Cedric followed the System’s guide and enveloped the newly born Level 2 ant queen and a few male ants with his mental power.

  Next, Cedric spent some GP to add a telekinetic force with the intent of grabbing the ant queen and male ants.

  Soon, he felt a sensation akin to grabbing something from his mental power. He also sensed the ant queen and male ants resisting the telekinetic force he created, but their resistance is futile.

  With the ant queen and male ants entirely enveloped inside his telekinetic force, Cedric tried to grab them as lightly as he can. He is afraid they might be squished to death from the telekinetic force he created.

  Instead, he separated a part of his mental power and created the same telekinetic force to open a tunnel that led to the surface.

  That telekinetic force soon opened a straight vertical tunnel from the ant queen's cave, which Cedric used to transport the ant queen upwards.

  Once the ant queen had been brought to the surface, Cedric's telekinetic force didn't stop and brought the ant queen and some male ants higher toward the sky.

  Then, he moved the telekinetic force toward the place he had decided, a mountain located near a dwarf city.

  While transferring the ant queen, Cedric also used the same telekinetic force to block the wind and make sure the ant queen doesn't die from wind pressure.

  After sending the ants, Cedric also sent a few Level 1 and Level 2 demons near the elven forest.

  Once he was done, Cedric saw his GP had decreased by 20 and the world’s stability had decreased by 12 percent.

  [Stability: 36%

  Note: Please stop intervening when your world’s stability has reached 5%, as it might cause lasting damage to your world that’ll continue even after the upgrade process has been completed.]

  After doing so many things, Cedric finally kinda gets the gist of how his world's stability decreased.

  It's actually not affected by the amount of GP that he spent. Instead, it's more affected by why he spent his GP and what kind of effect it brings.

  Things like spreading knowledge seem to greatly decrease the world's stability, as just a few steles with some training methods written on it is enough to cause massive decrease in stability.

  Meanwhile, creating things and species for the sake of expanding the world also decrease the stability but not as much as spreading knoweldge.

  He just doesn't understand how moving the ant queen with telekinesis costs that much stability.

  Also, why does creating 1.000 GP of mana at once barely affect the world's stability.

  'Is it because mana is the special energy in my world? Or is it because of other unknown factors?'

  "What do you think of my analysis?" Suddenly, Cedric tried his luck and asked the System. After all, he has asked things about world stability before, but the System ignored his inquiry.

  [Do you wish to spend 10 GP to verify your guess?]

  'The System finally responded! Also, damn it, this thing is starting to ask for money to answer every little question. What a greedy capitalist.' Cedric grumbled while replying to the System, "Yes."

  [Your guess is mostly correct.]

  'Mostly correct…' Cedric rubbed his chin, "Which guess is the wrong one?"

  [Do you wish to spend 1.000 GP for the answer?]

  "No!" Cedric shook his head, "It's not like understanding how my world's stability works is important for now."

  After that short talk, Cedric saw there are still around three days remaining before his world finished advancing. So, he does a brief check on everything he has created to make sure nothing goes wrong.

  Once he is certain things has proceeded smoothly, Cedric finally started the last thing in his to do list, creating clone to experience the world directly.

  It's the System's suggested way so he can create a bond with the creature in the Crystal Cube world and stop thinking of them as an actor in a drama or an NPC in a game.

  Before creating his clone in the world, Cedric asked the System a few questions.

  "How much of my world's stability and GP will be decreased when I create a clone?"

  [A human, elf, or dwarf clone with Lower Level 0 power will cost you 1 GP to create. As long as you didn't talk nor transmit too much information through sign language, body language, and similar things. It will cost you approximately 1 percent stability per day to stay in the world. But, I doubt you can stop your body from accidentally revealing things, so you better think of the cost as 1.5% stability per day for every clone.]

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  [By the way, you can control more than 1 clone at once and experience several lives at once in the world. The maximum amount of clones you can control at once depends on the number of creatures you can possess with your mental power. It's also the most time-efficient way to experience the world within a limited time.]

  Cedric nodded, 'During my dragon crafting experiment, I found I can control hundreds of clones at once, so the limit isn't a problem.'

  He also checked the time remaining before his world advanced, 'There's still slightly less than 3 days left. That means, every clone will cost me 4.5 percent stability. Actually, let's just round it up to 5 just in case.'

  'I still have 36 percent stability. That means I can create 6 clones and still have 6 percent stability remaining.'

  Cedric felt that 6 percent is too close to the dangerous bottom line which is 5 percent. So, he decided to just send 5 clones to the world.

  As for the location, Cedric spent an hour to briefly glimpse through the situation in the world before deciding to send 1 clone to the human territory, and 2 two the elf and dwarf respectively.

  Among the two clones that he sent to the dwarf and elf territory. One of them will be responsible for teaching the elf and dwarf how to use the training method engraved on the stele he sent. While the other clone will be in charge of experiencing life.

  For that reason, Cedric decided to create the clone that's in charge of teaching directly next to the stele and also added some effect to their entrance. As for the clone in charge of experiencing life, it will be created in a deserted place inside or nearby the respective race's settlement.

  ***

  Inside the Crystal Cube world.

  The elven forest is still as calm as ever. But amidst the calm forest, two elves can be seen running toward a settlement filled with tree houses.

  The elf queen who had just received the news about a weird stele appearing in the village, quickly ran with the messenger to check it herself.

  Soon, she arrived in the village and saw the stele that's mentioned. Around it, many elves has been staring at the stele in amazements, curiosity, and confusion.

  On the stele, many weird thing is engraved. But the weirdest thing is how the elf queen feels she can understand what's drawn on the stele.

  "Level 2 water element training method." The elf queen muttered while staring at a slightly bigger engraving in confusion.

  She checked the smaller engraving below it and realized she could understand them too.

  Its mentioned things like energy, nodes, energy circulation path, and many complicated things the elf queen shouldn't even understand.

  But thanks to the weird engraving, she can still understand what it means. For example, when she stare at the engraving that's called 'nodes', she understood that it means 'an important point'. Or when it say 'pass the energy from x node to y node', she got the gist about which part on her body is the x node and which part is the y node.'

  Once the elf queen saw there is no danger from the stele, her curiosity is piqued and she joined the other elves that's staring or discussing about the stele.

  Amidst the discussion, some elf suddenly shouted, which pulled the attention of the other elves.

  When the elf queen saw the place where the elves are looking, she saw a vortex appears and sucks the surrounding air and fallen leaves. Inside the vortex, the vague figure of an elf is slowly formed.

  Once the elf has been formed and everyone can occasionally catch a glimpse of his face amidst the floating leaves, the vortex subsided and that unknown male elf walked towards her.

  "Greetings, current queen of elves."

  "Greetings" The elf queen replied with courtesy. After all, it's the elven tradition to reply to those who greeted them.

  After she finished her greeting, the elf queen immediately started her bombardment of questions. "Who are you? I've never seen you around before. Why did you suddenly come here? Did you suddenly appear from the vortex? Is that your power?"

  Cedric listened to the elf queen's barrage of questions while feeling a bit speechless.

  He already knew that the current elf queen was pretty chatty and active compared to the average elves, which is the exact opposite of the first elf king who preferred to sleep all day. But, he never knew she would immediately spam him with questions.

  As it's been a long time since he converses face to face with other creatures, Cedric spent a moment to readapt before replying to the elf queen's questions.

  "Most of those who know me call me the creator. I am the creator of this world and also everything inside, including the elves. I came here to explain several things about the stele I have just sent"

  The elf queen felt dumbfounded and looked at Cedric's clone in confusion. She seemed to have many questions, but before she could ask any, Cedric spoke once more.

  "Let's immediately get to the point. The time I have is pretty limited. I will answer any related question you have, but I apologize as I must ignore questions unrelated to the stele."

  Once he saw all elves had gathered their attention on him, Cedric continued, "On this stele, something called training methods is written. The training method is a way for blessed to increase their power."

  The elf queen woke up from her daze and asked, "What is a blessed?"

  "Blessed is what some people call those with supernatural power. Meanwhile, those supernatural powers are often called blessings."

  The elf queen nodded while still wearing a slightly confused look.

  Cedric didn't have a mind-reading ability, so he ignored the elf queen's confused expression and simply continued to share the information he intended.

  It's basically about what training methods are, how to use them, which training method to use based on their blessed power, and how to differentiate their levels.

  Finally, Cedric recalled something and added, "The elven race's tribulation will soon arrive, and the training method written on this stele will be a key for the elf to survive. I hope you can spread it to the elves in other settlements and increase the power of your race. That way, once the demons arrive in your forest, no elf will be harmed."

  Once he finished talking, Cedric saw several elves ask their questions.

  "What does tribulation mean? Is it dangerous?"

  "Are we in danger? Why do we need to learn the training method to survive?"

  "What is a demon, and why would they harm us?"

  Those questions are akin to a leak in a dam as more and more elves asked their own questions.

  Cedric patiently answered most of the questions the elves asked, while ignoring a few unrelated questions or the questions that's a repeat from other questions.

  ***

  Meanwhile, in the dwarf's territory.

  Except for the fact that he clone is of the dwarven race and the fact that they often asked questions about metallurgy, which is unrelated to the topic. The situation is pretty much similar to the one happening in the elf's territory.

  It's just that, unlike the elves who asked questions calmly and filled with grace. The clone that Cedric created next to the stele in front of the dwarf council building is currently having a headache.

  Those dwarves asked their questions all at once. Which when coupled with their loud voices and spit that accompanied their speech, made Cedric slowly ran out of patience.

  If he didn't know that it's just how the dwarf usually talked. Cedric would've sent a telekinetic nuke toward the surrounding dwarves and flattened them all into the ground that they loved very much.