Chapter 24 (1/2)

Infiltrating the Empire 3

The place that makes it the easiest for us tribes to fight are plains.

Hearing that the Empire troops were drawing near, we gathered at the ambush location.

Chau Empire’s troops were seen approaching. Too few of them. They aren’t overwhelming.

It wasn’t even 10000, there are only around 5000.

「Kuro、s.h.i.+e、Arugo、Zun…etc. go play with them」

Au tribe’s Patriarch called the names of many tribes.

They were all tribes that haven’t made any great remarkable partic.i.p.ation

We don’t need our full force for just 5000 troops.

An army of 25000 warriors, fighters, slaves advanced forward.

This time I’m just a spectator

The opponents used their s.h.i.+elds splendidly and advanced through our rain of arrows.

Their skills are different to all the other opponents up until now.

The warrior advanced forward and shot on horse back, but soon a great s.h.i.+eld was brought out and protected him, then they became melee.

There was a huge man at their frontline, wielding something long and blew our warriors away.

We have number advantage but their soldiers personal combat skills weren’t inferior to us.

「Retreat」

A voice was heard through amplification wind magic.

The opponent openly retreated.

This is strange…

The opponents retreated too grandly. The people who were fighting believed in their victory and looked at the retreating opponent troops.

If one were to look around the battlefield, there were too few dead bodies.

I was thinking about pressing further, but it was obvious that the amount of dead bodies from our side is many.

We already plundered all the surrounding villages, that’s why we headed further south.

We’ll run into the Great river soon.

We have boats for the sake of crossing the Great river. We already got enough food so we were going to go home once we reached the Great river.

I was thinking about such things.

As the scout warriors came back, we heard a surprising report.

There are too little water inside the Great river.

We tried moving towards the Great river and there was indeed too little water inside the stream.

A Fighter tried standing in the middle of the river and the water level was only near his knees.

We went away from the river temporarily and a.s.sembled a meeting.

It’s about if we should go further south or not.

The talk intensified, but there are already 2 factions of a minority who said we already got enough food, and a majority of people who said they want more food and more women.

Becaue Au, Agu, and s.h.i.+u claimed to go further south, almost everyone decided to go south, but our Patriarch wants to go home. (TN: No no no, he’s not a p.u.s.s.y, he’s just being smart lel)

Because we had to wait 10 days for the food wagons to gather, the discussion continued during that time.

A few days after the meeting started

I went to the Great river on my own.

I saw one single cabin there. There were many boats lining up around that cabin.

I wonder if they ran when we approached, since there’s no human presence here

I went towards the cabin.

Maybe this cabin is the base camp for the people who give out boats at the Great river.

I surveyed the boats. There was one thing about them that bothered me.

There are moss below the boats.

I was bothered so I got off the horse and touched those moss. It was still slimy without moisture.

I was convinced that this boat was used just the other day.

I hurriedly straddled Keima and went back to the gathering place of the Patriarchs.

「Patriarch」

「What is it, Jumuka」

「Let me partic.i.p.ate in the meeting today, too」

The Patriarch meeting is for Patriarchs and Chiefs only, but a Great Warrior with the Patriarch’s permission has the right to partic.i.p.ate.

「Why？」

「I found a boat delivery camp downstream of the Great river、but there are traces of the boats being used just recently、the fact that the Great river has little water might be the opponent’s trap」

The Patriarch thought, putting his hand on his chin.

「Hm、trap huh…however、hm、alright come to the meeting today」

「Thank you very much。 」

I sat behind the Patriarch at the Patriarch meeting.

「Ronga、that person sitting in the back is the successor？」

I’m not even 17 so I’m the youngest inside this place. That’s why I was out of place in a place of only patriarchs, chiefs and great warriors.

But I’m already here so for the sake of fitting into the atmosphere of the Patriarch meeting, I was put as the successor.

The number of people who know my name are many in the gra.s.slands, but very few know my face.

There wasn’t anyone on the level of Great warriors or Chiefs when I won the bow compet.i.tion, so I’m not known.