With his pn t explosives being discarded in its infancy. Cedric began to prepare for other pns.

  He first calcuted the time he had left until the demon king appeared.

  Including the one-year advahat’s caused by a sudden increase iive Energy caused by that woman. He should have around three years remaining.

  [The System has just done a detailed calcution, and the exact time should be two months a days.]

  “It felt quite short. But I guess it’s enough for some preparation.” Cedric asked the System.

  “ you estimate where the demon king will appear?”

  [Based on the current situation. It should either be otlefield between Lacius and Gratian, or inside River Stoy.]

  Cedriervously asked, “Whie has a higher ce of being the birthpy world’s demon king? Or will I o face two demon kings simultaneously?”

  [At your current level, only one demon king should’ve appeared. As for the exact location, it’s kinda fifty-fifty.]

  Cedric could feel his head ache once more. The System that’s usually reliable at important moments isn’t even sure about it.

  The distaween River Stoy and the battlefield requires around an hour’s journey by horse.

  Because the ce is fifty-fifty. It means he o create two forces capable of deying the demon king for at least an hour to wait for reinforts from other pces to arrive.

  “Let’s push this matter for ter. For now, I o tell Lacius to evacuate everyone in River Stoy just in case the demon king appears there.” Cedric quickly acted a a message to Lacius.

  [The demon king will appear in two months a days. It will either appear otlefield or River Stoy.]

  After sending that message, Cedric recalled something and checked the granaries in the human race’s cities. Just like he has suspected, those granaries are mostly empty.

  The battle against demons, coupled with a popution boom, has caused a strain on the human race’s food resources. Currently, they are just a small drought away from a world-ending level food crisis.

  Cedric doesn’t want another mess to happen. So, he gritted his teeth and bought a [Species Fertility Blessing] for 100 GP and blessed the pnt that has bee the human race’s primary source of food.

  After an spending, he checked the remaining GP he had left.

  [Name: Cedric Hills

  Level: Pseudo Lesser Divinity (Actual level: 0)

  Law: None.

  World: Crystal Cube World

  World Level: 1

  World’s Average Potential: Lower Level P: 12.295

  Annual GP ine: 0.8]

  After he blessed the three races and increased their popution. The amount of his annual GP ine has steadily increased to 0.7.

  It’s only during the st few years, when the amount of blessed in the human race has increased and they occasionally died in battle, does his annual GP reached 0.8. But pared to his spending, the amount of annual GP ine is still not enough at all.

  Except for the amount of GP and annual ihere is no other ge in his panel.

  ***

  More than two months quickly passes by amidst everyone’s busy preparation.

  In preparation to fight against the demon king, Cedric has split the bat for the Crystal Cube world into two.

  One part sisted of Yuma and several top blessed. They’re stationed in the empty River Stoy as a small elite force that could hatle in urban areas more easily.

  As for the sed bat force, it sisted of Lacius and the army he led.

  Thanks to Cedric’s timely use of [Species Fertility Blessing], which caused an explosive increase i harvest. Lacius has successfully gathered resources to utilize a thousand-strong army with a siderable amount of low-level blessed.

  After cheg the preparation, Cedriervously observes the entire humaory repeatedly. ‘Nothing must g in this battle.’

  While doing his third check, Cedric suddenly saw the ive Energy that existed throughout the humaory suddenly densed into the battlefield between Lacius and Gratian.

  Just like dark clouds that gathered toward the eye of a storm, the ive Energy in Crystal Cube world slowly gathered there before densing into aremely thick cloud that obstructed Cedric’s view.

  [Warning! A demon king has appeared in your world.]

  Even without the System’s warning, Cedriew the demon king would appear, and the pce it had chosen was the battlefield where Lacius was currently.

  He quickly informed Yuma’s group who were staying in the River Stoy to quickly move toward the battlefield. After some thought, Cedric purchased a [Paper Airpne] so Yuma could arrive in advaoward the battlefield.

  ***

  At the battlefield where Lacius and Gratian previously fought.

  Lacius rode on a horse in the rear of a thousand-strong army. Ihe army, there are two hundred blessed, which is already the most he could gather without greatly weakening the defense from the human city in case of sudden demon attacks.

  o him, there are Hars, granny Maude who has bee even older, Rumina who has bee a guard captain, and Lacius’s other trusted subordinates.

  While they’re preparing. Everyone saw the light in their surroundings begin to dim. The massive amount of hering around the pce has caused it to take a faint physical form that obstructed the view.

  With the darkening sky, some soldiers with weak willpan to hear some auditory illusions. Even those with good enough willpan to feel uneasy.

  Lacius saw the se and shouted. “Don’t be afraid! Every soldier, prepare for bat! We have the god’s blessing for this battle!”

  He used an ingenious method to trol the earth and allow it to spread his voice to the surrounding soldiers. A method he has learned after training his earth manipution power.

  Hearing Lacius’s shout. Although the soldiers felt nervous, they forcefully suppressed it and sternly stood. It seems the time and resources Lacius spent to train his armies haven’t goo waste.

  Amidst the teuation, the earth below them began to tremble and a vortex of dust appeared.

  The vortex tio gather dust and the faintly visible NE before slowly solidifying into a two meter egg like ball.

  Seeing the two-meter ball that tio solidify amidst the vortex, Lacius shouted. “Prepare the formation!”

  The soldiers began to move into a formation. Those wearing shields stood in front, while behind them, there were many spear-wielding soldiers and almost a hundred blessed with divirength who had prepared their throwing spears or shields.

  Since a few years ago, the amount of blessed awakening divirength has been increasing. Right now, almost half of the blessed humans awakened divirength as their blessing. This be said to be a good thing because the destructive power and endurance of a divirength blessed is much strohan others at level 0.

  After the formation had been prepared, Lacius anded once more. “Target that ball and ence a wave of spear attack!”

  The army heard it and the spear-wielding soldiers threw one of their throwing spears toward the egg. The spear thrown by the people blessed with divirength is especially fast and bees the first oo arrive he ball.

  Upon arriving close to the vortex, they are affected by the strong wind and most of them miss their target. As for those that successfully hit the ball, they failed to cause any noticeable damage to it.

  Lacius tested the defense of that ball once more."Every blessed, ence a wave of attack!"

  The hundred blessed began to gather their abilities and shot them toward the ball. For a whole half a mihe space around that ball has been filled by many abilities chaotically thrown toward it. Yet, the ball didn’t seem to be affected. There aren’t even any cracks seen on it.

  Ihe Divine Space, Cedric could see the surroundiive Energy tio ehe vortex and solidify into the ball.

  Watg Lacius’s futile attempt, Cedric felt slightly nervous.

  If the demon king has such a powerful defehen, he is done for.

  After several waves of attack from Lacius, the vortex slowly settled down and the ball began to crabsp;

  From it, the silhouette of a human be seen.

  Even though his mental power has been hindered by the ive Energy surrounding that silhouette. Cedric is still the first oo see through the other party’s identity.

  His eyes widened in disbelief. “It’s actually Gratian? Does ive Energy have the power to resurreeone?!”

  [hat’s just his resehat has been given form by the gathering of ive Energy. You don’t have any sort of afterlife system, so every dead soul simply returns to the universe after being sed by the process of death.]

  While Cedric listeo the System’s answer. Lacius’s army has also seen Gratian who has appeared from the ball densed by ive Energy.

  Right after he opened his eyes. Gratian who has been recreated from ive Energy immediately looked toward Lacius’s dire and smirked. “Long time no see.”

  Lacius felt a sense of threat and quickly shouted to the surrounding soldiers. “eack!”

  Without muonsehe two parties began to fight against each other.

  Gratian calmly looked at the hundreds of throwing spears and blessed power chaotically thrown in his dire and grinned. His left arm exploded and turned into three five meters long purplish bck tentacles enveloped in mist. Those tentacles danced erratically and easily parried or blocked most of the attacks.

  Although the tentacles also received some damage. They absorbed the mists surrounding them and began to heal at visible speed.

  After a whole mihe attack sent tratian began to die off and he ter attacked. The three tentacles somehow bio a sieer loacle and sweep down toward the shield bearing soldiers standing in front. With each swipe, dozens of soldiers are either injured or immediately died.

  Gratian’s sweeping attaly slowed down when many blessed with divirength began to raise their shield and joined forces to stop him.

  Gratian saw it and ged his attack pattern. He now began to whip his tentacle arm around like a whip. Every attack of his tentacle whip once again easily caused many casualties in the army.

  While causing massive havoc to the army. Gratian slowly walked towards Lacius’s location.

  Lacius occasionally created a massive hole and swallowed Gratian. But, it only caused Gratian some dey as he easily destroyed them and dug himself out.

  Inside Divine Space, Cedric activated Divine Sight and checked Gratian that has been densed by ive Energy.

  [Life Level: Upper Level 2

  Potential: Upper Level 1]

  “Sigh, what a headache! He is one small level higher than Yuma who’s at Mid Level 2.” Cedric held his forehead and sighed. He moved his mental power from the battlefield and checked Yuma’s location.

  Luckily, Yuma has already arrived halfway and only needs around a mio arrive there.

  Cedric felt grateful to whoever or whatever created the [Paper Airphat item with a stupid name has actually saved his ass twice.

  With the [Fire Sword] in hand, Yuma should be able to defeat Gratian as long as he uses the remaining Fire Ssh at the right moment.