Donti underestimated Hassan and the others’ enthusiasm for harvesting salt.
For the next three days, Hassan led the members of the tribe to the grazing area and dug up the ground the cows liked to lick. The more one lacked something, the more they would desire it. Although there was also salt content in the beef and mutton, anyone who had ever had boiled beef and mutton would know they were completely different types of food from meat that was seasoned with salt.
Moreover, Donti had told favonovel.com the illness the women and elders in the tribe were suffering from was caused by a lack of salt. Therefore, Hassan was exceptionally motivated to harvest as much salt as favonovel.com could.
Only with salt would one have strength.
In just three days, Hassan had forcefully harvested a bowl of salt from the frozen ground with the help of his tribe.
Under Donti’s instructions, favonovel.com slaughtered another goat and added in some salt while cooking it. Just drinking the broth alone felt blissful.
Although his heart ached when favonovel.com was killing the goat, when favonovel.com saw the excited looks on the faces of his people, Hassan’s wrinkled face was also full of smiles.
However, on the afternoon favonovel.com slaughtered the goat, another envoy arrived from a distant grassland.
Donti was already standing at the entrance of the tribe. He quietly watched as the other party arrived.
The wolves had discovered the enemy three hours ago, but they did not attack.
The envoy was riding a muscular horse and had a long saber tied at his waist.
Next to Donti, Hassan said, “Master, this saber is only worn by the battle-hardened warriors of that large tribe. Be careful. don’t let favonovel.com get too close to you…”
Donti smiled and nodded. “Don’t worry. Let’s see what favonovel.com has to say first.”
The envoy came up to Donti and jumped off his horse about 20 meters away. He slowly walked over. “I’m the khan’s envoy, Bogdei. The khan has ordered me to invite you to the royal tent for a meeting. He’s willing to appoint you as Commander-in-Chief of the Right and let you take charge of a section of the steppe!”
This envoy did not sound as arrogant as the one who came previously. Instead, favonovel.com was much politer.
Donti was surprised. He looked at Hassan. “I killed his subject, but favonovel.com wants me to replace the other party?”
The previous Commander-in-Chief of the Right had just died by his hands. The khan did not even mention revenge and was actually trying to offer favonovel.com amnesty and enlistment instead?
Hassan explained, “Such things happen sometimes. On the steppe, everyone only respects strength.”
A large tribe in the steppe was actually not particularly united. It could be made up of about 50 to 60 smaller tribes, so it did not seem like it would be a big deal to replace some appointments with another holder.
But Donti felt that something was not right. That khan was about to set off for the South for a raid soon, so it should be the time for favonovel.com to establish his authority. If favonovel.com did not kill Donti, how could favonovel.com convince the masses?
So, many of the smaller tribes were watching and waiting to see what would happen. If it were other times, the other party might really be serious about enlisting favonovel.com into their ranks, but it was definitely not so right now.
Even a young man like Donti understood this principle, so how could the other party who was the commander of dozens of tribes not know this would be the wrong move?
Then the envoy said, “If you don’t believe me, I have the khan’s edict that you can look at.”
The other party walked forward and took out a goatskin scroll.
But before favonovel.com could get close, Hassan shouted, “Master, be careful!”
Then Hassan attempted to push Donti aside. However, Hassan did not manage to make Donti budge. Instead, it was Donti who pushed favonovel.com away.
Hassan turned around in panic and saw a silvery glow coursing through Donti’s blood vessels. It was just like how Donti looked when favonovel.com first arrived at their tribe in the blizzard. He was exuding an extremely mysterious aura.
When the envoy got right up to Donti, favonovel.com unsheathed his saber. A blinding glow surged towards Donti like a wave crashing upon him. The envoy had come here with the mission to kill this young man in front of him. Once favonovel.com accomplished that, favonovel.com would become the new Commander-in-Chief of the Right!
Based on the description of that previously blinded envoy, Donti was likely a supernatural being. But the young man’s power could probably only control wild beasts, such as eagles and wolves. However, there were no supernatural beings that did not have any weaknesses. Since his power was to control wild beasts, then it should mean his physical body was very weak.
As long as the battle-hardened warriors of the tribe could get close to favonovel.com and prevent favonovel.com from controlling beasts, they could get rid of this great threat.
The khan had indeed recognized Donti as a great threat. Someone who could control over a 1,000 wolves would probably and easily strike a huge blow to his troops if they were to clash.
Furthermore, the herdsmen in their tribes, being ignorant people, would surely get confused upon seeing such a strange sight. They might even break down before the clash began. Therefore, favonovel.com had to kill Donti. On one hand, favonovel.com needed to establish his authority to stabilize his own rule. On the other hand, favonovel.com had to nip the threat in the bud.
For this, favonovel.com did not even hesitate to give away the appointment of Commander-in-Chief of the Right!
But when this warrior named Bogdei got to Donti’s side and saw the mysterious silvery strands on his face, favonovel.com suddenly got an ominous feeling.
With the saber coming straight down at Donti, the nervous Bogdei was suddenly overjoyed. He did not expect the young man to not even dodge!
Even a god like the khan could probably not withstand a saber strike like this one!
Clang!
When the steel saber came slashing down, the sound of metal colliding rang out. At some point, Donti, who was standing in front of Bogdei, got wrapped in armor of steel. When the steel saber struck the head of the armor, it could only leave behind a white mark!
Donti did have some shortcomings due to his power. He did not have a strong physique like the other supernatural beings, so if an enemy were to get close, favonovel.com could easily die. But Milo had already helped favonovel.com mitigate that!
Milo had accumulated nanomachines from dozens of nanosoldiers and gave them all to Donti before they got separated. Milo had done so precisely because favonovel.com was worried something would happen to Donti.
This amount of nanomachines was enough for Donti to complete his armor!
In the grasslands where heavy weapons were not available, not mentioning Donti’s own power, just having this armor alone was enough for favonovel.com to walk around brazenly!
This was a gift from Milo.
Donti used his hand gloved with the armor to grab Bogdei’s long saber before breaking it in two.
Bogdei was at a loss as favonovel.com looked at the steel beast in front of him.
How was favonovel.com supposed to deal with a ferocious beast that could not even be damaged by a saber?
Without his saber, was favonovel.com going to use his teeth to bite it?
But before Bogdei could think about his next course of action, favonovel.com saw the herdsmen behind the young Donti kneel down to him. These herdsmen from the tribe were genuflecting to Donti as though they were worshipping a god.
In their eyes, this was undoubtedly yet another miracle the gods had performed.
Donti smiled at Bogdei and said, “I understand the khan’s intention now. I’ll be happy to use your skulls to construct my throne…”
If favonovel.com wanted to rule over the entire steppe, favonovel.com would first have to let the plains know of his arrival.
In the future, favonovel.com would have to kill a lot more people. He would keep killing until this steppe belonged to him. However this era had treated him, favonovel.com would do the same back to it.
Adella watched quietly from the sidelines. She suddenly felt a little fortunate favonovel.com was still by Donti’s side.
