Cedric saw his level and the level of the Crystal cube world has risen. Furthermore, the annual GP income that has been stuck at 1 has finally grown.

  The annual GP income kept on steadily rising until it began to slow down after reaching 6 GP.

  He can still understand the reason for most change, but Cedric doesn’t understand why his Life Level just increased out of nowhere.

  Before he can question the System, it has already sent him a message.

  [You have leveled up thanks to the excess energy from your world’s advancement. Normally, that tiny bit of energy is useless for a god that has already reached Level 16 and turns into Lesser Divinity. That’s also the reason why the System forgot to mention it to you. But who would’ve expected that small bit of energy actually pushed your life level to Level 3.]

  “What is the energy you mentioned?”

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

  “No.” Cedric quickly shook his head.

  Then, he thought of something and asked the System, “Will this energy cause me any immediate harm?”

  [Do you wish to spend 10 GP for the answer?]

  “Yes.”

  [No.]

  After the System’s answer, Cedric decided to ignore the matter related to the mysterious energy that has forcefully increased his level. After all, there are many things he has gained and things he needs to do within a time limit.

  First, he gathered the important information from those spam messages the System previously sent.

  For example, the fact that there are some kind of secret requirements that need to be met before the world levels up.

  Then, there is also the fact that there is actually a maximum level for the creatures in his world.

  Seeing how it said the maximum Life Level in his world has increased to Level 4, and considering the fact that there are already Level 3 creatures in his world. That means the maximum Life Level for creatures in Level 1 world is Level 3, and the maximum for Level 2 world is Level 4.

  After summarizing his gains, Cedric prepared to start his plan and intervene in his world. After all, there is actually a time limit of seven days, which is simply too short.

  Just when he wanted to do a direct intervention that the System has been hyping up, the System actually sent him another message.

  [Do you wish to spend 10 GP for the System to show the amount of stability and balance remaining in your world? This function will only last while the world is in the midst of upgrading.]

  [Please note, it’s extremely recommended for you to purchase this function.]

  “Well, it’s not too much, and the function sounds extremely important.” Cedric said after he recalled one of the System’s notifications that said his world can still be destroyed due to excessive intervention.

  [Stability: 100%

  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.]

  ‘Darn, 10 GP just for that simple screen is pretty expensive!’ Cedric grumbled and started getting to work.

  Previously, he has asked the System about how to do this direct intervention thingy. But, Cedric still asked the System once more just to be sure.

  [Can you stop asking this question? You’ve asked the same question hundreds of times.]

  “Just answer it, dude.”

  [Direct intervention is when a creator god intervenes in their world without using the filter from Divine Items. It’s usually only something a god with a high leveled world or a god whose world is in the process of advancement can do. During this time, you can use GP to create and manipulate things in your world. Just send your mental power to the world, and willed your GP to flow and turn into the things you intended.]

  Cedric nodded. The System’s answer hasn’t changed in the slightest.

  With confidence, he sent his mental power to check the situation in the Crystal Cube world and started his first direct intervention.

  His first plan is to separate the elves and dwarves from the humans by temporarily separating the continent into two parts.

  Of course, he doesn’t want both sides to get completely cut off from each other. He just wants to delay the contact between the three races until the overall strength of the elf and dwarf has approximately equaled the humans.

  Previously, Cedric had told the System about his plan and asked about the cost, which turn out to be relatively cheap.

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  Shaking his head to remove those unnecessary thoughts, Cedric moved according to the plan he had concocted.

  First, he moved his mental power to observe the Crystal Cube world from a higher point of view.

  Then, according to the path he has planned. Cedric spent his GP to create a mountain range that will separate the southwest area, where humans gathered. From the northeast area, where dwarf and elf gathered.

  He’ll also add some extra moves to shock everyone in the world. After all, it’s rare for him to get such a perfect chance to show off.

  ***

  Inside the Crystal Cube world, head priestess Thania has just finished her daily prayer and left the branch temple to stroll the city.

  The city she is in is called the Silver Hope City, the north most city that once has become the kingdom’s focus in development until the temple’s higher ups suddenly received a revelation and stopped the humans from expanding further north.

  Although she has been sent to the northernmost city of the human race, which is basically an exile that grants her no chance to get promoted, Thania doesn’t have any dissatisfaction. Especially when she recalled the intense competition in the temple headquarters.

  As a core part of the kingdom’s north expansion plan. Although the Silver Hope city has been abandoned for years, it still has the basic facilities comparable to most cities. So, her life is actually better compared to when she works as a senior priestess in the temple headquarters.

  Furthermore, before she got exiled here, she has been promoted to a head priestess of the city, which means she has turned into one of the big shots in the area.

  While in deep thought, Thania has completed her daily ‘patrol’ around the city market. On her hand, there are now a few bags filled with accessories she bought with the subsidy money gained from the temple headquarters.

  Of course, she didn’t use too much of the subsidy money. After all, she doesn’t want to be demoted from her current comfortable position.

  At most, she just took a tiny bit of money used to repair the temple without affecting the daily operation of the temple.

  Thania soon arrived near the temple. But instead of entering it, she sat in the plaza in front of the temple, and grabbed a snack she just bought from a vendor while occasionally throwing some bread crumbs to the birds gathering in the plaza.

  One of the few priests in the temple soon met her and said, “Head priestess, you’re actually here! There is someone important who wishes to have a confession. Everyone has been waiting for you to return and lead the confession.”

  “Well, I am quite busy right now,” Thania said while munching the snack she had brought,” Anyway, Lily, you’re already a senior priestess and have the right to lead a confession. So, I’ll leave this matter to you.”

  “But, I am a new senior priest and haven’t led a confession before.” Lily said while her voice slightly trembled in nervousness.

  “There is always a first for everything, and right now is your chance.”

  Lily heard Thania’s words and reentered the temple while feeling nervous and excited.

  When she saw Lily had entered the temple, Thania sighed, ‘Now I can finally eat my snack in peace. I hope nothing else will come to bother me.’

  Just when she took another bite of her snack, Thania felt the ground below her tremble, and the surrounding people turned noisy.

  She looked at the person who screamed the loudest and saw him pointing at the sky in the north direction of the city.

  She turned her head and saw a sight she’ll never forget for the rest of her life.

  In the clear sky, there is now a giant transparent hand that does a pinching movement on the flat ground before pulling it upwards.

  Every time that hand pinches the ground and pulls it upwards, a mountain several thousands meters high suddenly appears and the ground trembled.

  From sheer shock, Thania dropped the snack in her hand and scrambled toward the temple.

  “There is… I dont know what the fuck it is, but just report it to the headquarter quickly! Someone or something is creating a lot of mountains north of Silver Hope city!”

  The priest, priestess, temple knight, and believers who currently pray inside the temple stared in confusion at the panicked Thania. Some wanted to berate her from screaming in a sacred place. Luckily, they all recognized Thania’s head priestess uniform and choose to remain silent.

  Some of the people with more curiosity decided to exit the temple to check what Thania has been screaming about.

  Just like Thania, the scene they saw become an unforgettable experience for everyone.

  They all froze in shock before Thania, who had finished writing a report, pulled one of the dumbfounded temple knights and handed him her report. “You’re the fastest runner here. Send this to the headquarters quickly!”

  While everyone in the Silver Hope city is in panic, Cedric has been busy in the Divine Space.

  He first created endless mountains in the place where humans don’t reach. Then, he finally raised the mountains nearby human settlements.

  But instead of just immediately creating the mountain like before, he created an illusory hand that seems to pull the ground and raised the mountains by pinching the ground.

  He didn’t do so just to cause panic and show off to the creatures there. Well, perhaps showing off is the main reason, but let’s not dwell on this matter.

  Cedric decided to show that illusory hand to warn the people there that he has the power to cause massive change to the world. Especially to Lacius, whom he fears will start tweaking sooner or later after gaining power far beyond other humans.

  Even though he didn’t directly say that the hand that has been creating mountains is his. Cedric trusted the humans and their imaginative brain. They should be able to connect the two dots together.

  After creating the mountain range that span the entire continent diagonally, Cedric placed some ores and magic ores while also copied some vegetations, animals, magic plants, and magical animals in it.

  He especially added a lot of strong magical animal in it to make sure the mountain range is almost impossible to traverse even by someone at Level 2.

  Finally, Cedric checked his status screen to see 52 GP has decreased.

  He also saw the stability that has been staying at 100% decreased to 98%

  Looking at his masterpiece, Cedric nodded in satisfaction before immediately started another project he has planned.

  This time, the project will cost him much more GP than before.

  What he planned to do is to expand the space in his world.

  It’s not expanding the land by filling the ocean with land, but he plans to expand the space in the Crystal Cube world in its entirety.

  The Crystal Cube world’s surface is shaped like a square that span 4.000km x 4.000km. Among them, 8 million square meter consisted of land, while 8 million square meter is filled with waters.

  This time, Cedric planned to add 1 million square kilometers of land and increased the size of the Crystal Cube world from 16 million square kilometers to 17 million square kilometers.

  He has asked the System, and it said it’ll cost approximately 1 GP to expand the land by 1.000 square kilometers.

  The 1 GP cost already included the soil or water used to fill the space, a bit of basic animals and plants, and the cost of expanding the world’s crystal wall.

  That means he’ll spend at least 1.000 GP in this project! This is definitely the most GP he has sent ever since his world is created.

  But he just thought of it as an investment. After all, by expanding the living area of the creatures, they can give him more GP.