. In the past, he might have hesitated because he did not want to create a deadly feud
But now, things are different.
He has many tribes of the west backing him. And there is even a chance that this is an assassination jointly planned by three tribes.
So, even if the Brolgadhr tribe wanted to avenge him later, they have to defeat the three tribes.
But by that ti, it would be a moot point.
If he is dead, then the advantage would fall to the enemy of Brolgadhr.
Aeryon right now is like Oda Nobunaga being banded against by the whole country.
Aeryon knows it and Chadha knows it. He is the backbone of Brolgadhr tribe.
"The tribe is not yet that stable. If I die, it will break apart" Aeryon could not help but sigh when thinking of this matter.
He could die in battle but not in an assassination. That is not how he wants to go and it could not happen now
Aeryon close his eyes for a mont and then shakes his head
Aeryon did not say anything, but he walks out the tent. The night guard leader was perplexed. It almost seems like the Khan was about to listen to him
But why did suddenly the Khan go out?
He did not understand.
The only thing he could do was to follow the Khan
...
Aeryon rode his horse outside his camp.
But he is not alone
He is accompanied by a hundred n.
Arrows are pointed in the direction of the shout and there is horses and n guarding the Khan like he is inside a fortress.
Aeryon brought out a long glaive. This long glaive is longer than normal glaive and it is quite heavy. But for soone with Aeryon strength, this is nothing.
Aeryon did not explain his thinking, nor did he explain many things.
he seems to understand that he must not die, and he must not be attacked or assassinated. He himself understood that if he dies then all of this he had created would crumble along.
Dama might be the one that unified the Southern Great Steppe, if he failed. And maybe, Dama could repel the Yan army force if the Yan army forces do rides north.
But that kind of regi.... could it unify the world? Aeryon has doubt
There are so many reasons for him not to co out. But he cos out anyway. even if he felt that this is a trap, he still went out
Even though he knows it might be an assassination, he still has to co out. No one understand him.
his guards didn’t understand him, and probably his closest people would also not understand it.
But Mayeux and his warriors would understand him
"I have no choice at this mont. This is a high risk, high return"
Aeryon knows that if he did not accept it, his reputation would falter.
After all, Aeryon make his reputation by slaying the generals and chiefs of the army when in battle.
This reputation serves him a lot in the early days.
Many warriors that co to his side, co because they were awed by his strength and prowess.
The reputation of brave, resourceful and powerful Khan.
If he shows weakness now, then this is not the Khan the warriors had chosen and so of them might falter.
They did not lose any grounds yet, but a seed is planted ahead of ti and not after.
But the most important thing is because Aeryon simply wanted to break this sche openly. If there is a really a sche, then Aeryon is ready to accept it
And because he is confident in breaking it
Without this confidence, he would not be able not break through from the mould and beco who he is today
It is not blind arrogance.
It is arrogance that is nurtured from victory.
An arrogance that co from the confidence to overco every obstacle.
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