Chapter 22 (1/2)
Infiltrating the Empire
The warm winter, the limit of surveillance is man man man, horse horse horse (TN: 暖かい冬、見渡す限りの人人人、馬馬馬)
I felt the wind while surveying.
Isn’t this 11000 Warriors Fighters and Slaves in total, I wonder
The Patriarchs discussed and decided that Au tribe’s patriarch will be the Supreme Commander.
The Vice Commander is the patriarch from Agu tribe, the Great Chief is the patriarch from s.h.i.+u tribe, we marched as one united tribe.
Slaves, Fighters, Warriors, we lined up the wagons and marched away.
By the way, the wagons are for carrying food, and then it’ll be used to bring our spoils of war back to the tribes.
After 12 days marching, we came to the vicinity of the Chau Empire.
There were watch towers and signal towers but we were going to demolish them all anyway.
As I was thinking why aren’t they putting up any resistance, Chau Empire’s army lined up before us.
I can feel the wind. Chau Empire’s army consisted of around 24000 soldiers
At Au tribe’s patriarch’s command, Ronga tribe stood at our designated location.
I listen to the talk about fighting with the army from the south.
Seems like they’re putting up a side show before the battle.
I didn’t hear what kind of side show was that, but what could that be?
As I was thinking about that, there were a warrior and a man who seemed to be his servant, the two of them walked out from the middle of the army before us.
「hatjnkjajrp」
The Warrior man yelled something in a loud voice.
As that man finished yelling, the man next to him deployed magic.
「Aa、 testing、testing、magic testing、this is Amplification wind magic。 I’m translating what this man just said、Savage tribes of the Gra.s.sland、what are you doing coming here。 I am a warrior from Chau Empire named Bunan。 If there’s a guy with a skillful arm among you then come here face-to-face。 Come wipe the rust of my sword。 If you don’t want to die then go home right now！ is what he said。 」
Ah so the guy next to him was an interpreter, I get it now, this is basically a challenge to a personal battle of honor ! Everyone here is skilled in armed combat.
Ah ! They’re beginning Wolf, Bow and Patriarch. (TN: it’s basically rock paper scissors, gra.s.sland style)
After many times of wolf bow patriarch, a youth stood before the man named Bunan.
Huh? Isn’t that Mukai
Didn’t he just become an adult this spring?
「najklajoi」
「State your name, son、is what he said。 」
「Mukai」
「ムカイhakn」 (TN: I’ll leave it like that since he’s translating back to the other guy)
「ba4qwakl;」
「I’m not going easy even if you’re just a kid。 Let’s go！ he said。 」
As Bunan took out his long sword, Mukai also drew his sword.
Both of them pa.s.sed by each other on the horses.
The moment right after they pa.s.sed each other, blood spurted out.
Bunan’s hand that he used to hold the long sword, together with his head, floated mid air.
「I, Mukai, have killed the enemy warriorrrrrrrrrrrrr」
Mukai cried out, picking up the head and raised it up high.
Us gra.s.sland people got excited, the morale was raised.
The guy over at the Chau Empire became gloomy.
As Mukai went back with the head, another warrior from the Chau Empire came out.
This side also decided the next man to come out, both yelled their names and rushed towards each other on their horses.
For single combat, we won 6 times, lost once and drew once (it didn’t finish even after 200 times so it was dragged on ）then the single combats ended there。
As the two men in the middle left, two new men came out.
One of them was carrying bows and arrows, his figure resembled us. Another one carried a huge target on his shoulder. (TN: Target for bows and arrows)
He placed down 2 targets in the middle of the army.
The man with the bow stood around 40 steps away from the target and shot an arrow through the army.
The morale over at the side of Chau Empire raised greatly.
「weajafjhwe…」
「Next is bow battle、I was able to hit the center from 20 Leans away。 Is there anyone who can match me？ he said。 」 (TN: Lean is a unit of distance I guess)
This time I came to the front. (TN: Tigre ga iruuu ! ! ! )
Other warriors gathered 100 steps away.