"And why are you here exactly?"
Little mortal looked at her and asked in confusion,
"Are you talking to me?"
Selene nodded,
"Yes!"
And thought,
'I'm looking at you, who else do you think I'm talking to?'
Little Mortal frowned,
"Why didn't you say my name then?"
Selene gritted her teeth and, while trying to act calm, said,
"Why are you here, Mr. Motimus Mecimus Mot-"
But she forgot the last part again.
She turned to the man in the blue mage robe, Vaelgrim, and whispered,
"What was the last part?"
And he whispered back,
"Motidius."
Selene, receiving the answer, asked again,
"Why are you here, Mr. Motimus Mecimus Motidius?!"
And Mr. Motimus Mecimus Motidius answered as a matter of fact,
"Naturally, to take revenge."
Selene nodded,
"You didn't really do anything bad here, and with your help, those newborns are advancing and even helping us.
So, how about you just tell us who killed your wife and son?
We can think of a way to punish the murderer."
But Little Mortal shook his head,
"Doesn't matter who.
Everyone’s destiny is set in stone from birth; we don't have any free will, nor did the one who murdered my loved ones.
The one I'm going to take revenge on is the one who created the murderer.
That's the one who should be punished and pay the price."
Selene frowned.
She didn't understand what he was saying.
But Seraphion understood the deeper meaning and said,
"By your definition, wouldn't the responsible be the 'World' itself?"
Little Mortal smiled and nodded,
"Exactly!
That's why I'm going to end it.
And I'll start with the underworld.
You guys can wait here for your turn, or join my newborn army.
We can do it together.
This way you can live a little longer."
Seraphion looked him in the eyes and said,
"I see, you don't want to leave any room for negotiations..."
Little Mortal shrugged,
"Am I wrong, though?
These infants might not understand it, but you three brats should understand, right?"
He pointed at the newborns below,
"How many of them did you kill?
How many universes perished with them because of this useless, incompetent world?
Such a weak and pathetic world, better to not exist in the first place."
The three ancient ones frowned.
The person in front of them seems to know a lot about the past.
Lilith sighed to herself as she remembered the past.
The days that they were forced to kill the newborns devoured by the evil birth treasures.
Killing them was indeed equal to the destruction of their universe,
because incomplete higher beings couldn't resurrect after being devoured by evil birth treasures.
While most of them and even the newborns didn't understand the meaning of his words,
The three ancient ones knew that there was no place for peace-talk with him.
Seraphion nodded, a silver light started dancing around him, and a great sword formed in his hand as he said,
"Because of Lilith, I give you a final chance to salvage this situation peacefully.
This is the world above; you will run out of underworld law soon if you fight here.
How about you reconsider?"
The newborns wanted to slap their foreheads.
While nobody outside of the ninth planet knew, they heard him say he wasn't a minion from the underworld, so his law had nothing to do with the underworld law...
Little Mortal chuckled mockingly,
"I can beat you all up with 0.001% of my stored underworld law.
What 'run out of law' are you talking about?"
Everyone felt frustrated.
This underworld minion was so arrogant and cocky!
His power was 1000 times more than everybody together?
He can beat everyone using 0.001% of his stored law?
He was everyone's ancestor, and called the ancient ones little?
How dare he act so arrogantly in their neighborhood?
You could see the anger on everyone's face, and nervousness on the newborns' faces!
Seraphion looked at the other two ancient ones, and they nodded at him.
The message was clear.
"Peace through strength, "
Said Seraphion.
"Peace through strength,"
The other two ancient ones repeated after him in agreement.
The managers from evil mainlands, who each and every one of them received a beating from these three seniors when they joined the exiled zone in the past,
and knew how this 'peace through strength' works, shouted together,
"Peace through strength!"
And their aura mixed with their anger exploded at the same time!
The newborns still advancing turned pale when they saw another 'storm' coming towards them, this time mixed with the manifestation of the level 10 creature's 'anger'!
How could their little boss even face this aura storm?
But a *snort* sounded, and the aura calmed down before disappearing the next moment as if it were only a breeze.
A mocking sound echoed through the space,
"What nonsense!
'Peace through strength?'
What is next?
Health through poison? Happiness through misery?
You little brats are too young and don't understand the weight of your words!
But let me tell you!
Whoever said that stupid phrase ended up with a lot of wars and only a little peace!
And you guys better watch your actions!
This was your second time!"
The crowd felt awkward.
Their momentum was ruined by him again...
And what did he mean by 'second time'?
Second time of what?
Why is it so hard to communicate with this guy?
But either way, Seraphion attacked.
With his great sword in hand, he appeared above Little Mortal's head, slashing down.
Little Mortal's hand was already raised, with two fingers stretched out, as if showing a peace sign to someone.
When the great sword slashed down, it landed exactly between his two fingers, and he caught it while smiling.
Then he pulled the sword down and forced Seraphion to lean forward, and then,
*BAM*
Everyone saw the old ancient one, with a fist mark on his armor's chest plate, fly away to the 'horizon'.
The crowd who tried to follow Seraphion and attack, too, stopped in their tracks with dropped jaws!
Not only because he sent the old man flying, but because between the two fingers that he caught the great sword with, a small piece of it was left!
Little Mortal nodded in approval,
"Good job, little Se.
You didn't forget my lessons!
I told you a real 'knight' never lets go of his sword, and you didn't!"
The crowd, without knowing why, imagined a scene with this old man as a 'kid', being taught by this minion in the far past!
At this moment, Little Mortal frowned and suddenly moved from one edge of the hole in the barrier he was standing, to the other edge, while saying,
"This was the third time."
The crowd couldn't even follow his movement with their eyes.
They just saw him standing on the other side of the hole on the ninth planet's barrier, but not alone anymore.
Two managers who seemed to be good at stealth were caught by him when he moved from one side of the barrier's hole to the other.
Looking at them now, their bodies seem to be filled with water, as if all of their bones were broken somehow when they were caught by him!
Only the two remaining ancient ones in the scene saw what happened.
These two sneaky managers, for whatever reason, tried to sneak inside the ninth planet,
But the underworld minion saw them, caught them, and only waved his hands once, like when you want to shake off dirt from your clothes.
Then, as if the force of the wave entered their bodies, it shattered everything inside and turned everything into liquid!
The two were actually already dead!
The two ancient ones immediately asked Seraphion through a 'spiritual message',
< Seraphion, how strong is he? >
And Seraphion, while still flying away, responded,
< Very strong! Don't get close to him; leave the close combat to me.
Selene, prepare your 'love illusion';
We might need it! >
The rest of the managers looked at each other awkwardly.
Nobody wanted to attack first now.
Especially now that the strongest one here was sent flying while even losing a piece of his great sword.
Everybody feared Seraphion's attacks because of his unique law,
The law of 'Right and Wrong'.
When he fought, if he was fighting for a 'Right cause' in the world law's opinion, then his attack would be strengthened.
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And he was always on the 'Right' path anyway because of his title as one of the ancient ones.
And if his opponent was on the 'Wrong' path, it would even multiply the strength of his attacks.
Therefore, his opponent, who had the goal of 'destroying the world', was naturally in the 'Wrong'.
So he was receiving a double buff!
But even so, the other party stopped the attack and punched him so fast that they didn't even see the punch.
Only from the first mark could they tell what was used for the strike!
Even if he wasn't 1000 times stronger than all of them together, as he claimed, he was indeed really strong!
They thought he only has two weaknesses.
First, his law was underworld law and couldn't be replenished.
And second, he couldn't resurrect immediately after death like them.
If he died here, he was done for, or at best, he could resurrect in the underworld.
But if they died, they could just resurrect on their mainlands and come back to continue fighting.
At least this was their thought, which would soon be proven wrong.
Little Mortal threw the two 'liquid body' aside, looked at the crowd coldly, and said,
"Not once, not twice, but three times in a row you tried to mess with my adorable newborn's collection instead of attacking me!"
The crowd's eyebrows raised.
So that's what he meant by two times and three times?
Seeing the change in atmosphere, the managers felt something was wrong.
The other party seems to be angry now.
And sure enough, they saw him rolling his sleeves up, while saying,
"Alright...
If you like to play dirty, I play dirty with you!
Let this old man show you some dirty tricks from the past era."
And stepped forward with a cold smile that made everyone step back by instinct!
After two steps, Little Mortal's figure disappeared, and only the oversized crown was left hovering where he had been before.
Zyren, who saw the managers taken aback and oblivious to what happened, said,
"Be careful, everyone; he can move through dimensions!"
The managers start scanning their vicinity vigilantly.
But the next moment,
The panicked shout of Seraphion came from the 'horizon'!
"Vaelgrim, seal the space! Seal the space!"
Vaelgrim didn't know what his old comrade saw that made him panic, but he immediately tried to seal everything in this area!
The crowd's heart skipped a beat!
What made this old man panic?
Whatever it was, it couldn't be a good thing!
A silver light passed by everyone in a moment and appeared behind them.
It was Seraphion who rushed back, and his great sword was already raised up, ready to slash down.
The crowd gasped in shock at this old man's speed and wondered what he was going to attack in that empty space.
But the next moment, a small figure appeared there!
It was Seraphion's 'old teacher', who was in the middle of throwing a punch with his right hand,
And his left hand's palm, while open, was already beside his right ear, as if trying to tell someone behind him to STOP!
*BAM*
*SHATTER*
Seraphion, this time, before he could even slash down with his great sword, was sent flying back to the 'horizon'.
The crowd, who saw him coming fast, saw him go back even faster, with now another dent, in the form of a small palm, on his armor's chest plate.
The *Bam* sound came from this impact.
And the shattering sound came from the seal that Vaelgrim, the ancient mage, tried to form,
But before he can complete the whole seal, something passes through it.
Looking at the small hole in the glass-like seal, it was like a fist imprint.
Only now did the crowd find out what the small figure did.
With sheer power, he hit Seraphion with a palm strike and the seal with a punch simultaneously.
But they all wondered to themselves,
'What was 'playing dirty' about any of these?
Where is the trick from the past era?'
And they received the answer to their question just a moment later.
They saw far away one of the 100 level 2 civilizations' mainlands, reacting to something.
The pillars on the mainland's surface start lighting up, as if ready to attack something, and at the same time, a huge brain flew out of the mainland.
Behind the brain, a defense barrier covered the entire mainland.
Seeing the drastic changes in the level 2 civilization's mainland to defend itself, everyone became shocked!
What was happening that triggered it like this?
The pillars on the mainland all shoot their lasers at the same time and at the same location, and while passing by the huge brain, which was rushing out, they hit something invisible in outer space!
*BOOM*
A huge shock wave spread everywhere, and the invisible target actually faced all of the laser beams and moved forward without stopping!
The huge brain rushing out of the mainland was the second line of defense to face the invisible force!
But again, *BOOM*
The crowd just saw the invisible force smash through the huge brain, which was supposed to be indestructible to most managers, and make a hole in it!
Seeing the hole in the brain, which was like a huge fist mark, the crowd all shivered!
'This was the punch that Seraphion's teacher just threw?'
By now, without their notice, everyone thought that Little Mortal was Seraphion's teacher.
Before they could feel relaxed, they saw another impact!
It wasn't over yet!?
Next, the invisible force hit the defense barrier around the level 2 civilization mainland and broke it like glass.
It then hit the mainland itself, which tried its best to move away from the path of the unstoppable force, and tore off a chunk of it!
The crowd took a cold breath of air, even if there was no air in the space.
What kind of punch was that?
But even when they thought it was finally over, it wasn't!
Further into the space, where the second ring around the level 3 civilization mainland was formed by the 500 evil mainlands,
The crowd saw one of the mainlands get hit by something, and a huge fist mark appeared on its surface!
Looking carefully, it was the mainland that one of the two 'sneaky liquid managers' who just died was responsible for.
Cold sweat covered everyone's forehead!
'That's what he meant by 'playing dirty'!?'
He was going to destroy their mainlands directly and kill them completely!
Little Mortal turned towards the crowd and said with a cold smile,
"And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I play dirty."
And continued while throwing another punch,
"Unfortunately,
The force behind the first punch was offset by that chunk of iron, so the targeted mainland could resist it.
Let me try again!"
But even while stressed and nervous, nobody moved.
Even Seraphion, who came back from the 'horizon' again and joined the rest, only looked at him solemnly.
Lilith, on Little Mortal's shoulder, said,
"Be ready.
Vaelgrim's seal is already completed.
Any attack on it will be reflected back to the attacker."
*DANG*
The invisible punch and the seal collided again.
But this time the seal didn't shatter.
Instead,
A wave starts spreading on its surface.
By observing the path the wave was moving, everyone could discern the shape of the barrier.
It was like a glass ball that they were inside, and now it was trying to absorb the force that just hit it.
As the wave covered more and more of the barrier's surface, the crowd became more nervous.
The way Vaelgrim's seal worked was to first absorb the attack and then reflect it.
But what if the attack was strong enough to cover the whole barrier?
They didn't know what would happen, but the other ancient ones knew.
In that case, it was going to break.
But fortunately, after covering 90% of the barrier's interior, the wave stopped spreading and moved backward to where it started.
The crowd looked back at the teacher of the ancient ones to see how he was going to deal with his own attack!
Nobody ever saw an attack hit this barrier and spread this much.
Little Mortal nodded in approval once again,
"Good job, little Va.
The barrier I taught you has been strengthened to this extent."
Vaelgrim, already dragged into the nonexistent illusion of 'teacher and student', smiled, seeming to be proud of himself.
Lilith bit her lips and felt embarrassed in her old comrade's place.
She knew the other party was under the effect of the nonexistent illusion...
Little Mortal, after complimenting his student, waved his left hand, like when someone waves a mosquito away.
*BAM*
And the 'counterattack' of the seal hit his small hand, creating a shock wave that pushed everyone except the three ancient ones away.
The crowd who saw him just slapped his own attack as if it was nothing,
"O_O"
So he didn't use his full power?
Little Mortal chuckled,
"Alright, that was the dirty trick number 1.
Now let me show you the dirty trick number 2.
Watch carefully, everyone, especially you, little Se.
Your speed is decent, so you might be able to learn it."
The crowd of managers and ancient ones nodded solemnly, watching the little teacher closely.
Lilith shook her head and looked away when she saw that even Seraphion was fooled by the nonexistent illusion alongside everybody else.
Little Mortal explained the trick,
"This is the name of the trick number 2,
'Catch me if you can. '
It is a combination of two moves.
One verbal, one physical.
First, you need to say this—"
And after a deep breath, he shouted,
"World law, you useless, pathetic, incompetent law, if I see you, I spank you in public!"
Then he continued with his explanation,
"And after saying that, you need to be ready for the 'physical' part."
The crowd nodded and tried to memorize —wait, what?
When the sentence registered in their mind, they first turned pale, then shivered, and then turned even paler!
Was the verbal part meant to insult world law?
This world law?
The complete version of world law in this zone from before the separation?
Just the thought of it made their hair stand on end!
The atmosphere suddenly turned heavy and ominous.
They looked at the crazy teacher, who just provoked world law!
Unlike the world law outside, which would punish the insulter with black lightning, something else appeared here!
Instead of a black lightning 1 meter above the insulter's head,
What appeared was 10 meters above his head, a snowflake shape of pure energy and law, with black lightning dancing around it while spinning.
Even Little Mortal gasped in shock when he didn't see the same old black lightning that he was friends with!
Lilith, who felt the 'snowflake of punishment' was locked onto them, felt tears gathering in her eyes.
The crowd looked at the world's punishment with eyes wide open.
They all thought,
'Teacher, you are going to die!'
Little Mortal came back to his senses and shouted,
"That was the verbal part!
Now, for the physical part, you need to run for your life!
In trick number 2, 'playing dirty' category, if you aren't fast enough, you will die!
So everybody, good luck!"
And he ran away!
The crowd that saw him disappear looked around blankly.
What was he thinking?
You can't escape from world law's punishment- wait!
Little Mortal's figure disappeared at this moment, entering another dimension, and so did the snowflake of punishment, which was locked onto him!
"Where did they go?"
"I can't tell!"
"I feel something in the north!"
*BIZZZ*
And as the panicked crowd was looking for the two, the snowflake appeared 10 meters away from a certain manager!
Vaelgrim shouted at him,
"You are not the target!
You might be able to block it!"
The other party, while scared out of his wits and confused as to why he suddenly became the target, activated whatever blocking treasure or technique he had.
Another voice sounded from the manager's shoulder, shouting,
"You can do this!"
When the crowd saw a small head peeking at the upcoming snowflake from the manager's shoulder, they closed their eyes.
The manager was done for!
The manager who saw the underworld minion pointing forward excitedly and encouraging him to block the snowflake, nodded in understanding.
Not because he thought he could block it, but because he knew there was no way to block it with the target itself on his shoulder...
*BIZZZ*
The manager turned to dust the next moment, and the snowflake of punishment disappeared again, going after its target, who ran to the hidden dimension again.
The crowd couldn't help but shiver thinking about trick number 2 from the 'playing dirty' category!
The only thing they could do was to curse the two managers who tried sneaking into the ninth planet, and caused this underworld minion to start playing dirty...
.....
Level 3 civilization's outer space - Day 52.
After two days, the snowflake of punishment was 'exhausted' after killing many managers on its way to punish the real target.
It kept flickering now, as if it was going to turn off at any moment.
Nobody knew how many managers were killed by it and resurrected again.
The ten agents never interfered and only used information law to exclude themselves from the 'managers'.
The reason this snowflake didn't mind turning the managers to ashes was because they weren't good existence in its 'eyes'.
They were all 'Evil managers'.
So it didn't waste time changing paths as it approached its main target.
And that was exactly the reason for it to never hit the three ancient ones either, because they were 'good' in its eyes.
And Zyren wasn't even in the sealed area, and stayed behind to protect the newborns.
Xyron told her to protect them because he was filling up the core.
And the managers didn't mind because they thought it was a great help to the underworld.
Even if Little Mortal wouldn't make a move to stop those two sneaky managers, Zyren was ready to stop them.
Finally, on this day, as if Little Mortal himself was out of fuel, he finally got hit by the snowflake of punishment, close to Vaelgrim's seal, and smashed into it.
The collision was so hard that the seal broke while Vaelgrim himself spat out a mouthful of blood.
As the seal broke, the managers, thinking he might attack the mainlands again, saw a scene that made them sigh in relief.
Outside the seal,
All 99 remaining level 2 civilization mainlands were now gathered here, and all of the 500 mainlands were moved to the back of the level 3 civilization mainland.
Lasers shot, huge brains attacked, and managers kept resurrecting and joining the fight to stop this psychopath from attacking their mainlands.
The underworld psychopath was still breathing, and they had a long way to take him down!
......
Day 55.
The newborns were almost done with their advancement.
Xyron was almost done filling up the core.
And Little Mortal was almost out of 'underworld law'.
.....
Day 60.
The newborns completed their advancement.
They were at the peak of level 8, and there was no more room for them to advance.
Now, they were watching the horrifying scene outside of the ninth planet.
The 99 huge brains, which were supposed to be indestructible and lacked the same resurrection ability as the normal managers, were now in pieces, scattered all over the space.
The level 2 civilization mainlands, which had a surface filled with all kinds of weaponry in the past, were now as clean as bald heads.
Nobody knew why, but this underworld psychopath seems to have some personal grudge with them and destroyed everything on their surface while fighting everyone.
The armor of the ancient one, Seraphion, was now covered with all kinds of fist, palm, and foot imprints.
He was at the front line all the time, and he was sent flying to the horizon repeatedly.
But he never gave up.
The persistence of this old man was commendable.
The 10 agents were now 2.
The other 8 were 'dead', and because nobody knew there was more than one copy of each agent, they didn't join the battlefield again.
But at all times, they were ready to intercept any hidden information that might be exchanged between the ancient ones and their 'teacher'.
Zyren, feeling pain losing so many resources on the level 2 civilization mainlands, was now ready to take action.
Xyron sent her a message that the core was full now, and they didn't need the newborns or even the 10 planets.
If it weren't for this good news, she would have already attacked him by now.
And the one responsible for all of this, Little Mortal,
The man, still a subject of debate in everyone's mind between the teacher of ancient ones, everyone's ancestor, Motimus Mecimus Motidius, and Mortal, the strongest annihilator of realms,
seems to finally be out of underworld law.
His hair was messy, his Emperor's robe was in ruin, and his breathing was heavy.
Even so, he was still smiling confidently, as if everything was under control.
Many wondered why he didn't go to the other side of the level 3 civilization mainland to attack their mainland directly?
There was no seal to stop him now.
And who could stop him if he wanted to?
But soon they understood the reason.
It was because they stopped 'playing dirty', and so did he...
Many admired him in their heart.
This man was a true warrior!
The Crystal vibrated at this moment, saying,
Lilith sighed in relief,
"Finally..."
Now the mainlands and even the level 2 civilization mainlands were officially part of the guardian territory,
Because they lost the 'secret bet' between them without their knowledge, under the cover of dark law.
At this moment, Little Mortal heard a voice behind him,
"Honey, you can stop now..."
Hearing the voice, he turned around, speechless.
"Who is calling me honey in this mess?"