While Gratian’s two thousand soldiers were busy fighting against the civilians of River Stoy, Lacius brought Yasu and five hundred fully equipped retaio quickly marto Gratian’s location.

  Even though there are still dozens of blessed surrounding Gratian’s location. But, the five hundred armed retainers Lacius brought successfully blocked them and allowed Lacius, Yasu, and Hars to advaoward the king.

  While Yasu charged forward and tried to engage Gratian in a melee, Lacius waved his hand and caused the small patch of earth surrounding the king to tremble in an attempt to stop him, but it went for naught. With a simple stomp of his foot, Gratian easily pierced through the tremblih and pced his leg deep within to stabilize himself.

  With his leg deep in the earth, the king uhed his sword and single handedly parried the ssh that had been delivered by Yasu. He then ched his other fist in an attempt to ter attack.

  Seeing that, Hars who hasn’t made a move sihe beginning quickly activated his ability and created a ball of water which he shot tratian’s head. Although it failed to deal any damage, the water successfully blocked Gratian’s sight for a moment and made the punch he threw merely grazed through Yasu slightly.

  Even so, that punch still caused Yasu to be knocked back by three meters and further aggravate his injuries.

  Wiping the water that drenched his face, Gratia Hars before switg his sight to Lacius and dashed toward his dire.

  Lacius, who saw the king’s mad dash, activated his ability and created a small but deep hht below Gratian’s feet. It caused Gratian to lose his band stumbled as he ran toward Lacius.

  He theed the same trick several times before Yasu regained his mobility and blocked Gratian’s advance. Seeing the two of them engaged in an intetle, Lacius and Hars made the decision to join the melee.

  Although unlike Gratian and Yasu who are blessed with Divine Might, the blessed power they awakened is quite unsuitable for close bat. heless, the bronze sword in their hand should be enough to cause some trouble to the king.

  By the time Lacius arrived he location of Yasu and Gratian’s battle, the two of them had already exged blows several times. The bronze sword on their hand has long since shattered to pieces and bee unusable. They currently exged blows against each other by using their fists.

  Seeing the situation, Lacius and Hars sshed their sword toward the king. They also secretly activated their ability and caused the earth below Gratian to protrude upwards and summoned a ball of water respectively.

  Gratian who saw it quickly knocked back Yasu in exge of sustaining a heavy injury. He then stomped hard on the ground while g both of his fists and threunch targeting the ft side of Hars and Lacius’s sword.

  Upon tact with the king’s punch, Hars’s sword was sent flying into the distance while Lacius’s swot split into two. Even so, he tio ssh downward and caused a deep ssh wound to appear on the king’s arm.

  The battle tinued for ten whole minutes befratian finally showed some exhaustion and an opening.

  Using the broken sword in his hand, Lacius thrusted his sword through the king’s chest. It passed right through the king’s body and caused him to bleed profusely.

  When he saw Gratian whose heart has been pierced and barely survive for a short time, Lacius asked. “Do you have any st words?”

  Gratian, who seems to be half scious from the blood loss, spoke in a hushed tone. “I have done my best, I’ve created the kingdom of humans just like what I saw when I met the god. I am the destined king, the human chosen by the god himself. Even if I die I shall return to the god’s kingdom and my name will live on with humanity itself!”

  When he heard Gratian’s words, Lacius’s nerve bulged as he said to Hars who stood o him. “Destroy every trace of Gratian and forbid the other from spreading his story. Also kill all of his family and acquittance. From now on, I am the First King of humans, King Lacius! The Human Kingdom shall be called the Sacred Kingdom heh!”

  After he said so, Lacius g Yasu. Seeing the middle aged maly nod his head, Lacius switched his sight to Gratian while grinning at him. “If being remembered is what you wish for, then I’ll forcefully remove your mark from the world. Take this as revenge for my family and friends you’ve killed!”

  Gratian’s eyes suddenly focused when he heard Lacius’s word. With a wide open eye, he shouted. “The god won’t five you!”

  Lacius replied with a smirk, “I am not afraid of an illusory existence made up by an insane guy.”

  When he heard it, Gratian looked at Lacius weirdly before he ughed as his head turned pale from the loss of blood. “Ha.. hahaha.. hahahaha! HAHAHAHAHAHA!”

  Slowly, Gratian’s ughter turned softer as he finally died.

  After the war ended, Lacius checked the surviving River Stoizens.

  Although the war has been cut short due to Gratiah, almost a thousand River Stoizens have died while most of those who survived have received injuries of varying degrees.

  Soon, the survivors begin to collect the corpses and dig a massive hole to bury their dead.

  Silently standing in front of the massive opening while watg the human corpse thrown inside, Lacius ched his fist until it bled. Behind him, Hars supported Yasu as they silently observed him.

  ***

  While the humans are busy handling their burial. Cedric ruminates about the war and his expression slowly turns into one full of fusion.

  He first thought he would feel extremely guilty. No matter what, the war that killed thousands of people be said to be his fault. To be specific to that brain cramp he got which led to his decision to show some illusory kingdom to Gratian and the elf through [Diviervention:Dream]

  Yet, his heart is still extremely tranquil. He suspects this might be some sort of side effect from the whole merging with godhood thingy the System mentioned.

  When the war actually ehere is even a small bit of exasperation upon seeing how the humans start a war because he feels there are simply too many stupid points in this war.

  First is the cause of the war. Whether it is Gratian’s obsession with grand pace, the city lord’s decision to arm themself upon Gratian’s refusal, arding just how gullible the city lord’s group are to join Gratian’s ba. Every single one of them makes him doubt the average intelligence of his world’s inhabitants. Even with the help of the godhood’s calcution ability, he ’t uand the thought process of everyone involved which causes things to explode beyond trol to such a degree.

  The System seems to read his thoughts once more as it said.

  [Don’t just throw the fault to the godhood merging process. System has analyzed the reason for your ck of remorse are mainly due to your mentality. Currently, you still have the mentality of pying a game or watg a drama when you observe the war. You never sider them as a real ‘people’.]

  [As for your st question, the System only say that’s the beauty of free will. It result in many surprises.]

  Cedriodded at that analysis. Now he thinks about it, he indeed has the mentality of watg a movie while that war.

  When he tio read and saw the philosophical answer, he just rolled his eyes. “Stop speaking in riddles, that doesn’t answer my st question at all.”

  Watg the System’s silence, Cedric silently tapped his armchair several times before he asked, “Do you know the reason why Gratian is much more powerful than Yasu? I am pretty sure both of them awakehe same ability almost at the same time.”

  The System answered his question seriously.

  [It is because of the differen potentials. Although they obtaihe power from mana at the same time. But due to Gratian’s potential level that’s much higher, it caused him to reach a higher level than Yasu within the same time frame.]

  After reading the message, Cedric catches into a familiar term the System used.“What do you mean by potential level?”

  He opened his status s as he remembered there is also a mention potential on it.

  [Name: Cedric Hills

  Level: Pseudo Lesser Divinity (Actual level: 0)

  Law: None.

  World: Crystal Cube World

  World Level: 1

  World’s Average Potential: None

  GP: 13915

  Annual GP ine: 0.5]

  While he opehe status s, the System replied to his question.

  [You may think of potential as the amount of talent a creature has on the supernatural path. Living creatures will receive some boost in their progress until they reach their specified potential level.]

  After reading the message, Cedric still feels quite fused.

  Perhaps seeing his fusion, the System sent another message.

  [As someo the level of lesser divinity, although a fake one. You also activate a skill called Divine Sight that could be used in every world. At its basi, Divine Sight allows the user to see a chosen target’s life level and potential level.]

  Cedriodded, “That’s ve. Then, how do I activate this Divine Sight ability?”

  [Simply trol your mental power to enter your eyes. Then, focus on any creature as your target.]

  Cedric followed the system’s guide and tried several times to guide some of his mental power into his eyes.

  Closing both of his eyes, his sight ehe Crystal Cube world and observed Lacius who stood still in front of burning corpses.

  Different from previous times, Cedric could now see a faint white light inside Lacius. It is extremely small in size to the point it be easily overlooked.

  He moved his sight to other creatures and also saw a faint light ihem. Almost all of the lights he saw are smaller than the one inside Lacius.

  He guessed those light is reted to potential and life level that the System said before. But, he is fused as to what they exactly mean. Does bigger light mean higher level her potential, or is it both?

  Before he could open his eyes to ask, the System suddenly chimed in.

  [The light’s size means their life level, meanwhile the light’s color shows their potentials. There are four levels of colors for potentials; which are white, silver, gold, and rainbow. White being the lowest and rainbow being the highest.]

  [At your world’s current level, most of the inhabitants should have pure white colored potential or mostly white with a miniscule amount of silver. The more silver light there is, the higher their potential is.]

  Cedric heard it and began the light from living creatures for a long time.

  After paring several lights between each other, he finally gave up and decided to ask the System for help. “ you just show me their levels? I have no reference as to how a high or a low potential and life level looks like, which makes reizing them extremely difficult. Furthermore, silver lights are fri simir to a white o is just too difficult to differentiate them!”

  [System received a request for assistance. Request accepted.]

  [Do you wish to spend 10 GP to activate Divine Sight assistance mode permaly?]

  “I o spend 20 years of my ine for this ability? this is daylight robbery!” Even though Cedripined, he still chose to purchase the assistance mode.