Once Hars has been brought to his room and everyone has left, Lacius looks at Hars's wrinkled face and sighed, "I guess it's already time to let go."
A moment later, three blessed with healing power arrived and quickly used their ability on Hars.
It took a long time before Hars's breathing stabilized. Even so, the healers still kept on using their abilities until they're exhausted.
When Lacius saw the healers were already of no use, he asked them to leave the room and pulled a potion from his pocket.
It's the potion created by the old female doctor, which allows even someone on their deathbed to regain some energy.
After helping Hars to drink it, Lacius silently waited and hoped for the potion to take effect.
Seeing no response even after ten whole minutes, Lacius sighed and left the room.
"Guard the door and immediately report to me once Hars woke up." Lacius ordered the blessed guarding Hars's room.
After ordering the blessed, Lacius continued his daily activity as per usual. But this time, he focused even more on alchemy than before, in hope of discovering a potion that could increase someone's lifespan.
Lacius seems to have turned mad as he spent several sleepless nights doing experiments.
He only stopped when a guard told him Hars had woken up from his coma.
Quickly leaving his experiment, Lacius went to Hars's room and saw a pale looking Hars laying on his bed.
He didn't say anything and simply fed Hars a health nurturing potion to help him regain his energy.
When a trace of color returned to Hars's pale faces, Lacius said while trying to keep his emotions in check, "Let's continue our work. You don't have much time left."
"Alright." Hars stood up from his bed while slightly trembling.
Lacius helped Hars to stand up from his bed before walking toward the palace that has been turned into a laboratory.
Entering Lacius's private laboratory, they started an alchemy experiment together while chatting with each other.
Both talked about small things from their youth for a few days.
With each passing day, Hars's condition kept on worsening. Until finally, Hars can only watch Lacius busy doing his experiment while sitting and occasionally went into a daze.
With his blurry sight, Hars watched Lacius who had also turned into an old man full of wrinkles yet still does his experiments with incredibly precise movement.
Midway through Lacius's experiment, Hars felt his eyes become incredibly hard to open and slept for eternity.
Lacius who hasn't realized Hars's death continued to craft an experimental potion while maintaining his utmost focus.
Once the experiment in front of him failed, Lacius turned his eyes toward Hars and saw him sleeping peacefully on a chair.
Lacius somehow got a bad feeling and placed his finger in front of Hars's nostril.
When he failed to feel any air coming from it, Lacius placed his ears on Hars's chest to listen to his heartbeat.
After hearing nothing even after half a minute, Lacius quickly fed Hars some potions with a trembling hand.
"Hars! Hars! Wake up!" While helping Hars to drink the potions, Lacius kept on calling his name.
After chugging five bottles of potions into Hars, Lacius's eyes turned bloodshot as he began to shake Hars's body. "Wake up! I ordered you to wake up! RIGHT NOW!"
Lacius continued to pull many precious potions and fed them to Hars while screaming, "Wake up! I ordered you to wake up! WAKE UP!"
"Wake up! Wake up! Come on and wake up! Stop playing around with me!"
At last, Lacius could only grab Hars's shoulder and accepted reality as he sobbed while whispering, "Goodbye, my last friend."
After accepting the fact that Hars has died, many mixed and complicated feelings appeared in his heart. But they all culminated in a sentence that kept on echoing in his mind. 'I must live!'
While clenching his palm on Hars's shoulder, Lacius continued as tears streamed down his cheeks. "My parents, you, uncle Yasu. I'll make sure to remember all of you and make everyone exist for eternity! Even if it's only as a memory."
***
Outside of Lacius's private laboratory room, some guards and alchemists heard Lacius's scream and forcefully barged into his room.
Those people initially expecting to see a failed experiment, or an intruder that's attacking Lacius. But instead, all they see is Lacius who has been crying to the point of ignoring their existence.
Everyone became flustered and confused upon watching Lacius cry like a child. They also felt their world view being damaged at the scene.
Most people began to think, 'Oh, even the god of alchemy would look unsightly while they cried.'
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Just as more and more disrespectful thoughts appeared on everyone's mind while they watched Lacius's crying.
In the void outside the Crystal Cube world, an invisible force that came from deep within the universe silently passes through the world barrier guarding the Crystal Cube world.
It entered the nothingness surrounding the Crystal Cube world and immediately arrived nearby.
The moment it passed through the crystal cube that guarded the world, the invisible force turned into a blinding light that fell toward the palace where many alchemists gathered.
As if having an eye, it quickly moved toward Lacius before stopping on his head.
The surrounding people panicked before falling into chaos due to the sudden blinding light.
"Ahh!! I am going to go blind! Stop the light!" Shouted an alchemist whose eyes had turned red from the light.
A few more screams also followed suit.
"Is this the power of a god?! Is this a punishment for our disrespectful thoughts?"
Amidst their fear, everyone kept on staring at Lacius whose head had been enveloped by a blinding light.
But the more they watched, the more they began to feel something strange.
Instead of punishment like they expected, every alchemist who saw that glow felt their head become full of inspiration.
Idea after idea kept on entering their brain, and several plausible alchemy experiments quickly came into their mind.
Meanwhile, the blessed who also barged into the room and watched the scene from a distance could feel their head become full of inspiration on how to use their blessed power more effectively.
Even the normal guards and servants who accidentally passed by and saw the glow felt their wisdom has increased.
Just by watching that glow for a short time, everyone has greatly benefited.
It's unknown who started it first, but the surrounding people began to kneel toward Lacius in worship while keeping their eyes on the glow coming from him.
Even if their eyes have turned bloodshot, they are unwilling to close their eyes and stop the inspiration from coming.
From outside the room, more and more people barged in after seeing the meteor-like light that fell toward the palace.
Every time they entered Lacius's room, their eyes were quickly locked on Lacius and they quickly joined the kneeling crowds.
With how intense the look on everyone's face as they glared at Lacius, It seems like everyone wished to etch the crying figure deep inside their memory.
***
In the Divine Space.
Cedric, who has created some tissue to blow his nose and wipe the tears that fell down his eyes upon watching Hars die, quickly stood up from his chair when he saw the blinding light coming from the sky of the Crystal Cube world.
When he saw that blinding light. The familiar feeling he got when he decided to intervene in Lacius's search for eternal life appeared.
But this time, instead of a feeling of loss, what he felt is an entirely different feeling that's hard to describe.
If he must describe it, then the feeling he sensed is akin to completion or a sense of achievement. These sudden feelings coupled with the light coming out of Lacius made him confused.
Luckily, the System saw his confusion and explained.
[Congratulations! A creature in your world has successfully pulled the attention of the universe's operation rules and has entered Universal Enlightenment state.]
Cedric has many questions to ask. But, he decided to start with the most basic question. "What is this universal enlightenment state?"
[It's a state where the universe allows a creature to get in contact with its peripheral operation rules, and … blah blah blah… That's why it's important.]
The System replied with quite a lot of unknown jargon that he knew nothing of. So, Cedric kinda lost it amidst the explanation and asked the System once more. "Explain it in simple terms. Like how you would explain to a monkey."
[Alright!]
[Ooh! Ooh! Aak! *Screech* Oook! Aaak! Aak! Aaakkk! Ooh Oook! Ookk! *Screech*...]
"Stop!" Cedric heard the monkey screams the System released and tried to calm down. Still, he felt some of his veins bulging from repressing his anger. "Explain it in a short, simple, and concise way."
[Universal Enlightenment state is good. Once done with it, Lacius should get some skill or knowledge. It's also rare, and most of the world didn't experience it even once from their conception to their demise.]
That's a bit too short for his liking, but Cedric is tired of arguing with the System for now. "What does Lacius entering the universal enlightenment state have anything to do with the weird feeling I got?"
[According to the System's analysis, that feeling of loss you got from intervening should be a warning from the universe's rules. Basically, as you've intervened, the gains Lacius will get from this Universe Enlightenment state will be lower than if you hadn't intervened.]
[Now that you got a feeling of completion, it should be how the universe tells you that it has done what it wanted to do. Which is to grant Lacius the Universal Enlightenment state.]
Then, Cedric got to his second question, "Why Lacius?"
[Dunno. The universe is just that flippant. But the System guessed it should have something to do with Lacius's will to seek eternal life.]
"Ohhh…" Cedric nodded at the explanation.
After processing the System's answer, Cedric became suspicious. "Why don't you know about it? When we first met, you introduced yourself as the will of the universe! There is no way the universe's will didn't understand how the universe works, right?"
[...]
[Using company as a metaphor, you can think of the System as someone in a different department from the part that's sending the Universal Enlightenment state. We are basically under the same company, but the System is in the sales and marketing division while the operation rules managing Universal Enlightenment state are in the human resources department. We occasionally met with each other and exchanged information, but that's about it.]
[Anyway, it's recommended for you to spend some GP and bribe the Universal Enlightenment state to increase the gain Lacius got. It should make up for the loss you caused by intervening on Lacius's journey to search for eternal life. Also, do it quick before Lacius exited his universal enlightenment state.]
Cedric could see the System's urging. So, he didn't choose to retort the System's word.
Instead, he asked another serious question, "How do I send GP to Lacius?"
[Send some GP to your world just like when you tried to generate mana there. But this time don't convert it to mana and just send those GP to the light floating on Lacius's head.]
He followed the System's guidance and checked Lacius's current location before pausing. "How much GP should I send to him?"
[Sending 1 GP every three seconds until his universal enlightenment state ran out of time should be enough. On average, the Universal Enlightenment state usually lasts for around five minutes. Now that you already spend close to two minutes chatting with the System, you will only need to spend approximately 60GP.]
[Remember to focus and only send the GP toward the light floating on Lacius's face to affect his Universal Enlightenment state. Don't accidentally use it to create things or affect the world with your will, otherwise you will affect the world's balance.]
Cedric nodded at the System's reminder and quickly got into work.
He focused his attention on Lacius, before following the System's guide to send his GP to the light floating on Lacius's face.
As he is extremely focused, Cedric forgot to count the amount of GP he has spent.
While he is spending his GP like a flowing water, a warning from the System appeared.
[Warning! Due to excessive intervention within a short time span, the balance and stability of your world has been affected.]
[Please stop sending GP to your world in this instant.]
Cedric read the System's notification while mechanically sending his GP.
When he realized what the System was talking about, he quickly stopped sending his GP to Lacius and retrieved his mental power. But the System has sent another message.
[Warning! Your world's stability has reached a dangerous point. As the stability has reached below certain point, some failure in the world's operation might happen. Please try not to intervene while the world tried to heal itself.]
After reading the warning, there are too many things Cedric wanted to ask. So he simply said, "System, explain!"
[You have intervened in your world too excessively within the last century.]
[Even though intervening with Divine Items will help to filter your influence to the world and limit the damage to the world's balance and stability. But the amount you've intervened within this brief time span is simply too much. Especially around the time when the demon king appeared.]
[Finally, intervening by sending a pure GP to affect Lacius's universal enlightenment state became the straw that broke the camel's neck. It causes the stability in your world to enter a dangerous point.]
"Then why did you ask me to send my GP to him?!" Cedric asked with suspicion.
[The length of Lacius's universal enlightenment state has exceeded the System's expectation. Which affected the System's Calculation.]
When he saw the System's message, Cedric furrowed his brow before immediately opening his status screen in a panic.
Looking at the screen in front of him, Cedric realized he had spent 163 GP! It's 100 more GP than expected.
"System! Didn't you say previously that Lacius's Universal Enlightenment state will end after another three minutes?" Cedric questioned.
[The System never said that. It just said that, on average, the Universal Enlightenment State will last for five minutes. It seems Lacius's state has lasted for much longer, which means the gains he got will be much more than expected.]
Cedric asked, "Then, what should I do now? Should I continue to send GP to Lacius?"
[No. Simply observe your world until its stability begins to recover. You can intervene slightly if things get too dangerous, but it will extend the time required for your world to recover.]
"Okay." Cedric nodded while slumping on his chair, "How long will it take for the world to recover its balance?"
[It'll take at least 100 years, and at most 500 years before your world's stability recovers to a safe extent. That's if you didn't occasionally intervene before the balance and stability of your world is truly restored.]
"At least 100 years? What the heck should I do for a whole century!" Cedric shouted in exasperation.
[The System suggests you should spend this time studying how to create a species of your own in preparation for when your world level increases.]
[According to the System's calculation. As long as no surprises happen, your world should be able to reach Level 2 in approximately 500 years.]
[During the moment when your world leveled up from Level 1 to Level 2, its balance and stability will be greatly boosted for a short time. For that short time, you will be able to directly intervene in your world by spending GP to expand your world's livable area, create things directly in the world, and even create a greatly weakened avatar to appear in the world.]
"Didn't you say I couldn't directly intervene in my world as it's still too low leveled?" Cedric asked in confusion.
[Indeed. But there is always an exception to everything, and the moment when a world is upgrading is the exception. At that time, the universe will help to stabilize your world, so you can directly intervene.]
"Okay." Cedric nodded and summarized, "So, for now I couldn't intervene in my world and can only learn how to create species or plan how I am going to upgrade my world once it's leveled up?"
[You can sing and dance for a century if you want to. But preparing for your world's advancement is what the System recommended.]
"Alright then." Cedric ignored the System's first sentence and stopped talking. Instead, he sent his mental power to the Crystal Cube world.
Although he wanted to start learning how to create a new species in his world, he is too curious about the current situation.
Anyway, the system only said he shouldn't intervene, but it didn't say he can't observe the situation in his world.
***
When Cedric's mental power entered the Crystal Cube world.
Inside Winter City's palace, the glow on Lacius's face satrted to subside.
When he reopened his eyes that had turned red from crying, Lacius saw the people kneeling in front of him. But, he ignored it for now and thought of another more important thing. 'Just now, I feel like my mind has ascended from my body and entered an incredible place.'
'Furthermore, now that I regained my senses, I felt like my soul had been sublimated and I gained some strange memories.' Lacius contemplated while holding onto Hars's dead body with his only arm.
Then he looked at the kneeling people in front of him and furrowed his brows.
He could feel some sort of connection between him and the people kneeling in front of him.
Through the connection, Lacius felt he could hear some sort of power flowing through him.
While lost in thought, Lacius tried to rub his chin but found the sensation had changed.
Instead of wrinkled skins like before, he felt the sensation on his chin has turned smoother. Just like those of a young man.
"What!?" In his surprise, Lacius accidentally shouted out loud.
He raised his arms and saw the hand that's full of wrinkles has regained its youth.
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The pale, wrinkled hand of an old man is no more. Instead, his arm has returned to its youthful state.
He ignored the people that's still kneeling around him and approached a mirror.
When he saw the silhouette in the mirror, Lacius became dumbfounded before turning excited.
Instead of the wrinkled old face he has become accustomed to, the mirror showed his appearance when he was still in his early twenties.
The only difference is the lack of left arm because of the attack from Yuma a few years ago. But, it doesn't matter compared to the youth he has regained.
Amidst his confusion and excitement, the only sentence he could utter was, "What's going on?!"
***
Inside the Divine Space.
Cedric, who has seen Lacius turn younger, is also confused. "How did he suddenly become younger?"
Instead of answering his question, the System sent another notification.
[Congratulations, you've found another general energy, Faith!]
[Normally it'll require half a billion creatures to believe in the same thing before your world can meet the requirement to unlock the faith energy. But, the universal enlightenment state seems to have filled the numbers. So, thanks to Lacius, the rule regarding faith energy has been successfully introduced to your world.]
[From now on, by gathering believers to a certain extent, creatures in your world may collect faith energy for their own uses.]
"See, I guessed it correctly! It seems the time I spent reading novels didn't entirely go to waste." Cedric said when he heard about the general energy.
"Now I became curious just what has he gained from that Universal Enlightenment state?" Cedric muttered.
[Try to use your Divine Sight on Lacius. The System will borrow your sight to check the change within him.]
"For free?" He subconsciously asked upon hearing the System's message.
[You want to pay for this? Then the System will ask for 100 GP as payment.]
"No no no! Free is good." Cedric quickly shook his head while activating his Divine Sight on Lacius.
[Please relax your eyes, the System will borrow your sight for a moment.]
Cedric listened and tried to relax his eyes.
He didn't know exactly what relaxing his eyes were. So, Cedric simply tries to not furrows his brows nor glaring too much.
Soon, the System sent another notification.
[Done! Here are the skill that Lacius has gained from the Universal Enlightenment state:
1. Faith manipulation.
Effect: Collect faith directed toward the user, grant the ability to use faith energy.
2. Faith body.
Effect: Store faith in the body which transforms the user's physical body and souls, also increases lifespan. Faith body will be damaged when it isn't constantly supplied with a certain amount of faith.
3. Chaotic prayer immunity.
Effect: immune to the soul distorting effect caused by gathering faith and listening to the prayer contained within.
4.Inspiration Blessing (Alchemy).
Effect: Increase alchemy related inspiration for the user's believer.
5. Self Fossilization.
Effect: Petrify the user to greatly decrease lifespan consumption.
NB: for a more detailed description, please pay 1.000 GP.]
Cedric read the skills that the System listed and saw the last sentence, "1.000 GP just for a more detailed description?!"
No wonder he felt weird when the System actually gave him some free services. It actually tried to suck his GP from this extra service!
[Don't think negatively of the System. The extra description also includes a lot of precious knowledge. Inside, there are some methods to manipulate faith power, the formula for Self Fossilization's decrease in lifespan consumption, and other knowledge.]
To be honest, Cedric felt a bit tempted.
Every item the System suggested might have ridiculous names and prices, but they are usually extremely useful. But the price is simply too much.
So, Cedric tried something he has never done before.
He tried to bargain with the System.
"My dear awesome sir system, can't you decrease the price slightly? You see, I can't even share the knowledge to the creature in my world because of the whole balance and stability thingy. It's basically only useful to fill my curiosity!"
Cedric felt a bit embarrassed after saying all that. But compared to saving his GP, throwing down his pride to bootlick the System is nothing!
Still, the System heartlessly denied his attempt at bargaining.
[The price is non negotiable.]
"Then we won't have a deal."
Cedric felt it's a pity, but 1.000 GP for an information is simply too expensive for the current him.
Furthermore, although the System didn't say it directly. But he knew that at the moment his world leveled up, he'll have quite a lot of GP expenditure.
After all, creating species and expanding livable areas in his world definitely gonna cost a fortune.
That's why Cedric needs to save as much GP as possible for now.
Without purchasing the additional information that the System sold, Cedric continued to observe the situation in the Crystal Cube world.
He saw Lacius standing while closing his eyes.
Lacius currently frowned and looked at the mirror while occasionally glancing at the kneeling people around him.
Soon, he bowed to a random direction and said, "Lacius thanks the creator for your blessing!"
Cedric felt a bit embarrassed when he heard Lacius's thanks. But then he recalled the GP he had sent to support Lacius's Universal Enlightenment state and felt it shouldn't be wrong for Lacius to thank him.
What a pity that he didn't dare to send a message toward Lacius. So Cedric can only silently watch Lacius from the Divine Space.
Meanwhile, Lacius kept on bowing for ten minutes.
When he saw no response from Cedric, Lacius raised his head and looked at the people kneeling around him.
He raised his arms and said, "You may rise."
The surrounding people looked at each other before slowly standing.
When he saw the surrounding people had stood up, Lacius pointed at a random high ranking guard and said, "Gather the nobles to the throne room."
The guard bowed and brought a few other guards to gather the nobles.
Next, Lacius looked at the remaining people and said, "Leave and spread my miracles to the kingdom."
"Also, call some priests here to prepare for Hars's funeral. I'll be the one to lead the ceremony."
Hearing Lacius's order, everyone, from alchemists to servants, immediately exited the room to spread the news of Lacius's miracle.
Now there's only him and Hars's corpse in the room. Lacius looked at Hars with a melancholic look and muttered, "I don't know what exactly happened, but it seems I've become even closer to my goal of achieving eternal life. What a pity that I am truly alone now."
Lacius knew calling himself alone isn't exactly right, but also isn't wrong at all.
He still has his wives, and children left in the world. But after the slaughter of his family by Gratian, and the death of Yasu. He stopped adding new names to the list of people he cared about.
Lacius shook his head to disperse his sadness and closed his eyes to check the extra memory he had just gained a few minutes ago.
After rummaging through the memories, Lacius found out they actually consisted of several abilities.
When he found out the effects of those abilities from the memory, Lacius could only stare with wide eyes. "This… is this what a true miracle is?"
He tried to activate one of the abilities and found his skin began to petrify before he and the clothes he wore turned into a statue.
Two minutes later, the statue's surface cracked and Lacius returned to his normal conditions as if nothing happened.
'I could still breath, and can even choose whether I want to retain my thinking ability. I can also set the timer on when I want to release the petrification state. Furthermore, it seems I also won't feel hunger or thirst while in the petrification state.' Lacius summarized the result of his test and the description he gained from the memories.
Then, he calculated something and found a shocking fact. "As long as there are a lot of people that believe in me and allow me to maintain my body of faith. I should have around five hundred years of life remaining."
"If I spent most of the time in a petrified state, then I should be able to live for at least two thousand years. It might even reach three or four thousand years."
Lacius opened his eyes wide upon reaching that conclusion.
"Furthermore, my lifespan might increase even more once my strength increases. This means I've found a way to achieve eternal life!" Even though he is already more than a hundred years old, Lacius couldn't help but feel excited.
Lacius's emotions constantly switch between excitement from his new abilities and sadness from Hars's death. Several priests arrived at his laboratory.
They picked Hars's corpse and brought it toward the temple in Winter City.
The next day. Lacius, who has turned younger, led the cremation ceremony for Hars in Winter City's temple.
Even though Hars should've been the center of attention in this ceremony. But, most people instead locked their eyes on Lacius.
It can't be helped at all. Lacius who has turned younger is simply much more eye-catching.
Many people saw the meteor like streak of light falling toward the palace yesterday.
They have also heard of gossip spread by those who have seen Lacius turn younger.
But most still couldn't believe it and came to visit directly on the day Hars's cremation was held.
Now that they've seen Lacius. Whether they want to believe it or not, the truth has been shown in front of their eyes.
The miracle of returning to his youth has also consolidated Lacius's status as a god.
After Hars's cremation is completed. Lacius expressionlessly left the temple and returned to the palace.
The next day, he called a few sculptors toward the palace.
From the memory regarding the abilities he gained, Lacius knew that statues are a bridge for the transfer of faith energy.
The closer the statue's form to himself, the closer the distance between the statue to himself. The more effective the transfer of faith energy will be.
As he has regained his youth, the statue depicting himself in his old age has become obsolete and caused most of the faith energy he gained to disperse.
He simply couldn't accept it, so he planned to send those sculptors to the surrounding cities.
Before they left, Lacius also sent several blessed and priests to accompany them.
Except for sculpting his statues, the reason he sent the sculptors is also to spread the miracle that happened to him.
As those sculptors left for other cities, Lacius's miracle began to spread by word of mouth.
When Lacius saw a report telling the success of his plan, he continued his work as a king for three whole months.
Once the situation in the Sacred Kingdom seemed to be stable, and the news regarding the miracle that happened to him had died down, Lacius abdicated.
The news came as a shock for everyone.
Many city lords sent their messengers to the Winter City to inquire for more news.
But all they receive are only invitations to attend Lacius's abdication and the new king's ascension to the throne in the next month.
A month later, the city lords and all nobles in the Sacred Kingdom arrived in the Winter City.
Not only those with high statuses. Many merchants, painters, poets, and people of varying classes and professions entered the Winter City to watch this rare event.
Everyone wished to see the first abdication ceremony in the human race's history with their own eyes.
Lacius has expected this situation and has long since decorated the city and cleaned every trace of messes. He also employed many cooks to cook free food to every guest who arrived in the city which caused the atmosphere of happiness to spread throughout the city.
The amount of money he wasted to create this festive atmosphere is equal to the kingdom's budget for a few months. But the result doesn't disappoint. With how many people have gathered in the city. The news about what happened at the new king's ascension will spread at lightning speed.
Standing on a window in the palace, Lacius watched the busy street and raised his head to the sky.
When he saw the sun had almost reached above everyone's head, Lacius went toward a balcony that faced the plaza in front of the palace.
On the plaza, thousands of people have crowded it.
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Around them, the wind element blessed kept on using their abilities to make sure no one had suffocated to death because of the crowd.
A bit further away, many earth elements have raised the earth and created several platforms complete with benches that are quickly filled with people.
Compared to the crowd inside the plaza, the people sitting on the recently raised platform wore much more intricate clothing.
Those are the emergency plans Lacius made to accommodate the nobles who had accepted his invitation.
Initially, he didn't plan to create a special seat for the nobles. But, the amount of spectators from other cities is simply too much compared to his estimate.
As the distance of those seats is too far away from the balcony Lacius in. Every noble is equipped with binoculars, a recent invention from the Red Leaf City.
When Lacius saw the sun had reached above the sky, he slightly moved his hand toward a guard as a starting signal.
When he saw the wind and earth element blessed he prepared had activated their abilities, Lacius started his speech. "Greetings, citizens of the Sacred Kingdom…"
With the help of hundreds of earth and wind elements blessed. Lacius's voice spread far and wide.
From the people standing in the plaza to the people sitting in the platforms, everyone could hear Lacius's voice and fell silent to listen to Lacius's half an hour long talk.
To summarize, Lacius said he is abdicating as a king to fulfill his duty in this world as the god of alchemy to bring prosperity to the world.
Once he finished speaking. One of his oldest sons, which he had selected as the new king, kneeled in front of him.
Lacius removed the crown he wore and gave it to a newly appointed high priest that has been chosen from among his children.
The new high priest brought the crown and placed it on the new king while chanting prayers for the creator and the god of alchemy.
At last, the High Priest finished his sentence. ".... Under the sight of the creator and the gods, may the king reign upon the Sacred Kingdom for a long time."
Once he finished, the high priest quickly retreated. Then, Lacius, followed by the high priest, retreated from the balcony.
When only the new king is left on the balcony. He waved at the people who immediately cheered.
While the civilians are cheering. The nobles and city lord sitting on the platform further behind felt something wrong, but they simply couldn't tell the exact place where it was wrong.
Only Lacius who planned all this knew that the main reason he had invited so many people and wasted so many resources was to spread an idea to the people.
He wanted every civilian to think that a king must be appointed by the temple's high priest and receive a blessing from the gods. This is why he asked the newly appointed head priest to be the one placing the crown on the new king.
With this, Lacius has consolidated the temple's status and left it a way to intervene in the kingdom's affairs.
Even if the Sacred Kingdom is split into several kingdoms. With the temple's current status, it'll still be the undisputed true ruler of the human territory.
As for him, he'll be able to mobilize the strongest organization in the world. This time, he won't even need to waste his time to manage it. Because the high priest of the temple will be the one to manage the temple's daily operations.
All he needs to do now is to wait for new ideas and the path to the next level to open.
Furthermore, unlike the extremely unstable Sacred Kingdom where an ambitious city lord might try to usurp his status as a king. The temple's cohesiveness is based on faith.
That means, even if the high priest suddenly gained an ambition, they definitely won't be able to usurp his status within the heart of the believer.
For the first time in tens of years, Lacius felt there wasn't any burden in his mind. Which made him subconsciously hummed as he walked towards the laboratory where many alchemists once gathered.
Once he arrived at the part that's used as a laboratory, Lacius did a simple check and found the place had been thoroughly emptied.
Now that he has decided to focus more on the temple. Of course, he won't leave those precious alchemy and alchemists in the palace.
Although the palace is still under his control for now. Lacius has already planned to petrify himself soon and waited for a new era to arrive.
An era where the requirement for someone at his level to reach a higher level has been met.
That's why he has transported the alchemist and alchemy tools inside the palace, and sent them to the temple's headquarters in River Stone city. A place absolutely under his control.
Without anything else to do inside the palace, Lacius rode a horse and exited Winter City to travel toward River Stone city.
During his journey, Lacius occasionally experimented with his ability to manipulate faith energy and quickly found a few ways to utilize it.
By the time he arrived at River Stone City, Lacius didn't ride on any horse. Instead, he stood above a silk like light that flew with incredible speed.
The silk like light is made of materialized faith energy, and also one of the ways to use faith energy that Lacius has found.
It's not like he wanted to show off or anything. But, the horse he initially rode has accidentally exploded into a messy blub of flesh after he accidentally infused it with to much faith energy for an exeriment.
Furthermore, using the light to travel has increased his control over faith energy, which is killing two birds with one stone.
Lacius controlled the slik like light toward the city's temple and entered it.
When the priests saw Lacius's entry, they all quickly kneeled and worshiped him.
Sensing those priests' pious beliefs, Lacius felt the faith energy within him increase with considerable speed.
He felt quite satisfied and tried one of the tricks he had learned along the way.
Lacius pulled some of the faith energy he stored and dispersed them toward the priests.
Some priests felt their body began to reinvigorate, while a few other priests who have a blessed power has absorbed the faith energy Lacius has just sent and became slightly stronger.
Ignoring the priests, he walked towards a hidden corner and used his blessed power to create a secret underground room right below his statue in the temple's main hall.
That way, the faith energy gathered by people who pray to his statue in the temple can be absorbed more effectively.
After the secret room is ready, he gives some orders to the high priest before activating his self fossilization ability and started his hibernation.
Lacius has set it so unless someone attacked him or there is important news, he won't wake up from the fossilization state for the next ten years.
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In the Divine Space.
Cedric has been observing Lacius and saw what he could do with the faith energy.
He was especially shocked when he saw some priests' life levels slightly increase after receiving the faith energy. So, he asked the System about it. "Can faith energy also be used to increase someone's life level? What other uses are there?"
[Do you wish to pay 1.000 GP for further detail?]
"No." Cedric rolled his eyes. 'Damn it, I thought I could pry some free information from the System.'
He rubbed his chin, 'I am sure that the System wasn't this stingy when I found virtuous energy.'
'Wait a moment,' The mention of virtuous energy made Cedric recall something. "System, didn't you say once I met a general energy, you'll give me some explanation about it?"
[The System is so busy managing other things that it forgot about this. Please wait for a moment.]
A few seconds later, the System sent another message.
[Here is the basic introduction to faith energy:
Faith energy is energy gathered by the pious belief of living creatures. As long as laws related to faith energy have condensed in a world, the creatures inside may collect the energy by gathering beliefs from other creatures. It requires a certain amount of talent and believers before a creature may condense faith energy.]
Cedric read through the introduction and found nothing of use. So, he asked the System, "System, don't you think you should give me something in exchange for forgetting to send the description of faith energy to me?"
The System fell silent for a long time before it replied.
[Alright. The System will grant you a small information for free.]
[Answering your earlier question, Faith energy can indeed be converted into Exp to raise a creature's level. But, the conversion rate is rubbish, and just like Exp, it can only raise a creature's level up to the limit of their potential level.]
'What?! It actually worked?' This time, it's Cedric's turn to be speechless.
He never expected the System to actually take a step back and give him a freebie.
'Who would've guessed this money grubber would actually do something that makes it lose money?!'
[Please don't talk bad about the System. The System's job is to help the gods manage their world. Occasionally giving freebies that are within the rules won't instantly cause the System to turn into a poor wretch like you.]
[Furthermore, as long as you're alive and still purchased the System's products, the System can still make up for the earlier loss.]
Cedric stares speechlessly at the System's reply.
It actually thought of gods like him as sheep to be sheared for their GP.
This actually makes him curious. Just how powerful is the System? Behind its silly actions, is it actually scheming something super sinister?
Cedric's mind immediately brews several conspiracy theories in an instant.
At last, he shook his head and discarded those thoughts.
Even if the System has some conspiracy, it probably wouldn't involve him at all, or at least it won't be mainly targeting him.
After all he is just a fake god.
So, Cedric placed his focus on something more important for now,
He copied several animal species from the Crystal Cube world and began dissecting them.
The System said he must be prepared to create a species in the Crystal Cube world once his level advances.
Before he started studying in depth, Cedric asked a question he forgot to ask. "Why can't I just buy the species directly from the shop?"
[It's because the species there are merely basic templates. Every creator gods still need to adapt those species to the specific situation in their world and evolve them into a unique advanced species.]
[Take the elves as an example. With the basic elves template sold in the system, many creator gods have created a multitude of advanced elven races that are now famous in the universe. From fantasy like wood elves, high elves, moon elves, and dark elves, to the sci-fi-esque space elves that can live in outer space without using any equipment. All of them are advanced versions of elves that are created by creators after studying the basic elves template.]
"So, I should focus on studying elves, dwarves, and humans, to create an advanced species?" Cedric asked.
[Yes, but not now. Your knowledge is simply too lacking to create an advanced version of intelligent races. So, when your world advanced to Level 2, just learn how to create magical species first.]
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"Okay." Cedric feels kinda disappointed. But he still decided to follow the System's advice and studied the creatures in his world.
He already got a gist of what kind of species he wished to create.
For the first species that he'll create on his own, Cedric wanted something domineering!
He wanted to create a dragon! Well, perhaps dinosaurs if he failed to craft a dragon.
To not waste time studying unnecessary things, most of the animals that Cedric has copied consisted of lizards, birds, and several other flying animals like bats and insects.
Those lizards will be the base form for the dragons. While birds, bats, and insects will be studied so he can give the lizard a wing.
Except for the normal animals, Cedric also copied several magical beasts that might be useful for his goal of creating a dragon.
For example, there is a twenty centimeters long fire breathing lizard, a twenty five centimeters long ice breathing lizards, a meter tall bat that could release sonar attack, a twenty meter long gigantic lizard, and other species.
With every preparation ready, Cedric clapped his hand. "Now that the Crystal Cube world is relatively calm and I couldn't intervene in it, let's enter learning mode!"
He happily dissected a few lizards and spread his mental power around them to help him observe them closer.
Now that his ability to manipulate mental power has risen, Cedric must say that mental power is incredibly useful.
Not only can it be used to observe his word and uses multitude of skills. He can also use it as a microscope and x-ray scanner!
Amidst his experiment, a year quickly passes by.
While Cedric is busy dissecting the structure of a bat's wings, the System sends a message.
[Hey, try to check the sky above your Crustal Cube world. You might want to see the effect of a damaged world balance to understand how dangerous it is.]
Cedric is initially a bit disgruntled that his focus has been broken by the System. But its message piqued his interest.
He sent his mental power into the Crystal Cube world and observed the surroundings.
He felt something was weird as the area around seemed to be much brighter than usual.
Cedric controlled his mental power to observe the sky and his eyes almost fell down.
On the afternoon sky. The sun that should've been shining alone in the sky has actually been accompanied by another sun.
The double sun in the sky caused the Crystal Cube world to turn brighter than usual.
Furthermore, from the distorted air that Cedric can occasionally see. The temperature in the world has greatly increased.
"What's going on?" Cedric can only ask for an explanation from the expert.
[Because the sun in your world is only a virtual screen made out of laws and rules instead of a real physical star like those placed on Earth. It has been affected by the broken balance in your world and has become distorted.]
[The law where 'one sun shall shine in the world' has been distorted because of the broken balance, which increased the number of sun shining at once into two.]
"What the heck? That's utterly insane!" Cedric asked, "How long will this double sun last?"
[At least a year, at most ten years.]
[By the way, You're still quite lucky it only affects a superficial operational law. If the stability of your world goes any lower, even basic laws related to mass, energy, inertia, action-reaction, and others might get affected. When that happens, the formula E=mc² can't be used any longer and Einstein might jump up from his grave. That will also mark a game over for your world.]
Cedric listened to the System's explanation while observing the world.
Except for the elven territory where the double sun only cause those elves to gain tanner skin. The dwarves and humans territory has been greatly affected by the sun and started to enter a time of drought.
"So, what should I do now?" He scratched the back of his head, "if this goes any longer, the creatures in my world will die from thirst and hunger. Once too much people died of hunger at once, NE might began to accumulate in my world and created another demon king."
[You can use some extremely expensive and rare Divine Items to increase the stability, or simply wait and hope for the best.]
"How expensive is this 'extremely expensive' you talked about?" Cedric questioned in curiosity.
[The kind that you can't buy in ten thousand years. Anyway, seeing how curious you are, the System will show the item's screen.]
[Level 16 Consumable Divine Item, World Stability Restorer.
Cost: 1…..000
Details: Restore the stability in a world.]
This might be the shortest item details Cedric has ever seen. But the cost required to purchase it immediately shocked him.
Cedric counted the amount of zeroes written in the cost and immediately closed it.
"Yeah, I definitely can't buy that thing even after ten thousand years," Cedric replied with the eyes of a dead fish.
[See? The System has said so.]
[You'd better trust the creatures in your world while hoping for the best. They should be able to solve the current predicament. Especially with Lacius around.]
Cedric sighed, "Well, alright."
Still, he didn't immediately returns to his research. Instead, Cedric focused his attention on the dwarf's territory and saw the dwarves are still busy causing explosions.
This time, those explosion isn't activated randomly. But, are used to enlarge the river tributary that flows near their mountain.
Cedric isn't sure whether this will save the dwarves from that drought. But as the System said, he can only hope for the best.
Next, he saw the elves that still had plenty of food and water thanks to the magical forest they lived in.
Now that Cedric thought about it, perhaps the reason the elves cost five times as much GP to purchase compared to humans isn't due to the virtue of their species. But instead, because of this cheat-like magical forest that's included in the package.
After making sure the elves were okay, he finally checked the human's territory.
By skimming through the human's territory with his mental power. Cedric found the humans has actually split into two kingdoms at this time.
As for how he knew it.
That's because on the five main cities in the human's territory, many banner with sun symbols has been raised.
After eavesdropping to the civilian's conversation, Cedric knew that the sun banner is the symbol of the Great Sun Kingdom. A kingdom that's created when five cities split off from the Sacred Kingdom.
Luckily, looking at how the NE in his world hasn't increased much. It seems there weren't any battles during the formation of this new kingdom.
Still, this new kingdom rises at the wrong time.
He indeed wanted the humans to split into several kingdoms. But this definitely isn't the right time for it. Especially with the two suns in the sky that's causing draught in every part of the world.
Cedric controlled his mental power to check the cities in the human territory and found the capital city of this new empire.
The city they choose as their capital city is the Red Leaf city. This city is located on the other side of the River Stone city, and two city away from Winter City.
This means the temple and the Sacred Kingdom's influence in this city is extremely low.
Cedric checked the palace that's still in the process of being built, and found a familiar face sitting on the throne.
Looking at Yuma who has somehow become a king, Cedric felt curious.
Just how did Yuma build a kingdom in such a brief time?
He activated Past Observation and checked Yuma's experience.
A few years ago, after Yuma escaped, and burned the forest around Winter City to make Lacius busy.
He immediately followed the trace from one of his wives who has successfully escaped Lacius's earth ball when he broke it for the first time.
The traces brought him to Red Leaf city where he indeed met with his wife and two of his children, Mayu and Yami.
After their reunion, Yuma's family decided to stay in the city.
That's when Yuma felt something weird.
Whether it's tailoring, blacksmithing, carpentry, or other crafts. The average technology on Red Leaf city is much more advanced compared to other cities.
Their drainage system and cleanliness are also leap and bound compared to other cities.
Several other things that he discovered made Yuma suspect there was another transmigrator except for him and Tsukiko.
Especially the familiar 9 year compulsory education system which made Yuma almost certain about his guesses.
Although the temple also has a schooling system made by Tsukiko. But they're more akin to Sunday school instead of a formal school.
Which means, the people in the Crystal Cube world shouldn't know about the 9 year compulsory education.
So, Yuma tried to snoop around before all traces led to the city lord and the owner of the richest chamber of commerce in the city.
At this part, Cedric felt a bit bored, so he just skimmed them.
Anyway, after chatting for a long time, Yuma knew that the current city lord of Red Leaf City was the descendant of a transmigrator called Kame with a native of this world, Liana.
When the current city lord knew about Yuma's status as a tranmigrator and the hero who killed the demon king. He tested Yuma by bringing a few broken modern items like a smartphone, watch, and a lighter, before nodding in approval once Yuma described their uses correctly.
After a few more discussions which is incomprehensible to Cedric. Both of them suddenly came to a deal.
The city lord willingly gave his status as a city lord to Yuma. in exchange, Yuma need to create a new kingdom and support the chamber of commerce under the city lord without intervening in it.
The city lord also requested the status of archduke in the new kingdom, which can be inherited by his descendants, complete with lands that they can lord over.
Then, both sides talked about the deal in more detail before they finally reached a conclusion.
***
While watching this scene, Cedric felt a bit confused as to why Yuma suddenly changed his goal from living a quiet life.
But after thinking about it, Cedric felt he had comprehended the reason.
It seems Yuma felt living quietly wouldn't stop trouble from being attracted to him. So, he decided to increase his status to guard himself and his family.
In curiosity, Cedric continued to watch the scene and saw Yuma finally concluded his discussion with the ex city lord of Red Leaf city.
After the deal. With Yuma's fame as the hero. Yuma and the ex-city lord successfully invited the four city lords who hated Lacius to build a new kingdom by exploiting the instability in the Sacred Kingdom due to the change of ruler.
Just like that, the Great Sun Kingdom came into existence.
Cedric turned off Past Observation and fell into thought.
The new kingdom calling itself the Great Sun Kingdom, and the double sun in the makes Cedric feel concerned.
He felt some people will forcefully make a connection between the kingdom's name and the current double sun disaster.
And just like Cedric expected. Half a year since the double sun shone in the world, news has spread that the double sun is a punishment from the creator because the Great Sun Kingdom has established its kingdom without seeking acknowledgment from the gods.
When Cedric who've just rested from studying how to create a dragons heard it. He immediately knew this propaganda must be related to the temple.
So, he checked the temple and found they had actually found a method to relieve the disaster caused by the double sun.
Not long after turning himself into stone, Lacius actually woke up from his petrification upon hearing about the disaster.
He gathered most alchemists under the temple to quickly find a method to save the situation.
Lacius also began gathering many water element blessed and gave them the first art of the water element training method. That method will be enough to help them advance to Peak Level 1.
Then, he spread them around the Sacred Kingdom to help mitigate the impact caused by the draught.
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After three month, the alchemist under Lacius has also successfully created a prototype of drought resistant wheat and a potions that'll allow plant to lock in the moistures inside them.
After spreading the finished product toward the cities under the Sacred Kingdom. Lacius pulled most of the water blessed to provide water support to the people in the cities and villages so they won't die from thirst.
Just like that, the effect of the double sun in the Sacred Kingdom has been mostly mitigated thanks to the temple.
But the Great Sun Kingdom isn't doing so good. Especially since the temple hasn't spared much help to their kingdom as a retaliation for being suppressed since the kingdom's founding.
After all, the founding members of the kingdom hated Lacius and they all knew the temple has fallen into the control of Lacius.
They're unwilling to allow Lacius's hand to reach into their kingdom.
That's why Yuma has also gathered every alchemist in the Great Sun Kingdom to find a way and resolve their predicament. But the temple's protection regarding their alchemy knowledge is simply too tight.
The difference in technological level between the temple and the Great Sun Kingdom is simply too great.
Even after the situation in the kingdom has almost collapsed, the alchemist in Great Sun Kingdom still failed to show any result.
At last, the Great Sun Kingdom is forced to accept a helping hand from the temple in exchange for two demands.
The temple first demanded the Great Sun Kingdom to reenact their king's coronation and allow the temple to sent a representative to grant their king and every succeeding kings a blessing from the gods.
The temple also demanded the Great Syn kingdom to build a temple that in their capital. The temple must be the second biggest building in the city after the palace.
Even though the leaders of the Great Sun Kingdom knows that once they accepted those demand, the temple will be able to meddle in the kingdom, and even the process of a king's succession. But they still gritted their teeth and followed the temple's request upon seeing the instability inside their own kingdom.
After many twists and turns, the situation in the human territory finally stabilized.
***
In the Divine Kingdom, Cedric stopped checking the human's territory that had stabilized and turned his attention towards the dwarves.
While trying to survive the drought that's caused by the double sun disaster. The dwarf's corps related technology has increased by leaps and bounds.
The mountains and rivers around the dwarf's magic mountain has been filled with complicated cannals and terracing fields. Their technique to create a well has also increased. But it still doesn't help much against the drought that has caused their harvest to decrease.
At last, what became a game changer is a magical ores that a dwarf found while digging in their magic mountain.
These magical ores constantly shine with a gentle golden glow that brings warmth.
The ore reminded the dwarves of the sun's glow, so they named the ore Sun Ores.
The ores caused some genius in the dwarf race to have an idea, which they immediately experimented with.
They tried to hang the ore on the ceiling of caves and planted some plants under it.
When they saw the plant actually grow with no problem, the dwarves became ecstatic.
After a discussion between the council members, the dwarves began their biggest project.
They wanted to start planting corps underground, where the double sun's extreme heat wouldn't affect their corps.
To do so, all of the dwarven race members have been deployed to support this cause.
First, they looked for a suitable underground river that hadn't dried nor shown signs of drying, before bringing fertile soils from the outside world with the help of their carriages and earth element blessed.
They also dug as many Sun Ores as they could and planted them around the cave's ceiling.
Finally, the dwarves created a cave system to let enough air travel around the area.
With everything ready, the dwarves are filled with hope.
Although the harvest this season is already doomed. They still have enough grain stored to let the race barely survive.
As long as most dwarves went to hunt and gather food while waiting for the corps in the underground to ripe, they'd be able to survive once the underground corps went ripe.
***
After two years, the second sun in the sky slowly turned dimmer. Finally, eight years after it appeared, the second sun disappeared completely from the sky.
When the double sun has finally disappeared, Cedric said while tinkering with the body of a giant lizard. "That's dangerous. The dwarves might've gone extinct if not for the Sun Ore."
He then asked, "Has the effect of my world's broken balance finally ended?"
[No.]
"Then why has the double sun disappeared?"
[It's because the law that's being affected by the broken balance has changed.]
Cedric checked the world and found no disaster. So, he asked the System, "I saw no disaster in the Crystal Cube world. Is there some sort of rest time between disasters?"
[You can think so. But it's actually because the law that's affected right now isn't all that important. Which is why there seems to be no disaster happening.]
[The System has just checked the law in your world and found that the law that's currently affected seems to be something related to photosynthesis. It has changed the proportion of CO2 and O2 that's used and generated from photosynthesis.]
Cedric nodded "How long will this mess continue? Also, how often will crazy things like that double sun happen?"
[The law in your world will keep on being distorted until the balance in your world has been repaired to a certain extent, which will take 100 to 500 years. The more your world's balance has been repaired, the more trivial the law that'll be affected. That means, the longer it is, the smaller the chance for disaster like that double sun to happen. As for when or whether or not something as dangerous as the double sun law will appear, the System also didn't know.]
"Alright," Cedric replied as he continued with his study while occasionally checking the situation in the Crystal Cube world.
For the next two decades, the situation in the Crystal Cube world hasn't changed much.
Except for the amount of races that keep on increasing, there are only two big events in the world.
The first one is that both Sacred Kingdom and the Great Sun Kingdom are building a big city each. Which caused the total of big cities in the human's territory to reach 12.
The second big news is that Yuma has secretly reached Lower Level 3 after killing weak demons for the past decades.
With his newfound power, Yuma tried to suppress the temple. Especially since he stopped hearing about Lacius a few decades ago.
The first few months of the suppression went smoothly because of the sheer difference in high level combatant. But not long after, Lacius reappeared in the world and fought back against Yuma.
Although Lacius is still in Mid Level 2, But thanks to the boost gained from gathering faith from the last two decades, he could fight toe to toe against Yuma for a long time.
Cedric is afraid the battle might get out of control. So, he decided to send a screen to Yuma and Lacius respectively, and tell them not to cause a big mess and too much death.
That intervention caused the balance in his world to be further damaged.
The System's estimated time before the world's balance returned to normal has also increased from 80 to 480 years to 90 to 520 years.
Thankfully, after his warning, both sides tried to suppress the involvement of lower leveled combatants. Still, they kept on fighting until Yuma finally died from old age ten years later.
With his death, no one can fight against the temple any longer and it has truly become the controller of the human race.
Lacius also went to steal Yuma's corpse and studied it for a few years before petrifying his own body once more and entering another hibernation to save his lifespan.
The battle has caused the amount of NE in the world to slightly increase. Luckily Cedric has warned them, and it only caused the strength of demons all around the world to slightly increase and is still far away from spawning a demon king.
Inside the Divine Space.
After eighty years, Cedric finally got an idea on how to create his own version of dragons. But there are still plenty of details he needs to test before his own version of dragons can fully function.
With it, he decided to rest and checked the situation in the Crystal Cube world.
That's when he saw the winds in the Crystal Cube world had been moving suspiciously. Instead of blowing normally, the winds seem to blow in the shape of many small cyclones.
"This isn't what I think it is, right?" Cedric muttered as he asked the System, "May I ask which law is currently being affected by the broken balance?"
[It's the law related to wind interaction.]
"Darn. I just hope it won't result in tornadoes. I am not sure whether the creatures in my world can survive several consecutive tornadoes yet." Cedric prayed hard, but it all went for naught.
The wind cyclones throughout the Crystal Cube world began to turn bigger before tornadoes began spawning in the Crystal Cube world.
On average, one massive tornado appears every two months for the first two years. Meanwhile, the amount of small tornadoes that spawn every year has reached four digits.
The tornadoes don't cause much damage when they appear above the sea surface or in the wilderness. But every time it appears in a place with many creatures, devastating damage ensues.
In the Sacred Kingdom and Great Sun Kingdom, many crops have failed to be harvested after being destroyed by the tornadoes.
Even a city has been seriously damaged after a massive tornado appeared nearby.
Under the might of nature, all they could do is to deploy their blessed and hope they can move the tornadoes away and decrease the amount of damage it caused.
The situation in the Elf forest is also not much better.
The tornado spawned indiscriminately and began to destroy many parts of the elf's magical forest.
With every tornado attack, bald patches began to appear on the lush forest.
Those bald patches caused the elves to be busy replanting the trees around their forests under the command of the elf king, which Cedric has once pulled into the Dream Space.
Surprisingly, in this tornado disaster, the dwarves are the least affected.
When they felt many tornadoes appearing, the dwarves began to evacuate into their underground mines and the underground river they used to survive the double sun disaster.
After decades of hard work, the area around the underground river has evolved and became much more suitable for living.
The dwarves who loved to mine have also created complicated mine tunnels which connect the underground river area to the ore veins inside their magic mountain.
All things combined caused the dwarf's daily life to not be affected much by the tornadoes disaster.
For five whole years, at least two thousand tornadoes happened all around the world annually. After that, it slowly decreased in intensity and mostly stopped after twelve years.
The creature in the Crystal Cube world finally survived the tornado disaster after receiving severe damage.
The humans have lost one city and several villages, while around ten percent of the elf's magical forest has been damaged.
After the tornado disaster disappeared, things returned to normal as the world continued to progress.
Soon, 140 years have passed.
In the Divine Space, Cedric has successfully created a prototype for dragons. But there are still many small issues he needs to handle.
For example, he needs to make adjustment to their eyes, sense of smell, their energy circulation, giving them physical instinct to use their magical power, make sure they won't degenerate or mutate after several generations of breeding, and many other small adjustment.
After tinkering with the body of a western dragon, which is actually a combination of giant lizard and bat wings. Cedric waved his hand and pushed the experiment aside.
He felt a bit tired from the experiment and went to check the situation in the Crystal Cube world.
The moment he looked at the world, Cedric found that the humans and dwarves have greatly expanded their territory.
The dwarves have already created five other cities in the mountains surrounding their magic mountain.
Meanwhile, the humans have already created eight new cities.
Furthermore, the city that has been destroyed by the tornado has also long been repaired.
That means the humans have already owned eighteen cities and hundreds of villages.
The speed of their expansion made Cedric a bit concerned.
He is afraid that they'll met the elves and dwarves soon.
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Considering how the humans usually do their things. Cedric is a hundred percent sure that they'll cause a massive mess once they met the other two races.
Especially since the humans' combat power is several times stronger thanks to alchemy, training methods, and demons that's used by low leveled blessed to increase their level.
So, Cedric gritted his teeth and sent a message to Lacius.
The message was simple and only asked him to urge the humans to expand westward or southward.
After he sent that message to Lacius. Lacius immediately got into work and commanded the temple to control the expansion of the human race.
Meanwhile, Cedric ignored the notification from the System that said the time required for his world's balance to be restored has increased
Compared to whatever mess that'll happen once the humans met with the other race. Slightly damaging his world's balance is worth it.
With Lacius following his suggestion, Cedric began to contemplate his future plans.
Because the elves and dwarves are located in the east and northern part of the continent respectively. By making the humans focus on advancing southward or westward, they should be able to reach the sea anytime soon.
At that time, the humans will be too busy exploring the rich sea to focus on expanding toward the elf and dwarf's territory.
Still, that's merely a distraction that can only delay the meeting between the two races.
Cedric has planned to create a massive river that split the continent into two once he got the chance to intervene in his world.
Of course, he doesn't want the continent to completely split into two.
His target is merely to delay the humans from meeting Othe races until the elves and dwarves have similar combat power to the humans.
He already has plans to increase the dwarf and the elf's combat power. But it can't be achieved within a short time.
This plan to increase the dwarf and elf's life level will involve the dragons he has just created.
He planned to deploy the dragons that he has been busy studying to the dwarf and elf's settlements.
The dragons he tried to create right now are more akin to beast.
That's why Cedric planned to create a 'king' like existence among the dragon that he created.
He plans to make the other dragon to follow the dragon king's command.
At that time, he'll be able to control the dragon to attack and pressure the dwarf and elves by using Divine Intervention: Urge on the dragon king.
Once some NE has begun to gather in the elven and dwarven territory, he'll use another Divine Intervention: Urge to control the dragon to leave.
At that time, the NE will spawn demons that will increase the average level of elves and dwarves!
Cedric nodded at his own genius idea and quickly returned to work.
This time, he experimented in peace for eight whole years while occasionally checking the situation in the Crystal Cube world.
That's when Cedric saw the ocean in the Crystal Cube world began to raise higher.
The rising ocean level caused most of the beach in the Crystal Cube world to be swallowed by the ocean.
Luckily, none of the intelligent race in the world is living nearby the ocean. Otherwise, he's afraid they will be swallowed by the ocean and died.
When Cedric saw that, he asked the System. "Which law is the one affected this time?"
[Law related to water tide.]
Cedric nodded and observed the world.
When a full moon arrived in the Crystal Cube world, the water in every river and lakes began to overflow.
The elves are the most affected, as most of their forest has been flooded and many of the trees inside soon fell ill.
The dwarves once again became the one least affected due to the cannals and tunnels that they have created during the double sun disaster.
Although many of the canals and tunnels has became flooded due to the water. But the amount of tunnels the dwarves have dug is simply too much. Those tunnels helped the dwarves to redirect the water flow and protected their crops from being flooded.
As for the humans, they have begun to deploy alchemist to research potion to help crop resist the flood.
They're also busy making canals to help the water flow somewhere else.
The flooding slightly lessen when it's not a full moon.
But when the full moon reappears next month. The rivers began to flood once more.
For three years, the creatures in the Crystal Cube world are busy trying to redirect the flow of water that overflows every full moon.
After three years, the water tide in the Crystal Cube world finally returned to normal.
Cedric saw it and returned to his experiment.
After creating and tweaking the dragon's body for more than a hundred more tears. Cedric finally feels satisfied with the race he has just created.
With a wave of his hand, two dragons of opposite sex appeared.
Considering the dragon's body is merely husk without any soul. Cedric sent his mental power to both bodies and started creating the next generation of dragon through natural means.
He controlled the female dragon's body to lay an egg, while controlling the male dragon to inseminate it.
Then, he used his power to advance the egg's growth speed and made it hatch within a short time.
Of course, he didn't do so by accelerating times. He still didn't understand anything about accelerating or decelerating time.
Instead, Cedric does so by making the cell inside the body of that dragon to grow and die at faster speed.
Within an hour, the dragon egg that should have required months to hatch has become ready to hatch.
Cedric infused his mental power inside the dragon egg to control the body and make it exit the shell.
Looking at the newly born dragon in front of him, Cedric used his mental power to thoroughly check its condition.
When he found nothing wrong with the dragon. Cedric started the next experiment to see whether there will be mutation after generations of breeding.
He created hundreds pair of dragons with different genetic sequence and controlled them to mate with each other.
Then, he collected the eggs that have been fertilized and make them hatch up quickly.
Even though he can advance the dragon's aging speed thanks to the help of Divine Space. But, it still takes times to check the result of the tests.
Which is why, by the time Cedric has finished, five years have passed.
Looking at the three hundredth something generation dragon in front of him, Cedric sent his mental power to control the body.
Once he possessed the twenty meter long dragon body, Cedric tried to flap his wing and flew around the Divine Space.
After he made sure the dragon could indeed fly, Cedric took a deep breath and the mana inside the dragon's body began to circulate on its own.
Once he exhaled his breath, a massive ball of flame appeared and struck a building in the Divine Space.
The flame immediately shattered every glass in that building and caused the wall that came into contact with the breath to be shattered into pieces.
Cedric looked at the wreckage in front of him and grinned. "Success!"
After so long, he finally created a dragon race whose ability won't deteriorate after continuous breeding!