In the Divine Space.

  Cedric has been observing Lacius and saw what he could do with the faith energy.

  He was especially shocked when he saw some priests' life levels slightly increase after receiving the faith energy. So, he asked the System about it. "Can faith energy also be used to increase someone's life level? What other uses are there?"

  [Do you wish to pay 1.000 GP for further detail?]

  "No." Cedric rolled his eyes. 'Damn it, I thought I could pry some free information from the System.'

  He rubbed his chin, 'I am sure that the System wasn't this stingy when I found virtuous energy.'

  'Wait a moment,' The mention of virtuous energy made Cedric recall something. "System, didn't you say once I met a general energy, you'll give me some explanation about it?"

  [The System is so busy managing other things that it forgot about this. Please wait for a moment.]

  A few seconds later, the System sent another message.

  [Here is the basic introduction to faith energy:

  Faith energy is energy gathered by the pious belief of living creatures. As long as laws related to faith energy have condensed in a world, the creatures inside may collect the energy by gathering beliefs from other creatures. It requires a certain amount of talent and believers before a creature may condense faith energy.]

  Cedric read through the introduction and found nothing of use. So, he asked the System, "System, don't you think you should give me something in exchange for forgetting to send the description of faith energy to me?"

  The System fell silent for a long time before it replied.

  [Alright. The System will grant you a small information for free.]

  [Answering your earlier question, Faith energy can indeed be converted into Exp to raise a creature's level. But, the conversion rate is rubbish, and just like Exp, it can only raise a creature's level up to the limit of their potential level.]

  'What?! It actually worked?' This time, it's Cedric's turn to be speechless.

  He never expected the System to actually take a step back and give him a freebie.

  'Who would've guessed this money grubber would actually do something that makes it lose money?!'

  [Please don't talk bad about the System. The System's job is to help the gods manage their world. Occasionally giving freebies that are within the rules won't instantly cause the System to turn into a poor wretch like you.]

  [Furthermore, as long as you're alive and still purchased the System's products, the System can still make up for the earlier loss.]

  Cedric stares speechlessly at the System's reply.

  It actually thought of gods like him as sheep to be sheared for their GP.

  This actually makes him curious. Just how powerful is the System? Behind its silly actions, is it actually scheming something super sinister?

  Cedric's mind immediately brews several conspiracy theories in an instant.

  At last, he shook his head and discarded those thoughts.

  Even if the System has some conspiracy, it probably wouldn't involve him at all, or at least it won't be mainly targeting him.

  After all he is just a fake god.

  So, Cedric placed his focus on something more important for now,

  He copied several animal species from the Crystal Cube world and began dissecting them.

  The System said he must be prepared to create a species in the Crystal Cube world once his level advances.

  Before he started studying in depth, Cedric asked a question he forgot to ask. "Why can't I just buy the species directly from the shop?"

  [It's because the species there are merely basic templates. Every creator gods still need to adapt those species to the specific situation in their world and evolve them into a unique advanced species.]

  [Take the elves as an example. With the basic elves template sold in the system, many creator gods have created a multitude of advanced elven races that are now famous in the universe. From fantasy like wood elves, high elves, moon elves, and dark elves, to the sci-fi-esque space elves that can live in outer space without using any equipment. All of them are advanced versions of elves that are created by creators after studying the basic elves template.]

  "So, I should focus on studying elves, dwarves, and humans, to create an advanced species?" Cedric asked.

  [Yes, but not now. Your knowledge is simply too lacking to create an advanced version of intelligent races. So, when your world advanced to Level 2, just learn how to create magical species first.]

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  "Okay." Cedric feels kinda disappointed. But he still decided to follow the System's advice and studied the creatures in his world.

  He already got a gist of what kind of species he wished to create.

  For the first species that he'll create on his own, Cedric wanted something domineering!

  He wanted to create a dragon! Well, perhaps dinosaurs if he failed to craft a dragon.

  To not waste time studying unnecessary things, most of the animals that Cedric has copied consisted of lizards, birds, and several other flying animals like bats and insects.

  Those lizards will be the base form for the dragons. While birds, bats, and insects will be studied so he can give the lizard a wing.

  Except for the normal animals, Cedric also copied several magical beasts that might be useful for his goal of creating a dragon.

  For example, there is a twenty centimeters long fire breathing lizard, a twenty five centimeters long ice breathing lizards, a meter tall bat that could release sonar attack, a twenty meter long gigantic lizard, and other species.

  With every preparation ready, Cedric clapped his hand. "Now that the Crystal Cube world is relatively calm and I couldn't intervene in it, let's enter learning mode!"

  He happily dissected a few lizards and spread his mental power around them to help him observe them closer.

  Now that his ability to manipulate mental power has risen, Cedric must say that mental power is incredibly useful.

  Not only can it be used to observe his word and uses multitude of skills. He can also use it as a microscope and x-ray scanner!

  Amidst his experiment, a year quickly passes by.

  While Cedric is busy dissecting the structure of a bat's wings, the System sends a message.

  [Hey, try to check the sky above your Crustal Cube world. You might want to see the effect of a damaged world balance to understand how dangerous it is.]

  Cedric is initially a bit disgruntled that his focus has been broken by the System. But its message piqued his interest.

  He sent his mental power into the Crystal Cube world and observed the surroundings.

  He felt something was weird as the area around seemed to be much brighter than usual.

  Cedric controlled his mental power to observe the sky and his eyes almost fell down.

  On the afternoon sky. The sun that should've been shining alone in the sky has actually been accompanied by another sun.

  The double sun in the sky caused the Crystal Cube world to turn brighter than usual.

  Furthermore, from the distorted air that Cedric can occasionally see. The temperature in the world has greatly increased.

  "What's going on?" Cedric can only ask for an explanation from the expert.

  [Because the sun in your world is only a virtual screen made out of laws and rules instead of a real physical star like those placed on Earth. It has been affected by the broken balance in your world and has become distorted.]

  [The law where 'one sun shall shine in the world' has been distorted because of the broken balance, which increased the number of sun shining at once into two.]

  "What the heck? That's utterly insane!" Cedric asked, "How long will this double sun last?"

  [At least a year, at most ten years.]

  [By the way, You're still quite lucky it only affects a superficial operational law. If the stability of your world goes any lower, even basic laws related to mass, energy, inertia, action-reaction, and others might get affected. When that happens, the formula E=mc2 can't be used any longer and Einstein might jump up from his grave. That will also mark a game over for your world.]

  Cedric listened to the System's explanation while observing the world.

  Except for the elven territory where the double sun only cause those elves to gain tanner skin. The dwarves and humans territory has been greatly affected by the sun and started to enter a time of drought.

  "So, what should I do now?" He scratched the back of his head, "if this goes any longer, the creatures in my world will die from thirst and hunger. Once too much people died of hunger at once, NE might began to accumulate in my world and created another demon king."

  [You can use some extremely expensive and rare Divine Items to increase the stability, or simply wait and hope for the best.]

  "How expensive is this 'extremely expensive' you talked about?" Cedric questioned in curiosity.

  [The kind that you can't buy in ten thousand years. Anyway, seeing how curious you are, the System will show the item's screen.]

  [Level 16 Consumable Divine Item, World Stability Restorer.

  Cost: 1…..000

  Details: Restore the stability in a world.]

  This might be the shortest item details Cedric has ever seen. But the cost required to purchase it immediately shocked him.

  Cedric counted the amount of zeroes written in the cost and immediately closed it.

  "Yeah, I definitely can't buy that thing even after ten thousand years," Cedric replied with the eyes of a dead fish.

  [See? The System has said so.]

  [You'd better trust the creatures in your world while hoping for the best. They should be able to solve the current predicament. Especially with Lacius around.]

  Cedric sighed, "Well, alright."

  Still, he didn't immediately returns to his research. Instead, Cedric focused his attention on the dwarf's territory and saw the dwarves are still busy causing explosions.

  This time, those explosion isn't activated randomly. But, are used to enlarge the river tributary that flows near their mountain.

  Cedric isn't sure whether this will save the dwarves from that drought. But as the System said, he can only hope for the best.

  Next, he saw the elves that still had plenty of food and water thanks to the magical forest they lived in.

  Now that Cedric thought about it, perhaps the reason the elves cost five times as much GP to purchase compared to humans isn't due to the virtue of their species. But instead, because of this cheat-like magical forest that's included in the package.

  After making sure the elves were okay, he finally checked the human's territory.

  By skimming through the human's territory with his mental power. Cedric found the humans has actually split into two kingdoms at this time.

  As for how he knew it.

  That's because on the five main cities in the human's territory, many banner with sun symbols has been raised.

  After eavesdropping to the civilian's conversation, Cedric knew that the sun banner is the symbol of the Great Sun Kingdom. A kingdom that's created when five cities split off from the Sacred Kingdom.

  Luckily, looking at how the NE in his world hasn't increased much. It seems there weren't any battles during the formation of this new kingdom.

  Still, this new kingdom rises at the wrong time.

  He indeed wanted the humans to split into several kingdoms. But this definitely isn't the right time for it. Especially with the two suns in the sky that's causing draught in every part of the world.

  Cedric controlled his mental power to check the cities in the human territory and found the capital city of this new empire.

  The city they choose as their capital city is the Red Leaf city. This city is located on the other side of the River Stone city, and two city away from Winter City.

  This means the temple and the Sacred Kingdom's influence in this city is extremely low.

  Cedric checked the palace that's still in the process of being built, and found a familiar face sitting on the throne.

  Looking at Yuma who has somehow become a king, Cedric felt curious.

  Just how did Yuma build a kingdom in such a brief time?