10: Chapter 10: Banding Together for Warmth, a Large Tribe of a Thousand People?

Those Japanese Lords spent half the day running wildly with their savages.

Do you know what a speed of 20 kilometers per hour means?

Modern people might be used to driving and think 60 km/h is slow, barely feeling satisfied with 100 km/h.

But keep in mind that those speeds are achieved on two or four wheels.

These are savages, sprinting entirely on two legs!

For a modern person who doesn't exercise regularly, running at 10 km/h for an hour straight is already considered a feat of great willpower.

Those who run and exercise regularly, like marathon runners, can maintain 18 km/h for an hour without much trouble.

These savages, however, have much greater endurance than modern people; running at 20 km/h is not difficult for them.

But Xu Xuan kept kiting them, constantly draining their stamina. Humans aren't machines, let alone perpetual motion machines; running like this would eventually grind them into the ground.

Watching the Floating Island drift further away, Tokugawa Ieyasu and his group looked on with despair.

"He's surrounding us without attacking, coming and going as he pleases! This Xia Country person is too cunning; he's wearing down our stamina."

On the other side, Yamashita Jin and Tada Arisu, who had lost their homes, asked helplessly, "What should we do then, Senior Tokugawa?"

"Senior, are we just going to stand by and watch him keep doing this?"

A sense of powerlessness washed over them.

In the early stages of the Stone Age, they hadn't even tamed horses.

Meanwhile, Xu Xuan could rely on his Floating Island to strike from anywhere, keeping them exhausted and giving them no chance to catch him.

Tokugawa Ieyasu watched as Xu Xuan's Floating Island gradually moved away, choosing another victim to strike. He clenched his fists and cursed through gritted teeth.

"This invader is too arrogant, too outrageous! Bullying our compatriots right in front of us!"

"Senior Tokugawa, please think of something! We're being tortured to death by this kid."

These people were on the verge of tears. They had thought they could focus on farming, enjoy nature, and live shamelessly with female savages.

Instead, Xu Xuan, that beast, was killing and burning everywhere, plundering resources and people. He was simply an unforgivable war demon!

A village over ten kilometers away belonged to a Japanese Lord named Moriguchi Daisuke, who was currently being brutally invaded by Xu Xuan.

Savages on the Floating Island were seen continuously drawing their bows and firing arrows with modified bone arrowheads.

bone arrowheads were much easier to process than stone ones. A vast number of arrows had been retrofitted with bone arrowheads, raining down and throwing the Moriguchi Tribe into utter chaos.

Meanwhile, Tokugawa Ieyasu and the others could only watch helplessly as Xu Xuan invaded their compatriot.

Tokugawa Ieyasu clenched his fists and said through gritted teeth, "I have an idea. Are you willing to listen?"

Everyone turned their gaze toward him.

Tokugawa Ieyasu looked around and said, "As far as I know, there are twenty or thirty Japanese Lords in this vicinity. If we huddle together and form a large tribe, we can avoid being picked off one by one!"

Hearing this suggestion, everyone's eyes lit up.

Indeed!

As long as they merged into one large tribe and gathered a population of several thousand, would they still need to fear Xu Xuan's invasion?

"I agree with Senior's idea! As long as several thousand of us are together, that war maniac definitely won't dare to invade us."

"Completely agree! I am willing to join Senior Tokugawa's tribe and follow his command!"

"I think Senior should be the leader of this alliance."

The flattering words from those around him were music to Tokugawa Ieyasu's ears, and he began to feel that he was truly suited for this era.

In the past, he had been a corporate drone in the city, submissive and forced to drink with his boss after work.

Now that the Era of Universal Lords had arrived, having read extensively about the Three Kingdoms and Japan's Sengoku period, he felt he could surely establish a hegemony in these chaotic times!

Although he was one of the japanese people, he greatly admired Zhuge Kongming and also longed for Guan Sheng Wudi.

One day, he would lead his civilization to achieve even greater things than those two!

Thinking of this, Tokugawa Ieyasu spoke directly in the chat channel.

[Tokugawa Ieyasu: Everyone! That thief Xu Xuan is lording it over us just because of his Floating Island. As long as we form a grand alliance and gather together, he will be no match for us!]

[Yamashita Jin: Everyone, we are being constantly harassed by that Xu Xuan. We must unite and bring our tribes together to avoid being picked off one by one.]

[Oda Daisuke: Hmm... that makes sense. I agree to migrate my entire tribe to the vicinity of Tokugawa-san.]

[Haruyama Tokuo: Excellent, I've wanted to suggest this for a while. Let's huddle together for warmth.]

[Tada Arisu: By the way, since we're talking in the chat channel, Xu Xuan can see this too, right?]

[Tokugawa Ieyasu: In Xia Country terms, this is an open scheme! So what if he sees it? You're watching, aren't you, Xu-san!]

Meanwhile, on the Floating Island, Xu Xuan had just successfully plundered another isolated Japanese tribe.

By kiting them like he was walking dogs, he waited until those japanese people stopped chasing before launching an attack, randomly picking a lucky audience member to invade.

Xu Xuan also noticed the topic being discussed by the Japanese Lords in the chat channel.

They wanted to form a grand alliance and live together.

Seeing this, Xu Xuan wasn't panicked at all; he even felt like laughing.

No matter how those japanese people struggled, he had them right where he wanted them. Did they think gathering a few thousand people could stop his plundering?

Naive. These japanese people were still too young. Xu Xuan had already calculated how to deal with them.

"Now that they're all gathered together, it'll be even easier for me to deal with them."

With his God-tier territory, the Mobile City, he was completely invincible in the Stone Age. No matter how they struggled, it was in vain.

He didn't pay attention to those japanese people who were trying to be clever and instead focused on annexing the tribe in front of him.

Just like in previous battles, the enemy savages scrambled in terror upon seeing fire.

Facing the bone arrowheads raining down from the Floating Island, they could only flee in panic or hide in their thatched huts.

However, the bone arrowheads pierced right through the huts, killing all the savages hiding inside.

Next, Hu Zi Mei descended from the sky on a rope, leading a group of tribal warriors armed with stone axes to begin a slaughter.

The Floating Island Tribe warriors, their battle lust at its peak, quickly captured the village under Hu Zi Mei's leadership.

As for the enemy Lord?

Seeing his savages collapse at the first touch, he had long since fled with a few trusted followers.

With Xu Xuan's hit and run style of never lingering in a fight, he wouldn't waste time chasing down those who scattered.

His strategy was clear: crush the enemy tribe's defenders, seize all resources, or plunder a portion of the population.

Once the job was done, he packed up and left immediately, giving no chance for enemy reinforcements to arrive.

No lingering in battle!

At that moment, Hu Zi Mei was directing her people to haul everything up.

At the same time, standing on the Floating Island, she gazed into the distance to watch for any enemy ambushes.

Then, Hu Zi Mei noticed something: "Chief, look! So many of them are gathered over there."

Looking in the direction Hu Zi Mei pointed, one could see the surrounding Japanese Lords migrating with their entire tribes. They had all moved to the vicinity of the Tokugawa Tribe, gathering into a massive thousand-person tribe!