Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 102



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Episode 102. The Times Are Changing 2

Datang became completely unified after the unification period of the mythical era.

To put it simply, this can be easily explained as, instead of introducing yourself as, “I am a Shuzor person, not a Datang person,” you introduce yourself as, “I am a Datang person who lives in Shuzor.”

Purebloodism still exists. Pureblood Datons, pureblood Patchar, and pureblood Nonos will have children with the same pureblood kin once in their lives.

The reason is simple: since mixed-bloods can only give birth to mixed-bloods, if pure-blood people do not intentionally adjust the ratio of pure-bloods, pure-blood Datons, pure-blood Patchars, and pure-blood Nonos will all disappear one day.

You might ask, “What’s the big deal?” But being mixed-race isn’t all good.

Most Daton-Bark hybrids are duds. Daton-Patchar, Daton-Nono, and Nono-Daton hybrids also have some degree of genetic defects.

Of course, if you overcome that, a perfect new human being like King Giri will be born… … .

To be honest, genes are just luck. If you were born pure-blooded, the culture of having one or two pure-blooded children remains.

But that’s that! Now, the mixed-blood proportion of Datang is approaching 70% of the total!

Of course, mixed blood cannot be reduced. It may sound racist, but anyway, if a person’s ancestors are mixed with another race, no matter how much you increase the so-called ‘purity’, it can only reach 99%, not 100%.

And people who are already mixed-race don’t necessarily care about their purity. So, with the promiscuous culture unique to Datang, they sleep with anyone and have children.

In general, each race has a different way of living. Let’s take a look at them one by one.

Because they are actively involved in promiscuity, they grow up in the village as co-parents. Legally, biological parents are prohibited from raising their children. It is said to be a bad custom in Erin, where they only value their own family, rather than loving all families equally.

Pureblood Datons have no aversion to it, and Erin and Bark mixed-bloods have some aversion to it… … but due to cultural influences, they are in favor of co-parenting.

Those who grow up like this receive the same education as children their age in the village, and as in previous times, when they reach sexual maturity, they are treated as adults. They immediately choose between pilgrimage and settlement.

Pilgrimage, settlement.

If you want to live as a pilgrim, you will now wander from village to village.

You can either leave the Datang or stay. It might be nice to visit Mainnirun once.

You can live like that your whole life, or you can settle down when the time is right.

When they settle down, they live in a village. They basically engage in primary industries such as agriculture, forestry, and livestock farming, but they also include blacksmithing and crafts.

They believe that since they all start from the same point, the only thing that remains in the end is a ‘medal’. Although Datang does not look favorably on the accumulation of wealth, he looks very positively on the accumulation of honor!

There is also some polarization, with some people working just enough to avoid starvation and living a lazy life, while others spend their entire lives actively participating in village events and festivals and practicing martial arts in order to earn medals by going to Giruak.

Having a lot of medals means you are a very good datanger. And the only way to steadily get medals is to enter datang.

Twelve major Datuns managed by Mainilun. Choose a path, gain mysteries, and dedicate your life to Datang there. That alone will allow you to accumulate a lot of medals.

In general, no matter how hard you try, you can’t become a ‘main runner’. The limit of someone who works hard without being outstanding is roughly ‘detachment’. It’s like a village official.

However, if you accomplish great feats or bring about revolutionary developments, you can become a Minenirun and go down in history as a great person. In that case, you will gain the honor of being almost immortal (in the case of Darton or his mixed race).

In general, most people follow this route: pilgrimage, settlement, and later public service. If you are a Datang person, you will have held a public office at least once in your life. Just because you have experience, you will be given a medal and a public office.

Lulmo is a bit of an oddity, because they are polygamous, not promiscuous.

That’s why Lulmo is much more obsessed with getting ahead. And usually, to get ahead?

Money. Female Lulmo also needs to increase their value through their looks and dowry, and male Lulmo needs to live with many female Lulmo, so they have a much higher desire for success compared to the mixed-bloods who are the mainstream of Datang.

Of course, there are those who have given up on real love and have been eliminated… … . Well.

Anyway, if you’re a pilgrim, you become a merchant. If you settle down, you become a soldier. If not, you enter public service and become a scribe.

Many people respect the leader of the Lumo, Lezohui Medakbo, and the salaries of secretaries in Datang are always at the highest level, so the Lumo live a very stressful life, including a very high level of educational enthusiasm.

Then, when they fail and are confused, they try to make money by gambling and lose all their savings on Youpoppo and things like that.

The case of Borin is even more heterogeneous. The ‘Datorin’, which was bred on their own and has a very different appearance and personality from Borin from other regions, still selects their own data and lives in large communal units.

And in these cases, they have extremely high intelligence, but also have a somewhat vicious nature, so they work in various fields such as military, academics, and scribes… … and they kill each other.

Yes, because they strongly recommend birth control in the Datang.

They requested, “If you limit the number, we can have war among ourselves,” and as a result, fierce fighting broke out within the Datang, centered around each community, and although it was called a battle, it was actually a war of slaughter.

It’s a bit odd, but it seems like they can’t control their own aggression, no matter how smart they are.

In the case of wars between Datorins, it is helpful for military officers to gain actual command experience, so Datang neglects it, and in a way encourages it.

Anyway, it’s not like they’re harming anyone else, and they’re not forcing a massacre, they’re just saying they’ll do it.

The Iyakan still live in the Shuzor region. They are, in a sense, direct descendants of Seiwamuyu, because they continue the traditions of the first dynasty that was destroyed by Liwaduwan.

They are independent, but their culture is so different that they just live in a community among themselves, but they have an identity as Datang people. They just think of themselves as Iyakan living in Datang.

This is a case where Liwaduwan’s conciliatory policy was very successful during the unification of the South, and the Iyakans here even have hostility towards Seiwamuyu’s ‘Dragon King’. They say that why should we serve a dragon when we have Olchaun?

They usually raise their own children, and apart from that, they live like a family… … .

There are many people who join the military because they contribute to their own mysteries, such as the Dragon Legion and the Dragon Heart Soldiers.

The Gigards live in the Great Forest upside down. They are the nobles of the forest. They have greater strength than anyone else. They have outstanding intelligence. And they have powerful plant magic. The Gigards only work in the Great Forest under the orders of the Gulmyeong.

If you just listen to Gulmung’s words, everything you need in life is guaranteed. He is considered to have a very high status in Datang, but he is just a gangster in the clan.

The Gigaguards are simply born and as adults, they can tear apart the bodies of trained Rulmo with brute force.

After all, in this era, physical weight is the best. Even if you have mysticism, it is very difficult to be rude to the Gigad tribe.

In addition, there are various races living in Datang. Representative examples include the specially named small beastmen, the Quako tribe, and the wolf beastmen, the Bark tribe.

Their lives are not much different from those of ordinary Datang people, except that they have been mysterious since birth. Most of the Quako people follow the path of ‘Koa’ and work as shepherds or transporters, but there is no reason for them to do so.

The Bark tribe also has no reason to live as hunters. They are usually hunters, but there is no law prohibiting them from becoming scribes in Datang. They just end up hearing things like, “Isn’t that inefficient?”

From what I’ve heard so far, Datang seems like heaven.

There has never been a time in the history of Datang when the people were exploited, except during the great invasion of Shuzor, when ‘the country was on the verge of ruin if the people were not squeezed’.

The country runs so well just because the leader doesn’t change, but because the leader’s mindset is right.

But civilization, society, and the wild are in a continuous struggle.

It may seem good to explain it like this, but sometimes, large-scale outbreaks of pilgrimages occur, and it is not uncommon for people to be attacked by lions and killed while on a pilgrimage.

Of course, there is a lot of crime… … . Even with the emergence of money and surplus production, professional criminal groups have emerged, and the security of the vast Datang is gradually becoming unstable.

So, it is a good country to live in, but it is not heaven.

But if you tell this to other countries in the world, they will literally swear at you.

‘Isn’t this heaven? I’m so full I’m about to burst… … .’

Something like this.

The nations of the Northern Erins are still fighting among themselves, enslaving each other, rebellions breaking out, and great feasts of unfilial piety taking place where people kill one another.

Baekkan is currently engaged in the 256th all-out war with Iyakan. The two nations seem determined to bring it to an end, but it seems difficult to see a real end in sight.

And the country of the eastern Tocha tribes has been in a state of blood feud for thousands of years. It is a series of endless wars, washing blood with blood.

It seems right to start the first story of the legendary era with the Tocha tribe located in this eastern border.

This is because they began to interact with the West starting from the legendary era, and above all, they built an independent yet powerful culture and nation.

And above all, it was during this period that the second divine being in history appeared among the Tocha people.

Even thousands of years later, he is still the proud teacher of the Tocha people, the greatest martial arts master of all time, and a man who has accomplished great feats comparable to Ol Chaun, the creator of Datang.

And it may seem a little rude to say this, but compared to Ol Cha-un, who always ends his sentences with curses, anger, and nagging, he was a person with a great personality.

The second legend of a newcomer in history. Check it out for yourself now.