Capítulo 24: Break of Dawn

Aeryon order are simple and direct. Belarion simply needs to go into battle and make chaos to the Xewa forces

Belarion eyes shine.

Belarion is a man with innate strength since he was born.

When he was young there is cattle that went wild in the settlement. A few dozen men try to subdue these cattle, but the cattle is too wild and too powerful to be subdued.

Belarion, a few years old at that time, punch that cattle head and those cattle died almost instantly.

When the tribe cut the meat and skinned the cattle, they saw that the skull of the cattle fragment into hundreds of pieces.

The Ashana then proclaim that Belarion is a blessed by the Skyfather with great immense strength and could be a great warrior when he grows up.

If Belarion was born in other large tribe, he would have made his name a long time ago. But the Divines does not always give everything you ever wanted.

There is something that the folk stories of the Marynku always reminded the people of the tribe

Ninety-nine weakness, one point of virtue.

One point of weakness and ninety-nine virtues.

The Divines cast lot and sometimes those with ninety-nine weakness and one virtue wins and those with ninety-nine virtue and only one weakness the one that loses.

What it taught was that blessing and fortune is not easy to see.

Belarion was born in a small tribe. With it he lost a great opportunity to make himself famous.

But because of that he was allowed to have thing that was not allowed for those who were born with great strength

He was not treated like a war tool and managed to integrate with the people of the tribe, very different if he were born in a different tribe.

Belarion understood the task but he did not immediately accept.

'How about you brother?' If Aeryon give all fifty men to hi…. then who is going to protect him?

Aeryon only smiles

'I was alone before. And I still survive'

'Look!' Aeryon pointed toward the Xewa forces. All they could see was the Xewa tribe forces collapsing in all sides.

'Before, they were united and they still could not kill me. Now, they are as loose as sand. Do you still think that they could kill me?'

Belarion nodded

Before, he still had some doubts.

But after seeing the incredible feat of his sworn brother, even his blood boils and he also wanted to make some contribution.

Just like Mayeux said, if they win tonight, if they managed to destroy the Xewa tribe tonight, there is a great chance that their tribe could be revived and become even strong.

Belarion is not someone who have ambition. But that is because he is raised in a place where such ambition is unrealistic.

There is no hope for such ambition and the people of the Great Steppe is very realistic and very logical because of the harsh life that they had to endure.

Belarion no longer hesitated and he led the fifty men to battle.

A hundred horse warriors rushed to the battle and Belarion broke the right flanks while Mayeux chose the left flank.

The sudden attack by two units shocks the entire Xewa line and it crumbles even faster. Garron led his men to push on the central line

Aeryon on the other hand uses up all of his arrows and when that happens, he rushed to the battlefield with his sword. Riding on horseback, he takes the head of the enemy

Unlike before, he rides freely and without restriction this time. Before, he fought alone. So, he was encircled.

This time he did not fight alone.

Before, after a few fights, his horse would be riddled with arrows and would be dead.

But now as most of the battlefields is chaotic and the focus is varied, Aeryon could kill easily and no one could stop him.

Aeryon took the position as a pincer.

When he sees that the Xewa forces wanted to encircle or boxed in his forces he would ride to that area, kills the commander of the warriors and then slink away and attack the other side.

Alone, galloping across the battlefield like an open plain, the heroic of Aeryon is prominently displayed.

Belarion on the other side also could now show his strength. He uses bows and arrows with great precision

Wherever he shoots, his arrows would hit it targets.

If Aeryon could see this he would be very ashamed because of his lousy skill of using the bow. But Belarion is not only proficient in the sue of bows and arrows he is also very good at hand-to-hand combat

when his bows and arrows run out, he rushes toward the enemy using spears and at times he would grabs a person and throw them to a mass of weapons.

This is the grassland wrestling method

His strength is now finally revealed and once it is revealed it shock even Mayeux and Aeryon own warriors that now see Belarion in a different light

Belarion rarely have a chance to show his strength

Today, like beast that was unleashed from his cage, Belarion play to his heart content.

Xeqani who was on the central line retreated. Hs body is full of wounds and he is panting heavily

'Chief, we have to retreat!' Xeqani eyes was red and his hand is trembling. It is not because he is tired but because he is angry.

He gritted his teeth as he looks at the banner of the Utgard tribe and look at those one hundred men under the order of the Brolgadhr tribe beating his men.

He is angry because of the betrayal. He is angry because of this unreasonable defeat.

One man had managed to change the entire course of a battle. Who would have thought it?

Xeqani even in his current state could deduce that if he had managed to contain Aeryon, then Garron might not have betrayed him at the last moment

It is because Aeryon managed to whittle down his force to only hundreds of people that Garron chose to break it off with his tribe.

And his hand is trembling, gripping the sword on his hand is so tight that trembles. His advisor saw this and spoke

'Chief, we must quickly retreat before the Utgard tribe break the line!' The advisor once again reminded him

Xeqani wanted to lash out. He wanted to scream and yell but he also knows this is not the time and place

One of his advisors then said

'We are not without way to survive, chief. The Ghar tribe would not like it if they knew that the Son of Rakarys is back on the Great Steppe. We tell him that he returned and the Ghar tribe would lend you his help' Xeqani could not help but feel insulted at this. He and the Ghar tribe had been competing with each other before and he even had the advantage.

But then he looks at the battlefield and he could only sigh.

His men are getting slaughtered right now. If he keeps delaying, nothing good will come out of it

'We retreat!'

Xeqani and his personal guard quickly retreated form the battle and then the horn was blown and the warriors of the Xewa tribe heard the sound and they know it is the order to retreat.

But just because they want to retreat, they could retreat? Is it so easy to do that?

Of course not.

Mayeux could already see the sign that Xeqani was about to retreat so he was prepared for it.

When the forces of Utgard and Xewa is fighting, Mayeux hold back down his force

He did not attack fiercely letting the Utgard warriors to deal the heavy damage and when the order to retreat is given, Mayeux and his men who are still rested and di no use much of their energy suddenly bursts with speed toward the enemy. Hundreds of arrows fall down from the sky.

Mayeux and his men chase the fleeing soldiers.

There is nothing easier than killing a running soldier and so Mayeux and his men slaughter a few hundred men in just a matter of a few breaths.

Arrows rains did not stop from raining down upon the Xewa warriors.

Belarion on the other hand had found his rhythm and he is riding his horse and chasing the fleeing army.

Those who ran with feet is shot by his arrows

Those who are on horseback is grabbed by him before tossing them to the ground. The battle lasted until dawn

And by the end of it, only around two hundred or less Xewa warriors that managed to run away and retreat.

The other died on the battlefield

The battle is decided.

And the sun finally shows its face

Aeryon, Belarion, Mayeux, Garron, all of them is full of the blood of their enemies.

The sun shine its face and it shines upon these people and shone upon the bloodbath.

Aeryon on his horseback look at the devastation and could not help but sighed.

He had killed so many people today that he even had the fleeing that he had become numb. Out of the many people that fought with the Xewa tribe, the one that kill the most is Aeron. He alone kills hundreds of Xewa warriors

Belarion returns Garron men and he rides his horse to Aeryon protecting him. Mayeux also did the same.

The alliance between them and the Utgard tribe is temporary. And since they know that the Utgard could betray their allies, Mayeux and Belarion is still very much vigilant against their new ally.

Aeryon did not have any injuries. It is probably because the effect of the Invincibility card He simply smiles and spoke

'Set up tent'

Mayeux nodded as Aeryon rides toward the Xewa settlement.