trolling the Peak Level 2 e he possessed, Cedric activated the energy i and tried to summon a small tornado.

  Most of the mana stored ihat e's body began to flow out and turned into a teer tall tornado that sucked the surrounding items.

  After a mihe tornado disappeared while the e's mana began to recover on its own.

  "Well, this is quite disappointing. I could do much more with a wave of my hand." Cedric said while creating a massive tornado in Divine Spabsp;

  Seeing an area of the Divine Space that had been ruined by the tornado, Cedric rubbed his . "Except for an additional feeling of energy flowing out of me when I activated blessed power, there is no differeween them."

  After testing the wind magic, Cedric removed the e and all of the traces of his experiments. Although the e is no lohere, its data has been stored in the godhood, so Cedric could create another one anytime he wanted.

  Feeling a massive sense of achievement upon seeing the result of his hard work, Cedritrolled his mental power to ehe Crystal Cube world.

  When his mental power arrived at the Winter City, Cedric found the whole city was in a state of tension.

  Ihe pace, Lacius and many of his subordinates are hurrying about. From their versation, they are preparing to deploy the army.

  Cedric silently watched the se while trying to uand the situation. It seems unknowingly, he has skipped another importa while he is focused on learning.

  Although difficult and time ing, Cedric's observation yielded results, as he has found the problem.

  Staring at a small temple at Winter City that had been buro the ground, he felt his heart tightening.

  Not because he felt it ity that a temple worshiping him had been burned. But because he found out Lacius and Tsukiko had somehow split up and turned hostile against each other.

  With his Divine Sight, Cedric saw the moment that the temple had been buro the ground.

  Following the clue, he tio activate Past Observation until he saw a meeting inside Winter City's pace around four years ago.

  Led by Lacius who has turned even older and has many wrinkles on his face. Several nobles with high standing in the human race discussed the temple Tsukiko has created.

  They felt the influence of the temple had been growing increasingly stronger and it began to encroa the king's authority.

  Those nobles implore Lacius to disband the temple and show his authority as a king.

  After a loing, Lacius decided to send a message to Tsukiko. The message sisted of his request for Tsuiko to surrehe temple’s independend pce it uhe direct jurisdi of the kingdom.

  Tsukiko who received that message is unwilling.

  For her decade of hard work to be taken with a single word, she simply couldn't accept that. Although in the early stage, the temple indeed received much support from the kingdom. However, it has bee indepe and eveurhe support many times over thanks to Tsukiko’s hard work.

  After a few years of peace that's more akin to the calm before a storm, the hostility betweeemple and kingdom has begun to aggravate.

  Deactivating his Past Observation, Cedric messaged his forehead.

  While he is learning human anatomy and energy circution, the human race has once more caused arouble.

  Luckily, he arrived just in time. If he found out about it a year or two ter, things would've taken a turn for the worse.

  Rubbing his , Cedric prepared his termeasure for this event.

  To be ho, he hasn't quite uood why this mess is happening.

  Cedric might be gettier at creating things, but his knowledge iudy of the human mind is still pretty basic. It's like a biology majht not be good at sociology.

  So, he decided to send a s to Lacius to ask for further information.

  Of course, he wished to keep some of his dignity, so Cedric asked as if he was questioning Lacius’s decision.

  [Why do you wage another war?]

  Sitting on his throne, Lacius seems to be uurbed by the message Cedrit and calmly answers. "I must do it. Otherwise, more and more people will begin to slight my status as the king of the human race. At that time, the situation will be much more chaotic than it is."

  He looked at the throne room that’s currently empty. "Those nobles are testing me. I could see some of them have gotteless since a long time ago. They think I am old and have bee a pushover. If things tinue like this, I am afraid an internal strife will happen and the kingdom will be split."

  Cedric feels Lacius’s answer is pretty logical. He doesn't quite uand political matters. So, Cedri only let things happen as it is while leaving a warning to Lacius.

  [Alright. But don't cause too much death and misery to the people.]

  "I uood." Lacius bowed toward the s and sat back down on his throne.

  Sitting alone in the empty throne room, Lacius rested his ba the throne while staring at the massive mirror o him.

  On it, the refle of an old man with sharp and dignified eyes be seen.

  Looking at his own refle, Lacius closed his eyes. 'I've beeing more and more frail. Time... what a fearsome thing.'

  ***

  After giving his warning to Lacius, Cedric realized his [Diviervention: Word] had run out of energy.

  Retrieving his mental power, Cedric purchased another [Diviervention: Word], and looked around the humaory for An.

  In the fight between Lacius and Tsukiko, Cedric felt he couldn't decide which side he should take. Which led him to choose to be ral and simply watch things progress on their own.

  This time, he will focus on this matter and quickly take a move when the event has progressed in a bad dire.

  Cedric has a gut feeling that he will get even more busy iure, and a time when he couldn't stantly observe the world might e. So, he wished the ra the Crystal Cube world - especially the humans - to learn how to haheir own mess.

  While lost in thought, he finally found An who actually has returo Winter City after creating his trainihod.

  It's been more than a decade since he st saw An when he successfully created the trainihod. The middle aged man at that time has now turned into an old man in his seventies.

  In the Crystal Cube world with a low teological level. Even with Cedric's blessing, many disasters like famine and pgues still happen and greatly lower the average life expecy of the inhabitants.

  This made An who has lived for seventy years be among the oldest humans currently alive.

  Right now, he lives idly while opening a small shop iy.

  Even though his business looks quite prosperous. An's face is stantly frowning from worries and fusion.

  Cedric activated Divine Sight and checked An's progress.

  [Life Level: Peak level 1Potential: Lower level 1]

  'As expected of the one who has ied the trainihod. He has reached the peak of level 1.' Cedric observed An's energy circution and cluded. 'It seems he hasn't found a method to reach the sed level.

  Cedric rubbed his and decided to send a message to An.

  [Greeting, pioneer.]

  Ihe Crystal Cube world, An looked around when he saw the s that appeared in front of him. "Who?!"

  The people around him looked at An who shouted while staring at thin air.

  Ign his er's weird look, An's eyes are always locked on the s Cedrit.

  After recalling a story, An's expression ged and he quickly closed his store. "Sorry, I've gotten older a exhausted today. The store will be closing for now, please visit again ter."

  When everyone had left the store, An bowed. "An has met the creatod."

  Cedri't surprised that An knew about him. Sihe creatod’s temple, which is the temple worshiping him, has beeed. Tsukiko often wrote some sacred scripture and whatnot that shows his legends. Nowadays, many people in the Crystal Cube world know he will occasionally seions to the creatures in the world through dreams or ss.

  After he bowed, An didn't wait for a response from Cedric. He immediately rambled on and on. "Respected creator, have I dohe right thing? I want my discovery t goods to the world and advahe human race's power in case of another demon attack. Yet, if things go on like this, and internal war in the human radeed happens, my discovery will only result in more deaths thahe fiercest demon attack …."

  Cedric scratched his head upon hearing An's worries. 'I am just here to discuss the trainihod he discovered before. Why did it suddenly turn into a venting session?'

  Although Cedric said so, he still listeo An who tio talk to himself. "... by the time I returhe two people I respected had goray from the right path. One of them got drunk in power while the ave himself up to lust. Oo creator, have what I achieved been for naught?"

  Cedric got a bit dazed amid An's rambling. But he still gets the gist of what An talked about.

  An is basically in his te life crisis after he returo human civilization a few years ago and found Tsukiko and Yuma had greatly ged.

  Seeing Tsukiko focus too mu the temple, while Yuma has retired into a farmer while living with his wives in the tryside has shocked An senseless.

  After returning to Winter City, he shared his trainihod with Lacius and Tsukiko in the hope they would teach them to their subordinate and help cull the demons in the world.

  Although the amount and strength of demons has drastically decreased after they successfully defeated the demon king. But, it doesn't mean the demon has goinct. They still occasionally appear around pces with slightly thicker y.

  Tsukiko and Lacius gdly took it and taught their respective subordihe trainihod.

  Then, Areated back to the ge and trained until he felt he had reached a limit. Feeling he wouldn't be able tthen himself any further, he decided to return to civilization once more.

  By the time he visited Winter City once more, the situatioween the kingdom and temple had turremely tense. Now that war seems iable, An's worries increase once more. He is afraid his trainihod will cause the iable battle to be more intehan it should be.

  To be ho, Cedric felt An had been thinking too much.

  Acc to his resear the trainihod. The method Aed actually requires suitable talent, a suitable pce, and a bit of personalization to be used to their utmost potential.

  The training speed of its user is limited by their potential, how much mana tained in the wind at the pce they traiheir affinity with the winds, and how much they could personalize the energy circution based on the dition of their own body.

  Anyway, An is w too much. Even if he shared those teiques, only a limited number of people could follow it to increase their level. So, Cedric simply replied with some warm and f words.

  [There is o worry. What will be will be. You've made a great tribution by selflessly sharing the trainihod you've discovered. After all, a society grows great when old men pnt trees in whose shade they never sit.]

  He even spped some proverb he had heard in his past life to fort An. He only hope for the best and for An to quickly regain his vigor.

  After giving An a word of fort, Cedric recalled his main objective for tag An and prepared to send the tinuation of An's trainihod.

  With the tinuation, An should be able to reach level 2 and regain some of his youth to tinue his experiment.

  Cedric has a gut feeling that the trainihod Aed still be greatly optimized. Whether it's in terms of generalization, removing the limitation on geographic location, decreasing the requirement for wind affinity, ging the element affinity required to use that method, or other aspects.

  At that time, the creature in the Crystal Cube world may use that trainihod to quickly increase their strength and tribute mP for him.

  It's just his creativity is limited and Cedric has reached a bottlene his researbsp;

  He needed help and inspiration from other people, and who else is more suitable to be the source of inspiration than the creator of that trainihod himself.