Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 56



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Episode 56. Slowing down the flow of time

A thousand years is too long. If you go back a thousand years from the smartphone era, you wouldn’t even know what electricity was. Civilization is accelerating, though. How many millions of years did we live in the Paleolithic Age?

Up until now, Datang has changed leisurely and slowly. But from now on, it’s a little different. The story from now on is too vast to summarize as ‘What happened after Shuzoru and Datang fought for a thousand years?’

So let’s slow down the flow of time, unlike before where we skipped hundreds of years.

But to tell that story, I think we should first talk about what Patchar and Borin are.

The Patchar tribe was once called the Black Datons. They were so similar to the Datons that the biggest difference was their black skin.

Their black skin has little to do with the first apes, the common ancestor of all humans. Those apes had yellow skin and fur.

However, as they share a common ancestor with Darton, their black skin evolved for a different reason.

“I feel like my skin is peeling off because I’m in the south.”

“It’s because of the cross over there.”

A cross-shaped moon floating in the sky. Similar to a crescent moon with its mouth open downwards and a malevolent star shaped like a triangle, this moon rises in this region. It is a moon that emits celestial magic and a light of a wavelength that Patchar perceives as purple, but strangely, is completely indecipherable to races outside of the southern region.

The characteristic of this month is that if you touch it with bare skin, your skin will peel off. If you stay still, your clothes will also become worn out. In order to adapt to this, plants have evolved to quickly change color and quickly grow bark.

But this moonlight has no effect on the black-skinned Patchar tribe.

“if?”

The Patchar tribe also had a fairly high resistance to magical pressure. They resisted it and absorbed some of it, developing it into physical abilities.

So, even though he was over 20 centimeters taller and 20 kilograms heavier than Daton, he was good at climbing trees. His strength was comparable to that of the Bark tribe. And his physique. And yet, he was born with some magical affinity, so he could control small spirits.

Instead, they also needed a high-power area. The Cross Moon moved irregularly in the southern region, so the Patchar tribe had no choice but to continue to move through the forests and jungles, fighting and living in the high-power area. That’s why they gradually became more aggressive.

The Patchar tribe made spears, bows, and a great deal of other armor, as well as a great variety of medicines, poisons, and peculiarly pleasant psychotropic substances, and they even knew how to make the now common ‘alcohol’ in Datang. (The person who made the alcohol lamented why he couldn’t make a minenirun, which is a shame.)

As a highly cultured and aggressive tribe, they had a promiscuous culture similar to that of the Datons. There was no difference in this regard, and the Patchar people showed no hostility toward the sexual culture of the Datons, but······. They were still less promiscuous than the Datons. To be exact, they only had sex during certain times.

But the greatest characteristic of the Patchar tribe is the discovery of new mysteries. They knew many mysteries that Daton did not know.

The purple magic of the cross moon awakened in them the mystery of sorcery. While elementalism, animal spirits, and even divine powers and ancestral spirits all require ‘companions who give strength’, sorcery requires something else.

It’s the emotions and the enemy. The spell is amplified by your own emotions, pain, and resentment. You can fight by drawing power from the flames of your own memories, or from illusions, or from the story itself.

And if you cast a spell on a medium containing the enemy’s narrative, you can inflict mental shock on the target even from a distance. For example, if you can cast a spell on a Mainnirun, it is theoretically possible to inflict severe mental damage on all Datons and Mainniruns.

The month of the Cross is the month of ’emotions’. The Patchar people were very emotional. Not only anger. They played passionately when they played, and when they were sad, they were very sad, and they sympathized more with the suffering of others.

However, his emotional volatility was also strong. He always walked a tightrope between reason and emotion. He hit when he got angry. He apologized because he hit someone wrong.

If for Daton it was a virtue to never do anything for which one had to apologize, for the Patchar it was a virtue to do something wrong, apologize, and promise not to do it again.

These sorcerers are not interesting in Daton. They are too destructive, and it is not considered a skill that should be learned as a replacement for elementalism.

The Patchar tribe also has low affinity for spirits, so they are not very interested in spirit magic.

And also as a characteristic, the Patchar tribe bred various monsters.

This is a trace that cannot be found in Dator, because if a monster is hit by Hanjutamal, it dies 100%. There were quite a variety of monsters living in the Shujor region.

Among them, the one that had the most explosive reaction was ‘Magic Cat’.

“Oh my god! I’ve never seen such a cute creature before!”

“You’re so cute I want to bite you!”

They weren’t exactly cats, but rather creatures that had evolved to resemble cats, so to speak. There were many creatures that looked like ‘magical girl mascots’. Of course, there were also huge ones. Large monsters are as common in Shuzor as large animals.

However, these small and medium-sized monsters were apparently too attractive in the Datang. Small and medium-sized monsters eat high-magic foods like Homu, or catch monster bugs, and can even use simple magic themselves, but honestly, they were worth raising just for their appearance.

“I really want to take them with me.”

“Hmm. Your cats are cute too······. Take them.”

As a result, all kinds of other monsters, including the magic-sucking mites that were only found in Shujor, the grain-eating ground pup monsters, and others, also flow into Dator.

Who benefited from this? First of all, Datang thought the new creatures that were introduced were really cute.

And the Erin tribe suffered crop failures that year and the year after because of the mad creatures that sucked their magic and dug up their roots. It was so serious that the Erin tribe rebelled due to famine, attacked Datang, and petitioned All Chaun to stop starving more than two thousand times in a hundred years.

With the influx of these alien monsters, the monsters they eat have also been introduced······. I don’t know about the ecosystem of Dator, a zone of ultra-high magic power, but the Erin tribe, Bark tribe, and Baekan tribe, who were quietly farming and raising livestock to the north, have not been able to properly supply food for nearly 2,000 years due to the pests of Mount Shujor, and have been suffering from arduous work with daily labor increasing by more than three times. The small ripples of history are truly cruel.

Anyway, I’m off topic. That monster cat was just released to catch mice, and the most popular monster in Shujor is usually a ‘spider’.

“spider?”

“Is that what you call it? If this creature has magical powers, it can spin incredibly tough and thin threads. We make our clothes and bowstrings out of it.”

There are many varieties, and the production volume is incomparable to that of the small spiders in the north, so it is the so-called specialty of Shuzor. If used well, it can be used to make rope, but it cannot be cut with a stone knife, and if treated in some way, it is resistant to fire.

In addition, the Patchar tribe of Shujor kept all kinds of beasts as domestic animals.

It was mainly used for weapons, and since the monsters were not suitable for human consumption, it was unfortunately unrelated to food production, but it enjoyed a higher level of culture than expected.

“Is monster breeding possible in Dator?”

“It seems like it’ll be hard. If the magical power pressure is too high, the monsters might die······.”

“But it’s useful, so I’d like to get this item.”

The impression of the datang was just like that. So the trade from then on was simple.

Datang provides abundant food and stones that cannot be found here, and Shujor provides magical materials that can only be found here.

Food was a very serious problem. The jungle already had low food production capacity, and the monsters couldn’t eat it, and there were as many monsters as plants and animals. As a result, there was nothing left to eat.

That is why wars are constant. The Patchar people did not like war. They simply could not survive without fighting.

Things change a little bit when Borin comes in.

The Borin tribe is a little over half the height of the Pachar tribe, about 120 centimeters. Instead, they always give birth to triplets or more at a time, and they reach adolescence at the age of seven and sexual maturity at the age of ten.

He has an excellent memory, but other than that, he has borderline intelligence to intellectual disability. He knows how to use tools, but… He has almost the intelligence of a dolphin or a monkey. In Earth terms.

However, it changes when you enter a high magic zone. It’s not that the intelligence gets lower in a low magic zone, but if you go beyond the normal magic zone and go to the high magic zone north of the great forest and the edge of the isthmus, it’s between the borderline intelligence and normal intelligence, if it’s a high magic zone near the great forest, it’s between normal intelligence and high intelligence, if it’s a great ranch, it’s between high intelligence and super high intelligence, and if it’s below the great ranch, it’s definitely super high intelligence, and if it’s simply converted, the IQ easily exceeds 200 and easily goes above that.

However, this also seems to have its limits. Beyond a certain point, we no longer get smarter. Well, this is inevitable. It would be impossible for intelligence to increase infinitely.

Meanwhile, there is something that rises along with intelligence: emotions, instincts.

Are you smart? Some of you may be proud to say, “I’m objectively smart.”

But actually, you smart people. Do you exercise every day? You don’t smoke, right? You don’t drink alcohol? You play games in moderation, you eat in moderation, you don’t have affairs…

Can’t you? Your instincts are ahead of your intelligence. There are many weird people, including famous scholars, who are fat, racist, openly take strange drugs, or believe in pseudo-religions. In all of them, their biological instincts are ahead of ‘reason’, or in other words, intelligence.

In the high magic zone, the Borin tribe’s intelligence and instincts also increased. In the high magic zone, the Borin tribe was unable to restrain anything: appetite, sleepiness, sexual desire, excretion, violence, anger, sadness, joy, pleasure.

Of course, the intelligent Borin tribe knew that they shouldn’t do this. They couldn’t not know. But they couldn’t control themselves, so in the end, the Borin tribe had no choice but to become either stupid and polite, or intelligent and barbaric.

Due to this nature, the Borin tribe lives in the Shujor region, which is located between the Great Forest and the Great Ranch, with high intelligence and a personality that cannot control its own desires.

If there was an advantage, it would be that he could use the ‘spell’, the power that comes from these emotions and desires, better than Patchar.

The unique characteristic of the Borin tribe is that they do not care much about life. I don’t know why. I wonder if it is just a racial instinct, or if they do not have a sense of camaraderie, but they think that if they die, they die, and if they die, they die too.

They were happy to create life on the contrary. Reproduction was their greatest joy.

That is why, despite the many considerations given to the Borin tribe by the Datan tribe, they could not tolerate ‘birth control’. Yes, that’s right. It was because of something that you might think, ‘That’s all?’ that the Borin tribe left the Datan tribe.

So, it’s the first year of the Patchar-Borin alliance. What on earth happened?

The Patchar tribe recognized that Borin was smarter than them. So, with their knowledge and the technology they had brought from Datang, they transformed the civilization in a very efficient way, making the Patchar tribe that they had joined very strong.

The Patchar tribe knew a lot about tactics, and the Borin tribe accepted them as both staff officers and as mercenaries to fill the ranks, allowing them to grow the pure-blooded Patchar tribe that rebelled against Datang into a huge tribe.

After seven years of victories, they gathered the chieftains of the Patchar tribe and the Deata of the Borin tribe and formed a community called the Shujor Alliance.

The goal is complete independence from Datang, perhaps even the occupation of Datang?

And above all, the southern conquest. Daton is currently friendly, so for now we have to fight against a hostile opponent.

Their name is Iyakan. They walk on two legs, have four arms, and have scales like lizards. They are the southern region’s conquerors who worship dragons and other dragon races. The Patchar race has been pushed back north by the dragon races they have tamed, but now that they have gained the power of Borin, it will be different.

In just seven short years, a great war was about to break out in the south.