Way of Overlord-Chapter 276: Mukhulai

He then takes his bath and take a nap after that. But he could only take a nap for a while before someone announce something from out of his tent.

Aeryon did not intend to sleep so when he heard the announcement from outside his tent, he easily wake up from his nap.

Aeryon gets up from his bed, goes to the large wash basin and washes his face before allowing the messenger to enter

"Enter"

The messenger kneels on one foot and bow toward him.

"Deliver the message"

The messenger nodded. Aeryon looking at this nodded with satisfaction. It is clear that after new protocol is put in place, the messengers has also become more disciplined.

This messenger in particular is very obedient. He announce his arrival and show reverence towards him, speak only when spoken to.

"Kan, there is a messenger from the Chagai tribe asking for an audience" Aeryon hearing this chuckles. And he nodded.

Aeryon look at the messenger and he could see this is someone who could do a great job. He delivers the message clearly and concisely, and he awaits his instruction and question from him.

"What is your name?" hearing this the messenger was shocked.

"Kan, this servant name is Ublat"

"Ublat?" Aeryon raised his eyes and shakes his head

"You have no parents?"

Ublat nodded

"So, that is why your name is Ublat. Which master give such a foul name to a servant?"

"Kan, I was the slave of the Suderta tribe"

Aeryon tries to think of the Suderta tribe and Aeryon remembers.

This is a very small tribe that is easily conquered by Aeryon.

This tribe did not have lands that they could exert their influence and instead, lives on the area that belong to the Xewa tribe area of influence.

Aeryon did not even personally conquer this tribe as it was Belarion that simply wreck that tribe alone.

There is only a few dozen people in that tribe.

It is not even enough for Belarion to warm himself up.

Ublat means the insect that crawls.

It is a degrading name.

Yan people thought a lot about giving names but for common people the name is quite a mixed bag of good and bag

In yan, they even would go to the local scholars to ask for good names.

As for the people of the Steppes, when they give their children names, whether it be man or woman, they would give them powerful names

It did not differ whatever your culture are. Good names are wanted. It is something people called you. And if people called you inset that crawls, how could you ever become strong?

Aeryon look at Ublat, saw his muscle and nodded freēwēbnovel.com

"Hmm"

"From today on, you should become my personal servant" Hearing this Ublat was shocked but he quickly bows and thank Aeryon.

" And I will give you a new name" Aeryon look at Ublat and smile as a name popped into his mind

"Mukhulai"

The meaning is one who is in service.

But the name also carries a connotation of loyalty, duty and service which is something that Aeryon very much appreciate

It is the kind of army and culture he wanted to create among his people.

Aeryon then dismiss Mukhulai. Mukhulai went out of the tent and then he look back at the tent, and then he bows in front of that tent and walk away, a smile on his face

What Aeryon did was something very small for him but a life changing event for Mukhulai. Aeryon did it out of a whim.

But to Mukhulai, that deed alone is enough for him to want to follow Aeryon to death. This is the kind of charm that Aeryon has that other chief in the Steppe doesn’t have

To the people of the Steppe, servant and slaves is not someone that they should pay attention to

And this is not exclusive to the Steppe.

The Yan thought the same, the Roma and Yindu and almost every regime and empires and kingdoms in the world at this time thought the same

No one would treat slave like Aeryon did.

Aeryon treat the slave like human beings regardless of their lowly status not only because he is uncomfortable with this culture but also because he knows in history, lowly people are the one that serve you food and sometimes you don’t know when these lowly people could help you

Yan might always say that the common people should protected but their actions belied their words.

As for Aeryon the punishment for the slave is very strict but at the same time Aeryon himself opened up opportunities for slaves to free themselves and gain merit.

Enter the army, fight and open up lands, repel invaders and your freedom could be granted by the Kan.

It is something new. And something that only could be done with Aeryon centralization of power towards him and his alone

To reform a world, he first needs to have power.

Aeryon send Mukhulai out of his tent, not knowing he had just change the life of that young man

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The night of the Steppe tonight is not as cold as any other nights.

Ublat, now Mukhulai went out of the chief tent. He walk a few dozen steps away from the chief tent, greeted the guards in the vicinity and after he is quite far away from the tent, he look back at that tent

"Tonight, it is not as cold" Was it because winter is about to end? No, he thought to himself.

In his life the night always feels terribly cold, the wine is bitter and the days are gruelling.

He look at that tent like his eyes could pierce holes through it, there is a smile on his face and hope welling in his heart.

"That old man...must not be an ordinary old man" he suddenly thought of someone and his heart feels anxious.

He gulped and then look around and he remembered the direction of that old man tent.

His step suddenly quickened. He wanted to see that old man and ask him more question. Before, he doubted that old man. But after what has happened tonight, there is no longer any doubt

Only more question. And he believes that the old man could answer it.

Mukhulai has no family.

He had no father and mother. He doesn’t even know what happens to them

He doesn’t know if they were killed in a battle, or if they left him. Or whether they die in an accident.

Mukhulai from the moment he could remember was a slave.

He was the personal slave of the chief of the Suderta tribe. The Suderta tribe fought against the Brolgadhr tribe and they easily conquered.

Before that, Mukhulai had always thought the chief of the Suderta tribe is the most powerful person in his life.

His world at that time is very small. And the way he sees the world is like a frog looking at the sky from the well.

He did not know the immensity of heaven and earth.

The world he knows could easily be closed. And he lives in that closed world

Then only after seeing the Brolgadhr tribe that he knows that the world is bigger than he thought

And that the Suderta chief was only bragging in one corner of a small world. He could brag to him and act like he is a god, because he, Mukhulai is weaker than him and knows no better.

The day the Brolgadhr tribe came and conquered the Suderta tribe, it was like they broke the walls of the world that constrained him

He sees what it means to be a powerful warriors. And when he was brought in ropes toward the central square of the Brolgadhr tribe, he saw people, so many people that he never thought possible.

Wearing clothes made of fur that looked even more luxurious than the chief of Suderta. He saw hundreds of horses and thousands of people, thousands of tents

Compared to the prosperity of the Suderta tribe and the slice of prosperity of the Brolgadhr tribe is like comparing heaven and earth, the difference is as vast

He was auctioned off by one of the auctioneer to the military of the Brolgadhr.

He was then put to work as a messenger because the superiors seems to like the way he behaves.

It is from tis that Mukhulai gains more and more experience, and see more and more of the world.

Sometimes, he had to follow the entourage of people , sometimes he work in the tribes.

Mostly however, he is stationed in the tribe to act as messengers between the tents of the military commanders.

Mukhulai saw that the Brolgadhr tribe become bigger and bigger each day.

He saw with his own eyes the formation of this tribe that become bigger and more powerful and he in that process accumulates more knowledge, knows more people, see more things.

He learns from the people of these tribes, listen to the storytellers and heard anecdotes of those who were conquered by the Brolgadhr.

He heard all kinds of stories, things he never had heard before and his cognition and understanding of the world deepen even more

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