Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 141
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Episode 141. No One Can Fight Back 2
At that time, the prosperity of the Baekkan Alchemy Empire was such that, with some exaggeration, it could be compared to that of Datang.
First of all, they were extracting a huge amount of Donum. With the assets they exploited from the Erins they had enslaved, they built a powerful army, occupied a wider territory, built a more powerful army, and distributed all the wealth to the central leadership, and the leadership distributed it to the citizens of Baekkan.
It was a happy political system for everyone except Erin. I never dreamed of a rebellion. To be exact, I never thought of a successful rebellion. They were all suppressed.
Even if he was an adult, I believed that he would not be able to start a rebellion and succeed on his own. After all, there were seven adults in the Baekkan, including the Great Alchemist.
In reality, his rebellion had very big limitations. The population was too small. There was insufficient armament (they couldn’t use the Baekkan armor as it was due to physical problems). In addition, there were no elites, and it was comprised only of persecuted slaves.
But history is a strange thing. To be honest, the success of his rebellion was probably 80% luck.
“I was a slave, but I was a wizard before.”
“I was a slave, but I was formerly a scholar of the mysteries.”
“I am an engineer… … .”
“I know how to make magical weapons.”
“Don’t you need Erin, who was working in administrative affairs in the Dimanang region? Before I became a slave, she was still the ruler of a region.”
First of all, the talent pool of Erins who were working as slaves was better than expected.
Secondly, the Baekkans underestimated Erin so much that they sent out poor generals and devised poor strategies to fight her.
And he was originally an adult who grew up fighting and fighting. He may not know how to fight large-scale wars, but he was good at small-scale wars. At the tactical level, he had tactical ideas that could be called genius.
In the end, Baekkan’s army is destroyed. After the great victory, he was able to provide a huge amount of money and supplies to the rebel slaves, and since they were originally people who resisted through guerrilla warfare in the wild rather than making a stronghold, they went into the forests and mountains and harassed Baekkan endlessly.
All the Western Erins who had been oppressed by Baekkan gathered under him. There were also defectors. Many superhumans appeared, and civilization and culture were united in the name of race love, and a roughly democratic system (if it was a majority opinion, it was chosen) that everyone could agree on was established. The rebels quickly expanded around him.
The unity of the Erins was so easy, because everyone shared the same hatred for Baekhan.
In fact, there were some people he didn’t like, and some who treated him unfairly. But none of them thought of taking Baekkan’s side.
Something a little unreasonable was better than total slavery.
Third. This is actually the most important.
“That’s it! The rebel leader has fallen into the biggest rut!”
“Hahahaha! That place is a super super super super super super high magical power zone that’s even worse than Mainirun! Even if you’re an adult, your body would melt to pieces from the magical power pressure there! This rebellion is over!”
In the end, the rebels depended on only one adult. During the war that they waged with the thought that they only had to catch that one child, he was accidentally sucked into the biggest wheel.
It was really lucky. There is no way to survive if you go in there. Even Darton is a place where your body melts, so how could Erin survive, even if she is an adult?
But. it was a little different.
“… … ?”
The magical power inside was absorbed by one person. He endured it desperately while suffering.
“I, I… … am invincible!!!”
Now, self-suggestion, self-hypnosis, self-belief.
Shouting out that which has become a value that must be revered beyond a motto, he boldly absorbs all the magic power. While all the Baekkan and the Erin rebels are watching, the front wheel finally shatters and he descends.
The fourth newcomer in history. The leader of the Erin Rebellion, known as the Invincible One as no one can defeat him.
That’s how he became a rookie. When the worst situation turned into an opportunity. When the best opportunity turned into the worst.
The rebel leader who had been the ‘self-proclaimed invincible’ until then had become truly invincible. The invincible could no longer be hurt, and nothing could stop him.
“That son of a bitch who caused all this pain! I’ll kill him!”
First, he starts by busting the head of the Great Alchemist, the adult of Baekkan who was living a life of luxury thanks to the invention of the front wheel, and then he slowly devours the western part of the Baekkan Empire.
How to do a siege: First, the invincible one runs in alone and destroys the wall.
And then they go inside and fight.
That’s the end. No one could stop the invincible one who could establish such a winning strategy.
“I am invincible! Erin is invincible! No one can stand against us!”
“Invincible! Invincible! Invincible!”
And although the degree is somewhat weaker, research has been successful in the direction of transforming one’s own body into that by entering the front wheel, the magic path, in the manner of an invincible person.
He is the only one who survived the giant wheel like an invincible person, and he will likely be the only one in the future… … . Other than that, it is possible. It is possible to mass-produce ‘superhumans’.
That is the ‘Invincible Legion’. It is the only infantry legion that can stand up to the infantry of Baekkan, who breaks the enemy formation and then advances in the second stage to disrupt the enemy.
“Sweep away all the Baekkan! The West belongs to Erin! We Erin will have all of this land!”
“Invincible! Invincible! Invincible!”
This rebellion continued for a hundred years without stopping. The invincible one was a god, his legions were the legions of gods, and the most brilliant minds in the world gathered under him to support and effectively run the country.
The invincible one only has to fight and win. The administrators who respect him will rule the country. The rulers who have risen to the level of supermen and saints.
The invincible one continued east and also encountered the nomadic army of Cheon-Gyeop that had been occupying the north of Baekara. Naturally, the invincible one won, and Cheon-Gyeop was furious and charged with his personal guard, but instead, he himself was dismounted, beaten by the invincible one, and had to crawl away.
“Hahaha! I will spare your life, so get out of here! How dare you go against an invincible person!”
“I will kill you, Lord. I will definitely kill you next time I come back.”
The mad expansion of the Invincible Ones, who had defeated even Cheon-geop, the greatest threat to Baekkan at the time, continued until Baekkan, who had lost more than half of their territory, awakened their own god, the ‘Immortal Squad’.
In short, Baekkan, who had been second only to Datang for decades, had never won a single battle before obtaining the Immortal Belt.
“Huh. Then we can win with the power of our country! Let’s go north and west! There is still a lot of land in the world!”
The invincible, once blocked by the Immortal Corps, decides to consolidate internal affairs. First, unite all of the West. He decides to conquer or persuade those who have not yet become slaves to expand the land of Erin and take over all of the West instead of the Baekara region, which has built a strong wall in the east.
This was also successful. The territory of the Invincibles expanded day by day, reaching the Mediterranean Sea, and they could trade with Dimanan and Jor. They could also engage in naval battles with the Baekans.
His country became rich. The invincible one was not originally a luxurious person. He loved all of Erin, so he was united by his kinship and tried to ‘prove’ that Erin was the superior race through resistance and effort against other races. We just discovered civilization late.
It seems that it actually succeeded. The invincible one accepted the civilization of the south and even the civilization of Baekhan, and made his empire even more powerful.
Okay. Then, let’s end the praise of the invincible one who, as a newcomer of Erin, prevented the enslavement of Erin and proudly built a great empire in the West… … Let me ask this.
How did the invincible one end up being labeled as the most incompetent rookie?
Hubris. This seems like the easiest word to describe the failure of the invincible.
A term from Greek mythology. The limits that govern human behavior. The pride and arrogance that disrespects them… … that destroys people.
The Invincible One was the embodiment of such hubris. You can tell just by looking at the fact that he claimed to be invincible.
Others did not think they were invincible. All of Chaun was defeated by Hanjutamal. Even the best in the world has experienced defeats many times. Cheon-geop was defeated by the best in the world and by the invincible. Baek-kan has now tasted the bitterness of defeat.
Even the Tyrant King of Goaran, Penkant, Enrakishodo, and even the Demon Clan learned the bitterness of defeat, reformed themselves, and became more humble.
But the invincible one didn’t do that.
I couldn’t be exact. The only thing that supported the invincible was the ‘fact’ that he was invincible. However, denying that invincibility was like denying oneself.
In other words, the invincible one could not change his direction. If his direction was wrong, it meant denying himself. So, if he went down the wrong path, there was only one thing he could do.
Push harder and harder until the path opens up.
That was the diplomacy of the invincible. If someone doesn’t listen to you, it’s because they’re weak, not because their logic is wrong. So if you hit them, they’ll listen.
The diplomacy of the invincible is no different from that of a gangster. In fact, the internal affairs were similar. If there is a rebellion? First, strike. Then forgive. The invincible is a national leader, but he is like a weapon that only carries out war. The country will run well on its own, so he just has to win the war.
So to speak, even after becoming the emperor of the great empire, the invincible one continued to act like a rebel leader.
“Everyone, trust me. This ‘big brother’ will solve it!”
This is the mindset of a gangster who leads his gang rather than a national leader. The invincible man was so thrilled by the success of the rebellion that he continued to attack and ‘rebell’ even when he was already strong enough.
This is a powerful military force represented by national power and an invincible army. Compared to that hardware, the software called the national system was lacking.
Just like Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu had already conquered the world, but he fell because he relied only on his own power and acted like a local warlord.
His rival, Liu Bang, was of humble origins compared to him, but after becoming emperor, he refined etiquette and laid the foundation for the Han Dynasty, or in other words, the great system known as China.
Okay, so we already see three problems here.
First, the invincible nation was practically a nation supported solely by the military power of the invincible individual and his foreign policy performance, and the invincible nation had no choice but to wage war constantly in order to remain still.
Second, the invincible one has created too many enemies around him. He is advancing to suppress the Cheon-geop, Baek-kan, and even the Datang quarantine forces stationed in the Baek-kara region.
Thirdly, and this is actually the most serious… … . If the invincible person is someone who conducts diplomacy in an incredibly coercive and tyrannical manner, it is unbelievable.
“How dare the barbaric Erin army attack our army that was humanely protecting Baekkan!!! Liwaduwan! How could we punish those bastards with an army of tens of thousands of people!”
This person doesn’t know what diplomacy is and has no intention of doing it.
What the… … It’s because of the environment I grew up in. Even if I’m invincible, I’m not all that.