Blood Lord was the first to speak,
"Apollo, because our 'Lord' only communicates with you, do you think you can do anything you want?"
His voice, which seems to be the way he normally talks, was so loud and heavy that it made everyone's heart, especially the puppets, jump in their throat.
The only reason for the 'puppets' to be covered in sweat inside, but be calm outside,
was the puppeteer, who didn't care about this guy's loud voice and just led them in their act.
Even the audience watching was affected by his voice.
What kind of level 6 was this?
God of Thievery tried to calm him down,
"Karnath, give this little one a chance to explain.
He didn't have time to notify us all about the changes.
So he only shared it with the ones 'close by', and we made an emergency plan to deal with the mess that crazy newborn created for us."
God of Life and Death, Soul God, and Puppet Master nodded to approve what he said.
But Blood Lord snorted, and his voice boomed again,
"You good-for-nothings, are you comparing yourself to us?
You are telling me finding a newborn trash that insulted all of us is that hard?"
God of Life and Death snorted,
"Isn't that the same for all of you?"
Hearing him say that, not only Blood Lord, but the rest of them were surprised too.
Blood Lord asked,
"Thanathel, don't tell me he is here?"
And their aura surged like a tide.
The atmosphere became even heavier.
It was the same for the decay, diseases, and depression in the air.
It even affected the skin of the group of level 6 beings on the scene.
Those who were watching felt there was something really wrong with this group of 'outsiders'!
How could their aura alone affect the level 6 beings on the scene to this extent?
The five outsiders,
Kept searching for the little invisible newborn, but didn't find him.
So they calmed down, and Blood Lord, who seems less angry, asked,
"And where is he now?"
God of Prophecy raised his right hand.
There was nothing in it, but it was as if he was holding a 'bag' or something.
Then he patted the air with his left hand, and suddenly a little boy appeared in his right hand.
He was holding him up by the collar, and the little boy seemed to be unconscious.
The crowd gasped.
The hidden entity with the mask in the corner gasped.
The members of God's Council and the manager, who had not even known who was recording the meeting until now, gasped too.
So the recording crystal was with this invisible newborn all the time?
Apollo brought down his hand, and on the way down, the little boy disappeared again.
The crowd was shocked once again.
They lost track of him again, even knowing where he should be!
At this moment, the lady with hollow eyes,
Sanguinia, the Wraith of Despair, as if she received a message, said,
"We should send this newborn 'back'."
The rest nodded,
"Indeed, he is a good research material."
"If we can duplicate his invisibility, our job will be a lot easier."
"If our mainland devours the related 'law',
That would be the best outcome."
God of Prophecy nodded,
"Alright, but I need him for the next part of the plan.
Now that he is in our hands, it's better to use him."
Blood Lord asked with his loud voice,
"We'll decide about that later.
You'd better have a good reason for your recent actions.
What was this show you started with the guardian puppet?
Why did one of our people die?
Why did you reveal our 'Newborn Facility' to others?
How did Viros (Puppet Master) resurrect so fast?
And why the hell are these weaklings here with you?
If you don't give us a good reason, all of you can stay here... Forever!"
After each question, the monster's veins bulged more, his voice got louder, and his killing intent heavier.
Blood started dripping from the eyes and the nose of the level 6 beings on the scene, and then flew toward Blood Lord.
The level 7 creatures on the scene rolled their eyes at him.
Everyone knew this guy was using this opportunity to suck some quality blood!
God of Prophecy, while bleeding too, answered as if he didn't see anything,
"This newborn, Mortal, is the same higher being from the incomplete universe we released the evil birth treasure in.
When I found out about it, I looked for him immediately to see if I could find any clues about the missing evil birth treasure.
But instead, I found something else, which I'm sure you can guess by now what it was,
And the results of finding it led to many other unwanted situations that I'm sure you saw them 'Live'..."
Sanguinia, the Wraith of Despair, glanced at the Guardian Token on his waist and chuckled,
"So the guardian token was with him?
And that's why you contacted Lord to send back the news about it, without knowing he was recording you?
After that, you called Psyche to search his soul, but you couldn't find him, and you saw the 'record' of yourself in his channel.
Is that the reason you didn't answer our calls?
You were scared that he might record your conversation?
But why didn't you contact us through our secret message?
A lawless newborn surely couldn't record, or even 'hear' that, right?"
God of Prophecy nodded,
"It's partly as you guessed, Senior Sanguinia.
But something else happened simultaneously.
The guardian token actually resonated with the guardian puppet.
Senior 'Viros' felt a change in the guardian puppet in his castle, and asked for the reason, but the Guardian Token was in my castle, and he was stuck in the arena at that time and couldn't come out to check it personally.
When I told him that I found the guardian token,
He immediately released the guardian puppet and sent it to me.
In just a short time, we figured out how the guardian token works and how we can use it to achieve our goal."
Blood Lord asked with an impatient tone,
"And how does it work?
Just tell us about the part that affects the universes."
God of Prophecy nodded,
"We found out that after becoming guardian of the universe, you can actually 'challenge' higher beings of the other universes.
If you lose the challenge, you lose your universe, and you become part of the universe you lost to.
If you win, you win the universe of the higher being you challenged, and the loser will be part of your guardian territory. All of this is under the surveillance of world law.
We even found out if the guardian challenges a dead entity that is in the middle of resurrection,
World law will hasten the process of resurrection!
So, with the new information in hand, we came up with a plan to not only take care of the mess but also benefit from it.
I'm sure you can guess the rest."
Sanguinia, the Wraith of Despair, chuckled again,
"So you contacted Thanathel's clone to use him and the newborns as a distraction,
Then, while you baited everyone to the Lava Sea, you killed everyone in the arena, while Viros killed himself, so no one suspects him.
This way, you could challenge the higher beings here and revive them while taking over their universes.
But here is the question,
Who was the first guardian of the universe?
Don't tell me the Guardian God's universe being destroyed was fake too, like his death?"
God of Prophecy looked 'amazed',
"Senior Sanguinia, your wisdom knows no bounds.
And to answer your question, after the token was retrieved, with our access to the Guardian token database, we found out who helped the Guardian God to fake his death, and even fake the destruction of his universe!
And that was exactly the reason I didn't dare to answer your secret message, and only tried to contact the ones close by."
The outsiders became interested,
"Who was it?"
"Don't tell me a level 7 creature?"
"If there is a level 7, long distance communication can indeed be tracked or even be 'heard' by the other party."
Soul God answered this time,
"There was only a name.
But that was enough to make us vigilant.
And the name was,"
He paused for a moment to gather everyone's attention and continued,
"Mainland Manager."
Hearing the name, the place turned silent...
The members of God's council watching were stunned!
The white canary was so shocked that it forgot where it was and shouted,
"Impossible!
Is my own 'will' selling me out?"
The crowd of God's Council almost had a heart attack!
Who is this shouting 'canary' appearing out of nowhere!?
But hearing it say 'my own will', they recognized it to be the 'Mainland Manager'.
But they looked at it with a strange expression, thinking it was probably a clone.
The 'exposed' manager saw the way they were looking at it and snorted.
The aura of the level 7 manager surged, and everyone's head dropped in respect while sweating profusely!
They all understood that this one was the real deal, not a clone or puppet!
On the live stream,
Blood Lord snorted,
"So, Lord's guess was right?
This mainland has a manager who never revealed itself?"
The Wraith of Despair nodded,
"Was 'Lord' ever wrong about anything?"
Then she turned to God of Prophecy,
"So, after Viros killed himself in the arena, he was challenged by the guardian puppet, resurrected immediately, the guardian puppet lost to him, and he is the new guardian now?"
God of Prophecy nodded,
"Indeed, we wanted to be sure that the one with the guardian authority is one of us, so even if that manager made a move, we at least have the upper hand.
After that, Senior Viros gave a guardian token to the rest of us, which works the same as the main one.
So we can test it.
The only difference is that others can't challenge the owner of the main token with this kind of token, and we can't challenge others, until we are universe guardians ourselves."
The Wraith of Despair looked at the group behind them,
"These pieces of trash behind you already became part of Viros's universe?
Now that I think about it, you killed many of them in the lava sea explosion.
It will take a month for them to resurrect.
So you even planned for 'our future food'?"
God of Prophecy smiled bitterly,
"We indeed considered our future food in our plan, but later on, we found out that we can't just randomly challenge others even if we have the guardian title.
Only universes with a 'child guardian token' inside them can be challenged.
But we already thought about this problem,
And this newborn comes in handy for this part.
The only thing we need to do now is to produce some 'child tokens', and then let him 'secretly' steal them while we 'bait' others to buy them back somehow.
I'm sure you seniors can come up with a plan to deceive everyone here to accept these child tokens without us being involved in the process.
After that, we only need the list of names that 'secretly' received the tokens, challenge them, and take over their universe in secret, one by one.
We just need to become a guardian in your own universe with these tokens first."
The five outsiders were impressed,
"And with enough universes on our side, we can slow down the mainland."
"Interesting, with what you did, our plan actually hastened by a lot."
"I must admit, this time you did a good job."
After saying all of this, God of Prophecy, and the other outsiders in his 'team', who 'planned' all of this, started laughing like a bunch of villains with creepy faces.
And then the rest of them started laughing when they imagined the future that awaits them.
The place was filled with the sound of creepy laughter from these hideous creatures.
The audience who were watching this 'event' live were amazed by their Mainland Manager, who had fooled this group of scary people to this extent with only part of its 'will'.
It even made them guess most of the story by themselves, and led them to its one-man show!
The Mainland Manager just gave them some hints, and their imagination did the rest, helping the Manager's 'will' to continue with the story...
But from the conversation, they suspected a terrifying fact.
These creatures are probably level 7! All of them!'
Even the manager itself was astonished by its own wisdom.
It thought the plan it made was indeed perfect.
There was no wonder it erased its memory about everything without worry.
God of Prophecy bowed to the group at the end and said,
"I hope my explanation was satisfactory,
Seniors."
Blood Lord was going to speak, but the lady, Wraith of Despair, interrupted him,
"You did a good job, but be careful and don't lose the invisible newborn again.
Even though I know he is in your hand, I can't feel his presence.
He has many uses for us."
The invisible newborn who wasn't there, and now he was standing beside the 'invisible' guy with a mask again,
"-_-"
He was there because the smell wasn't as bad as in other places.
"Anyway, give us a token now, and wait for a week before letting the newborn 'secretly' steal the child tokens.
You said we need to become the guardians of our own universe first.
That takes time, and now that we know there is a manager on this mainland, we'd better be more careful.
It becomes suspicious if some of the universes start merging.
So remember to let the universe you 'win' stay separated, like what Viros is doing now.
Later, when we slowed down the mainland, and 'Lord' arrives, Viros must challenge him and lose the main seat of guardian to Lord."
The Puppet Master, Viros, nodded solemnly.
After discussing some other matters and receiving 'child tokens', they all left.
The only one who stayed behind was the God of Prophecy, with the guardian token on his waist, who watched the rest of the puppets leave.
The outsiders left the guardian token with him for now, so he can use it with the guardian puppet and deceive the higher beings to 'sell' some child tokens using Mortal.
However, the reason he stayed here and didn't leave like the rest was that he couldn't leave.
An invisible hand was placed on his shoulder, which kept him firmly in place.
The other outsiders who could guess who was keeping him here left without saying anything.
When no one was in sight anymore, a voice sounded,
"Little Apollo, how have you been?"
The voice was more like a whisper, which was communicating directly to one's soul.
God of Prophecy gulped down nervously,
"Senior, I-it's good to see you again."
And a man with his hand on God of Prophecy's shoulder appeared out of thin air.
His face was completely different from before when little Mortal saw him, and the mask wasn't on his waist anymore.
The man smiled and said,
"I ask, you answer.
Am I clear?"
God of Prophecy nodded while his forehead was already covered in sweat.
Even the real Apollo inside was now covered in cold sweat.
'What is this thousand-face guy doing here?'
His eyes were out of focus now.
His right hand was slightly trembling.
At his feet, a little boy was standing between him and the man, looking at them with a serious face.
He seems to be ready to make a move on this unknown guy at any moment.
The man asked,
"Where did you find the main token?"
God of Prophecy answered in his mind without his own will, 'I never did!'
While 'outside', he said,
"It was with the newborn called Mortal."
The man nodded,
"Did you have any direct contact with the Mainland Manager?"
God of Prophecy answered in his mind without his own will, 'It was on my shoulder not long ago!'
While again, he answered differently outside,
"I never did."
The man then asked,
"Is the newborn still with you?"
God of Prophecy answered in his mind without his own will again, 'No!'
And answered 'outside',
"Yes."
The man nodded while smiling,
"Good, give him and the guardian token to me.
I need to take a look at them."
God of Prophecy did as he was told.
The man received something invisible alongside the token and left while saying,
"Wait here for my order."
And so, God of Prophecy, who received two orders at the same time, one from the man and one from the puppet and cube, stood there, motionless.
With little Mortal gone, the cube and puppet were the ones controlling him.
So they used the support of every universe they could to keep the act as real as possible.
The man's figure disappeared, and at the same time, the live stream ended too.
The members of God's Council looked at each other,
And saw the worry that was evident in everyone's face.
"Who was he?"
"From the conversation, including Apollo, which the Mainland Manager was controlling, there were four other outsiders on our side."
"And there were five who questioned Apollo."
"The Mainland Manager said after Apollo, 10 more joined our Mainland.
It means one of them wasn't in this group all this time!"
"Something outside of the manager's consideration happened..."
Reaching this conclusion, all of them turned to the white canary.
The white canary's eyes widened in disbelief.
It flapped its wings and went towards the last place its 'will' was, while shouting,
"Impossible!
My perfect plan can't be wrong!
There shouldn't be any flaws!"
Without its notice, the white canary was already deep inside the nonexistent illusion of being the mastermind behind everything with a perfect plan.
Seeing the small bird's speed, the members of God's Council were now certain that it was the real manager...
...
The man, with an invisible Little Mortal in hand, was now moving fast towards a certain direction.
Little Mortal, with one eye open, was watching him secretly.
His eyes were now filled with shock.
On the way, the man's appearance changed repeatedly.
When other higher beings saw him, or even 'her' sometimes, they greeted him/her with different names.
It was obvious that even his aura was changing completely with his face.
And now, he was exactly like the Entertainment Goddess.
That's why Little Mortal was so shocked.
But soon, he furrowed his brow, and the corner of his mouth started twitching, as if he was getting angry.
Then he stroked his chin and started sending a secret message to the guardian token,
< Alright, everyone, listen carefully and don't reply.
As you can see, by pretending to be my big sister, this dude is clearly asking for a beating.
Believe it or not, soon he might even try to act like my big sister and pretend that I was saved or something.
So if he is looking for a beating for his capital crime, then that's what he gets. >
The birth treasures nodded.
This little demon, while acting like he doesn't care about anything, was indeed sensitive about certain matters or people.
And now someone was imitating his 'big sister'?
He was indeed asking for a beating.
Little Mortal continued,
< But the thing is, his law seems a little problematic for me to deal with, and I don't know how exactly it works.
My divine technique might not work properly on him, and we might fail to take him down as fast as we always do.
If we alert that white canary from before, or the other outsiders, everything will be a mess.
The most important thing now is to stay in the Script! >
The birth treasures knew that he just wanted to give him a good beating with peace of mind, because he changed his appearance to someone he shouldn't have been.
What stays in the script? They were already far outside of it!
< So, this is what we should do.
Our final goal is to challenge him on the battlefield where the guardian challenges are being held, not here in the Mainland.
To bring him there, he can't be close to me, or it will be the same as when I challenged that fortune teller and soulless guy.
And there is another problem too.
I don't know his name to challenge him,
And with him keep changing like this,
I doubt any of you know his real name either. >
The birth treasure of outsiders 'nodded' to themselves.
The only one who knew was probably the 'mask', which could no longer be used with its former master here.
He even tracked down one single word that the Book of Names sent to Little Mortal not long ago, and only asked, 'Who!?'.
So, naturally, if his 'former' birth treasure, which was acting now, sent a message to its new owner, it would be caught easily.
< And that's why, you, little book, need to find his name.
Now he is in front of you, and you can use 12 universes as support to do that.
If you can't even find his name with all of these advantages, I'll tear you apart and burn your pages to warm my cold and disappointed heart later. >
A certain Book of Names on Planet Lubo shivered.
< So, you'd better find this guy's name when I say the secret code to start the 'operation'.
And you, little mirror, the universe of that puppet guy should be empty of any living creatures.
There are only some soulless puppets there; when I say the operation's secret code, open a passage leading to an empty place there behind this guy.
And little crystal, go cover yourself with my black liquid, and be ready to join me at the same time.
I only take you with me; the rest can stay.
This guy is kind of weird, so it's better to go 'alone'.>
Hearing him planning so cautiously, the birth treasures became serious too.
< And for the operation name and the 'secret code' to start it,
The name of the operation is,
'Beat Up the Hateful Imposter. '
And the secret code is,
'Big sister, you saved me!' >
The birth treasures,
<...>
It seems someone is going to learn a lesson... Maybe the last lesson of his life.
...
Not long after, the fake 'big sister' reached his destination.
The place he came to was actually the castle of the Entertainment Goddess, which was empty at the moment because she had gone to Planet Lubo.
The man came to the front gate, and the gate opened as if Entertainment Goddess herself was here!
Little Mortal was now so angry that he wanted to forget about the operation and just beat him up right there and then!
This dude didn't show any respect for people's privacy!
After entering, the imposter looked around and then went to a random place, waved his hand, and sealed the area.
He seemed to care little about the real owner.
Then, he knocked on the head of the invisible newborn in his hand, and said,
"Little Mortal, wake up, it's me!"
Even her voice was remarkably similar to the Entertainment Goddess's voice.
The birth treasures were speechless.
Little Mortal's guess was right.
This guy was trying to act as if he was Entertainment Goddess, and saved him.
The little boy, as if hearing a familiar voice, came out of his 'invisible' state, opened his eyes, and looked around in confusion.
The fake 'big sister' put him down while smiling kindly at him, and said,
"You are finally awake."
Little Mortal, when he saw the familiar castle and
The familiar big sister shouted happily!
"Big sister, you saved me!"
And jumped towards the fake big sister as if he was going to hug her.
Simultaneously, the operation 'Beat Up the Hateful Imposter'with him saying the secret code began too.
The fake big sister smiled and opened her arms in a welcoming manner.
But suddenly, he froze for a moment and looked down at the token on his waist.
He felt that something connected to this token had actually revealed his real name!
At the same time, a passage opened behind him, and when he looked back at the little boy again,
He wasn't coming to hug him anymore!
Now, he was in the middle of spinning around to deliver a flying back kick to his chest.
BAM
The small leg landed on his palm that was now in front of his chest to block the kick.
But the strike was so strong and heavy that it sent his body flying to the passage behind him.
At the same time, he was back to the same appearance from when Little Mortal saw him the first time.
His face was now confused, shocked, and filled with questions.
The passage closed, and only two floating objects were left.
One was a mask that Little Mortal ordered to 'stay',
And the other one was the guardian token,
Which sent a secret message to Little Mortal just a moment ago and distracted the 'imposter' by giving his name to Little Mortal.
All of this happened in the blink of an eye.
Little Mortal landed on the ground and said without hesitation,
"I, Mortal, guardian of the universe, am challenging,
Erebos, the Abyssal Manipulator."
And another small passage opened; a small crystal covered in black liquid came to Little Mortal, and then they both disappeared together!
....
Back at the dark side of the mainland,
Where God of Prophecy was standing,
The Mainland Manager arrived within a second.
It went straight to God of Prophecy and sat on his shoulder.
But when it was going to say something, it suddenly stopped and looked around.
It was impossible for God of Prophecy to sense it,
But for the Manager, it wasn't that hard.
All of the outsiders were locked in his location now from places far away.
It seems they hadn't left, and now they were waiting for something.
The Mainland Manager thought to itself,
'They never trusted him or what he said!
The last member of the outsiders came to clarify his claims!'
Then it tilted its small head and looked into the eyes of its 'will'.
Now, it could only see two words in those eyes,
[ Fear and helplessness! ]
When it saw him like this, the white canary became excited,
'My 'will' isn't here anymore, it's Apollo himself!
He left with that newborn.
The secret plan is still in full swing!
I knew my perfect plan couldn't be intercepted that easily!'
After finding out the secret,
The white Canary sat there, waiting.
It believed in its 'separated will', or to be exact,
Itself, and its perfect plan!
...
Planet Lubo, the sky turned dark.
The World Law announced the challenge,
But no one except the birth treasures and Lubo at the center of the planet heard it.
Today was a special time for the planet and its living creatures.
So everyone was busy and didn't have time to watch the show.
...
On the deserted battlefield,
Erebos, the Abyssal Whisperer, appeared.
Little Mortal appeared at the same time, too.
Erebos's appearance changed immediately to God of Thievery, and he raised his hand towards Little Mortal.
"How about you give back what you took from me?"
He was already shocked enough to lose his birth treasure, get kicked to someone else's universe, and be challenged the next moment.
But now, after trying to take back his birth treasure and failing,
He became even more shocked.
The scary law of the old Thief, the Law of Thievery, would take anything valuable from your opponent, depending on your power and the value of the treasure.
The stronger your opponent, the less valuable the treasure you get, and vice versa, the weaker your opponent compared to you, the more valuable the treasure you get.
Like the newborns who would lose their birth treasure after their first meeting with God of Thievery.
But now, the Law of Thievery that he imitated from God of Thievery didn't trigger at all, as if there was nothing valuable on this little newborn in front of him!
Golden aura started dancing around Little Mortal,
And with eyebrows knitted together, while rolling his sleeves up, he said,
"Well, well, well...
If it isn't Mister 'imposter', the man who had the audacity to impersonate my big sister."
Seeing him act cocky like this, the man raised an eyebrow, then smirked at him,
"You little ant!
Do you really think you can deceive my eyes with your fake aura?"
Little Mortal chuckled,
"Fake aura?"
Then he raised his small fist and said,
"So you think this 'Fire Fist' is fake too?"
Erebos looked at his normal fist while puzzled.
Little Mortal looked at his own normal fist too, and coughed while repeating the same sentence,
"So you think this 'Fire Fist' is fake too?"
A certain 'child crystal' understood the meaning and added the fire effect to his fist immediately.
Erebos was speechless,
"Kid, I am the living embodiment of all imitations and manipulations.
You think I can be fooled by-"
BAM
Before he can finish his sentence,
The small fist with a fake fire aura landed on his face.
Erebos only saw Little Mortal slap the empty air behind him with his other hand,
And then he was already in front of his face while punching him.
And if it was only that, that was fine.
'What's with the power behind his punch?'
He felt as though his soul had left his body for a moment.
His imitation of God of Thievery was canceled even before the punch landed!
Erebos steadied his flying body in the air, and his figure changed.
He turned into the big, disgusting cockroach-like creature from before.
Zaldrath, the Plague Bringer.
Seeing the disgusting creature in the sky,
Little Mortal started doing some random hand seals and said,
"Divine technique, Judgment by Movement Ability."
And the big cockroach fell from the sky!
Erebos could sense that the World Law had just balanced a condition.
It was between either both of them 'can fly' or both of them 'can't fly'.
But because one side didn't have the ability to fly,
It was fixed on both sides, losing the ability to fly!
The big cockroach laughed in a mocking and creepy sound.
"You can't even fly?"
When its body hits the ground, greenish liquid spreads everywhere, and at the same time,
All kinds of microscopic creatures emerged from its skin and filled the air.
In just a moment, the ground and air were affected by all kinds of plagues and diseases that any level 6 creature would die in a moment of contact with them.
But as fast as the cockroach was, someone else was even faster.
The body of the giant cockroach suddenly lifted, and then slammed to the ground on its back!
Simultaneously, a small boy shouted,
"Secret technique, Insect Suplex!"
Erebos looked at the leg, which was being held by this little boy who appeared beside it, and was stunned!
There were many things that didn't make sense at all.
First was the air and the liquid on the ground.
Both were 'lifeless' at a distance of 1.3 meters from their opponents.
Second was the boy himself, who actually picked up the body without using any law.
That meant only one thing: he was using his physical power alone.
However, his weight and size didn't align with what he was doing.
Third was Mortal picking up a creature with millions of legs, holding onto only one leg.
The small hand, now deep inside the leg, was like a link to the entire body.
When Little Mortal picked up the cockroach, he arched back and slammed it to the ground!
The process was as if he had only picked up a bag the same size as himself.
And the last thing that made Erebos dumbfounded was how hard his body was!
The leg that Mortal touched had a self-defense mechanism.
Many sharp and small legs were now emerging from it and attacking him continuously.
But they all just shattered like glass hitting an iron wall!
While Erebos was shocked, Little Mortal had already jumped above him and was coming down shouting,
"Secret technique, Falling Asteroid!"
Now, his whole body was on fire!
Or to be exact, on fire 'special effect'.
*Tremble*
The whole battlefield shook under the impact.
Black-greenish liquid spat out of the insect's mouth.
Erebos felt that if the impact was only affecting where it landed, it would make a hole, and he could heal it.
But the little boy's two small feet actually landed on the body as if it were a big plate that covers the whole thing.
He couldn't understand at all how his power works.
Either way, this impact canceled the cockroach transformation.
The next moment,
He transformed again.
Sanguinia, the Wraith of Despair, appeared.
The lady with hollow eyes stared at the little opponent who wasn't as harmless as he seemed to be anymore.
At this moment, the 'invisible' child, Crystal, vibrated.
It sent a message to Little Mortal,
< To use his transformation, he needs to ask for permission when it comes to other level 7 creatures.
The puppet and cube already confirmed it with Aladdin. >
Little Mortal, while slightly surprised, nodded,
< Alright, then the cockroach and depressed lady already know he is in a fight.
We need to do a cover-up mission later.
Tell the puppet and cube to give him access if he asks for permission from any of our puppets. >
The Crystal vibrated and sent the order back to its main crystal to notify the rest.
Erebos wasn't only fighting here.
He was actually trying to figure out what was going on.
He first tried to use the God of Thievery's power to test and see if he was on their side or had betrayed them.
If he refuses to let him use his law, then it means God of Thievery is a traitor.
However, he allowed him to use it, and he confirmed that he wasn't a traitor.
After that, he started asking for permission from those on his side.
By doing so, he tried to indirectly let them know he was in a fight.
On the battlefield,
When Little Mortal's gaze met the eyes of Sanguinia, the Wraith of Despair, he suddenly remembered a memory from the past.
But the memory was too blurry, and he just shook his head in confusion and went back to the fight.
Erebos was dumbfounded.
He just used Sanguinia's Law of Despair.
The little boy should be in a loop of illusion made of the most depressing moments of his life.
Even if he were reborn, his soul would carry the memories of his previous life.
This law was actually the scariest and most effective law for newborns, with many bad memories.
But he just shook his head, and the next moment, he was holding the index finger of the 'lady' while saying in a specific tone,
"Empty your mind! Be formless, shapeless, like water!"
It was as if he were imitating someone else's quote.
And then, with a blue aura around him, he waved his index finger, like when you were holding the handle of a whip.
Then a wave went through the arm, and every bone inside it broke!
But it wasn't only that; the wave continued and spread throughout the whole body.
In a moment, the hollow-eyed lady turned into a body that seemed to be stuffed with water!
Boneless!
Little Mortal rubbed his chin with his other hand and muttered,
"Is this the perfect body for martial arts?"
The transformation canceled.
The 'water body' revived back to normal,
But Erebos was clearly affected.
He gritted his teeth, and his body was going to change again.
His muscles bulged, his veins popped up,
His hair changed color to red, and his height started rising,
A figure similar to Blood Lord was also going to appear.
But he suddenly laughed like a maniac and shouted,
"What was I thinking!?
With you here, why would I imitate anyone else?"
Little Mortal didn't move, and didn't do anything either.
He just watched him do his thing with one hand behind his back, and one hand stroking his chin.
Like a senior who was waiting for his junior to show everything he got.
But in reality, he had a secret conversation at the moment.
< The mask said he can only imitate up to 4 people,
And all of them should be on the mainland.
He has already used three and is going to use the fourth one, but it seems he has changed his mind and doesn't want to use that bloodsucker anymore.
Who is he trying to impersonate this time?>
The Crystal sent a message back and received the answer,
< He has a technique that can copy the opponent's power with a 10% extra buff in return for losing 10% of his law. >
Little Mortal's hand froze on his chin, and he looked at the man in the sky while speechless.
The man shouted,
"Let me show you how powerful you are with 10% more power!"
And then while laughing like a maniac,
and Little Mortal, who was shouting in panic, "NOOOO",
Erebos, the Abyssal Whisperer, exploded!
World Law,
[ Erebos died by his own hand.
Mortal wins. ]
The birth treasures who saw the event live,
< -_- >
Little Mortal, who tried his best to stop him,
" ︶︹︶ "
The white canary that saw a name on top of God's ranking list turned gray and hastily turned its light 'on' again,
"O_O"