Way of Overlord-Chapter 477: Sighing For Heroes

He tries to look at the battlefield, try to squint his eyes but he could only see blurry outline of the battlefield and he could not see anything in detail and he could only sigh at this.

Even though his vision did get enhanced from the system, it did not reach the point where he could see miles away.

It is not like he could see everything in this world.

If it is around him, he could focus on his surrounding and his vision could even capture the smallest detail about a person

This is thanks to the enhancement of his senses since he uses the system.

Aeryon suspected that this kind of world where he could use all of his senses to capture every detail is also the same kind of world that people with innate abilities experience.

Belarion for example might see the world in a different way than normal people.

Maybe, in his eyes and in his senses, everything is richer in the world, from its colours to its smell

He only thinks about this kind of stuff only for a moment. He looks at the distance and sighed.

"The battle.....is it too late?" the question that he ask himself....is a question he already has an answer too. He just did not want to accept it.

So, he ask himself.

But he could guess that the battle had already been decided.

At the moment Aeryon is looking at the battlefield, he did not know that Garron was making his last stand on the banks of the Utgol river.

And if he did know, he also knows that it is too little too late for him to enter the battle right now.

If he knows and insist to enter the battlefield at this moment to retrieve Garron body, then.....with Ogura just wining over his father, the morale is high, the terrain is their territory, Aeryon with less than five thousand men, far away from home, exhausted and unprepared, the battle between the two would probably end in the victory of Ogura.

Even if that victory is a pyrrhic victory, if Ogura mange to defeat Aeryon, the Kan himself, then that would made Ogura reputation soar all over the Southern Great Steppe.

The shackle of being given the title of invincible is that once you are defeated, the morale of your army would crumble and your reputation would be the stepping stone for others to increase their reputation.

But Aeryon did not know. He just speculated that the battle had ended.

And if he knows, he would not rush forward. If its not too late, he would not mind rushing and risking things.

But if its too late, then all he could do is prepare for the next move.

The battle had already been decided, Garron is gone and the heroes of the world could only sighed at the passing of such rival

Now, that Garron is dead, new layout is appearing in his mind.

And this new layout is more uncertain. There is more variable than the plan in the west.

But he smiles

"Time then.....is on my side" Aeryon did not expect it. He thought it would take him around three of five years to pacify the Southern Great Steppe

There is even an estimation of ten years if he failed in the East.

But, he is very clear of one thing.

Once he managed to unify the Southern Great Steppe, he would be the only one in the Great Steppe, that conquered an entire region of the Great Steppe.

At that time, with one wave of his hand he could summons hundreds of thousands of riders of the Southern Great Steppe to overwhelmed the world.

The difference then would be overwhelming.

The central Great Steppe, if they wanted to have any chance at all of defeating him, they have to gather the strength of the entire Central Great Steppe to even have a chance of repelling him.

But that does not even worried him. The Central Great Steppe has long been divided. Their resentment and feud runs deep.

They could not be as united as the north.

If the Southern Great Steppe come to the Central Great Steppe as a unified force, there is only outcome.

The Central Great Steppe would be conquered piece by piece.

There is all kinds of schemes and intrigue that Aeryon could employ on the tribes of the Central Great Steppe region that would tear them apart even before he would set foot on the Central Great Steppe.

But the prerequisite for all of this, is that Aeryon first must have the full power and unity of the Southern Great Steppe. This would be his foundation to conquer the world.

Aeryon always is confident on this fact. The fact that if he could unify even one region of the Steppe, then everything else would fall like domino.

But the beginning would always take some time. The Southern great Steppe is where he should make his foundation.

And it is why he did not mind taking some time. Even though he is impatient, he could still restrain his heart and tries to be patient.

But now, now Utgard has been like this. And one of the obstacle in his mind had now been neutralized.

Isn’t this like helping him? Even Aeryon is suspicious right now because of his luck.

Is he the son of destiny?

He sighed

Utgard would not remain in Ogura hands forever. If this was a time of peace, the succession battle between son and father would not be a tribe ending matter.

However, this is not a time of peace.

The curtain to an era of great contention has been lifted up. In this time of great contention, in times of warlords rising, who can and dares not to contend?

The tide of the era came and those who try to stop this tide would be washed away by the general trend.

The strong will survive and the weak will perish!

Even more so, in the Steppe, where there are no rules and the harshness of life made life cruel and hard

Laws could only be enforced if there is a power to enforce it. Life could only be made better if there is innovation and learning.

There is no law, so Aeryon would laid down the law. There is no learning and innovation, so Aeryon would be the one that started it.

But all of this requires strength. He wanted to show kindness. But kindness alone would get you trampled on this harsh place.

As long as he did not forget his initial intention, as long as he did not stray, the world he wanted to create would one day be created.

Even if he did not succeed now, as long as he sow the seeds, next generation would have somewhere to start from.

As long as it is passed down, as long as there is someone who will believe, the world that he wanted to create would come into fruition.

"Garron, it seems that the era of your people is now ending" Aeryon could not help but mutter to himself. Ogura is a young hero. A rash and reckless one but a hero nonetheless.

What is a hero in the Great Steppe eyes?

There is many traits of a hero in the Great Steppe eyes.

Those who kills the enemies of the tribe, those who protect the tribe, those who achieve great deeds of killing large beast.

Those who won fame and fortune in distant lands.

Those who are generous.

Those who are honest.

Even if the method is cruel and violent, the cruel and violent method in the eyes of the Great Steppe warriors is nothing but normal.

After all life is cruel and fate is harsh.

But most would agree that the definition of a hero of the Great Steppe, is a man who dares do what others dares not

Ogura dares rebel against his father, managed to convince most of the clans and tribes under the control of his father to rebel and complete the hard task of circling his father and killing him

The act of killing his own father is not as reprehensible as it is in the Yan dynasty.

There is no putting filial piety at a pedestal. Most thing goes both ways in the Steppe.

Some of the allies of Utgard would feel insecure but they would not deny that some of Ogura action is heroic.

A man who dares do what other dares not. And succeed. That is a hero!

And contention between father and son reached to such a point that it even shocked Aeryon

Garron is Aeryon father-in-law, and he is related to the Utgard.

And now with the death of Garron, certain avenues of conquering the world is now opened up to Aeryon.

"Who would have thought that a daughter of the Viper would be this valuable?" Aeryon thought in his heart

He takes a deep breath, close his eyes and for a moment he did not speak. There is many things in his heart right now but he did not say the words deep in his heart

And in the end, all of the words in his heart only turns into a long sigh. And then he opens his eyes and look at his men.

"We ride back to Brolgadhr!" Aeryon quickly made his decision. There is no need to linger here when the matter is already done.

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