Standing amidst the army, Yuma dozed off due to the ck of sleep.

  When suddenly, his eyes jolted open upon seeing a s.

  [Prepare yourself. The demon will soo the cave!]

  He turoward Lacius, who’ve lourned from blog the cave entrand shouted, “Get ready, the demon is ing!”

  Lacius’s face turned serious as he shouted, “Everyone, prepare for bat!”

  The soldiers around began to move. First, the shield bearing soldiers in the vanguard raised their shield while surrounding the cave entrance.

  Then, the soldiers holding spears prepared themself to thrust their spear toward the demon or throw it to ihe demon.

  Meanwhile, most blessed hid themselves among the crowd while preparing to deal a killing blow toward the demon.

  Ohe demon almost exited the cave, everyone could hear a weird sound ing from the cave.

  Soon, a gigantieter tall chi appears in everyone’s view.

  Lacius, Tsukiko, and Yuma, who had hidden themselves he rear, looked at each other in fusion.

  “Is that the demon?” Yuma asked

  “Perhaps.” Lacius replied while preparing to activate his power.

  Tsukiko twitched her mouth, “Ain’t that just a chi? Except slightly bigger?”

  Tsukiko wao tinue ridig that chi. But when she saw what that chi was doing right now, she quickly shut her mouth as it turned into one of fear.

  The instant that chi left the cave mouth, it jumped through the shield bearing soldier’s encirclement.

  Although there are some spears wielding soldiers that responded in time and attacked the demonic chi as it jumped, the amount of injuries it received is simply negligible.

  The moment it passed through the vanguard, it began attag the soldiers in the rear. With every attack, pieces of flesh and blood are torn and strewn otlefield.

  Yuma and Tsukiko, who stood quite a distance away, saw the bloody se aheir stomach while their expression turned pale.

  Still frozen in shod fear, they even fot to turn their head a staring at the battlefield.

  It’s unknown who first started it. But in panic, the surrounding soldiers began to throw their spear toward the chi that currently stood tall among them, which further increased the chaos and casualties.

  As it madly kills the surrounding people while evading or knog the spear thrown toward it with its wings.

  It’s unknown how the chi does it, but it occasionally lets out an inhuman clug that sounds like a human’s wails.

  Seeing his army being sughtered like nothing, Lacius led the surrounding blessed to move forward.

  With a frown, he shouted at the top of his voice, ”Every soldier, retreat!”

  The soldiers o him began to retreat. When those located far away saw the people around them had begun to retreat, they silently followed suit.

  That chi saw the retreating soldier and tried to follow after them. But, just when it tried to attack a retreating soldier, it got blocked by a wall of earth created by Lacius and several others blessed.

  When it tried to jump through the earth wall to tis chase, Lacius shouted toward two blessed with divirength who had run toward the chi. “The two of you, hold it down.”

  He then turoward Hars and the two blessed who had previously trolled the horse Yuma and Tsukiko rode. “Hars, when the demon began to spew fire and poisons, I want you to block it with your power. An and Rumina, go lead the other fire and wind blessed to burn that demon!”

  The three of them nodded and got into a.

  While the two blessed with divirength are fighting against the chi in a melee. Rumina and another fire element blessed and created a ball of fire which she shot toward the demonic chi. Meanwhile, Awo other wind elements blessed to help trol and make sure the fire tio burn.

  Although the fire created by Rumina’s group has weakened upon reag the chi. It is still hot enough to cause some of its flesh to be burned into crisp.

  Being burned once more, the chi screamed in pain and opewo of its three beaks.

  From its beak, red fme and purplish liquid be seen densing.

  Hars who’ve seen it, quickly trolled his blessed power to create several balls of water and shot them toward the demonic chi’s beak.

  The instant a ball of fire and purplish liquid shot out of its beak toward the two blessed with divine power. The balls of water Hars created have successfully shot toward the demon.

  Those water balls Hars has created arrived slightly te. heless, one of them still successfully collided with the fme spewed by the demon.

  Although it failed to extinguish the fme, it still slightly weakehe demon’s fme.

  Seeing the fme has been weakehe blessed that has been targeted by the demon’s fme raised a shield he had picked up and tried to block the chi’s fme.

  When the shield came into tact with that fme, it exploded and slightly injured him.

  As for the other blessed targeted by the purplish poison ball, they have jumped backwards upon seeing the demonic chi’s attack.

  When the ball of poison struck the ground, it sizzled as the earth began to turn bck.

  With no blessed holding it down, the demon prepared to run away when Lacius shouted, “All soldiers, throw your spear! Rumina and An, use your power and burn that demon!”

  The soldiers that heard it began to throw their spear toward the demon.

  Lacius theed a wall of earth that blocked the demon chi’s escape.

  The demon chi wished to jump above the wall. But Lacius trolled the earth u to colpse, which resulted in a small hole.

  The hole caused it to lose its band failed to collect its strength for a jump. Instead, it hit the earth wall Lacius created and caused it to dent and crack.

  Meanwhile, the other earth element blessed created ah wall in front of the blessed with divirength to defend them from the throwing spears.

  While being occupied by Lacius’s power. The spear thrown by the soldiers and the ball of fire created by An and Rumina have arrived toward it.

  Seeing it, Lucius used all of his remaining power to create several walls and holes that blocked the chi’s escape route.

  After doing so, he slumped on the ground from exhaustion.

  Yuma and Tsukiko, who had followed after him, quickly supported the falling Lacius.

  After being heavily injured from the volley of spears and fire. The demonic chi looked toward the pce where the soldiers had gathered with red eyes before running towards them while ign the attacks u it.

  O arrived in front of the army, it began killing the surrounding soldiers.

  As blood filled the earth, screams of pain, help, and fear intermixed with the chi’s manic clug.

  After five whole minutes of rampage, the demonic chi finally fell down from its injury.

  ***

  When Lacius’s army has just begun fighting.

  Ihe Divine Space, Cedric sat on his chair while frowning.

  “That chi is much more powerful than I initially thought. Also, Lacius’s move to double the amount of soldiers sent seems to backfire.” Cedric messaged his temple, upon seeing the soldiers messily throwing spears toward each other. “I guess I o warn Lacius to train his soldier’s discipliherwise, the casualties brought by friendly fire might be even higher than the ones caused by that chi.”

  While he nervously watches them busy fighting against the chi, Cedric recalled something and asked, “To level up, does Yuma o get the st hit on that chi?”

  After all, killing eo level up seriously sounds like something out of an RPG game. So, he is curious about how the EXP distribution works.

  [No. He simply o stay nearby when the chi is killed. The nearer he is, the better.]

  “Ohh..” Cedriodded and tinued watg the battle while asking. “How does NE creature alloerson to level up?”

  [After killing a NE ied creature, some of its energy will turn into GP while some will be dispersed to the surrounding or absorbed by surrounding creatures.]

  “Won’t abs it make the surrounding creatures bee ied by oo?”

  [No. After possessing a creature or taking a form, NE will stop being purely an energy. Instead, it will turn into three pos. One part is pure NE used as an energy source for that creature. The sed part is used to modify or create the physical form. This part is extremely simir to GP and be verted to GP after the creature is killed. The st part existed as a ‘glue’ in a form between GP ahis part safely be absorbed by creatures in the world.]

  “Huh? Killing NE ied creatures will give me GP?” As Cedric read the System’s answer while watg the battle in Crystal Cube world, he just realized it after the System said it twice.

  “How much GP will I get from killing that chi?” Cedric asked in shobsp;

  [It should be around 0.05 GP]

  “Eh? So little? I thought it would be much more.” Cedric felt a bit disappointed and lost the mood to tinue chatting. So, he focused on the battle in the Crystal Cube world.

  Seeing the chi’s rampage as it killed dozens of soldiers, Cedric’s frown deepens. Luckily, the chi finally got exhausted after five minutes of rampaging while being attacked by dozens of blessed.

  Watg the chi will soo killed, Cedrit a message toward Yuma.

  [Quick, run toward the demon before it dies!]

  When he saw Yuma following his word and ran toward the demonic chi, Cedriodded in relief and watched Yuma’s surroundings.

  While waiting for the chi to die and allow Yuma to level up, Cedric calcuted the amount of casualties while feeling a bit sad.

  “Well, although the casualties are pretty high. But for the sake of killing that demonic chi, it is worth it.” He said in an attempt to cheer himself. When suddenly, the System sent a message.

  [I won’t be too happy if I were you.]

  “Huh?” Cedric is fused as to why the System suddenly said such a thing.

  [It’s been around a year since a NE ied creature began to appear in your world. Such a long time span should’ve been enough for more than one NE ied creature to appear.]

  “Huh?” Due to his fusion, Cedric feels himself turning into a parrot that tinuously repeats the same noises.

  After regaining his senses, Cedric asked. "Then, why didn’t I see other demons around the pce that has been enveloped by ive Energy?"

  [Most of NE ied creatures, or demons as you like to call them, are pretty territorial. So, if other demons have occupied a pce, the other has most likely goo other pces the moment they mutated.]

  “Why don’t you tell me?”

  [You’re the god of that world. So, it is your responsibility to ma and make sure everything works as you inte. Furthermore, the System has mentioned ‘creatures’ (plural) when you saw the mist shaped ive Energy before. It’s your fault that your reading prehension is extremely low.]

  [Luckily, from the System’s dete. Except for the pce where the demon chi resides, there hasn’t been any sudden increase in y. Which means the other NE ied creatures haven’t begun any rge-scale killing in your world.]

  Cedric slumped in his chair while scratg his head. “Sigh… I feel I might turn bald from stress.”

  [No worries, there are diviems that heal balding in the shop. Do you wish to see them?]

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