Lilith, while suspicious, tried to send him a private ssage, saying,
< Didn't you hear the voice just now? >
But the ssage didn't reach him.
It was exactly like when she tried to send ssages to the librarian fairy.
She thought to herself,
'So there is sothing in the area around him that stops the secret ssage?'
To be sure,
she tried a couple more tis,
and even said so bad words to see his reaction and if he was pretending.
But still no. nothing could be sent to him directly.
After being sure, she thought of sothing and said,
"Mortal, how about this?
I put so good words for you so the underworld law accepts you as 'guardian'.
anwhile, you can engage in activities that benefit and the underworld.
This way, the underworld law sees your effort and hard work, and believes my words easier!"
Hearing her words of encouragent,
Little Mortal jumped up and down excitedly!
"Yes, yes!
After I'm done with the hunters,
We can do as you say, so I can beco the guardian of the underworld!"
Lilith nodded.
She felt that there was only a benefit for her in all of this.
She didn't know what this guardian was, but the underworld already accepted it.
So she pretended that no such thing happened to use this 'guardian' from above as a tool to deal with the problems she and the underworld itself had.
After that, she opened a passage to a certain hexagon, and the two walked in.
Little Mortal looked around curiously.
This place was the sa as their own hexagon, nothing different.
But in Lilith's eyes, it was different.
She had less control over it, and her activities here would be easily known to the manager of the connected mainland above.
She looked at Little Mortal and said,
"Alright, be ready.
This place is connected to a level 10 mainland.
The mont I open the gate, the manager will know."
Little Mortal nodded and started doing so random hand seals.
After a while, he said,
"100% stealth mode, activate!"
And he disappeared in front of Lilith's eyes...
She tried to find him, but she couldn't.
To be sure he is still here, while bringing out a token, she said,
"Take this.
If you break it, the gate will open on the other side, allowing you to return.
Just leave it in the lava sea at the other side; no one will be able to find it.
The lava sea is like underworld territory.
The mainland or its manager can't track down the space fluctuations coming from my underworld gate there.
However, be cautious, as the gate itself always announces its opening to the mainland and its manager.
That's the rule between the two sides to prevent any misunderstanding or unwanted conflict."
While she was explaining the necessary knowledge that he needed to know,
The token in her hand had already disappeared.
Lilith raised an eyebrow in amazent.
This 100% stealth mode was actually 100% for real!
Even she, in her own realm, couldn't detect him...
Then she summoned the gate, and while the gate was rising from the ground, she rembered the first sentence this little boy said to the old man and asked curiously,
"By the way.
What interesting fact about were you going to tell my 'butler'?"
And then she heard Little Mortal's voice beside her,
"You actually have sothing in common with soone I know, it's just the opposite.
He is a chunk of ice.
So when he smiles,
he can only smile 'coldly'.
When he speaks,
he can only speak 'coldly'.
And he always looks at you 'coldly'."
Lilith, who didn't understand what he ant, asked,
"Where is the 'in common' part?"
And while the door was opening, Little Mortal's voice sounded, while chuckling,
"When you smile,
you can only smile 'warmly'.
When you speak,
you can only speak 'warmly'.
And you always look 'warm' and 'hot'."
As he spoke, the source of the voice disappeared inside the gate.
Lilith stood there at a loss for words...
Was he complinting her or mocking her fire law and the other guy's ice law?
But a voice that seed to be a 'bird' voice sounded from the other side that interrupted her thoughts,
"Queen Lilith, what can I help you with?
I thought we already cut all ties with your side."
Hearing the voice, Lilith looked at the other side with annoyance.
But didn't say anything.
She waved her hand and slamd the door shut without answering.
Lilith couldn't wait to see what this little anomaly was going to do at the so-called 'enemy camp'!
From the looks of it, he easily entered the other side without the zone or mainland detecting him.
....
The other side of the gate.
The lava sea on the 'Hunters mainland'.
At this mont, Little Mortal was looking curiously at a Vulture-like creature that suddenly showed up when he walked to this side.
It seems the underworld gate announcing its arrival was working just fine.
However, the delay in the vulture's arrival proved that the lava sea's ability to cover any space fluctuations was, as Queen Lilith said,.
Little Mortal, while nodding as if he was approving of sothing, walked around the vulture.
The otherworldly-looking vulture, with black-silver feathers as void, shimring faintly with a sinister, iridescent hue, long and jagged talons like rusted blades, and eyes burning with an eerie, golden light that pierced through the darkness, was now staring at the gate, which was sinking into the ground.
On the vulture's head, a crown of bones and shattered tal was placed.
After a while looking at this cool and sinister vulture,
Little Mortal shrugged his shoulders, placed the token Lilith gave him at the bottom of the lava sea, and left.
The quest for gathering information behind the enemy line has begun!
After swimming for an hour, he reached the shore.
The ground of this mainland was made of gray rocks, and there was no greenery in sight.
Looking farther away, Little Mortal gasped.
Row after row of castles were placed side by side.
While on the mainland, each castle had a territory.
Here, their placent was like a military camp.
Little Mortal jumped up and tried to count the numbers.
He counted more than 300 in 300 rows of castles.
From what he saw, it seed that Hunters mainland was keeping the higher beings from the defeated mainland alive.
Or perhaps killing them first, and then after resurrection, they were already in the enemy's hands because their mainland had been destroyed, and they could only join the enemy.
After advancing to level 8, mainlands didn't need to devour universes anymore, and to continue leveling up, they needed to devour other mainlands instead, so they could keep the higher beings as a fighting force.
Little Mortal looked at the sky and only saw around 800 bubbles up there, and like their own mainland, all of them were on one side of the sky, which ant this mainland was moving in one direction too.
But it wasn't anything surprising because it was chasing after their mainland from what he knew, so it was only natural.
However, why were there so few bubbles up there when there were close to 90,000 castles down here?
Where are the missing universes?
In what he read in the Queen's library, all the information about the level 9 and 10 mainlands was from the normal version.
The evil mainlands would stop sending 'sinners' to the underworld after level 8 for so reason.
That's why Little Mortal didn't know what was going on with this place.
While puzzled, he circled the castle's camp and went to the other side.
When he jumped, he saw a pillar on the other side, so he ran to that side to take a look at it.
When he arrived in front of it, he saw a list of nas.
Similar to the ranking list from the mainland, but you could see every single na.
The top 10 nas were actually all familiar.
They were the sa outsiders on their side.
But he didn't see any 'Lord' in the ranking.
He kept looking until he saw another familiar na at rank 811.
Apollo, god of prophecy.
He rubbed his chin for a while and then left.
This ti, he went towards the castles.
Running between them, he didn't see a single living creature.
While puzzled, he started running towards the other side of the mainland.
How fast was he running?
No one could tell.
But he reached the other side of the Hunters mainland in 3 hours.
On his way, he did not see a single living creature.
The only scenery was the boring gray color and rocky ground as far as the eye could see.
But when he reached the other side,
Small bubbles started coming into his view in the sky far away.
And as he continued, more and more bubbles appeared, and he even saw living creatures.
Little mortal slowed down when he saw them.
The ground was still a rocky surface,
But the sa blue layer of fire, like the dark side of their normal mainland, covered the ground here, showing the effect of the mainland's high speed.
He walked closer to the living creatures and saw that all of them were rged with the ground.
Hands made of the sa rocky material as the ground were stretched out and tightened the creatures to the ground.
Everyone’s face was pale, and they seed to be under pressure.
He then looked at the bubbles in the sky, which were close to a hundred thousand of them up there, and, as if he figured out sothing, nodded to himself.
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Then he started walking between these creatures.
After an hour strolling among thousands of creatures with half of their bodies on the ground, he saw a group of 20 that were not rged with the ground through those rocky hands and instead were floating in the air.
He did not mind them and was going to continue, but he suddenly stopped.
He saw a man with a black beard and an eye patch over his left eye, who was among the creatures rged with the ground.
Little mortal went to the guy, looked at him in surprise, walked around him once, and then nodded, as though he confird sothing.
He was going to get back to his 'patrol', but then again, he stopped, and looked in a certain direction.
And he was not the only one,
The group of 20 creatures in the sky looked in the sa direction as well.
At this mont, a small crack suddenly appeared in the sky.
If it were a passage or portal, then it was man-made, so they needed to be vigilant about a possible invasion.
Sothing like what those chips tried to open on Planet Lubo.
But if it was a crack in space, it ans sothing random, like the wormhole that sent part of the solar system of the Assassin God away, and LittleMortal started his journey as a guardian from there.
It could just co and go for no particular reason.
While curious, the crowd got closer.
And Little Mortal, while frowning, just watched with interest.
But the next mont, his eyes suddenly widened in shock!
And the mont after that, sothing ca out of the crack and *RUMBLE*.
The sound of thunder echoed through the mainland!
A black lightning shot out of the crack and went through half of the group of 20.
In just a blink of an eye, 10 of them turned to ashes and went back to the 'lobby', or to be exact, back to their universes to resurrect!
As the dumbfounded crowd started sweating profusely, a middle-aged man appeared out of nowhere and asked the survivors in shock,
"What was that just now?"
And while trembling in fear, they answered,
"L-Lord, that was world law's punishnt lightning!"
The hair of everyone who heard the na stood on end, this so-called Lord included.
At this mont,
A passage that no one saw,
opened above the middle-aged man's shoulder, who they called 'Lord',
And a smaller version of the sa vulture from before ca out and landed on his shoulder.
No one reacted to its arrival as if they hadn't seen it.
But a certain little boy was now looking at the familiar vulture curiously when he saw that its size was smaller and its claws sank into the Lord's shoulder aggressively.
Little mortal suddenly turned his head towards the crack again.
It was closing slowly just a mont ago, but it opened again!
With a short delay, the vulture looked towards it too.
And again, *RUMBLE*.
Another black lightning shot out!
This ti, the target was obvious.
In the eyes of the onlookers, it was the Lord.
But in the eyes of Little Mortal and the vulture,
It was the vulture!
The vulture, which did not have ti to dodge,
Actually opened its beak, and bit at the lightning!
A special kind of aura appeared around its beak,
And it caught the lightning, not allowing it to pass through its body!
But when the lightning stuck between its beak,
It did not even stop for a mont and took away the vulture, which was holding onto the Lord's shoulder, and the Lord with it in a random direction.
Black sparkles covered the bodies of both of them.
The Lord was now screaming even though he was not directly targeted, and the vulture was trying its best to resist the attack!
In the blink of an eye,
Under the shocked gaze of Little Mortal and the rest of the crowd,
The Lord and the vulture on his shoulder were 'kidnapped' by the black lightning!
Little mortal who saw them disappear on the horizon,
Turned around and started running back towards the lava sea.
However, this ti, his speed was not the sa as before.
Because he was in a hurry, he changed his style.
While running,
Like when you are standing on a ball,
And then you start running, and the ball begins rotating in the opposite direction of your movent,
The mainland, too, which was not rotating at all,
Suddenly started rotating in the opposite direction of where Little Mortal's destination was under his feet!
Unbeknownst to Little Mortal, his action caused all the creatures rged with the ground to separate from it, and then they were sent flying away!
And the weird thing was that they all were being thrown in the sa direction.
All these creatures were actually carrying the mainland with their universes,
And that is why they were rged to the ground.
With invisible lines, they were connected to their universes above and pulling the Mainland.
To not fall behind too much from the 'speedy mainland' they were chasing, they were forced to use this strategy.
But now, with the planet's sudden rotation,
All of these connections between the universes in front and the higher beings rged with the mainland broke!
While they were dumbfounded and in chaos,
On the other side of the mainland,
Little mortal arrived at the sa place he started his journey.
This ti it only took him less than a minute to get back here.
Then he picked up the token, broke it, and the underworld gate appeared.
.....
The Underworld.
Lilith was patiently waiting at the sa hexagon.
It did not even take half a day, and the gate was summoned again from the other side.
Then the door kicked open, and she heard a roar of anger coming from the other side,
"Lilith!
What have you done!"
And then *BAM*, the door was closed again.
Little mortal appeared in front of her and shouted while jumping up and down,
"Partner, I'm in a hurry, send back, send back!"
Lilith did not even know what to think!
She hurriedly opened another passage and summoned a gate on the other side, leading to the speedy mainland.
Little mortal ran inside and slamd the door shut.
Lilith stood there dumbfounded.
Many things did not make sense.
First was that vulture.
Why was its voice coming from so far away?
It was clearly from sowhere outside of the lava sea and even the mainland's atmosphere.
Was it not standing guard where the gate opened?
Why would it leave so soon?
And what did this kid do that made it think it was her doing?
While puzzled, she chuckled and sent a ssage to her minions on Planet Lubo, telling them to watch if anything happens on their side.
The little troublemaker was in a hurry, so naturally, sothing related to his side was happening.
....
Planet Lubo.
On the silver platform,
The judge hamr vibrated.
The birth treasures beca vigilant.
The underworld gate ca out of the ground again,
The door kicked open,
And Little Mortal jumped out while shouting,
"Who knows what the real na of the space pirate is?
The boss of those guys who invaded the cultivation planet, and I kicked him away the other day!"
The Crystal vibrated.
< Galaxar! >
Little mortal shouted,
"World law, I'm in a hurry!
Challenge Galaxar for without any nonsense!"
The next mont, Little Mortal's figure disappeared, the sky turned dark, and the battlefield for challengers appeared.
One side was a man with a black beard and an eye patch.
He was the 'pirate god', or Galaxar, the man who would go outside of the 'zone' to collect the lost parts of the universes that were separated from them.
He would take the order from the one who won the part in the auction, and then do the 'collecting' for a certain price using space passages provided by the space goddess.
But after he went out to 'collect' the part from the Assassin God's universe, which was thrown out of the 'zone', he did not co back anymore, and it seems he ended up in Hunters Mainland sohow.
Now, in the barren battlefield, before he could figure out what was happening, his head was hit from behind with a spin kick, if you could call it that.
Because after the first spin kick, it was a second and a third, and to be sure, it was a fourth kick.
The pirate god, who was already downgraded to level 1 while getting hit in the head, felt his vision turn dark.
He did not even have ti to hear what was the challenge world law talking about, and he was already knocked out.
And before his body drops to the ground, Little Mortal tapped the prison cage on his waist,
That even the prison cage itself did not know when he took it away, and the body disappeared.
But the next mont, Little Mortal tapped the cage again, and it sent the Pirate God out again in confusion.
When the body appeared, Little Mortal kicked it away as far as he could, and then the figure of both of them disappeared.
The challenge ended.
On the silver platform,
Little mortal appeared again.
But there was no pirate god with him.
In this challenge, because the opponent did not turn into a puppet, he was free to return to his original location.
That is why the goddess of foresight could go back to her hideout when she admitted defeat,
But those who Little Mortal turned into puppets ca back with him.
At this mont, a small passage opened, and the guardian token ca out of it.
From its background, it was apparent that the token was coming back from the new area with the underworld's minion.
Seeing it coming,
Little mortal asked,
"I asked about the guardian position in the underworld.
Did you receive any ssage in those minions' territory?"
When he threw the token away before being dragged by Lilith to the gate,
He tapped the guardian token and ordered it to go to the land connected to the underworld and wait.
The token's chanical voice sounded,
[ Affirmative.
Underworld law sent a 'private ssage'.
From this day onwards,
The guardian of each mainland will be the guardian of its underworld territory too.]
Hearing the answer, Little Mortal shook his head, and after making so *tsk tsk* noises, said,
"That lady is indeed from the underworld.
She actually pretended not to hear anything, and said she is going to tell the underworld law I am a good boy if I work for her obediently ..."
Then he looked at his birthday gifts that were completely oblivious to what just happened and said,
"Can you believe it?
She tried to scam a 3-year-old!
Not only that,
She even forced to sign a contract to give her my birth treasure, Lubo, when my deal is done with it!
And for what?
Just for one-ti use of her gate to Hunters Mainland..."
Lubo was going to ask how he could be fooled so easily, but rembered that the deal was actually getting more and more lengthy.
The other side of the contract was going to wait for close to eternity, probably to get her hands on it...
Lubo wondered who scamd whom in reality.
It was a victim of this kid's scam too...
Not understanding what Little Mortal was saying,
The backpack trembled.
Little Mortal looked over and said,
"By Hunters Mainland, I an our enemy mainland.
The one that outsiders are originating from."
The birth treasures were at a loss,
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