Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 128



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Episode 128. Threat of the Legendary Age 2

Throughout history, the area south of Shuzor has never been attacked.

Need I explain why? It’s the southernmost point in the world. Below here, there’s nothing but the polar regions and the ocean.

There is a jungle that dominates both the west and the east.

Since Seiwamuyu and Datang, who fought during the Shuzor Alliance, never attacked beyond the coast, even though Liwaduwan was quite concerned about national defense, there was nothing in the south of Shuzor except for ports opened for trade with the west and east, and there was no reason to attack the coast in the west or east. It would be too much of a roundabout way.

So there grew up a stable granary and a very pastoral herding and farming village, the richest, safest, and least defended land in Shuzor.

“It’s the enemy!”

“Enemy?! Are you crazy? Where… … .”

“The sea! The sea! Monsters are coming from the sea!”

And now, a new line is added to history. In the year 2200 of the legendary era, an army from the polar regions strikes the southern region of Shujor.

The number is a whopping 20,000 people. Or 20,000.

“Lee Wa Du Wan’s prediction was right! Everyone, prepare for battle!!!”

What’s surprising is that Liwaduwan prepared for this.

In fact, there were troops left over, and it was not strange to garrison troops in case something strange appeared on the southern coast. The army consisting of Iyakan, Patchar, and Rulmo stopped the ‘monsters’ that came up from the sea.

“They said it was a monster… … .”

“Armor, maces, and harpoons? They look like they’re made of ice and jewels.”

“I don’t know what it is, but isn’t it a ‘human’… …? I didn’t know there was such a race.”

If that’s the case, then it’s not something to be afraid of. It’s not some incomprehensible monster.

They are nothing more than foreign pirates invading Datang! The elite officers trained by Liwaduwan are not flustered by the unprecedented situation of pirates coming from the south, and they form an army to fight back.

“We don’t know them! They don’t know us! Just do the best you can!”

The organization of the Shuzor local army is divided into the front line, middle line, and rear line.

In the front line are the heavy infantry of Lulmo and Iyakan. In the middle line are the light infantry and archers armed with bows, and in the back line are the sorcerers who boost the spirits with music, support the allies with sorcery, literacy, and spiritism, and attack the enemy’s rear.

And separately from that, we operate a ‘special force’.

Basically, the Shujor army is active in the jungle. With troops such as Patchar, Nono, and Borin, they use three-dimensional maneuvers in the forest terrain to land at the enemy’s rear, flank, and center as desired and engage in mobile warfare, projecting firepower. Using spider cavalry, they can also charge with cavalry on the ground or in the jungle.

It was a complex unit that could form a very organic connection by complexly mixing various mysteries and races.

And their organization was very simple and intuitive: they were divided into tribes.

“Ku …

First of all, a giant finned creature with an elephant trunk, temporarily called the ‘water elephant’.

They have no legs and can only run around on land, rocking their bellies. Instead, they have huge, armored arms that they swing with great force, breaking battle lines. Their strength rivals or even surpasses that of the Gigard.

All water elephants are covered in seawater. This acts as a barrier against projectile weapons, acts as a defense against mysteries, and also gives the water elephants, who cannot walk but are good swimmers, greater mobility.

Secondly, some smaller creatures that should be called ‘water wolves’. They have legs, but they are fins. Their hands are good for using tools, and they seem to be infantry. They use elemental magic to create ice.

Third, the black and white feathered Iyakan called ‘Polar Iyakan’. They have mastered martial arts. They seem to correspond to ‘heavy soldiers’.

Fourth, the legless, finned little guys that should be called ‘water cats’. They’re like smaller versions of water elephants, but they have divine powers. Could it be the influence of the primordial gods? They also use celestial magic. They provide rear support.

The armor is made of ice that doesn’t melt, and it’s like jewels set in ice. Its strength is comparable to metal, but I don’t know how it was made or how it’s used in this warm Shuzor region.

Once the tidal wave hits the ground, the rear ranks of Borin and Nono soldiers are swept away. The officer looks at the water elephant that caused the tidal wave.

“Kill that big guy first! That’s the core of the enemy’s force!”

Knowing this, the enemy’s strategy was also focused on protecting the water elephant. The water cat priests behind them held out by pouring out ice and healing energy, and the light and heavy infantry guarded the water elephants and attacked the Shujor army by wrapping themselves in the cold air and sea water.

“It’s cold, it’s cold. It’s so cold.”

“I, the spirit master! Flame! Orotbe’s flame!!!”

Surprisingly, the cold was the cause of the heavy battle losses. The coldness was radiating from the sea water, their weapons, armor, and all the mysteries they used.

It was fatal to the Shujorgun, which was born in tropical regions and lives in the jungle.

Even those who have been in the coldest of places have never experienced anything colder than a stone after a rainy day.

However, if the ice ball pierces through the body, it will freeze to the bones, and if it is just nearby and gets hit by water lightning, it will freeze to death.

In comparison, those troops seem to be unfazed by being hit by fireballs. Their weapons also don’t melt easily due to spirit magic.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!”

Knowing that, instead of using plausible mysteries, they simply pour cold water on the Shuzor army. If you look at it coldly, it is not an attack that will kill anyone, but just by getting their bodies wet, their fighting power decreases rapidly, and soon, soldiers appear with trembling limbs and confusion.

In the end, despite his thorough defenses, more elaborate formations, and more capable officers, the Shujors suffer terrible losses simply because they are ignorant of their enemy.

However, the polar pirates who came from the south do not seem to be in good shape either. They lose half of their army and flee into the sea in a hurry.

In the ocean, they see giant creatures that they have heard about, dragging them deeper into the ocean currents that they control. Everyone laughs at them.

“That huge creature must have been their ship. I didn’t think that many soldiers would have swum there.”

So, for once we’ve stopped the pirate invasion.

Of course, Datang. Of course, Liwaduwan. If they had settled in the south, the grain fields would have been turned into ice fields, and there would have been a food shortage throughout Datang.

Compared to that, this level of loss is cheap… …. Liwaduwan did not reprimand his subordinates who suffered enormous losses. He simply confirmed the enemy’s strength and took more thorough defense measures.

From the beginning, from Datang’s perspective, the current invasion was an inevitable disaster.

In short, the Imjin War was not a war that broke out because Joseon failed to conduct diplomacy. It was a war that broke out because Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Japan went crazy and killed 200,000 people.

And the Joseon Dynasty government also clearly prepared for the Imjin War. They just didn’t know that the enemy would go crazy and kill 200,000 people.

In that sense, Datang did the best he could. Liwaduwan didn’t know that there were 20,000 enemies, he didn’t know their organization, and he didn’t know their capabilities. But he just stationed a huge army and stopped them.

This happened similarly in Zor to the west and Seiwamuyu to the east, as well as in the south of Shuzor. The damage to Zor to the west was also minimized due to the excellent defense of Darida instead of Liwaduwan.

However, Seiwamuyu is almost reduced to ashes with just this one attack.

They had no idea. This completely broke the balance between Baekkan and the other clans that were competing for supremacy in Nanyang, and greatly contributed to Baekkan’s subsequent rise to power.

The East was not free from invasion. Many islands and coastal areas in the Orient were also attacked by them. Goaran also faced pirates made up of monsters that came to the shore.

Even the West was bombed a hundred years later, when armies led by water elephants appeared in the northern provinces of Dimanang and Eron, ravaging the coastline and pouring salt water on the fields, a disaster indeed.

Some were able to stop it, and some were not. Those who were not able to stop it were eaten or kidnapped and dragged into the sea, and the city was destroyed and all the valuable and precious mysteries, jewels, treasures, and even donuts were taken away.

By now you may be realizing that this is very organized, widespread, malicious and persistent.

“These are not mindless monsters! These guys are a nation. They are a private fleet of the Empire!”

It is a nation that has never existed in this world before. It is also an unidentified superpower. It is an unprecedented maritime power that can lead and attack the Western, Southern, and Eastern navies with the power of a single nation.

“Where the hell did you come from?!”

Now I can’t help but wonder.

Long ago, people in the world figured out one thing by making maps.

“The world is a ball. And if you look at the curvature, we live in less than half of the world.”

“Even if you estimate the distance between the West and the East, it’s only half the world. What’s there across the ocean?”

Great navigators have set out, but none have returned.

The only place that had any success was Nanyang. The Iyakans went south to find the ‘New World’, but came up with a desperate answer.

“There is nothing but ice.”

“ice?”

“Yes. It’s getting colder and colder.”

And I heard about the North Sea. They say that if you go all the way up north, there’s an ice field.

“So does that mean half of the world is polar?”

“Hmm… … Well, maybe it’s a barrier between us, and there might be a new land beyond it.”

But the guess was right. The frozen ocean. The moon that radiates celestial magic from the ice. And the thin orbit of the sun. It is the coldest place on earth.

And, it is also a super, super, super high-powered area where the celestial magic of the heavens and the veins interact.

Life is born there. Monsters are born, natural carnivores that eat monsters, and all kinds of creatures that eat them form their own ecosystem. It is an ecosystem made up of only krill-like creatures that eat magic and hard, soft things, without plants.

They have had a god since long ago. These damned creatures, who are far less intelligent than apes, have been transformed into intelligent beings by the god of this place through diligent genetic modification.

Why?

-Sob sob… … . It seems I am the only god in the world… … . This world is now a place filled with nothing but ice.

There was no way to get to the other half of the world, so the god just thoughtlessly worked on cultivating the races and civilizations he had raised.

However, the best person in the world spreads waves of divine power in all directions. It soon reaches the polar regions.

-My people are alive! Everyone! Go outside the sea!

And beyond the polar seas is a different world. A warm, barren, low-magic land where other creatures live… … .

-Still, that place (Shujor) has some strong magic power. Let’s start from there. Let’s make it possible for our old compatriots to live again in this world!

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! Our God!!!”

They call themselves Penkant. They are a theocratic state formed by a federation of several glacial nobles.

The ‘Demons’, who first emerged in history. They appeared in the civilization of the earth even before the gods who were diligently modifying Erin’s genetic code in the far western region.

There is only one goal. Occupy all the coastlines of the Earth and turn them into polar regions. Reconstruct the gods.

These Pencant are called ‘Polar Demons’, and the twisted Erins of the extreme west are called ‘Alien Demons’. And ‘those’ who live in space are also called ‘Space Demons’, meaning that they are a similarly incomprehensible race.

And there are still two more demons to appear. The ‘Underground Demon’ that appeared from the east, and the ‘Disease Demon’ that appeared from the west end.

The legendary era ends with the appearance of the demons.

Will the world’s mainstream races be able to overcome the invasion of these demons?

What about the non-mainstream races? How will they deal with the invasion of the Demons?

And what about the end of the age? The coming age of faith. How will Datang meet that age?

Let’s check it out for yourself now.