Chapter 89. Return
Closing his Past Observation, Cedric felt kinda sad, "More and more people I knew have died."
After a sigh, his mood quickly returned to normal.
He moved his mental power back to Lacius's secret room and checked the bookshelves.
He has already studied most of the books on the shelves while he is bored in the Divine Space. So, Cedric immediately took a peek at a relatively new-looking book.
The first few he saw were notes about the ant queen and Lacius's study on Level 3.
He used the ant queen and the stele-containing training method as a base to summarize several notes regarding Level 3.
Cedric must say he is impressed by Lacius's ability. After he summarized the difference between Level 3 and Level 2, coupled with the special characteristic of Level 3 being, Lacius successfully optimized and customized his earth element training method.
With his optimized training method, Lacius will be able to absorb mana automatically even though he is petrifying himself.
Although the speed of increase is much slower than actively training. But, it still doesn't change the fact that Lacius can grow stronger while hibernating.
Except for books that record Lacius's research on Level 3, there's also books about new alchemy recipes and weapon crafting.
The alchemy recipe isn't important. It's just several new potions that Lacius created after getting some new inspiration.
It's the weapon, or to be more specific, armor and shield, that took Cedric's attention.
The armor and shield Lacius designed used the carapace of the Level 3 demon ant queen as material, coupled with some magic metal as auxiliary materials.
There isn't any amazing technology used to craft that armor and shield. But the material used is simply too special.
Cedric used past observation before moving his mental power to check the temple's headquarters.
There, he found several priests and temple knights wearing armor or robes made with the demon queen's carapace.
Cedric used his mental power to collect some data and found that armor can definitely survive an attack from Level 2 human blessed.
With such armor, even a Level 1 blessed can contend against a Level 2 blessed.
Due to the ant queen's size, Lacius has created a hundred armor and shields with many excess materials left in his storage.
With a hundred people capable of contending against Level 2 blessed, the temple's control over humanity has been strengthened even further.
Cedric rubbed his chin, "I just don't know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing."
He shook his head and let things be.
After skimming through the situation in another part of the world, Cedric went to sleep.
On his sixth day on earth, nothing new happened.
He just studied and collected some interesting stories to store in the godhood.
As for the situation in the Crystal Cube world, most of them are still the same as before.
The only difference is with Elisa.
She hasn't increased her level, but Cedric can feel she is close to advancing to Upper Level 1.
Except for her level, another thing of note is there is now a small elven village around Elisa.
Cedric used his Past Observation and heard the village is called Arlen Village. It's the village where the male elf Elisa usually met resides.
They didn't want to leave their land for the city because it was simply too far. But recently, a demon has attacked a nearby small village and slaughtered everyone in it.
That news made the elves change their mind and prepare to evacuate.
Although they are unwilling to leave the village they have stayed in for hundreds of years, it's better than endangering the whole community.
But as the distance to the nearest city is quite far, they need to do some preparation.
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The male elf who often met with Elisa told her he was going to leave.
When Elisa who has been lonely for several years heard it, she asked for the reason he needs to leave before suggesting they migrate near her instead as she'll help them in exchange for company.
Although the male elf was doubtful and simply laughed at his tree friend's suggestion. He immediately changed his mind upon seeing Elisa make a move.
Now that she has reached Mid Level 1, Elisa can control the plants within hundreds of meters around her.
Seeing the plants around him turn into a weapon, the male elf, Niel, started seriously contemplating Elisa's offer.
When he returned, Niel talked with the elves in their village. After discussion, they split into two groups with most of them going to the city while a small part went to stay with Elisa.
After knowing the cause and effect, Cedric closed his Past Observation.
He continued checking the situation in the Crystal Cube world and immediately went to sleep once he was done.
On the final day, Cedric didn't check the Crystal Cube world and simply made a last-ditch effort to learn as many things as possible.
He even chose to have overtime and kept on studying until the morning of the eighth day, which is exactly 168 hours since he entered Earth.
The instant his stay ended, a screen appeared in front of him.
On top of the screen, there's a timer that counts down from 10 minutes.
[Your 7-day stay has ended, and you have been granted 10 minutes of extra time to purchase an extension for your visa. Do you wish to pay 2.000 GP to extend your stay on this Earth by another 7 days? ]
Cedric shook his head, "No."
[Are you sure?]
"Yes."
[Alright.]
[Checking for violation of the terms of service.]
[Detected several violations.]
[Your activation of supernatural power has been recorded on CCTVs.]
[You've started a ghost myth inside a hospital.]
[You've started a mysterious coma case.]
[Calculating the amount of penalty.]
[Calculation complete.]
[Your total fine is 134 GP.]
Cedric groaned. He had read the clause in the terms of service and knew the penalty on Earth with four digits is much higher than on Earth with five digits. But the amount of penalty still surprised him.
Nevertheless, he still paid the fine and the System continued to spam him with messages.
[Payment completed, beginning the transfer.]
By the time Cedric realizes it, he has returned to his familiar Divine Space.
The first thing he does is open his status panel.
[Name: Cedric Hills
Level: Pseudo Lesser Divinity (Actual level: Peak Level 3)
World: Crystal Cube World
World Level: 2
World's Average Potential: Lower Level 0
GP: 6.574
Annual GP income: 8]
The visa to Earth this time has cost him 1.000 GP to purchase.
Sending Elisa and her mother to the Crystal Cube world has cost him an extra 2.000 GP.
There are also miscellaneous Expenses like paying the fine, purchasing a Portable Possession Magic Array, and purchasing other times.
In total, those miscellaneous purchases cost him around 600 GP.
Luckily, It's unknown when, but his annual GP income has risen to 8.
Thanks to that increase. During his 7 day stay on Earth, Cedfic gained around 500 GP from his annual income.
It's just enough to offset some part of the miscellaneous expenditure. But it's already a good start.
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After all, his annual GP should still be able to raise up to 10 GP a year. And when his world levels up, he'll have an even higher annual GP.
"Still, I should start saving my GP even more."
After deciding to start focusing on saving his GP, Cedric sorted his gain from this Earth visit.
The first one is of course, Elisa.
There's also the knowledge he gained from all that studying.
Finally, Cedric closed his eyes and felt the thousands of completed novels and comics he had stored before nodding in satisfaction. "These should be enough to last me a few years."
Once he finished calculating his losses and gains, Cedric checked the situation in the Crystal Cube world.
Sending his mental power to the Crystal Cube world, Cedric first arrived in human territory.
There, the human race has become much more restrained with war happening less often. One part is caused by the temple's force that has become stronger than before thanks to the Level 3 ant queen's carapace. While another part is because most of the human's energy has been spent exploring different places.
The northern kingdoms have already expanded near the mountain range Cedric created to split the world. With villages and cities near the mountain range as a base, they started exploring the mountains.
Although the exploration often results in failure, they have felt the reward gained from the few successful expeditions.
Whether it's the precious ore, plants, or even new magical beasts. The mountain range is filled to the brim with them.
As for the southern kingdoms, they are still focusing on their expedition on the sea and islands.
After decades of research and development, the southern kingdom's shipbuilding technology has advanced by leaps and bounds.
Except for the size of the ship which has become much bigger and stronger, The three southern kingdom's sailing knowledge has also increased.
Thanks to that accumulation, the southern kingdoms could now use the ocean as an effective means of goods transportation between them. This resulted in the creation of several port cities with prosperous economies in all three kingdoms.
Except for trade, the three kingdoms have gathered information about several islands, most of which are filled with special resources. They have also met with the dragons who reside on those islands, but their meeting can't be said to be peaceful.
After the dragon destroyed several ships in a fleet in curiosity, the remaining ships retreated in haste and marked the dragons as dangerous species.
Every time a fleet meets with a dragon that comes close to them, they'll launch an attack. Even so, no dragon has been killed by the humans. Instead, the attacks caused the originally curious dragons to become annoyed by the ships and start attacking them in return.
The battle with the dragon also caused the human exploration to be stuck.
At the same time, some pirates have occasionally appeared on the sea lane used for trade between kingdoms.
Compared to the dragon that usually stays on the island, those pirates give the three kingdoms even more headaches, which makes exploration impossible before they can handle the problem of piracy.
When he finished observing the humans, Cedric rubbed his chin, "After my observation since staying on Earth, it seems the human kingdoms felt like some kids. As long as they have an interesting toy to play with, they won't fight with each other all that much."
"Of course, just like a child, they'll still fight with each other if their toy is stolen." Cedric shook his head.