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

Yuma dropped the sword and stared at the pit in shock. His eyes widened to the point it looked like it'd fall out from the socket.

The fishy and burnt smell coming from his family's burnt corpses caused his ears to ring as Yuma fell into a trance.

Slowly raising his head toward Lacius's group, Yuma stared at them with bloodshot eyes.

Seeing Yuma's expression, the blessed around Lacius gripped their weapons while sweating.

All of them have seen the feat Yuma could do. Whether it's fighting against an army on his own, or the final attack that he has just done, he has made them doubt whether or not he is still a human.

Even if they knew he had spent most of his energy to release the last slash he made, Yuma's angry expression still made everyone turn tense.

While staring at everyone, Yuma suddenly bent forward and picked up the sword he had dropped.

Lacius knew the sword was something the creator had given Yuma, and it must have its own special ability. So, when he saw Yuma bend forward to pick it, Lacius created an earth spike that knocked the sword away.

Yuma ran toward the sword while Lacius quickly ordered the blessed around him to attack.

As he tried to save the remaining energy in his body, Yuma didn't use his ability to deal with the attacks. Instead, he only relied on his physical attributes that has increased upon reaching Level 2 and evaded them.

By the time he is close to the sword that has been knocked away, Yuma sees the earth below it open up and swallow the sword.

When he saw it had become impossible to retrieve his sword in a short time, Yuma decided to leave it be for now and dashed toward Lacius.

Lacius saw it and quickly gathered the blessed around him and made them activate their abilities.

Yuma knew Lacius loved to hide behind others while summoning thick earth walls to guard himself.

Instead of summoning a burst of flame that'll definitely be blocked by the enemy's blessed powers. Yuma condensed the flame he had summoned as much as possible and turned it into two bullet-like attacks that shot toward Lacius's heart.

The first fire bullet he created contained much more energy and was used to break the protection around Lacius. While the second one is the one he depends on to kill Lacius.

This is his last bet, as Yuma knows the energy inside his body has truly been exhausted.

Just like he expected, after the flame bullet passes through several walls of ice, waters, and a wall of chaotic wind currents, Lacius has somehow summoned four consecutive earth walls.

After piercing through three of the walls, the first flame exploded and caused the remaining wall to be shattered into pieces.

Before Lacius has any time to erect another earth wall, the second flame bullet passes through the place where the first flame has exploded and reaches him.

Seeing the small glowing red bullet, Lacius quickly evaded. But, his reaction time is a beat slower. Although the flame failed to hit his heart, it still came into contact with his left arm.

The moment that flame came into contact with his arm, it exploded and blew his whole arm away.

After staring at his left arm which has turned into a charred mess in disbelief. Lacius grabbed his mangled shoulder which still had a cracked bone pointing out of it. "Arghhhh!"

After screaming at the top of his lung, Lacius cursed in his mind 'Damn it! Why did everything go wrong? I just want to kidnap his family as a means to force Yuma to cooperate with my experiment. Why did he kill all of his family and then go insane?!'

"All of you, capture him! He should have already run out of power!" Lacius shouted while gritting his teeth to suppress the pain he felt.

The surrounding blessed felt a bit afraid of Yuma and only summoned some water toward Yuma and froze them to restrain him.

Yuma saw his legs had been enveloped in ice and punched at it several times.

Thanks to his enhanced physical strength, he successfully destroyed the ice after three punches. But, Yuma didn't become glad and instead stared at the blessed around Lacius.

When those blessed saw he hasn't used his blessed power to escape and only used his physical strength. They know Lacius's word is correct.

After heavily injuring Lacius, Yuma felt the anger in his heart had slightly subsided and he finally regained his senses.

The first thing Yuma does after regaining his senses is to run away before Lacius's army has the time to reorganize. But, the blessed around Lacius quickly surrounded him and attacked.

Although Yuma isn't sure why most of the attacks seem to be non-lethal. He ignored it for now and focused on avoiding those attacks while looking for a chance to escape.

The longer the battle lasted, the more anxious Yuma became.

After several minutes of dodging and looking for an opening to escape, he heard the army's marching sound.

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Yuma turned his head and saw the area around him had been encircled by Lacius's army. 'No wonder I felt those people arrived a bit late. It seems they're busy reorganizing the formation first to surround my house before slowly enclosing it.'

As he got distracted, the earth under his leg began to rise and swallowed half of his leg.

Meanwhile, another blessed shot a ball of water toward his torso, which was quickly frozen by another blessed.

With his physical strength exhausted and only a tiny bit of his energy has been recovered, Yuma finally got immobilized.

Feeling the cold on his torso, Yuma's mind somehow became extremely calm.

He felt there was something wrong since the battle started.

On the outside, Yuma looked expressionless and focused on Lacius. But internally, he has been thinking, 'Why did Lacius suddenly target me?'

While Yuma is standing still, a blessed with healing power is busy healing the wound on Lacius's shoulder.

Although they can't regrow his arm. The power of those blessed is enough to stop the bleeding and heal some of the burnt wounds.

Lacius stared at Yuma and told a random bless to forcefully feed Yuma with several bottles of potions.

Seeing Yuma's body had turned weak, Lacius ordered, "Bring him back to the palace."

Right after he said that Yuma felt his head turn heavy. Then, he suddenly fell down onto the floor.

Seeing that his potions were effective, Lacius nodded and prepared to ride his horse and return to Winter City with the army.

Giving a few potions to the blessed that rode a horse together with the unconscious Yuma, Lacius ordered him to feed Yuma with two different potions every ten minutes.

One of them is used to suppress energy, while the other is used to knock someone unconscious.

Although those potions usually can last for close to half an hour for someone at his level. But, Yuma's level is much higher than his, so Lacius felt Yuma might be much more resistant to the potions.

Suddenly, he paused and walked toward the place where he buried Yuma's sword. 'I almost forgot.'

Activating his blessed power, Lacius dug the sword and rode his horse.

During the journey back, Lacius slightly relaxed and counted his gain. 'This time, I successfully captured a living higher level blessed. After studying Yuma's body and energy, I should be close to finding the method to advance and regain my youth.'

Lacius turned his head to the rear and glanced at the unconscious Yuma tens of meters away in envy.

Even though he is already eighty years old, Yuma still looks like a middle aged man.

Lacius shook his head and began to think about the trouble that'll happen once he returned.

Those nobles will definitely pick some trouble with him after he tricked them into preparing the army by mentioning the demon king.

He sighed, 'How did I end up in this situation? I am the one giving them their authority to help me manage the kingdom, but they are slowly restricting my movements and control over the kingdom instead.'

Compared to when he just got the kingdom, where the kingdom is akin to a body with a single mind. The current kingdom is much more complicated, just like a body where all of the organs can think by themselves.

Lacius kinda misses the absolute authority he had before. But he knows those nobles he appointed have become a necessary part of the kingdom as it grows bigger and bigger.

While he is lost in thought, Lacius can feel heat waves coming from behind him.

Turning his head, he saw a fire cyclone had devoured some of the soldiers and horses.

The cyclone moved away from the road and spun toward the wilderness before exploding and burning the surrounding vegetation. In the center of that explosion, the vague silhouette of a human can be seen.

"Is that Yuma?!" Lacius saw the figure and became shocked, "How did he wake up and even capable of using his power?!"

Lacius shouted toward the surrounding blessed, "All soldiers and blessed with the wind element, go and cut off the tree and vegetation to stop the spreading flames. Water, ice, and earth element blessed, use your power to extinguish the flame! Those with divine strength, go and capture Yuma back here!"

After giving his command, Lacius cursed, 'Damn it! How did Yuma wake up? Did the blessed I asked to take care of him forget to feed him the potions? Or has the resistance of someone at Yuma's level greatly increased to the point of almost rendering my potion ineffective?'

By the time the flame has been extinguished, most of the blessed that has been sent to look for Yuma has returned.

But seeing they all hadn't found any trace of Yuma, Lacius's face turned livid.

With Yuma's escape, his loss from this battle is simply too great.

Not only will those nobles cause a lot of trouble, but he has lost an arm and even gained the animosity of a high leveled blessed.

***

Inside a forest filled with dense vegetation, Yuma has run away while doing whatever he can to remove his trace.

He never got the need to remove his trace during his adventure before. So, Yuma knows he is quite bad at it. Especially since some blessed have occasionally followed his trace and attacked him.

Luckily, after he faked his unconsciousness, he regained most of his energy.

After he lost and was forced to drink the potion Lacius made, Yuma could feel his consciousness turn heavy and the energy in his body became slightly unresponsive.

But after the bit of energy in his body circulated through his body once, Yuma felt the effect of that potion quickly diminishing.

With the combination of clues he has gathered, like the non-fatal attacks from Lacius's subordinates, and their attempt to capture his family to force him to surrender. Yuma guessed the main reason Lacius suddenly targeted him was probably to capture him alive.

Then, the effect of that potion he has just drank should be related to it.

Feeling the effect that caused his mind to feel heavy, Yuma decided to take a bet and fell down to the ground and turned 'unconscious'. Then, he waited until his energy recovered and quickly escaped.

'Luckily, I took the right bet.' Yuma slightly narrowed his eyes while running in the dense wilderness. 'Now I need to meet with my only remaining family. This time I vow to protect them and live far away from that accursed Winter City.'

Yuma took a deep breath while slightly slowing down. 'It seems they have stopped following me.'

'I truly want to meet with my family that has escaped. But I am afraid Lacius will try to capture them and force me to come out.' Yuma thought while looking at the surrounding forest.

'For now, I'll need to make Lacius busy so the three that escaped won't be captured. I guess burning the forest nearby Winter City should suffice.'

With that idea, he changed the direction he ran, and moved closer into Winter City.