NOVEL NEXT Chapter 88. Fifth Day On Earth
While Cedric is studying, time quickly passes by and it's already his fourth day on Earth.
Just like the last few days, Cedric spent his morning eating breakfast in the hotel and visiting the library he recently found once it opened.
Then, he mostly stays in the library except during lunch.
Once evening arrived, he returned to the hotel and browsed his phone.
Except for the first two days where he is full of spirit and madly collected knowledge. Cedric has also started collecting novels every evening.
By skimming through them, those novels can be stored in the godhood's memory without him knowing what the story is about.
He plans to read the novels during his pastime once he returns to the Divine Space.
Cedric spent the evening storing novels before checking the situation in the Crystal Cube world.
Although only three days have passed on Earth since he sent Elisa and her mother to his world. Due to the 1:3652.5 time dilation effect, every day on Earth is equal to ten years in his world. That means, around thirty years have passed inside the Crystal Cube world.
Elisa's mother who has reincarnated as an elf is now already 30 years old. She has almost lived as long as the life she spent on Earth.
But because of the elf's massive lifespan, their physical growth is also several times slower than humans. Which resulted in Elisa's mother looking like a less than 10-year-old human girl.
Luckily, the village Cedric reincarnated Elisa's mother into has already joined one of the elven cities. So, he doesn't need to worry about her safety.
Cedric has also told her that Elisa is accidentally sent to the world as a tree.
The expression on her face when he told her that news is something out of this world.
After her shock, Elisa's mother started berating him. But as it's his fault, Cedric immediately apologizes and tells her about Elisa's location.
Once he saw her calm down, Cedric checked Elisa's situation.
Right now, Elisa has already reached Lower Level 1.
This might sound slow, but she achieved that level almost entirely through training.
Except for killing an Upper Level 0 demon that helped her to break through from Peak Level 0 to Lower Level 1. Elisa gained most of her Exp through breathing in mana and circulating it using the training method she created.
As for how she can kill those Upper Level 0 demons. Cedric is quite curious, and has used his Past Observation to check.
The way Elisa killed it is actually quite brutal and simple.
A few years ago, a canine demon that's around one meter and a half arrived near her.
It saw the family of lightning birds that built their nest on Elisa's branch and tried to target them.
That demon stealthily got closer to Elisa's location, intent on killing those birds. But, Elisa who at that time was dozing off, quickly came to her senses when she felt the demon approaching.
At first, she thought it was just another wild animal. But when she saw the demon pounce on her branch to target the birds that she had taken as a friend, Elisa immediately snapped.
Thanks to her Peak Level 0 power that has been stuck for a few years due to lacking continuation of her training method. Elisa's power has greatly strengthened compared to when she first reached Mid Level 0.
Although she still couldn't control her roots, her control over the tree she possessed increased. Right now, she can easily move the branch in an unnatural way with high force and speed.
The moment that canine demon jumped toward the nest, Elisa used some branches as a whip and hit that demon hard. Meanwhile, her remaining branches entangled the demon and restrained it in midair.
The lightning bird that perched on her branch came to their senses and started hurling small strands of lightning to hit the demon.
Although most of the lightning birds are only at Mid Level 0 with only one at Upper Level 0. With Elisa's help, they fought that demon easily.
Actually, fought isn't the correct word. Elisa and the lightning bird easily abused that demon while it was struggling in midair after its hind leg was grabbed by Elisa.
Once the demon died, one of the lightning birds rose in level from Mid Level 0 to Upper Level 0.
Meanwhile, Elisa's Exp which has long been full finally increased and she easily rose to Lower Level 1.
Once she reached Lower Level 1, Cedric saw her mutated soul had been strengthened once more.
When she is at Lower Level 0, Elisa's soul looks like an amoeba with flagella that spreads on every plant within fifty meters around her. And its distance had advanced to a one-hundred-meter radius when she reached Peak Level 0.
But when she reached Level 1, the range immediately doubled and reached a 200-meter radius.
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Based on what Cedric has learned. That means Elisa should be able to control the plants within 200 meter radius to a certain extent.
Now that her life level has risen, the control she has over those plants should be even higher. She shouldn't be limited to rustling those plants like before.
Before Cedric closes the Past Observation, he controls the Past Observation to jump a few days ahead.
These few days are enough for him to see why the System went bonker when it saw Elisa's Lesser Nature Affinity.
A few days after she advanced to Level 1, Elisa successfully created a training method for herself.
It might have taken Elisa a bit more time to create the Level 1 method than the Level 0 method. But, it's still incredible nevertheless.
After all, it took a genius like Alan several years to create a training method.
While he thought so, Cedric closed his Past Observation and checked the situation.
That's when the System chimed in when he almost finished his daily check in the world.
[Actually creating a training method in a few days is still a ridiculous feat for a Lesser Nature Talent. Her weird soul mutation should also be responsible for the insane feat of creating a training method in days from zero.]
The System's words made Cedric suspect the accident where Elisa's soul got pulled into the tree that looks like an oak tree might not be an accident.
Considering he felt a pulling force from both Elisa's soul and the tree at that time. Cedric felt these attraction forces come from both sides' instinct to merge and become stronger.
After all, the System said that in an extremely rare case, a basic magic forest can awaken intelligence and become spirit. It might have been instinct or something and pulled Elisa's soul who has incredible talent.
As for why there's attraction from Elisa's soul too. No matter how Cedric sees it, a forest is much stronger than a mere elf. So, it's logical for a soul to choose a better body.
[...]
The System suddenly sent several ellipses which made Cedric's mind stop wandering.
"What's it?" Cedric waited for the System to continue. "Why didn't you say anything?"
[The System has heard your reasoning. Although you seem to use the wrong formula at some parts, you most likely have guessed the correct answer.]
"What?" Even Cedric felt surprised at the System's affirmative answer. After all, he is just thinking random things.
"Wait a minute," After the surprise, Cedric told the System, "Haven't I told you to stop peeking at my mind? You pervert without any sense of privacy!"
Cedric bickered with System until he felt sleepy and slept comfortably.
When he woke up, it was already the fifth day he had been on Earth.
He repeated his activity for the whole day before checking his world at night.
This time, Cedric saw that Elisa's mother had turned 40.
After so long, she has thoroughly adapted to the world and become close to the other elves. She has even awakened as a nature element blessed after so long.
Cedric contemplated and decided to spend some time researching a suitable training method for her. When a few hours passed, he finally finished modifying a suitable training method.
Thanks to his experience from creating training methods, and the fact that Elisa has reached Level 1 as a tree blessed with natural element power. Cedric easily created a training method for elves that can be used up to Peak Level 1.
He bought a Divine Intervention: Image and shared the training method for nature element with Elisa's mother.
Once he saw her start using the training method, Cedric focused his attention on her.
He only felt relieved when he saw her successfully circulating the training method without harm.
To be honest, he became tense every time he sent others a training method as it reminded him of Alan.
Compared to the training method Alan created. His death has left more of a mark on Cedric. It's to the point he is kinda traumatized of giving others the training method he created.
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Once Cedric finished sending the training method, he skimmed through the other areas.
First, Elisa has reached Mid Level 1 after a decade of hard work. Except for her raise in level, there's also another good thing that happened to her.
Because elves mainly built their settlement near rivers or areas with specialty. The tree that Elisa possessed isn't within the area often passed by an elf.
Except for the dead elf that has run away randomly to escape from the demon that annihilated her village, no elf has passed her area for decades.
But after years of waiting, her luck finally turns for the better as an elf arrives near her.
From what Cedric sees, the elf is a young adventurous elf from the closest village to her location.
They're among the few villages that haven't moved into the city and still stay in their original location.
After meeting the elf, both chatted for a long time.
The elf mainly talked with Elisa because of his curiosity. Meanwhile, Elisa chatted about everything under the sky because that elf was the first intelligent creature she had met. And so, both the tree and elf hit it off with each other right off the bat.
Once he finished checking Elisa, Cedric used his mental power to observe Lacius.
Right now, Lacius has activated his ability to petrify himself and turned into a statue.
His secret room has also been cleaned without any trace of the Level 3 ant queen nor any other blessed. Instead, there are now several new books on the shelves where Lacius usually kept his notes.
Curious, Cedric used his mental power to check the result of Cedric's research.
But when he saw one of the books, Cedric paused and quickly went to Silver Hope City.
He activated past observation and sighed, "After advancing to Level 2 and being stuck for a long time, old man Merthyr has died from old age recently. Furthermore, the book of forgotten history has somehow fallen to Lacius's hand."
When Cedric saw the book of forgotten history on Lacius's bookshelf. He thought Lacius had killed old man Merthyr. But it seems Lacius has been playing the game of patience.
"No wonder he hasn't gone into hibernation for a long time. It seems except for his research, Lacius has also been keeping tabs on the book of forgotten history I left to Merthyr." Cedric shook his head as he watched the scene in the Past Observation.
After Merthyr advanced to Level 2 thanks to the training method Cedric left, he started a family that quickly gained a reputation in the area.
Cedric also saw Merthyr telling his descendants to always record the happening in the world as it's the mission granted to them by the creator.
Honestly, Cedric feels a bit speechless but also kinda glad at the same time. He only shared the book to remind the humans about the real past and to retain the names of heroes.
Who knows Merthyr will misunderstand and make it the mission of his entire bloodline.
It's kinda a good thing to have a family that focuses on recording history.
Anyway, he is getting sidetracked.
Cedric watched the event in Past Observation and saw Merthyr grow old and sickly. Even with potions that can extend lifespan, he won't be able to last for a long time.
When Lacius heard the report about Merthyr's weakened state, he left his secret room and went to the Silver Hope City.
He stayed in the city for a few months while patiently waiting.
Once he heard Merthyr had died, Lacius swiftly made a move and stole the original book of forgotten history.
Methyr's children panicked when they saw their family's heirloom had been stolen. But they became more relieved upon seeing the Level 2 training method isn't missing.
The family sent people to look for it, but they didn't send all of their forces. The search seems more like a mere formality. Perhaps in their opinion, the Level 2 training method is much more precious than the book of forgotten history.
What a pity, that's absolutely wrong. After all, just the material for the book of forgotten history alone is already extremely precious.
As for the knowledge inside, it can be used to blackmail Lacius to a certain extent. Of course only if they knew about it and were brave enough.