Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 142
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Episode 142. No One Can Stand Against 3
This is probably the most harsh and appropriate assessment of all the reviews of this year’s edition.
This guy doesn’t know what diplomacy is. No, he knows it in his head. He even recognizes the concept.
Just like I recognized the ‘army’ the other day.
All Chaun’s age is over 19,000 years old in ancient times. And during this long time, there was no need for diplomacy for 18,500 years.
Because in the primitive era there were no other countries.
In prehistoric times, they only waged war against other countries.
In the ancient times, other countries had to figure it out on their own.
So, essentially, diplomacy wasn’t that important in Ol Chaun’s mind.
In short, diplomacy is only ‘a part’ of what Medakbo does.
In comparison, promoting culture through NonoNoNo Hakang’s plays was ‘all’ that Anraier did, so he genuinely thought that watching a play might be better than having a diplomatic meeting. Even if it was unconsciously.
It’s ridiculous, isn’t it? But that’s okay. The immense national power of Datang. The owner of Datang, the only superpower in the world. Who would dare to admonish Ol Chaun?
Essentially, he lived too long and reigned too long.
In a short period of time compared to his long life, Ol Chaun is presented with a diplomatic task.
In fact, there were several important moments when diplomacy could have been learned, such as the war with Shuzor. However, Ol Chaun consistently took a hard-line approach even at that time, and ultimately did not engage in diplomacy.
The invincible man’s flaws are due to his origins, namely, being a rebel slave leader.
The flaw of this world is its own history. In other words, it comes from the fact that it was its parents who created civilization itself from the Stone Age.
It’s for a similar reason that the greatest person in the world who changed the world either changes things roughly and then walks away, or spends his life engrossed in meaningless land grabs for thousands of eons.
The world’s problems are all people’s problems.
The Invincible One’s Reinvasion. War has finally broken out!
Here, Datang stands against the invincible forces to protect the ‘poor Baekkans’. Baekkan then waits without doing anything while Datang is being destroyed by the invincible ones.
“Everyone in Baekkan! I think we’re going to need your help!”
“So… …? You’re saying you can’t stop it?”
And Baekkan finally raises his long-suffering army, summons the Immortal Corps, and drives away the Datang Army, stopping the Invincible One again.
“?!”
“Baekkara is the land of Baekkan!”
“No, I know.”
“But why are Daton and Erin hanging around! Get out of here!”
They annihilate the Datang Army in cooperation with the Invincible Army, and then drive out the Invincible Army. The Immortal Army, which has the strongest defense force, succeeds in pushing the Datang Army and the Invincible Army to the west.
All Chaun is furious and rushes his army, and the invincible army that he has trained for nearly 40 years is sent to the east. Here, Baekkan is confident that he can hold them off, but… … .
Everything goes wrong as a thousand eons invade from the east.
“Hey, why are they here! Why did they have to come here in the middle of a fight!”
“Why did you come here while we were fighting… …!”
There, from the south and east, the Seiwamuyu & Goaran Iyakan Alliance attacks.
“You son of a bitch, Dragon King!”
“Hahaha! You dwarves. You’ve endured it for too long. I’ll show you that your god is inferior to ours!”
-Oh. Long time no see.
-Wow. You guys are alive.
“Hey, gods, stop pretending to be friends and help each other out! We need to unite this land!”
-You really have a nasty lizard as your apostle.
-Ha… … . Well, that’s true. But the kid is still good.
Anyway, Baccarat ended up getting beaten up from all sides.
The area stuck in the middle is so pitiful.
But the Baekkans were not the Baekkans of old. They were united by a unified faith and had a profound understanding of their own new God.
“We vote on a motion that will allow our new powers to be distributed!”
“Unanimous approval!!!”
“I also vote on a motion giving our monarchs the right to designate the appearance of that newcomer!”
“Unanimous approval!!!”
The Immortal Army, which could only appear in one place at that time, disperses according to the orders of each Baekkan lord. The power of the new people, the ancient gods, and the will of countless Baekkans gather to block the invincible army, drive out Datang, block the cavalry army of a thousand years, and block the dragon army commanded by Iyakan.
They blocked everything. For a moment, the whole world was in shock.
“What the… … !”
But that is only for a moment. As the war drags on, the support of the Baekkan people will fall, and eventually the Baekkan monarchs will be unable to sustain the Immortal Corps.
In this situation, an alliance was needed. At least a way to avoid having to deal with more than two newcomers.
And to do that, you have to invade Baccara and then choose one of the forces as your ally.
“You repay my kindness with enmity?! Skewer all the Baekkan lords! Liwaduwan! Go!”
An author who doesn’t even know the concept of diplomacy.
“The Invincible Legion is invincible! We will defeat those dwarves!”
A thug who knows no diplomacy other than hitting.
“There is only one option, death, other than unconditional surrender!!!”
A man who says he will not accept anything other than unconditional surrender.
“Baekkan is the enemy of the entire race! Roast them with the dragon’s breath!”
A vicious lizard that has been at war for thousands of years and will continue to do so.
Hey. What neighboring countries are what. Hey… … .
Still, I had to form an alliance with someone. And if I did, there was only one person I could communicate with.
Baekkan decided to join hands with Cheon-geop. The reason was simple.
The nomadic Tatap people wanted to trade with the Baekkan rather than wage war to the death.
They say they will not accept anything other than unconditional surrender, but it is a kind of diplomatic gesture… … In reality, if the conditions are good, there is nothing they cannot negotiate.
Compared to that, Iyakan is a really long-time enemy, and Datang and the Invincible Corps are just trash who really have no intention of engaging in diplomacy.
The lords of Baekkan gather to confer with the leaders of the nomadic tribes. Around them stands the Immortal Belt, and the great Bapan of the North Sea looks down upon them from a thousand aeons above.
The talks are summarized simply, minus the diplomatic rhetoric.
Baekhan: I’ll clear the way north, so you can fight Erin?
Cheon-Gyeop: Call. But I’m a little short on food and weapons. Can you give me some?
Baekkan: Okay. Then can you open a trade route to the East? I don’t have any friends, so it’s difficult.
Cheon-Gyeop: Call. Let’s just adjust the fees a little.
Well. That’s the simplest summary… … In reality, it was a complex process of diplomatic rhetoric, roundabout ways, all kinds of old-fashioned sarcasm, negotiations, and document writing. Diplomatic pressure, and precise calculations.
First of all, the fundamental purpose of the thousand-year period was not to unify the Baekara region. It was to gain profits from Baekkan and to advance westward.
So Baekkan simply gave him the northern part of Baekkara, near the North Sea. He simply allowed his people to live there and trade freely. In return, he asked them to block the Erins.
And this was what Cheon-geop had hoped for. Cheon-geop had been able to save face with his own people by letting the Baekans submit to him, had found people to do the farming instead of the warriors, and most importantly, had been able to take revenge on the Invincible One.
Actually, this was the biggest motivation. Cheon-geop really hated the invincible one. He really hated it so much that he would wake up in a cold sweat if he dreamed about it while sleeping.
In the past, fighting an invincible enemy, a humiliating fall from a horse. An even more humiliating beating. An even more humiliating crawling escape. Nomads live by pride. Honor, pride, prestige… … Well, to put it in a vulgar way, ‘Gao’. You can’t look down on them.
But Cheon-geop was badly damaged after being beaten by the invincible one in the past. I really gritted my teeth and prepared to move up a weight class and come for revenge. I also prepared a plan to beat that guy.
Bring in more troops than before and beat them up.
Yes, that’s right. This is the operation. This is the original strategy and tactics of this era.
“Hahaha! Looks like that savage son wants to get off that devil again!”
“Savage?! You are a true savage. I will cut off your head and use it as a chamber pot in my room!”
The invincible one and the thousand-year-old fight fiercely. It can be said to be a showdown of fate.
An invincible man who wants to rebel against the world.
A thousand years of unhappiness that will not be satisfied unless the world is ruled.
An invincible man who captures all who resist and enslaves them. (That’s right, the invincible man captures prisoners and makes them spin the wheel until they die.)
A thousand years in which all those who resist are killed except women and children.
These two leaders are strange if they don’t clash. They will really fight until the end of the Age of Faith.
The only ones who benefit are the East and Baekkan. The East is currently busy fighting the demons, but… …. Thanks to the logistics that Cheon-geon opened up, they are able to prepare quite a generous defense.
The war between Baekkan and Datang ends with Baekkan giving up the land near the Isthmus of Olsojora.
To be exact, this is where it should have ended. From Datang’s perspective, the northern expedition was truly an extremely, extremely difficult undertaking.
Liwaduwan had already announced the start of the war.
“If we fight and win, we can do it, but can we afford the budget?”
“Ugh… … But I can’t just leave those ungrateful guys alone!”
“Hmm… … . I just want to negotiate and end it.”
Liwaduwan wages war in a brutal and efficient manner, but surprisingly, he is not a warmonger. He prefers dialogue.
Liwaduwan wanted to be content with simply showing off his power as a slave rather than engaging in torture and brutal exploitation that had no real benefits.
In reality, rather than waging an all-out war against the Baekkan and Datang until they were completely destroyed… … they just wanted to make sure that they would never be underestimated.
So, Liwaduwan’s reign strangely becomes more and more lenient as it goes on. Because the war lasted so long, the young Baekkan cannot understand the hatred the monarchs have for him, thinking, “Can’t we at least communicate with someone like Liwaduwan?”
However, the war in the West ends in a completely unexpected and unrelated way.
“What? Where did they all go?”
The invincible army just disappeared overnight. Cheon-geon was confused, Baek-kan was confused, and Li-wa-du-wan was confused.
The eons then stretched further westward. But even as they stretched and stretched westward, so to speak, to the limit of the offensive end, the invincible army was nowhere to be seen. They had all escaped.
The invincible one suddenly disappeared from the Eastern Front. Everyone was shocked. I thought that while any guy might quit a war midway, he would fight until the end… … .
As a result, the war ends with Datang greatly expanding Dimanang’s territory, while Baekkan and Cheongeop each take half of the western Erron region.
The governor of Dimanang, which had become much larger than before, was Giriwang Darida instead of Liwaduwan. Darida, unlike the other Anrai, had no place to stay and insisted that he must go.
“Ugh… …. Dimanfyon is also there. Can I go?”
“You just roll a popcorn.”
There were other opinions, but Darida was dispatched anyway. It’s a bit ironic, considering that long ago, the mixed-bloods who lived here thought they were descendants of Darida.
So, peace comes out of nowhere. It’s a bit unexpected, but it’s a good thing. All Chaun has expanded his lands and the Baekans and Erins seem to be satisfied with being ‘polite’ again.
Now Baekkan only has to deal with the Iyakans. Since all the newcomers have retreated, dealing with them without newcomers is easy. The Baekkara region has lost territory, but it has expanded significantly by winning the war with the Iyakans.
But why did the Erins suddenly disappear?
Let’s check it out for yourself now.
“What the hell are those guys?”
The invincible man, who had returned in a hurry after receiving a report from his officials, was unable to hide his bewilderment at the sight of the army pouring in from across the sea.
Grotesque figures, as if they were made by bending and sculpting people to the extreme. Strange and gigantic people, birds, insects, and beasts.
“Invincible Legion! Protect Erin! We must protect our land!”
“Invincible! Invincible! Invincible!”
The West, which had suffered relatively little invasion from the Pencant or Enrakisho, was suddenly struck by an army of ‘alien demons’ who had arrived from the far west.
The Invincible Ones spent nearly a thousand years fighting these men alternately. It’s a bit of a coincidence, but the world became a little more peaceful because of it.
Now, the full-scale war is over. In Datang, the period before the first spread of the Hanjuta Mal caused by the demons (380 years of the Age of Faith) is considered the early period of the Age of Faith. The period from the second spread of the Hanjuta Mal in the north to the end of the full-scale war between the countries and the arrival of peace in the west in 526 years is considered the first period of war in the Age of Faith.
And now, as the name suggests, the middle period of the Age of Faith has begun, when people are really pushing forward with ‘religion’ and fighting over it.
It is a miserable time, where no country is destroyed, but fighting breaks out and suffering increases.