Chapter 118. A Wild Choice
Once he placed the hunting mark on the officer, Cedric didn't linger near the building any longer.
He visited an empty alley and removed the invisible spray's effect before visiting a hotel to stay for the night.
After such a rollercoaster of emotions, Cedric decided to rest.
Inside the hotel, Cedric initially wanted to check the situation inside the Crystal Cube world, but his procrastination suddenly struck.
He only did a brief check, and after ensuring that no massive battle had happened and that every important person, especially Lacius and Helion, was doing alright. Cedric immediately stopped.
Without any desire to start working, he just lay on the bed watching TV or scrolling through his phone.
Night passed, and it's already the fourth day since he entered Earth.
Slowly rising from the bed, Cedric stretched before going to look for a new hero candidate.
But this day also soon ended without any luck.
‘Am I having bad luck, or am I just especially lucky while looking for heroes before?’ On the fifth day. While grumbling, Cedric saw a building with a considerable flow of people.
Opening his phone, he saw that the building inside was actually an internet cafe.
‘There should be a lot of people inside, right?’
With a casual mentality, Cedric decided to try his luck inside.
After spending some money to rent a pc, he took a look around the cafe.
The building’s interior is mostly dark, with neon lights on the ceiling and colorful light spilling from the rows of PCs where people sit in front of their screens.
He checked every single one of them. But like before, Cedric didn't find anyone with good enough potential.
That’s when he went to the restroom and saw a girl entering the female restroom. She was quite short, probably under 160 cm. She also looked mature but not too old, likely around twenty.
She wore a knee-length trousers and a hoodie with a cute cartoonish dragon head as its hood.
[Life Level: Lower level 0
Potential: Lower Level 5]
‘Thank God, Buddha, the System, or other higher beings. I finally found another suitable target!’
'I honestly never expected it's actually this hard to look for a hero.'
Before meeting the girl, Cedric went to the male restroom and bought an invisible spray.
After spraying himself, he went into the female restroom.
Only when inside did he feel something weird. 'Wait, entering a female restroom will make me look like a pervert.'
'But honestly, I don't feel anything even after entering a female restroom. Actually, even seeing a bare woman won't excite me any longer. I've dissected more women than the number of women I've talked with.'
While he's lost in thought, one of the cubicles opened, and the girl came out of it.
While she's washing her hands, Cedric goes closer and says, "Greetings, mortal from Earth. I am a god from another world."
The girl stopped rubbing her hand for a moment and looked around inside the empty restroom.
While she paused, Cedric continued, "You didn't hear things. I am indeed talking to you."
"Huh?" The girl scratched her ear with her finger. At last, she accepted the fact that there was someone talking to her. "A god from another world? You aren't a ghost, are you? Or is it some hidden camera prank? This sound definitely comes from a speaker!"
Cedric felt it was a bit troublesome, so he decided to use a divine item he once purchased while trying to send Yuma to another world.
[Level 1 Consumable Divine Item, Magician’s Smoke Screen.
Detail: Upon shattering the item, create a twenty meter radius smoke screen that can last for 10 minutes. Within the smoke, the user can create illusions or block other’s perception. The illusions can only affect sight and hearings. Only effective to those at level 1 and below.
Cost: 2 GP]
He immediately used it and caused smoke to appear in the restroom. Cedric also controlled it so the smoke only showed in the girl’s perception. When other people or even the camera try to capture it, there won’t be any smoke.
With the activation of the magician’s smoke screen, the girl became visibly flustered.
Manipulating the smoke’s effect, Cedric turned his voice into one of many genders and ages that came from several directions at once. "No. I am indeed a god from another world."
The girl finally believed him, "Are you going to send me to be a hero? Collecting a harem of handsome men and reaching the apex of my womanhood?!"
Somehow, Cedric felt that the girl would cause trouble once she arrived in the Crystal Cube world.
Still, he affirmed and played along with her, "Indeed, I am here to summon you as a hero in my world. Soon, a demon king will be born to wreak havoc in my world. Before the demon king is born, I want to summon a hero and train them to defeat the demon king. "
"Demon king? Is he sexy? Also, does that mean there's magic in your world?"
Cedric wanna roll his eyes so hard. "There's indeed magic. But the demon king might disappoint you. Although they're called a demon king, the demon king might not even be a male. It might not even be humanoid at all."
The girl visibly became dejected. Cedric contemplated for a moment before finally purchasing a [Divine Intervention: Image].
He added several pictures of handsome human males, elven males, and even dwarven males before sending them to the girl.
He isn't sure what kind of man the girl liked. So, he even added Lacius inside the list.
Cedric must acknowledge that Lacius's looks are actually quite good, especially his aura.
As a person who has controlled a whole species, he has some aura of authority. Coupled with his slightly deranged aura and sacred aura from collecting faith, Cedric believed Lacius is definitely the most suitable thirst trap.
See, even the girl agreed as he especially stopped scrolling upon seeing Lacius. The amount of time she spent looking at Lacius is more than twice as long than when looking at the elves.
Finally, she agreed, "I agree. Summon me right this instant."
Although he is happy, Cedric still wanted to ask, "Don't you have a family you wish to say farewell to? Once you go to my world, it's basically impossible to return."
The girl shook her head, "My parents haven't seen me for almost ten years already. The closest person to me is my grandma, but she has died."
Cedric nodded. "Then, do you have any special requests? I can give you some cheat ability, or I can let you reincarnate as a creature from another race."
"Another race?"
'It seems she's interested in getting reincarnated?' Cedric thought as he replied, "Yes, another race. Except for humans, I can reincarnate you as elves and dwarves."
The girl contemplated for a moment before asking an entirely different thing, "Do you have a dragon?"
Cedric fell silent for a moment due to the sudden change in topic, but he still replied, "Yes. But the dragon in my world isn't exactly intelligent, nor is it like dragons in stories. So I don't recommend you to reincarnate as a dragon."
"Will it make me stupid?"
"No. But the dragons in my world can't spew fire." Cedric tried to discourage her from reincarnating as a dragon.
"Ohhh… but are they big and can fly? Also, can they talk and use magic?"
"..." Cedric started to regret asking the girl about what kind of cheat she wanted.
He thought for a moment but still decided to reply truthfully. "Yes. They are pretty big and can fly. For talking, I can give you an item to let you speak. As for magic, you can probably do some simple magic after awakening your power."
“Then, let me turn into a dragon!”
“Are you sure you don’t wanna turn into a beautiful elf?” The girl is visibly struggling in thought after Cedric said this. At last, she still nodded with a determined look.
“Alright.” Seeing how determined the girl is to be a dragon, Cedric agreed and bought a [Portable Reincarnation Magic Array].
Before he used it, Cedric recalled how Elisa’s body started dying the moment he pulled her soul with the [Portable Reincarnation Magic Array]. Having a living woman suddenly turn into a corpse inside a restroom is going to be troublesome.
[Don’t worry. Once you leave the world, the System will erase all traces of you and the hero from people’s memories. But the more people affected, the higher the fine will be. As long as you leave before the news about a corpse suddenly appearing in an internet café restroom spreads, you won’t face too much trouble.]
Cedric nodded. Then, he purchased two other [Magician’s Smoke Screen].
“Please wait a moment, I shall prepare the ritual to reincarnate you to my world,” Cedric said as he crouched to draw a teleportation circle to his world.
After waiting for five minutes, the girl asked, “Are you ready yet? Can’t you just whoosh me and send me to the other world?”
“It ain’t that easy. I need to place some blessing on you so you can understand the language in my world. I also need to prepare the teleportation coordinates and other complex things.”
After another thirty minutes had passed, Cedric finally finished the teleportation circle. During this time, he also purchased another [Magician’s Smoke Screen] because the one he purchased had run out of time.
Before he finished the magic circle, a few women also used the restroom. But thanks to the [Magician’s Smoke Screen], they didn’t sense Cedric and the girl’s existence.
It took such a long time to draw the magic circle because Cedric is a bit in a dilemma on whether to add the human, elves, or dwarves' language into the teleportation circle. At last, he decided to change the function of the illness resistance blessing into several more language blessings. After all, the girl is going to be reincarnated. So, she won’t need the illness blessing that protects a body from unfamiliar pathogens.
Once he had successfully drawn the circle, Cedric told the girl, “Alright, I shall reincarnate you now.”
The girl had just dozed off when she suddenly felt her soul quite literally slip out of her body.
Cedric picked the [Portable Reincarnation Magic Array] that now contains the girl’s soul.
While the magician’s smoke screen was still in effect, Cedric searched the Crystal Cube world and soon found a suitable dragon egg for the girl to reincarnate into.
He initially planned to let her reincarnate into a dragon corpse, just like how he chose a dead elf as Elisa’s initial reincarnation target. But the [Portable Reincarnation Magic Array] only allows him to reincarnate the target into a creature at the same level. Which means the girl can only reincarnate into something at Level 0.
Mature dragons are mostly at a pretty high level. As for their younglings, they’re hidden safely and almost never die before reaching adulthood. So, those youngling dragons are also out of the equation.
Which is why sending her as a dragon egg is the best choice.
After selecting an egg from an egg nest located in the mountain range that separated the continent, Cedric sent the girl’s soul into one of the dragon eggs that would soon hatch into a female dragon.
The moment he sent the girl, his GP decreased by 1.000
With his job done, Cedric immediately left Earth and prepared to return. He still needed to make some preparations so the hero could level up quickly.
“Send me back.”
[Are you sure? There are still 2 days remaining on your Visa’s duration.]
“Yes!”
[Checking for violation of the terms of service.]
[Detected several violations.]
[Your supernatural power has been recorded by CCTV.]
[You’ve caused...]
[Calculation complete.]
[Please pay the 53 GP fine to begin the return process.]
Cedric nodded and saw 53 GP disappear from his screen.
[Payment completed, beginning transfer.]