In this world, there are many sub-races other than humans, but the most vile of all are the beastmen who resemble beasts!
The sinful creatures born from the wrongful union of human ancestors and beasts! That is what beastmen truly are!
To cleanse humanity of its sins, we must expel those who corrupt human purity in the most terrible way!
Beasts should return to the forests, plains, and wilds! That’s their most natural form!
Thus, slaughtering all beastmen to eradicate them from this world promises humanity a bright tomorrow… What?! You bastards! How dare you beasts act so insolently?!
Get lost!Disappear! You fur-stinking monsters! Don’t touch me, I said!
– Words of a Human Supremacist.
This particular supremacist was barely saved by guards while being beaten up by beastmen, then dragged away.
A few days later, his frozen corpse was found in a cold prison cell.
We clarify that these words do not represent all humans.
What an absolutely terrifying and dreadful mindset!
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Beastmen mixed with human groups and some time passed. Approximately a few hundred years.
Considering a few hundred years as “a bit” shows how messed up my sense of time has become. Hehe.
Anyway, when you speed through time, decades pass like blinking an eye.
Anyway, around the time when seeing beastmen among human groups became not-so-uncommon…
I lightly reviewed the technologies humans had developed.
First off, agriculture – definitely the most crucial technology.
The basic farming techniques I originally taught to lizardmen were gradually evolving as they spread to humans.
It wasn’t just about scattering seeds anymore. They learned to level the land, plant seeds carefully, and manage crops until harvest.
They even removed unnecessary plants to maximize crop yields.
Of course, there were still many shortcomings. Due to insufficient understanding of soil fertility, they didn’t know why rotating certain crops was important or why overplanting could ruin entire harvests.
But compared to the beginning, it was clear progress.
Thanks to raising cattle as livestock, they gained significant labor power.
Though they hadn’t started selective breeding yet, which kept productivity low, I figured I could help with that eventually.
Such details could wait. Moving on from agriculture…
They were preserving grains using pottery baked in fire for long-term storage.
Though still primitive – mostly pointed-bottomed jars – the ability to store food gave humans a major advantage.
Compared to the old days of hunting once a day and starving if it failed, this was like heaven. The importance of saving couldn’t be overstated!
Next was animal husbandry – obtaining meat and various by-products by raising different livestock.
Together with agriculture, this allowed humans to move beyond relying solely on gathering and hunting.
Eggs, milk, wool – these by-products were extremely helpful indeed.
Then came spinning threads and weaving cloth… though they were still quite clumsy at that.
Still, they managed to use threads for fishing, showing some effort.
When would they start making clothes? Quite curious.
Other developments included language, moving from stone tools made by striking stones to grinding them, making simple baskets from tree bark and leaves… roughly that level of technology.
Just as I was thinking whether I should teach them something else…
Humans discovered a new technique on their own.
Well, “on their own” might be stretching it.
“Black stones! Let’s mine them! Lizardmen! We’ll trade food for them! Everyone! Let’s work!”
Through abandoned quarries left by lizardmen, they started mining obsidian.
That’s right – mining.
Discovering the quarries where lizardmen mined obsidian, humans began crafting stone axes and pickaxes to dig.
Still unaware of bronze or iron, they could only mine obsidian – but knowing its value from past trades with lizardmen, they understood its worth.
Thus, some humans gained the knowledge that digging could yield valuable things.
Hmm, acquiring technology without my teaching is quite a positive result. At this rate, they might continue developing even without my intervention.
Though I wasn’t planning to stop helping anytime soon.
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Time flowed rapidly, and humans continued advancing.
They progressed to spinning threads, making crude cloth, and even producing clothing.
Thinking about what they could do with those threads, they soon twisted them into ropes.
Using these ropes for building houses, tying logs together to make primitive rafts after noticing wood floats…
And remarkably, they became skilled at fishing using thread, wooden sticks, and bone needles.
How they knew fish eat bugs, attaching them to hooks…
Another notable development was the discovery of bronze.
Funny story – it started when they tried baking various things along with pottery.
Among the baked items was metal – specifically, a metal with relatively low melting point. It turned out to be bronze, a compound of copper and another metal.
Bronze – the first metal.
While some humans tragically lost hands or lives experimenting with molten bronze, such minor issues aside…
Though they couldn’t handle liquid metal directly due to high temperatures, with some kind guidance, they learned to melt metal in stone vessels and pour it into sand molds.
They were still making clumsy objects, but better ones would come with time.
Perhaps someday dwarf visitors would appear. Where there’s elves, dwarves should follow!
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To these rapidly advancing humans, I gave another gift.
Yggdrasil and Sylphid grumble about my favoritism… but what can I do? I was once human myself, though it was many millennia ago.
Still, I’ve cut back significantly! After observing them for ages, I prepared this one gift!
The gift was none other than… the wheel.
A circular object with an axle in the center – essential for carts, carriages, bicycles, cars, etc.
I presented it to the human leader… no, calling him “king” would be more appropriate now.
Which descendant of the crownbearer I gifted before? The monarchy had changed dozens, nearly a hundred times, but stories of me apparently persisted, or perhaps memories lingered in their bloodlines. Accepting my gift posed no problem.
After showing him the wheel and its rotational motion, I assembled a simple handcart as a gift. The king found it incredibly wondrous.
Subsequently, they started making wheels from wood, building carts… opening new horizons in transportation. But that’s a minor story.
The important matter now wasn’t such trivialities.
“Mom.”
While observing humans, a small voice reached me.
It was Sagarmatha – my most taciturn child, tallest mountain, forehead of the world.
“What is it?”
Listening to Sagarmatha’s voice, I asked, and he replied somewhat awkwardly:
“Would it be alright to sweep away humans?”
“WHAT THE HECK IS THAT SUDDENLY?!”
Out-of-nowhere genocide declaration! Is this child usually so reckless?!
No! Absolutely not! He’s always been quiet, cautious, hardly moving!
“No explanation?!”
Sagarmatha sighed softly and calmly explained:
“Humans have started digging into caves within me. If this continues, it’s becoming bothersome, so I’ll exterminate them.”
“STOP WITH THE EXTERMINATION ALREADY!! TOO EXTREME!”
What happened to make this formerly talkative child obsessed with genocide?!
First, I should check the humans burrowing into Sagarmatha.
“Why ask me?”
“Because mom favors humans greatly. Even if exterminating humans, I thought your permission would be necessary.”
Hmph. So Sagarmatha thinks that too.
Do others see me as overly favoring humans?
Guess blood does run thicker after all. Hmm.
Still, what can I do? I used to be human myself.
“I should inspect those humans burrowing inside you.”
Fearless humans, instead diving into caves despite Sagarmatha’s immense height… What drives them?
Why are they entering those caves?
Don’t they realize improper digging could cause cave-ins and live burials?
Not sure yet, but let’s investigate.
If they’re making any grave mistakes… I might even drag them out forcibly.
