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

Before dying, Tsukiko only wished for the seed she had planted to successfully bear fruit in the future and kill or at least annoy Lacius. She is simply unwilling to take this loss calmly.

A few years after creating and stabilizing the situation in the temple, Tsukiko has dug into the history of mankind in the Crystal Cube world.

Initially, she wished to look for any trace of Cedric to create a more convincing sacred text for the temple. But instead of history regarding Cedric, she dug out the secret regarding Lacius and Gratian.

She also finds out the mad woman who has previously caused massive destruction is actually one of Gratian's wives who has escaped the slaughter Lacius has done.

When the situation between the temple and the kingdom already seems irreparable. She secretly investigated traces of Gratian's lineages and believed they shouldn't have been entirely killed.

After spending time investigating, Tsukiko indeed found several people who were suspected to be his descendants hidden throughout the human cities. Currently, most of them are having a hard time and barely live each day in poverty.

Although among those people some of them might not truly be Gratian's descendants, but she doesn't care about it.

After secretly sending people to check their condition and invited those still young and without any guardian into the temple's orphanages. Tsukiko sent her trusted aide to tell them of the 'truth' and hope they'll be able to regain what's rightfully theirs.

She also implemented whatever brainwashing technique she has learned into those children to believe they're the descendants of Gratian and must slowly but secretly take their revenge against the current king.

Still, Tsukiko knew her brainwashing ability wasn't all that good. So, when she heard many of the priests and priestesses managing the orphanage in other city's temples had been killed. She felt a mixed feeling of sadness and also schadenfreude.

The hatred of killing the kind sisters that managed the orphanages should have increased those children's hatred against the kingdom.

Actually, Yuma and Alan's opinion on Tsukiko has indeed hit the mark. Since becoming the high priestess of the creation god temple dedicated to Cedric, she has been having more and more screw looses. The kind that can't be screwed back in place.

But Cedric doesn't know about all that. Right now, he simply felt sad while glad that the battle had ended.

After making sure the human kingdom has stabilized Lacius is too busy handling the aftermath of that battle. Cedric went to learn the anatomy of elves and dwarves while occasionally spending some time researching the training method of the human race every time he gained inspiration.

If someone told Cedric he would turn into someone who loved learning while he was still on Earth, he would've spit at those guys until they drowned in saliva.

But now that he already gained a godhood, Cedric found that learning new knowledge has never felt easier. Every knowledge that entered his brain gave Cedric a sense of pleasure that might rival having intercourse.

Actually, he doesn't know how it feels to have intercourse with someone. After all, he has been single during his life on Earth.

When he arrived at that thought, Cedric suddenly paused. "Maybe I should go and date someone the next time I visit Earth. But things will get quite awkward in terms of the age difference. After all, I am already a hundred years old single guy. Although my appearance remained as a handsome twenty year old guy, I am already old enough to be their grandfather or even great-grandfather."

While Cedric is spending his time researching and getting distracted over some useless things. Lacius has finally finished handling the aftermath of the battle. At least for now.

After the battle, there are simply too many problems that can only be slowly resolved by time.

For example, with the death of Tsukiko and more than ten other level 1 blessed. The amount of high level combatants in the human race has been decreased by close to half.

The battle between the temple knight and his soldier also caused quite a lot of casualties in the strength of human races.

That means the human resources to guard the human territory from demons and other beasts have decreased.

It's estimated that in the next few years, the amount of demons will begin to increase. Furthermore, the Sacred Kingdom will not be able to expand the amount of villages.

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While preparing for future headache-inducing problems, Lacius slowly went towards his secret laboratory while being followed by Hars.

After several sleepless days of hard work, he finally has time to enter his secret laboratory and begin another round of research.

The two old men walked through several corridors and arrived inside a secret room.

Upon entering the laboratory, several huge tubes made of glass can be seen. Those are special reinforced glass tubes that have been imported from a merchant group from another city. On the bottom of the tube, the word 'produced by Kame & Liana Merchant Group' can be seen.

An opaque liquid solution filled the tube to the brims, while inside every tube, there was the corpse of a strong blessed that had died during the battle inside the temple.

There are twenty such tubes inside the laboratory, with fifteen of them being filled with human corpses, including Tsukiko's. While the remaining are filled with the corpses of magical beasts.

After standing in front of a flat marble table with many tools strewn around it, Lacius said. "Hars, refill the solutions to keep those corpses fresh, and help me retrieve a prisoner with earth element blessing from the dungeon."

"Alright." Hars slowly refilled the tubes containing Tsukiko and other's corpses with another opaque liquid.

Once he is done, he exits the laboratory to retrieve a living blessed for Lacius.

Meanwhile, Lacius sat in front of the table and pulled a book with a copy of Alan's training method written on it.

While slowly turning the page of that book, Lacius begins to get lost in thought.

'Slowly surrendering more authority to the temple this past few years is truly a correct step. Those young nobles took the bait and 'forced' me to attack the temple. Giving me enough excuse to target Tsukiko.'

'Although the creator god seems to focus more on Yuma among the people from another world. Giving the god a satisfying excuse when attacking Tsukiko indeed made my plan go smoother. Although the god might have the ability to listen to my thoughts and see through my deception, the success of my attack means they gave me a silent admission, which is even better.'

Lacius focused his attention on the book inscribed with Alan's training method in his hand. 'I must say, Alan is indeed a genius for thinking of such a method. Based on my experiment, I am already extremely close to creating a training method suitable for myself.

'What a pity, I've concluded this method can only be used to push someone up to my level, and can't allow me to reach a higher level and regain my youth like Yuma and Tsukiko. Otherwise, I wouldn't need to bet on angering the creator and targeting Tsukiko.'

Then, Lacius slightly moved his sight toward the tube containing Tsukiko's corpse. 'Sigh, Tsukiko is simply too strong and can't be captured alive. Just experimenting with her corpse will be much less efficient than experimenting on a living person.'

'If I'd known, I would've taken a different approach and tried to befriend Tsukiko instead. Although I won't be able to do a destructive experiment on her that way. At least the research subject is still alive. I guess I am still too greedy.'

'Nevertheless, I am finally one step closer to my goal of eternal life.' Lacius woke up from his trance when he sensed Hars slowly walking toward his position while grabbing an unconscious blessed.

Hars easily grabbed that blessed and placed him on the marble table in front of Lacius.

Lacius nodded, "Good job, Hars."

"That's thanks to Your Highness's potions. Otherwise, I would've been just a frail old man on the verge of death." Hars said while placing several restraining devices on the blessed he just brought.

Lacius just nodded and started mixing several herbs to create a potion.

Since he got stuck at the peak of Level 1, Lacius has been ceaselessly searching for a way to continue advancing and began to dabble on many things.

One of the things he dabbled and focused on is regarding mixing magical materials gained from magical plants and magical beasts to achieve a greater end result. Which he called Alchemy, based on some stories he had heard from Tsukiko and Yuma a long time ago.

Although the two of them keep on saying whatever they're talking about is just fiction in their world. But Lacius knew their world was one without blessed power, or as they often call it, magic.

Yet, the Crystal Cube world is a world where magic and magical creatures exist.

As a king who has access to a lot of magical resources, Lacius felt it was a shame not to take them into use.

This is how he successfully proved the existence of alchemy by tirelessly mixing different magical plants, magical beasts, and even magical ores that can occasionally be found.

After innumerable failures, Lacius slowly learned from his failure and finally crafted several potions.

Although the rate of failure is pretty high, he often only gains a defective product after wasting precious materials. It doesn't matter to him, as long as he could see the hope of achieving his dream.

From Tsukiko and Yuma's story regarding alchemy. Lacius couldn't care less about turning stone into gold or finding the philosopher's stone. But, the chance for crafting the elixir of immortality hit him right in his weakness.

***

Inside the secret laboratory.

After several failures, Lacius mechanically crafted a potion and quickly focused when he found it hadn't exploded and turned into smoke after reaching certain phases. 'It finally succeeded.'

He poured that potion into the mouth of the restrained blessed and waited patiently.

After drinking that potion, the blessed's eyelids twitched and he slowly woke up.

Kanon opened his eyes and looked around. After surveying his surroundings, he found out there were only two old men calmly standing around him.

Although he isn't sure how he ended up in his current situation. Seeing the ones around him were just two old men, Kanon tried to circulate the energy inside him and activated his blessed ability to escape the place.

Such a weak defense is definitely a miracle granted by the god of creation for him. He can finally escape the palace's dungeons that are filled to the brim with strong guards.

But soon, Kanon's expression changed.

When he tried to move his energy and activate his blessed power. He found the energy in his body had turned unreceptive.

The energy that has always followed his will has turned stagnant.

While trying his best to calm down, Kanon tried to move his limbs but found they had turned extremely weak and were restrained by metal shackles.

"Whah is hafenin?" He asked the two old men around him but found out his tongue had turned numb and unable to move like normal.