Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 165
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Episode 165. Then, we have no choice but to prepare for war. 3
The Mana School basically runs a gambling house. They also create calendars and study mathematics and magic.
It seems like the roles have been switched, but I’ll move on. Anyway, I was also a contractor for Iral Tata.
“Yupoppo’s operations are over. All existing donums will be requisitioned.”
“Ugh… … .”
“I will support you in observing the celestial bodies for the calendar. That is something that cannot be omitted. But Mana Yupa, from now on, you will be in charge of a very important task.”
“What? Are you going to the front lines?”
“No. Logistics.”
“… … ?”
Iral Tatay is a river spirit. In other words, it can create rivers even from bare ground.
By using it, you can ‘transport’. By squeezing the river, you can maintain the river with tens of thousands of spirit beasts and six-legged crocodiles, and transport goods by pulling boats.
“And that?”
“And you have to create a perfect schedule to make sure that the supplies get to all places at all times, while also organizing the most efficient transportation system possible. And that too on a river that expands every day.”
“That’s easy.”
It is said that in World War I on Earth, calculating railway timetables was very important in the war. It was necessary to make sure that everything arrived on time so that supplies could be supplied.
Liwaduwan implements something similar. It’s a railway made of river spirits. Of course, artificial rivers don’t last long, but that’s compensated for by the increased and enormous amount of water.
And the mathematics of the Mana School was highly specialized in these aspects of time and space.
At that time, the unification of weights and measures had been achieved to some extent, so Mana Yupa spent the whole day with the mathematicians under his command creating logistics transportation charts, making predictions by looking at the stars, and using magic to destroy underground demons who tried to interfere with transportation.
“Wizards are also important. Regardless of their constitution, if they are smart, the mysteries they can use are great. We will train outstanding talents to become military magicians.”
Originally, magic had many very theoretical and impractical spells. This was because mathematics did not like to quibble over already proven facts, and so-called mathematicians did not repeatedly solve similar calculation problems or math problems like middle and high school students.
However, Liwaduwan creates a wizard who can recite just one spell, one that attacks the enemy, at incredible speed.
In other words, they are calculating machines that can solve just one type of past exam question, or maybe two or three, amazingly. They attack the enemy camp with their brain speed and repeated learning.
“Magic tools are also important. Make an effort to mass produce magic tools.”
Since only magicians could make magical tools, many were taken to the factories. These were called magic engineers.
They divided the magicians into those who studied magic as a pure academic discipline, those who learned only a few practical magic spells, and those who studied laws that could be applied to real life, and then they threw away all pure academic fields.
There is no more administrative work that seemed endless, because all laws have become mere obedience to orders.
But that doesn’t mean that Liwaduwan gave Medakbo a break.
First of all, the production process of Donum has changed. The cumbersome procedures such as counterfeit prevention and magic power stabilization have been omitted, leaving only the function of storing and releasing magic power.
Please think of the Donum mentioned after the war not as a currency, but as a unit of horsepower. In terms of horsepower, it is the horsepower equivalent to the currency of 1 Donum.
“Do we really need such complicated currency now? There are many things we can do with ink.”
Anyone can use the script if they know the meaning. Liwaduwan requests a large quantity of paper with practical characters. Since it is better to carve it directly, all the scribes gather together and just write the characters all day long.
The same goes for Medakbo. Should I find comfort in the fact that what I’m making is of the highest quality? I’m dying from boredom after carving the same characters tens of thousands of times.
But it is necessary, especially if you want to win on the southern Pencant front, so these mysteries that anyone can use are important.
Half of the letters are written on paper. These are so-called disposable mystery items. If you know the meaning and recite the spell while tearing it with a magic tool pen, you can write the mystery.
And there are rechargeable magic tools. The most skilled of the scribes go to the workshop and become ‘Rezohul Artisans’ who engrave these into metal.
Those who supported the administration of Datang now only repeated simple tasks, and the hands that once made currency and administrative documents now mass-produced weapons.
Of course, Liwaduwan is not playing around. While Medakbo is away, Liwaduwan has to take care of all the administrative work.
Closer to military command, but with communications capabilities ahead of their time, they control the battlefield and coordinate situations, receiving thousands of reports from their staff in the Great Hall of Mainilun.
Did you think that since you were the representative of the Patchar tribe, you would spare them or give them special treatment?
No. We trained them all as spies and sent them to other empires, just like we sent them to the Luca Empire the other day. They will take care of sabotage from within.
The Liwaduwan knew that their race was good at fighting, so they trained them to the max and sent them straight to the front lines to use them as elite troops and guerrillas and operatives to deplete the enemy’s strength.
“Your military skills are definitely not bad, as you have defeated me in Wangangiri. However, Wangangiri and war are different. Since your mental state is still geared towards the competition, I will personally train you.”
“Yes. Yes.”
Liwaduwan trains Giri King Darida to become a great general by teaching him the difference between war and competition. In case of emergency, Darida will have to command the army.
He teaches you as if you were his own disciple, while also giving you practical experience.
King Giri stored all of this information in his head and transformed into a great general, successfully counterattacking in the Dimanang region where he had previously suffered a crushing defeat.
Training soldiers is also her role. Her Datun roughly trains the new soldiers and assigns them a type of unit, and then Liwaduwan’s Datun takes over and actually uses them.
Echacado’s work is originally ‘opposition’. Opposition to policy.
But there is no need for opposition in war. It is a defensive war anyway. What other option do we have than to drive out the enemy?
Now that the complicated trials have been changed to summary military trials, Echakado no longer needs to do such mild things.
So Echakado devotes himself to his other duties. First is inspection. When the army becomes too large, there will be those who commit corruption. The first thing to do is to find them.
Second is hunting. Echakado is a great hunter, both in the past and present, and so he hunts down enemy spies and cavalrymen who have entered the country. Or he tracks down deserters.
It is the military police, so to speak. Echacado is in charge of the security of the military. In war, it is important to unite the inside as much as to block external enemies, so its importance goes without saying.
Of course, Anlair himself had to go to the front lines and fight. Echakado was deployed to capture the invincible. When the invincible lands, he would chase after its location and appear with the Minniruns in the same location, holding it down.
It was a very important task, as it would be terrible if the invincible one entered the Datang alone and destroyed the Mainnirun.
As the monarch of the Great Forest, Gulmung is naturally in charge of the front line. The Gigad tribe, Rulmo, and other residents close to pure-blood Daton who originally managed the forest are mobilized like crazy to block the forces of the thousand-year-old.
“All hands on deck!”
“Rekappa Seral!”
The army of a thousand eons lowers the magical power and is a poison to the troops that focus on mystery? Then bring Donum and increase the magical power. The ability of the maho is close to ‘eating’. If you pour magical power until the maho’s stomach bursts and dies, the mystery will be sufficiently eaten.
“A thousand eons are coming!”
But the new man, Cheon-Gyeop. A single army is no match for that powerful man who hangs a bow on the horn of his beloved horse, Cheon-Gyeop, and shoots arrows like siege crossbows. Every time the world’s largest and greatest maho stomps his feet, the earth trembles and the forests are turned upside down.
That is solved with money. In the old days, Ol Chaun melted down a million troops on his own. Gulmyeong, with the magic power he drew from the entire Daesurim and the endless magic power he brought in from the south, squandered over 100 million won a day to stop the offensive of the new gods.
Of course, the enemies’ well-fed Maho will have to be dealt with by ordinary infantry. Fortunately, the Gigard Jazanraier, who has been supporting Gulmyeong for a long time, is powerful.
With two characters of the Unlair type, and the power of the World Tree added to it, it’s effectively three forces attacking, so even a thousand kalpas won’t be too much of a stretch.
But there is something more important for Gulmung: improving plant seeds using phytosanitary techniques.
After such a fierce battle, we desperately try to control the plants in the Tang to greatly increase their disease resistance.
In the past, if a seed produced a lot of fruit, it was considered good, but now, if it cannot withstand the blight spread by the disease demons, it is just trash. A certain 1 is better than 100 or 0.
Especially when calculating logistics.
“These are making seeds, but if we continue like this, half of the population will starve to death! They’re holding on, but compared to before, their ability to support the population is poor.”
In response to Gulmyeong’s appeal, Liwaduwan only responded indifferently.
“Then we just need to match the population to the productivity.”
“what?”
“Don’t dead soldiers not have to be eaten later?”
“… … !”
I think the idea of a snail is creepy, but there is no alternative.
Those who remain are given double the workload, and those who are taken away are fed and trained to their hearts’ content, and then die on the front lines, thus maintaining the population and enduring the coming famine.
Paldin Koa is now the master of not only the ranch but also the workshop.
Cattle that used to graze freely now work together in groups of tens of thousands to turn the wheels all day long, and all the craftsmen are brought to the workshops to produce weapons to be supplied to the northern front lines.
Paldin Core also worked in the armory.
The honest and upright Anlair Paldin Koa is called out to the front lines whenever a twilight or an invincible force or a vassal invades, performs his mercenary work, dies, and then comes back to life to repeat his blacksmithing work.
Although Datang’s agricultural productivity has hit rock bottom, its industrial productivity has increased by 14,000% compared to before the war.
Many people are taken to the mines, where they work all day to mine ore, transport it to the workshops, and have it turned into weapons.
“The nearby magical power pressure has decreased.”
The magic pressure of the Datang, which was considered almost infinite, was reduced to the point where it was so severely pulled out. Of course, when magic pressure decreases, it is transferred from another high place, but this is the first time that the magic pressure of the Daemokjang, which is objectively classified as an ultra-high magic power area, has decreased this much.
But production cannot stop. Facilities similar to large workshops are built all over Datang, providing an endless supply of materials.
Marechi’s job is quarantine, both then and now. There’s nothing to say. His mission is to suppress the spread of Hanjutamal. He also has to quarantine other diseases.
The honest Marechi just leads the tattooed men and does the job. It’s not easy, and they get attacked every now and then… … . There’s no other way.
Kass Laurent is a physician and museum researcher who works with military doctors on the front lines to further improve the plant strains bred by Ossozoin Gulmung.
We try to distinguish the infectious diseases that have spread in each region, and if there are varieties that are resistant to them, why, and how they can be applied.
Now, we can’t do academic research. All doctors are dragged to the front lines.
All the academic achievements that Datang had accumulated in the past were ignored, and only military-related developments were prioritized.
Manum Lapang left Mainilun after a long time and headed to the front line. With the power of Anraier, it was important to help at least one more person to stop the invincible or the celestial.
Even if you include the Bachat Beram, it’s enough for two Anraiers. Since Datang originally used the mystical power of being a spirit, even if one adult appears, it usually feels like dealing with two people.
Manum Lapang heals the fallen, comforts the paralyzed with moonlight, and preaches that we will win the war.
And he is also in charge of building the fortress. He was originally an architect. He built an engineering design that discarded all aesthetics, a fortress to block the eons in the north, and a defensive wall to the east that stretches from the Great Forest to Seiwamuyu.
“Shall I stop the invincible one?”
“No. That’s a crappy decision.”
“… … Then a thousand kalpas?”
“What a crappy decision.”
“… …Shall we go to Baccara?”
“You really shouldn’t fight a war.”
All this was unfair.
“Then where are you going? You said Pencant can be stopped by regular troops?”
“Come and occupy the Iyakans in the east.”
“Why Orphan?”
“Why did you go so far? I mean, the Iyakans of Lokoro and Iyakoro.”
All of this felt like getting hit in the head.
“Aren’t they our allies? And they’re fighting against Baekkan?”
“So? If they conscript, won’t their troops increase? If they’re allies, they’ll let their guard down and it’ll be easier to conquer them.”
“… … .”
All Chaun burns down 1/4 of the Saint Rokoro with his body. The Iyakans are resentful, but All Chaun declares that the Governor of Rokoro and the Governor of Iyakoro are on their knees.
“Either we join the party in the battle, or we all burn to death! … … That’s what Liwaduwan told me to tell you.”
“… … Are you really going to do it?”
All Chaun nods firmly. He doesn’t know for sure, but Liwaduwan’s judgment is probably right.
So all the islands of the eastern Iyakan became Datang’s. Then, a reckless conscription suitable for a total war system began. All Chaun spent several months stabilizing the occupied territories, gathering enough troops, and preparing to fight Baekkan.
“Then come back now.”
“What? Why?”
“If you go to Baekara, who will guard Datang?”
“Then what do you want me to do?”
“There are places to go besides east, west, south, and north.”
Liwaduwan looks down.
The goal is underground. The largest and most powerful dungeon in the world. And its master, the demon Enrakisho.
The sun that descends to the earth falls underground.