After more than three weeks of training, Lacius’s level finally increased, and he turned younger.
Feeling the increase in his energy and vigor, Lacius exited the ore vein and rode his horse for fifteen minutes to test his strengthened blessing. He doesn’t want to do it near the ore vein for fear that the vein that he has opened with difficulty will collapse because of an accident.
Controlling his energy, Lacius began to control the earth around him and easily summoned an earth pillar.
He checked the amount of energy spent and found out the amount of energy he consumed was slightly lower than what he usually spent to create a similar earth pillar before.
On the side, Hars also finally has time to try his strengthened ability and summon several streams of water that he controlled like a whip. Those whips aren’t strong enough to cause much damage to the surrounding vegetation, but it shows that his control over the water he summoned has greatly increased.
They actually wanted to continue testing their strengthened blessed power. But, looking at Rinya and the two healers that followed behind them, the two decided to return to Winter City.
Now that the threat of death had been delayed, they needed to handle the aftermath of killing the city lords.
Lacius knew the dead city lord’s force wouldn’t immediately turn hostile because of the preparation he had done before he killed those city lords.
But it definitely won’t last long.
Just like he expected, a few days after he returned to Winter City, some of the city lord’s subordinates began to request an audience with him.
Lacius heard them urge him to tell where their city lords were. But, he calmly replied with nonsense to delay for more time.
After a whole month of replying to those people with nonsense. The city lord’s subordinates finally returned to their respective city.
Lacius knows those people already feel something is wrong and will start to cause trouble for him soon. So, although on the outside he still worked as usual while occasionally spending time training. Lacius has secretly sent several people to report the condition in those cities to him.
While waiting for news about the city lords from the people he has sent, Lacius doesn’t waste his time. Now that time is on his side, Lacius decided to use it to the fullest.
Except for training and managing the kingdom, he kept on gathering blessed with earth and water elements. The lack of experiment material before has almost caused him to go insane.
Luckily, the creator has taken pity on him and granted him the training method.
Still, Lacius won’t push his hope for another miracle from the creator god. So, he needs to gather more blessed and force them to train and become suitable to be his experiment material.
As he has already gathered those that have awakened for a long time, most of the blessed he gathered this time consisted of recently awakened children and teenagers.
When Lacius saw the children that had awakened their blessed power, he suddenly recalled the time he talked with Yuma and Tsukiko not long after he allowed her to build the temple.
At that time, Yuma had begun his plan to retire but still occasionally told him to look after Tsukiko. He said that she was once a part of many cults and explained why those weird cults are dangerous.
‘It seems Yuma has mentioned something about how most of the cults loved to brainwash children and make use of them.’ Lacius rubbed his chin. ‘I got the gist of what Yuma means by brainwashing. Maybe I need to try it on this batch of blessed?’
Lacius isn’t sure how to do brainwashing, so he discusses it with Hars and decides to experiment on this batch of blessed.
Anyway, he has nothing to lose.
If this experiment succeeds, Lacius will gain a bunch of loyal blessed for his own use. This much force will be enough to slightly stabilize the situation when those city lords realize something and start a rebellion.
If he fails, then he’ll just use them as material for an experiment.
Lacius went to discuss his idea with Hars and both of them prepared several plans which they immediately set in motion.
Now, except for training and managing the kingdom. Both of them also began their sociology experiment on how to brainwash a group of people.
Lacius’s target is the earth element blessed that’s currently training in the magic ore vein. While Hars targeted the water element blessed that’s currently training in the river.
Just like that, a year calmly passes by.
In the Divine Space, Cedric sat on his chair and saw Lacius reading a report from the spy he had planted in the other cities.
After a whole year of subtly questioning Lacius, those cities seemed to get tired of asking and began to gather their armed forces to force Lacius to reveal the city lord’s whereabouts. To fill the amount of soldiers, they began to forcefully conscript many healthy young men from among the populace.
Once gathered, those armies will be directly led by the city’s respective substitute city lords. From how they still hadn’t changed into a new city lord, it can be seen that those people still believed that their city lord had only gone missing.
Except for the four cities where the city lord has been killed by Lacius. Cedric also saw Lacius receiving a report regarding some people who wished to join in the fun and had prepared some war resources like weapons, armor, and food.
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To respond to those threats, Lacius began to mobilize his army and started gathering provisions and other resources.
As he saw that Lacius still needed some time to mobilize his army, Cedric decided to check the situation around Lacius, the substitute city lords, and also the people who wanted to join in the fun.
Especially the people that wanted to join the fun.
Just the city lord against Lacius is enough to put him on edge. If more people joined the battle, Cedric felt he might vomit blood if things went out of control.
Thanks to the report that he had peeked from Lacius, Cedric knew where to find those people.
He controlled his mental power and checked everyone on the list that had been reported to Lacius.
While checking, he also used Past Observation on several targets to see the reason why they purchased war resources at such a tense time.
The result makes him quite speechless. There are actually three kinds of people that joined in the fun and collected war resources.
The first one is those who felt something was wrong and wanted to guard themself. This part usually consisted of nobles or other city lords. Especially the city lord whose city is located between Winter City and the four city lord’s cities.
The second one is those with a business mindset and wanted to get profit by raising price and stocking resources to resell.
Cedric must say this group of people are geniuses who know how to do business even though currency and trades have just been introduced in the world for less than a hundred years.
But this group of people is also the one that causes the most problems. Their whole trading games have caused the price throughout the Sacred Kingdom to fall into chaos.
If this goes on, many people will die in misery due to hunger because they can’t buy food. At that time, the amount of NE in his world will definitely explode, and Cedric can’t accept that.
Finally, the third group is what caused Cedric to truly become speechless.
This group consisted of three people, and their goal was revenge.
They wanted to avenge their great grandfather Gratian, the kind orphanage sisters, and the High Priestess Tsukiko.
The mention of Tsukiko and Gratian piqued Cedric’s interest and he activated Past Observation several times and finally found Tsukiko’s revenge plan.
When he saw that a few years ago Tsukiko had been gathering people who might be Gratian’s child and hoped they’d cause trouble for Lacius once she died, Cedric became utterly speechless.
He doesn’t know what to say except GG!
While others are playing chess, Tsukiko alone has been playing five dimensional chess with multiversal time travel. Even after her death, she still left some revenge plan that could cause the kingdom to collapse.
Retrieving his mental power, Cedric shook his head and threw away his distracted thought.
“Anyway, It’s time for me to enter the stage!” Cedric took the [Divine Intervention: Dream] from nearby shelves and pushed his mental power inside to enter the familiar Dream Space.
“Let’s go according to the plan I prepared.” Once he possessed the body in the Dream Space, Cedric began to check the people he wanted to talk with and summoned them to the Dream Space.
After he made sure the people he wished to summon to the Dream Space were in a safe location, Cedric began to pull them into the Dream Space.
His targets are Lacius, the substitute city lords, the top merchants, and the so-called Gratian’s descendants, which he hasn’t checked whether or not they indeed are.
After all, this time he has something more important to do.
This is the most people he has ever pulled into [Divine Intervention: Dream]’s Dream Space, and Cedric felt excited.
He hopes the remaining energy in this [Divine Intervention: Dream] can allow him to show off once.
***
In the Crystal Cube world. Under Cedric’s will, many people throughout the Sacred Kingdom began to fall asleep.
Their eyes began to turn heavy before they finally fell asleep in a weird position.
Once they wake up, some of these people will definitely have back pain or neck pain.
Among those people, Lacius who is currently busy checking reports from his subordinates suddenly felt his eyes turn heavy. He wanted to resist it. But, at last, it still failed.
Before falling asleep, Lacius can only use all the remaining energy he has to tell Hars to protect him.
Once he re-opened his eyes, Lacius found himself standing above a sea of clouds. Around him, faint mist calmly flowed as gentle golden light occasionally seeped through it and reached his face.
Looking at the scene that he hadn’t seen for so long, Lacius felt a sense of nostalgia.
Soon, silhouettes began to appear around him.
When he thought there would only be two other silhouettes from people of other races like last time. The silhouette keeps on increasing until there are more than twenty people.
Lacius tries to see them but finds out their bodies are blocked by the mists and even the confused noises they released are distorted by the mists.
Even when he stood in front of the other party and touched them, he still failed to see through the mists obscuring their body.
Nevertheless, there is one thing he is sure of. “This time, all of the creatures that the creator has summoned are humans. Especially the humans from the Sacred Kingdom.”
Although their voices are distorted, the language they speak is undeniably the language used in the Sacred Kingdoms language, instead of the weird language used by other races. Unless the creator grants everyone the ability to understand foreign languages, then the people here are humans.
Lacius calmly watched as those people noisy spoke in panic before a familiar silhouette appeared in front of everyone.
The figure is clad in a robe with a crown on their head. They sat on a throne while holding onto a scepter. On their waist, a beautifully crafted sword is sheathed.
Lacius quickly bowed and greeted the figure. “Lacius has met the creator.”
The surrounding silhouette froze and the fastest among them quickly followed suit, “*** has met the creator.”
Hearing the consecutive beeping sound that censored the names gave Lacius a headache. But, he ignored it and kept on staring at the figure in front of him.
Before all the silhouettes around him have the time to greet the creator. The creator’s figure quickly enlarged. Even the throne, scepter, and other accessories on their body have been enlarged accordingly.
When the creator’s body can barely be seen, everyone hears a loud sound that seems to reverberate into their soul.
“Don’t cause misery or…”
Suddenly, lightning filled the space and the rumbling sound deafens everyone.
Along with it, the surrounding space seemed to crack and the beautiful clouds under everyone’s feet began to lose their solidity which caused everyone to fall from the sky.
While falling, everyone seems to be able to see a scene of destruction just like the end of the world.
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