Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 122



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Episode 122. Those Who Sell Legends 5

This is the 10th year of exploration of the ruins. Since the first success, there have been no failures since then, so the reputation of the Luzar excavation team has grown by the day.

The leader of the group, the wizard Luzar, now runs his own magic tower and a pop-up shop. It is a place to analyze the artifacts he has acquired rather than mathematical research. He borrows some money from his colleagues to run the business together.

Baekkan warrior Waiki is now the most famous Baekkan in the Dimanang region. He is covered in relic equipment all over his body. The most representative items are a hammer that returns when thrown, shoes that let you fly for a moment, a steel armor that is as light as a feather, an incredibly strong helmet, and so on. It is a mess of relics, but this messy appearance is proof of a strong man. He has also gotten a wife, and often appears as a representative of the Baekkan tribe.

The camel man, Gaat, who is a porter, is the representative of the camel men of the Dimanang region. He can be called a chieftain, and in adventures, the role of a porter is not simply to carry loads, but also to confront enemies with large weights, guard the cart, repair small items, and take care of the party, so the treatment is not bad. Like Waiki, he is also armed with relic equipment all over his body.

Hunter Gon Chaina is also a great adventurer armed with relic equipment. He boasts that he will become a minenirun by slaying many large monsters, and many people believe him seriously. It seems that it is possible.

Borin Chacha also became a Deata. Thanks to his vast wealth and skills, he increased the number of Borin locksmiths and solidified the clan’s position.

And Hirari, who records the stories of his party and brags about them every time they return from an adventure, has become incredibly wealthy. Everyone now waits for Hirari’s stories.

An organization that is this successful. And each individual who created that organization is given a choice.

Go ahead or stay?

“Honestly, since we each have our own departments to be in charge of, I think we should start discussing our future plans… … .”

Luzar speaks first. Everyone in the group is thinking about it, so he speaks first before they are divided.

“To be honest, I want to analyze the relics I’ve acquired rather than just excavating them. Once commercialized, the relic equipment we’ve made will be sold all over Dimanang. That’ll be the real deal, and it’ll be a real deal.”

It was Luzar’s long-held dream. To be recognized as a Mine Rune and a true Daton, not a half-blood. Everyone nodded their heads because they knew that fact.

“But if there are any companions who are willing to go on an adventure, of course I will actively support them! This is a business we did together, right? What would I have done without you guys?”

“Yes! That’s right, Daton!”

“Wayki. Are you going to continue your adventure?”

“Of course! Digging up the secrets of the underground, digging up relics, and fighting monsters is still exciting! Gon Chaina. Don’t you feel the same way?”

“Ah, of course. I want to become a Mainnirun, but to do so, I need to fight stronger enemies and gain fame.”

“I like your adventures too, so let’s go together!”

Waiki, Gon Chaina, and Hirari. The three of them want to continue their adventure. However, there are some who have to step down against their will.

“I want to go on more adventures, but honestly, it’s hard to continue to go out on dangerous missions as the leader of the tribe. Maybe it would be better to step down from the front lines. Instead, I’d like to recommend a successor.”

“I like adventure more. I want to be richer. But I’m too old. Even if I go on an adventure, I want to leave it to my son, who is a great locksmith.”

Gaart, who brought Waiki on the adventure, and Chacha, who acted as the group’s brain and locksmith, retreat here.

So it’s torn in half. The side that goes on adventures and the side that gets left behind.

Years later, Luzar succeeded in interpreting the most important formula of the ‘thrown weapon’ and making it universally applicable. She, who was overcome with the great invention of making arrows, axes, and hammers return when thrown, decided to go down to Mainilun once.

As a representative of the camel herders, Gaat succeeded in making the camel herders dominant over other herders in the Dimanang region.

In the desert, Dimanang region, it seems that the persuasion that camels are bigger, stronger, and longer-lasting than horses, sheep, pigs, wolves, cats, etc. worked. Camel people and camel people who share the same animal spirit soon become the mainstream race of Dimanang.

When Lujar returned from Mainilun, Chacha was old and dying. Uncharacteristically for Borin, the funeral was held with great respect. And then his daughter… … son took over as the locksmith.

As for the rest, the adventure continues.

“Okay, okay. I’ve escaped! Me. I’ve become Minenirun!”

Gon Chaina finally became a Mine Niran after decades of adventure. The countless battles he had experienced during his adventures, the artifacts he had acquired, his influence as a hunter, his fame that seemed to have reached a peak, and the bronze statues he had carved to make his name known, all combined to finally meet the criteria for his escape.

Don’t think of the Mythical Age of Minerals. They were able to break away from the status quo by achieving unparalleled conditions, but in this day and age, you can become a superhuman just by achieving a very high level.

Gon Chaina failed to become a sage through cold-blooded martial arts, but succeeded in achieving that feat solely through fame.

“Go to Mainilun, report, and come back.”

Waiki asks the younger Gon Chaina.

“Shall the adventure continue?”

“Of course. Now that there is no limit to lifespan, I want to see the extremes of martial arts. It will take a long time, but so what.”

“See you then!”

Hirari sees them off. By the way, Hirari has already lost his shell. It is said that the storyteller is more famous than the original storyteller.

“Hirari. Aren’t you going to Mainirun?”

“It doesn’t meet my standards yet.”

“Really… …? Isn’t it enough to shed the shell?”

“You need to get at least a 3rd grade to be able to brag to your mom and dad.”

It’s a strange thing to hear from Daton. Mom and Dad? Does Daton know Dad? Waiki asks out of pure curiosity about Hirari’s situation.

“Who are your parents?”

“Father is Ol Chaun. Mother is NonoNoNo Hakang.”

Wakey spit out the alcohol he was drinking. Now that there is something called distilled liquor, there is not much leftover.

“What?!”

“Why are you so surprised?”

“Oh, when father comes, mother is that Anlier?”

“Yes. I was born in Ha-kang’s extreme, so it must be true, since Ha-kang himself said it.”

Waiki asks again, bewildered.

“No, with such good bloodlines, why are you living like this?”

“There’s no such concept for Daton. I don’t think he thinks of me as his child either.”

“Then what about you?”

“I think of him as my father. But, what should I say? I don’t have any special feelings for him other than the fact that he is my biological father? But isn’t he the father of all Datons? I think it would be nice to be able to perform in front of someone like that.”

Waiki was really surprised. Even his old friends who were listening around were surprised and were pouring drinks even though the glasses were full.

“Anyway, that’s my dream! When all your adventures are over or ‘completed’, I’ll bring it to you and perform it in front of All Chaun!”

“I see… I see. Hmm.”

“So I think I’ll be here for a few more decades! Waiki is still young, right?”

“Yeah. Get it right. I can fight for another twenty years or so.”

“Then that’s fortunate!”

Twenty years might be a bit of an exaggeration.

After drinking with his old comrades, he parted ways. Gon Chaina would head south and return in a few years, and he would start exploring the relics again with a party that had changed except for Hirari.

And then suddenly a thought occurs to me.

‘Unlike my colleagues, I don’t have a dream.’

I already knew that my current state was not something I had desired to achieve.

I hated wars of aggression, so I quit the military without thinking, and I hated the world that was obsessed with telling stories and jokes that had nothing to do with me, so I threw myself into the excavation team.

Of course, it was a success. It was the first and most successful excavation team.

I’m not complaining! I like being rich and famous. Fighting, bragging, having fun. Aren’t they all just the stuff of Baekkan?

Waiki is good at fighting. He has acquired many treasures, bought a luxurious mansion in Dimanang, has a pretty wife, and has children who are as strong as he is and smarter than him. He is also the representative of the city’s Baekkan with an approval rating of over 66%.

But this was not the goal, it was just an accident. Waiki ponders his own goal.

Coincidentally, warrior Weiki was the first of the group to become a superhuman.

I don’t know exactly what it is. Is it because it has a lot of weight in the story? Or is it because it really lived as a Baekkan among Baekkan?

This is also because the classification of superhumans is very ambiguous in the first place. In short, when someone sheds their shell and becomes a superhuman, is that a great person or a good person in terms of classification? This classification itself is somewhat ambiguous. It is difficult for a feat without mystery to exist, or a mystery without any feat at all.

You may not live forever like the Dartons, but you will live longer and overcome the limitations of aging a little. And since your mystery has reached its peak, you may even be able to see higher realms.

But is that all?

Middle-aged. Waiki, who has lived a long life thanks to his escape from the age when he should have retired, thinks about his end.

“Becoming a saint and living forever doesn’t seem like the path for me. It’s not like being a baekan.”

An ending that ends in death.

Originally, when you die, you should die cleanly. It is not like Baekhan to be president forever just because you are strong and capable. Dictatorship is bad.

But Waiki himself seemed to be very close to that.

And the mystery of Waiki is that it is a national god who embodies ‘living like a Baekkan.’

‘The end of living like a baekan is not being able to live like a baekan… … .’

The troubles that befell middle-aged Weiki were compounded later when he fought ‘that thing’ in the underground ruins and somehow met the conditions of ‘Stature’ through the use of celestial magic.

“Captain Waiki! Now, if I can just complete the mystery, I can escape for the second time!”

“The second adult of the Baekkan tribe has appeared! (*At this point, the Baekkan tribe has no adults other than the Lord of Pickaxes) An immortal hero! He will become the King of Adventures!”

“king…….”

Waiki chews on those words. He was neither a philosopher nor a ruler. He was just the leader of an excavation team who was good at fighting.

Would it be okay for someone like him to become king? He worried, but there was no one who could give him an answer.

Religion has not yet spread widely in the world.

Now, as he approaches old age, his beard and hair have turned white all over his body. However, his muscles are still thick beyond imagination, and his strength is unmatched by any adventurer in Dimanang.

Feeling sorry for him, his old friend, ‘Dimanang’s Maini Run’ Luzar makes a suggestion.

“Wayki. You’ve aged a lot.”

“Everyone grows old. Except for people like you.”

“Well, not necessarily. There’s a second molt.”

“Huh… … . Probably not.”

Although Waiki had been honing his mysteries for decades, he was never able to evolve the Baekkan people gods to the next level.

Perhaps this is why we cannot see the extreme of mystery. In the first place, no one has succeeded before.

“But if it were a truly great feat, it might be different. Have you ever heard of Dimanfyon?”

“Demanpione… … ?”

“That’s right. I heard it from the Anrai Mana School of Datang. Originally, in the Dimanang region, there was the world’s largest magic tower, an astronomical observatory called Dimanpyon.”

“hmm…….”

“There may be nothing left there now, but if the ancient magical civilization knew of its location… … and if they left artifacts there.”

“There must be some amazing things.”

“That’s right. The bigger the tower, the more powerful and mysterious the relics it contained.”

The great adventurer Waiki, the main lord of Dimanang, Gon Chaina, the bard of Dimanang, Hirari, and the main lord of Dimanang, Luzar. In addition, there are the descendants of Gaat and Chacha, who were former companions.

A large-scale excavation team led by six people sets out to find the holy site of Dimanfyon in the north.

Even after so many years together, only one of them is old. He thinks that this will be his last adventure to see his friend off.

“One of the first adventurers of the legendary era. The warrior Weiki who left behind all sorts of anecdotes was truly a great person. He was not simply evaluated because of his great achievements and anecdotes. He was also evaluated because the stories left behind by Hirari, their bard, were completely unearthed in later generations.”

“Waiki presented something that was impossible for any race at the time. It is no coincidence that Waiki’s statue was always the first to be built in front of the Vakkan Council.”

“Warrior Waiki changed the paradigm as a hero of the ‘Baekkan’. Not by clinging to eternal life in a shabby manner like other Baekkans of later generations, but by accepting his own death with dignity.”

“The most important achievement of the first Baekkan hero, Waiki, is… … .”

This is a rather long and boring explanation.

The story of Warrior Waiki. Just check it out for yourself from now on.