Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 151
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Episode 151. Unification and Side Effects
The civilization of Erin itself was fast. When Olchaun and Bark Maja first met, Erin was quite widespread and lived on primitive farming. Erin or their hybrids have been found in the East as well.
The Erin of the West discovered the Taiko-Shin and, although a little later than Datang… … . also established a pretty plausible civilization.
In this day and age, everything has completely failed.
In short, while the Datons formed a huge empire centered around the All Chaun, and the Baekkans progressed from a city-state to a federation of nations and even a federation, the Erins fought among themselves and all of them collapsed.
Of course, the Erins of the Eron region were a little better. Through Dimanang, the civilization of Daton came, and through the sea, the civilization of Baekhan also came.
But the West, where development was extremely slow, was mostly a wilderness of forests and fields, and even the Muteki were only the best of the savage tribal chieftains there.
That’s why in past history, the Erins were ruled by Baekhan and were turned away when they tried to cross over to Dimanang.
The national power of this region was simply too weak. The primary issue was the land. There was nothing but forests.
If you go south, Daton won’t give you any trouble, and Baekkan will openly try to force you into slavery…
But the invincible one appeared. Datang had no intention of invading the Eron region, the West was too far for Cheon-geon, and the Baekans did not want to face the invincible one again. For the first time in history, the great Erin Empire was born.
‘Luka’ is derived from the original name of the invincible one. It is a huge empire made up of Erin and her mixed race people. If you look at it objectively, the territory is small, but with their characteristic tenacity, they quickly increase their population by reclaiming the wilderness.
But there was a serious problem with this Luca Empire.
The so-called absence of software. The invincible one is not the ruler of the warriors.
The actual internal affairs officials in charge of ruling under him had only learned law and administration at Dimanang or Baekara, and naturally, they often clashed on ideological grounds.
In short, the body of the nation was Erin, but its mind was closer to Daton or Baekhan.
“Wouldn’t it be the best system to appoint each minister based on the invincible person, and have them all work together and distribute the wealth together?”
“No. First, appoint the invincible one as the supreme military leader of the empire, and then vote on the actual ruler… … .”
“Are we a vassal? We’re going to vote for our leader?”
“No, then are we Daton? I told you that collective labor distribution politics will never succeed in our species.”
When the invincible ones defeated everyone and brought in enormous wealth, distribution worked. When the empire was small, the voting system worked.
But the Luca Empire grew bigger and bigger. And the Invincibles could no longer win the war. To be exact, they could no longer run a plunder economy.
Ultimately, while their nominal supreme ruler, the Invincible One, was busy fighting in the far west, they had to perfect a system that would unite the Empire of Erin, as that would ensure its long-term survival.
“At least we have to prevent more fighting between the Erins. The biggest problem is that those of our kind who have not joined the Empire do not consider us as the same race. That does not happen with Baekkan or Daton… … .”
“Our narrow-minded affection for those close to us is both a strength and a weakness of our species.”
“Let’s unite all Erin. To do that… … .”
They copy the Medakbo method very diligently. Datang, a multi-ethnic country, has gone through a period of integration and almost eliminated racial discrimination, and it can be said that racial equality has truly been achieved.
Erin’s despair is that it has to be done by ‘tribe’ rather than ‘race’… … but there was something to learn. They completely completed an Erin-centered system for Erin.
“First of all, what is ‘Erin’?”
“Not all pure-blooded Erins can be called Erins… … After all, half of the empire is mixed-blood.”
“Especially the invincible one, he looks very different from our southern and eastern Erin.”
A true pureblood Erin. She has red skin and red hair. Her eyes range from green to blue.
Erin, mixed with the Bark tribe from the east. Pink-skinned, blonde-eyed.
Erin from the South, mixed with Darton. Brown skin, black hair, and multi-colored eyes.
Erin, the extreme west. Because it’s close to a cold place, there are people with skin as white as snow. Their eyes are blue and their hair is silver.
And the Daton-Bark-Erin hybrids… … are all mixed together.
Another problem with this classification is that pure-blooded Barks have been extinct for so long that they consider ‘Bark’ mixed-bloods to be pure-blooded Erin. So it gets messy again.
“Even if someone looks almost 90% like a Darton, both of their parents could be Erin, so… … .”
“What if I said there was a person with five fingers?”
“Datun has five fingers, too? And my wife has six fingers too.”
“Umm… … .”
They try to find ‘Erinda’s distinctive features’.
“Ah! This is it! We men are definitely bigger than women!”
“ah!”
Yes. In fact, the men of the Bark tribe were bigger than the women. It’s just that when they mixed with Daton, the men all died and only the women grew, so the women felt bigger.
However, the Erin-Bark hybrid males also survived, and the males were clearly larger than the females.
Among the mainstream races at that time, with the exception of the Tocha, there was no race in which men were clearly larger than women.
“The invincible one is also incredibly tall and manly.”
“I see… … . Men are definitely different from women-like Daton and Baekkan.”
“And there is also a distinction between Darton women and Erin women. Erin women are a bit more ‘thick’… … .”
“That’s right. Certainly… … . Both the Daton men and women are thinner than the Erin women.”
In fact, genetically speaking, Daton-Bark-Erin are very close. That’s why mixed blood comes out without any problems.
However, they represent Erin’s males and females in exaggerated forms because they needed ethnic ideas rather than biological facts.
A man among men. The ideal body of an invincible man. Broad shoulders. A head or two taller than others. Thick body. Lots of hair.
Women? First of all, they are smaller than men, but they have larger breasts, larger hips, and a slimmer waist. Their faces are also drawn in a more angular shape than Darton’s.
And both have short ears and red skin. Their hair and eyes are also colored.
Although it’s an exaggeration, if you have the strongest Erin bloodline, you’ll definitely have those physical characteristics. I think I’ve succeeded in defining what Erin is.
Instead, let’s move on from the extreme lookism that has emerged against all those unmasculine and unfeminine people who don’t fit into that “normal body type.”
“If a man is short, he is ‘weak.’”
“Is it true that women have small breasts?”
“Women are too small to do big things.” (Erin saw no difference in the intellectual abilities of men and women.)
“Your skin and hair are dark? Are you Darton?”
And so on… … There’s nothing we can do about it. It’s Erin’s racial characteristic. They strongly reject anything that doesn’t resemble them, anything that doesn’t belong to their community.
Instead, they endlessly admire, follow, and cherish those who are the most superior among those who resemble them. Some people feel a strong sense of inferiority, but this inferiority is usually transformed into energy in the form of positive effort.
So they defined what Erin was, and they branched out, throwing in a few ‘exceptions’.
The ‘savages’ of the northern and far western regions are of noble blood, known as ‘Erin Purebloods’, and they decide to interbreed with them to increase the purity of the Erin race.
This completes the ‘racial integration’. But for Erin, this is not enough. Unlike Daton and Baekhan, more links are needed to form a sense of homogeneity.
“We need a common ideology. If our Luca Empire is to become an eternal empire that lasts as long as Datang, we need to become one.”
“Hmm… … . But the problem is, our God… … .”
“… … .”
The invincible one was the best fighter in the world.
I’m not talking about just 1:1, but in all aspects of military operations. There is no tactician who can surpass the invincible one, not even as a vanguard but as a general.
At least in those days, the rich people talked about Cheon-geop and Liwa-du-wan… … Cheon-geop was defeated and returned after fighting in the past, and Liwa-du-wan is in the south, so there is no immediate contact with it.
The problem was that the invincible one was really only good at fighting. He had no vision.
All Chaun is the one who presented the law.
The best person in the world is the one who presents the way.
Cheon-gyeol also had an extreme idea, as a national leader, to conquer the world, unite the world, and make everyone happy.
The Immortal Squad is the embodiment of Baekhan’s way of thinking.
The King of Myeoldo advocated peace through teaching, exchange, and cooperation.
But what about the invincible one? The invincible one has no thoughts. His only concern is destruction and resistance to the existing order, infinite expansion, and war.
Although the invincible ruler was nominally the national leader, he was in fact only a military leader. And military dictatorship is not a desirable idea for running an empire.
The invincible ruler left all the ‘annoying internal affairs’ to his capable aides, and the aides had no choice but to ‘figure out’ the ideological foundation for the invincible ruler.
They themselves are not unified.
“Following the teachings of the primordial gods in the West?”
“The invincible one hates it.”
“How about doing it in a group style… …? Pick 11 Anliers and have them each do their own thing well.”
“We don’t have 11 adults. We only have 4. And the Invincible One hates such complicated class systems.”
“Democracy in a backdoor way?”
“That… … If we do it by double the number of votes, the vote will never end, and if we do it by majority, a civil war will break out.”
silence.
Then, by chance, a superhuman appears from the east and changes everything.
He was a superhuman of the ‘Erin tribe’ and ‘monotheism’.
“Huh? Isn’t that a strange belief that only saves the Baekkan tribe?”
Originally a slave in Baekara, she was rescued somehow and eventually came to be called a ‘saint’. She came to the center of the Luca Empire and preached her ideas diligently.
“The One and Only God is full of mercy. How could the One and Only One love only Baekkan?”
“so?”
“I thought that what the One God desires is the prosperity of all living beings. So I believed earnestly and responded, and I was able to unleash that divine power.”
It was the point at which what had been a folk religion of Baekkan expanded into a universal religion that everyone could believe in.
The saint imagined a merciful and omnipotent God who would save everyone if they only believed in Him, rather than a great and omnipotent God who would save only Baekkan.
And surprisingly, the invincible one responded to this idea.
“Hmm. That seems right.”
“yes?”
“I think… …. There must be an Almighty God who saved me from the clutches of the Baekkans. He must have taken pity on me.”
The invincible man was a fatalist for thousands of years. He also believed in superstitions.
“All of us, including Baekkan, are being deceived by false gods and a new man who has only shed his shell three times. The one and only strongest God will save us all.”
The invincible one converts to the only faith.
“The saint is also beautiful… … That child comes to mind.”
And he takes the saint as his wife.
Uh. Is this actually the purpose?
Anyway, the saint was a person who had lived a very difficult life, to the point of clinging to something like monotheism, but the union of the two people who had lived difficult lives was surprisingly perfect. The invincible man found leisure, and the saint found peace of mind.
The monotheism spreads throughout the Luca Empire. The saint transforms from a superhuman to a saint in a short period of time, becoming a religious leader and the master of all virtue and righteousness. The invincible one is his apostle who follows his will.
The saintess initially had a somewhat crazy religious zeal, but surprisingly, her second molting helped, or perhaps she had the talent to create stories to this extent originally… … She presents surprisingly universal moral values and ethics, and fills in the software that the Luca Empire was lacking.
But, there is one problem.
This saint, apart from her personal abilities, was a person who seriously believed in revelations she had seen in her dreams, and was completely ignorant of common sense.
Most of the others either knew the facts but tried to ignore them for the public good, or simply did not know the facts.
“The world was created 15,000 years ago. In the beginning, God laid out the four corners of the earth evenly… … .”
So, this kind of sound is seriously used in the scriptures.
And the Erins expanded and spread their religion among themselves, and while communication was cut off, they came to believe this religion to be true.
I’m talking about strange teachings that are generally correct or universally acceptable in terms of ethics and morals, but are completely at odds with scientific and historical facts.
It was a truly difficult idea to accept for people who were alive 20,000 years ago and could see with their own eyes that the world was round.