Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 76



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Episode 76. Nationality and Country

The struggle was long. Datang had no reason to project power outside the continent. In fact, he never did.

However, it is not that there were no visits from outside to the Datang. It is not that there were no changes at all.

The main character of the world today seems to be Datang. And only the histories of the peoples adjacent to Datang seem important.

Is that true? Human life is important even if it does not exist in a great nation. Even if the number of people is small, the lives of people and the history they create are of the utmost importance.

The same goes for animals and plants. Anyway.

So, before the period of fierce struggle ends and the period of unification begins, let’s take a look at how other peoples live.

The major ethnic groups of the world. Baekkan, Erin, Tocha, Iyakan. And the Gigad, Borin, and Bark.

How on earth do they live? Let’s go back in time about 3,000 years to the time of Reconstruction.

The appearance of the Ossozoin Gulmung created the Great Forest. And the ‘desert’ problem was originally a problem that the Gigard and Bark tribes had asked to be solved.

If we look back at the terrain for a moment, when you look at Bogor (the holy place) as the center, there is a nearly perfect circular area of ​​high-powered energy called Dator around it.

And if you go further out from Dator, which has an area of ​​about 2.5 million square kilometers, you will come across a high-powered area. It would be difficult for a true pure-blooded Daton to survive even in this level of power pressure. However, thanks to the moon fragments that Lapang and Lapi worked hard to create, the area has expanded to this extent.

The one to the north is a large ranch. It is a high-power area, but it is not easy for Daton to live there, so there are many mixed-bloods of Quako and Bark. The area here is so large that it covers almost the entire north. Most of the animals raised are cattle, but of course, they are not the only ones raised. They also naturally raise antelopes, horses, sheep, and other things, making it a huge pasture.

Above that, there is a huge desert northwest of Dator, the area where the Red Moon has already passed? At the end, there are small mountains and forests, but it is near the sea, so Dator doesn’t go near it.

The forest that runs in a straight line from the end of the desert to the eastern part of the continent is the Great Forest.

The Great Forest was located in the center (the closest point to the Red Moon at that time) and continued to expand eastward, following the path of the Red Moon. This was Datang’s solution to the desert problem.

First of all, the Barks were absolutely astonished by this solution.

“Oh, no, I asked you to return it to grasslands and plains, not to make it into a forest?”

It was a bewildering experience for the Bark people, who lived a nomadic, hunting life. They asked for their land to be restored, but instead, their land became smaller.

Although it took thousands of years, the Barks simply accepted this fact. Some moved down to the ranches in the narrow land, while others moved up north into the forests, establishing their country near the isthmus and the coast.

This is the Bark nation, a clan nation or tribal federation. The Bark nation rises and falls here while interacting fiercely with other nations.

However, the relics from this period are not well preserved. The only things that remain in the history of Datang are ‘that’s what happened’, so even without evidence, we can be certain.

And a new era has begun for the Gigard, who had previously been more concerned about desertification of the plains than the Barks.

“This is paradise! A forest that grows endlessly!”

Originally, the Gigard were herbivores who roamed the plains, eating the forests. They ate so much that the forests began to shrink, and so they had to continue to roam.

Like elephants. The grasslands of Africa on Earth were created by elephants. Those huge creatures that eat up all the forests.

Conversely, there is a theory that the great forests of North America were created because the ‘ground sloth’, which originally played the role of elephants, went extinct. That’s how important life is.

Although Daton lives almost exclusively as a herbivore, it is not possible for them to eat wood and grass. However, the Gigard can. The Gigard no longer have a reason to wander around in search of forests.

Because of this, the vast majority of the Gigad tribe who were wandering around the world continued to wander and eventually gathered together in the Great Forest. And they willingly became citizens and gardeners of the Great Forest ruled by Gulmyeong, and were incorporated as part of Datang.

The Gigads are the largest race in the world. They are incredibly large, even compared to herbivores and other animals, let alone humans. They can literally fight elephants.

As the Gigad tribe became the people of the Great Forest and their numbers grew, the force that the Gulmu could mobilize was truly powerful.

The focus was on the south, but the fighting was fierce in the north as well. The Great Forest was essentially a land of endless supply of timber, herbs, and fruit.

Gulmung alone blocks all the invasions that come to seek that place. Is it natural for him to do so since he is a saint on par with Liwaduwan?

This continued for thousands of years, and eventually the entire area north of Dator, up to the isthmus, was incorporated into Datang.

In reality, there were no pure-blooded Datons, they were all mixed-bloods······.

Dutan and Ditit are the only places that can be ruled by the king and duke, who received a tomb from the emperor, Gulmun (king) and Guruman (duke).

Daton-Bark, or Daton-Erin, who has settled in this place, is sullen.

“Ahem! I am the blood of a great immortal! I am personally acknowledged by the Emperor of the Great Forest, Gulmyeong!”

“Look at our great bloodline! My bloodline is so thick that it can live to be 200 years old! And once or twice, it even sheds its old body and becomes young again!”

Well······. From the perspective of the whole world, they weren’t even directly dispatched by the two factions, but rather distant relatives living far away. But anyway, they built their own dynasty, developed their civilization, farmed, and raised livestock, and had fun, ate well, and lived well.

The Gigard tribe is also on par with the Gulmut (forest nobles). That’s because they are the direct descendants of Gulmut. They are the ones who possess the power to literally overturn the earth. In addition, the plant magic that the Gigard tribe was able to learn allowed them to fight large armies on their own.

Even the Gigad have no qualms about forming groups, so if one of them crosses the line, the Gul’m simply responds by sending an army to trample them to death.

Oh, and at this point in the ‘reconstruction’ period, all pure-blooded Barks disappear.

There are no pureblood Barks in the world anymore, only mixed bloods of Erin, Tocha, and Daton.

Echakado, who lived a little later than this period, also lived very far away from Datang, so he was not a pure-blood.

So at this point, when we say ‘Bark Tribe’, we are referring to the In-human tribe, such as the Suin tribe or the Quako tribe. They are people who have animal spirits in their bodies and have taken on the form of animals. We tend to categorize them separately.

Domesticated animals or animals that humans have interacted with. Among them, only the furry quadrupeds can create animal spirits that can become totems and become humans, so the Suin tribe only has animals that are familiar to humans.

Wolf (dog), cat, leopard (Paron Echacado), cow, sheep, horse, rat, camel, deer, weasel, rabbit. These are the things. In the case of the beastman, where a person takes on the characteristics of an animal, and the inhuman, where an animal takes on the characteristics of a human, it is virtually as if they are born with a mystery, so they also occupy a position of nobility.

And they couldn’t meet the all-seeing eye. The oysters simply wouldn’t allow it.

Even during the reconstruction period, there was some exchange, but when the period of struggle began and the dragons ran wild and Borin flowed in, the door was locked and not a single person was allowed to come down.

That’s why the forest nobles who actually rule in the northern region are starting to have some strange thoughts.

“Is there really a person named Ol Chaun?”

No, that’s right, he says he has a gulp and actually occasionally leaves his seat to welcome the All-Chow. But the lower nobles have never seen a pureblood Daton or an All-Chow.

Of course, I knew that the Great Forest did not extend infinitely and that there was territory to the south. However, being of mixed blood, they did not have the ‘right’ to go down south.

So the continent that Datang belongs to is called, ridiculously enough, Olsojora. The land of fire and forest. It’s an expression of that kind. They had no choice but to treat Ol Chaun as a religious being and Gulmyeong as the current emperor, so it was given this name.

And the only gateway to Olsozora. The Olsozora Isthmus is now the most important place in the world.

Anyone who crosses the Olsojo Isthmus can go straight to the Great Forest, where they can mix blood with the occasional Daton mixed-bloods who come in and create a great bloodline that can live to be a hundred years old.

“Let us go south! Let us mingle with the immortals, the Datons, and make our bloodline greater!”

The Erin tribe, and the mixed blood of the Datons, and the children of the forest nobles, all crawl south to get even a little bit of noble blood. In the northern regions, a fierce war breaks out. This was also a time of struggle.

The situation was so extreme and absurd at the time that, for example, Du-tan, a small village of about 200 people in the south, went north of Daesurim on some errand, and all the kings who ruled over tens of thousands of people in the north bowed down and praised the visit of a great bloodline, burning palanquins and holding a festival and parade.

Of course, they soon entered into a frenzied mating spree. There was an incident where the two men ran away, muttering, “What kind of stallion am I?”

However, there were those who were not interested in this ‘Datun bloodline’.

Baekkan. He is as short as a child. However, he is stocky, has long arms, and has a beard. In any case, the beard on his face is Baekkan’s most distinctive feature.

Unlike the Datun, who have no body hair except for their head, the Erin, who have hair only on some parts of their face, and the Bark, who have hair somewhere in between, the Baekkan have body hair of various colors, even on their cheeks and noses.

It’s easy to think of monkeys on Earth with different colored faces.

So, at first glance, the back of the cabin gives off a strong impression of being ‘colorful’.

Baekkans are very fond of their appearance and wear their long hair in braids. If other races shave off Baekkans’ beard or hair, it means they are going to war.

They had no interest in Daton blood. They simply did not want to mix. Baekkan only mixes with Baekkan.

However, the species diversity, or so-called gene pool, of the Baekkan tribe was the widest of all races.

Some Baekkans were much taller, had longer arms, some shorter arms, and some had longer legs, and had different eye colors, fur colors, body hair colors, skin colors, etc. It was a racial diversity that made you wonder if it was right to just lump them all together and call them Baekkans.

But they had one thing in common. Most of them had the ability to breathe anywhere, including underwater, in mountainous areas, and in terrain with toxic gases. This ability was through magic.

Thanks to this, they can survive well even when diving under the sea, on high mountains, in volcanic areas with hot and toxic fumes, etc.

They also knew very well that they could not become part of the Datang.

The standard for accepting the Datang as a group is mixed blood. The Gigaard tribe also became family because they were close relatives of the Quako tribe. The Quako tribe was Paldin Koa’s relatives, so they were family.

The Baekkan people were dissatisfied with the changed world.

“They say there used to be a lot of trade with Datang, but now it’s hard to even go down there because of the king and all.”

“There was a time when Daton was a friend who lived with us······.”

First, let us recall something that has been passed down as an old story.

“But, I heard that All Chaun made a dumpling from scratch. What can’t we do?”

“That’s right. We can do it like them.”

So-called nationalism is born.

There was a theory of datangism, the idea that members of a datang should be respected and the rest should be treated as friends.

And the Great Forest. Those who serve the Great Forest and brag about being a mixed race of Datons. Such Daton admiration.

Baekkanism. The Baekkans believed that even if they were pushed back by Daton for the time being, there was no way they could not build a great nation.

The nation of the Baekans begins with an unconditional admiration and love for Daton, and a departure from it. This becomes the turning point in the relationship between the two races that were once very good.

Their history and development. Let’s take a quick look.