Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 41



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Episode 41. The Evil 2

To solve a problem, you must first know the problem.

Once you know the problem, you need to know the cause.

After knowing the cause, you must know the process, and after knowing the process, you must know the result.

The problem can disappear if you change just one of the cause, process, or result.

This is the problem-solving method proposed by Cass Laurent. She analyzed it step by step.

“The problem is that the land becomes a desert and monsters come out of it.”

“The red moon is the cause of the desert.”

“If the crescent moon creates grasslands and high-powered lands, the red moon gives birth to deserts and monsters.”

“As a result, the desert will be overflowing with monsters, and that’s a problem because they harm people..”

In fact, it is not that she analyzed it, but rather that numerous pioneers have already analyzed it for hundreds of years.

The problem was that neither of these could be solved.

“You can’t remove the red moon. But you can’t bring in another celestial body or change the position of the crescent moon.”

“You can’t make a desert livable. There are not a few creatures living in the desert, but there are a lot of species, not a lot of quantity. There are few plants, so there are no animals. Naturally, people can’t live there.”

“The red moon has the power to create monsters. So as long as there is a red moon, monsters cannot be destroyed, and it is impossible to tame them.”

It’s a topic where many pioneers have failed. She thought about it a little differently.

“There’s no need to solve everything. In the end, the problem is that people can’t live.”

“The reason people can’t live in the desert is because there is little plant life.”

“After all, isn’t it enough for the desert to have more plants? Monsters can be defeated by fighting them.”

She wandered the world to solve this problem. She was driven not by the noble goal of eradicating the desert, but by the desire to become a minefield, but that was the original motivation for the progress of the world.

The answer was discovered by chance at the northernmost isthmus dividing the territory of the Bark tribe.

“Hey Erin. What are you doing digging the ground?”

I have developed the habit of asking questions because they say that you have to be suspicious and curious to discover new things. Now, the Erin tribe, who have come quite far down south, answered.

“I’m cultivating the field.”

“Field? Are you working?”

“It’s spring. If you dig the ground deep like this, the plants will grow well.”

“!”

She found an agricultural people.

Of course, the concept of agriculture was known in Datang as well. However, the general opinion was that it was not necessary to go that far.

The basic food production method of Daton was that food was abundant everywhere, and that plants, animals, insects, and people all prospered through perfect ecological balance. It was established by Castel Laurent that no living thing should become extinct.

In comparison, Erin’s farming was extremely barbaric. They dug up the land and killed everything except the crops they wanted to plant. They killed all the animals and bugs that tried to eat the crops. And they only ate the crops.

From Daton’s perspective, it was barbaric, but······. she found unexpected utility in this farming.

In short, the Erins knew how to make plants grow better.

“Can even a desert change like this?”

“Desert? That’s ridiculous.”

“why?”

“Why······. It’s not raining.”

“Just pour water on the spirit.”

“The temperature isn’t even right.”

“You just need to adjust the temperature with the spirit.”

“The day and night are so long.”

“You can just match the day and night with the spirits.”

“······Even if that’s true, what are we going to do about the poor soil?”

“What does ‘barren’ mean?”

The Erin tribe says that even land has quality. It is not good land just because it is watered, but the land where life already grows and the area near the river are the best quality, and because they are weak, they were pushed out from the better rivers in the north.

And the soil in the desert is so bad that no matter how much water you give it, plants won’t grow.

“So if we just solve the problem of desert soil, plants will grow?”

She’s hooked on this. It looks like she’s found the spark for revolution.

In fact, I got the Revolutionary Medal for this. Using Erin’s agricultural technology, I proved that by mixing desert soil with swamp mud, I could create soil that plants could grow on.

She explained that the mud in the swamp is helpful because it is a place where a lot of life grows in the first place, and because it contains a lot of living materials, such as the poop of the scaled hippopotamus.

“This is a great discovery. It is truly revolutionary. In the name of Castel Laurent, I hereby award you the Revolutionary Medal.”

“If we mobilize tens of thousands of people to plow the desert, it will turn into a green space!”

“There’s no need to mobilize tens of thousands of people. Why don’t you try it yourself? It looks like you have the qualifications to use the Scaled Hippo Spirit Water.”

She did it immediately, thinking of herself becoming a main runner soon, to the cheers of tens of thousands of people.

And it failed miserably.

“What? Why aren’t the plants growing?”

The original power of the swamp spirit can create a swamp.

A puddle of water is not a swamp. A swamp is a place where there is life. The power of the spirits is to create plants that grow there, but right now they can’t create any. All that’s left are puddles of water.

“Why, why? What’s the reason? Is it a red moon? Don’t plants grow on a red moon in the first place?”

But······. There are plants that actually grow. Succulents similar to cacti. Bushes that have adapted to dry regions also grow well here.

Research is needed. It’s a very long study. It’s a clue that we’ve finally come across after 200 years, so we can’t throw it away.

She has been studying the red moon, deserts, and plants for a long time.

Thirty years later, she had nothing but questions in her head. She had literally devoted her entire life to this, and she had never figured out why plants could not grow under the red moon.

“???”

It was an impossible proof from the beginning, at the level of prehistoric science. There are too many variables, and control is impossible. There is no systematic theory. And there is no way that component analysis would be possible.

Even in such an environment, Castlor Laurent and others narrowed down the possibilities with their unique genius, but with her ordinary level, they were unable to do anything.

“why······?”

I can’t take a single step. I’ve almost reached the end, but I can’t catch something that will lead to a miracle beyond the revolution.

She lay there twisting in front of her fellow plant researchers.

“Eww! I want to be a minecrafter!”

“I know. Ozo Lorun. Stop talking.”

Ozo Lorun. The best plant expert. That was the title she received from Datang. She had studied plants consistently, but this was the end.

“Be calm and share some love.”

“Damn. I need all this love.”

“Then go to Mainnirun.”

“If you want to go to Mainilun, you have to become Mainilun!”

“No, you can just walk······. Why are you doing that? On the spot.”

“Kwaaaaak!”

It’s a pity. This is usually the ending that ordinary people who fail to become a mind runner usually meet.

Now the time is coming. It is time to grow old and die. Daton may live a long life, but that does not mean she will not age. She has tried to hold on to her youthful baptism as much as possible, but if she continues like this, she will probably never make any progress.

A few days after that ruckus, a young Daton came to ask her a question.

“Excuse me. Ozo Lorun. There’s something I’m curious about.”

“What is it? I guess it’s a question about plants.”

In the north, beyond the Quako pastures, Ojo Lorun, who devoted himself to plant research in the desert, was by all accounts the greatest plant expert of his time. At least he knew how to grow plants better than anyone else. Even more so than Kas Loran.

But that wasn’t the question.

“No. It’s a question about spirits. You can command all spirits.”

“huh?”

“That’s why. The ‘nature’ that Ojo Lorun remembers differs depending on the spirit tree. Some wind ostriches create bushes and grasses that bear red berries, while wind ostriches that grow in other regions create bushes and grasses that bear yellow flowers. And the spirit tree of ‘Chaun’ remembers all the scenery of Dator. I understand this.”

“okay.”

“Then what kind of plants do spirits who don’t remember anything make? Like an ostrich that has only lived in a swamp its entire life.”

“I tried it before, but there is a spirit that resides there and creates a natural landscape that that spirit remembers.”

“Oh, I see.”

And young Darton went away.

Actually, this in itself was a trivial question. It was common sense.

But now she was thinking about anything.

“The ostrich makes the fields, the hippopotamus makes the swamps, the giraffe makes the forests, the elephant makes the hills and plains, the snail makes the shade and moss······.”

And then suddenly, I felt something strange. It was, I guess, a sense of discomfort. It was something I had arrived at while thinking about the concept of a spirit that couldn’t remember anything.

‘What is the spirit of the forest? Isn’t it a bit strange······?’

In short, you can think of fields without plants, swamps without plants, plains without plants, and shade without plants.

However, a ‘forest’ is different. A forest is a terrain, but strictly speaking, it is a plant ‘on top’ of the terrain. A forest without plants is a concept that cannot exist.

In other words, the term ‘forest spirit’ is not much different from the terms ‘tree spirit’ or ‘plant spirit’.

‘No, wait a minute. It gets weirder.’

A forest can be located on a field, after all. It can grow lushly even on a swamp. It can grow on a plain and even provide shade.

‘In other words, the forest spirit can create all plants······?’

It’s a little different from that. Something different idea.

‘How do you make plants? Spirits create terrain randomly, but if you think about it, creating plants is completely separate from the ability to create terrain.’

‘That doesn’t mean the spirits of the fields can create bugs or beasts that live in the fields.’

Ozo Lorun was a very rare Daton.

The reason she is such a rare Daturn is because she is someone who has made contracts with all spirits and entered every path at least once in Daturn, which has limited the number of spirits and paths that an individual can possess since the Hanjuta Mal.

And she ultimately focused on plant research.

“······.”

As an exception, all the spirits of Datang were present here, as they were qualified to be present. Ostrich, hippopotamus, giraffe, elephant, snail, fire, and moon. The only thing missing was the lightning spirit, an artificial spirit that does not create plants.

Ojo Lorun does something no other Daturn has ever done before: he unleashes the power of all these spirits at once, mixing them together.

A desert overlooked by a crescent moon. Giant beasts breathe the spirit of the wind, swamps, hills, and forests.

“Haha.”

And the light of the sky that feeds the plants. It gives power to the fire spirit, which is described as the sun.

Then, suddenly, a sprout appeared in the empty desert. Again, a sprout appeared in the red moon desert where no plants or anything like that grow.

“!”

She trembles and concentrates on it. The cotyledon grows and eventually turns into grass, a bush, and a tree. This is also a phenomenon she has never seen before.

“Ugh!”

And the magic drain is so intense that you become exhausted.

But I definitely felt it. She had changed the paradigm of the world now.

“The existing natural philosophy is wrong!”

She insists so.

“The sun and the moon. The earth is not everything. Plants are one axis of the great nature!”

“Plants take root in the ground and grow into the sky! Moss is the most insignificant, and trees are the greatest! We live by eating plants, and animals also live by eating plants, so plants are life itself!”

“The reason plants can’t grow in places where the red moon rises is simply because the harmony has been disrupted. If we pour out all the spirits’ powers at once, we can turn that place into a lush forest or a meadow again!”

It is the birth of a plant magician, following the metal magician! Not only can she create plants with the power of spirits, but she can also make the plants that appear like that grow with her own will.

“This is a great discovery! I’m going to be a main runner with this!”

Is that really true?