Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 59



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Episode 59. Slowing down the flow of time 4

The Iyakan tribe suffered greatly from the fierce attacks of the Shujor Alliance, which was succeeded by the second generation of Pachar.

There was no way to stop the incoming Pachhar army, which had infinite supplies.

Originally, they were the only ones who could trust in anything other than the power of the dragon tribe. As the number of warriors hunting such dragons increased, the decline of the Iyakan tribe may have been inevitable.

But the Iyakan people did not fall here. The exchange caused by the war. The opportunity came.

“These are their spirit stones. They are made by processing the dragon’s heart.”

“What a terrible tool. To put such evil spirits into a dragon’s heart.”

“I knew that the dragon’s heart could hold powerful magical powers, but I never imagined it could be used in this way······.”

At that moment, a strange thought occurred to the Iyakan tribe. Why haven’t we done this before?

“We have courage, but can’t we gain greater power while still alive······?”

A new mystery. The birth of Yongsimbyeong.

You could call him the champion of the Iyakan tribe. He cultivates the dragon spirit within him and absorbs magic power to gain power that surpasses that of ordinary creatures. Should I say that he has built up his internal energy?

“Look, look! My second arm has turned into a wing!”

“What a great evolution! The protection of the dragons is with us!”

Even these people succeed in teaching the technique of breathing magic into the already powerful dragons. As a result, the dragon tribe has become several times stronger than before. The same goes for Iyakan’s personal strength.

The Iyakan people envision the future of their nation here.

“They’re coming from the west.”

“But the road that goes over the large river that divides Datang and Shujor in half is not only to the west.”

“If only I could cross the ‘Hanjutamal Line’ in the east······.”

The Iyakan people, who occupy the southernmost part and the south, rapidly expand to the northeast. They take control of the mountainous and grassland areas in the northeast, and with wings, they can cross rivers, and with crude navigation skills, they build boats to cross wide rivers and deltas, and even succeed in taking over some parts of the southeast of Dator.

“Huh, huh?! What are they?”

This made Mainilun furious. He could never have imagined that the Iyakan would break through Shujor and occupy the southeastern part.

Against the vast power of the dragon tribe, they effectively occupied the southeastern region by using the power of the spirits and sorcery. Instead of killing indiscriminately, they used vague force to avoid unnecessary engagements and drive them out, and they killed all the scaled hippos and kneeling giraffes guarding the villages, and they occupied the strongholds one by one.

But there was something Mainilun could count on, because they had equal allies.

“Shujor Alliance! Go! Now attack the south and stop the Iyakan tribe from advancing to Datang! Let’s go for a diversionary operation!”

The reaction of the Shujor Alliance upon hearing those words was······.

“Ugh. I’m a baby ally. I don’t have the strength to fight.”

“hey.”

“That rumor has spread all over the place······. Food is scarce······. And the dragon tribe is also too scary······.”

“no!”

“I’m sorry. Could you please wait for just one generation? We are a bit weak as a nation······.”

“Hey!!! You little bastards!!!”

As I mentioned before, the Shujor Alliance did not fight despite Datang’s demands.

We pretended to fight, but here, there was a strange sense of rapport between us and Iyakan, so we just talked to each other roughly······.

Meanwhile, the Shuzor Alliance more effectively occupied southern Datang, and the Iyakan people created a long border extending from the south to the northeast, with mountain ranges, grasslands, and rivers as boundaries.

However, the Iyakan tribe’s offensive also stops here. The offensive simply ends here. Their territory is too large to manage, so they only eat up the southeastern plains and mountainous terrain, which are relatively easy to defend, and then retreat.

The fact that the magical power pressure here was low was a big problem because the Iyakan tribe could survive, but the Daton tribe could not survive unless they were in a good position. The Bark tribe, who lived nearby, refused to defeat the powerful Dragon tribe.

“Do you see the terrain over there? It’s a mountain range. Even inside the mountain range, it’s plains, and the road we take is also plains. In short, our position is completely revealed, and if a dragon attacks while we’re crossing the mountain, there’s no way out.”

“Then should I just give that land away?”

“It was hard for Daton to survive anyway, so that’s why······.”

“Huh!”

In the end, the southern structure is divided into three: Datang, which occupied all of the north of the river; the country of the Iyakans, Seiwamuyu, which ate everything from the south to the northeast all the way to the east of Dator; and the Shuzor Alliance, which occupied all of the central jungle.

From here, the dynamics of each country become extremely complex.

“Something seems suspicious. This doesn’t look good······.”

All Chaun muttered like that. All the Mainiruns were called together except for Osojoin Gulmyeong, and All Chaun was very uncomfortable with this situation.

“It feels like the feeling I got the other day when the Borin people were fucking us over and over again. It’s like being toyed with by something big.”

“I agree.”

“I think so too. At least there was some kind of connection between Seiwamuyu’s advance and the Shuzoru Alliance’s silence.”

“I don’t think that many people died because the rumor spread like wildfire.”

“The northern dragons come down often, so the ranch is in danger, and if it’s dangerous even to the south, it’s a big problem.”

“There are too few hunters. No matter how much I think about it, they really are few. They should increase by at least fifty times the current number.”

The situation where the Ossozoin Gulmodo is becoming increasingly hysterical and the Erin and Bark from the north are rushing in is being blocked somehow. Datang needed something new.

“······I need ‘Kiriura’.”

“!”

This is a word that does not exist in Datang. It is a word of the Pachar people.

Those who wage war, the ‘army’. Not the scaly hippopotamus vigilantes that protect villages, but the army that invades enemies, expands territory, and sometimes suppresses rebellions.

“The concept of ‘Giri’ (war) is still unfamiliar to me. I don’t really understand it.”

“Well, that is.”

“Uh, we don’t like things like war. We cherish things with love and acceptance······.”

All Chaun dismissed the comments of the old Minnie Runs.

“This isn’t about starting a revolution. It’s about doing it because it’s necessary.”

“······All cold.”

“That’s right. We also had an army. Bokabor Chaun controlled the swamps with scaled hippos, biting and killing dangerous creatures and outsiders. But what was it really like? When tens of thousands of Borin people came rushing in, even the scaled hippos, who were fighting for a thousand people, were eventually beaten to death and crushed to death?”

“That’s true······.”

“I learned from the Patchar that there are enemies we cannot love and embrace. Just because we love many people, those Iyakans say they will fight us forever. The Erins come in and fight among themselves, and the Baekkans recently fought with the Barks. They are also gradually increasing their power in the north, so the Osozoi Gulmoen is suffering alone.”

“······.”

“We need an army too. If we are the best country in the world, then the most powerful country in the world will definitely want to take us. Then we also need to create the most powerful army in the world to protect this country. Elementalists? Metallurgists? Plant enchanters? Elemental Beast Unit? Mine Nirun? Could we have defeated the Borin tribe with such things?”

All Chaun was a leader of the nation. There are many people who make decisions because they like something. There are also many who avoid risks simply because they don’t want to spend money. Or they don’t do it because they are weak-hearted.

But making a bold decision even when you don’t like something, even when it costs a lot of money, even when you are soft-hearted is truly leadership.

As a leader, he is responsible, and as the eldest and most responsible person in the clan, Ol Chaun is willing to create an army.

“It’s not an army that kills, nor is it a way to take away territory. In the first place, Daton doesn’t need a larger territory. We just need to think about how to defend. An army that defends and suppresses. Even if we are the worst at attacking in the world, we will create an army that is the best at defending in the world.”

“I will obey your orders. Come on!”

Datang decides to create an army, having never created an army before.

Will it work? If Kang-gun is something that is made just because you tell him to make it, then where in the world would there be a fool?

“We only think about killing. We are an army that kills.”

Liwa of the Shuzor Alliance, which unified the internal strife, declared so.

“Kill, kill. The enemy kills one of us? Then we kill a hundred. If the enemy kills one of our Borin, we kill one Daton there. It’s okay. There are fewer Datons than Borin, so we win at a 1:1 exchange rate. Datang is the strongest country in the world. We won’t even think about a fair 1:1 fight against that country.”

“War is all about numbers, and the most important thing is the exchange rate! The Shuzor Alliance on the other side? They can definitely win. But if they win against us, they have to make Seiwamuyu lose. If they win against us, they have to make them lose! If we force the world’s most powerful nation to come to the negotiating table and surrender, and if they have no choice but to give us a lot of food and territory, we will win!”

It was the same as the Borin tribe’s way of thinking. If you put in 1 million Borin and kill 100,000 Datons, it will be profitable. And if there are 20 or 30 million Borin tribes, Daton will not be able to hold out.

“We’ll launch an all-out offensive in this generation! And we’ll take over not just this Shuzor, but the entire southwestern part of Datang! We can do it if we just raise the exchange rate!”

They already have the most aggressive and brutal military force, and it’s only going to get more brutal. How far can they go?

The Borin people seem hesitant to express their opinions on Lee’s comments. What on earth are they thinking? Their anxiety is only growing.

Seiwamuyu, the nation of the Iyakan tribe. A new wind is now blowing in this dragon-serving nation.

“We come to the northeast and meet new races. Bark, Baekkan, and Erin.”

“Unlike those guys down south, they’re not messy.”

“I especially like the Barks and the Baekkan. I don’t know about the Erins, but the Baekkan are ethically similar to us.”

“However, it seems that the Baekkan tribe is afraid of dragons······.”

“Hmm, is it because they like to eat gems? What if we import gems and show them how to rule over dragons instead?”

“That would be great! Those dwarves would kneel before the great dragon.”

The new king of Seiwamuyu and his vassals and high priests nod their heads. They are targeting the maritime trade starting from the east. It doesn’t look like their prosperity will end anytime soon.

The storm is about to blow. The great battle of the struggle is drawing near.

It is now approximately 10,400 years of the Mythical Age. This is the first period of the so-called period of struggle. Now that the internal affairs of each country have been concluded and the territory has been established, we will move on to the second period of fierce battles.