Lilith, on Little Mortal's shoulder, saw him speechless and said,
"Partner, this is Selene's technique, Love Illusion.
It takes days to be prepared, but it never misses the target.
You are supposed to see her as your loved ones and listen to her every command now.
In normal circumstances, because higher beings love themselves more than anyone else, they see her as themselves.
But in your case, because she thinks you are doing all of this because of your 'wife and child', she is sure that you are seeing her as your wife now."
Little Mortal looked at Selene, who was smiling at him blankly.
He glanced at the other managers and saw they had stopped attacking him, wiping their sweat and taking a breath, as if the fight was over.
He became even more speechless.
Selene smiled and was going to order him around, but Little Mortal interrupted her,
"Little Sel, what kind of game are you playing?"
Selene and everybody else froze when they heard him calling her by her real name, and not her 'lost wife's name', whatever it was.
Little Mortal, with his hand behind his back, walked towards her and said in a serious tone,
"Didn't I tell you this technique wouldn't work on me when I taught it to you? Hmm?
Did you already forget?"
Selene, scolded by her 'teacher', panicked,
"T-Teacher, I don't remember you telling me—"
Little Mortal interrupted her again,
"Silence!"
Hearing his angry shout, Selene flinched and stopped talking.
Teacher Mortal snorted,
"I am everyone's ancestor; in my eyes, all my descendants are equal!
Do you know what that means?"
Selene, with her head low, shook her head.
Teacher Mortal's cold gaze moved to the rest of the managers, and while gulping nervously, they shook their heads too.
They didn't know.
Teacher Mortal closed his eyes in disappointment and sighed,
"This is so embarrassing.
I told you so many times that in my heart, I 'Love' all of the other existence equally!"
And then he pointed at Selene,
"And you, little girl!
You are trying to bewitch me with such a technique?
Huh?
Do you think you, my disciple, are in a lower position than my late wife or anybody else?
Answer me!"
Selene, while shivering, shook her head,
"No... I was wrong, Teacher..."
Even Lilith couldn't tell if he was serious or not at this moment.
As a newborn, he was supposed to love all creatures equally and unconditionally.
But in his case...?
Teacher Mortal, as if calmed down, walked behind Selene and said,
"Alright, because you understand your fault, I forgive you..."
Selene was going to sigh in relief, but,
*Spank*
Teacher Mortal suddenly spanked her to the horizon and shouted angrily,
"As if I forgive you!"
The managers' jaws dropped when they saw that the ancient one, Selene, was spanked away to the horizon!
This teacher was so strict when it came to his disciples.
Not long after, Selene, with teary eyes, came back and pointed at Little Mortal with anger,
"You are not my teacher!
We ancient ones were born before the underworld creation!
You are a minion from the underworld, an existence born from it!
How can you be our ancestor if you were born after us?
How can you be our teacher if you were in the underworld all your life?"
In her anger from being spanked, Selene saw through many flaws!
The other managers were shocked now!
She was right!
Little Mortal, though, looked at her in surprise and said,
"What do you mean?
I already know that...
I was just joking with you guys using my law.
My law is called 'Do you believe me?'
And I'm not even from the underworld originally; I just went there to play..."
Then his eyes suddenly widened in shock,
"Wait a minute!
Don't tell me you believed me?
You guys are so easy to fool?"
And gasped in shock from their naivety.
*Shatter*
At this moment, every nonexistent illusion that they were in, shattered!
The image of the teacher, the minion, or the ancestor, all of it shattered in their minds!
Different body parts of managers, depending on what creatures they were, started twitching.
Veins bulged under their skins as they changed color.
Those who didn't know what his law was all this time finally found out how it works!
Even if it seems simple or useless, in action, it actually wasn't simple at all, and nobody felt it while it was used on them!
The newborns watching the show could tell with one glance that everyone was going to explode with anger!
Their boss was strong, but he was just slightly stronger than the ancient ones.
However, due to his complicated identity, the managers always held back slightly when attacking him,
As if something was telling them they should not raise their hand to their ancestor/teacher/elder.
But now, the nonexistent illusion has finally been shattered.
And sure enough,
"You charlatan!"
"I'll kill you!"
"If I don't tear you apart today..."
"What a disgrace!"
"You dare to call yourself a teacher..."
"You are nobody's ancestor!"
It didn't matter who; everybody snapped at this moment!
Even Xyron, who had been searching for this existence in his database for days, thinking the other party was an ancient existence from who knows when, felt humiliated!
All kinds of cyborgs started flying out of the mainland of level 3 civilization, joining the fight.
Even Hypermind opened the protection barrier around the tenth planet, and a swarm of cyborgs flew out.
Hypermind was the most bewildered at this moment.
Unlike everybody else, it had a lot more information about this minion from the underworld, but even it was fooled.
Unlike Xyron, which, because of the participant's death, even after gaining access to the ninth planet, couldn't gain any information,
Hypermind knew many things, including this minion's brain problem, and after seeing his power, it faced two important questions.
1. How could such an existence be kept in the underworld if Lilith wasn't stronger than him?
Lilith's power in Hypermind's database was lower than Seraphion's and higher than the other two.
2. Why isn't such an existence in Fate's inevitable future?
To find the answer, Hypermind starts searching its database repeatedly.
But it didn't find anything.
Not in the information it gathered from the underworld warriors who came to the world above to stop the evil mainlands in the past,
And not in the inevitable futures it saw while peeking into fate.
The other party wasn't in this exiled zone at the beginning, so Hypermind assumed Fate should know about him.
And if Fate knows about him but didn't include him in its inevitable future, the reason for it should be only one thing.
And that's why, in the end, Hypermind came to this conclusion:
[ In Fate's equation, his early death is inevitable. ]
In Fate's eyes, this existence was not only not useful to the future it designed, but it was even harmful.
His goal was to destroy the world itself to take revenge for just two people.
And with his brain problems, those two people might not even be real.
Fate was part of the world too, so there was no reason for it to keep this savage, unstable, unpredictable, and crazy person with mental and personality disorders who wants to destroy the world around.
Which means he was going to die before Fate's final showdown!
....
Back to the chaotic battlefield.
The cyborgs joined the battle and started shooting at Little Mortal with their guns.
Seeing them taking out guns, Little Mortal took out his mini-gun too and shouted,
"Do you like to play with guns?
Then say hello to my little toy!"
*TATATATA*
And started shooting at everything he saw!
Only now this mini-gun finally felt 'free' and showed its true power to the world without any 'planet's restrictions'!
Cyborgs' corpses started falling from the sky like rain in no time.
All kinds of bullets with different elements showered everyone.
They were lucky that the 'chain strike' effect didn't work here because the remaining agents tried to prevent it.
But even so, he had 900 million bullets to use on the angry crowd with eyes covered in blood who didn't care about anything but beating up this charlatan!
Lilith, the two birth treasures, and the newborns watching this madness,
<"-_-">
....
Day 66.
"Everyone, he is tired enough, leave it to me!"
Zyren's voice sounded at this moment.
There was a mountain of cyborg scrap piled up everywhere now.
Even the ancient ones and managers were tired.
The managers, who were expected to have the capacity to fight for years,
died and resurrected so many times these days that they could only continue fighting with direct support from their mainland.
Hearing Zyren's voice, they felt it was the voice of an angel.
The battle was now brought to the mainland of the level 3 civilization, where the tallest building was.
The skyscraper with Hypermind hiding in a high-level dimension above it.
But there was no 'tallest' building here anymore.
Or to be exact, there was nothing but bare ground.
Everything was already turned to rubble.
With Zyren taking action, all of the managers retreated.
Little mortal, covered in 'blood', with only one eye open, as if he had lost an eye for some reason,
In a miserable state, only watched them retreat, as if he couldn't chase them even if he wanted to.
Suddenly,
Four huge wormholes opened in his four directions, and four huge figures walked out.
Four 'Aetherion', to be exact.
Seeing them, many recognized the big robots, and many saw them for the first time.
But from the power emanating from them, they could tell they were strong!
*BAM* X 4
Little mortal's right hand disappeared for a moment, and all four of them got hit, taking a step back, but continued forward again.
A defensive layer flickered in front of them with Little Mortal trapped at the center.
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It seems they have already trapped their target within a force field.
Little mortal threw a couple of more punches, but it didn't work.
He was 'tired', and they were 'strong'.
Zyren appeared at this moment,
"Resistance is futile.
You'd better surrender yourself, and we might take it easy on you."
Both she and Xyron were dying to know why this minion was so strong.
How could he jump around in different dimensions?
Little mortal looked at her and smiled coldly,
"Surrender? Hehe... Hehehe... Hahaha!"
And started laughing as if he had lost his mind.
Hearing the creepy laughter, the crowd had a bad feeling.
"Did he finally lose his mind?"
"He was crazy to begin with.
What was left to lose?"
"He had a little sanity at least..."
"Well, just now, that's gone too, I think."
"What is he doing?"
"Hand seals?"
"Lady Zyren, if you want to trap him, you'd better hurry!"
"Yes, he seems to get ready for something!"
Zyren chuckled,
"Don't worry, everyone, he is out of underworld law, and there is no way for him to change his Fate.
Don't let him fool you with his law!"
Hearing her say 'his law', they remembered that his law would work if they 'believed' him.
"Is he trying to force us to believe he is doing something?"
"He almost deceived us again!"
"Such a scary law... Imagine facing him alone..."
*PAW*
Little mortal's hand seal finished, and in the end, he clasped his hands together, while muttering to himself,
"My Queen... You know, after the death of my loved ones, I was just a man with a broken heart... Just an empty shell...
And this was the only thing I could do to help you for one last time..."
The three ancient ones were nearly drawn into a nonexistent illusion of a sacrificial minion from the underworld,
who came up here to execute a 'secret mission' and do something heroic for his Queen!
Little mortal looked up, seemingly at the newborns on the ninth planet, saying with a voice filled with pity,
"You little ones there,
All these years up here, it was hard on you...
You can leave with me now.
Your suffering ends here...."
The voice was filled with pity.
Looking into his eyes, tears gathered in the eyes of every single newborn.
Life here was indeed hard, brutal, and unfair to them...
But what did he mean to leave with him?
How is he going to end their suffering?
Then he looked at the crowd and said,
"I know many of you are thinking, how the Queen of hell, my former boss, could control me..."
The crowd indeed thought about this question.
But they had a bad feeling now.
They didn't want to know anymore.
He was giving them the feeling of a dying flame that was going to shine one last time before it died out!
"Well, I must say, she is far stronger than you think.
She is so strong that she can even share her power with us, as our 'salary'.
That's why I created a technique called the 'Last Salary'."
The crowd was speechless...
What kind of technique was that?
Hearing him say the 'Last Salary', Lilith smiled, and her eyes started burning.
It was finally her turn!
Little mortal spun once at this moment.
The crowd didn't understand why at first, but,
"Wait, look at the ground!"
"Is that a magic circle?"
"He used his blood to draw it?"
"Blood-magic?"
"This ominous feeling!"
"Wait, don't tell me he is going to-"
Little Mortal's body starts burning at this moment.
"Everyone, let me tell you a secret that even Queen Lilith herself doesn't know."
The crowd gulped down.
What kind of secret could it be?
"I played *cough*, worked for billions of years under my Queen's command, but I never received my salary!"
When he said that, some managers turned around and ran away in different directions.
Those who thought it was his law, and he was trying to fool them again, just stood there, shaking their heads.
But they saw the three ancient ones suddenly start retreating too!
Xyron suddenly received an alarm and sent a message to Zyren,
"Zyren! Keep the forcefield active and run away immediately!"
Zyren, without thinking, jumped into a hidden dimension while leaving the big robots behind to maintain the forcefield!
Little mortal looked at the crowd with a mocking smile and said,
"Too late!"
And he sighed for one last time, as if it was his last breath in this life,
And while his last words echoed through the world, he turned into a small sun.
"Take all of my salary! Take my body and soul!
And descend her, Lilith the Infernal!
Descend in this land of sinners, and show them your power!
Show them what a real Hell looks like!"
And a mountain-sized Lilith suddenly appeared out of nowhere!
The crowd who saw her suddenly appear felt her fire law; that just feeling it made their skin burn, and they could clearly understand how this technique works!
The power this psychopath just summoned using his 'salary' and even sacrificing his body and soul,
was directly fueled by 'Lilith' and gave them the illusion that she herself descended to their world!
But they knew it wasn't Lilith because they couldn't feel any sign of life from the avatar.
Little mortal was hiding Lilith's 'vital signs' even though it was Lilith herself who took action!
So everybody thought that was his summoning technique.
And then, there was only light.
The level 3 civilization mainland, where Little Mortal stood before 'sacrificing' himself and his salary, began burning and turning to ashes.
First, the four Aetherion, then the managers who reacted more slowly, then the rest of them.
Even the three ancient ones turned to ashes.
Xyron, who was watching the scene from the mainland's core, activated a barrier to stop the fire that seemed unstoppable and ready to turn his mainland to ashes, halting it at a depth of 1000 meters.
But even so, the fire spread in other directions.
Everything on the mainland's surface burned.
The raging fire then went up!
Next was the 10 planets' turn.
Only now, the newborns understood what their crazy boss meant by 'leave with me' and 'end your suffering'.
He meant, "Let's go to the afterlife together..."
They could only sigh helplessly...
Such an ending was predictable with a boss like this who couldn't accept anything but winning!
But the fire didn't stop even after turning the ten planets and all the Newborns to ashes.
It went to outer space and burned the hundred 'bald' level 2 civilization mainlands, along with the remains of the cyborgs...
It was only then that the fire stopped spreading further and slowly returned to its source.
Everything happened in only one second.
In one second, the level 3 civilization turned completely bald, and its atmosphere completely empty.
The three ancient ones were the first to resurrect and come back to the 'crime scene'.
Looking at the bare ground in front of them, they took a deep breath.
The advanced level 3 civilization was now nothing but deserted ground...
The 10 planets connected to it?
All gone.
The level 2 civilizations around it?
All gone!
The 60 million newborns?
All gone!
Seraphion smiled.
It was really rare for him to smile.
"I wasn't happy at all to see a powerhouse like that minion as our enemy.
But now, seeing how strong Lilith became down there, that makes me feel relaxed."
The only thing he cared about now was Lilith's power, which he felt personally.
At that moment,
Only one word came to his mind!
[Unstoppable!]
And it wasn't even the 'real' Lilith, but just a summoning technique fueled by her.
Vaelgrim nodded in agreement,
"I was indeed suspicious.
I even thought he might be one of those invisible enemies from back then who escaped from the sealed area.
But this?"
Selene, who came slightly later, was frowning.
But her face turned back to normal the next moment, and she said,
"What was his username in this season? Right, Mortal The Strongest, Annihilator of Realms!
Such a fitting name!"
The disaster he brought indeed matched his name.
Then she chuckled,
"I'm sure Xyron is pissed off now."
The other two shook their heads.
And a fourth person that they couldn't see or hear, said,
"Partner, what about now? Do you feel better?"
Lilith, the real annihilator of realms on Little Mortal's shoulder, nodded,
"Yeah, I feel better now.
But are you sure you took care of everything?
In the memory I just received from Selene, there should be more than 100 million universes here, not 7 million!"
Little mortal smiled confidently,
"I'm sure.
Let's go back, I'll tell you what else happened when you were burning everything."
He then took out the 'living creatures detector' he received from Dark World Law,
and tried to search for any living creature that wasn't under his Frontline effect.
When he saw that not a single 'light dot' was showing, he nodded,
"All clear."
And took out his notebook to check his quests.
[ New quests : (Done)
1. Kill every universe owner and become their secret guardian ?
2. Kidnap everybody without the universe ?
3. Do something that everyone thinks you are not a newborn and exploit you ?
4. Buy some time ?
5. Make a base of operation on each planet ( Failed )
6. Gather enough equipment ?
7. Find a newborn detector and search every corner of the mainland ?
8. Install 'eagle eye'. ?
9. Become the guardian of the 10 planets if there are living creatures except higher beings on them. ? ]
After being assured he is done with his quests, he said goodbye to his three disciples, the ancient ones, and left.
His destination?
Planet Lubo.
......
A couple of minutes ago.
When Lilith used Little Mortal's universe and 300km domain as territory and unleashed her power, everything happened in a second, turning everything to ashes.
However, many things occurred behind the scenes.
Lilith, releasing her 'Eminence manager' power, was just a cover-up.
When Lilith's fire reached the dimension Hypermind was hiding above their heads,
The tiny Mortal with a blue headband that Little Mortal left there took action and sealed Hypermind's dimension in his domain for one second.
Then his figure disappeared.
The next moment, the tiny Mortal with a blue headband was in the dark world, between the rest of the tiny mortals.
As if his arrival was a sign for them to take action, all of the tiny mortals disappeared at the same time.
The tiny mortals with the 'white' headband were all back in a moment with something shrunken in their hands.
They were responsible for 'kidnapping' the newborns left in the hidden dimensions that Little Mortal couldn't 'enter',
because he was only supposed to have the ability to enter the lowest hidden dimensions.
Next were the tiny mortals with a 'red' headband, each tasked with condensing and destroying objects that could bring mass destruction to the universes in the Exiled zone if things went wrong and they were exposed in this one second.
And simultaneously, the tiny Mortals with 'black' headbands took action.
They all went to the 10 hidden dimensions that contained more than 100 million higher beings, and Expanded them.
Using 'Expand' on these higher beings was like killing them, and it counted as a 'win' for the secret guardian challenge to bring them and their universes into guardian territory.
Then they condensed the 100 million higher beings and turned back to normal as if nothing had happened.
After that, the tiny mortals, as though their missions were accomplished, all disappeared.
Only some tiny objects were left in the dark world for Little Mortal to pick up.
And while the tiny mortal's mission was done in that one second, Little Mortal himself was taking action too.
As the fire passed through the 10 planets, he shrank them all to tiny planets, then, in his hand, he 'expanded' the 10 tiny planets,
And with the crystal's help, they found all the devices and chips related to Hypermind and the system installed in them, before 'condensed' them back to normal.
He even separated the newborn's body, found the chips planted in them the same way, destroyed them, condensed their bodies again, shrank them, and stuffed them into Lilith's citadel.
After that, it was the 100 level 2 civilization's turn to go through the same process, and be shrunk in the end.
He even gathered the remains of all the cyborgs and huge brains, condensing them into a ball of metal.
All of this happened in that one second Hypermind connection was cut off from the world outside.
Everything was a cover, so Little Mortal could find this opportunity and take care of everything.
While Lilith incinerated everything to 'ashes' on the surface, they were actually in Little Mortal's domain, and as the 10 planets' secret guardian,
He could protect them with his Frontline effect from any harm.
The fire was just an excuse for him to take everything away while everybody else thinks they are destroyed.
The only entity that could probably see through his actions was Hypermind, which was sealed in that one second.
.......
Dark world.
Little Mortal, in a good mood, was running back towards planet Lubo following the golden path.
He told Lilith about the 'invisible me' technique that he used, and cleared the 'map', and how he became everyone's secret guardian.
Lilith asked in confusion,
"Can't you just kill that Hypermind now ?"
Little Mortal shook his head,
"I can't."
"Why?"
"not telling!"
Lilith felt puzzled.
She didn't know because of Fate, and the inevitable future it had designed for itself, things weren't that simple.
Little Mortal and Hypermind both already messed with Fate's story so much that whatever inevitable ending it was looking for wouldn't happen.
If Little Mortal just killed Hypermind, the main villain, what would happen to Fate?
Fate was preparing so many characters to face Hypermind in one final battle.
But if there is no Hypermind, Fate might just get destroyed from shock on the spot when it finds out everything it has been doing was for nothing!
Would that be a bad thing?
Maybe not.
Who cared about Fate?
But Little Mortal knew Fate was part of the original world law, and if it got destroyed, world law would be incomplete forever.
Even if he let the underworld return to the world above and merge with the current world law, wouldn't it miss a part of it forever?
How could he do such a thing as a Newborn?
Little Mortal asked,
"How was your reunion?
Did you ask how your former colleagues ended up in the exiled zone ?"
While everything was burning, Little Mortal 'killed' the ancient ones too, so they lost their mainlands to him 'secretly'.
But meanwhile, he shrank Selene, sent her to tiny Lilith, and gave them half a second to 'talk' before expanding her too, like the other two who thought they all died in Lilith's fire, and then sent her to resurrect.
In that half a second, Lilith sent her old friend a spiritual message,
< Selene, it's me, Lilith.
Send me all of the memories you have after I became underworld manager!
And remember to seal the memory of our current conversation after you are resurrected! >
And Selene, while confused as to why Lilith asked her such a question, immediately sent her the memories she asked for.
Selene talked to the fake Lilith about her minion just two months ago, and naturally didn't know she was talking to the real one now.
But because of her trust in her, she did as Lilith asked, and after she was resurrected, sealed the memory of their 'secret meeting'.
"Here, take a look for yourself."
Lilith 'Played' the memories for Little Mortal, and he watched with interest.
At first, everything was normal.
The mainlands were separated into different locations, gathering universes, and transferring the law from those universes to the underworld through the lava sea.
In this era, there was no such thing as a normal or evil mainland.
All mainlands could advance to a higher level by gathering a certain number of universes, and that was it.
Little Mortal said in surprise,
"Look! I knew it! Both ways of merging and devouring are illegal !"
Lilith nodded,
"Yes, Selene told me about it."
Time passed.
First, the merging of universes and mainlands became a trend, and then devouring.
Simultaneously, a mainland suddenly changed to a level 2 civilization.
When Selene and the other two went to investigate, they discovered that the creatures in one of the universes connected to this peculiar mainland had obtained some 'forbidden' knowledge, enabling them to find the higher being of their universe.
After that, they imprisoned the higher being inside the universe, transferred their consciousness to small artificial brains, and left their universe's 'bubble'.
Lilith commented,
"I was informed about this matter by them in the past, and it was after this big change that they started hiding something from me."
Little Mortal watched excitedly as he said,
"Don't spoil the story!"
In memory, because the level 2 civilization mainland was still 'alive' and functioning, the three ancient ones just let it be.
This version of the level 2 civilization mainland even had many universes connected to it.
It wasn't like the current ones, where only a bunch of small suns connected to them as a source of energy, and no universes.
But the transformation of this Mainland and the huge brain that showed up out of nowhere and replaced the previous manager scared the other Mainlands and forced them to stay away from it,
especially because the huge brain was nearly indestructible, and it could easily face level 10 managers from the start!
Time passed as the three ancient ones searched everywhere for the answer to why the mainland's behavior had changed.
Why are they devouring and merging with each other?
But the situation still wasn't an emergency to them because when they asked Lilith about the changes in the underworld,
She said the hexagons of the merged mainlands are merged in the underworld, too, and the law they were sending down there was still the same.
But devouring wasn't fine at all.
Each devoured mainland was equal to one dead hexagon.
It was at this moment that a certain head showed up.
"Look! It's the head of that shady robot !"
The head was Aetherion's head that emerged from a universe Selene 'accidentally' discovered.
But instead of being the last survivor of the 'sinners race', Aetherion introduces itself as one of the four survivors.
Little Mortal gasped,
"Look, look! Such a liar!"
Lilith nodded.
From what they saw at the end, four of these Aetherion came out to trap Little Mortal, but they had already seen an army of them hidden in high-level dimensions.
This Aetherion and its story were clearly a complete lie.
The Aetherion's head, after speaking to Selene about its origin, told her about Hypermind, which was sealed in the 'sealed area' in this version of the story.
The ancient ones already knew something was sealed there, but they never saw what it was.
In this version of the story, Aetherion's head told Selene about their invisible enemy and the mastermind behind the scenes, Hypermind.
Aetherion's head even told her about information law, which was the main law of Hypermind,
and how, while still imprisoned in the Sealed area, Hypermind could use its law to 'corrupt' the world outside.
Selene finally discovered the culprit who provided the 'forbidden' knowledge to level 2 civilizations and the evil means to advance the mainland that emerged from its ideas!
But after sharing its knowledge with Selene, Aetherion's head asked her to keep its existence secret from others, even the other ancient ones.
The reason for that was its identity.
It said that because its creators are the 'sinners' race', if world law locks onto it, it will be exiled immediately, and it can't help Selene deal with Hypermind in the future.
Little Mortal was at a loss for words.
"Partner, I think they were fooled a long time before you..."
Lilith gritted her teeth.
Aetherion's head was made of a material that even Selene couldn't scratch, and it could temporarily enter another dimension, hiding from her like the invisible enemies they faced in the past.
That's why she easily believed the story, which was partly true, and Haypermind really was the mastermind behind everything....
