Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 130



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Episode 130. Threat of the Legendary Age 4

At the end of the legendary era. As mentioned earlier, the best in the world stopped the invasion of a thousand years ago.

Cheon-Gyeop was not a new man at that time, and his cavalry army could not stop the greatest man in the world, so he could not swallow up the East.

“Why do you commit such slaughter? Govern the country with virtue and propriety.”

“The best in the world. My ancestors’ teacher. They see us as barbarians, so they are just making us pay the price we deserve.”

“Then how shall I pay for your murder?”

“I am stepping down not because you are stronger than me, but because you are right.”

“Then, come back as a newcomer. I will gladly welcome you after your third molt.”

“… … .”

“If you wish to be taught, I will gladly come to you and revive the customs of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and wisdom. What would you like to do?”

The best in the world heads north again to teach a thousand kalpas.

Cheon-geop learns from the best in the world, knows, and strives to greatly improve the relationship between nomadic and settled peoples and elevate his own realm.

And surprisingly, the third molt didn’t take long. And the molt of his beloved horse, Cheon-Gap, too.

Babpan and Cheon-geop, the best in the world and the divine sword. The four absolute beings face each other in the northern plains.

“You have become as strong as me. And my forces are still strong.”

“I see.”

“Aren’t you scared, you’re in the middle of enemy territory?”

“If you are my enemy, then I must have taught you wrongly. If I die because I taught you wrongly, how can I regret it?”

For a thousand years, there was nothing to say.

“Go back. I don’t like the ‘sedentary people’ of the East, but the way you have taught me is right, so I will follow your words.”

“Let’s do that.”

“Don’t cross the line… … .”

The greatest man in the world still refused to become the emperor of the East. He merely monitored the politics of the monarchs there.

Even war didn’t really stop it, because even the best in the world knew that ‘there are things you can’t get without fighting’.

If we prevent conflict when the territories of the strong and the weak are divided, it is like saying that the strong will be happy forever and the weak will suffer forever.

The strong should share on their own. The best in the world could have used force to force the strong to share with the weak, but he didn’t do that.

If there were people who wanted to learn from me, I would teach them in exchange for some beef jerky or a bottle of alcohol, and if they didn’t want to learn from me, I would tell them to live however they wanted.

That is why the East repeats division and unification. The East is a place where a huge continental terrain, mountainous terrain, deserts, grassland terrain, archipelagoes, islands, peninsulas, etc. are all gathered together.

This is also a world. It’s all low-magic zones~normal magic zones, and except for the fact that there are a lot of Tochas and Borins, it’s not that different from other parts of the world.

And the archipelago that should be called the ‘Far East’, and the long chain of islands and volcanic zones, are completely scorched by the polar demons who came from the east rather than the Far East.

“What are they?”

Even the best in the world were surprised. The sudden appearance of a super-powerful empire in the peaceful East.

And these Far Eastern polar demons succeed in completely occupying an island almost as large as Shujor. In some ways, it is a territory comparable to a small continent.

“Huh, huh, huh?”

This is because of its polar location.

If you look at a flat map, the West and the East seem incredibly far apart, but if you look at a spherical map, if you go via the polar regions, the West and the East are not that far apart. You can leave from the same port in the polar regions and land in Seiwamuyu and the East at the same time.

The low-magic zone of the East seemed difficult even for Pencant. For them, a base that could be reached via the ground was more important. The best in the world eventually confronted Pencant directly and showed off his overwhelming prowess… … .

Here, everything goes awry with the appearance of the ‘Underground Demons’.

Building an observatory to observe the universe and read the stars is important, but reading the veins, the flow of magical energy underground, is also important.

In particular, there was one very big debate in the people’s view of the universe at that time.

“We live on the ‘inner surface’ of a hollow sphere.”

“In other words, the earth covers the world… … . How deep is this earth?”

This intuitive view of the universe was broadly divided into two opposing views.

First, the hypothesis is that the earth is infinitely large, and there are holes all over it, and each of them contains a world. Like Emmental cheese. Since gravity is directed toward the surface of the holes, it seems quite plausible. It is an unimaginably large universe.

Second, there is an ‘end’ to the earth. It is a narrow view of the universe. This world is everything, and the earth is quite thick, but if you keep going out, at some point it will be blocked.

“Blocked? With what?”

“That… something.”

“Then what is there if you break through that?”

“It’s impenetrable.”

“Rather than assuming an impenetrable virtual substance, wouldn’t it be easier to just accept that the universe is infinitely large?”

“Then, if it’s infinitely wide, what’s at the end of it? It doesn’t make sense for it to be infinitely wide.”

“Umm… … .”

So the next hypothesis that came out is the so-called 4-dimensional sphere hypothesis, which says that if you keep digging the ground, you will come out in the opposite space. In any case, the universe is finite.

Obviously, neither hypothesis was provable in ancient times. However, something similar to a proof could be made.

“Why don’t we just check? Just keep digging the ground?”

It was a simple but ignorant method. There was also an incentive to sell. Near high-magic zones, gems containing magic power were mined, and even if not, there were a lot of resources containing magic power, so if you kept digging, you could somehow make money.

These mines become what are called ‘dungeons’. Treasures are abundant underground. They either collapse for some reason, or traps are set up to prevent thieves from entering the existing mines, and they turn into nests full of treasures.

This is, so to speak, an artificial dungeon, and natural dungeons will be discovered soon enough.

“There’s a mountain of treasure here!”

“Who dug it up?”

“who?”

The correct answer is, underground dragons. Those who covet magic power and need jewels have a habit of digging underground and decorating their nests with the jewels there, deliberately creating high magic power zones.

Their sizes vary, but dragons are originally a mysterious force to be hunted. There is a limit to the force that can enter the mine.

However, this kind of excavation work continues endlessly. After all, the more you dig the ground, the more you earn. If you happen to find a vein of minerals, you can get your hands on an endless supply of gems.

But humanity has gone too far.

“Oh… … . There’s another ‘cavity’ under the ground?”

The place that was dug up and revealed was a place where the direction of gravity was opposite. It was a distorted hole that was not big enough to form a ‘universe’, located on the outer edge of this world.

And the creatures that were there… … .

“mole?”

“bat?”

“earthworm……?

“dragon……?”

A civilization made up of such tribes. Huge cities and a splendid civilization. And a certain degree of advanced technology and divinity.

And, because it was a barren underground place with no proper resources, the mystery of necromancy and human sacrifice was dug to the limit.

The underground race, who had no idea there was another world, have now found a hole through which they can ascend.

A while later, thousands of bats pour out of the mines to the east. To be exact, they are evolved ‘intellectuals’ of bats. In other words, humans.

And then, from the ground, hordes of moles, evolved from the same lineage as bats, with shovel-like rakes instead of wings and giant fingers, crawl out, along with giant dragons and earthworms and snakes and bugs that they domesticate.

It didn’t take long for the explosion that had once occurred in the east to erupt from the mines at the center of the continent, and from the west, from beneath the Datang.

“Shu, the Shujor Mint was robbed?! How!”

“Suddenly, bats and moles poured out of the bottomless pit in the underground jungle… … Woof!”

Those who control the underground call themselves Enryakisho. The humans on the surface simply call them the ‘Underground Demons’, a civilization that lives underground, on the outskirts of this world.

If Pencant sees the human race on Earth as weaklings who are perfect for pirates into future slavery.

The Enrakishō are somewhat better than Penkant in that they treat all of humanity on Earth as nothing more than a source of offerings for their temples and civilization, blood and flesh, and skulls that can be manipulated by necromancy.

“You sucked all the blood of my family and sacrificed them all? These guys all want to taste the fire of Datang Oram! Come crawl up here and see! This Ol Chaun will personally go out and deal with you!”

“Human sacrifice in necromancy! Who would have thought there could be such an evil civilization! I will personally go down to the underground and negotiate!”

If the All-Channel response was to turn the underground pits that the demons had emerged from into a hellish hell with flowing lava, the best in the world would have jumped into the underground and taken on them all.

The reason why the best in the world failed is none other than this.

“Human civilization is led by the new man. The rise and fall of the new man, the installation and assistance of the new man, have shaken the history of civilization.”

The noble teacher begins his explanation by saying so.

“However, shedding the shell three times is not the condition for becoming a god. There is a most important condition. Human. You must be human. Beings that are not human are not called gods. Just like the primordial gods that were served in ancient times.”

“And this category of ‘human’ only includes apes and Iyakans. It does not include demons. They are nothing but pests that must be exterminated. They are nothing more than tumors in this world.”

Then, the teacher explains.

“Therefore, those who dare to ascend to the position of transcendent beings without being human will surely need a different title.”

“this guy……!”

The best man in the world trembles as he holds the divine sword. It is not fear, but exhaustion and pain that causes his body to tremble.

The surroundings were a bloodbath. Piles of corpses and blood. The best in the world stormed into their base and killed millions with their divine swords… … But for those who used necromancy, it was only an opportunity to become stronger.

And then, just when I thought I had reduced the power enough, here comes ‘that’.

It spreads its claw-like wings wide. With its long legs and feet, which in human terms would be called hands, it scratches its chin while swinging its claws upside down.

It looks like a monkey or a bat. But it’s much bigger. If it spreads its wings, it would easily be 5 meters long.

But what’s stronger is its presence.

“Kya kya kya kya kya kya! That’s right. There is one! There is such a strong one ‘above’! That’s right. I didn’t think this great Enrakisho would be the most noble being in the world!”

It is the underground conqueror. The absolute being who united all underground civilizations and made his name the name of the country. He also suffered countless wounds from the swordsmanship of the best in the world, but he was resurrected even after being cut down like an immortal.

“Wow, how fun! How big is this world!!! Without even needing to expand it, there are bigger pits, more beautiful jewels, and infinite magic in the world! Aaaah!!!”

The underground trembles at the sound of mad cries. It seems that the best in the world cannot fight any longer. He has no choice but to retreat upwards.

Not a divine being, but a demon god. He achieved that level through only necromancy and human sacrifice, so he is called a blood demon god.

Enrakisho, the rulers of the underground, desire the surface with an insatiable thirst. The civilization they have created requires a wider territory.

They will leave this small community and take for themselves the vast territory that is called ‘space’.

Well, that was what the Ice Demon God, the de facto leader of Pencant and a fully restored primordial god, thought as well.