Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 105



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Episode 105. The journey to Namyeokmanri

If you look at a map of the world, there are some facts that are immediately apparent.

“Ah, the world is divided into four?”

Yes. First, there is the continent of Olsozoria, which Datang belongs to. Just like Africa on Earth, there is only one passageway to the east, the Isthmus of Olsozoria, and to the north is the Mediterranean Sea, and to the west is a strait… … It is much wider than the Strait of Gibraltar on Earth. It is so wide that Erin cannot see the other side. It is a funnel-shaped Mediterranean Sea.

If you go a little east from the continent of Olsozora and then south, you will find a large peninsula jutting out, with numerous islands extending to the east, and another peninsula.

This is the ‘Nanyang’. It is the southern region of this world. The main ethnic groups are Daton, Iyakan, and Baekan. Datang is a super-large nation that has taken over the entire continent of Orsozo. It is a super-high-power~high-power zone.

And above that Mediterranean Sea. Or north of the Isthmus of Olsozore and then west again, there is the ‘West’. The land of Erin and her mixed races. It’s easy to think of Europe, but… … .

The biggest difference is that the continent we can call ‘America’ is located very close by.

So close that you can row a raft or primitive canoe to get there.

Imagine the American continent as being located in the location of the British Isles.

As a result, there is no ‘New World’ in this world. Instead, there is only a huge, independent area that seems to combine Europe and America.

And if you go west from the South Sea, it is the West, if you go east and cross the northern plains, it is the North Sea, and if you cross the southern desert, it is the East. This may seem like it makes sense, but it was divided by deserts and mountain ranges, so by the standards of the time, going from the south to the north and going east were clearly distinguished.

The North Sea includes Central Asia and Siberia on Earth, but there are significant differences.

The upper part of Siberia is not the polar region. The polar regions of this world exist only in very small areas. So what is there instead of the Arctic Ocean? There is another continent. It is a continent that is slightly cooler and is separated from the North Ocean by a large lake that looks like a sea. That is why it can be called the North Ocean (洋: ocean sheep).

The northern continent of the North Ocean, where people in this world may not even exist yet, is a zone of ultra-high magic power, and the North Ocean below the lake is a zone of normal magic power.

There are many tribes living here, but they have not benefited from civilization in this era. When will this vast unexplored land be developed? Originally, dragons also lived in this northern continent and moved south.

And if you go east from this North Sea Plain, you will reach the ‘Orient’. It is the land of the Tocha people. Also, a large continent like ‘Oceania’ is nearby. As a result, isolated species such as marsupials cannot appear, and species from each land interact actively.

This is mostly a low-magic zone, because the celestial bodies in the universe are all concentrated on the other side.

Then we can infer the following geopolitical facts from here:

“The West and the South have easy exchanges, but the East does not!”

The continents of this world are long and narrow, but the area of ​​the ocean is still slightly smaller than that of the Earth. If you go straight from the East to the East, will you reach the West? Before you go, the polar regions in the middle of the ocean block your path. It is a land of ice that is impossible to cross.

The same goes for going north from the North Sea to the South Sea. If you go further north from the northern continent, you will come across the same ice mass along the way, making it impossible to cross.

Then how is the exchange between the East and the South Sea possible? You can go to the East by boat from the Iyakan and Baekkan areas through the south. Or you can just go by land. If you follow the ‘North Road’, you can go through wide plains, wilderness, and mountain ranges. If you follow the ‘South Road’, you will come across jungles, swamps, and grasslands.

In that sense, the journey of the best person in the world who just started from the East is strictly speaking a journey to the West. After all, you have to start from the East, go West for a while, and then go South to reach Mainilun.

But, the best person in the world didn’t know that fact.

No, I knew exactly. I knew that the Jewel Palace where the immortal leader reigns was not exactly to the south, but to the southwest.

But the distance was different. The best person in the world vaguely thought, ‘If I go west, the distance that crosses the East once, and then go south, I will reach Mainnirun.’ But in reality, I had to go five times as far as I thought to finally reach the continent of Orsojora.

It’s only natural that there were no maps or accurate distances at the time, but this error in the world’s best geographic sense caused a big change.

Specifically, Cheonhajeilin decides to go north instead of going south, which is a direct route to Datang. Based on his sense of distance, going west and then south would be the fastest.

As a result, the history of the world is turned upside down. That’s what the movement of a new person is like.

The best in the world has been wandering the wilderness for seven years now.

After training in martial arts and successfully shedding his shell for the third time, he didn’t have to eat or drink, so he didn’t have any problems even in situations where a normal person would have starved to death if stranded. In particular, he was able to hunt animals he encountered along the way, and while filling his stomach with things like hunting that weren’t particularly necessary but made him feel good, he was able to continue heading west.

Because if you live as an Oriental and can’t read the stars in the sky, you’re in trouble. He was heading properly west, according to his distance sense.

Yes, but… … .

“Is the world much bigger than I thought?”

He also realized something after 7 years. The curvature of the world as originally measured in the East. And the area of ​​the world he estimated was much smaller than the actual world.

For the past seven years, I have been leisurely following the grasslands, plains, and mountain ranges, following the unexplored areas where people and tribes exist very rarely, but the warm plains and rainy grasslands of the continent of Olsozo do not appear.

It seems to indicate that his knowledge of the world was greatly mistaken. It is a very awkward situation. He wanted to go without starving himself, but he still wanted to help others.

After walking for a few more days, Cheonhajeilin accidentally discovers smoke. Feeling that it is a bonfire made artificially by people rather than a fire, he lightly steps on the ground and runs.

The speed at which the new model moves is as fast as an arrow. The best in the world, who runs lightly at a speed that makes it questionable whether even the wind ostriches can be faster, soon discovers something unacceptable.

“You bastards! Trying to sacrifice people!”

They were tying the prisoners to trees and trying to burn them to death. Whether it was for cannibalism, torture, or execution, it was something the best man in the world could not dare to forgive. He ran forward, kicking the ground even harder.

“?”

So, the barbarians who suddenly tried to sacrifice people met with disaster. Even the world’s strongest dragon species, called ‘Great Calamity’, was like a sparrow to the best in the world, so it was even worse.

The savages, presumably of mixed Tocha-Bak blood, desperately try to fight back with their bows and javelins, but the best in the world fires a long sword into the air, sweeping them all away with the shockwave alone.

The barbarians are shocked and fall to their knees in worship. The best man in the world leaves them alone and first saves the burning people.

“What happened? Explain.”

“?!”

As the best person in the world learned martial arts, he learned how to convey his will to others and directly accept the will of others.

Now that he was no longer bound by the form of language, he could go abroad and understand no language, and he could even discern lies and truth from the differences between words and people’s emotions.

So, when I heard the circumstances, I heard that those who were offering sacrifices were breaking the laws of the tribe. Even barbarians have rules. In fact, they are more certain.

And the rules were like this.

“These people are so hungry that they steal the game that should be shared by the entire tribe? And those who take from others in this way are sacrificed to their ancestors.”

In short, he was being petty. If it had been all Chaun, he would have gotten angry and said, “You little punk. You’re still a family member?” and literally thrown him naked in the middle of the wilderness. Or he could have told them to burn him at the stake.

But the best in the world was not Ol Chaun, and his rules and morals were very different.

“It is wrong to sacrifice one’s descendants to feed one’s ancestors. And how can it be his fault if he eats when he is hungry?”

But forgiveness was out of the question even for him. The best in the world was essentially someone who liked to solve problems.

“What do you usually eat? And why are you hungry now?”

In the Nanyang and Shujor north, almost all monsters were wiped out because of the devilish Hanjutamal, and their place was filled by giant hornets and large carnivores, but in the western and northern parts of the world, monsters were quite abundant.

In short, plants are organisms that create nutrients through photosynthesis using sunlight and water.

A living organism that obtains nutrition by eating plants or animals.

The definition of a monster is ‘a creature that consumes magical energy as nutrition.’

It is the primary producer of the soft-bodied monsters. It is a primitive animal-monster that directly converts magical energy pressure into nutrients. In this world, mushrooms are not fungi, but plant-monsters that obtain nutrients through magical synthesis, and they are primary producers.

And there are ‘herbivorous’ creatures that eat them, and ‘carnivorous’ creatures that eat herbivorous creatures, etc.

To put it simply, a ‘dragon’, which is a large carnivorous animal that uses magical power, uses magical power to form its thick scales, horns, teeth, and dragon heart. The same goes for animals that use magical power, such as keratinous elephants and giraffes.

However, these creatures do not die because they have less magic power. They just have soft scales, underdeveloped horns, dull teeth, a heart that cannot breathe, and short shins.

But if you don’t eat meat or grass, you will die. That’s because your body is made up of biological elements (not proteins) and not magical power.

However, in the case of monsters, some monsters eat meat and grass. However, if they do not eat them, they will only become weaker and will not die. However, if their magic pressure is low, they will starve to death.

And here, compared to the West and the South Seas, the North Sea has a high magical power and many giant creatures, and above all, there are no Hanjuta horses, so there are many giant monsters.

There are things that are almost as big as elephants, monsters that rival the ‘Great Calamity’, flying loongs (*the oriental dragons of Earth) and all kinds of monsters big and small, plants, fungi, and even things that are close to intelligent beings.

“Hmm. There was one where I lived too.”

And surprisingly, that was also the case in the East. Even in low-magic zones, there are monsters living there.

Is it surprising? There aren’t any monsters in the continent of Olsojora, which is a high-magic zone.

Well, in places where magic power is abundant, there are surprisingly no monsters, and in places where magic power is low, there are surprisingly large monsters.

“The problem is that those monsters are taking over the hunting grounds. Let’s take a look.”

If a monster steals his hunting ground, All Chaun would say, “Aren’t you a living thing?” and tell him to go live somewhere else, but Cheon Ha-il-in thought people were more important and had no interest in the lives of monsters.

So what the best person in the world saw was an incredibly terrifying monster.

A creature that looked like a cross between a horned tiger and a camel. It was an extremely vicious monster that ate meat, grass, and sucked the magical power of the surrounding land and celestial bodies.

“Heh heh. Here. What do you call that?”

“Tataap.”

“Tap? Interesting. Were there such large ones here? We call them Maho (馬虎).”

“?”

The best person in the world thinks of ‘that thing’ that exists in his hometown. It is much smaller. It is about the size of a wild dog or a cat.

And that’s domesticated. You can train it to understand human speech.

“Just watch. I’ll show you how to tame it.”

“… … ?”

This guy, the best in the world, didn’t even think about it…

Well, just check it out for yourself from now on.

A large number of heavy cavalrymen riding on vicious monsters that seem to have come out of hell charge forward, screaming. The soldiers on the walls blocking them tremble in fear and raise their bows and arrows.

“Never let them come over! We must not allow those tiger-riding barbarians to invade further to the west!”

“Kiyooooooooooo!”

The Maho soldiers break through the walls by climbing up vertically.

Nothing can stop the riders riding these mad creatures. Not mountains, not canyons, not lakes, not rivers, not cold, not heat. Not even walls.

“I, the spirit, have lost my power!”

“Oh my god! How low has the magical power pressure gone…!”

It dries up all the magic power in every place it passes through. The army riding on that demon is now advancing endlessly, making the whole world tremble.

And the one riding the largest horse in the front shouts:

“These guys didn’t surrender, so burn them all! Turn this place into a grassland!”

“Kiyooooooooooooooooo!”

Although his name is different, he is called this way in this age and in later ages.

Heavenly kalpa. The third divine being in history. The ruler of a nomadic people who leaves nothing to those who rebel.

He is the most successful descendant of a nomadic people who learned martial arts from the best in the world and raised a horse.

It’s clear that he didn’t try to domesticate Maho like this…