The sadness was evident in the little boy's voice...
The crowd looked in the direction of the sound,
And saw a little dirty boy appear at the castle's door out of nowhere.
He indeed looked like a homeless person.
And now he was knocking on the door.
Goddess of Time chuckled,
"You were right.
He is literally invisible...
And look at his law, still stuck at zero!
He can't even sense our presence..."
God of Judgment, hearing 'Zero law', felt his eyes hurt again.
But there was an important question here that Goddess of Foresight asked,
"How could he be on the mainland, but the God's Arena can't summon him for his challenge?"
Even Entertainment Goddess was puzzled.
God of Prophecy called him,
"Mortal, come here."
Little mortal turned around, and when he saw who called him, his eyes widened in shock, and he shouted,
"Oh no!
It's that fortune teller!"
And then he ran away!
His speed was fast, if you compare him to a real three-year-old.
Goddess of Time almost burst into laughter when he called this cocky God of Prophecy a 'fortune teller' before running away so slowly.
So, to not be exposed, she disappeared and appeared beside the slowly running away little mortal, and picked him up with two fingers while secretly laughing.
Then she brought him back while holding him by the collar.
Little mortal kept shouting on the way,
"Let me go!
He is a murderer!
He will kill us all!"
But she didn't care.
When Little Mortal saw the rest of the people, he calmed down,
"Oh, Your Honor!
You are here, everything is fine now..."
And heaved a sigh of relief.
Hearing him calling God of Judgment, Your Honor,
Goddess of Time dropped him and walked away while chuckling.
The crowd felt puzzled when they saw that she couldn't control herself.
It was unusual for this lady to laugh, because she could always see the 'near future'.
It was like everything was spoiled for you all the time.
So, what was so funny now?
They didn't know that even she herself was shocked.
Because in the future that she was seeing, this little boy didn't exist at all.
That's why she kept getting off guard by his words.
Before things got out of control, Entertainment Goddess picked Little Mortal up from the ground and said
"Mortal, you'd better apologize now!"
Little mortal, at first, looked confused, but then nodded,
"I apologize... For NOTHING, you murderer!
Your Honor, bring him to justice!
Start the trial!"
The little boy suddenly snapped!
Goddess of Time, who thought she could come back to the crowd, went for another walk.
This kid was crazy...
Entertainment Goddess covered his mouth,
"Okay, enough!"
Little mortal snorted and didn't talk anymore.
From the moment God of Prophecy called him over, Little mortal asked his crystal to turn on the camera again.
With every change of emotions, he was actually farming laws for Entertainment Goddess.
But the main crystal was keeping it all to itself for now, not to expose itself.
Weirdly enough, because the child crystal with little mortal has part of the main crystal inside it, it could operate like the main crystal!
Even the main Crystal was surprised by this discovery, and knew if Little Mortal recorded other higher beings performing their divine techniques, Entertainment Goddess could learn them too, as if her main Crystal recorded it!
God of Prophecy was really annoyed now.
Not only because of his way of talking, but mostly because he couldn't make a prophecy with him in it.
As if he didn't exist in any prophecy.
He turned to the Goddess of Foresight,
"Can you see anything?"
But she shook her head.
She was staring at him all the time.
In normal circumstances,
Fate should send her a foresight of the future with the most impact on her life, with this little boy in it.
She should at least receive an image or a sentence.
But not this time.
She didn't get anything...
As if he were someone abandoned by fate and law itself.
However, she was still suspicious,
"Why isn't he summoned to the arena?"
It was everyone's question.
God of Prophecy said,
"Maybe because of his law, which is still zero.
Let's give him a boost."
And then he waved his hand and tried to send some laws to Little Mortal's body.
This way, he wouldn't be lawless anymore.
But Entertainment Goddess snorted.
The wisp of law changed direction and went in a random direction.
"What are you doing? Do you want to send a newborn to fight with six higher beings in the arena at the same time?"
God of Prophecy furrowed his brow.
And waved his hand again while saying,
"Don't worry, I'll tell them not to harm him much."
But Entertainment Goddess stopped him again.
"No need for your help, senior."
The atmosphere became heavy suddenly.
Little mortal gasped!
Seeing a fight might break out, God of Judgment spoke,
"I guarantee nothing happens to him."
Entertainment Goddess didn't say anything this time.
The words of God of Judgment were trustworthy, at least when spoken on the mainland.
God of Judgment waved his hand.
A wisp of law entered Little Mortal's body.
Then, gray smoke started emitting from him.
The crowd was speechless.
What was sent in was the law of water.
What was sent out was raw law...
What was this body made of?
He can convert law to its raw form!
God of Prophecy was shocked and a little scared now!
If he really couldn't absorb any law, and his being lawless was related to the arena not summoning him,
Didn't that mean he would be stuck in the God's Arena with the rest for who knows how long if he challenged Mortal?
The only way for them to come out in that case was to hire someone to kill him...
God of Judgment said,
"Mortal, you didn't want the law, or you couldn't absorb it?"
Little mortal snorted,
"Didn't want it.
I already have the law."
The crowd, who couldn't feel anything, raised their eyebrows.
Goddess of Time, who was back again and heard his answer, asked curiously,
"Then what is your law?
I'll give you some."
Little mortal smiled mockingly at her and shouted,
"My law is the 'strongest law'!
You weaklings don't have it!"
God of Prophecy was going to explode when he called them weaklings!
Entertainment Goddess covered his mouth, but it was too late.
Goddess of Time left again.
The atmosphere became heavy once more.
God of Judgment coughed,
"This child's brain is a mess, don't take it to heart.
If you are done here, let's go."
But God of Prophecy shook his head,
"I have one more question.
Where is his birth treasure?"
The crowd raised their eyebrows.
They knew about newborns not having any birth treasure at the start, and getting one after being reborn.
But a certain thief would take their birth treasure away.
So, why was he asking this question?
They didn't know Little Mortal's situation was different.
God of Prophecy knew he didn't appear on the mainland like the rest of the newborns.
He just appeared out of nowhere.
Nobody knew where he was before showing up at the ceremony, except for being with Entertainment Goddess for a short period of time.
Little mortal puffed his chest, raised his chin, and said arrogantly,
"One does not need a birth treasure if they are strong enough!
So I threw mine away in the trash can!"
The crowd with birth treasures who were indirectly called 'weak' for the second time,
"..."
Goddess of Time,
"Pffft!"
God of Prophecy tried to act calm while clenching his fist behind his back,
"I think it's better to take him with us.
Or those six will be in there for a long time.
I'll find a way to let him absorb some law first,
Then he can go anywhere he wants."
What he said was reasonable, but...
He seems to have ill intentions.
God of Judgment looked at Entertainment Goddess to make the decision.
And she was going to say 'no need',
But she received a secret message from her birth treasure,
So, while puzzled, she said,
"I don't mind it, but I don't take responsibility for anything that happens after you take him."
The crowd furrowed their brows, but then nodded.
They didn't understand what she meant by the responsibility part.
Little mortal shouted in panic,
"No, big sister!
Don't leave me with this murderer!
He is going to torture me!
I don't want to g-"
God of Prophecy, who was tired of his nonsense, knocked him out and then took him away.
Entertainment Goddess just let him do whatever he wants, because she knew, as silly as Little mortal looked, he could run away from him at any time.
He even disappeared while he was in her arms.
But on the surface, she showed some resentment.
God of Judgment left after saying,
"Contact me if anything happens to him.
This is the mainland; no one can break the law here."
Entertainment Goddess didn't answer.
The law could be broken.
And if something happened, then it's already happened; can he bring a dead newborn back to life?
Goddess of Time was going to leave, but suddenly looked above the castle.
At the main screen, to be exact.
Then, while laughing again, left.
Entertainment Goddess looked at her main screen and knew what the Goddess of Time just saw was probably from the near future.
Something funny, it seems.
After all of them left, Entertainment Goddess went back to her castle,
"Alright, my beloved crystal.
Why did you tell me to let them take him away?"
Anyway, be ready.>
"Ready for what?"
And then on the main screen above her castle,
A video was added to Little Mortal's channel.
The video title was,
[Fortune Teller, The Murderer Who Abducts Children,
And The Useless Judge Who Only Watches.]
Then the new content starts playing,
And the screen starts showing the interaction between little mortal and the rest just now.
A moment later, a vast amount of law, mostly converted from anger, starts pouring into her body.
Big sister closed her eyes and muttered,
"He was recording everything the whole time..."
....
Under the sea of lava.
In a secret castle deep underground,
God of Prophecy appeared with Little Mortal in hand.
He first threw the little boy into a random room and imprisoned him, before leaving for a deeper part of the castle.
Little mortal crashed to the ground, and different kinds of seals appeared around the room he was imprisoned in.
After a while, he slowly opened his eyes and said in a low voice,
"Leave a copy of me here, and contact my new birthday gift.
Tell it to stop any prophecy related to me from now on."
The crystal sent a message to its new colleague, the prophecy orb.
.....
Deep inside the castle, God of Prophecy was standing in front of a sealed door.
He was unsealing the door at this moment.
After an hour of work, the door finally opened, and both of them walked in.
When they entered, he went straight to a circle on the ground that was engraved with complicated patterns.
Then he placed the fake orb at the center of the magical circle while muttering something and changing the placement of the patterns using a special technique.
And his little companion, who entered with him, stood by the side without bothering him.
Little mortal only recorded what was happening without moving.
What if God of Prophecy accidentally messed up one of the patterns on the ground while he was changing their placements?
If that happened, he could show him the record and where he made a mistake, so he could repair it.
Little mortal nodded to himself.
As if knowing how helpful he was.
After a while, the blue orb at the center starts flickering, until scenery appears on its surface.
The other side was a room exactly like the one they were in right now.
Even the patterns on the ground that were in sight were similar.
A person in a brown robe, with face hidden under the cloak, spoke in a harsh male voice,
"Report, what urgent matter happened?"
God of Prophecy, an old generation higher being, bowed slightly to the man, to show his respect, and said,
"Lord, the guardian token is finally active again.
The new owner took the bait.
And the higher being from the universe we threw the evil birth treasure in has finally shown up."
The 'Lord' said,
"Hmm.
And Guardian God?"
"He was resurrected long ago and is ready to be used.
'Soul God' and 'Puppet Master' worked together for it to happen.
We are now waiting for the moment that the new guardian candidate takes over a universe and defeats its higher being, or if the Guardian is a higher being, then we know immediately from God's Ranking.
Then 'Guardian God' under our control can take the guardian token back for us to use."
"Can't you take it back now?"
"If he weren't a puppet, he could even summon the token directly, but the puppet needs to 'see' the token at least to take it back.
However, through the puppet, we already 'locked' the wanted list with our people in it, and hid some crucial information to prevent the candidate from knowing about us."
Lord nodded,
"I will reward Soul God and Puppet Master later.
I should say, it's good to have that unruly 'Guardian God' on our side now.
His birth treasure could easily find us, and he even tried to infiltrate our universes in the name of 'protecting' all beings..."
God of Prophecy snorted in disdain,
"He wasn't any different from us.
After taking over our universes, he would go after others to make sure every universe attached to this mainland generates law for him alone.
But in the end, it gave us an opportunity to take over this mainland that we can't catch up with after missing the evil birth treasure."
Lord nodded and asked impatiently,
"How long will it take for the one with the token to take over a universe?"
God of Prophecy smiled,
"I am monitoring the God's Ranking list and the universes attached to the mainland.
Taking over a universe will be a massive boost in power.
Higher beings aren't like guardians.
They need to absorb the law directly or indirectly.
But guardians can absorb the law of their territory a lot faster.
So the moment a strong entity shows up, or the law of a universe gathers in one person while one of the higher beings in the ranking dies, we can find the universe with the guardian immediately."
"You think the guardian is a higher being in God's list?"
"Today, an angel of mine was killed without showing any resistance.
After that, the other party took away the night planet and everything around it.
Even the moon and the sun.
Only a higher being is capable of such a feat."
Lord was interested,
"Oh, are you sure only another higher being can do that?"
God of Prophecy was confused.
The man called Lord continued,
"Did you forget about the evil birth treasure we sent to that incomplete universe?"
God of Prophecy furrowed his brow,
"Lord, did 'Let Us Be One' have such an ability to take planets away?
I thought it could only devour things!"
Lord scoffed,
"You joined this hunt by accident, so you don't know about it.
That thing's ability is far from what you think.
It is something made from the 'resentment' of many incomplete universes of different mainlands.
The power it carries could be unlimited if you feed it enough.
It even has great control over the law of 'gravity'.
Why else do you think we need 10 old gods to always be around and stop its growth when its job is over?"
God of Prophecy was shocked,
"So, that's how it is...
Unfortunately, we don't have any news about it.
From the first day of its release 14 billion years ago, it was supposed to eat the higher being of that incomplete universe and start the chaos, but we lost contact with it the very same day.
The only possible sign of it that I received was 450 million years ago.
A goddess here in the mainland saw with her 'foresight' that a disaster would come to the mainland from the same incomplete universe we threw the evil birth treasure in.
She even predicted that it had something to do with guardians.
However, the 'foresight' of the goddess was pointing to the future disaster that originated from 'Let Us Be One'.
So I tried my best not to allow many Higher beings to get involved, and I even sent younger 'gods' as bait for 'Let Us Be One' to be eaten by it if it was still there.
But it never took the bait, and even recently, the higher being of that universe showed up in the mainland."
Lord snorted,
"And who is the higher being?"
"It's a lawless higher being, called Mortal.
I was suspicious that he might be connected to the missing 'Let Us Be One'.
So I brought him back with me."
"Didn't Goddess of Foresight tell you there is a guardian involved in the same universe as the one we released the Evil Birth treasure?"
"Lord, you mean Mortal might be the candidate with the token?
But he is lawless, and I didn't feel the presence of any birth treasure on him.
How can such a weak newborn be the candidate?
And how can he control 'Let Us Be One'?
The only thing special about him is that he can completely turn invisible.
I think that's the main reason 'Lubo' never found him after its release."
Lord became silent.
After a while, he said,
"Watch him carefully then, and ask 'Soul God' to take a look at his soul.
Figure out what he did in that incomplete universe after we sent the evil birth treasure in.
It was close to his birth, if I'm not wrong.
Lubo was supposed to start with devouring his law the moment he was born, and then the rest of his universe.
But not only did Lubo disappear, even that Guardian God came to power in that period of time, and found out about us..."
His tone was angry at the end.
"Either way, Lubo is still missing.
So, you and the rest should be careful.
If it suddenly showed up and devoured more than 20 universes, you can't stop it anymore; leave with your universes and wait for us."
God of Prophecy was shocked, but didn't ask further about this bizarre and unreasonable evil birth treasure, and asked about something else.
"By the way, Lord.
A god was killed here, and six newborns were taken away without leaving any trace behind.
Was that our people?"
Lord furrowed his brow,
"No, after you, except for the 10 higher beings that we 'smuggled' inside with their universe to attach themselves to the mainland, no one else has come to your side.
And right now, the only one I can contact is you, because it's too risky to contact the rest of our force.
They might be under someone's watch because they all joined the Mainland at the same time.
So if someone on your side is messing around,
You can only find out about it yourself."
God of Prophecy asked in puzzlement,
"Maybe others are trying to take a bite of our prey?"
Lord shook his head,
"No, this one is ours.
The other two Mainlands are far behind us.
It's even impossible for us to catch up with this 'Speedy Mainland', let alone for them.
If we weren't lucky and you wouldn't have seen it coming with your prophecy law to get in there first, and then send us where it was going to pass so that we can be on its way, even the 10 universes out of 100 we sent couldn't be smuggled in to attach to it."
God of Prophecy nodded,
"This Mainland is indeed fast.
And now it moves only in a straight line, and not in a circle like the past, or we could send more universes to slow it down.
'Let Us Be One' could slow it down after devouring most of the universes, but without it, our best bet is Guardian God.
If we can silently take over a thousand universes, we can slow down the mainland enough for you to catch up sooner."
Lord nodded,
"The Mainland law is pure speed, so if we can merge its law with our mainland, we can hunt down any other mainland we bump into.
Anyway, if anything important happens, call me.
If not, contact me again next year.
For us, it should be 10 years due to the speed difference.
By the way, that goddess with the law of foresight,
See if you can turn her into a puppet.
She has an interesting law."
God of Prophecy nodded,
"Yes, Lord.
But we need to be done with the Guardian God puppet first.
To make a god puppet, puppet master, and Soul god to use 51% of their law and soul, or they will be stopped by world law itself.
It should be a 'natural limit' on their birth treasures because world law already knows about them.
So they can't turn more than one higher being into a puppet."
'Lord' nodded again,
"Alright then, do it after you are done with the guardian puppet."
And the blue orb went back to normal.
God of Prophecy sighed,
"If only that Space Goddess weren't always here on the mainland.
We could catch her and turn her into our puppet instead of that guardian...
Unfortunately, Higher beings with unique laws can't be more than one, or we had one for ourselves."
Little mortal nodded too.
It was indeed really hard to find anyone or anything with space law these days.
The two sighed and walked out.
Little mortal, who saw him try to seal the door again, didn't wait any longer, ended his recording, and went back to his 'room'.
God of Prophecy, after a while, gave him a visit, and after monitoring the sleeping toddler for a moment, left.
The Crystal vibrated when it saw him leave.
Little mortal opened his eyes and snorted,
"What do you mean we are done for?
That 'final boss' looking guy was bluffing; Lubo is harmless.
If it bullied you, tell me and I'll slap its ignorant face for you."
The crystal,
<-_->
You sure about that?
"Anyway, forget about Lubo, we actually found out about so many top secrets, didn't we!?"
Then he took out his 'invisible' guardian token and said with a mocking smile,
"Well, well, well, Mr. Token.
It turns out you weren't a traitor,
but your late master was the one messing around.
Who would have thought that the police officer would become a puppet in the end...."
The guardian token didn't say anything.
It was shocked by the fact that its master, who faked his death, was a puppet now, and maybe already dead...
Little mortal sighed,
"Don't worry, aren't I here for revenge?
With what you hear and see, aren't you looking for revenge, too?
Don't we both have the same enemy?
Then it's time to team up for real.
I bet that fortune teller went after that soulless dude to come and search my soul.
And guess what, you and I, we beat them up when they come.
The two of them will be the first and second step of your revenge.
And for me, it will be the third and fourth, because I already caught two of them."
After a while, the guardian token's mechanical voice sounded,
[It is suggested that we don't-]
"Stop with suggestions...
Do you want revenge, or not?"
[Affirmative.]
"Good, connect to Little Cage."
The token vibrated.
"Oh, Little Cage, I'm going to catch two more criminals.
Their universe will be in our pocket too.
Can you keep them in with the support of my territory if two more universes are added to it?
One of the targets is as strong as an old generation parasite by the way."
The token vibrated.
Little mortal nodded.
"You can guarantee to imprison one for each universe added?
Little Cage, let me tell you.
The history we made yesterday was nothing but an appetizer.
New records are on the way!
But remember, never underestimate these old timers."
The token vibrated excitedly!
"Little crystal, do you have any battle record of these two?"
And two scenes start playing.
Both in God's Arena.
One was God of Prophecy, who could predict every move of his opponent.
And the other was Soul God, who destroyed his opponent's soul with just one glance at him.
Little mortal was speechless...
"Little crystal, you birth treasures don't have souls, right?"
Little mortal nodded,
"We will be fine in that regard then.
By the way, Mr. Token, what will happen if I challenge a dead higher being in the middle of resurrection?
I mean, challenging them with my guardian title?"
[Their resurrection will be accelerated by world law.]
"And where do I need to fight them?"
[In a battleground created explicitly for the challenge.
But if both you and the higher being that you challenged are already in the same place,
The battleground will be the place you are.]
"Alright then, let's do this, boys!"
....
An hour later.
God of Prophecy came back.
Another man was with him.
His skin was ashen, his eyes had no pupils, and were completely white.
On his waist, a cube made of translucent material was hanging, and some blurry phantoms were swimming inside.
From time to time, you could even see the horrified faces of those phantoms hitting the cube's wall, as if trying to get out.
The three, two adults and one child, walked to the place where the fake 'Little Mortal' was sleeping.
The pale-skinned Soul God asked,
"It's him?"
The man beside him, God of Prophecy, nodded,
"Yes.
Do whatever you want with his soul.
He is already an idiot."
And the little boy beside the God of Prophecy,
Pointed his finger at the cube on the newcomer's waist while sending two secret messages,
Stay with the soulless guy for now.>
Try to be in sync with what Little Crystal shows them.>
The two birth treasures with a new owner,
<...>
God of Prophecy unsealed the room, and the three of them went in.
Soul God looked at Little Mortal and said,
"You weren't messing with me.
I can't feel anything from him..."
God of Prophecy nodded.
The Crystal was speechless.
It thought,
'That's me, not him, and only because he doesn't have any aura, I can actually copy him as well as the real one.'
Little Mortal nodded too and tapped on his token.
The token sent a message to World Law.
[Universe Guardian, Mortal, challenges both 'Apollo' and 'Psyche'.]
Even here, Little Mortal couldn't send a secret message to World Law and issue the challenge, and he needed to say it out loud.
That's why the guardian token took over the job.
A moment later, both gods received a message.
They were both shocked.
A challenge right here and right now by Mortal to fight over their universe?
What kind of ridiculous challenge is this?
The challenger is not even awake!
At the same time, the fake Mortal disappeared.
God of Prophecy received an urgent prophecy from his birth treasure and looked at the right corner of the room, immediately activating his divine technique.
Little Mortal was coming towards them with a flying kick and an angry face from that corner in the prophecy!
Soul God, who knew about his partner's Law of Prophecy, sent a soul attack to that corner without moving.
And while both of them were focused on the corner, Little Mortal, with both hands already raised, appeared above their heads.
In his right hand, the Punishment Stick.
In his left hand, the Judge Hammer.
On his waist, the Prison Cage.
The three slots of the guardian token were in use.
BAM
He smashed their heads from above, and the rebound force from the hit kept him floating mid-air for a moment.
He used the rebound force, performed a front flip, and hit their heads with his two small heels like an axe.
The moment his legs' heels hit their heads, the Punishment Stick and the Judge Hammer were already gone, and his two wristbands were now on his ankles.
But not to make him light this time, instead to make him heavy!
And then the two gods disappeared.
Little Mortal shouted,
"Your turn, Space Mirror."
One of the 'slots' changed to Space Mirror.
A passage opened to somewhere outside of the castle, and Little Mortal went inside.
The next moment, he was outside of God of Prophecy's castle.
This place was a vast underground cave, with lava all around.
"Tell Big Guy to come here!"
The passage he just came out of closed and opened again, now connected to the silver platform.
The backpack jumped to this side, 'swallowed' the castle, and went back in with the two new birth treasures, 'Soul Cube' and 'Prophecy Orb', following it.
The passage closed again.
There was no one there anymore.
Not even Little Mortal...
A while later, the roof of the underground cave exploded.
Two people came in.
One was God of Judgment, and the other was Goddess of Punishment.
"Apollo, what are you doing here?"
God of Judgment furrowed his brow,
"I felt... someone broke the law here.
What about you, Nemesis?"
How could he say he felt someone got hit here with his Judge Hammer?
Goddess of Punishment snorted and left without answering.
How could she say she felt someone got hit here with her Punishment Stick?
...
At this moment, Little Mortal, in his martial arts outfit, was strolling at the bottom of the sea of lava, as if he were strolling in a park and nothing had happened just now.
While walking in a certain direction, he received a message from World Law.
[The two higher beings have been defeated.
Mortal wins.]
[Guardian of the Universe, Mortal, you defeated 02/11 outsiders.]
Little Mortal was speechless...
"Bublblubulb?"
He was inside the lava, so his voice was like this.
But the token understood his question and responded.
[I don't have access to the wanted list.
But I know several 'outsiders' are on the wanted list.]
Little Mortal shook his head in disappointment,
"Blublulllublbb."
This token was indeed useless when it came to matters related to guardians and the guardian association.
The token,
[...]
After a while, Little Mortal arrived at a cave entrance.
He stepped inside without stopping, with his hands behind his back, as if he owned this place, and now was here to check on it.
"Oh, by the way, Mr. Token, how many treasures can you support now with me being Guardian of the Universe?"
[5.]
[And +1 for each extra universe.]
Little Mortal gasped,
"You mean I can use nine now?
Wait, I could use more than three slots previously too..."
Then he knocked on the guardian token,
"Aren't you low-key like the best 'middle-man'?
Are you sure you aren't a 'middle-token'?
How else can you support so many treasures?"
[I am supported by Guardian Law.
World Law supports Guardian Law.
In normal cases, a higher being only has one birth treasure, and this function should be useless...]
Little Mortal said 'oh', and continued on his path.
After a while, a staircase came into view, going up.
When he reached the top, he continued forward while saying,
"Little Crystal, show me the fight from before.
I want to see how they lost so easily.
They didn't move, they didn't attack, they didn't do anything...
I just smashed their heads twice, and they were knocked out!
It was so embarrassing that I don't know if I can show it to anyone."
The Crystal was speechless.
They actually tried their best...
It showed him the record.
Everything was as it happened in reality, except the placement of the two gods.
Little Mortal hit the empty air, and the two gods' heads didn't get hit at all in the record.
Then after a front flip, he hit the empty air again, this time with his heels...
Little Mortal knocked on the Crystal,
"What in the world is this?
Are you broken?"
The Crystal vibrated.
"You are saying that's his divine technique?
Everyone saw him in another place in the fight?
Well, that's cool.
I knew this Fortune Teller wasn't simple.
But, in front of my eagle eyes, how can a parasite hide?
That's just petty tricks."
Then he asked,
"What about that soul, dude?
He was so useless.
Only standing there like an idiot!"
The Crystal vibrated.
Little Mortal gasped,
"He attacked me a total of 2331 times with his divine soul attack?"
Then he chuckled,
"Well, he bumped into his natural enemy this time.
I didn't feel a thing."
The Crystal was speechless.
He wasn't affected by the illusion or that scary soul attack just because he was invisible to them, and couldn't be targeted?
Not only that, he even took over their birth treasures before the fight even began...
While chatting with his crystal, Little Mortal reached the end of the path.
An iron door appeared in front of him.
He then kicked the door open and went in as if it were a robbery.
Inside was utterly dark; nothing could be seen, and at first it was only silent.
But the next moment, cries of surprise came from every corner!
The light was turned on too.
"The Evil God is here!"
"Demon Savior, welcome back!"
"Little Troublemaker, is it the time?"
"Look how big he is!"
"And strong!"
"The strongest!"
"All the newborns are delivered, when do we make our move?"
And then little flying creatures flew out from every corner.
This place was like a small garden, with all kinds of fruit trees and magical yellow stones to brighten the big underground garden.
Something like stardust was floating in the air, too.
Little houses were in trees with little heads peeking outside of the windows.
Their eyes were filled with fear and excitement at the same time.
Little Mortal smiled arrogantly,
"Look at you, little fairies, all excited.
It's not the time yet.
I just came here to see if anyone bullied you recently."
These flying creatures were fairies.
And originally,
They were responsible for receiving the newborns and taking care of them in their first few months of arrival.
This place was Fairy's Garden, and their home.
They were the natives of the mainland, born with the first newborn, whoever he or she was.
A little fairy jumped on Little Mortal's head,
"You're still level 85?"
Little Mortal snorted,
"Not anymore, I leveled up 4 times.
I'm at level 89 now."
The little fairies around all gasped.
An old fairy flew forward while shaking its head,
"Big Boss, that old thief has gone crazy, and the rest were forced to seal him in his castle.
Because of that, the last five newborns who came here recently,
They are currently still with their birth treasures.
By the way, God of Contract is missing too.
So they didn't sign the contract to keep everything they saw here secret.
And I received a message from World Law, that they are the last newborns that we ever get, there is no more incomplete universe attached to the mainland, and there won't be any new universe in the future until the mainland is 'cleaned up',
But I didn't understand what it meant."
Little Mortal nodded,
"Something happened that made the mainland vigilant; that's why it won't pick up any new incomplete or even complete universes on its way for now."
The old fairy nodded,
"So there is no use for us to stay here..."
Little Mortal asked,
"Who replaced that old Aladdin?"
"Someone called God of Life and Death."
Little Mortal snorted,
"Such an arrogant name!
What's he doing now?"
"He is in the 'storage room', absorbing law from newborns."
Little Mortal furrowed his brow,
"He is the new boss now?"
"Yes,
After the old thief was sealed, he showed up and took his place."
"Alright, I'll go take a look.
You little fairies, pack up and be ready.
I'll come to take you away in a day or two if not sooner."
The little fairies became nervous,
"Are we running from the mainland?"
Little Mortal snorted and left after saying,
"I have my own place now, what running?
We travel to our new home."
The fairies gasped!
"How does he have a home now?"
"He was a weirdo from the start!"
"Yes, I remember the first day he came here, everything was a mess..."
"What did he do that day?
I was sleeping..."
"Nobody knows, he just came here to hide, and told us some thieves were after him to take away his birthday gifts!"
"No way!
The things he called birthday gifts were the birth treasures of those scary gods!"
"Be quiet, at that time someone said the same thing, and got a beating!"
"Yes, if he says it's a birthday gift, then it is!
And never call him a thief, or mention anything about stealing, he goes mad!"
"As expected of the Evil God..."