Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 27



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Episode 27. What Geniuses Don’t Know

The conditions for entering Mainirun and the feats required to do so are known to all.

But is it true that what was agreed upon in Mainirun is true?

Would you believe me if I told you that the moment they agreed to do so, it became a fact? Heroes are made by memes. How far and how far a hero is a hero depends on people’s perception.

The phenomenon of a person’s status being raised through mental power, will, and soul is the birth of a hero.

In other words, the hero of the Daton tribe. The being called ‘Minnirun’ was defined as such.

You have to accomplish something so great that it deserves praise from so many people.

In doing so, we must also shake up Daton’s worldview.

This alone is an incredibly difficult condition, but one more thing is added to it.

And no one, including myself, could have predicted the ripple effect of my accomplishments.

It was spread to all the villages through the two bullets. And those who tried to challenge the hero were all terrified when they heard the explanation.

“Dutan. What is the final condition?”

“Is that possible? Doing a feat without knowing how great it is?”

There are three people who have done it.

First is Ol Chaun, second is Bark Maja, and third is Manum Lapang.

All Chaun was the first spirit master and the founder of Datang.

The Bark Maja are direct descendants of the first tribe to raise wolves, and after hundreds of years they reached Dator, where they defeated the spirit tree and awakened the animal spirits.

Manum Lapang is the designer of the magnificent Mainirun, the greatest architect, and also the greatest sculptor, who discovered how to infuse the power of the moon into stone.

The hurdles to becoming a hero are so realistically impossible for an individual to achieve.

Of course, we must take into account the circumstances of the hero who emerged from a time when it was not known whether there was such a thing as a hero, but in the eyes of Daton, who saw these achievements, no matter how great his achievements were, he would not be recognized as a hero.

This has its advantages. Daton’s heroes are overwhelmingly stronger than heroes of any other race. They are immortal. Their ability to handle mysteries is truly extreme. Their bodies, which should normally wear out over time, are constantly regenerating without permanent damage. Considering that ordinary Datons, who are not heroes, somehow live long lives thanks to their genes, but eventually die because their organs wear out, these beings are no different from gods.

This means that, conversely, heroes appear in different races in slightly different ways.

Anyway, since those who wanted to become heroes were usually those who wanted to become heroes by ‘achieving something’, the ripple effect of the last condition was incredible.

If I wanted to be a hero by accomplishing something great, I couldn’t be a hero because I knew the consequences of that great feat.

And that was a disaster for the latecomers. To become a hero requires feats that only a non-hero can accomplish.

It demands the qualities of a true hero.

“I don’t know. As I live, I’ll find something I want to do, and if I’m lucky, I’ll be able to do minenirun.”

So, the average, ordinary Daton tries to do as many actions as his thinking power allows, but eventually feels limited and gives up.

Because they are ordinary people. Instead, they focus on more important things. Family, pilgrimage, play, and duty. It is not easy to see anyone taking a new step in the footsteps of a hero.

But sometimes, special people appear in the world.

Either you are lucky like Ol Chaun, or you have incredible tenacity like Manum Lapin, or you have truly exceptional talent. In other words, you are a ‘genius’.

It is only natural that if the population increases, the number of such special people will also increase.

There are those who go beyond the ordinary and rush to secure their own place in the Mainilun of the Holy Land.

What kind of people are they?

Let’s check it out for yourself now.

Here is a young girl, Daton. Unlike other Datons, she is not very interested in sexual play. In fact, compared to other races, not just Datons, she seems to not feel much pleasure in sexual acts. She listens to the words of the village elder, her teacher.

“Look. Here are two plants. This one is edible, but this one has a different shape even though it’s the same color. If you eat this one, it’ll give you a stomachache.”

“yes~”

As the other Daton answered, the girl, who was looking at the snail clinging to the plant stem, asked another question.

“Grandpa, I have a question.”

“Yeah. What is it?”

“Why is that?”

“what?”

The village wise man does not understand the intent of the question.

“Why are there edible plants and inedible plants?”

The village wise man gives a simple answer.

“This is something that our Datons can’t eat, but snails can. And we can eat snails.”

“why?”

“Nature is cyclical. There is nothing useless. Everyone does their part in nature······.”

“That’s not my question.”

“······?”

The girl asks a question.

“Why? Even though they are the same color on the same plant, there is a difference in that Daton cannot eat them while snails can. What is the cause?”

“What’s the cause? Huh?”

The wise man has never thought about this. He knows what he can and cannot eat. He also knows why he cannot eat it. Because it is indigestible.

But I don’t know why it’s indigestible. It’s just that kind of plant. I don’t care why.

But the wise man knows how to deal with this properly.

“I don’t know either. But you will find out.”

“is it so?”

“Well, then you could become a great pioneer.”

A pioneer. A person who walks ahead. In Darton’s words, he is called Lauren.

The girl thinks.

“Yes. Then I will be Laurent.”

“The best pioneer? That would be great. I really hope so.”

I didn’t say that without thinking.

The girl decided to become Laurent. She could become that just by being herself.

A pioneer. In other words, a person who brought about progress. A person who spread innovation.

In other words, he is the same person as Ol Chaun, who spread fire and created civilization! So the etymology also comes from pilgrimage.

The Daton tribe divided progress into four stages. The steps the girl took as a pioneer are the same.

“This part tastes better when boiled and made into broth.”

“Oh. That’s great. Here, I’ll give you the ‘Improvement’ medal.”

First is improvement. It is progress that gives you a choice, such as changing what already exists into a slightly better form, or improving it but requiring more effort. In any case, it is better than before.

“Everyone works very hard to catch these bugs, but if you make bait and rig it with certain herbs and mushrooms, you can catch them easily and make them even tastier.”

“Oh, this time you’ve made an even greater discovery. Good. Here, take the ‘Reform’ medal.”

Second, reform. It is clearly better than the existing work, and completely replaces the existing method. However, the essence does not change.

“This is a grass that only cows can eat, but if you peel it, dry it, and mix it with herbal medicine, it can be eaten by people, and it’s delicious.”

“Huh······? This is really great. Then the amount of food we can obtain will increase significantly. Wait a minute, I need to discuss this with the others.”

“The negotiations that went up to Mainirun have concluded. Here, receive the ‘Innovation’ medal.”

Third, innovation. It is a completely new concept that did not exist before. Of course, there is room for improvement and it can be reformed and pushed out. However, if it has the same or greater value as existing work, it is innovation. Even if it is trivial, it is clearly more difficult and important than fixing existing things or replacing existing work, so it is innovation.

And before she had even turned young once, this woman had already received more than five medals of innovation, and so many that she had to wear three layers of belts.

As a woman, I was curious about what pregnancy and childbirth felt like and how it was created, so I had two children, but it wasn’t very fun and it interfered with my research, so I didn’t have any more children. That’s very unusual for a multi-generational woman.

“How on earth do you achieve so many innovations? How do you keep coming up with knowledge that you’ve never heard of before?”

He couldn’t believe the results, so he called Ol Chaun to Mainilun. She answered calmly.

“Plants have relatives too.”

“relative?”

“The scaly hippopotamus is different from the scaly rhinoceros, but similar. It has scales and is fat. And both have delicious meat. So we thought other scaly creatures would be delicious, and indeed, the scaly boar we recently discovered is said to be delicious.”

“Oh, well, that’s true.”

“Similar plants also have similar characteristics. If they have similar tastes and scents, they usually have the same effects. So if the relative of an inedible plant is an edible plant, I analyze the difference between the two, and if the relative of an inedible plant can be eaten in a special way, I just try that.”

All Chaun opened his mouth blankly. The wise man’s representative who heard the explanation. Dasun Chaun was the same.

“I’m going to try to collect and classify the common characteristics of these creatures. Then, I can group the numerous creatures that exist in the grasslands into a large group without having to memorize them one by one. Then, I can do this for animals and bugs as well.”

“Oh my God! If that’s done, I’ll give you the ‘Revolution’ medal in the name of All Chaun!”

“All right! This must be reported to all the wise men. He must investigate in advance so that he can classify all the plants!”

The fourth is ‘revolution’. It is a transformation that completely overturns the existing way of thinking, and does not simply bring in a part, but changes the entire flow, way of thinking, and logical structure.

She was not the founder of logic. She was too smart. For her, if there was evidence, it was self-evident. If there was no evidence, she collected it, and if there was a counterexample, she revised her theory. She could not create a systematic method of learning.

But even if you don’t know the exact word logic, logical thinking itself is possible. She organized the characteristics of edible and inedible plants according to their genealogy, and furthermore, she presented the same to rocks and animals.

It is the birth of ‘museum studies’, so to speak. Thanks to her, it was revealed that all things do not exist independently, but are connected.

When the ‘herbal medicine’, which can be considered the foundation of the science of history, was completed by classifying all the plants of the grassland into 138 types and writing down their characteristics and genealogy, she received the revolutionary medal. If you support the revolution from Mainilun and send information about plants from all over, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

She is now a pioneer who has made a revolution, and she has already been called ‘Laurent’, the best pioneer. This has given rise to expectations for Darton.

“Laurent is a genius.”

“That’s right. He’s the smartest Daton in the world.”

“Wouldn’t someone like Laurent be able to become a main runner······?”

Laurent wasn’t particularly interested in that. He was an extraordinary person anyway. Rather, he focused more on the research he liked. Fortunately, the Datons volunteered to become Laurent’s disciples in anticipation of seeing the Mainnirun, and he was able to conduct research quite easily.

All of this has been quite anticipated, and for the most part it’s been a long lifespan, but it’s also unusually restless.

“Why couldn’t I do the Mainnirun even though I completed the herbal medicine?”

“I knew how this would turn out.”

“Damn. That’s it. Alright. Laurent. What are you studying now?”

“It’s a snail.”

“Is this research to make it more delicious or bigger?”

“No. The snail itself.”

“Hmm. How would that help?”

“I’m researching to find out.”

Even if it wasn’t a culinary study, Laurent loved roasting whole snails, cuddling them, taking them out head first, and chewing on them all day long. In her opinion, snails were creatures worth studying.

“Why do all snails have such different shapes?”

“Originally, the giant snail was only in one swamp. That’s because the scaly hippopotamus was not in that swamp.”

“To put it another way, it was because there was a scaly hippopotamus that the big snail couldn’t come out. Why?”

“Well, if the snail gets that big, the scaled hippopotamus will just crush it and eat it.”

“That is, other snails could not grow large because of the scaly hippopotamus. However, they could grow larger in the swamp with tall trees. This is because scaly hippopotamuses cannot climb trees.”

Oh, something weird is happening right now.

“The same goes for the ‘relatives’ of plants. If a plant becomes different from its relatives, it is because the surrounding environment is different. The changed environment changes the form of the plant.”

“How? Do plants have the will to change? No. It’s the other way around. Organisms with both characteristics mixed together, and those that couldn’t adapt to the new environment probably died. And those that survived produced offspring with those characteristics and thrived.”

Uh······. Isn’t this the prehistoric era? What on earth are you making now?

“And the change is accelerating. A relative of a small bush may be a large tree. A snail has a close relative of a different size and color, and above it is the ‘original form.’”

“Datun and Bark are similar, but they are cousins. Datun lived in places with high magical pressure, while Bark couldn’t stand it and moved to lower places. Humans also have an original form. They probably had the same ancestors. Probably something like a tailless monkey······.”

“And I heard that wolves, horses, and sheep gradually become tame as they are raised, and they are shaped into the forms that humans desire. The parents’ traits are passed down to their children. For some reason, traits that the parents didn’t have are sometimes born, and if they are advantageous, they develop, and if they are disadvantageous, they disappear.”

They say technology doesn’t develop linearly, but this is a bit too much. I guess it wasn’t enough to create a taxonomy that would be used properly for 20,000 years or so.

“Living things also improve, reform, innovate, and revolutionize. Life······evolves! All things adapt to their environment and gradually progress! Plants, snails, people. We all evolve!”

It’s not just that we’ve quickly broken through the biology tech tree, we’ve completely destroyed the concept of Earth’s biology tech tree. We have to build a new one on top of it.

Are you crazy? What’s really crazy is that even after coming up with this, Daton still has no agriculture, no writing, and no concept of dates. They say technology doesn’t develop linearly. How strange.

Laurent is momentarily thrilled by this ‘obvious discovery’, but soon falls into a state of distress.

“Then what is a spirit?”

It was the only thing beside her that could not be interpreted by her ‘museum knowledge’.

“What on earth is a spirit······? What on earth is this thing?”

The genius ponders while eating a snail.

Explore the foundations of their civilization.

Until the consequences of that accident moved even the moon.