Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 177



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Episode 177. Due to circumstances at the broadcasting station, we will show Penkant’s life story instead of the regular broadcast. 2

It’s been nearly 9 years since I found it, but since the East is so vast and the best in the world doesn’t lead any forces, it took this long to find it.

The best in the world, after defeating the strong demon tribe and swimming out of the sea, discovered the killer whales. This is Pencant. He was once called the polar demon tribe, but he is now a leading figure fighting in the chaos.

“What do you mean to me?”

The best person in the world speaks bluntly. Asking him what he wants out of the blue is blunt to him. He is such a person.

“I would like to negotiate peace with Datang, and I need a guarantor. Can you help us make peace with Datang?”

“Hmm?”

The best person in the world was a little surprised. To be honest, I thought these Penkants only knew how to survive on the law of the jungle. They unexpectedly knew how to negotiate peace?

So the question is whether you want to do it or not. The best in the world easily comes to a conclusion.

“Even though you are called demons, I cannot ignore your efforts in protecting the islands and seas of the East. I will gladly help you achieve peace and exchange with Datang.”

It was a decision based on reason rather than profit and loss. I will never forget that All Chaun came to the East and protected Go Aran.

However, if you look at the pros and cons, it was a gain for the East. If Pencant stopped fighting Datang, wouldn’t it be possible to receive Pencant’s support and defeat the demons that still overflow in the East’s seas?

It was worth it even if he had to take one of the newcomers off the front line. The best in the world did not doubt their true intentions, and perhaps because he had read all of their thoughts, he knew they were sincere and followed them to the polar regions.

It was a kind of confidence. The confidence that even if all of Pencant’s millions of soldiers were after him, he could slaughter them all and swim back to the East.

You could say it’s a kind of second world-class cooperation.

“I need to know if you are serious about making peace. Show me your culture and society. I don’t know much about you.”

“Of course. I will help you guide the polar regions.”

The best man in the world with the divine sword rides a dolphin to the polar region. He talks to the Ice God, and allows the divine sword and the Ice God to reunite, and then explores the culture there.

It’s strange to see the aforementioned male chauvinist culture so severe that it’s turned upside down, but even without that, Pencant’s society was strange.

“Oh! How beautiful!”

In the sky where the sun does not set, there is a huge fist moon. And stars twinkle. And the moonlight that comes down is reflected in the snow and shines brightly. All around are shells, corals, minerals, and cities refined with jewels imbued with celestial magic. Even on the seabed, they shine brightly, and the entire sea is bright even without the sun.

This is the capital of this polar region. This is the realm where the Ice God resides. It is a beautiful city that the Ice God has cultivated for a very long time using the creatures of this place. In the center is the Ice Palace, which is as magnificent as Mainilun.

“This is our capital. It is where only the most prestigious nobles can live.”

“What are the buoys?”

“It means private fishing ground. We raise fish like you raise plants. We also grow seaweed.”

As a side note, on Earth, sea cows such as manatees and dugongs and pinnipeds such as leopard seals, fur seals, and walruses are classified in completely different ways.

In this world, they are all the same classification. The only difference is whether they are herbivorous or carnivorous. Herbivorous creatures engage in more productive work such as farming, mining, and equipment manufacturing instead of war. And carnivorous creatures engage in honorable and important military work.

“The polar regions have been developed for a long time, but there are still many places that are undeveloped. They make up more than half of the world.”

“That would certainly be the case. If you include the seabed, your territory would be the largest in the world. But rather than the nobles, would you be able to see the lower classes first?”

“Well, of course. It exists in every society.”

There are no farmers on Pencant. That’s because plants don’t grow there. In the polar regions, there are only krill, which produce nutrients in place of plants, and fish that eat them, pinnipeds that eat fish, whales, sea birds, etc.

In other words, instead of farmers, there are fishermen. In Penkant society, hunting and eating fish is a very natural activity. A fool who cannot hunt for himself cannot be treated as a human being.

But in reality, the rulers of the country do not have the luxury of hunting fish and such. So the social structure is like this.

The lowest class. The poor who hunt and eat every day. Or the old. There is no welfare in Penkant society. The dead are eaten by others. In fact, dying early and becoming nutrients is considered a virtue. These people are usually busy trying to eat and live.

Lower class. Those who are good at catching fish and trade them for other valuable items, or are workers in companies or mines.

“mine?”

“It’s an undersea mine. Don’t you know?”

The sea is a very low magic zone. However, magic power cannot simply disappear. The magic power that the sea draws in is, in other words, deposited on the seabed.

That’s why the ocean is a very low magic zone, but the seafloor, the bottom, is closer to a high magic zone, an ultra-high magic zone. The veins like ocean currents. The huge magic flow that supplies magic underground, and the monsters that live off that magic, the ecosystem coming from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, shellfish, and coral and jewels that form structures through magic…

The pinnipeds, who are excellent divers, go down to 1000 or 2000 meters under the sea to collect such magic gems. Normally, they have to breathe, but with some magic or spiritism, they can stay underwater for a long time, so there are huge mines on the sea floor.

And of course, even the ocean floor, in the polar regions where the sea is a super-high-magnitude zone, is filled with some of the richest and most colorful coral reefs in the world.

“Then there must be a lot of lower class people like that in the capital city.”

“It’s not that there’s a lot of stuff mined out there, it’s just fallow land, there’s a lot more in the outskirts.”

Beyond the lower class who do simple tasks, they are the middle class. If they do well, they can even become nobles.

This includes craftsmen who know the mysteries, warriors with exceptional abilities, and those with private fishing grounds or nets, houses, islands (such as icebergs), or the seabed.

They can manage their food and shelter with little care, and they live in luxury with their surplus produce.

Next are the nobles. They are like killer whales carrying the best people in the world. The noble families are divided by race, and each race is divided by harem and each region.

He has a lot of wealth and can live off the unearned income from his farm manager, but he has to constantly prove his abilities to maintain his power.

If you are a Pencant, you must memorize the names of all the prestigious families, and the hierarchy of each family. It is common for families to fight each other, and only the best families have the right to directly welcome the Ice God.

“What is the hierarchy of the races?”

“Hmm. First of all, the weight class must be large. And if you can handle tools, you are superior, so whales that only swim in the sea are a bit lower in class. It’s different if you learn mysteries or are strong, and even if the weight class of a race is small, power is fundamentally determined by the size of wealth and force, and no noble can avoid a challenge from someone inferior to them, so it changes every time.”

“I see. That means avoiding fights.”

“It proves that you are superior to me.”

It is a society of fierce competition. Even cannibalism is common. However, the six great families of the water elephant, blue whale, Nepalese penguin, water wolf, killer whale, and sea bird have never changed their power since the establishment of Penkant.

“Actually, there are some among them who have shed their shell twice.”

“Hmm.”

“The Water Elephant Clan has two Itaekakja, so they are the most powerful.”

“I see… … .”

I think I know what drove Pencant to pirate all over the world before.

The energy of krill, which is produced in limitless quantities. Fish from the vast ocean, a high-powered area comparable to a tang. Resources from the seabed. And even a temperament that worships battle.

Unless they have a supernatural mobilization ability like the current situation, their troops will never run dry. Their mystery is infinite. Their wealth and survival ability are also formidable. If things get dire, they can escape into the ocean, and even coming to the polar regions is a difficult task.

“Now, let me introduce to you the mystery we are proud of.”

The highest level of Pencant is considered to be the grace of the Ice God. It is a divine power. Through it, one gains overwhelmingly powerful strength, resilience, and resistance.

But there are some things that are considered next. The biggest one is the spirit magic engineering weapon that is made by combining spirit magic and magic.

The spirit weapons used in Datang are about the same as the ancient bow and the medieval longbow. In any case, it is not a gun, but it is much better as a bow.

“This is a technology that no one on Earth has. Even Datang, who prides himself on being the master of spirit magic, doesn’t know about it.”

“Of course, how it is made is a secret.”

“Haha. I can never tell this to a rookie. Maybe I can tell it to a fool. Even if they knew, they would never be able to make it.”

Of course, not all species of Pencant are intelligent. Not all fish are, and some whales and even some pinnipeds are not ‘human’.

They function more as spirit beasts. Pinnipeds with huge tusks, pinnipeds with hard scales, or sperm whales with huge heads, etc. All of these are spirit beasts.

“Are they all the same spirits?”

“No. The whale receives the power of the celestial bodies, the ivory receives the power of the earth, the scales receive the power of the glaciers… … They are slightly different in that way.”

“Well, to you, the whole earth seems the same.”

“Because we make a very fine distinction between what you call ‘ice’ and ‘sea.’”

The study of magic led to mathematics, the development of mathematics led to administration and systems, and administration and systems laid the foundation for tax laws and the state. It is a noble oligarchic federation-theocratic state, but it works better than you might think.

“This is the material that Pencant is most proud of.”

“‘substance’?”

It is the essence of ice. It is the strongest substance that mixes pure ice, celestial magic, divine power, spirit magic, and even magic. Those of the highest rank are given the right to receive it.

“Of course, it may not be as good as the best sword in the world, but we are proud to say that this is probably the strongest material available in this world. If you make a weapon with this, you will not be able to draw out its original power unless you are at least as strong as a Talchakja.”

“Hoo… … .”

“It never breaks, heals itself, allows growth, strengthens the body and mind, allows the use of various magic, and its power is also great. There are also lower-grade essences. Those who go to the Demonic Front are usually made of lower grades because they are not of that level.”

“Agwi Frontline?”

The killer whale makes a lasting impression.

“We call the southern front of Shuzor that. Those bastards are the devils who kill and eat us.”

“hmm…….”

“If I were to trade with the Datang, I would exchange this ice essence for their mineral materials. The stones that are said to have been used to build the Mainnirun would be similar to this.”

“That’s Manirut. It’s a legendary material. I’m amazed that they even built a building with it.”

The best in the world calmly observes the Pencant society for five years.

They are evil. They have no way out. They only want to bite those who are weaker than them and take what belongs to the strong.

However, there is order, a system, and a culture. A country like this is definitely worth negotiating peace with.

“Good. I want to look around a bit more, but I’ll check later. For now, I want to go to Datang. Please guide me.”