After a whole year of observation, Cedric has found three didates who might have a lot of virtuous energy.

  The first one is Tsukiko. Although she has gone slightly bonkers after taking the seat as a high priestess. She has also shown many acts of kindness by introdug some cepts from Earth.

  From donating food and clothes for those who hem, opening several small hospitals and schools in every city, ranting start-up loans with close to zero io small merts. She has done a lot of i acts of kindness. Much more thaher two didates Cedric found.

  But, that is also the main problem. Cedri't sure whether or not an i act of kindness will result in virtuous energy. After all, although Tsukiko has led many acts of good deeds, she rarely went and got involved herself.

  Then, there is the sed didate. She is a woman called Rinya, granny Maude's disciple and one of the extremely rare people with healing type blessed power.

  Rinya has learned a lranny Maude and also followed her path. She also loved to visit different cities to use her power foods. Although not as extreme as granny Maude, the amount of people Rinya saved is also quite siderable. Basically, Rinya is a watered down version of granny Maude.

  Finally, there is another familiar person who also came from the hero's party, An.

  Since leaving Yuma and the others, An has been traveling around the wilderness doing many things Cedric found inprehensible.

  Things like meditating under a waterfall while abstaining from eating foods for several days. He also kept away many desires like lust by oug any woman, which has kept him as a single man even after he reached middle age.

  An has also been living in the wilderhese past few years. stantly traveling around like the wind without aination in mind. Somehow, Cedric felt An had turned into someohat trying to attain enlighte. That's why he suspects An might have geed some virtuous energy through the seethod the System has mentioned.

  Cedric is curious about what has caused An to decide to travel around the wilderness. So, he activated Past Observation while searg for the time when An began turning weird.

  After rewinding until two years before the demon king appears in his world, Cedrially finds ahat he suspected to be the cause of An’s ge.

  At that time, he is still adventuring with Yuma and Tsukiko.

  After seeing Tsukiko has reached the peak of level 1, An’s expression has turned quite gloomy. It caught Yuma and Tsukiko’s attention and the three versed while traveling on their horse.

  After Tsukiko knows An feels down because he feels like a burden after being stuck at the same level for a long time, she tries to sole him. “In my previous world, it’s said you could attain enlighte by uanding suffering and the world. Maybe you could break your limit and reach a higher level by doing the same thing?”

  Then, Tsukiko tinuously talked about meditation, fasting, and whatnot.

  Although Cedric could see Tsukiko only gives those ents offhandedly to fort An. Cedric guessed An had kept those words to his heart and followed it. Which made him decide to travel around the wildero train.

  Closing the Past Observation, Cedric messaged his forehead. “Learning from my experieh Lacius and Gratian. I somehow felt Tsukiko would cause me a massive problem. The three of them are indeed capable, but their trouble-making ability seems to be equal to their capability.”

  “Sigh… I still prefer people like Yuma. Although he will retire the moment his mission is pleted. At least, I don't o fear the problem he might cause iure.”

  ***

  Returning to the main topic. Cedric has been in a dilemma and couldn't resolve himself on which person he is going to follow. So, he decided to switch his observation target between those three.

  He keep Tsukiko, Rinya, and An by ging his observation target every three months.

  Between every ge, he spent a day cheg the progress of purification for the cursed nd, and the remaining times were speing after overing his mental power.

  This pattern tinued for more thay years, but he still failed to see the virtuous energy. It seems he is quite ued in it.

  While Cedric’s Tsukiko with his mind full of pessimistic thoughts. The System suddenly sent him several gratutory messages.

  [gratutions! Someone in your world has found the prototype of a training path based on the special energy geed by your world! Your world has begun to get in touch with reted ws.]

  [gratutions! Someone in your world has broken through the limit of their potential without being ied by ive Energy! Your world has begun to get in touch with reted ws.]

  "Huh?" Cedric paused and scratched his head. "What happened? Who has dohose?"

  [It should be An, because the System detected the source of that ge to be nearby the area where you st saw him.]

  Cedric quickly trolled his mental power to leave Tsukiko and observed the wilderness where he saw An for the st time.

  Sending his mental power to that area, Cedric checked the surroundings and found An in front of the entrance of a ge.

  The ge's entrance is less than teers wide, with a thirty meter tall cliff wall on its left and right sides. Some pnts and animals are thriving around it.

  Currently, An is sitting in front of the entrance of the ge while strong winds blow toward him.

  After finding An, Cedric activated Divine Sight to check his current state.

  [Life Level: Mid level 1

  Potential: Lower level 1]

  He is finally certain that An is ihe one who has found a trainihod and broke through his potential. So, he asked the System. "How do I see the trainihod An has created?"

  He is quite curious about what the trainihod actually is.

  [You should be able to see the energy absorption and cirethod Ahrough the use of your Divine Sight.]

  Cedric immediately sent some mental power into his eyes and activated his Divine Sight.

  The moment, he focused on An and tried to see the energy absorptiohod the System mentioned. Yet, he still failed to do so after staring for ten whole minutes.

  Cedric stopped staring at An with his Divine Sight and asked the System. "I didn't see any energy circution nor energy absorption though? Are you sure I just o activate Divine Sight?"

  [Apologies, the System fot you're a half-baked god.]

  [Please activate Divine Sight while spreading your mental power as wide as possible. Then, try to sehe mana in your world. You should be able to see the mana inside your world easily thanks to the e between it and you.]

  Cedriored the first s and followed the System's guidance.

  After spreading his mental power while stantly activating Divine Sight, Cedric could feel his mental petting ed rapidly. Which forced him to focus and tried to sehe mana in his world as best as he could.

  Suddenly, his mental power seems to feel a new sensation. It's simir to the flow of air and water, but also simir to the solid earth.

  After feeling those sensations. Just like the humans uood how to breathe siheir birth, Cedric could see the flow of mana in his world as if he always had that ability.

  Whether it's mana in the air, in the soils, in water, in animals, or is. He could sehem all as long as they were within the range of his mental power.

  If Cedric must describe the feeling, it's simir to gaining the ability to observe airflow bined with some x-ray-like ability from sensing the mana ihings.

  'With this, I should be able to see An's trainihod.' Cedric focused his attention on An and found him still iation poses.

  But this time, Cedric could see the mana inside An circute and turn into a vortex. That vortex absorbed the mana withirong wind blowing from the ge.

  Although the amount of mana absorbed is small, and some of it will disperse to the outside world when An stops turning his mana into a vortex. But, the small amount of absorbed mana that hasn't left his body is enough to slowly increase his life level.

  In fasation, Cedric spent an hour An's meditation.

  He only stopped when a golden light suddenly appeared from An's body.

  That light slowly increased in size until it turned into a dim gold light that enveloped half a meter radius around An.

  Cedric turned off his Divine Sight arieved his mental power while massaging his temple. His head feels a bit tired and heavy after unknowingly over-ing his mental power.

  After the sense of exhaustion mixed with a slight headache disappeared, Cedric asked the System. "I suddenly saw a golden light appear from An. Is that reted to the trainihod he used?"

  [No. Those golden lights should be virtuous energy. So, gratutions on gaining the ability to see virtuous energy.]

  Hearing ood news, Cedric didn’t turn happy and became ed instead. "These secutive good news are making me uneasy. I've never been this lucky before."

  [Don't mind it too much. Maybe your luck has increased after obtaining godhood and a world that you currently call the Crystal Cube world. After all, obtaining a godhood as mortal is pretty much winning a universe level lottery. So, your luck shouldn’t be that bad.]

  "Thank you." Cedriever expected the System to actually fort him. But the warmth in his heart immediately turned cold upon reading the System's message.

  [Your luck may have indeed increased because you've gained a godhood through sheer luck. But, that uneasy feeling might be your sense of da work. It's warning you of possible danger you've overlooked. Don't uimate the unscious warni by someo your level. Even if you're just a Pseudo Lesser Divinity that's actually a fake with 0 levels.]

  Cedric felt his heart thumped upon hearing the System's seessage. So, he quickly moved his mental power and checked the person who has a 'criminal record' of causing chaos in his world.

  Seeing Lacius still minding his own business in the pace, Cedric still kept his alertness. He activated Past Observation and checked what happened around Lacius for the st few months.

  Cedric saw Lacius actually sat ohroneroom most of the time. Except for sitting ihrone room or sleeping, Lacius actually has a secret boratory in the pace. He occasionally visited that boratory to study and reseaech magical pnts, beasts, and even occasionally some humans, both alive and dead.

  Cedric has checked and found the living humans that got there are actually prisoners who have beeeo death. They mostly sisted of normal human and occasional blessed humans.

  Although Cedri't sure what Lacius wished to do. Lacius that looks like a mad stists or some wizard doing a forbidden experiment is making him feels a bit uneasy.

  At least Lacius hasn't made something that could cause chaos and mayhem in the world for now.

  But Lacius's killing made him recall a question. "Hey, System. You said NE is geed from ive emotion ohe creature in my world died right?"

  [Yes.]

  "Then, won't what Lacius is doing right now will gee NE and even spawn another demon king in the long term? After all those prisoner will definitely be in despair when they died after being experimented."

  [There is o worry. Normal world has the ability to expel some o the void as long as not too muE is geed at ond caused the world to get stipated.]

  [Only when too muE is geed at once will the world be uo expell their NE and gave birth to a demon king.]

  Cedriodded and accepted the System's expnation.

  Then, he pced a mental o che Lacius more often before switg his attention to che Tsukiko who he felt might also turn into a super troublemaker.

  ***

  Ihe River Stoy's temple, Tsukiko silently observed several white robed priestesses teag children how to read and t.

  Passing through the area used as a school, Tsukiko ehe hall with Cedric's statue and stared bnkly at it.

  Ihe Divine Space, Cedric saw Tsukiko and immediately used Past Observation on her.

  Although he had been her for two months wheried to learn how to see virtuous energy. But there is nothing wrong with making sure of it once more.

  After cheg what Tsukiko has been doing the past few months, Cedric did not find Tsukiko doing anything that could cause the world to desd into chaos.

  So, he calmed down slightly. 'Perhaps this is a false arm. Or perhaps Lacius is going to actally create some pgue that could kill the whole kingdom? I'd better spend some times to che them occasionally just to be sure.'

  After Cedric returned from cheg Lacius and Tsukiko who didn't; or hasn't caused any trouble. He tio observe An's dition and tried to learrainihod he had ied.

  His observation sted until the sun in Crystal Cube World finally set.

  When night arrived, An opened his eyes and ended his meditation while smiling. "With this, I finally catch up with those two."

  Ihe Divine Space. Cedric who has been p about the trainihod, actally overheard what An said and his mouth twitched. "I think I've heard a pink haired anime girl saying something simir in my past life."

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