Little mortal left the garden from the other end of it.
There was a long corridor in front of him, which he walked through.
Then he reached a big circular platform.
Above it was a golden circle, slowly rotating.
He glanced at it and walked past it too.
A while later, he saw a castle far away, which he muttered when he saw it,
"That thife is sealed in there now?
Good to know. "
The token and crystal,
<...>
That's the Castle of God of thievery ...
The most annoying higher being on the mainland!
Then he reached a normal wall and pushed a rock aside.
A tunnel appeared.
He crawled inside.
Then he reached another rock and pushed it aside, too.
And walked out of the 'tunnel'.
In the area unfolded in front, there was a white building far away, a place that seemed to be under protection.
The Crystal was puzzled.
It never saw this place when entertainment goddess came here with its main body to record a content about newborns.
Little mortal reached the building.
Two higher beings were standing at the entrance.
Their face was hidden, and no aura was being emitted from them.
Just standing there quietly,
As if they were in line to go somewhere.
Little mortal ignored them and just glanced at their birth treasure while walking forward.
But it seems they weren't invited to his birthday party, because he didn't point at any of them, and while shaking his head, reached in front of the line.
Then he nodded at the higher being guarding the silver entrance door as a form of greeting, and stood there quietly like the rest.
A while later, the door opened, someone came out, and another was allowed to enter.
Both he and Little Mortal nodded at the guard and entered the building.
Inside, a corridor with rooms on both sides came into view.
In front of one of the rooms, five little newborns were standing nervously.
All of them were even smaller than Little Mortal, who stood beside the first one like his big brother, and waited for the man who came in with him to leave.
The man walked to the end of the corridor.
There was a glass door leading to a white room.
He went in, stood there, a white gas rose and fell, and then he left the white room from its other door.
Seeing him gone,
After tapping his guardian token, Little Mortal walked past the five newborns and pushed them one by one.
Behind each one, a passage opened at the same time, and they disappeared inside while he entered the last passage with the last newborn.
...
Planet Lubo.
Silver platform.
Little mortal came out of the passage with the last dumbfounded newborn.
He looked around and didn't see the backpack.
He scratched his head and tapped his token to connect to it,
"Where are you, big guy ?"
A passage opened, and the big backpack came while trembling.
"Oh, you mean the castle of that Thug?
Now you have how many castles?
Sneaky guy, the Thug and Fortune Teller!
That's three.
Aren't you so awesome now?
And it's just the start. "
The big backpack trembled again,
"What?
Where did you find the fourth one ?"
Before it answered, the soul cube flew to him.
Little Mortal chuckled and said
"Good job, Little Cube, for giving us the address,
Imagine you even knew where the Police officer puppet that he made with the Puppet guy is !"
The cube vibrates.
Little mortal froze.
The Guardian token froze, too.
And so did all of the other birth treasures.
A moment later, every birth treasure hanging on the backpack starts fleeing in different directions!
The newborns who saw the sudden chaos were going to run too.
They were confused, puzzled, and scared now!
What was happening?
What was this scary place?
But seeing the little guy who suddenly pushed them into a new world didn't run; they didn't dare to move either.
He seems like a final boss that nobody takes seriously at first glance...
They just looked around nervously to see what the danger was that even made these treasures with such a strong aura scared away!
The backpack was speechless.
It seems it ate a food that it shouldn't have.
Little mortal asked in a trembling voice,
"H-He is in the castle of the Soulless guy ?"
The soul cube vibrates to confirm it once more.
Little mortal asked nervously,
"D-don't you think you should tell us beforehand ?"
The soul cube vibrates arrogantly.
Little mortal heaved a sigh of relief,
"That's good then.
By 'team' you mean puppet and you, right?"
The treasures who heard the puppeteer team were already with them, came back to the backpacks cautiously.
But little mortal's eyes suddenly widened in shock,
"Wait, what !?
The Police officer puppet is ours now ?"
Then he turned silent.
And a moment later, his body started shaking.
'Tears' started falling from his eyes like a river while he shouted towards the sky,
"This cursed passive fate skill again...
How could you ruin my plans?
I already knew he was alive,
I could even take the guardian token as my birthday gift at any moment!
But I didn't do so, because I was waiting...
Waiting for the day that he shows up,
Take over the token and all of my hard work!
I was waiting for his arrogant smile when he says,
'You worked hard, junior, but it was all for nothing!'
I was waiting for him to wreak havoc everywhere!
Waiting for his highest time in life!
To finally show up in front of him,
With my hands behind my back,
Stroking my mustache,
Pointing at his guardian token,
And say with the most arrogant smile ever seen in the history of the multiverse,
'I choose you, as my birthday gift, little token !'
And then watch him in complete Despair!
Watch his arrogant smile freeze on his face!
But ... But it's all ruined now...
It's all ruined... "
Little mortal dropped to his knees, with his head low, emitting the aura of sadness and depression.
The newborns were at a loss.
What is he talking about?
The treasures, and especially the guardian token, were speechless.
He planned so much for that pitiful guardian god?
Was he lucky to become a puppet and not go through this whole process?
That would be so embarrassing to make a comeback, beat up everyone, then a little brat comes and takes it away with a ridiculous mustache!
But the guardian token thought was different at this moment.
It knew if Little Mortal had the ability to take someone's birth treasure, then the owner was alive!
Which meant its master, even though a puppet, was alive!
At this moment of hopelessness, a familiar voice sounded!
Was that an angel's voice?
Or the voice of 'hope' itself that manifests to bring Little Mortal out of his misery?
Or in the guardian god's case, the voice of the devil itself?
They didn't know which one it was.
But it brought light to the darkest time of our little, broken, and sad mortal.
"Boss, not many people know about this, right ?"
Little mortal slowly raised his head.
Rose, at this moment, was standing beside the whiteboard on which he had planned his last operation, reading it curiously.
She heard him yelling and crying and hurried back to see what had happened to him.
[ Emergency Operation:
The Operation name: Infiltration
Operation goal :
- Gather new information
- Catch the fortune teller, or the coward, if possible
My predictions :
- The fortune teller knows about my arrival
- Fortune teller won't be stuck in the arena like the rest because of his cheat
- Coward is going to snitch on me
- The judge might sell out my big sister about our deal (is he a snitch too?)
- Fortune teller snitches on me about the night planet
- They try to find me if they are smart
- Big sister gets involved if the judge is a snitch
- Someone might try to take me away because of the 'arena bug'
- Who will be the unlucky one in this operation? Fortune teller, or coward? Lol
Filled agent for this operation: Mortal, Level 87
Operation Difficulty: Very hard and Extremely Dangerous ]
Rose saw the new operation and knew her boss was out catching criminals again.
And now he was level 87?
2 level stronger?
She looked at the five newcomers and then at her boss again, looking back at her with a blank look, and said,
"Boss, you are so many steps ahead of everyone that it's unbelievable.
So, with everyone and everything under your control, just orchestrate everything the way you want!
Why do you care what your enemies want to do?
If they are not as smart and as capable as you, then help them to be. "
Little mortal's desperate eyes changed.
Slowly, but surely, it starts shining again.
Shining with the light of hope and determination!
He slowly stood up, took a deep breath, went to the backpack, and wrote five contracts.
Then he gave them to the five nervous newborns.
All the conditions were the same as the other six.
Except for one extra condition,
[ Pretend you didn't hear anything today. ]
They signed the contract with trembling hands.
Rose chuckled, seeing them like this.
They were even smaller than the previous batch.
They were like 1-year-old toddlers, even smaller than Little Mortal.
He was like the big brother here, looking down on them.
Little mortal nodded.
A beautiful peacock descended from the sky, the five little newborns sat on its trembling back, and left while still dumbfounded as to what was happening.
The trembling peacock even nodded at Little Mortal awkwardly, before flying away.
Its destination?
Forbidden jungle.
Little Mortal looked at it, going farther and farther with question marks all over his face...
"Does anyone know who that peacock was?
I don't remember it at all..."
Rose chuckled,
"That was a new manager from a new planet who recently joined us.
Because of her beautiful appearance, she is responsible for receiving any newborn that you might bring here.
This way, all of the managers won't leave their posts at the same time."
Little mortal scratched his head,
"Oh... Good."
Then he snapped his finger, and a sofa was sent out from the backpack.
"Come, assistant Rose.
You worked hard, and I know you are tired.
Have some rest."
Rose smiled and sat down.
Then he went to the whiteboard and made some changes.
His level went up by another two levels, to level 89.
And added a line.
[Fortune teller was the unlucky one.
That's the proof of fortune-telling being a scam.
Or how else could he get caught by a child ?]
And then, while chuckling, he looked at Rose.
Rose pretends to be shocked,
"Boss, I just read the operation, and you are already done with it?
Are you capturing higher beings instead of going for morning exercise?
And how are you four levels higher now ?"
Little mortal, pleased with his smart assistant, turned to the backpack and said,
"From now on, all of my birthday gifts should listen to Assassinate Rose's request if she asks for anything.
Do you... Understand ?"
The birth treasures vibrate.
They knew this girl could even save their life if one of these monsters suddenly went crazy.
They could ask Rose to stop his madness.
"Alright, assistant Rose, tell me about how things are."
Rose, who felt the importance of herself, went up by a couple of levels, reminded herself not to exploit her statue and new 'abilities' she had just received.
"I gathered information about the historical events of the night planet,
I have already spoken to most of the key figures there.
Those who were sealed for centuries and freed after the explosions are included ."
Then she brought some papers out of her storage ring.
"And based on the last update from 'glasses of knowledge',
Four new planets with life have been added to ours.
And 250 new planets made of different materials, but no life.
These are all only from the sneaky guy's universe. "
Little Mortal gasped,
"250 ?"
Rose nodded; she was at a loss, too.
"The Glasses of Knowledge said these planets are necessary for the future development of the planet."
Little Mortal gulped and started calculating.
Then chuckled and said,
"Lubo, that's a total of 25,899,741 years in my account, hehe."
The evil birth treasure, Lubo, felt it might never come out of this little demon's deal if things go forward with this speed...
At first, it thought the other party was an idiot, and it would be free in a couple of thousand years.
How could a newborn find random planets to feed it and increase the time of their deal?
He would be exposed at some point in any universe and be done for his crime.
But then it turned out this newborn was 'Mortal', the most stubborn creature it ever saw, and now...
It seems he wasn't a newborn living in another god's universe at all, but his own, and not the incomplete one it remembered, but two complete universes were connected together, and he didn't seem to be the same weakling from the past either!
What would Lubo think if it knew two more universes were just added, and who knows how many more planets were going to be merged with it?
It only had one thought in mind,
'This stupid kid gave me access to his universes like the rest.
But he doesn't know I'm not from this Mainland at all,
And the deal between us can be broken by me temporarily before World Law kicks in to stop me.
The only thing I need now is an opportunity.
While I can't kill anyone in his so-called 'territory',
I can suck dry higher beings!
If I could only eat one or two, then for a short period of time, I can avoid World Law's restriction and deal with him...'
While Lubo was daydreaming,
Little Mortal was listening to Rose's report,
"You can continue, Assistant Rose."
Rose continued with her report,
"The matter of your drug that helps people absorb solar power has been spread.
All of the new managers asked me to see if you could share it with them."
Little Mortal nodded,
"Sure."
Then shouted,
"Where are you, little pot?
It's time to get back to work.
Go with the 'research team',
And tell little glasses to modify the formula for any new members joining us from now on.
This will be like a signature for living creatures of our planet!
You can request His Majesty and the followers to help with the process so they can make some money!"
Then he suddenly gasped,
"By the way, now that the Sneaky Guy and Thug universes are connected, can I use my coach assistant technique on creatures from Thug's side?"
Then he looked around and shouted,
"Anyone from the Thug Universe around?"
And a moment later, someone emerged from the outer sect city not far away.
"Greetings, Guardian Mortal."
Little Mortal raised an eyebrow at the one who came.
He was one of the level 4 creatures from Thug's army, who stayed close by for any order that their new boss might have.
"Hello, hello.
How have you been?"
The man answered respectfully,
"Under your care, how could anyone not be good?"
Little Mortal chuckled, and then the guy turned around and ran back to the city, while Little Mortal waved at him.
"Goodbye, Mister, take care."
The crowd knew the test was actually successful...
What a heaven-defying technique was this!
The creatures of Assassin God's former universe were lucky that he never bothered checking the techniques created by low-level creatures.
Or every single one of them would be slaves by now, extracting law for him day and night!
At this moment,
The pot lazily came out of the backpack with the Medkit following it, and vibrated.
Little Mortal, who was happy just now,
furrowed and slapped it to the ground.
The pot sank inside the silver platform.
"What do you mean you are tired?
You were feeding that fat guy day and night, and you weren't tired then!
Now that you are mine, you are tired?
Your days with me are more like retirement!"
Then he suddenly snapped,
"You know what?
I just retire you for life!"
The pot, scared for its life, opened a passage and was going to run away, but Little Mortal caught it in time.
"Any last words?"
The pot vibrated.
Little Mortal snorted,
"That's what I thought."
But before leaving, the little white rat jumped on the Medkit and shouted,
"Boss, boss!
Let me go with them to help!"
Little Mortal raised his eyebrows,
"Didn't you go to your master?"
"Yes, but let me work for you, boss, in return for my master's freedom!"
Little Mortal was going to say something, but the little white rat disappeared into the darkness of the space passage.
The way it heroically went into the depths of the darkness was as if it was going to hell for a trial or sacrificing itself for some big cause.
Little Mortal muttered to himself,
"When did I take its master as hostage?"
The backpack trembled.
Little Mortal was shocked for a moment, and then attacked the backpack while shouting at it angrily,
"What do you mean, I take your master hostage too?
They are my guests!
Dr. Quinn and Mr. Marco Polo are my favorite characters!
If they were hostages, they would be in my cage now!
Do you hear me? In Little cage!"
BAM BAM
The backpack, which was backed by two universes, soon found out that this little demon's power was far stronger than it thought!
Or did he ever use his full strength?
It felt like those small fists were backed up by nothing and everything at the same time.
As if some kind of energy was supporting him, but the energy wasn't visible to the eyes or any other senses...
Isn't he supposed to be lawless?
What is he using then?
Even after sensing the changes in the laws around them, it didn't notice any law being used at all.
After a while, Little Mortal finally calmed down with the backpack's lifeless 'corpse' lying on the silver platform.
And the backpack wasn't the only corpse; all of the other birth treasures who received a punch or two, depending on their luck, were like corpses too.
It was a valuable lesson for all of them, especially the newcomers.
They learned that when this little boss is angry, and his eyes fill with blood, he literally can't see anything but blood, and anyone can receive part of his anger, even if only one of them makes him angry.
But what could they say?
Who could they blame for it?
This big backpack was like an elder for all of them.
Because of Adventure God's line of work, everyone knew this backpack and respected it.
The new managers who felt a slight vibration from the planet and found the source looked over to see what was going on and turned pale.
Their new boss was so violent...
Every time he delivered a punch, the planet itself would resonate with him.
As if they were one and the same.
The Guardian position was no joke.
Lubo gulped and thought to itself,
'I can't make a move until I'm sure about the outcome...
He isn't that weak, Mortal from the past anymore!'
While huffing and puffing, Little Mortal came back to Rose,
"You were saying, Assistant Rose."
Rose nodded and continued, as if nothing had happened,
"Glasses of Knowledge said that the main planet of Sneaky Guy hasn't been touched, and it found 300 anti-matter bombs in different places in his universe."
Little Mortal jumped behind the backpack,
"Where did it put the bombs?"
Rose was speechless.
Didn't you feed one to your heart?
What are you scared of?
"It said all of them are close to a
black hole's 'event horizon'.
But I didn't understand what it means."
Little Mortal said 'oh' and came out of his cover.
"Well, do you remember what a black hole is from my past explanation?"
Rose nodded,
"Where the spiritual energy or any other kind of special energy comes out, that allows us to connect with World Law.
However, incomplete universes don't have this kind of black hole.
That version only devours everything."
Little Mortal nodded,
"What I didn't tell you is the gravity.
The gravity of a black hole is so strong that even light can't escape from it if it gets too close to it.
And there is a certain distance from the black hole, like an invisible boundary,
which, if light or anything else goes a little further than that,
it will be caught in the black hole's gravity and can't escape anymore.
And that exact distance is called?"
Little Mortal waited for her to answer.
Rose raised her eyebrows,
"Oh, so that's the event horizon?
And those bombs are placed there, to be thrown inside if something happens?"
Little Mortal nodded.
Rose asked with interest,
"What will happen after they are dropped inside?"
Little Mortal shrugged,
"That's what's weird about black holes.
Throw something in, and it will turn to nothing!
And by nothing, I mean literally nothing!
Not like a paper you burn and it turns to ashes and heat, because that's still 'something'."
And then the two gasped, even Little Mortal himself.
Rose, after asking some more questions, said,
"The only thing left is the distance problem.
The planet is too big now for new members to meet with each other.
Especially lower-level creatures.
The planet's radius is more than 45000 kilometers.
For level 1 and 2 beings, it's indeed too hard to travel, especially for less advanced civilizations."
Little Mortal shrugged,
"It should be little glasses' plan to let them have enough space to develop and expand without worry or get into conflicts.
Because it knows that if you mix different cultures together all of a sudden, there will be war everywhere in no time.
You can ask my unstoppable ride to make roads if it is necessary, though.
But know this: where there is 'intelligence', there is war!"
Then he suddenly remembered the big blue orb and shouted,
"Lady Immortal, send that blue orb back.
There is no need for it to be used with us, back to the universe."
And a gentle voice sounded,
"Here you go, Guardian Mortal."
And the orb fell from the sky.
Little Mortal kicked it to the backpack, and it swallowed the orb.
"Alright, Assistant Rose, good job as always.
I'm proud of you."
Rose chuckled,
"We are making history here.
We should work hard for it."
Little Mortal nodded in agreement.
"Anyway, did you know that I haven't eaten anything since last night?"
Rose chuckled and brought out some food for both of them.
Spirit food, to be exact.
While eating, Rose thought it was time to gain some information,
"By the way, boss, I never heard you calling those newborns 'parasites'.
Why is that?"
Little Mortal said,
"Because they are not.
Higher beings from incomplete universes love any creatures weaker than them, unconditionally."
Rose raised her eyebrows,
"You mean they aren't dangerous at all when it comes to affecting lower-level creatures like us?"
"No, they are harmless; don't worry about them.
They even signed a contract with me to not harm any creature here, even if someone tries to use their weakness against them.
It is known knowledge that higher beings of incomplete universes always see 'killing' as a sin,
especially when it comes to any creature lower than level 6.
It's beneath them, and they never kill or harm them."
The backpack vibrated weakly.
Little Mortal glared at it,
"You think so?
Just wait then, I'll show you if anyone can bully us in the near future..."
Rose became interested,
"You mean newborns are the opposite of the parasites you told us about, and that's why they can be bullied?
By the way, I heard from the Cultivation Manager that the six newborns you brought here are already level 4."
"Yes, they can indeed level up fast if there is no limit for how much law they can absorb.
It's easy for them to become level 6 again."
And continued with resentment in his voice,
"That's why higher beings of complete universes take them in as law generators.
They are the best in that regard."
Rose furrowed,
"Why would they be reborn then?"
Little Mortal snorted,
"I told you before.
Incomplete universes are free for all.
Other higher beings can go to their universe and take away their living creatures if they have any use for them.
Or just kill them for whatever reason because they see them as lowly and useless lifeforms.
But I know they do this to make the higher beings of those incomplete universes feel despair and give up on their universe.
Most higher beings who have seen and experienced the outcome of sacrificing an incomplete universe know that in the process of that, a big chunk of law will be released that they can consume freely.
So they are supportive of it or even try to force them to do it."
Rose's eyes widened in shock,
"Wait, boss, they need to sacrifice the whole universe to be reborn?
What about the creatures inside?
Didn't you say newborns love them and won't harm them?"
Little Mortal nodded,
"That's why I said they might be forced to do it.
At any moment, one or a group of parasites might show up, and provide a place for every planet with life they have so that they can sacrifice their empty universe and be reborn.
Meanwhile, they absorb the free law left behind by the sacrificed universe, and then they go back to the Mainland to wait for them to be reborn and use them again...."
"Can't they just not do it?"
"Nope, there is a ridiculous weakness that can force them to do anything a higher being says."
"What weakness?"
"Hostage.
Take a living creature as a hostage, and you can order any newborn around."
"That simple?"
"Yep."
Rose felt sad for these newborns.
They were basically blackmailed into this, and then exploited even further after being reborn.
She, and all of the birth treasures who were listening secretly, wondered what the deal was with their boss?
Wasn't he a newborn, too?
Why did nothing make sense with him?
The only similarity he had with them was his height,
But his violence and bad temper didn't match a newborn at all!
What Rose learned today about newborns, the birth treasures already knew; that's why they couldn't figure out why he wasn't like them!
Peaceful and kind to everyone and everything!
Rose looked at her boss.
At this moment, his eyes were closed.
As if he were angry or depressed.
Then he suddenly opened his eyes, slammed the table, and, while shattering it, shouted,
"I will stop this madness!"
The whole planet shook, and so did the heart of every single creature living on it!
The new managers,
"O_O"
Can we go back to where we came from?