Inside the Divine Space, Cedric watched the situation in the Sacred Kingdom while sitting on the edge of his seat.
Another war has almost happened and this time involving a lot more lives and powerful creatures.
If NE gathered due to this war, who knows just how powerful the new demon king will be.
If it's only at level 2, he can still try to bribe Yuma to help him clean the mess.
But if the NE somehow spawned a demon king at level 3 or above. Then he'll need to waste his GP and summon another hero with higher talent or push Yuma to level up and reach the limit of his potential.
If he's lucky and found a suitable hero, then that means he'll need to waste at least 200 GP for a visa and to summon the hero to his world.
If he's unlucky and an accident happens once more or he fails to find a hero with a high potential level, then the cost might infte even further.
Cedric simply wished the Sacred Kingdom could split into several kingdoms without causing NE to gather and create a demon king.
Thankfully, after Cedric sent the warnings, he found out the city lord alliance had entered a dilemma and debated whether to continue the fight or give up.
When the debate between the city lords was at its most intense moment, a few messengers arrived to inform the city lord regarding the chaos happening in their cities.
Not long after those messengers arrived, the messengers from Hars followed suit. The moment they arrived, they immediately informed the city lords of Hars's intent.
Although it pains them that the money spent to gather the army has been wasted without seeing their enemy's forces. The creator's warning and the danger of their cities have forced them to return.
Once the city lords separated and returned to their respective cities to calm down the riot in their cities, Lacius also returned to Winter City.
When Cedric saw it, he immediately celebrated his success instopping the war.
Walking outside the house he created in the Divine Space, Cedric used his power to create several gigantic fireworks.
For a whole hour, the sky was full of blooming fireworks before Cedric felt tired and changed it into auroras that spanned the whole sky above the Divine Space.
He silently gazed at the aurora before dispersing them and returning the sky in Divine Space to normal.
With a more rexed feeling, Cedric once again observed the situation in the Crystal Cube world with his mental power.
Following Lacius with his mental power, Cedric saw him returning to the pace in Winter City.
While the four cities are still in chaos, Lacius sent three messengers to inform the eight childrens he has sent to spread the glory of the god of alchemy in the four cities.
He ordered five of them to return to Winter City together with the high leveled earth element blessed and the sculptors that had accompanied them.
Once they arrived in Winter City, Lacius let them rest for a day before assigning each child to visit the temples in the five remaining cities and spread his glory.
Just like before, they're accompanied by a pair of sculptors he has invited from the city and earth element blessed. But now instead of being guarded by a single high leveled earth element blessed, Lacius sent ten blessed led by a Level 1 blessed.
Now, every team consisted of a child that have learned alchemy, two sculptors, one Level 1 blessed, and 10 Level 0 blessed
He added ten more blessed to the group because he expected that it'll be more difficult for this group of people to spread his name in the remaining five cities.
After all, the city lords there have already seen the chaos in the four city alliance because they ignored the spread of the god of alchemy's existence.
If it's him, he'll definitely try some trick to stop the temple's influence from increasing even further.
That's why he decided to increase the number of blessed guarding the group visiting those cities.
Unless they're incredibly useless, this amount of force should be enough to handle most problems.
And just like Lacius expected. The moment the group that's going to spread the name of alchemy arrived at their destination, some of them immediately met with trouble.
Among them, three city lords accepted the change silently. River Stone city which is the headquarters of the temple and also Lacius's hometown are among them.
As for the remaining two, the city lord tried to stop the beliefs of the god of alchemy by using tricks to discredit the temple and even attempted to suppress the temple with force.
But thanks to the trick Lacius learned after studying Tsukiko's means, he has learned some methods to manipute public opinions and incite chaos, which he taught to the group of childrens.
The two groups that met with resistance immediately used the tricks and caused the civilians in those cities to fall into two camps. One camp supported the god of alchemy, while the other thought Lacius was just a heretic trying to defile the title of a god.
With the group and some people from the temple adding fuel, the people from different camps began to dislike each other.
This causes the city to fall into turmoil as fights occurs everyday.
Even while purchasing vegetables, the vegetable seller might ask which camp you're in and decline to trade with you upon realizing you're in a different camp.
Situations like that aren't isoted as the amount of simir cases keeps on increasing each day.
The mess has caused trades to get lower and made the city lord's balding line move even backward.
After a few days of struggle, the city lord finally surrendered and acknowledged the god of alchemy. Even so, the situation in their city will still take time to calm down.
***
Inside the Divine Space, Cedric looked at the events happening in utter speechlessness.
He must say Lacius's method is incredible.
Just by learning some tricks Tsukiko used, he somehow created a method to sow discord and cause two cities to fall into turmoil.
If Lacius isn't too focused on seeking eternal life, Cedric believes he can stabilize the situation in the Sacred Kingdom after spending enough time.
What a pity that Lacius felt managing the kingdom and doing a thorough reform is a waste of time and he has been focusing on a way to attain eternal life.
Cedric shook his head and stopped thinking about Lacius.
Instead, he now focused his attention on the table next to him.
On it lies a small octahedron crystal that has lost its luster.
He actually has many simir empty crystals which is the waste result from Divine Items he has used. But this one is different from the others.
Previously, when Lacius was spreading the name of the god of alchemy, Cedric decided to lend a helping hand while also experimenting with a divine item he had been curious about.
At that time, he purchased one [Divine Intervention: Urge] for 10 GP.
[Level 4 Consumable Divine Item, Divine Intervention: Urge.
Cost: 10 GP
Details: Give a creature the urge to do something. The complicatedness of the urge is limited. There is a certain chance for the target to ignore this urge. The higher the item’s level, the more complicated the urge that can be set and the more irresistible it is.]
He is curious about how powerful and in what kind of form the urge takes shape.
So before the people Lacius sent had reached the city. Cedric has targeted one of the city lords that he felt would greatly resist the change Lacius created and urged him to accept it.
He doesn't know what kind of mental gymnastics that happened in the city lord's head after he used [Divine Intervention: Urge} on them. But the result must be said to be utterly terrifying.
The city lord who is initially extremely against the spread of the god of alchemy quickly turned sides and silently accepted it. This [Divine Intervention: Urge] is also the reason why only two city lords resisted the temple's movement.
Compared to other divine intervention items, which only allow him to talk with creatures in his world. The effect of [Divine Intervention: Urge] is more akin to a subtle but forceful mind control.
Every time he remembered the city lord who felt the idea to cease his resistance came from himself, Cedric couldn't help but feel guilty.
To stop feeling guilty, Cedric switched his focus on another thing that's been tormenting him - His poverty.
Opening his status window, Cedric checked the details written in it.
[Name: Cedric Hills
Level: Pseudo Lesser Divinity (Actual level: 0)
Law: None.
World: Crystal Cube World
World Level: 1
World’s Average Potential: Lower Level 0
GP: 12.039
Annual GP income: 0.9]
Just like before, his GP has been constantly decreasing.
Not only his GP but also the amount of annual GP income he got has once decreased by 0.1 GP a few years since the demon king's death.
He suspected the decrease in annual GP was caused by the decrease in the amount of demons and their strength. Which in result affected the average level of creatures in his world
Luckily the amount of annual GP income slowly increased until it reached 0.9 GP.
If this goes on, Cedric believes once the people who have learned the training method begin to die off, the amount of annual income he has might reach 1 GP or even above.
Once he has 1GP annual income or even more. Then, each hero summoning will only cost him less than 100 years of income!
Such growth makes Cedric feel a bit happy.
The amount might still be far from being able to return his 100.000 GP debt, but that's still a small step forward.
While a smile slowly crept on his face from imagining a bright future with a lot of GP, the System chimed in.
[Sorry to burst your bubble. But the System forgot to mention something. For Level 1 World, the maximum amount of GP that can be annually converted by a world is only 1 GP. Once your annual income reaches 1 GP, any extra death won't cause your world's annual GP to increase unless your world leveled up.]
"Huh?" It took a moment for Cedric to process the information he had just received.
The moment his brain understood what the System meant, the smile on his face began to twist.
When the System saw Cedric's expression that looks like he was getting constipated, it continued.
[Don't take it to heart. With your world's current progress, the System expects it to reach Level 2 within less than 1.000 years. Which is counted extremely fast among every world in the universe. Which is why you have been included among the list of potential high level customers.]
[Once your world reaches Level 2, the maximum amount of annual GP that can be processed by your world will increase to 10 GP. Once your income reaches 10 GP per year, that means you'll only need 10.000 years to repay your debt!]
