Way of Overlord
Chapter 245: Night Talk

Chapter 245: Night Talk

Aeryon now is in front of his tent. He looks at the tent.

He could see from the gaps of the curtains that the fire in the central pit is not yet extinguished.

And he sighed

"She is waiting for me" Aeryon knows who is waiting for him.

And he sighed again.

Because he feel uncomfortable when he is with her.

But it is not like he could sleep at other tent. It would send a wrong message.

To this person, and to that person, to his Elders and to his tribe.

Whoosh! The wind blows and even though Aeryon has a physique that is quite strong, it did not mean he did not feel cold.

Around the tent, there is a few small tents.

This is the tent for the guards.

And there is fire burning around it to make sure that these people did not freeze to death while doing their duties

Aeryon is quite generous to these guards, letting them work on shift. It is not because he is that generous. But because he believe this is more effective.

Unlike in his world where he has to pay them for doing such thing, in this era, the word of the Chief is not something one should disobey.

But Aeryon also knows that sometime if you give honey instead of stick people would become more loyal to you.

For these guards, Aeryon usually give them a few meats and resources. And when he is generous he would gift them horses. And with horses, they could fight mounted and increase their ability to fight

For the warriors of the Steppe, nothing is more desirable.

Aeryon seem to rather watch this matter and delay his entrance into the tent as long as possible

"I could not avoid her forever" Aeryon mutters to himself as he slowly opens up the entrance curtain and then enters the tent.

The moment he enters the tent, the warmth of the tent dispel the cold around his body. He shakes his body like he wanted to shake off the cold of winter from himself

Outside, the snow stopped falling.

Entering his tent, he saw the fire on the central pit.

Burning and the smoke goes upwards.

There is the smell of incense.

It is not quite incense as it is more of an herb.

There is many herbs in the Steppe to those who knows what they are looking for. The Ashana gave him these herbs and it does help one sleep better and to become energetic when they are awake.

And there is a woman on the bed.

there is his wife Ayera.

"You have returned" she simply said.

The cold night of winter enter slightly into the tent.

Aeryon look at Ayera and nodded.

He then goes to his bed and is about to go to sleep.

"Extinguish the fire"

Ayera nodded and extinguished the fire. The tent is now dark. Aeryon did not say anything after that and immediately tries to went to sleep

Aeryon close his eyes and he was about to go to sleep and then as he was just about to go to sleep, he could feel Ayera hand on his waist and Aeryon eyes opens almost immediately.

He did not push the hand away.

Instead, he opens his eyes slightly and sigh.

"Here it comes" he thought to himself. This is what he is afraid of. It is not that he doesn’t know. He just had been ignoring it

Sighing in his heart, he moves his hand and then he pushed away the hand. And he sit up in his bed.

He look at Ayera.

Ayera also begin to sit up. This is the darkness of the night. All they could see is the silhouette of each other

But because they are both Marynku people even under this darkness of this night, they could see glimpse of each other faces.

Aeryon knows that tonight they will have to talk. Other than the day where Ayera tries to fight against him, they have never spoken that much since then

For a moment there is only silence between them. Looking at each other, like their gazes could convey what they want.

But gazes and silence could never communicate what is hidden in the heart.

Aeryon knows he has to nip this in the bud.

He finally makes his stance known

Aeryon shakes his head

"Why?" Ayera ask. And it is a reasonable question to ask

Aeryon and Ayera has been married for quite some time. It might not reach years, but it has been weeks.

And that is enough

Ayera look at this husband of hers and she could never understand this person.

The woman of the Steppe is quite free. But that is only for the peasants. Ayera, no matter how unruly she was, she is a daughter of a chief.

And a chief is nobility in itself

She would be regarded as a noble lady in any other parts of the world.

Though the virtue of a woman of the Steppe is different from the virtue of a woman in other parts of the world she is still a lady that is of noble lineage.

This is also the reasons why she did not learn the Kama Sutra in Naraka Griha. She felt that it is not in her nature

It is something that should be learned by the girls of the pleasure house to kill people. And it is not something that she was interesting in learning

Naraka Griha has saying.

Each person has something they are attracted to.

Assassins also have their own preferences.

Some like to kill with a knife, some like to kill with words. Some uses brute strength, some uses stealth

And Ayera likes the dagger, like stealth and so she learns based on her preference.

In Naraka Griha there is no lower way or higher way.

As long as the objective is achieved, then it is the right way,

The wrong way is when something did not succeed.

Not succeeding means it is wrong. Naraka Griha did not look at the process. They look at the results.

Process is when you are training.

When you are outside and wanting to kill, wanting to use the skill, the process is no longer important.

Out there, the only thing that matters if the result

However, just because she did not learn the method of seduction, did not mean she did not know about it.

In any household, nobles or not when they married their wife, they would sleep with their wife.

Peasant usually sleep with their wife at night in the first night of the wedding.

Son of chief marrying the daughter of chief sometime would consummate their wedding a few days later because sometimes the celebration ran for days.

But, her married life with Aeryon has bene weeks.

And while Aeryon treated him as his wife, leaving the power of the household to her., he had never touched her.

"Why?" she ask again. Aeryon look at Ayera once again and sighed.

"I am tired" he said

There is a silence in the tent and then she ask

"Do you have a woman outside?"

Aeryon shakes his head

Ayera sighed.

Ayera also shot down this theory but she needs to confirm it. Even though she did not know Aeryon that well, Ayera knows that Aeryon is quite prideful

He would not lie to her if he really has a woman outside.

Nor, there is a need for him to lie

She did not know what Aeryon always do but she knows what he is doing most of the time. He is either riding around the area, patrolling with his warriors, entertaining travelling merchants and clans and tribes that passes by their region or discussing rotaxanes with Mayeux.

All of this makes him very busy

There is no time for him to seeks a woman. And in the tribes other than the daughters of those chief he subjugated; most women is not even worthy of carrying his shoes.

"Are you incapable of getting it up?" Ayera ask bluntly. This is very important for a woman in the Steppe.

Especially when it is about the relation of two tribes. Aeryon look at Ayera for a few second, shocked that she would be so blunt.

Aeryon takes a deep breath, calming himself down and then shaking his head

"Then why?"

Aeryon did not know what to say. But he decided to just be honest about it

"Wait for four to five years. Then we will consummate this wedding" Hearing this, how could Ayera not get shocked.

"Four to five years? What are you talking about, Son of Rakarys!"

Ayera is about to get up in anger but Aeryon only sigh and hold her harms.

"Release me!" But no matter how she shouted, that hand is tightly holding her. Outside, the guard listen to the sound but they did not rush to the tent

This is the matter of the Kan family. It is not their place to rush into it unless the Kan himself calls them to enter.

But they do perk up their ears. Who knows if the Kan would ask them to go inside?

Even though the cold wind is blowing, now, the cold wind feel nothing to these guards. They fear that they would get involved in something big.

The matter of quarrel between the Kan and his wife might seem like only a small quarrel to those two but who knows the thought of these subordinates.

They fear that they would see things they should not see, hear things they should not hear and know things that they should not know.

At this moment, they fear that their lives would be lost. The matter of those nobles lives always frightened these people living in the bottom

Human lives are cheap in this era and their lives are the cheapest.

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