Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 40



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Episode 40. The Evil One

In fact, the disaster began when they had just entered the reconstruction period. The Daton tribe, who had been steadily growing their grasslands and population, felt the change in the sky as they worshipped the moon.

“Look over there! What is that?”

A reddish celestial body, never seen before, appeared above the northern limit of Dator, the likes of which had not been seen in ages past.

“What is that?”

“I don’t know. It’s a new moon.”

“I know what it is. It’s the moon rising over the desert.”

“desert?”

“Yes. There’s a desert to the northwest. A land of nothing but sand and dry rock. It looks like that star has been moving.”

The red moon of the desert. It did not move as fast as the sun, nor did it move up and down between the ground and the sky like the crescent moon of Dator.

The Red Moon passed very slowly, but surely, through the north of Dator from west to east.

However, since it was still the early stage of reconstruction and the northern grasslands were beyond Daton’s reach, Daton wasn’t particularly interested. That was the extent of Daton’s impressions.

But to the other tribes who lived in the northern regions, this was a shocking news. The red glow of the moon, which first rose in 4611 in the mythical era, reached the center of the steppe by around 5678.

And wherever the light touched, it dried up and turned into a desert. A desert where unidentified monsters appeared.

The Barks and Gigas who lived in the north felt something. It was not an illusion that the land they lived in was slowly shrinking.

They could easily predict the ending. They went south to Dator and told the story to Mainilun.

“Since the red moon rose, the plants of the grasslands and plains have been drying up! Great Olleh Chaun! Please help us before our lands turn into deserts!”

A huge body measuring 3~4 meters tall. However, instead of being long, it has thick arms and legs, making it look rather slender.

In addition to its size, it also has a powerful lower jaw and large, thick, strong teeth. It also has a protruding belly and incredible strength that allows it to fight elephants and hippopotamuses with just its physical abilities.

That is, they are apes that have evolved into perfect herbivores. They wander around the forest, eating it, and when they are done eating, they move to another forest. Their ecological niche is similar to that of elephants.

They are called the Gigad tribe. Their nickname is Giant. Literally. They are highly intelligent people, so they travel around here and there, eating the forest and interacting with other small tribes, engaging in nomadic and commercial activities. As for the nation… It seems that they have no intention of establishing one yet. The large size of the Quako tribe is influenced by them, so it could be said that the Quako tribe is the descendants of the Gigad tribe.

The leader of the Gigard nomads bows respectfully to Datang’s Dutan. As the Gigard are a matriarchal society, the leader of the group is naturally the oldest woman, that is, the grandmother.

“Great noble of Datang. Please help us with your culture. If the desert dries up, the exchange between the North and the South will be cut off.”

Not because the other party was a giant capable of crushing Daton with his fists, but because, as the representative in charge of diplomacy with the North, Dutan of the village politely accepted the request.

“I will contact Mainilun. How could Daton abandon his closest and kindest friend? However, the problem of heaven can be solved by All Chaun······.”

And of course, it didn’t work out.

“No, do other races think that All Chaun is some kind of omnipotent being? How can I do anything about the moon moving in the sky?”

This was my first reaction upon hearing this. It is a common sense reaction. This is especially true for All Chaun, who is still in a slump even after going through a recession.

The people gathered in Mainilun were not unaware of this, but they definitely had to come up with some kind of countermeasure.

“The orbits of celestial bodies are always constant. The red moon is probably a celestial body whose movements are very slow. If things continue this way, the land north of Dator will become a desert.”

Starting with Castle Laurent, the other players also give their opinions.

“It’s not that there are no creatures living in the desert, but the productivity is very low. No one can do nomadic life. There will be difficulties in moving up.”

The opinion of Niroran Chaun, the merchant in charge of the time.

“I’ve also heard rumors that monsters are emerging from this desert. They are indeed strange in appearance, and upon examination, I found that they are a type of ‘monster.’ They seem to target humans for their magical powers as well as their meat.”

The opinion of the contemporary communications and information officer, Dashun Chaun.

“As monsters emerge from the desert and move south, the frequency of attacks on northern villages is increasing. It seems likely that a large-scale invasion will occur in a few hundred years.”

The opinion of Bokabor Chaun, the village guardian.

“We’re building walls and fortifications, but the monsters are getting stronger. Without the spirit masters, it’ll be hard to stop them. And then Hanjutamal becomes a problem.”

Comment from architect Jebat Chaun.

“At first glance, it looks like a triangular pyramid, so I tried making a statue for the Red Moon, but nothing happened except for red energy being scattered around. I can drive it away with the power of the crescent moon, but it doesn’t seem to be able to spread its energy.”

If we include Manum Lapang’s opinion, it seems that we must either drive out the celestial bodies from the desert or endure the pouring demons.

All Chaun was not the type of person to pressure others to come up with a plan that he didn’t have. He was also clearly aware that this could lead to the deaths of many of his own people.

“The power of the celestial bodies seems infinite. In fact, the power of the crescent moon does not disappear no matter how much we use it. If that is the case, it would be nonsense to destroy or fight the celestial bodies, and we should fundamentally study how to drive them out.”

The sacred crescent moon. And the sun that brings life. Daton developed his civilization by actively accepting the power of both. He never thought of rejecting the power of the stars.

“Damn. You can’t even guess. We can’t block everything, but we could at least protect the oasis. For the Gigard, how about we give them Manirut (the gem-like stone that makes up the Mainnirun) and tell them to build a temple and watch over it?”

“Good idea.”

“Don’t sell it, just give it to me. If the Gigards are really desperate, they’ll come and take it.”

“And the person who can fundamentally block the power of the red moon and drive out the demons is, yes······.”

Of course, this is what everyone feels.

“Probably, it would be Minnirun. Seeing as I have no idea how to do that.”

In any case, the Gigaards were satisfied with All Chaun’s proposal.

In a sense, it can be said that they accepted the moon worship faith. They received the manirut over a long period of time and built a crescent moon statue in the desert and prevented the lakes and rivers from drying up.

However, the fundamental problem was not solved. It became clear that the Red Moon monsters were attacking the Crescent Moon Temple, and the Gigard tribe could only fight them with the support of Datang.

“How on earth can I stop the evil spirits?”

The most important task that could become a main run if it were solved, but it is a task that cannot be easily thought of.

Many Datons try and fail. Geniuses try and achieve their dreams but fail. And they give up.

“It probably won’t work. The sky can’t be controlled by human power.”

But there was one person who would never give up. A woman who wanted to become a mainline runner no matter what, and she paid no attention to such proven facts.

“I want to become a mine runner.”

“Isn’t that what you wanted to do from the beginning?”

“But I want it to be more intense.”

As one woman mutters, the group mutters back. This woman is over 200 years old. Yet she has hardly been baptized in youth, and looks quite young.

The technology itself, called the Baptism of Youth, was developed, but fundamentally, it was also because they were always wandering around the outskirts in order to live long lives. That’s why they were able to live incredibly long lives.

This woman wanted to be a Minnie Run since she was very young. Was it because she wanted to live long? Or rather, because she wanted to be by the side of All Chaun.

In other words, he was pouring infinite affection, faith, and madness on the leader of Daton, the wise god known as All Chaun.

This woman even gave birth to a child of Ol Chaun, and, in a very rare case, she actively raised the child. However, the child, who was actually a son, abandoned the school and ran away due to the mother’s obsession for him to become like Ol Chaun.

“I want to become a mine runner.”

“Let’s get some sleep.”

The man who had been making love to her a moment ago is getting fed up with her repeating words.

She wants to be by Oh Chan-woon’s side, but in reality, the only person by her side is a man with no accomplishments.

I’ve had children from men like this a few times, and I don’t think it’s much different from my own problems with my children.

After all, the only ones who can compare to All Chaun are those like him, the immortal beings called Mainnirun.

“Hmm~”

But if you look at it coldly, she was just plain excellent.

He wasn’t just ordinary. He was excellent, to be sure. But he wasn’t a genius, and he wasn’t capable of coming up with unique and creative ideas.

A talented person who doesn’t have any special constitution or anything, but just has strong ambition.

So I couldn’t find my own path properly. Even after my ability was verified and I received the spirit water, I changed it several times. (At this time, one person is unconditionally given one spirit water. The reason is, of course, Hanjutamal.)

She has achieved success in every career path and received two or three medals, including the Pioneer Revolutionary Medal. But in the end, she has not found a suitable career path, with only a spark like Olchaun by her side.

Because she was like that, she was only sorry that a new minenirun appeared at the same time. The great herdsman Paldin Koa. She brought three mysteries to Datang.

“Damn! I could have thought of it that way! Aaaah! If I had thought of it first, it would have been a minefield!”

The first mine run of this reconstruction period went in the complete opposite direction to this hasty woman, but that didn’t matter to her anyway.

“If I could become a mine run······.”

And her thoughts were naturally fixed on one place: the red moon rising ominously in the north of the plains and the desert.

“Either we remove the Red Moon from this world, or we make the desert a better place to live, or we tame or kill all the monsters in the desert. If we do any one of these three things, we will definitely get a mine run.”

She looks at the red moon and thinks. All three are impossible goals no matter how much she thinks about them.

But all the Mindy Runners were people who made the impossible possible, or brought something that never existed before into the world.

“If I could solve that problem of the evil spirits, the Gigads, the Quakos, the Barks, and the Datons would all praise me. Even Ol Chaun would be happy. Maybe I could even lift his depressed mood.”

The reality is that everyone has given up on becoming a Minnie Runner, or is not even interested in it in the first place, thinking that it is not something that can be achieved by striving for it.

It was something she devoted her life to.

“I will become a minenirun. I will definitely become a minenirun and stay by the side of Olchaun in minenirun for eternity······!”

Will her dream come true?

Honestly, I know you all think it’s going to be a success, because all the people we’ve highlighted so far have become main runners.

But no. She couldn’t be a main run. And that’s because All Chaun even said, “How can you be a main run?”

However, she eventually succeeds in stopping the evil spirit and stopping desertification.

How on earth could that have happened?

Let’s check it out for yourself now.