Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 79



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Episode 79. Nationality and Country 4

At this time, the Erin tribe of the northern continent, which had no contact with Datang, was in a semi-barbarian state. Half were semi-farmers and semi-hunters. The other half were hunters and gatherers.

Although it had various mysteries that it discovered on its own, if you look at it objectively, its level of development was not that high.

Even on Earth, cultural development was at different speeds, right? It’s not that the Erin people are stupid, it’s just that they were traveling around the northern continent, which was a mixture of low-magic zones and high-magic zones, and this kind of lifestyle was just advantageous.

However, by that time, they had built dolmens and competed with each other as a tribal state, and had acquired a few mysteries… … The Erin people were a civilization that spanned a somewhat primitive to prehistoric era.

And by chance, living on the coast, these Erins came into contact with the culture of the Vaccans. And by extension, with the great mysteries.

“A stone that can light a fire whenever you want! Awesome.”

“Look at this leather. It’s so strong that even a bronze sword can’t fit through it!”

“This metal is much harder than bronze… … .”

The Erins also had a lot to offer. So they traded with the Baekans and grew in power, establishing many countries and port cities based on the northern peninsulas of the Mediterranean.

“Let’s trade too! I heard that there are Erin tribes just across the southern seas like us!”

However, all the Erin tribes I met when I went down south were Erin-Datun or Erin-Bark mixed-bloods.

The dark-skinned Erins of the South laughed at the sight of the Erins of the North.

“Hmm. Red-skinned bastards. We are of the great bloodline, and you are the ancient, primitive Erins, aren’t you?”

“Well, still, we are of the same species.”

“We are of greater blood. Who dares to compare with us!”

The Northern Erins are treated with contempt by the Erins of Orsozora.

Discrimination and discrimination continue for generations, just as the Erins of Olsozora were unable to approach the Datons of the Great Forest.

Perhaps this ‘discrimination’ is something like an instinct of the Erin tribe.

Other races rarely discriminate. Even the Baekkan differentiated rather than discriminated, and soon succeeded in unifying… … .

Erins discriminated against people because they had different amounts of fat, even though their skin color, eye color, and hair color were the same.

To put it the other way around, it’s like saying that his love for his home, his family, and his tribe was overwhelmingly great.

Perhaps even more than All Chaun and Daton, and even more than those southern Patchars.

“Do we have to endure such humiliation and contempt? We are human too!”

“That’s right. I don’t know who those noble Datons are to the south, but we shouldn’t look down on them just because we share their blood! Does our association with them make us superior beings?”

And they quickly come to a conclusion.

“Unlike us who have become a superior civilized people through our interactions with Baekkan, the Erins in the north are barbarians who do not even know proper culture! Let’s take all of their territory and build an empire for the Erins!”

What is the nature of these Erins?

Anyway, this is how ‘Erinism’ was born. They also reject mixed-bloods of the Bark tribe. They try to build an empire by strictly dividing pure-blooded Erin and mixed-blood Erin.

Actually, it didn’t go well.

After all, an empire must have the universal value of inclusion.

The Erin tribe only fought and boasted about their appearance, bloodline, and country, and ultimately found the basis of their own superiority in war and the blood they shed.

So, ‘Erinism’ did not develop much. Broadly speaking, the Erin factions at the time were as follows.

First. True pure-blood Erin. They have no contact with the south and have never met the Bark tribe, so they farm and hunt in the north, and they are a small tribe that uses animal spirits, ancestral spirits, celestial magic, and sometimes even sorcery.

Second. Those who believe they are true pure-blooded Erin, but in fact are part Bark half-blood. They are on the Mediterranean coast and interact with the Baekans.

Third, those who are close to Baekkan in the east, and thus have mixed blood frequently coming in through trade with the south.

Fourth. Those who settle in the north of the Great Forest and are proud of being of mixed blood.

And although they didn’t know it, there was a fifth category.

Fifth. Those who are true pure-blooded Erin, and who live further northwest across the sea than what they call the ‘Northern Continent’. They were separated tens of thousands of years ago, so other races don’t even know about their existence until thousands of years later. These true pure-blooded Erin build their own nation and civilization.

Their existence is revealed later as the world is explored, but it is now the distant future.

Anyway, these four Erin groups each develop their own different cultures and interact with each other.

Erin had a narrow-minded side, caring only for her own family, but also had a strange social system, such as being able to expand the scope of her family at will and even communicating with animals.

It could be said that Daton was more inclusive than his consistent stance of ‘family and friends are different’, and it could also be said that he was more cruel than Patchar.

As a result, ‘Erinism’ has become quite bizarre. It was only last year that the Erins in the northern Mediterranean criticized the Daton mixed-bloods in the south, but then when the Daton mixed-bloods went north, they took their offspring wherever they could and now boasted that they too were part of a great bloodline, and so on, full of contradictory attitudes.

They slowly grow their empire while fighting among themselves. There are many peninsulas and islands in the Mediterranean. There are more places to live. They dream of the day when Erin will conquer the world, and they beat and kill the Erin tribes of the neighboring country.

Oh! Now that I think about it, I almost skipped over this.

The primordial gods. They were first discovered by the Erin tribe. The so-called ‘God Buried Area’ was gathered in the northern continent. It was a strange place with few stars and high magical power.

The Erin tribes come into contact with them and accept their great knowledge, using their ‘divine power’. The Primordial Gods receive the spirits of the Erin tribes and try to restore their primordial bodies and minds, becoming more powerful.

Fortunately, this isn’t a big problem in prehistoric times, but in the next era… well?

Meanwhile, as the Baekans roamed the Mediterranean and civilized the Erins, the Iyakans, in turn, spread east and south.

It’s a low-magic zone, so many people are reluctant to go there, but the Iyakans didn’t really care about living in a low-magic zone in the first place.

Because of that, Baekkan fought fiercely with Baekkan, but fortunately, or perhaps because Iyakan won a great victory in the war in the east, the east became entirely Seiwamuyu’s.

“Ahem! I, the Governor of the East, have reached the realm of the Dragon King, and I hereby declare that I am the direct descendant of Seiwamuyu!”

Uh… … . I see. The Iyakans also have internal divisions.

The 4th Dynasty of the West Seiwamuyu and the self-proclaimed 5th Dynasty of the East Seiwamuyu. This is really difficult, but anyway, the 5th Dynasty wants to spread the Yongshin religion to the east.

However, what was unexpected was that at that time, civilized people were already living somewhat in the East.

“What is this?”

The archipelago terrain in the east, and the jungles, wide plains and mountain ranges that exist on top of it, etc.

In this low-magic zone, the Tocha tribe, the Erin and Bark who are of mixed blood with the Tocha tribe, the Western Baekkan Federation, and other Baekkan Federations all live together.

Especially in the case of the Tocha tribe, the interbreeding between Erin and Bark is so severe. That’s why when they first see the Iyakans, they think they’re monsters, and they’re so bewildered that they think the pure-blooded Erin and Datons are ‘not human’.

“Huh, huh, huh?”

“Eeeeeeeing? Are you a Lulmo? No. The Lulmo are bigger.”

They walk on four legs, but they wear clothes, and sometimes they walk on two legs.

The Iyakans interact with them very cautiously and make contact with the Tocha people.

The Tocha tribe can only live in low-magic zones. They will feel dizzy even in normal magic zones, will get sick in high-magic zones, and if they go to a datang, their body will melt or burn.

Instead, it specialized in accumulating energy expressed through Darida, and was able to gather the will and desire of the race, so it independently discovered mysteries such as ancestral spirits.

And these Tocha people developed their civilization late and on their own, as they were unable to interact with the West.

The start of its development was delayed by several thousand years, but surprisingly, its development was better than that of Erin in the northwest.

To put it simply, there were no Hanjutamals, no magic disasters, and no melting. Only fighting between people and epidemics suppressed civilization.

And they already had a stable political system in place, for reasons that would be unimaginable in the West.

“Wow. The crops grow really well because the seeds are planted after the river floods.”

“We have so many big rivers, so let’s farm there.”

“What if the land for planting shrinks?”

“I’m not going to open it.”

“What if the number of people increases?”

“Why don’t you just open a new one?”

“What if the river extends to the jungle?”

“Just clear the forest and open up the land.”

“The river doesn’t come here?”

“Let’s open the waterway and reclaim the land.”

Agricultural production increased 200 times.

Well, even if you say 200 times is an exaggeration, in low-magic zones, unlike high-magic zones, there is no reason to endure ‘magic pressure’, so creatures accumulate nutrients very effectively.

And there are no magic winds or magic disasters caused by the difference in magic pressure between low-magic zones and high-magic zones.

Dator is actually stable because its magical power pressure is so high, but other areas of the world are a mixture of high and low magical power areas, so there are major variables such as magical power disasters, fluctuating magical power pressure, as well as natural disasters.

However, in the low-magic zone of the Tocha tribe in the east, the magic pressure and environment did not change overnight, so crazy reclamation and crazy farming were possible.

The creatures here can grow in size with just a little magic power, so population growth is very stable.

And an increased population soon leads to social strife, social strife soon leads to a unified order, and a unified order leads to development.

The Tocha people have developed their culture to a high level without much interaction.

By meeting the Tocha tribe, the Iyakans were essentially showing that the east was not a ‘barren land’ but a proper land.

“Hmm. Those apes are unique, but can they stand up to the power of a dragon?”

There were. The Iyakans attacked them lightly, but they had to face the endless stream of troops, the monstrous power of the Tocha tribe, and the united army, along with the low-magic zone, which was really not a good environment for the dragon tribe to operate in.

Eventually, after some skirmishes, the two races reached an awkward peace deal.

The reason was that the Tocha tribes were at war among themselves. There were many Tocha tribes who wanted to borrow Iyakan’s power.

In this way, the overall structure of the integrated machine is formed.

The world’s strongest datang is located at the southwestern end.

Above that are the lands of the great forest and the forest nobles ruled by the Daton hybrids.

Across the North Sea lies the land of Baekkan and Erin, and east across the isthmus lies the land of Baekkan.

The south and the east of Datang belong to the Iyakans, and the entire east of the world belongs to the Tochas.

What’s interesting is that although there is circumstantial evidence that these countries clearly existed at this point, no records of them have been handed down.

It’s very strange. But is there anything left? No, there isn’t. Sometimes strange letters appear, but they are impossible to interpret, so they are as good as nothing left.

Scholars of this era have different opinions as to why no records were left behind. However, since there is no doubt that no history was left behind, scholars categorize this era as the prehistoric era.

And with the end of the mythical era of Datang, the prehistoric era ends. Finally, the era in which the history written by Datang themselves is engraved, rather than the myths and fire of Datang, arrives.

The timeline is too far back. If other races in this world live like this, how do the Datang people live?

Let’s take a look at the Tang Dynasty in the era of integration.

“Shujo is not a soup!”

“How can those murderers be our family?”

“Oh, come on! Please reconsider! This is not about tolerance or mercy, it’s about revenge.”

At first glance, it doesn’t seem like it will be easy.

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