The Newbie God Is Summoning Heroes From Earth [World Creation/ Management]

Inside the Divine Space, Cedric watched with his mouth agape as Alan fell and breathed his last.

After a moment of silence, Cedric shouted. "I knew it! Although it's a few years late, this is definitely the repercussions of my good luck before! I already said it before, being that lucky makes me feel uneasy!"

After blowing some steam, Cedric sighed and silently stared at Alan's corpse.

He has been constantly observing Alan as he practiced the training method. So, Cedric knew Alan had taken a wrong step while circulating the mana in his body.

Based on Cedric's experiment with his clone, that kind of thing should only result in energy disarray and some internal injuries. So, he doesn't immediately intervene.

But who knew why the damage caused by that small error suddenly became so exaggerated.

Before Cedric could ask the System to buy a Divine Item that can heal Alan's injury. Alan has coughed his internal organ out and died.

Watching the surrounding youths who are busy trying to resuscitate Alan, Cedric sent his mental power to thoroughly study Alan's corpse.

He even copied Alan's soulless corpse into the Divine Space and studied it.

After thoroughly checking the body, Cedric can only give his respect to Alan and silently burns the corpse he has copied in the Divine Space.

From studying Alan's corpse, Cedric has found out why such a small misstep caused him to die.

A long time ago, before Alan found the correct training method, he had been experimenting on his own body. As an experiment, it's often accompanied by failures which lead to his injury.

Although every failure in the experiment will only cause small injuries to his body. Those small injuries still left a mark on his body. The kind of mark that still left a trace even with the help of healing power.

Coupled with his age and weakened body, the misstep Alan made while following the energy circulation diagram Cedric shared is simply the straw that broke the camel's neck.

The chaotic energy attacked Alan's organs which had been scarred by the injuries from his experiments, and those organs simply couldn't hold on any longer and burst open, which him.

Cedric closed his eyes while mumbling in a low voice, "Without my intervention, Alan should be able to live happily until his old age. Has what I done only caused him misery?"

Cedric felt his body lose its strength and slumped to the chair.

Somehow, seeing Alan die gives Cedric a melancholic feeling that's even worse than when granny Maude dies.

If granny Maude's death causes him to feel depressed due to the loss of an acquaintance. Then, Alan's death makes him truly feel that all life in the world is transient.

He has watched Alan from the time he was a part of Yuma's party until he achieved the brightest glow in his life and invented the training method in his old age.

Alan's deaths truly show Cedric that humans have a short lifespan compared to the current him.

Even if they trained and increased their lifespan after their life level increases. Cedric doubted those people's lifespan could beat his.

Except for that, Cedric also began to feel fear.

"By the time I've collected enough GP to visit my Earth, I fear what kind of person I would've changed into. Will my family and friends still know me? Or will I change so much and become indifferent to them instead?"

Cedric dejectedly said. "Somehow, I am feeling lonely."

[Don't worry, you still have the System. You can think of the System as your friend.]

Cedric slightly opened his eyes, "Thank you, but talking with you makes me feel my GP is in danger."

[What a hurtful word to say. You can forget about getting friendship discounts forever.]

Cedric rolled his eyes, "I doubt such a discount ever existed."

[...]

"Eh? Did I hit the mark?" Cedric asked.

Although the System ignored his question, Cedric must say he felt slightly better after chatting with the System.

Now that he thinks about it. Everyone will slowly change based on what they have experienced in life. His change might be a bit drastic due to his infinite lifespan. But, it simply can't be helped, can it?

Cedric also has done some basic equations about the whole personality change thing.

If less experience in life equals to smaller change in personality. That means he should be lazier and experience fewer things than a normal human!

"Sometimes my genius… it's almost frightening."

Now that his mood has returned to normal, Cedric focuses on the Crystal Cube world and sees Alan's funeral.

Due to the death of their acquaintance, even the preparation for the battle between Tsukiko and Lacius has paused. But soon after, the war preparation began to intensify with the Sacred Kingdom being the first one to make a move.

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Most of the temples in other cities were the first ones to bear the brunt, with many being immediately destroyed, while only those who had retained some connection with the city lord or had trained many temple knights remained barely standing.

Luckily, the main temple has taken absolute control over River Stone city. Even the city lord appointed by Lacius has a much lower political status compared to the temple inside River Stone City.

After greatly damaging the branch temples around the kingdom. The Sacred Kingdom started economic sanctions which forbid any trade to and from the River Stone City.

Because trade between cities just became a trend a few dozen years ago. The number of daredevils willing to ignore the law for profit can only be counted on one hand.

Without merchants who traded goods between cities, the economic sanctions effectively caused the River Stone city to fall into isolation and slowly descend into chaos.

Unlike a few years ago, when Lacius is still the city lord of River Stone city. The amount of population in the current River Stone city has greatly increased, which requires some import to fulfill the population's needs.

If things go on, the temple will fall even without much bloodshed.

Cedric watched all the events and felt confusing emotions. It's a mix of relief, pity, happiness, and other feelings.

Although he is happy that Lacius has truly listened to him, Cedric still feels a bit sad upon seeing Tsukiko's effort slowly end up getting destroyed.

No matter what, Tsukiko is someone he has accidentally sent from Earth.

Although Tsukiko and Yuma came from different Earths than him. Cedric still felt some camaraderie as fellow earthlings.

***

Inside the Crystal Cube world, Tsukiko roamed back and forth around the temple.

She knew she was in an extremely precarious situation. If things go on, the temple will fall even without a fight.

With Lacius destroying the temples outside and killed many priests. The enmity between the temple and the kingdom has been aggravated beyond repair.

This makes Tsukiko's situation even more difficult under both internal and external pressure.

When she arrived in a room without any person, Tsukiko frowned while massaging her head. "What should I do? What should I do? Is it really wrong to wish for the temple's independence? What I wished for is only to advance this world and nothing else."

"Although I do so mainly for the sense of achievement that I've never felt before on Earth. But, these should still count as good things I've done. So, why are so much bad things happening to me?!"

Tsukiko slumped on the floor for a long time while trying to think of a countermeasure.

'No matter how I think about it, this is definitely a dead end.' Even after she thought hard for a long time, Tsukiko still failed to think of any plan. 'I just hope the seed I've planted in case of my failure will successfully bloom.'

Amidst Tsukiko's indecisiveness and distress, time passes with the temple barely keeping the order in River Stone city.

When everyone thought Lacius would wait for the civilians inside River Stone City to start a revolt and for everything to fall into chaos before starting his attack. Lacius instead immediately attacked the temple while it still hadn't made a move.

After a battle against the devout believers and the temple knights trained by Tsukiko. Lacius's army breached the city's wall and went towards the temple.

Upon arriving at the temple. The priests who stayed inside the temple, which mostly consisted of noncombatants, easily got defeated by Lacius's army. Some of them successfully fled the city, while most of them were killed by the soldiers brought by Lacius.

While most of the soldiers went and slaughtered the priests and temple knights that remained inside the temple. Lacius led twenty Level 1 blessed toward the temple's main hall.

Inside the temple's wide hall, Tsukiko stood in front of Cedric's statue together with three other priests.

Upon hearing a step coming from outside the hall, she raised her head toward Lacius and said. "You caught me by surprise. But, long time no see."

Looking at Tsukiko who still seems beautiful even though she has almost turned eighty years old, Lacius nodded his head to return her greetings while constantly locking his eyes for any movement Tsukiko made.

"How many years has it been since we last talked. Twenty? Thirty? Fifty?" Tsukiko said with a melancholic look. "You know, when we were young, I once had a crush on you."

While she talked, Tsukiko sent eight bolts of lightning without a change in her expression. Three of the bolts went toward Lacius while the other five were sent toward five blessed around Lacius.

The sudden lightning bolt attack caught the blessed that has lowered their guard upon hearing Tsukiko's shocking love confession. Among the five bolts sent toward those blessed, four of them hit their target and charred them from the inside.

Only one of the blessed with divine strength barely survived. He has a good enough reflex and raised his wooden shield before the attack hits him.

Although the lightning bolt has caused the shield in his arm to explode and gravely injured him, he still survived the attack.

As for the three bolts of lightning that have targeted Lacius. He quickly raised a thick earth wall and blocked the attack coming from Tsukiko.

Upon coming in contact with Tsukiko's lightning bolt, several dents appear on the wall he raised. But, the wall still stably stood in front of him.

After blocking Tsukiko's greetings, Lacius and the other blessed around him immediately launched their attacks. But, the three priests around Tsukiko stopped standing still and also showed their power that had reached Level 1.

When the fight started, Tsukiko's group which only consisted of four people quickly fell into disadvantage.

Even though she is someone who has reached Level 2 and has power that surpasses everyone present. But, the amount of people on Lacius's side is simply too much.

Their different power synergized with each other and became a headache to deal with. Blessed that could summon flames will have their flames strengthened by being blessed with wind elements. While blessed with divine strength kept on trying to engage Tsukiko in a melee.

Furthermore, there is Lacius who kept on creating holes or changing the terrain around Tsukiko and the other priests. This makes them fail to evade some attacks during important moments.

Tsukiko has truly felt how annoying having to fight against Lacius is. 'No wonder the demon king immediately charged at him upon sight. Although according to the news I've dug, there are also other reasons for that.'

After seeing the three priests around her getting killed, while also killing five more blessed on Lacius's side with her lightning bolt. Most of the mana inside Tsukiko's body has been spent and she got hit by a sneak attack launched by Lacius.

From her blind spot, an earth spike pierced through Tsukiko's abdomen.

Looking down at her bleeding waist, Tsukiko knew she couldn't be saved and bitterly smiled. "I must agree with Yuma. My taste in men is indeed cursed."

She glanced at Lacius who stood behind the protection of several blessed and fell to the ground after using the last bit of her mana to destroy the earth spike piercing her. "Goodbye, my 31st crush."

When the blessed around Lacius saw Tsukiko had fallen, they finally relaxed.

But suddenly, three lightning bolts shot from Tsukiko's 'corpse' toward the location where Lacius's group gathered.

One of the lightning bolt failed to hit anyone. While the other two successfully hit two blessed and charred them.

"Pity." Tsukiko's 'corpse' opened its eyes and muttered when she saw the lightning bolt only killed two random blessed, while Lacius still remained unharmed.

While staring at Lacius, her eyes slowly turned cloudy and lost their luster.

When Lacius is sure Tsukiko has completely died, he regrouped with the people cleansing the temple and soon finds Hars among those groups.

Lacius told Hars who has also turned old and has a slightly hunched back. "Collect the corpse and bring them into the palace."