With his purchase of [Basic System Screen], a cyan colored octahedron crystal appeared on his hand.
Grabbing the cyan crystal on his hand, Cedric contemplated, “Should I use this on Lacius or on Yuma?”
In his opinion, among the hundred of thousands of humans in the Crystal Cube world, those two are the best candidates.
Yuma is someone with the highest potential level and could be the strongest person in the near future. Meanwhile, Lacius is the person with highest status among the Crystal Cube world’s human races.
After a long time of indecisiveness, Cedric gave up thinking and created a coin in the Divine Space. “Let’s decide this with a coin toss. If it’s head, I’ll give the Basic System Screen to Lacius. If it’s tail, I’ll give it to Yuma.”
Cedric threw the coin and let it fall to the floor.
After jumping dramatically several times, the coin finally landed. Seeing the coin, Cedric muttered. “Well, it’s tail. That means I’ll give it to Yuma.”
He closed his eyes and checked Yuma’s current location. Then Cedric enveloped his mental power around the [Basic System Screen] and shattered it with his hand.
When the crystal shattered, some blue colored energy began to leave it. Cedric controlled it with his mental power and directed it toward the Crystal Cube world before sending them all into Yuma’s body.
In the Crystal Cube world. Yuma, who was currently resting in one of the palace’s guest rooms, saw a screen appear in front of him.
[Basic System Screen successfully installed.]
[Installation complete. Please think of status panel to open the status window.]
Yuma read the notification and commented. “Is this the RPG-like screen that’s often seen in fantasy Isekai?”
He excitedly shouted, “Status Panel!”
[Life Level: Lower Level 0
Exp: 10%
Potential: Lower Level 3]
Although a screen showing what seems to be his status appeared, Yuma’s excitement quickly died down. “What, that’s all?”
He shouted several other things like Skill Panel, Add Status, and other things that might be able to open a new status panel, but it all went for naught.
“System Storage!” He shouted while pointing his hand toward his pillow.
Seeing nothing happening, Yuma wanted to give up. But before he closed the screen, a new sentence was written on it.
[Testing! Testing! Can you read my message?]
“Huh?” The text confused Yuma. Nevertheless, he still replied to it. “Yes, I can read your message.”
[Good. It’s finally connected!]
“Who are you? Why are you hijacking my status panel?” Yuma asked in suspicion.
[I am the creator of Crystal Cube world. The one that sends you to that world.]
“It’s you!” Yuma shouted and then pointed at the screen, “You said I need to kill the demon king in your world. But, not only didn’t I get any cheat abilities. There aren’t any demon races at all in this world. Where should I find the demon king, then?”
[That’s why I am messaging you. The first demon has been born in the world. I’ll soon tell the human king about it. I hope you will follow the army and lead them toward the demon.]
Yuma is shocked by Cedric’s words and asks. “You want me to kill the demon? What about my cheat ability? Are you saying I should kill a demon as a normal person?”
[Hell, no! I just want you to lead them toward that demon while getting power leveled along the way.]
Yuma felt a bit speechless upon suddenly hearing such a modern jargon. But, recalling the creator of Crystal Cube world is someone that has the means to visit Earth, perhaps he has spent some time playing MMOs?
Then Yuma saw the screen change once more.
[As for the cheat you have, it is a much faster leveling speed and higher potential than the average person in the world. So, you still need to focus on strengthening yourself first.]
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Yuma saw it and his mouth twitched. “Is that all? Don’t you think such a cheat is too lazy? Can’t you give me a weapon or divine skill or something? Also, what else can the status panel do?”
[Are you bargaining with a god?!]
***
Inside the Divine Space, Cedric messaged his forehead in exasperation.
“That boy actually asked for a cheat item!” Although Cedric had no plan to give Yuma more cheat for now. But Yuma’s request has made him realize something.
“Hey, System. Can I create things or send items to the Crystal Cube world?”
[No, you couldn’t immediately create things in the Crystal Cube world for now. After the bell announcing the world’s completion rang, the act of creating things in the world by spending GP can only be done when the world leveled up to the next level. At that time, your world’s stability will greatly increase for a short time and you could create things during that duration.]
[As for sending items, you could only send Divine Items or items from another world to the Crystal Cube world. For Divine Items, you could envelop them with your mental power and sent it immediately. Meanwhile, sending items from another world is a bit complicated. You need to visit other worlds and use something akin to the teleportation circle you drew to send the hero before.]
Cedric nodded. “So, I could actually send Divine Items to the world? Then, couldn’t I just send some super powerful item to Lacius and have him kill the demon king?”
[Have you gone senile? I already told you that Divine items of a certain level can only be used by creatures that have reached the level mentioned in the item.]
[You could indeed send something like a Level 15 Divine Items, World Annihilating Sword to your world. But, except for being a big ass sword that took up a massive space, it couldn’t be used by anyone in your world!]
[As for Level 1 weapons that can barely be used by people in your world, they could only slightly injure the demon king. You could indeed send a lot of low leveled items to overwhelm the demon king. But, the cost greatly outweighs the benefit.]
Cedric saw the System’s answer and said, “I am just asking for certainty. You don’t need to get so worked up like that.”
[...]
Seeing the System only answered in ellipses, Cedric shrugged. ‘Well, at least I already got the answer I want.’
He then sent a message toward Yuma, through the Basic System Screen.
[I’ll see the result of this expedition. If I am satisfied with the result, I’ll give you something.]
After he sent that message and saw Yuma agreed to it. Cedric controlled his mental power to move toward the throne room and saw Lacius discussing something with Hars and his other subordinates.
Cedric felt it was such an opportune time to warn Lacius as he could immediately deploy his subordinates to handle that demonic chicken.
So, he grabbed [Divine Intervention: Word] and contacted Lacius.
***
Inside Winter City’s palace. In the throne room.
While Lacius was listening to his subordinate’s report as usual. Suddenly, an opaque illusory screen of light appears in front of him.
On the opaque screen, words that he never saw before are written. The weird thing is, although he never knew that word. But the moment he saw it, Lacius immediately understood what it meant.
[Long time no see, king of humans.]
“Who!” Lacius quickly shouted.
Meanwhile, the subordinates around him looked around with caution upon hearing Lacius’s shout.
[I am the creator of Crystal Cube world.]
Lacius’s eyes widened as he quickly stood up from his throne and bowed. “Greeting to the creator.”
Even though the surrounding people couldn’t see anything and were mostly confused. As they had seen Lacius bowing toward a space in front of him, they quickly followed suit and bowed. “Greeting to the creator.”
[There is no need for such formalities.]
Lacius’s mind quickly churned while he stood in place. ‘This kind of thing could either be a miracle from the god, or a blessed’s power targeting me. But for now, there is nothing wrong with paying respect to them as if they are indeed the creator god.’
[I am here to warn you about the birth of a demon.]
‘Is it really the creator?’ Lacius now begins to be sure of the identity behind this light screen. After all, except for him, only Hars knew about his meeting with the god.
Furthermore, the news regarding demons is only known by him, Hars, and the so-called hero.
He already knew Hars has a blessed power related to water, so this screen shouldn’t be his work. Meanwhile, Yuma is someone who hasn’t awakened a blessed ability.
While he was thinking, the light screen in front of him changed once more.
[Lead an army consisting of five hundred men with tens of blessed. Kill that demon before it begins to wreak havoc to the world. The moment you kill that demon, you shall break through your limit and reach a higher level of existence.]
“As you will,” Lacius replied and thought, ‘Is the demon really that powerful to the point of requiring five hundred men and tens of blessed to kill it? Also, what does the creator mean by breaking my limit and reaching a higher level of existence?’
While he is thinking, another light screen appears.
[The demon is hiding at the place where you have fought against the previous king. Let the hero join that army, he shall guide you to the demon’s exact location.]
Soon, the screen disappears, but Lacius keeps on staring at the air for a few minutes.
Seeing no new light screen appear, he sat back on his throne and frowned. ‘I am not sure what the demon that has been mentioned is. But for the god to require five hundred men… I guess I shall double the amount of troops sent just in case.’
Arriving at a decision, Lacius moved his sight toward his subordinates and said. “The god said a demon has been born on our land. We must quickly kill it before the demon brings calamity to the world! Gather a thousand strong army and notify every blessed in the city! We shall march at dawn tomorrow.”
The surrounding people’s eyes widened. “Your highness, what is this demon you spoke of? Is it so powerful to the point of requiring a thousand strong army?”
Lacius frowned at the one asking that question, “Just go! This is the god’s will!”
“But what about the rations? We don’t have enough for a thousand person army’s march!” Another person questioned.
“Use the emergency rations we kept in the palace’s granary. Also, sent a messenger to the city lords whose city we passed. We’ll restock our rations in those cities.” Lacius answered while waving his hand to dismiss them.
He then turned toward Hars, “Bring Yuma and Tsukiko here. We’ll need them to guide us toward the demon’s location.”