In the Divine Space, Cedric sat in his chair while being dumbfounded.

  He recalled he had just begun his acting and increased his size to shock everyone.

  Then, midway through his speech, Cedric got an idea and decided to summon a thunderstorm to show more of his might.

  But before he could finish speaking, the space around him has been destroyed and the mental power he used to control the body in Dream Space has been swallowed by the destruction.

  “Damn! I know there is only a little energy left in the [Divine Intervention: Dream]. But, I never expected it to be this little!” Cedric summoned a stick of ice cream and angrily bit it.

  He initially wanted to say ‘In this war, don’t cause misery or unnecessary death to the people’. But he knew the amount of energy was too low, so he decided to remove ‘in this war’ and ‘to the people’.

  Who knows the amount of energy is not enough to even say - ‘Don’t cause misery or unnecessary death.’

  Cedric took a deep breath to calm down and tried to call down. “The most important thing right now is to make sure those people have understood my message.”

  In case those people fail to get his message, Cedric has decided to grit his teeth and buy another [Divine Intervention: Dream] to pull them all into the Dream Space once more. Or at least he’ll send a warning through [Divine Intervention: Word] to the people that misunderstood.

  Although giving the same warning twice might hit his reputation and cause the aura of mystery around him to decrease, Cedric doesn’t give a hoot about it.

  Once his mental energy began to recover, Cedric immediately sent a strand of mental power to check the situation in the Crystal Cube world.

  He first checked Lacius and found he had just woken up and looked thoughtful.

  A short moment later, he ordered the guards to gather all of the nobles in Winter City.

  As it still took some time for Lacius to finish gathering the nobles, Cedric quickly moved his mental power to check the situation on one of the substitute city lords.

  The one he first found is the substitute city lord of Brown Oak City.

  Brown Oak City is one of the nearest cities to Winter City, so checking them after observing Winter City is a bit more convenient than the other cities.

  Cedric controlled his mental power to move toward the city lord’s mansion and quickly found the substitute city lord he had invited to the Dream Space.

  Currently, the city lord is sweating while heaving loudly and grabbing his heart. Occasionally, he would mutter something like ‘Creator, threat, and destruction of the world.’

  Cedric felt a bit embarrassed as the thing he had done seemed to cause the city lord to have a misunderstanding and several panic attacks.

  Luckily, that city lord began to calm down after a moment and called one of his subordinates.

  Once his subordinate arrived, the substitute city lord quickly ordered, “Quickly go and ask the city to cease their battle preparation! Also, return those militia we have recruited recently to their family.”

  The subordinate was a bit confused and asked, “Why? We have spent so many resources on this battle preparation.”

  The substitute city lord frowned, “Just go! It’s a revelation - no, It’s a warning from the creator!”

  In the Divine Space. When he heard the city lord’s words, Cedric nodded his head. “It seems my intention is correctly understood.”

  Although the substitute city lord seems to be extremely traumatized after the meeting, Cedric doesn’t care about such an unimportant thing.

  “But, checking just one of them isn’t enough.” Cedric rubbed his chin and began observing the other city lords, merchants, and the three people that Tsukiko had duped as her pawns.

  He found all three city lords had stopped gathering their armies and forcibly recruiting militias from the populace. Meanwhile, the merchants contemplated his words for a bit longer and most began to stabilize the price of foods and stopped inflating them.

  The few that haven’t stopped have felt their competitor’s move and quickly connected the dots between Cedric’s warning to not cause misery and their competitor’s move to stop gathering food and weapons.

  Soon, the price of necessities began to stabilize.

  Coupled with the adult male that’s forcefully conscripted has been sent back to the field to continue their work. The Sacred Kingdom has somehow barely evaded its first great famine.

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  As for the people that Tsukiko has duped, they also started to calm down and stopped causing trouble. Instead, they began to take a wait and see approach.

  When he saw the reaction from everyone, Cedric seriously wanted to bury his face. Now that he has calmed down, Cedric feels just the act he has done is already standing in the border of his cringe limit.

  But, those people seem to misunderstand that what he has done is actually threatening them.

  Those people basically think the collapse of the dream space is intentional. They thought the last ‘or…’ that he hadn’t finished saying was just giving them an example of what would happen if they didn’t follow his word.

  “This is quite awkward.” Cedric rubbed his nose and shuddered.

  At last, Cedric can only accept his fate and goes along with it.

  While sitting comfortably on a super soft couch that he had just created, Cedric sent his mental power into the Crystal Cube world and checked the situation.

  Inside the Crystal Cube world, Lacius finally has free time from all the administration work he needs to do.

  Currently, he sat inside his laboratory and gently tapped the armrest of his chair rhythmically.

  “My gut feeling tells me that the Sacred Kingdom can’t last any longer,” Lacius muttered as he watched Hars boiling an alchemical potion. “Even if the problem with the four substitute city lords is fixed, a new problem will definitely come out soon.”

  “Luckily, what I need is not the status of a king. But only the resources and convenience that this status brings to my research for eternal life. So, I should still have a way out.” With that idea, Lacius’s mind began to wander around until recalled his latest meeting with the creator.

  From what he listened at that time, the people around him seemed to be humans that came from the Sacred Kingdom.

  Although their name has been censored by Cedric because he wants those people’s attention to be focused on him. But Lacius has overheard some of their conversations and heard them mention familiar cities like Winter City and River Stone City.

  Lacius didn’t know the exact identity of those people. But, at least he knows that some, or even all of them are from the Sacred Kingdom.

  For them to be called by the creator should also mean they have quite a high status.

  Then, Lacius began to combine several facts like Cedric’s warning, the sudden price stabilization, and other clues before concluding that the people Cedric invited should be people who were involved in the imminent war that almost caused famine in several areas.

  Once war and famine happen, the people will definitely enter a hard time and their daily life becomes full of misery.

  He isn’t sure why the creator warned them to not cause misery. But the creator’s goal isn’t important for now.

  What Lacius cares about is that except for him, the main character in this war is the four substitutes city lords.

  With that logic, he is certain that those four are among the people who have seen the creator’s warning. Except for those four, the people who are involved in causing the price of necessities to inflate should also be there. After all their action at that time will cause the price of food to increase and the people will be too poor to afford food.

  That means, unless those people wish to defy the creator, the situation will be in a peaceful state and Lacius will have enough time to make several moves without fearing too much backlash. That is as long as he follows the creator’s warning to not cause misery.

  ‘So… what kind of step should I take to keep the amount of resources on my hand while not being affected by the chaos that’ll definitely happen soon.’ Lacius stopped tapping his finger on the chair and looked around the laboratory.

  His eyes glimpsed through the laboratory before pausing on a glass cylinder containing Tsukiko’s corpse.

  Even with the solution Lacius has created, the corpse has slightly rotted away and there are many traces of dissection on the body that’s caused by his study.

  While staring at Tsukiko’s corpse, Lacius somehow recalled the temple of the creator god and the influence it had over the people.

  As the only organization that has successfully taken over a city and even has its influence on many other cities. Lacius must say he actually respects how far Tsukiko could bring that organization.

  He is also amazed by Tsukiko’s technique which has caused the faith in the creator god to stand strong until now. Even though the temple has been extremely weakened and the core led by Tsukiko has been destroyed.

  ‘This is indeed a path I can use. Maybe I can try to control the creator god temple and push it to greater heights while I am still the undisputed king of the human race. At that time, even if the kingdom split, I can use faith to meddle with the kingdoms controlled by others.’

  The more Lacius thought about it, the more he felt this idea was quite suitable. ‘But, being the high priest of a religion isn’t enough. I need an even higher and transcendental status that’ll allow me to meddle with things unhindered.’

  He still remembered that the main reason those four city lords gathered their army was to place some pressure on him.

  They might not make a move for now because the creator has just sent a warning. But, it doesn’t mean they’ll never pressure him with different means.

  So, he needs an extremely high status and control. A status so high that those four will be forced to bury the hatred. The kind of status that others won’t dare to usurp unless the creator god showed another miracle and willed it to happen.

  Suddenly, Hars’s voice broke his thoughts, “Lacius, I’ve finished gathering the alchemical data. It seems we need to catalyze the reaction with different materials. I’ve tried everything, but whether it’s the magic deer horn that’s usually used to catalyze healing potions, the blue moonflower, the crystalized grass, or other materials used to catalyze potions, all of them are ineffective for this upgraded health nurturing potions. Perhaps we should try to …”

  At first, Lacius listened to Hars’s report intently. But, he suddenly focused on the failed health nurturing potions in Hars’s hand.

  It reminds him of the time those civilians called it a miracle from the creator god after he fed his wives that potion and allowed all of them to safely give birth to healthy children.

  “Miracle… god… Wait a moment! “ Lacius widened his eyes. He finally knew what step he needed to take now, and what kind of status could allow him to research the way to extend his lifespan in peace.

  Lacius suddenly shouted, “Hars, I want to be a god!”