15: Chapter 15: The Thousand-Man Tribe Collapses!

Arrows equipped with feathered fletching had their accuracy significantly improved after being fired.

Although irregular bone arrowheads still interfered with the airflow, compared to the previous arrows without fletching, these feathered arrows were much more precise.

The improvement was more than just a little bit.

Before, you could aim for a city gate and hit a hip bone; hitting anything was purely a matter of faith and luck.

Now, using these fletched arrows, Xu Xuan could achieve a fifty to sixty percent chance of hitting a stationary enemy within twenty to thirty meters.

It was easy to imagine how much this improved version of the arrow enhanced the accuracy of sniping enemy lords.

Seeing the arrow fired by Xu Xuan, Tada Arisu shouted in a panic, "Quickly, use wooden boards to protect me!!"

He hurriedly ordered his savage subordinates to hold up wooden boards to shield him.

Seeing the injured Tada Arisu limping behind the wooden boards, Xu Xuan curled his lips: "Prepare to pour the Golden Juice!"

The Floating Island slowly drifted over their heads, with Xu Xuan standing atop it, drawing his bow and aiming at Tada Arisu.

Tada Arisu, having been shot in the leg, was already as skittish as a bird startled by a bowstring; seeing the island pressing down and the boiling Golden Juice about to be poured, he was terrified.

In that moment, the scared-to-death Tada Arisu screamed, "Don't kill me, I surrender, I surrender!!!"

He practically cried out those words, and with the system translation, Xu Xuan could easily understand what he was saying.

At the same time, a dialog box appeared before his eyes.

[Japanese Lord Tada Arisu has applied to surrender and is willing to become your subordinate. Do you accept?]

Accept?

Just moments ago, this person was clamoring with such arrogance, and now that the 'shit' is about to hit the fan, he knows to beg for mercy and surrender?

Taking in such a subordinate wouldn't be of much significance to Xu Xuan, so he refused directly.

"Pour it down!"

An entire jar of Golden Juice was poured down, bubbling and steaming; its terrifyingly high temperature could instantly scald skin, making life worse than death.

Tada Arisu, hiding behind the wooden boards, was splashed by the Golden Juice seeping through the cracks, letting out a scream like a slaughtered pig from the pain.

No need for any vassals, just kill them!

The fact that two lords had met their ends one after another terrified the grand alliance of over twenty lords below.

They had lost their initial momentum, fleeing in all directions like stray dogs, running toward the forest outside the tribe.

At this point, Tokugawa Ieyasu, hiding in the woods, had not yet broken down; instead, he spoke very calmly in the alliance chat channel.

[Tokugawa Alliance Chat Channel]

[Tokugawa Ieyasu: Everyone, do not be afraid. Although we cannot defeat him now, he doesn't dare to come down. As long as we hold on and advance our technology, one day we will surely punish this demon! We will definitely avenge our fallen companions!]

[Oda Daisuke: Alliance Leader Tokugawa is right, don't forget we have the numbers, he doesn't dare to come down!]

[Takeshita Asuka: I personally think that once it's dawn, we can send people to follow the Floating Island. The Floating Island also needs to come down for supplies and wood. We can take advantage of the daylight to counter-attack! We'll make it so they can never land to replenish resources and starve them to death!]

Takeshita Asuka's suggestion gave everyone a glimmer of hope for defeating Xu Xuan.

That's right!

The resources on Xu Xuan's Floating Island are limited after all. When the arrows fired from the island are exhausted and the wood on the island is used up, they'll have to come down to the ground for supplies, right?

As long as they adopt a policy of harassment, perhaps they can defeat Xu Xuan?

At the thought of being able to defeat Xu Xuan or even force him to surrender, this group of people started getting worked up again.

Little did they know, Xu Xuan hadn't come tonight just to pour Golden Juice and fire arrows.

He had only one goal—to burn the granaries.

Although he didn't know where the japanese people kept their food, he just needed to set fires!

There were only so many buildings in the tribal alliance; he could just fire fire-arrows or pour charcoal down from above to ignite all the buildings in the village.

Buildings in the Stone Age were uniformly constructed with hay and dried leaves; once ignited, they didn't need further attention, as the fire would quickly spread across the entire area.

Now that everyone had been scared away by Xu Xuan, no one was responsible for putting out the fires, and the blaze quickly began to spread from the center of the tribe to the surroundings.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, Takeshita Asuka, and the other lords watched from their hiding spots in the woods.

The entire village was ablaze, the firelight reflecting on the river surface. In this cold night, this fiery scene made Tokugawa Ieyasu and his group feel a chill deep in their hearts.

"Chikusho!!"

"Beast, you beast!"

"So that kid's plan was to burn down our tribe."

"It's over, it's over! The food is all in the village, what do we do, Alliance Leader?"

For a time, wails and screams were constant along the river and in the woods, all from the bewildered Japanese Lords.

After all that, Xu Xuan's goal was to burn their food.

Tokugawa Ieyasu went from being full of confidence to having a pale face, slumping to the ground.

"It's over, it's over!"

He knew very well what would happen next; this tribe of over two thousand people meant over two thousand mouths to feed.

The resources within a dozen kilometers couldn't possibly sustain them; they would immediately fall into a resource shortage.

Now they were left with only two choices: one was to wait for death, and the other was to migrate and leave this place.

Hiding in the woods, Tokugawa Ieyasu looked up in despair at the Floating Island in the sky.

"This Xu Xuan is truly too cruel! He is truly too cruel..."

As he spoke, the aging Tokugawa Ieyasu spat out a mouthful of blood. Tokugawa Yoshiko, beside him, was frightened and quickly supported him.

"Husband, what's wrong!"

Beside the couple, their young daughter in a high school uniform also hurried forward: "Otousan (Father)! You must not let anything happen to you."

Being supported by his wife and daughter, Tokugawa Ieyasu clenched his fists: "Defeated, defeated! We have been utterly defeated. That Xia person is too despicable and shameless; we simply cannot compete with him."

He gave a sigh of despair and began to calculate how to flee this place and avoid this terrifying Xia Lord.

How could it turn out like this? With his strength and his mind well-versed in the Three Kingdoms and Sun Tzu's Art of War, he should have been able to establish a powerful empire on this Lord Continent.

In the end, he encountered a freak like Xu Xuan, which made him lament: "Since Zhou Yu was born, why must Zhuge Liang also exist? I finally understand this ancient Xia saying."

Indeed, according to Tokugawa Ieyasu's intellect, he had been the first to invent bows and arrows and used animal bladders to make water bags; he could be considered a very capable lord.

He could also mobilize other surrounding lords to join his tribal alliance.

Unfortunately, he met a freak like Xu Xuan who possessed a Floating Island, making him almost invincible in the Stone Age.

After thinking for a long time, Tokugawa Ieyasu spoke: "Members of the tribal alliance, let us disband. Each of us must seek survival on our own across the land."