Book 5-4.4
The person responsible for the voice in the ears of each and every one of Pareia’s warriors was none other than their hero and leader who will not lose, the Pareia’s Glow Yulian Provoke.
After revealing themselves on the battlefield, Yulian and the Red Storm instantly jumped into the Shuarei’s formation. Pareia’s warriors watched them jump in and started to shout even louder as they pushed forward.
Their Glow was getting revenge for all of the times they were on the losing end during this war. The almost dead battlefield started to burn passionately once more.
It was burning so hot as if it wanted to burn up the few remaining warriors on both sides.
Venersis saw Yulian and cursed the heavens. If Yulian had arrived just a few hours later, the Shuarei would have won this war, not Pareia.
“I guess the heavens are finally pushing our Shuarei away.”
You could hear the lament in the voice of Venersis, the man who does not know the definition of giving up.
He wanted to fight against that young War God, but the feeling in his hand was not normal after the shock from earlier. They would lose if they could not defend against Yulian, and right now, he had no methods to defend against him.
It was not that he was afraid of death. However, he could not fend off that young War God’s greatsword right now, and if he died, that would really be the end of the Shuarei.
“All units, retreat!”
Venersis held back his tears and could only order the retreat. His rear was blocked by that Greatest Warrior named Runa, but Runa was also pincered on both sides so it should not be a big issue.
The Shuarei’s warriors slowly started to retreat. After seeing the condition of his warriors, Yulian did not order Pareia’s warriors to chase after them.
He had raised their strength with the power of Violet’s incantation, but chasing was still too much. Yulian verified that the Shuarei were retreating before running across Pareia’s formation with the Red Storm.
“It is Pareia’s victory!”
“Oowaaaaaa~.”
Pareia let out a cheerful shout. This nightmarish battle was finally over.
Once Yulian settled the battlefield and started the transport of the injured warriors, he gathered the remaining Greatest Warrior and lead warriors.
There were just nine people including Yulian. In a battle with two Greatest Warriors and twenty-ish lead warriors, not even half managed to survive. None of the gathered warriors were without injuries either. All of them were covered in blood and injuries.
“All of you fought valiantly. I sincerely thank you for working so hard and for staying alive.”
Listening to what Yulian had to say, all of them lowered their heads. If the Glow had not arrived right on time, all of them would have died, Pareia would have lost, and they would have lost the oasis.
Yulian understood the feelings of everyone who was gathered in that paoe. That is why he started to speak once more.
“Lift up your heads and stand proudly. No matter what anybody says, today’s battle was Pareia’s victory. Do not be embarrassed about the bloody battle. This battle will truly go down in Pareia’s history as the oasis that was protected with blood.”
“......”
“Let’s …. Sing the song of victory. Let’s celebrate. Let’s have fun … enough fun for the dead warriors as well.”
Everyone lifted up their heads and looked toward Yulian. Yulian’s voice was slightly trembling. Would they know?
Would they know the truth about how he was blaming himself for not being able to arrive even a bit earlier?
25,000 warriors fought against 20,000 warriors and less than 10,000 total warriors were left between the two tribes. This battle will be known as the miracle of the Thick Bushed oasis in the future.
Seventh month of the year 259 in the continental calendar.
The Eastern Desert returned to peace after half a year of battle. And for the first time in the history of the desert, it might be just half of the whole desert, but a tribe was able to unify the entire Eastern Desert.
Population 2,000,000. 220,000 warriors. A strong nation known as Pareia.
Pareia made a deal with the Shuarei to create a safe escape path for both Runa and Venersis, and started to exchange prisoners.
Looking at the results, the Shuarei had gained one oasis from this war, but they suffered so much damage that they needed to be afraid of Pareia’s invasion.
However, Pareia also had a lot of things to do.
War after war had caused a significant difference in their ratio of men to women, and there was a mountain load of things to do to settle the northern territory. Yulian and Runa were obviously busy, but many other people had to be extremely busy as well.
“You worked hard.”
Yulian patted the shoulder of Orca, the person responsible for having the Thick Bushed oasis survive until he arrived, as well as the one who forced Venersis to retreat without facing off against him.
Orca was in intensive care as he could not put any strength in his body since that day. Violet had determined that his body was damaged by the backflow of the energy and indicated Orca will need to remain in bed for at least half a year.
“Hyung-nim. Hahaha. This Orca can now play his part as well.”
Orca smiled brightly while still lying on the bed and joyfully accepted his oldest brother’s praise.
“I heard it was amazing, but isn’t it burdensome for you if you have to lay in bed for half a year after using it once?”
“Tsk. Even I did not know that would be the case. It was really hard to learn compared to normal incantations, and I could have never expected that the effect would hurt me as well. I really needed to test it out.”
“If you tested it out and knew this would happen, would you have dared to use it again?”
“Now that I think about it, if I thought of it as a test run, I would have failed probably eight or nine times out of ten. The amount of concentration would have been significantly different.”
Yulian patted his youngest brother’s shoulder once more.
“There should be no reason to use that ever again. Nobody will be able to touch our Pareia.”
“That is true. Hahaha.”
Yulian was feeling sorry and continued to touch Orca’s face and pat his shoulder. They can easily talk about it being half a year, but how difficult must it be to stay in bed like this?
Orca seemed to have understood Yulian’s thought as he did not lose his bright smile and instead started to console his brother as well.
“I am satisfied. I can now be accepted as a warrior of Pareia. I will continue to train hard so that I will gain enough strength to use my abilities without creating such a burden on my body.”
“Sounds like my younger brother.”
“The same Provoke blood flows through me. Hahaha.”
“Yes, I believe in you.”
Yulian patted Orca’s shoulder once more before heading out of the paoe.
“Huuuuuuuuuu~!”
Yulian looked up to the sky and let out a big breath. He had achieved half of his dream of unifying the desert. They had gained a lot, but also lost a lot in the process.
‘I cannot become weak right now.’
He prevented himself from getting sentimental and clenched his fists tightly.
‘I am the Glow. Sometimes I need to exist on my own.’
Pareia was starting to get stronger.
“Warrior Venersis seeks the Glow’s punishment for his defeat.”
Shuarei’s Greatest Warrior Venersis knelt in front of his Glow Elbotta and bowed his head.
“Huuuuuuuuu~!”
Elbotta let out a deep sigh. Who could blame who right now? He had taken just 30,000 warriors and 5,000 reinforcement warriors to fight against 70,000 warriors and almost decimated all of them.
‘Why couldn’t I trust him? Why was I jealous of a warrior as the Glow?’
Elbotta became full of regret as he stared at Venersis.
“Stad.”
If he had trusted Venersis early on, he might be the one who had the same glory that Pareia was currently enjoying.
“What is a warrior who fought valiantly doing? Stand up.”
Why was he so focused on bringing Venersis down?
“The fault lies with me.”
Elbotta admitted his own sins, and Venersis doubted his ears as he quickly lifted up his head.
“It is my fault. I cut down the Shuarei’s strength. You should be more aware than I am that it was not your fault so please stop tormenting me and stand up.”
“Glow……”
“I am being filled with regret right now. Why couldn’t I have my current mindset a long time ago…… Humans really are interesting creatures. Very interesting.”
“Glow!”
Venersis was worried that this still decently young Glow would break down.
The years had been filled with stubborness and egotism.
Venersis knew very well the source of that stubbornness and egotism.
It was because the former Glow had valued him so much. He had valued him more than his own son. At first, you could see it as a Glow doting on his warrior, but as time went by, the Glow had compared himself and Elbotta over and over. Seeing that continue for a long time, Elbotta had started to change.
Venersis remembered the reason that the wise Elbotta started to go awry. That was the reason he never turned his back and remained by Elbotta’s side no matter how much suppression and insults he had received.
And after waiting for so long, Elbotta’s stubbornness and egotism was slowly starting to untangle itself. However, the problem was that he himself was about to breakdown with it.
Venersis started to speak to Elbotta as if he was trying to shout.
“We still have an opportunity. Please make up your mind and encourage the warriors. No matter what anybody says, the Shuarei is a strong tribe of the Western Desert, and that Pareia will not dare to easily invade us.”
Bang. Bang.
Venersis pounded his chest.
“Do not allow frustration or regret to approach even one step closer to you. You are the Glow.”
“Vener...sis……”
Elbotta lifted up his lowered head.
“Before you order me to stand, the Glow needs to stand first. And then please vigorously give an order. Please remember that this Venersis is the Shuarei’s Glow, Elbotta’s warrior.”
“Right. I am your Glow, and the Shuarei’s Glow.”
“You are a strong Glow.”
“Yes, I am strong. No, I will become strong.”
“I do not doubt it.”
“Then I should give an order.”
“Please give the order with strength that cannot be rejected.”
“Stand, Venersis.”
“Venersis has received the Glow’s order.”
Venersis quickly jumped up from the spot.
“The Shuarei will not disappear. Am I right?”
“We will get even stronger.”
“Bring that strength to me.”
It was certain that the Shuarei will get even stronger from here.
As we reach the halfway point of Book 5
I feel like I ran crazily with the Red Storm. To be honest with you, after finishing Book 4, I decided I was going to take a three day break, but that ended up becoming a week...hmm hmm...yes, yes it did…(I got out of my flow and am currently suffering ^^;)
I am working hard to not make the wars too long (although the right answer might be that I am lacking the ability to make them realistic if I make them too long ^^;) I have tried my best to create the right atmosphere for it. However, I feel like trying to create the right atmosphere is making it kind of predictable.
Even though I am writing it as a fantasy, I feel like a fantasy should still be somewhat realistic. I tried to find a good balance of the two, but I do not know how you will see it.
<<Red Storm>> is quickly reaching the latter parts. Since the war is over, we will rest for a bit before he meets a new enemy, greets a friend, and we will once again travel to a fantasy world.
I plan to show you why I could only make Yulian such a strong character.
He is the Desert Conqueror and a War God.
Thank you to the readers for sticking with a terrible writer like myself and please join me in this soon to end race to the finish.
Sincerely,
Noh Cyungchan
End of chapter
Next up:
Stability
Now is the time to grow our strength.