Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 95



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Episode 95. Unification Period Review

The period from when Medakbo’s method and Donum were fully established and the first Diman Chaun revealed his ambitions to when the Mana School completely abandoned the north and headed south is usually called the latter part of the Unified Period.

Specifically, it was from 1500 to 3000 AD during the Unification Period. During that time, the northern part was mostly noisy, but Datang was noisy as well.

First, the quarantine of Hanjutamal failed. The endemic disease, for which there was no immunity, devastated Datang. Again.

Those who survived the disease would have gradually developed immunity, but it continued to spread as if it were impossible for oneself to become immune.

The territory of the Nono tribe, which has done absolutely nothing, is expanding. The Nono tribe is the only one that has resistance to Hanjutamal.

The problem is, this didn’t happen once or twice. After the unification period, the Hanjutamal outbreak happened three times. And each time it happened, the population was cut off by 70% at first. Then 60%. Then 50%.

This is the number of people who died purely from one week of fighting. There are many more who died from the destruction of social infrastructure.

As a result, the population of Datang, which was around 100 to 300 million, only remained at around 20 million after the unification period. They suffered so much that they have a way to deal with it, so it’s like this.

“Is it really impossible to cure this?”

It is possible. It is not possible with prehistoric technology. They found out that Hanjutamal evolved and spread through the magical ink contained in documents, and succeeded in making paints that could prevent Hanjutamal.

The creator never got to make it, because it was immediately discovered that the paint was toxic…

Ultimately, people choose the latter between dying a painful death from the Hanju Ta-mal or having their lives shortened by decades by the paint’s poison.

“Are you telling us to all die right now?”

The short-lived Borin tribe suddenly rebelled, demanding that they stop using the toxic substance immediately.

Liwaduwan went north along the way to suppress civil wars, there were massive forest fires in the Great Forest, crazy storms, a drought that seemed like it would never end, and on the other side there were floods… … .

It was mostly a disaster, right? Actually, it was pretty good in the beginning, but after Mana School became the master of the North, it was a bit unlucky. It was a time when many disasters occurred, as if ‘the heavens had abandoned them’.

The Mana School, which could not endure the disaster in the north, also carefully read the weather report, saying that the heavenly fortune was incredibly bad. Ol Chaun simply answered.

“Can’t we dispel that ominous energy in the sky by offering a sacrifice to the moon?”

“Uh, well?”

All Chaun performs several rituals on the new moon as he has done so far, and the bad fortune disappears as if ‘being struck by the new moon and retreating’.

All of this is what the Mana School thinks it should do when a terrible fate befalls them, and they wonder how this is possible. It must be really hard to shake the flow of magical power in the celestial bodies.

Anyway, the Unified Era ends with the Mana School settling in Mainilun and building the Magic Tower (Pyon) that doubles as an observatory on the highest mountain in Dator. It was a time of terrible disasters, but they endured.

Maybe it was ‘something’ that gave up on raining down disasters until they became unbearable.

At the same time, the people of the East, who knew more about the stars than Datang and also trained many magicians (astronomers), wrote as follows:

‘The universe is a living entity, and not only the moon but also the sun and stars are alive. They want to come down to the earth, and if you stop them, they will bring down evil. In order to appease them, you must perform a sacrifice to appease them or give them what they want.’

Their records state that the disasters that came from the heavens lasted from one year to three or four years at most. It was an unprecedented event in history that the astronomical flow was ominous for nearly 1,500 years.

Whether the being that caused it is the problem or the being that caused it is the problem. In any case, Datang knew how to deal with disaster. If the flow of weather is bad, just perform a ritual and drive it out with the power of the moon.

If the Eastern Tocha tribe heard this, they would say, ‘Does that make sense? How can you do that with human power?’ But anyway, it works here.

So, we have reached the point where we call the late unification period the final period of the unification period. Now, the mythical period, the longest period in history, is at its end.

Datang has now almost completed the framework of a nation and seems to have no shortcomings. Other countries are following Datang’s progress, but they still have a long way to go before they reach this level.

But did you actually achieve your goal?

Could Datang and Shuzor have been integrated?

And have Datang and Dimanang been integrated?

The mythical era is about 14,000 years. Of those, it was a long time of 3,000 years. Was the unified era truly unified?

And while they were fighting like that, what on earth were the other races of the world doing?

First, let’s look at the country that caused this post-unification chaos.

Well, if that can be called a country, then it is the state of Dimanang.

To be honest, there’s nothing to see in this area anymore.

The once magnificent Pyons, or magic towers, have collapsed and the location of the largest of them, Dimanpyon, is unknown.

Even those who boasted about being the nobles of the forest have moved south or even north from the northern lands that have become hell, and the only ones left are some of the Borin, and the rest are common mixed-bloods who have not been able to attain noble status…

They still farm in the rich Iral River valley, although the numerous canals that Iral Tatay used to channel the water have all been destroyed.

Although this was the case in the later period, during the last 1500 years of the unification period, they built a strong nation.

Why was it so strong? First of all, it was because Datang was unable to cope with the disaster, but there is evidence that their civilization, based on ‘magic’, ‘mathematics’, and ‘astronomy’, reached a very high level of technological prowess.

“Strange machines keep coming out.”

“The materials are stone or metal, but the circuitry used is completely incomprehensible… … .”

Things that work but whose principles we don’t know, unidentified relics, and high-level technologies are pouring out.

And things like blueprints carved into stone. How on earth did this technology come about?

Modern-day conspiracy theorists say that Datang must have had an ultra-ancient civilization at the time.

All Chaun hears that and replies, “What the hell are you talking about? We didn’t have anything like that either.” The spells, mathematical theories, and formulas discovered at that time were things that even the most advanced mathematics of the modern era could not prove.

And the orders based on it were of an extremely high level.

This again suggests the existence of a more advanced magic, but unfortunately there is no record of such a wondrous magic being used.

There is a theory, but no experimental record or reproducible results. Why is that?

The reason was simple: no matter how great a theory is, it needs a foundation to support it.

For some reason, a mathematical theory of incredible level was discovered in Dimanang… … .

Is that a ‘discovery’? In any case, whoever figured it out had no basis whatsoever for making magic out of the mathematical formulas he understood.

Just as if we had given them the theory of how to make nuclear weapons in the primitive era of the Earth, they would not have been able to use them.

First of all, in order to implement powerful magic on Earth, you need a material that is much stronger than the human body.

A material that can withstand such things, the ability to process that material, a material that will enable the ability to process that material, and a material that will enable the ability to process that material, and a material that will enable the ability to process that material, and a material that will enable the ability to process that material… … .

They couldn’t make them, because they didn’t know anything about them. They only had conceptual knowledge and no understanding of material things.

Conversely, the people of Dimanang at that time had a certain degree of conceptual understanding, and were equipped with material things such as their own bodies and minds, and even powerful mysteries, but they were unable to create anything that surpassed the prehistoric level at that time.

Still, it was around 1,500 years, so it had some sort of foundation. At that time, Dimanang had what could be called a super-ancient civilization. For a while.

Even in the modern age of Earth, such hyper-dimensional technologies that are impossible have emerged, such as being able to kill people with a snap of a finger, change the weather at will, communicate in real time no matter how far away they are, project images, destroy them, freely create elements, and predict the future.

They developed while fighting, and raised their mystery to an indescribable point.

To the extent that they challenge Datang and Daesurim, and even pose a threat to the countries beyond the isthmus, such as Baekkan, Erin, and Iyakan, and actually unify the world.

What’s really ironic is that the rumor about Hanjuta spread at that time.

The route was from the Baekkan merchant. The incubation period of the Hanjutamal was already quite long at that time, and the Baekkan tribe had an even longer incubation period of the Hanjutamal, so when they traded in the western region and stopped at the northern Dimanang port, Dimanang, where the population was almost an absolute majority of wizards (because of ‘them’ who had no idea why Datang limited the number of mystics), was devastated by that.

What was truly fortunate for the world was that these Baekkan people did not consider the disease brought from Datang but an endemic disease of the Dimanang region, and so they did not return to their hometown, but only searched for a cure in the Dimanang region… … .

Because of that, through the monsters in the river and through the port, the ancient magic civilization of Dimanang was completely destroyed… … !

The population seems to have reached several tens of millions, but it has become a wasteland where only the insane and the soft-skinned monsters who have fallen for the Hanju Ta-mal run wild, even worse than when Datang was reduced from 20 million to 130,000.

In the end, the survivors were the lower class people of that time who did not have the right to obtain magic and just farmed. It’s really ironic. They endured because they were not worthy of having power.

They were barely able to defend the isthmus and the Iral River basin thanks to the mercy of the Great Forest, and succeeded in exporting a huge amount of grain in place of the scorched Datang at the time, and in maintaining infrastructure such as culture and national defense.

Meanwhile, a unique custom has developed. For some reason, the number of monsters has increased significantly without a single word, and when you deal with them, you will find ‘something’ that the ancient magic civilization has accumulated in the basement or structure.

These, like modern-day smartphones and other gadgets, could be used without knowing how they worked. And they all seemed to have been made for practical purposes and were very powerful.

“The ancient magic tools are truly amazing. What on earth happened here in the past that led to its destruction?”

“That’s true. There are many areas buried in the river or soil, but there are also a lot of areas underground. If we can just interpret what we find here… … .”

The era of ruin exploration has arrived! The adventures of explorers in search of the great ancient civilization! And the remaining monsters! Adventurers who fight against ‘things’ that possess the monsters and seek resurrection! And the powerful treasures brought back at the end of the fight!

It’s a romantic affair. Exploration parties go to the ruined Dimanang, combing the fields and swamps, and digging underground to hunt for relics.

Not in this era, but in the next era. For now, it’s just a lonely, abandoned relic.

The population of Dimanang would not exceed one million for a while in the aftermath of this catastrophe, and close to 99.99% of that population would remain in the Iral River basin.

However, the refugees of Dimanang who fled north rather than south did something interesting.

It was Olsojora who occupied a part of the northern continent and developed another civilization. A magical civilization that had nothing to do with ‘that’. And a civilization with safer technology.

And they share this technology with other neighboring countries.

The end of the Unification Period. The world outside of Datang is rapidly progressing, declining, competing with each other, but ultimately becoming stronger.

When the end of the Mythical Age is not far away, other races take advantage of the chaos in Datang to establish their own nations.

I don’t know about the current era, but it’s to stand tall as a mainstream figure in the world in the next era.

And Datang has now entered its final stages of chaos.

The last thousand years. What on earth happened in Datang? What on earth separates the mythical era from the next era?

Let’s check it out for yourself now.