Understanding the Situation

Eren returned to the Coordinate Space, and this time he noticed a clear difference.

Many branches extended from the pillar of light at the center of the Coordinate Space. Originally, the light had resembled a pillar stretching straight upward, but now it looked as though the pillar had become a great tree, sprouting countless branches. As for why he had not noticed anything last time, when there had only been one person, perhaps a single branch had not been conspicuous. Besides, he had needed to go outside to check the situation then and had not examined it closely. This time, however, tens of thousands of Dothraki had drunk his blood wine together. With tens of thousands of new branches, the difference was obvious.

Eren walked toward the pillar of light. Within the Coordinate Space, it served as a central computer. Many commands had to be issued from here, and it was also the receiving processor connected to the Dothraki.

Eren stepped into the pillar of light. In an instant, he felt that he could see through the eyes of many Dothraki and read many of their thoughts. The selective transformation he had wanted to master became clear the moment he entered. By issuing a command to the branch corresponding to the person he wanted to transform, he could control that person's transformation. The pillar even had a search function, allowing him to search for and control someone through his impression of their face.

In the future, if he wanted to negotiate with someone, he could simply make the person he sent to negotiate transform into a giant and eat them all. Of course, he would not normally use such a method. Over time, nobody would negotiate or communicate with him, and the entire world would become his enemy. Although he was not afraid of that, all he would gain in the end was a ruined world, so it was best to use this method sparingly.

After looking through many people's memories, Eren discovered that they really had little loyalty. They simply followed whoever was strongest. Since he could transform into a giant, they saw him as invincibly powerful. Of course, if the Mother of Dragons one day defeated him while riding a dragon hundreds of meters long, these Dothraki would certainly abandon him in an instant. Admiring strength was in the Dothraki's nature.

After studying the pillar of light for a while longer, Eren felt he understood the Coordinate Space well enough and withdrew from it.

The next day, Eren woke to Sally's ministrations. After enjoying them for a while, he got up.

Before long, Eren had dressed with Sally's help and walked out of the tent.

"Call all the kos over for a meeting!"

Eren gave the order to the Dothraki outside his tent.

By the time Eren attacked yesterday, the sun had already been close to setting. Afterward, he had also made everyone drink the blood wine, so he had decided to hold the meeting today and learn a few things.

For example, where were they in the Dothraki Sea-west or east? How much food remained in the camp, and how many captured slaves did they have? He also intended to reorganize and reform the entire Khalasar and, if possible, unify their faith along the way. Of course, it would be even better if he could establish the current date, but that probably would not be possible. These Dothraki were a bunch of idiots who knew nothing except killing.

As for the god they would worship, he had already made one up. This world also had legends of the Titan of Braavos, and he intended to establish a monotheistic religion. After all, he would rule not only the Dothraki but other peoples as well. He had even thought up a name for this god to amuse himself: Yeager. In the future, he would publicly proclaim himself the immortal son of god, bestowed with divine power. His full name would be Eren Yeager.

After all, he too wanted to pursue freedom. His understanding of freedom was simply somewhat different from Eren's. In his view, true freedom had never existed in this world. When one person became free, someone else would naturally bear the penalty for that freedom and become unfree. Modern factory owners, for instance, achieved financial freedom by exploiting workers, while the workers had their freedom shackled by their employers' money. Perhaps defining it through money alone was one-sided, but it at least demonstrated that if you wanted to become free, you had to reach a height others could not attain. Only then could you achieve the freedom you wanted.

Take slaves and slave owners, for example.

When slaves wanted to gain freedom, they would inevitably encroach on their owners' interests, because the owners had paid money for them. Slaves were also routinely beaten, cursed, and punished by their owners. Once they gained freedom, they would certainly take revenge on their owners, and was that not also depriving the owners of their freedom? Thus, true freedom would never exist in this world, nor was there any way to grant freedom to all humanity.

If Eren wanted true freedom, he had to stand at the pinnacle of this world and deprive others of theirs. Perhaps that seemed cruel, but when everyone in the world was his slave and he alone stood above all people, then, to those beneath him, was everyone other than him not equal? Since there would always be someone above them, keeping them down, why could it not be just one person? Surely that was better than having a whole group above them. Being oppressed by one person was better than being oppressed by a group. After all, however oppressive one person was, how much oppression could he inflict? To Eren, this was true freedom.

"And to gain that freedom, I must keep moving forward, forward, and forward again. Until I reach the summit, I will never stop. Fight! Fight!"

Eren swore this to himself.

Before long, Eren saw Flock, Colin, and Link arrive, and he led them into the tent.

Eren sat in a chair while they stood three meters in front of him.

"Do you have a map? And where are we now?"

Eren addressed the three of them.

"Khal, none of us have a map. Before, wherever we wandered, we killed and plundered."

Colin spoke to Eren. Seeing no reaction from him, he continued:

"As for our position, we're north of the Skahazadhan River. Follow the river west, and you'll reach Slaver's Bay. To the south is Lhazareen. We raided there a few months ago and captured quite a few slaves. We're heading to Slaver's Bay now to sell those slaves."

Eren thought this over.

"Mm, this is a good chance to look for a map in Slaver's Bay and find a slave who can interpret while I'm at it. As for conquering Slaver's Bay, I'll wait until I've united all the Dothraki before taking a city-state. Otherwise, if I spend all my time governing a city-state and get tangled up in all sorts of trivial affairs, when will I have time to unite the Dothraki?"

"How much food and fodder do we have left? How many days will it last?"

"Khal, we currently have enough stored food to keep our Dothraki well fed for a month. As for the slaves, we'll give them a little each day, just enough to keep them from starving to death."

Flock answered.

"Mm. I intend to establish a Dothraki Empire, so I wanted to discuss the details with you."

Eren spoke to the three of them.

Before they could recover from their shock, they heard Eren continue.

"We currently have twenty thousand cavalry. Your positions as kos will remain unchanged, and each of you will still command five thousand men, but the subordinate commanders must be reassigned."