Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 139
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Episode 139. The Heart of the Leader, the Heart of the People 3
The quarantine war ended after a year.
To be exact, it took about a year and a half. In less than half a year, Liwaduwan, with the voluntary cooperation of the Baekkans, sealed the borders, and then implemented quarantine measures in each city, eradicating all the Baekkan-infected Hanjutamals.
But, the way they elicited that voluntary cooperation… …. To put it simply, they threatened to torture and kill anyone who did not cooperate.
The so-called ‘hot iron skewer’ punishment was notorious. It was so brutal that I can’t show you the video. They literally skewered people like they were roasting chickens and then grilled them.
Liwaduwan did that to four out of the six Baekkan Lords at that time. Since the Baekkan Lords who were the second defectors couldn’t die from that, they were literally killed alive… … Ugh.
The remaining two surrendered without any suffering due to the tradition of double-double democracy, and the other surviving Baekkans also completely lost their will to resist.
“Either you surrender unconditionally and cooperate with the quarantine, or you all die horribly.”
Liwaduwan used a good trick. In fact, when Marechi was dispatched, the new god of Baekkan, the Immortal Corps, existed and constantly interfered with Marechi’s quarantine work. This new god called the ‘Immortal Corps’ is a bit special.
Each rookie has his or her own personality. The same goes for the Taiko-gods.
Among them, the most unique one was the mystery called ‘Immortal Belt’. Baekkan’s Immortal Belt is, so to speak, an ability that ‘does not lose’.
Because the legions that literally do not die pour out and overpower the enemy. Not only are they strong enough to resist all mystical and physical attacks below the age of adulthood, but the legions that have ascended to the thousands, tens of thousands, and over time, have grown to tens of millions, they can sweep through the enemy lines.
However, there is a condition to using this ‘Immortal Band’.
At least 4:2 out of 6 Baekkans who want the protection of the Immortal Sect (i.e. follow the Baekkan traditional gods instead of other mysteries). That means you need more than the traditional 2x support.
In other words, even if there are only 6 people, the Immortal Corps will appear. However, only one person appears, and all they do is ‘acknowledge that there was no fraud in the election and promises of these Baekkans.’ It is the so-called fairest election management committee.
However, if the number of Baekkans who participated in the vote is in the thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, they will now take on a physical form and become a powerful force, destroying their enemies with their embodied spirits.
But what happens if you don’t get more than a 2x majority?
It doesn’t do anything. It just asks you to vote again.
And the purpose and target of voting must be very clear.
It shouldn’t be ‘Kill all enemies in Baekkan’. It should be something like ‘Go to a certain location and kill certain enemies’.
It is quite effective when the entire Baekhan unites and shouts, “Stop the enemy!”, such as when the Invincible Ones invaded in the past, or when they stopped Marechi’s forced quarantine attempts, and so the protection of the Immortal Squad works more strongly in smaller groups… … .
Even if there are only two groups of people who want the Immortal Alliance, the Immortal Alliance will not split up based on voter turnout, but will simply wait until one side exceeds 66%.
Liwaduwan took advantage of this point. He saw the limitations of the legend of the immortal world, which was so famous, and immediately took advantage of its weakness.
Rather than rushing to a single location and blockading and quarantining it as Marechi had done at the time, Liwaduwan first destroyed the city, then trampled the city leader, and carried out an all-out terror attack on the Baqara region, leaving those who resisted no choice but to come out rather than surround and blockade it.
“I heard there’s a great forest here too. It’s great, so cut it all down.”
“This is a swamp where living things can thrive. Fill it up.”
“Hmm. That’s a well-cultivated field. Burn it all down.”
“Oh. This mine. It’s so profitable. Just collapse the entire tunnel.”
“You want to stop me? Then either cooperate with quarantine or kill us all.”
They literally devastated the infrastructure. They just razed everything.
If Baekkan leaves the Baekkara region, the west is Mujeokja. If he goes north, it is Cheon-geon. If he goes east, it is Goaran. If he goes south, it is Seiwamuyugo. If he goes southwest, it is Datang. Where would he go?
Marechi thought that no one should escape, but Liwaduwan thought that since it was impossible to stop them all anyway, they should let the enemies stop them.
“That son of a bitch!”
“If that field burns, we’ll all starve to death next year!”
“Everyone, come out! Stop those guys!”
And Liwaduwan used his characteristic mobile warfare to simply destroy fields, destroy mines, and fill in rivers and swamps until the word unconditional surrender was heard. It was easy to do with spirit magic.
In addition, this was done sporadically in the Baekara region, in all the territories that Datang did not control.
“You little punk, I’m going to hit your head on this moru! Stop it!”
“Are you still not going to surrender?”
If Liwaduwan could not do it indirectly, he would resort to direct terrorism. In the Shujor region, he would use spiders that had been doing a great job during sieges to climb over the walls and set fire to the city and kill people indiscriminately.
“I don’t know if they caught the Hanju virus or not. If they don’t cooperate with quarantine, we have no choice but to ‘cull them all.’”
“Me, me.”
Marechi took humane care of those who surrendered during that time. It was the so-called bad cop, good cop strategy. It was not that Baekkan did not know that.
But so what? If you surrender, you will receive food support, limited medical treatment for one week, and quarantine measures.
If you don’t surrender, you will either live today or die next year, or face the mad Pachhar army that will immediately climb over the walls, burn, and commit massacre.
The reason it only took a year for the surrender was because Liwaduwan showed no mercy.
He thought that it would make no difference whether he got caught in a one-shot and all of Baekkan died or whether he died himself.
So Liwaduwan didn’t really have a guilty conscience. If he left the idiots alone and Hanjutamal spread all over the world, who would take responsibility? Who would?
“I skewered your monarch. If you don’t cooperate with the quarantine, I will do the same to the rest of you.
“Okay. I’ve skewered another of your rebel lords. There are now four left.”
“Half of you have already been skewered. Are you still not going to surrender?”
Of course, that was from Liwaduwan and Marechi. Datang’s perspective… …. In Baekkan’s opinion, it was just a murderer who was crazy about killing, no, even a murderer was too weak a statement. The ‘Baekkan Butcher’ just came.
The atrocities committed at that time made Liwaduwan’s notoriety last for thousands of years in the Baekkan region. In later generations, when he was incited and waged war again, there were more than a few monarchs who cried out for revenge for the skewered vengeance of the past.
Well, Liwaduwan wasn’t there at that time.
In any case, the dark-skinned Patchar tribe, a subspecies of Daton or only a distant rumor, made a splendid debut in the world. Liwaduwan used Patchar tribes as his officers, and in particular, all of the special forces, including the mobile warfare units, were Patchar tribes.
“Those little black bastards are worse than the devil on earth!”
“Those horrible bastards, no different from demons… …! Compared to them, that arrogant idiot is a goddess! Those vicious Patchar or whatever guys should all be skewered… …!”
“You’re saying that Liwaduwan wasn’t a racist? Of course not! He skewered everyone regardless of race! Anyone who praises Liwaduwan in Baekara should be put to death!”
This ill feeling lasts for over two thousand years. It’s because the Baekkan lords lived for a long time. Even after two thousand years, they still can’t eat skewers or whole roasted meat. If you bring it up at a diplomatic table? It’s a call for war.
Still, Liwaduwan managed to stop the spread of Hanjutamal.
Well, they didn’t even exterminate the Baekkan themselves (which was impossible because of the Immortal Belt). They just devastated the Baekkara region, completely destroying the natural environment so that they couldn’t farm properly for 2,000 years, and just wiped out hundreds of communities… … .
Meanwhile, due to these ‘thorough quarantines’ by Liwaduwan and the ‘genocide’ that Baekkan records, the faith in the Baekkan region is roughly established.
At that time, Baekhan’s faith was largely divided into four branches.
Baekkan folk religion. A traditional folk religion that believes in immortality.
Polytheism. A religion based on nine primordial gods unearthed from the ground.
Monotheism. A religion that comes from the meme of blindly thinking of a great being.
Eastern religion. A unique religion that has transformed the teachings of the greatest man in the world.
All four have their own pros and cons. First, the Eastern religion is excluded from the mainstream. The leader of the world is in the east… …. It was not even able to fight against the army of Liwaduwan. At best, it remains as a political philosophy.
And the Baekkan ethnic gods and polytheism reach fusion. This was the wish of the primordial gods.
-Their immortal corps is truly amazing. So they took hold of the body and leaped into the realm of memes?
-Can’t we do that too? Instead of this insufficient and decrepit earthly body, let us go to the afterlife.
The gods of Baekkan polytheism give religious revelations and are integrated into the Immortal Realm. The Immortal Realm becomes stronger, more powerful, and more religious by fusing with the ancient gods, just as the best in the world holds the divine sword and Olchaun holds the Datang Oram.
And the only faith did not lose to the Baekkan people’s god. The reason was really simple. It blocked Hanjutamal.
“It’s a miracle. A miracle! A person who was hit by Hanjutamal is walking around like this!”
“Oh! Praise be to the great One God!”
Neither Marech nor Liwaduwan understood, but for now, the treatment… … seemed to have been successful. However, when Castlor Laurent came to investigate, he came to a different conclusion.
“It’s not that Hanjutamal has been cured, but rather that Shinbi has been completely suppressed.”
“Is that okay?”
“The meme of monotheism was the god of healing, the power of vitality, and so on… … . Perhaps it responded to the belief that even a single-minded person could be cured. If it remained that way, a single-minded person might starve to death.”
“So, will it be completely cured?”
“I don’t think I can do it… …? You have to have an incredibly devout faith and single-mindedly hope for healing, but where can you find such enormous willpower? If you have that kind of will, you’ll become a true superhuman anyway and be immune to Hanjutamal.”
Still, it is definitely effective. Those infected with the Hanjutamal shave their heads and beards (a huge achievement for Baekkan) and enter a monastery to live a devout life, hoping only for a cure.
“The Dartons say so, but this must be a miracle!”
They all gathered their will to overcome the Hanju Ta-mal and to unite their faith, they woven the doctrines and history of the one and only God in great detail.
What is the teaching of the one and only God? We diligently benchmark from the ethnic religion of Baekkan and write our own tales and history.
So, their religion is formed in the form of the Baekhan ethnic gods represented by the Immortal Corps and the one and only god of this world who created them.
‘Still’ a folk religion full of Baekkan chosen people ideology and nationalism. They have a hatred for Liwaduwan and Datang, and a little gratitude, and slowly grow the sacred mystery.
In the age of faith, Baekkan nationalism, Baekkan supremacy, and the Baekkan’s grudge against the invincible ones who took over more than half of the territory, the plunderers Cheon-geon, the long-time enemies Iyakan, and the murderers Datang is gradually growing. And they are united by religion and are gradually becoming stronger.
Well, whether Baekkan becomes stronger or not, or whether they establish a religion or not, Liwaduwan and Marech are spreading advanced civilization in the Baekkara region, and are partially restoring the nature they destroyed and the reduced Baekkan population.
It is a humanitarian measure. Marechi will be appointed interim governor and will rule until these ‘poor, foolish people’ become self-reliant.
And, by the way, I also send the ores and crops I produce here to my home country at a cheaper price.
Anyway, the culture of Datang has been successfully introduced to the Baekara region and is growing rapidly. And around this time, an incident occurs.
“The invincible one has returned! I will take all of your territory!”
“Huh, huh huh?”
The Datang army led by Marechi is defeated by the Invincible One. Marechi is the strongest in Datang, but he cannot defeat the Invincible One, who possesses the ‘world’s strongest strength’.
Instead, it was time to break away from Datang’s colonial rule (although Datang didn’t think so). The Baekkans first attacked their oppressor Marechi (who thought he had been betrayed), and eventually, through the Immortal Squad, they pushed out even the Invincible Ones and achieved a proud independence, and even succeeded in expanding their territory.
“Baekhan, live forever!!!”
Datang is in a really bad mood. Seiwamuyudo. Goarando. Cheon-geopdo. And Mujeokja is in a really bad mood.
“There will be no prosperity for Erin until those dwarves are defeated!”
The invincible man addresses his people as he gathers the armies of the West again. World War II is just around the corner.
But I think we should touch on this at this point.
Who is the Invincible One? How did he become a new person and what does he fight for? The Invincible One, who was born a slave and became the ruler of the West, is considered the strongest new person in the ancient era and the most incompetent new person in the modern era.
Let’s check it out for yourself now.