Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 64



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Episode 64. Genius of War

Compared to the entire period of struggle, there was a brief period of peace, lasting a little over 200 years.

It is not enough for Daton, who has a long life, to forget the war. It is an era in which people who know the war educate children about the war.

But in reality, there is no war. Eventually, Datang begins to focus more on the aspect of sports competition than military training in Giruak, which was a military training and sports competition.

Healthy competition. Whether you win or lose, it doesn’t determine who is superior to whom.

It is important to find each other’s aptitude and work hard to achieve important positions.

Even in the law of the next generation, it is taught that it is more important for a person to be in his or her proper position than to discriminate against others based on their abilities. If you discriminate and expel someone, will you do the work they used to do?

There is no distinction between noble and humble work, only necessary work and unnecessary work. In competition, instead of lining up from first to last place, if you pass a certain standard, you are ranked in the top, upper, and upper-middle ranks. This is a sports competition that measures not with ‘relative indicators’ but with ‘objective indicators’.

The reason this is possible is because there is only one dominant species on Earth, Homo sapiens, so the difference in physical ability is not that great. The fastest human can run 100 meters in 9.6 seconds, but honestly, that’s not that much of a difference from running 100 meters in 10 seconds, right?

But here, while Daton is struggling to lift an 80-kilogram barbell, the Gigaguard is lifting a boulder ten times that weight with one hand. The Bark tribe’s physical abilities vary depending on the amount of magical power they have.

That’s why competitions exist only to calculate rankings by comparing objective indicators. Therefore, it is more important to achieve high performances across the board than to be an overwhelming number one.

Even if I’m the fastest runner in the world, I’ll only get one medal, but if I’m good at running, strong, and climbing trees, I’ll get three medals.

A world where two silver medals are better than one gold medal. A world where ten bronze medals are better than one gold medal. Of course, the top tier is treated well too······.

Basically, there are disabled children who are really not good at anything. Even if there are retarded children and inferior children, there is a concept of welfare in Datang. Even they are used as tattoo-nons who are not affected by Hanjutamal to help the weaker ones.

Prosperity, inclusiveness, love. These are perhaps the most important values ​​of Datang.

But! Still, there are definitely some things that are clearly superior!

A sport where there is a clear division of winners and losers. Fighting and soccer. Sports based on fighting and war.

And there’s something about this that warms the human heart. Daton is all ‘Waju’ fever right now!

It came from the process of simulating war.

Effective military operations. Mercenary skills. What sport can possibly test this?

Baseball is a great sport, but in terms of military operations, soccer, American football, etc. are more intuitive. You score by putting the ball in the right position, breaking through the enemy’s defense, and hitting the goal or making a touchdown.

Datang also thought of something like that. A game where non-violent military operations, simple rules, and tactics have a greater impact.

And since it is played in a datang, spirit magic and spirit water are important. That is why this game was created. The rules are as follows.

1. Both sides place snails at opposite ends of the prepared playing field.

2. The first player to get his snail into the opposing starting point wins.

3. You still win if the opposing snail falls over, has its shell broken, or is injured or unable to move in any way.

5. All 12 players from each participating team must be naked and must not be carrying any weapons or armor.

6. Any player who falls or is behind his own snail’s buttocks is always disqualified.

7. 12 people play, but if you are a Gigaard or Quako player, you count 3 people per person. If you are a Rulmo player, you count 2 people per person. If you are a Borin or Nono player, you count 1 person per 3 people.

The snails run on their own, and people have to stop the snails from moving, while also protecting their own snails.

“Since the number of people is fixed, why don’t we just fill it with Gigards or Quakos? With their strength, they could even block a spirit water snail with their body?”

“Neither of them can use spirit magic. In order to give orders to the snail, one of them has to be a spirit master. So one of them has to be a Daton or a mixed-blood.”

“Hmm······? Now that I think about it, I can use spirit magic? What’s the shadow snail spirit magic?”

“Bringing cold air and darkness to the surroundings and making it slow. Or maybe making it rain.”

“Wait a minute. So you’re saying we have to fight naked and freeze to death? That’s ridiculous······?”

When this rule came into being, the first strategy was to draw three Datons and three Gigaards.

The power of the Gigard tribe is enough to stop the snails, so the ‘giants’ such as the Gigard tribe and the Quako tribe go to stop them, and the three of them use spirit magic to protect themselves and assist the giants in their fight.

This strategy was defeated by a strategy that chose 9 Barks instead of 3 Gigards. Five of the 9 Barks slipped through the gap between the Gigards and Quakos, and the four of them took down three Datons.

“Huh?”

So next, I filled it with one giant, one Daton, and the rest of the Barks, but this time the opponent sent 33 Borins against one Daton, so I used a human wave tactic to immediately eliminate the opposing Daton and leisurely won.

“This is really fun. The differences in rank and personality between the different types of soldiers are clear.”

The Gigaguard and Quako are similar, but the Gigaguard are stronger and the Quako are faster.

The Barks are incredibly fast and strong, but they cannot withstand the cold created by elemental magic, while the Patchar can.

Daton is essential because he can use spirit magic, but it’s a little different if he’s a half-blood. A pure-blood can use powerful spirit magic, but a half-blood is physically superior.

It’s a long game that takes about 1~2 hours. The Erin tribe has the advantage because they don’t get tired when running, and the Borin and Nono tribes have some individual differences, but they are good at knocking down or tripping enemies with their numerical superiority.

It’s a kind of mock war, so to speak. If the snails of both sides happen to pass each other, you can’t go back and stop them because the rule is that you can’t go behind your snail, so it’s a running race.

You can just beat the opposing snail to death. However, thanks to breeding, large snails now have shells that are so strong that even the Gigaguards and Quakos can’t break them. But of course, that’s slow.

If a team with a snail that is noticeably slow in running speed passes each other, they must turn the snail 180 degrees and chase the opponent with the snail’s buttocks behind it, and win by knocking down the opponent.

As time goes by, the rules continue to change, but the essence of racing snails and wrestling each other by species remains unchanged.

‘Waju’ is incredibly popular, with giant snails wrestling each other without being particularly violent to the point of death, the Gigaards and Quakos punching and wrestling each other, and the Borin people jumping over their bodies to grab the riders by the neck and knock them over.

There was some foul play.

“Where is your team’s snail?”

“In my hands.”

“······No, what?”

“Why? If it’s a spirit snail, it’ll all work. Instead of making the slow ones run, I’ll hold this and run all the way.”

“Aren’t these crazy kids?”

Fortunately, it was banned. As a result, we got faster, heavier, stronger snails. And better spirits, better wrestlers.

There were many similar games besides Waju. For example, there was the ostrich dodgeball game where players would shoot fireballs at each other while riding ostriches, since ‘they’re spirits that can’t be burned anyway’.

Different types of sports emerged, such as elephant or giraffe wrestling, when someone came up with an idea that seemed to actually be helpful in training for war, they were added, the rules were changed, or they were banned altogether.

And soon it became a battle of pride for each village or region. And Datang Giruak. The medals awarded to the best of the best became an honor for all of them.

Among them there was one genius.

Her name is Darida. Darida is a strange mixed race, Erin+Bark+Datun mixed. When all three are mixed, such mixed races can appear.

And usually, the physical abilities of a mixed race are a matter of luck. It can be good or bad. In a mixed race that can be inferior, she was ‘perfect’.

“Wow! This time, Darida wins with an overwhelming victory!”

“It’s incomparable to other players. It’s a top-tier medal without a doubt!”

A blessed being with excellent spirit affinity, explosive physical ability of the Bark tribe, and endurance of the Erin tribe. Then, it seems that it might have some drawbacks or be ambiguous in all three, but surprisingly, it is in the top 1% for all three.

He was truly a being who was born as a blessing to this world.

Since birth, she has swept the top medals in ‘all individual events’.

It was ridiculous. Until now, no one has ever achieved top honors in every discipline, with each race having its own specialization.

Even in modern times, it’s impossible for someone to win a medal in every sport.

“The winner of the Datang Giruak! Yes. The winner. The one who conquered this Giruak is none other than the great Daton, Dari!”

Tens of thousands of people gathered at the Main Nirun applauded. But Darida could not become the Main Nirun. It was only natural that she would win.

Darida goes further here.

“What if we could win all the team events?”

“If you become a player, everyone will welcome you. But winning in a team event like Waju······.”

“No, not a player. What if you’re a coach?”

“huh?”

Darida thinks of the title as ‘supervisor’. Commander, officer. Something like that. It’s lower in rank than general, so you can say ‘giriweit’.

That is, if he becomes the best director, Darida can become the ‘King of Giri’, the existence that was predicted long ago.

And Darida also had the intelligence of the Borin tribe. With his outstanding brain, Darida perfectly placed dozens of players in the right places. In the end, he won the championship.

More than 10 times with different players and different strategies. Datang Giruak won 10 consecutive games. And yet he always maintained the top ranks in individual events.

“Darida is the greatest genius in history!”

“It truly lives up to the name ‘King Giri’!”

However, she still has not achieved a major breakthrough, as her performance was something everyone could have predicted.

Throughout the history of Datang, countless geniuses have appeared, but they have all been sacrificed here. They were not reborn as beings that no one could have expected or imagined, but died at a set lifespan or were captured by the devil Hanjutamal.

“I don’t want to do that.”

And Darida had another limitation.

She could not receive the ‘baptism of fire’. The only drawback of that blessed body.

The allowed lifespan is really long, at best 100 years, maybe 70 or 60 years. She starts to age normally from around her mid-thirties. Darida won’t be in the top tier for another ten years.

“I can’t die like this.”

Darida has proven his physical prowess, as well as his military prowess. Now it is time to approach his mental prowess, his mysteries.

All mineleas have a deep connection with mystery. Darida wants to create a new mystery.

“I will create a new mystery. A new mystery that no one could have expected! Ol Chaun, who created spirit magic, Manum Lapang, who carved and trapped moonlight, Kasle Loran, who showed us that we can create spirits. Not Tatunang Marech, but Paldin Koa, who holds three mysteries, and Osozin Gulmung, the plant magician, and Paron Echaca, who communicated with leopards······. Just as the other Mainirans succeeded in shedding their shells by becoming entangled with mysteries, I too will shed my shell as a mystery!”

But what on earth can you do now?

Of course, there is always a way. Her natural body, intelligence, and the will not to die like this… She challenges the mine run.

What mystery will that challenge create? Will it create it?

It is a time when heroes are needed. Generals and heroes who will lead the soldiers in the coming war. Darida strives to become a true Giri King.