Cedric thoroughly observed the ant queen and realized it’s actually ten meters long.
Next to it, there is the corpse of another ant queen and the empty shell of a massive egg.
Even without Past Observation, Cedric can guess that the demon king ant, or perhaps demon queen ant, has killed the original ant queen and became the new controller of this ant colony.
Then, he began to check the ant queen’s surrounding.
Around the ant queen, seven five meter long ants are busy expanding the nest.
Cedric got a bad feeling and activated his Divine Sight on those seven ants.
[Life Level: Lower Level 2
Potential: Lower Level 1]
[Life Level: Mid Level 2
Potential: Mid Level 1]
[Life Level: Lower Level 2
Potential: Lower Level 1]
[Life Level: Lower Level 2
Potential: Lower Level 1]
[Life Level: Upper Level 2
Potential: Upper Level 1]
[Life Level: Mid Level 2
Potential: Mid Level 1]
[Life Level: Lower Level 2
Potential: Lower Level 1]
There are exactly 4 Lower Level 2, 2 Mid Level 2, and 1 Upper Level 2 ants.
This ant colony’s power is actually only second to the temple!
While observing the ant, Cedric asked the System, “Don’t you think the difficulty spike is just too much?”
[The difference between this ant queen and Gratian is indeed a bit too much. But this is still within the normal difficulty spike.]
Cedric gulped, “Well, maybe I shouldn’t artificially start gathering NE.”
[It’s good that you finally understand. In fact, at lower leveled world, most gods are basically playing a race against NE. Their world’s growth must be able to keep up with the increasingly difficult NE disasters.]
“Nevertheless, I didn’t regret gathering NE this time. After all, it’s just a matter of time before massive war broke out in the world. With this chance, I’ll be able to show the humans the result of starting a massive war thoughtlessly.”
“Even if the humans actually failed to defeat the demon king this time, it won’t matter much, as there is a failsafe prepared. Once the world leveled up, I’ll be able to directly intervene and kill the demon king.”
[That’s true. But let me remind you that even if the stability of your world is strengthened when your world leveled up, the amount of stability isn’t infinite and there is a limit to how much intervention you can do to the world.]
“Okay.”
While chatting with the System, Cedric didn’t forget to ask Lacius to make a move to kill the demon king.
All he needs is to mention that the demon king is also a Level 3 creature, and Lacius quickly went there to kill that ant queen and gather its corpse as an experimental material.
Cedric continued chatting with the System while observing the ant colony and occasionally checking Lacius’s current whereabouts.
While observing the ant colony, Cedric suddenly realized they’ve been moving in a certain direction all this while.
Initially, he isn’t sure what the ant colony is trying to do. But once they arrived nearby a city and began digging intricate tunnel around and below the city, Cedric can immediately connect the two dots together.
‘They’re going to attack the city!’
Cedric quickly searched for the city lord of that city and found him sitting inside his study in the city lord’s mansion that’s located right in the middle of the city.
Holding his [Divine Intervention: Dream, Cedric] sent the city lord a brief message.
[Warning! Demon king attack from underground]
“What’s this?” The city lord asked in confusion while looking around the study.
Upon finding no trace of human, the city lord soon shouted outside the door, “Guards! Some blessed have played a trick with me! Quickly search through the mansion and find them!”
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The guards who heard the city lord’s shout quickly gathered other guards and begin searching through the city lord’s mansion.
***
Inside the Divine Space, Cedric felt confused as to why the city lord didn’t recognize him as the creator.
That’s when he realized that hundreds of years have passed since the last time he intervened in the world.
Although Lacius, a living relic from ancient time still existed. The record about the era where he often intervened has mostly been forgotten and destroyed.
The fact that he often sent messages through a screen has most likely stopped being spread at some point.
Even the fact that Lacius still lived in the temple’s headquarter in River Stone City is only known by a few higher up of the temple.
What’s more about the news regarding a creator that never shows its form?
Cedric felt a bit awkward. But right now isn’t the right situation to waste time.
He gritted his teeth and spent 100 GP to purchase [Divine Intervention: Dream]. Once he felt the octahedron crystal representing [Divine Intervention: Dream], Cedric sent his mental power inside it and entered the Dream Space that’s lit by faint pink light.
Cedric willed it and changed the Dream Space’s light from its initial pink color that make the ambience felt like a place inside some red light district, into golden white colored light that give off the feeling of sacredness.
Then, he created a clone inside the Dream Space, complete with accessories like throne, scepter, and others.
Finally, he added the light in his face, and added a function that add dignity and pressure on everyone looking at the light.
He also added what he called the name recognition function in the light. Basically, anyone who saw the light will think he is the creator of the world they reside.
This might sound grand, but it’s basically just a name tag with some beauty filter.
Once everything was ready, he pulled the city lord into the dream space to have an audience with him.
***
City lord Hendrick recalled he has just ordered the guard to comb through every corner of his mansion after he was affected by an unknown blessed power.
That’s when he suddenly felt a sudden but strong sleepiness.
The abnormal sleepiness is so strong that even the invigorating potions he drank to work overtime are unable to resist that sleepiness.
When he woke up, he found himself standing above clouds.
Around him, faint mists gently floats and dispersed the golden white light shining from above.
While he was in awe at the sight, Hendrick saw a vague figure sitting on a throne.
Even though he never saw the figure with their face hidden behind a glowing light, Hendrick still knew the one standing in front of him was the creator of the world.
When he realized it, Hendrick quickly kneeled according to the temple’s custom and praised the creator.
The figure ignored him and simply said. “Beware, my child, the demon king has reappeared in the world and has targeted the people under your care.”
“The demon king has prepared an ambush from deep underground. Prepare to evacuate the city.”
After that word, Hendrick felt his body pulled downward as he reopened his eyes on the study while being drenched with sweat.
He deeply remembered his meeting with the creator and quickly ran outside the door.
“Servants! Quickly prepare my carriage. I need to visit the city’s temple branch!”
Hearing their lord’s panicked shout, the servants immediately got into action and quickly prepared the carriage.
Soon, City Lord Hendrick arrived in front of the city’s branch temple.
When a priest greeted him, Hendrick immediately informed the priest, “Immediately inform the head priest. There is an emergency! I think I’ve just received a revelation from the creator!”
The priest saw Hendrick’s panicked face and also became panicked.
He ran deep into the temple and arrived at a wide hall, at the end of the hall stood Cedric’s statue and Lacius’s statue.
Kneeling in front of the altar is a grey haired old man wearing a slightly more intricate clothing compared to the priests in the temple.
The old man heard the priest’s panicked footstep and stopped his prayer before opening his eye.
He questioned the sweating priest who has ran in a panic, “What’s wrong with you? Don’t you know the prayer hall is a sacred place? Why are you running like a small child?”
The priest, who has ran out of breath from running, turned even paler upon hearing the old man’s scolding.
While accompanied by his heavy breath, the priest tried to explain as concisely as possible, “Head Priest, the City Lord has visited. He said he received a revelation from the creator!”
“Prosperous!” the old head priest shouted while walking toward the priest. “How dare he mention the creator lightly? I’ll taught him a lesson.”
The priest sighed in relief once he saw the head priest’s anger have been directed to someone else, and immediately brought the head priest toward the city lord’s location.
The moment they met, the head priest immediately rebuked the city lord and began scolding him for using the creator’s name thoughtlessly.
***
Inside the Divine Space, Cedric couldn’t continue how the people wasted their precious time, and decided to pull the head priest into the Dream Space.
Once he pulled the old head priest, Cedric merely show his figure and said, “Evacuate everyone from the city and protect the people from the demon king’s attack.”
Then, he immediately sent the head priest’s consciousness back to the world.
The high priest who has just returned from the Dream Space paused a moment to digest what has just happened.
The surrounding people looked at the head priest, who has paused midway through his scolding in confusion.
Soon, everyone saw the head priest’s eyes became teary as dropped of tears began to fall from the corner of his eyes.
“Ah!! I have just received a revelation from the creator! The creator has finally returned their sight to the world. This humble servant of yours shall immediately follow your will!”
Everyone watched in astonishment at the head priest’s sudden change in mood.
The high priest ignored their weird look and ordered, “Prepare the temple knight. We shall show our piety to the creator and evacuate everyone from the city!”
Then, he barked at the city lord, “What are you waiting for? Quickly follow the creator’s will!”
Outwardly, City Lord Hendrick nodded cordially. But deep inside, he sighed, ‘This is why I hated meeting this insane fanatic bunch.’
With the combination of the temple and the city lord’s forces, the evacuation proceeds smoothly.
But, when only more than half of the people has evacuated the city, rumbling sound appeared from below the city.
The deep rumbling sound is followed by a crack on the ground that began to spread around the city.
Once most of the city has been covered in crack, panic spread through the remaining people who have yet evacuated.
That’s when they saw a scene that’ll be etched deep in everyone’s memory.
The eastern part of the city wall has suddenly collapsed and disappeared into the ground.
In the place where the city wall once stood is now a deep hole where many gigantic ants crawl.
Most of the ants are fifty meters long, while some have reached more than one meter long and looked much more ferocious.
Followed by the fall of the eastern city wall and the appearance of the ants. More building inside the city began to fall into the ground as gigantic ants appeared from deep underground.
The temple knights and soldiers left in the city quickly regrouped to protect as much civilians as possible and exited the city that has turned into ruins.
After creating a bloody path, the group successfully escaped the city and regrouped with the people who has evacuated.
