When he was back in the exiled zone,
He ignored the three ancient ones and went straight to the level 3 civilization's planet.
When he arrived there, he saw Hypermind wasn't in its former place ...
He immediately went to one of the 10 hidden dimensions, the place that Hypermind kept the higher beings.
When he arrived and saw that the dimension was completely empty and even the gathered raw souls weren't there, he gritted his teeth and disappeared.
The next moment, he was in the golden world of 'Fair Ground', the dimension that Fate was.
But he didn't go where Fate was, but to the place where the blond-haired guy with the body of a newborn was standing.
Sure enough, the body wasn't there anymore!
"Little AI, you think you can run away from me?"
Little Mortal gritted his teeth and appeared back in the outer space of the Exiled zone, took a deep breath, and shouted,
"BRING HIM HERE!"
And waited, but to his disappointment, nobody came to him.
He disappeared again and went to the Fair Ground,
"Alright, let me think... The body was a newborn body.
Hypermind already filled it with the souls, and sent whatever necessary information to the body's brain, so now it counts as a 'resurrected newborn'.
Where do newborns go after resurrection?
They go to their Mainland connected to their former universe before the sacrifice.
But that body was made artificially and didn't have a 'universe' originally, so where would he go?"
Little Mortal gasped,
"Every mainland in this exiled zone is out of reach for the world law, and out there, only one mainland is active!
Our Evil mainland!
But that place doesn't have any 'fairy's garden' or 'platform' for any newborn to go because I took them all to planet Lubo!
So there is only one place that he can go!"
And he disappeared again.
A moment later, he arrived at planet Lubo.
"BRING HIM OVER!"
He shouted again.
But again, nobody came to him.
"Where did that silly 'invisible me' that I left in his hair go?
Don't tell me it didn't trigger?
Or my guess is wrong, and he went somewhere else?"
Little Mortal scratched his head,
"If that invisible me came here, but didn't find me, where would he go...?
Oh, I know!"
And disappeared again.
The next moment, he was in the underworld.
"BRING HIM HERE!"
He shouted again.
This time, a brief moment later, a passage opened with speechless Lilith at the other side and a tiny mortal eating something on a table.
The tiny Mortal was the same as the one that he left with the blond-haired man in the golden world of the Fair Ground in the past.
He was his backup plan for the day that such a situation might happen.
...
Not long ago.
The Exiled zone.
The three ancient ones who didn't hear anything else after Senior Mortal shouted, 'Bring him here!',
Finally had the time to check the sudden feedback they received from world law.
"Let me see.
We always checked how world law outside the exiled zone is from time to time, so what's new that there was a sudden message?"
Even after coming here, they always had an eye outside to examine the corrupted law outside.
But this time was different.
[ Ancient ones, Seraphion, Selene, Vaelgrim, the managers betrayed their World, and followed the Evil path.
Stop them immediately!]
Seraphion, who read this message, saw that it was from too long ago!
"Why did this reach us now? It's from far back before our first contact with the robot's head from the sinners' race..."
This message was from long before their encounter with Aetherion, the robot that was only a head at the beginning!
"There is something really wrong here!
How could such important information be kept hidden from us?"
Then the three read the rest of the messages.
They were related to the sinners' race, Hypermind, and the evil way of advancement for mainlands that was spreading everywhere, and putting the underworld in danger!
Seraphion tried his best not to explode from anger.
Through the messages, he saw that until a couple of months ago, the underworld was in a critical condition, ready to be destroyed at any moment, and world law was trying to contact them, but to no avail!
"Then why did Lilith always tell us not to be worried?
Why did she always say everything is fine..."
Selene said doubtfully,
"Is it possible that we have been fooled!?
Xyron, information law, and Hypermind!
Was everything all their plan to bait us here!?"
Vaelgrim frowned,
"There is even a warning about Hypermind in the messages... But we always thought Hypermind was sealed!"
The three looked at each other in shock,
"Hypermind wasn't always in the seal! And we were under its information law's influence from some point onward?"
From the mixed messages, they could tell 'Hypermind' was outside of the seal now, not inside.
If such an existence were here, in this exiled zone, it could easily deceive them!
They immediately calmed themselves down while looking around cautiously.
They thought that even this sudden discovery of them might already be exposed to the enemy.
It was obvious that the other party had even stopped the world law's messages from reaching them.
Even the Lilith they communicated with for so long was fake!
And they weren't deceived for a year or two, but for billions of years!
The whole time, Hypermind and sinners were manipulating the world around them!
It wasn't a one or two-day plan!
But when they saw nothing happened even after knowing the truth, Seraphion signaled them with his eyes, and the three of them immediately left and gathered in Vaelgrim's citadel.
This place was sealed completely from the outside world, and the most secure place they knew.
Then they continued reading the rest of the messages, and finally saw a message about a new law.
Guardian law, to be exact, and how it works.
The law that the Vulture talked about!
When they saw the 'secret guardian' and how to become one, they thought it might be their only way to face the enemy.
They were trapped here at the moment, and there wasn't any way out for them.
So they immediately sent a request to 'World law' to see if it's possible to become the guardian.
But instead of world law, another Emotionless voice replied to them.
[ Request has been sent.]
The voice that replied to them was more like a whisper in their ears than a private message, and they didn't recognize it at all!
But either way, they waited.
It seems this law was so special that it needed approval from somewhere!
....
Evil Mainland.
In the midst of chaos,
The white canary, who was waiting for Heavenly Father to come back and take care of this mess, received a message from world law,
[ Ancient ones, Seraphion, Selene, and Vaelgrim are requesting to become the Guardian.
Agree/Disagree.]
The white canary didn't even care who this Seraphion or the other two were and chose 'Disagree'.
[ Seraphion, Selene, and Vaelgrim have been chosen as the guardians.]
The white canary,
"-_-"
What just happened?
It tried to check with world law to see why they were accepted.
Anytime there was a vote, it was between 3 individuals.
Itself, the guardian, and someone else.
But it turned out this time, because all of the other managers were resurrected, the voting happened between all of them.
And while the other managers didn't know exactly what this vote was for, and they were under attack from the ground and sky,
They just randomly chose one of the two options to get rid of the message.
No one cared about such a thing in this weird situation of not knowing when this 'invulnerability' effect will go away, and they die for real with one of the punishment lightnings?
So, Some Agreed, and some Disagreed.
And in the end, the number of 'Agree' was more than 'Disagree'.
The white canary scratched its head with its wing and wondered,
"Would that old man kill everybody if he found out?"
.......
Underworld.
Lilith, seeing the chaos outside, while anxious about her old comrades becoming guardians, was trying to contact her partner.
But he was nowhere to be found!
*BAM*
She suddenly saw her door being kicked open, and her heart jumped to her throat!
Who dared to open any door in her citadel like this in her presence if not his 'angry' partner?
She thought they were done for!
Herself, her comrades, and everybody else, even world law, need to answer to him for making this mess in the middle of his 'recording' his movie...
"Partner! Calm down, I can explain-"
But when she saw who came in instead of her partner, she paused mid-sentence.
She squinted her eyes to see if she was really seeing what she thought, and sure enough, she wasn't mistaken.
"You are...?"
Lilith asked in confusion.
A little mortal, well, to be exact, a 'tiny' mortal, with a panicked face, hands clasped together, as if there was a mosquito or something inside,
was now looking around as if searching for something or someone.
His figure was kept turning invisible and blurry, as if it could completely disappear at any moment!
Then his eyes locked onto Lilith, and he ran to her.
Around 2 minutes later, the tiny mortal who wasn't even as big as a pinky finger of a newborn child arrived before Lilith, jumping up and down.
Lilith tried to pick him up when he turned visible for a moment and asked,
"Are you one of those 'invisible me'?"
The tiny mortal nodded repeatedly.
Looking at his hand as if he caught something, she asked,
"Are you looking for Mortal?"
The tiny mortal nodded repeatedly again.
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"Is there something important in your hand?"
The tiny mortal nodded again.
"Alright, I'll try to find him as fast as possible.
But he is missing right now,
For how long can you keep the thing in your hand?"
The tiny mortal was going to nod again, but stopped.
Then he snorted and looked at Lilith in a weird way, as if implying something.
Lilith was speechless.
What's with the attitude?
"Can you keep it in for a couple of hours?
You know, Mortal needs a couple of hours to go back and forth between the exiled zone if he went there.
That passage leading to the Exiled zone closed just now."
The tiny mortal almost laughed and then shook his head in disappointment.
Lilith really had the thought of squishing this rude, tiny partner of hers!
But she controlled herself and said,
"Are you trying to say the thing in your hand can't run?"
The tiny mortal nodded while chuckling arrogantly.
Lilith's hand trembled from anger,
"Why did you come in like that then?
I thought there was some emergency situation!"
The tiny mortal smiled, jumped down from her hand, and appeared beside a fruit on a table farther away.
His speed was so fast this time that Lilith didn't even see how he appeared there!
She gritted her teeth, remembering him 'acting' slow just a moment ago...
It took him 2 minutes to run from the door to her!
Then she saw him start eating the fruit on the table that was many times bigger than him.
Lilith closed her eyes in frustration, and when she opened them again,
She saw a short sentence carved on the fruit while he was eating it, and looking at her from time to time while chewing on the fruit.
[ I was just joking with you...!]
Lilith felt like crying.
'Even his techniques are playing with my emotions...'
She suddenly remembered what was happening on the mainland, and pointed at the 'bloodless' apocalyptic scene in the sky of the underworld playing for its citizens, and asked,
"Do you know why this is happening ?"
The tiny mortal, while chewing at his fruit, smiled mysteriously and raised his hand.
Lilith frowned,
"It's because of the thing in your hand ?"
The tiny mortal nodded while chuckling.
Lilith was speechless.
"And what's inside ?"
She couldn't understand why something in his hand was the source of the mess outside and the world's anger!
It didn't make sense at all!
The tiny mortal rolled his eyes at her, as if saying,
'No way I tell you.'
Lilith felt her head hurt just after a short conversation with this tiny mortal!
Then she suddenly heard a loud and familiar voice outside.
"BRING HIM HERE! "
The tiny mortal, in the middle of eating, suddenly raised his head.
He was going to run to the voice, but after a couple of steps, he stopped and looked at the unfinished fruit.
Lilith shook her head,
"You continue..."
Then she waved her hand, and a passage opened.
Little Mortal was on the other side, looking around in panic.
"Partner, if you are looking for your 'invisible me', he is here..."
Little Mortal gasped and jumped in.
Then he saw the tiny mortal and ran to him.
"Did you catch him?"
The tiny mortal snorted and rolled his eyes at him.
As if saying,
'What kind of stupid question is this?
Would I ever fail ?'
Little Mortal looked at Lilith with a shocked face,
"What's with the attitude ?"
Lilith didn't know what to say.
'If you ask me, who should I ask?
That's your technique, you are asking me?'
Then she cleared her throat and asked cautiously,
"Partner, is your matter an emergency?
I want to talk to you about what just happened..."
Little Mortal picked up the tiny mortal alongside the unfinished fruit and said,
"If you want to talk about your three comrades' guardian situation, I already know."
Then he chuckled,
"Let me tell you something funny, partner!
I am the secret guardian in the Exiled zone, and something happened there that let the three ancient ones know about the guardian law, but nothing about my existence!
I think they even know about Hypermind and Xyron now, and how they have been deceived all these years.
That's why they chose to become secret guardians!"
Lilith thought for a moment and said,
"How do you know they want to become secret guardians?
Where is the 'secret' part of it? Every single manager here received a message about it!"
Little Mortal was going to answer, but paused before saying,
"Not telling!"
Lilith knew her partner couldn't receive any private message from the world, and his guardian token wasn't with him either, so how did he receive the news?
And why did the managers of Evil Mainland receive a message? what about the ones in the Exiled zone? did they receive one too?
What she didn't know was that Dark Law had merged with the world law now,
And the one who received the request from the three ancient ones was Dark Law in the Exiled Zone, and it was Dark Law who sent the message out to the managers only outside of the Exiled Zone.
That's why Little Mortal was the first to hear the whisper, and he was actually the only one who could decide in this matter.
But he didn't, and passed the message to the managers in his guardian territory, so he stays as 'secret guardian' while making things more fun and complicated for everyone.
Lilith, oblivious of all of this, didn't mind him not telling her how he found out, and asked,
"So, they are guardian under you now?
But because they don't know there is a secret guardian out there, they are still in a 'guardian position', until you are exposed?
Isn't that mean basically nothing changed?
And the only difference is that now they know about Xyron's betrayal ?"
Little Mortal nodded,
"Exactly.
They found out about guardian law when I went to check something through the passage and accidentally broke it, and some information leaked to that side.
And the exiled zone currently isn't under the influence of information law.
It is the same for the world law outside, and that's how they received a bunch of old messages from world law without Hypermind's information law stopping it. "
Lilith asked in confusion,
"But you were fighting in the empty space.
It makes sense if they receive some old news about the sinners' race and how they were deceived,
But how could they receive information about the guardian law while so far from your guardian territory?
And what do you mean, Hypermind information law didn't stop the news from reaching them?"
Hearing her questions, at first Little Mortal froze, then his eyes widened in shock, then he panicked, and then he disappeared.
Lilith,
"!???? "
She was sure what she said was related to some 'secret' or 'conspiracy' that he ran away...
"... Don't tell me something happened and his 'invisible me' caught Hypermind?
That explains why nobody stopped the information from going to the exiled zone..."
Lilith was speechless... Then she sighed and shook her head,
"Guess I'm always worried for nothing...
Not only is everything under his control now, even the main villain from the enemy camp is nothing but a toy to him..."
And her guess was kind of correct.
The little invisible me caught Hypermind, but not the brain version she knew.
......
A moment later, Little Mortal appeared in the Dark world.
He placed the tiny mortal down and asked,
"Did he come to life?"
The tiny mortal nodded.
"The raw souls entered that body?"
The tiny mortal nodded.
"Did you shrink him and catch him when he was going to our Lubo planet through the 'Newborn path' in the Golden world?"
The tiny mortal shook his head and then nodded.
"Oh, as expected of my invisible me!
I was wondering how you reached our side so fast!
So, you caught him before he even saw our planet, and traveled through the newborn path by yourself!
Good job! "
The tiny mortal puffed his chest and raised his chin proudly.
While Little Mortal was searching for different dimensions for living creatures,
He left this invisible me with the body that he found in the golden world of Fair ground.
Later on, it even turned out that the body was Hypermind's backup plan, and it was gathering souls for it.
This tiny mortal that hid in the hair of this body had 2 orders.
1. If he came to life and I wasn't aware of it, arrest him if needed.
2. If you arrest him, bring him to me immediately.
"Alright, keep him in your hand for now.
Shrink him even more, and let him think he is on the way to his destination.
Let it walk in the darkness.
I'll tell you when to release it !"
The tiny mortal nodded solemnly.
Then he left while asking,
"Dark law, bro, what's the deal with the punishment clouds out there targeting the managers?"
And the Emotionless voice of the dark law whispered the answer,
[ Fate's request. ]
Little Mortal rubbed his chin,
"hmmm... Don't tell me I messed up when I poked a hole in that hidden passage to the exiled zone, and gave Fate access to where it didn't have access before?
Now it knows there are some teriators there?"
[ Correct.]
Little Mortal was speechless.
"If I didn't deal with the Fate hostage situation a month ago, I'm pretty sure Fate would be destroyed,
or at least turn into a mess right now that it saw what's happening with its 'main characters' in the exiled zone..."
To be sure, Little Mortal went to where Fate was to take a look.
And sure enough, it was filled with cracks already.
But the cracks kept repairing, preventing it from getting destroyed completely.
Little Mortal pretended he didn't see anything and ran away!
.....
Planet Lubo.
Little Mortal appeared on the silver platform.
"Mr. Token!"
A passage opened, and the Guardian Token came out of it.
[Guardian mortal.]
"Oh, you are here!
Mr. Token, tell me how this guardian position works for the three ancient ones."
[They are managers, so they can challenge other managers or higher beings secretly.
If they win, part of the power of the managers or higher beings who lose to them will be under their control.
But the whole process will be meaningless if your guardian position is known in the exiled zone.
In reality, you are the first guardian, and everyone else can only take your position by challenging you,
not by voting or taking over your territory secretly, because your real title, the Frontline Guardian, never allows that.]
Little Mortal nodded and left after saying,
"That's what I thought."
The Guardian Token asked,
[Any order related to the Evil mainland's situation?
Should I keep the Frontline effect active for the managers?]
"Yes, leave it like that for now, and let's go back to big sister first."
And disappeared.
......
Outside of the barrier.
Entertainment Goddess was looking at the chaos on the mainland nervously, alongside the birth treasures, who seemed not to care much, as if it was part of their daily life.
Entertainment Goddess, seeing how relaxed they are, asked,
"Aren't you guys scared?"
And the birth treasures 'shook' their heads,
Entertainment Goddess was stunned.
What did these birth treasures go through to see this scene and act nonchalantly like this?
The Crystal, who saw its former colleagues acting cool, became jealous.
"-_-“
And made its move!
Entertainment Goddess suddenly saw her crystal go towards the mainland!
She tried to stop it in panic, but it was so fast that she only saw it leave afterimages behind.
"My beloved crystal, come back here!"
But it didn't stop and went straight into the middle of the black lightning!
Entertainment Goddess turned pale!
But the other birth treasures snorted,
The Crystal arrived in the middle of the chaos and danced around the lightning; it even went inside the clouds above bravely, and got hit with a couple of lightning bolts too!
Entertainment Goddess, seeing it not even being scratched, let alone turned to dust, looked at it blankly.
She didn't know these birth treasures had invulnerability too!
"Alright, little crystal, come back here, let's continue!"
Hearing the voice, Entertainment Goddess almost screamed.
But when she saw it was the little troublemaker, she sighed in relief.
"Okay, Little Mortal, stop for a moment!
Do you know what's going on down there?"
Little Mortal nodded,
"Yes, everything is under control, Director!
No worries!
It's just the other producer going crazy, trying to kill every single traitor who was exposed for their betrayal."
Entertainment Goddess looked at the two 'paused' Heavenly Fathers whose 'special effects' were off now while just standing there, and didn't know what to say.
Everything is under control?
Is that why the two Heavenly Fathers don't care?
Little Mortal, who saw the 'aura' of the two final bosses, is 'off', said,
"Little mirror, send the special force members back to planet Lubo!
Bring Assistant Rose and Lubo here!"
The space mirror even used the opportunity to send its master and the rest of the unprofessional actors to planet Lubo with the rest, while telling them to behave there.
It felt something might happen to them on the Evil mainland.
Planet Lubo was the safest place.
Little Mortal didn't say anything either.
The birth treasures didn't know if he saw through this move or not, but he probably didn't care anymore because he had already conquered the world.
A moment later, Lubo and Rose, with the white canary who joined them, arrive backstage,
while the group of special force members was sent back to planet Lubo.
The white canary wanted to know what was happening in its mainland, so it joined the group.
But before it could ask, Little Mortal started ordering them,
"Assistant Rose, please make the eyes of the Forbidden Existence shine!"
Rose nodded, and the eyes of the Forbidden Existence started shining again.
"Little Lubo, add the dark aura."
The black heart pulsed, and the evil aura was added.
Even Lubo didn't know what was going on and just listened obediently.
"Little crystal, tell my partner to send some flame up here!"
A brief moment later, the Forbidden Existence's evil aura was mixed with flames, looking extremely ominous.
"Alright, my villain version is ready!
Little crystal, add the seven-color aura to my Hero version!"
The old Senior Mortal's rainbow aura appeared and mixed together to become white.
"Alright, play a phonk music from my collection.
Let it play slowly, and go to the climax when we start!"
Entertainment Goddess saw the white canary looking at her and understood the meaning immediately,
"Little Mortal, slow down for a moment.
You forgot to report your discoveries about these unexpected events.
We should adapt the movie and the script based on the new changes!"
Little Mortal, who was ready to start filming again, paused, then jumped on Lubo and, after a military salute, said,
"Little Crystal, pause the music!
Reporting to Director Saraswati!
The other producer has gone mad because it found out 90% of its actors already betrayed him, and it won't stop until all of them are dead!
The three ancient ones are Guardians now, and they know about the sinners' race betrayal!
Hypermind is scared like a coward!
Xyron's secret project will be completed soon, and it can be activated at any time."
Entertainment Goddess looked at the white canary first, and when she saw its blank look, she knew it was as confused as her.
*Cough*
"Little Mortal, this other producer is Fate?"
Little Mortal nodded,
"Yes!"
"And this Fate is the same as the Fate law we know?"
"Yes!"
"And it just requested world law out of anger to kill the managers because they betrayed it?"
"Yes! And they betrayed world law, too!"
Entertainment Goddess nodded,
"Alright, let's put aside how they betrayed world law.
Tell me about these ancient ones.
Now that they have become guardians somehow, can they challenge others and get stronger?"
"Yes!"
"And they are the enemy of sinners now?"
"Yes!"
"What about Fate? Is it with us, sinners, or the ancient ones?"
Little Mortal paused for a moment, then said,
"The three ancient ones are Fate's strongest actors; the rest are enemies except the citizens from planet Lubo.
And because the black lightning didn't target Evil Manager and Lubo, we can assume that they are the top actors of Fate as well.
And the managers and more than 100 million higher beings who just advanced to level 10 in the exiled zone are Fate's allies on the surface."
Entertainment Goddess felt she had heard him wrong,
"Excuse me, 100 million level what?"
"Level 10.
The hole my final form made in that hidden passage gave the opportunity to the higher beings in the exiled zone to become Fated and advance."
Entertainment Goddess smiled bitterly,
"And why did your final form do that?
I thought Fate was on our side, and you just said those 100 million level 10 are its allies just on the surface?
Why would you help our enemy to advance?"
Little Mortal was shocked,
"Why did I do that?"
The rest were at a loss like him, except Lubo, who said,
"To make it more exciting?
With your strength, why would you care about a couple more or fewer level 10s?"
Little Mortal jumped up and down excitedly,
"Yes! Yes! Why would I care!"
Entertainment Goddess took a deep breath and asked the next question,
"What about the ancient ones? What can they do with their guardian title now?"
"They can challenge other managers and level 10 creatures to gain access to part of their powers."
"Alright, and what about this coward, Hypermind?"
"Not telling!"
"And Xyron's secret project?"
"It will be ready soon because he got his hand on something good just now!
But I need to go and check if he can really use it or not!"
Entertainment Goddess, while not quite understanding what he was saying, nodded,
"And the last question.
Let's assume we somehow get rid of that cloud by eliminating its targets; what would be Fate's next move?"
Little Mortal stroked his chin and said thoughtfully,
"It already knows where the exiled zone is, so it will lead us there to beat up the sinners, Hypermind, and later on the traitors when it finds out about them being under someone else's control."
Entertainment Goddess frowned,
"How could Fate go against 100 million traitors and the whole sinners' race with only us?
I didn't hear you adding Heavenly Father or those 60 million newborns to its allies, which means Fate isn't counting on them!"
Little Mortal chuckled mockingly,
"That's why I said Fate has gone crazy!
And it didn't count me as an ally because Fate is blind; it can't see me at all, and it can't feel my presence,
So naturally I'm not on the list of its teammates, while the newborns are my army, not Fate's."
Entertainment Goddess looked at the white canary, which still had that blank look on its face.
It was evident that it didn't know anything about the things this rascal was saying...
"Little Mortal, let's change the script, again."
Little Mortal nodded,
"Whatever you say, Director."
And after a brief moment, she gave him a paper.
"Here, take it and notify the actors."
Little Mortal read the content of the paper and then stared at the two old men outside.
After five minutes, Entertainment Goddess asked,
"What are you doing?"
"I'm giving my two 'visible invisible me's' some orders, so when I go to notify the actors about the new changes, they can play their role on autopilot."
Entertainment Goddess, Lubo, the white canary, and the birth treasures,
"O_O"
Is he for real?