Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 66



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Episode 66. God of War

Occasionally, people like this appear throughout Earth’s history.

It appears especially often in countries that are going under. Because countries that don’t appear are going to go under.

If people like this appear in a country that is going to fail······. Things will change.

So to speak, a famous general.

A general who is good at war. There are countless examples in history. In a war that is bound to be won, a weakling is revealed, but in a war that is bound to be lost, a great general emerges.

They say a flock of sheep led by a lion will catch a flock of lions led by sheep.

In war, generals are really important. The question of who is in command can sometimes overturn even absolutely essential elements of war, such as the quality of troops, equipment, and supplies.

But there is a difference that cannot be reversed. Seriously, this is something that cannot be done by anyone. How on earth can you stop this with common sense······. This is absolutely impossible······.

But, history is really strange.

Really occasionally. Very occasionally······. A general who turns it around appears.

Now, even the word ‘great general’ feels like a derogatory term. There have been many great generals throughout history, but it is extremely rare for a war that would have been lost no matter who came, or a war that you wondered how anyone could win, to be overturned by one person.

There are a few very rare cases like that.

In terms of defense, there is Yi Sun-sin of Joseon. Yi Sun-sin did the absurd thing of the army supplying the government instead of the government sending supplies to the army, and he protected the country in a situation where the country would have either perished or become a vassal state, with the absurd exchange rate of destroying one enemy ship while killing one soldier. In fact, this person’s personal history is more amazing than his war history······.

In terms of attack, there is Alexander of Macedon. He is the one who destroyed Persia, the most powerful country at the time, and built a great empire. He is a god of attack who makes you wonder what he must have done to be able to do that. In fact, this person’s personal history is more amazing than his war history······.

And here is the Alexander of this world.

Alexander really believed that he was the son of God, right? If you think about it, this guy didn’t really think he was a god.

But it made him look up to himself as a god. It was a very dangerous gamble.

It is true that when a commander thinks highly of himself, his morale rises dramatically when he wins, and his loyalty and power gradually increase. However, when he loses, his prestige, loyalty, and morale fall.

Moreover, he considers himself a god rather than an outstanding hero or general, so he is sure to be laughed at if he loses even once.

In that respect, this guy really succeeded in making a great gamble.

Because, true to his adage, ‘Man cannot defeat God,’ he never once lost to a man in his life.

That’s why those who faced him could not possibly consider him human. They were so terrified that they wanted to surrender before they could even fight. They only wanted to bow down and weep.

Who on earth can stand against God······?

“what······?”

All Chaun asked back as if he didn’t understand the report. The other Minniruns also looked at the messenger as if they were wondering what on earth he was talking about.

The messenger eventually had to bring up the difficult words again.

“The entire 500,000-strong army that had marched south was annihilated······! King Giri Darida fought until the end and was beheaded······.”

All the questions asked were really stupid.

“Were you alive?”

“yes?”

“I went to Giriwang. And you’re still alive?”

The messenger kept his mouth shut. And then he said, as if to ask why he should say such an obvious thing.

“He has passed away······!”

All Chaun opens and closes his hands repeatedly. Then he asks again.

“Who inherited that soul? That, like Paldin Koa again······.”

“No. No one inherited it. It seems different from Paldin Koa······.”

“So. That, that bridge. That······.”

All the chauns mutter.

“He’s dead.”

dump.

All the chaos that had occurred sat there helplessly, as if that was more shocking than the news that 500,000 people had been wiped out.

No one opened their mouths. They just stared blankly at the coming storm.

All of this was a time when the world was in despair and wailing when tens of millions died in a single week, but it was clearly different from what was seen now.

Hanjutamal was a disaster that could not be hated at all. And there was no way to deal with it, so the only thing I could do was pray. In the end, the lament of the whole world was, why am I the only one who survived while everyone else died?

In that respect, the priorities for this year were pretty clear.

family.

oneself.

Mine Run and the Spirits.

Daton.

friend.

Other.

Because the rest of you can’t live as long as you can. You can’t spend the infinite time you have to, and you can’t share those memories.

His only companions were the spirits and the Datonian Minniruns who, like him, had achieved immortality.

Even a single-shot could not kill Mainiran. The first spirits did not die from a single-shot either.

But now he is dead. The great Mineelan bridge that should have been with him for the rest of his life. That genius is dead.

There was one more thing that was different from Hanjutamal. That was that there was a clear target for hatred.

Datang Oram is burning. The entire Mainnirun is filled with flames.

Even the fire-resistant Daton would have a hard time withstanding the conflagration that literally boils the Holy Land.

“Liwaduwan!!! I don’t know who you are, but I will kill you in the most brutal way in this world!!! Let’s see if you, who call yourself a god, can withstand the fires of Datang Oram!!!”

The wise god All Chaun moves. Can the god of war defeat the god of Daton?

In fact, perhaps the question should be asked this way:

Can the god of Daton······. defeat the god of war?

Before we can check it out for ourselves, I think we need to answer the question that came up earlier.

Who is Liwaduwan? How on earth did he end up in the position of being called the God of War?

The birth and growth of the God of War. Check it out for yourself now.

It has been 200 years since the Shuzor Alliance surrendered to Datang. In the meantime, the Pachar tribe has been treated as a kind of second-class citizen.

“Listen. Dutan. Is this really our village’s ‘tax’?”

“Okay. Is there a problem?”

“Why is it so harsh! They are demanding taxes for the elderly who are already dying and even newborn babies!”

“Everyone has a set amount of food to eat. Why should we exclude the elderly and children? It takes the same amount of resources to take care of both.”

“Even if we collected silk from all the spiders in our village, we wouldn’t get that much!”

“Well, that’s your problem. If you want, you can just buy it from the next town.”

The abuse by the local officials was sometimes unnecessarily harsh.

This is because All Chaun essentially targeted the Shujor Alliance by harshly taxing them rather than killing them.

No matter what, we cannot mistreat a family that can have children with each other, but we cannot kill them or forgive them, so we pay a lot of taxes.

However, the taxes were a bit high, even by the looks of it. And the Dutans tended to be more strict with the Patchar tribe than necessary.

“Hey. This tax seems really high. Please exclude children and the elderly.”

The only one who sided with the Pachars was the opposing Mainiran, Paron Echacado. Echacado did this not because he hated the Pachars, but because he believed that people should only be taxed as much as they could afford.

“As Minenirun says, there is nothing we can do.”

But when one unequal law is erased, another unequal law is created. The law becomes complicated through repeated arbitrary interpretations, and eventually, at some point, it is omitted. The number of people collecting more in places where the inspectors are not looking increases.

The Pachars did not like that. Eventually, they had no choice but to force even the elderly and children to work, and the Pachars died horrible deaths while working.

“This is unfair.”

“But I don’t have the strength······.”

The value of the Datang was ‘medal’. Of course, the Pachar tribe could receive a medal. However, the medals that the Pachar tribe could receive were very limited.

Because the birth medal was only given to children with ‘Datun mixed blood’. In short, you couldn’t receive the medal from a marriage with a pure blood Patchar. Naturally, you couldn’t receive the birth contribution medal either.

This was obvious to both Ol Chaun and Paron Echacado. Datang was the nation of Daton. Naturally, it was something that could not be acknowledged unless one was of mixed blood.

“This is unfair······. Are you saying that our birth is not worth respecting?”

“You are free to celebrate your birth.”

That was absolutely impossible until the Shuzor Alliance was completely merged into Datang. In other words, the hybridization of all Patchar. Complete absorption and unification was what Datang was aiming for.

But at this point, nationalism was growing among the Patchar people.

The Patchar tribe teaches their children hatred, historical humiliation, and one-time victories.

I inform you that the Datang to the north are trying to take our land and absorb us.

In the end, the assimilation policy is not that effective. The Shuzor Alliance does not rely on Datang, and they haphazardly obtain medals to gain Datang’s support.

There are two types of medals they can earn now.

One is the Medal of Innovation. Improvement, reform, innovation, revolution. They search the undiscovered forests of Shuzor, uncover their magic and the ecology of their beasts, and turn some into livestock.

“Just as spirit animals can be domesticated, monsters can be domesticated through sorcery. Although it is somewhat forced, it is possible to improve their breeds to produce more products.”

A spider that creates a lot of thread. A giant soft-bodied creature, a pack of rats, snakes, toads, and the monsters Rhinoceros and birds. Various monsters are incorporated into the Shujor Alliance.

And Datang here maintains the old Datang custom of rewarding them for new innovations, but does not increase taxes per capita even when production increases, which is a fatal mistake by future standards.

And the second medal that can be received is the Sports Medal. It was possible to receive it by participating in Giruak and receiving it by category. And Datang also created a ‘spell category’ here, allowing the Patchar tribe to receive some of the medals.

This was an extremely merciful policy for Darton, a policy of appeasement, believing that one day they would be assimilated into us.

But second-class citizenship continued. Ultimately, this ambiguous appeasement policy gave Patchar time to strike back.

They wage war against the Seiwamuyu, who fight in the narrow southern region, and train their military, raise monsters, and develop magic to build up their power.

And in the 627th year of the Shujor Alliance, he was born. A pureblooded Patchar born from Patchar father and Patchar mother. A person who was not born blessed.

A person who has been raising spiders on a spider farm since birth and diligently weaving thread and cloth to offer to the Tang.

At the age of ten, he was a boy who was famous for winning every battle in the ‘Wangangiri’, which was considered a toy war that did not reflect the actual war at all and was always on the same side. He was famous for beating all the older adults.

He became a member of the council, Wajin, when he was only 13 years old, a child even by Patchar standards, and was elected Liwa, the leader of all Patchar, when he was 18. In less than five years, he unified all of Seiwamuyu south of the Shuzor River, which had been dragged on for hundreds of years, and accomplished the great task of unifying the South.

It was a series of coincidences. I was lucky. I can’t say it was all skill.

But, as luck would have it, no one could do this.

That is why he is called the Lord God, Liwaduwan.