Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 30
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Episode 30. What Geniuses Don’t Know 4
In fact, the period of time that Laurent spent locked up and studying was extremely long, even for those who had no concept of time. It was so long that it was enough to create a generation gap.
“I heard Laurent is gathering people for research.”
“Who is Laurent?”
“Why, there’s someone who discovered the secrets of the spirit tree. Classifying plants and animals······.”
“Uh······. It seems like it was before I was even born. Is he still alive?”
This happens often because Darton can’t tell age from a face. They kindly tell their friends who are a few generations older than them.
“He was the person closest to Mineelan. Everyone thought he would become Mineelan. If it weren’t for him, would we have been able to live like this?”
“That’s right. There must have been a huge number of people trying to catch innocent animals and make spirit water.”
“There must have been little food.”
“There probably wasn’t any medicine.”
“Spirit stone too.”
They talk about their achievements one by one. It is a culture that respects elders and those who have made achievements. Young people also became interested in the last presentation and research of such great pioneers.
“What kind of research is it?”
“Well, Laurent really liked snails.”
“Have you domesticated snails?”
“Did you speed up the snail’s pace?”
“No. Could that be it? Maybe we’ve discovered that snails can become spirits.”
Something doesn’t feel right. Whatever you say, it doesn’t seem like it’s that great of an achievement.
“Snails are just something you personally like······. Maybe you’ve made a revolutionary discovery about something like spirits, or food, or something like that.”
That was the limit of the ideas that a single Daton could come up with.
Honestly, who can say how the technological revolution will happen?
It’s weird that someone has made discoveries that literally change the world on their own several times, and no one knows how it will change.
Still, those who had been pilgrims with anticipation naturally gathered at the holy place. The birth of Mine Run. A new discovery. Even if that wasn’t the case, it was worth visiting just because something new happened in the same old daily life.
“When did you say it started?”
“They say that if it rains all day, it starts then.”
“Then it’s going to rain soon, so it’ll start then.”
When they say that rain is a condition, the rich people start to grumble again. What kind of preparations can be made only when it rains?
“How to stop the rain?”
“No. More boldly. How to change the weather?”
“That’s going too far. Isn’t it that they’re trying to create a non-spirit? Up until now, they were all earth spirits, so this time, they’re trying to create a sky spirit by adding the power of Mainilun, which is close to the sky.”
“Wow. You’re a genius.”
“That’s right. He’s a real genius.”
People are saying that this is a ‘sure thing’, but there are many more plausible predictions. After all, imagination is limitless.
A very realistic and practical achievement, a near-fantasy but miraculous achievement. The Datons gathered in the Holy Land discuss somewhere in between the two, waiting for something to be shown by the great pioneer.
Laurent wasn’t looking very good.
“Wouldn’t it be better to just tell me what it is?”
“No. This is better. It might increase the chances of making a mine run even a little bit.”
“Is that why you don’t listen to me, Your Majesty?”
“Oh. I won’t listen.”
“It might not be much. My hypothesis has been verified, but I don’t know if it’s enough.”
“That doesn’t matter.”
Laurent couldn’t help but question.
“yes?”
“If there is a possibility, then good. If there is a way for not even one Daton to die, then good. Laurent. Do you know what my dream is? My dream is for all Datons to become Mainirans.”
“According to my theory, it is impossible.”
“Damn… I get it. But I really don’t want my people to die. It’s not because you’re great that I’m protecting you. It’s not because you’re a genius that I’m praising your accomplishments. Even if you’re the worst Daton in the world, if you think of me as a brother, I want you to live forever.”
Maybe that’s the loneliness that only the cold can feel.
He lived too long. I don’t know how happy he was when the second Mine Nile, Manum Lapang, appeared. The same realm, the same hero, the 10th Bark Maza, died before he could live that long.
Not being able to live in the same era, the same time. I still vividly remember the time when I was lighting a fire in the stormy meadows, but now no one can tell me about that time through stories.
All Chaun was just an ordinary person, an ordinary primitive human from the Stone Age who happened to become great and lived a long life.
He had missed his chance to leave, but he still had the desire to live long and the longing for life. If he were to die here and now because he was lonely, wouldn’t that be disrespectful to all his fellow countrymen who looked up to him?
Kugu palace!
Lightning strikes. It strikes often. Fortunately, no one will die, but for some reason, it only falls on the pointed ornaments of the altar.
Manum Lapang comes out a little later and says:
“The piece is finished. I made a chair out of the snail shell.”
“Thank you, Manum Lapang.”
“What is it? Anyway, since you’re quite old, you can take this ride.”
Laurent climbed up onto it with the help of the people. The skill of carving a chair out of a snail shell is amazing. It feels like riding in a very comfortable sedan chair.
“Is it time?”
“Yes. If it rains this much, that’s enough.”
“Show me. And live.”
All of this, as Laurent had requested, reduced the size of the Datang Oram to its limit and turned off the lights of the Bachat Beram. Only the lights of the compatriots are visible. The fire spirit is carried around safely in a cage-like box.
Laurent rode a snail out of the altar and slowly descended the stairs. Still, it was faster than walking. And there was no risk of slipping.
Everyone is surprised to see Laurent appear and makes way for him. The crowd naturally makes way for the slow snail, and Laurent heads somewhere behind Mainilun.
“Let’s see. That’s right. It’s here.”
“hmm?”
Neither the whole world nor Manum Lapang could figure out what this place meant. Laurent opens his mouth.
“Okay. Now, I will present my research results.”
“······!”
Everyone held their breath. The only sound was the sound of a rainstorm, and Laurent spoke to the fire in front of him.
From spark to spark, memories, words spread.
“In the process of exploring what spirits are, I learned about Datang Oram and our fire spirits.”
“The fire spirit was probably initially a fire attached to a tree. In other words, it was a ‘wood fire’ spirit.”
“When All Chaun made a contract with Datang Oram, he made it a ‘spirit of fire’.”
“Datang Oram, and our fire spirits burn and burn our mental power.”
It’s commotion. Burning the mind? Then, is the fire of Datang Oram killing Daton? As the noise of people starting to talk grows louder. Ol Chaun shouted.
“Reka! Be quiet!”
Then everyone shut their mouths.
“The mind is a vessel that holds magical power. Those who contract with Datang Oram will have their maximum magical power reduced. However, they will soon be able to control the flames with their own will.”
“The form of the order is merely a form of gathering will.”
“And when a spirit attaches itself to an animal’s mind, it consumes the crude animal’s mind and becomes a spirit beast.”
“A person’s mind is so large that he cannot simply cling to it and merge with it.”
Rest assured. But that was not the main point.
“And from my research, I have concluded that spirits are purely mental entities.”
“When spirits are absorbed into natural objects, their power is weak, but when they combine with life, they gain great power.”
“In other words, this is the story.”
“If you gather pure mental power, you can create a spirit.”
This alone was a huge shock.
“Everyone. In this mine rune, I wish to create an artificial spirit. With this, the number of spirits in Daton will increase by one. Would you please gather your will and follow the direction I am pointing?”
All Chaun says in embarrassment.
“Now, wait a minute, Laurent. What kind of spirit are you trying to create from Mainirun? You proved it. You can’t create the same type of spirit.”
“You can create them, but you said that they will be eaten by the same type of spirit, whether physical or mental. If there is new terrain, you can create new spirits.”
“What on earth is there in Mainilun besides fields, swamps, forests, and plains······? There’s nothing! There’s all the land! Sky spirits? Are you making sky spirits? Seriously?”
“No. It’s an earth spirit. That classification is strange though.”
“?!”
“There is. There is a terrain that exists not only in Mainilun but also everywhere in this grassland······.”
Where might it be?
“Everyone. Look where I am.”
Everyone’s eyes were on this place. It may seem like this is just the back of Mainilun, but in fact, it had a greater meaning.
“This is the only place in Mainilun where the moon never shines on any day.”
“!!!”
“Because it’s obscured by the buildings, because it’s obscured by the terrain, because the time of day doesn’t match. This one place alone receives the least amount of light in the entire shining Mainilun. On this stormy night, when even the lightless Ol’ Chaun has left Mainilun and the great moonlight is not reflecting back, this is the darkest place in the sanctuary.”
That is. Maybe it would be okay to say ‘no.’
The terrain created by absence. Just as we recognize a ‘hole’ when we see a hole in a disk, it exists because there is no light.
“And among all the creatures in the world, there is only one creature that lives here and is with this place. When it feels danger, it goes into its own safe home, the dark place it always carries around.”
There was no need to explain what it was.
widely!
When the shell was hit hard, the startled snail was instantly sucked into its home, and a black hole appeared inside.
At that moment, at that point where nothing can be seen.
Literally hundreds of thousands of wills have been drawn out of nothing.
She is born that way naturally. She is born that way in the darkness.
“Everyone. Let me introduce you. The fifth spirit beast to appear, following the Ostrich of the Wild Breeze, the Scaly Hippopotamus of the Swamp, the Kneeling Giraffe of the Forest, and the Scaly Elephant of the Hilly Plains. The Great Snail of the ‘Shade’!”
And he slammed it into the giant creature beneath him.
Among creatures that are not even quadrupeds, it is extremely rare to find a livestock that possesses a huge structure powered by magic, yet lives in the darkness, and no one has thought of making it into a spirit beast.
─────
It is truly the sound of absence. What is visible because it is absent.
In it, the flame of Daton is completely obscured. Not even the faint light of the moon shines.
The snail’s shape was so clear that it swallowed everything.
“This concludes my research presentation.”
And Laurent, who had finished his presentation politely, felt something strange.
Of course, there should be an outpouring of praise and applause. We should be happy about Daton’s progress.
No one says anything. Could it be that this was a fact that was discovered long ago while he was secretly studying it?
Or do you think you are great but in reality you are nothing?
At a moment when no one was speaking, All Chaun spoke.
“······Let’s be happy!”
That story means that I’m not happy right now.
“This is a tremendous, indescribable revolution. I don’t even know what to call it. So. Let’s rejoice! This era! We have a genius! Let’s rejoice only in that!”
All that time, Ol Chaun was crying.
The other Datons were also shedding tears. It was just that they could not hear it because it was obscured by the darkness and rain.
They are sad. They are sad that she, ‘even after all this’, could not become a main runner.
Before I rejoice at his great achievements, I can only feel regret that such a genius cannot continue to live.
“Laurent! Say something! So that we can continue to draw you even after you are gone!”
When the flames approached, Laurent was so surprised that he couldn’t say anything.
“Uh, I······.”
And then a moment later, she just mumbled this one word:
“I never thought you would think of me like this······.”
Now, all conditions are met.
─────
Neither the hot flame’s light nor the cold moonlight, but a cool darkness enveloped her, giving off a faint glow.
Peep.
And when the thing inside the shell pulled out its two tentacle eyes, only those glowed faintly.
Research is also needed to prove that it does not exist.
A scholar is someone who can bring light to the faint light that may be in the darkness.
That’s why the creature suited her so well.
All Chaun couldn’t stand the feelings welling up in his chest and shouted.
“You never could have imagined it in your dreams!!!”
“This worked in one go!”
“Hiyahoo—!”
The third hero of the Daton clan. The third occupant of Mainilun is the greatest genius of the Daton clan.
Snail Pioneer (Castle Laurent) and the Great Snail Spirit of the Shadow.
“Does that snail friend have a name?”
“Revolutionary grilled meat.”
“what?”
“That’s what it was originally made for. It was just a coincidence that this one was the best fit.”
“Yeah, well······. If that’s the name you gave me.”
Those who have inherited the descendants of the shadow snail ‘Wangan Bozog’ at the age of 20 will now walk the path of a pioneer. Unlike the wise men who teach and spread knowledge, this is a profession that advances society by directly researching and acquiring new knowledge.
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