Mainland.
In her secret hideout, the Goddess of Foresight was looking at her child crystal.
Today, the Mainland's troublemaker, Mortal, to everyone's disbelief, uploaded a picture on his channel!
He actually found a new place out there in the empty space!
How lucky he was!?
The picture he uploaded wasn't anything special, though.
It was an old lady with scary green eyes.
Behind her was a shelf filled with bottles containing blue liquid.
The wall behind the shelf was covered by a mirror surface, and in the mirror's reflection, you could clearly see the one who took the picture, which was a certain familiar troublemaker.
Behind the little photographer was a complete view of the place itself, which appeared to be a tavern with nurous people sitting and drinking.
The na of the picture was,
[ I, my new ho, and my new underlings.]
Seeing the picture,
Everyone thought he was lucky enough to be taken in by a random universe out there passing by.
The only thing everyone could do was to wish the owner of that universe luck for taking him in.
Everyone knew that bringing him to your ho would only lead to chaos and nothing else.
But for so other entities, this picture had a completely different aning.
The Entertainnt Goddess, while standing on the tallest tower of her castle, hands behind her back, and arrogantly overseeing the empty Mainland with her peak level 7 power,
muttered to herself while glancing at the picture on her main screen,
"Now he is uploading pictures of his secret mission to his channel?
Which idiot trusted him with a secret mission?
Are they out of their minds?
Don't they know he can't be left alone or trusted with his broken head?"
After Little Mortal's theft of birth treasures,
All of the castles around her territory were gone.
From ti to ti, a big shot would co and start digging the Mainland, and others couldn't be spared if their castles were on their way.
But most of them were scared that the little thief might still be around, until today, when they finally saw a picture of him in an unknown place.
Around Entertainnt Goddess's castle,
Only the bustling city that manifested from her imagination was left.
While in her own thoughts, her body suddenly shivered.
A white canary appeared out of thin air and sat on her shoulder at this mont,
"Little girl, give one of your crystals."
The white canary wanted to see the spy's report as soon as it was 'uploaded', so it ca to Entertainnt Goddess.
It knew there was probably a ssage in this picture, and probably future pictures, for it.
Entertainnt Goddess flinched,
"Oh, greetings, Senior Manager!
Give a mont, please."
And made a special child crystal imdiately.
The canary received the crystal and nodded, but before it left, Entertainnt Goddess asked,
"Senior Manager, can you help with a small matter?"
The 10% smaller than normal canary tilted its head,
"What?"
And Entertainnt Goddess her palm to it,
"Can you try to hurt a little?
I want to test sothing."
While confused, the canary nodded and pecked her.
*ding*
The white canary,
"-_-"
Entertainnt Goddess,
"So I really achieved an indestructible body..."
The white canary suddenly rembered about that unknown entity, and said before leaving,
"Little girl, it's not you.
It's soone else who is protecting you."
Entertainnt Goddess was silent for a mont and then asked,
"My beloved crystal, what did it say is true?"
"Is it related to that 'secret organization' with little Mortal playing as a secret agent?"
The crystal was at a loss for a brief mont...
Was it related?
"Now I understand what you an.
Whatever the source of this benefit is,
With little Mortal's involvent, that secret organization will be disbanded if not destroyed sooner or later...
So we should try to go all out with our law gathering and be ready for the ti I find a way to advance again!"
The crystal didn't reply anymore.
The 'little secret agent' of that imaginary organization was also its boss.
So yeah, she was basically right; with little Mortal as the organization boss, he could close it down at any mont.
And for her to find a way to advance further, well, the Crystal could only wish her luck, because the only possible place was planet Lubo.
....
The white canary, deep in thought, flew in a random direction.
Suddenly, it saw a 'brave' higher being, with one hand gripping onto his birth treasure, flying by.
So to test sothing, it changed its direction, and a mont later,
*BAM*
The 'brave' higher being who ca to the Mainland was sent flying with a broken hand.
The canary nodded,
"I knew that guy was bluffing!
What 'protecting everyone'?
What heavenly father?
He can only protect so specific creatures related to him."
And left to see what else this unknown entity, which was controlling the newborn called Mortal behind the scenes, was going to show it next.
It knew that while everyone saw the creatures in this picture as normal creatures of a normal planet,
They were actually the enemy troops they might face soon!
This was especially true for the Goddess of Foresight, who actually recognized the old lady with scary green eyes in the picture!
But not from the past,
Instead of the inevitable future that she saw a day ago.
In her hideout,
She looked at her birth treasure, the lantern, and asked nervously,
"Did I choose the right path?"
She saw a new foresight recently.
Again, with two paths for her to choose between!
One side was clear, and the ending was clearly shown.
It was a group of more than 10 known and famous higher beings, including her colleagues from the God's Council, who were all lying in their own blood sowhere unfamiliar.
She herself was one of the corpses covered in blood, completely dead.
And the sa old lady from the picture little Mortal uploaded just now was actually between a group of more than a hundred different creatures, looking down on them with her scary green eyes from above.
The second path, which was the 'right' path again, was shrouded in mist, just as it had been last ti.
She didn't hesitate this ti and chose the 'right' path.
What could be a fate worse than death?
And after reaching the end of the 'right' path, this ti easily with the help of her 'lantern', she saw a picture once again, just as she had last ti.
In this picture, she was standing behind a group of higher beings, all unfamiliar, except a couple of familiar faces that she had never t before, but saw them on her first foresight.
One of them that she recognized imdiately was the girl in red with white eyes, who seed to be soone close to Mortal from her first foresight.
In this foresight, she was at the frontline, behind a scholar who seed to be the leader of their group.
But none of that mattered.
What was important was the enemy they were facing and what lay before them.
Corpses of familiar higher beings from her Mainland were scattered everywhere, turning back to their original laws one by one, as if it were after their death and they were returning to their universes for resurrection.
In front of them,
Close to 90 thousand higher beings that she didn't know a single one of were ready to attack them,
While she was in a group of unknown people whom she felt were her comrades.
It seems they were in the midst of a bloody battle, but everyone from their side died and only they remained standing...
She wondered how this was the 'right' path?
On one side, everyone died,
And on one side, their group was facing tens of thousands of enemy troops!
The lantern, which felt its master's doubt, said,
"Which one?"
The puppet vibrated again.
"Oh, one of the souls that was stuck inside Little Cube.
Call it over then.
These souls were supposed to bring so information that we already know now..."
A passage opened, and a puppet walked out.
It was a guard puppet made of tal.
"Greetings, Guardian Mortal."
Hearing the chanical voice, Little Mortal nodded,
"Hello 'illegal dead soul in the world of the living using a puppet to move around'."
The puppet,
"..."
It seems he wasn't happy to see them in the world of the 'living' at all.
"Ahem, Guardian Mortal, I gathered so information that you might want to know, as I promised."
Little Mortal nodded,
"Let's hear it."
The puppet nodded,
"First is about the Mainland's level up."
Little Mortal interrupted the puppet,
"We already know that, next."
The puppet nodded,
"Oh, okay.
How about level 2 and level 3 civilizations?"
Little Mortal raised an eyebrow,
"I just saw a level 2, the ones harvesting sun energy to move around instead of using universes,
But I know nothing about level 3 civilization except they are possibly good at playing with black holes."
The puppet was slightly surprised,
"Your guess is correct, Guardian Mortal.
But there are two things.
One is that level 2 civilizations are working secretly under the order of an organization from the level 3 civilization.
And the second thing is that level 3 civilization can actually make temporary passages to black holes and destroy other Mainlands through the strong gravity pull of the blackhole!
One of the souls told that their Mainland was swallowed by such a device, and nothing was left except those who weren't there at the mont of the black hole's activation.
They just saw everything turned dark, and then their Mainland was gone.
The universes connected to that Mainland that weren't close to it and survived were taken away, and this peculiar soul's universe, which told about this, was sold to 'Soul God' later on by a wandering 'Agent'."
Little Mortal was taking notes now.
The birth treasures wondered if they are dangerous for using 'black holes' to attack or not.
What about a certain guardian who can throw the black hole with all its glory at others if he wants to?
What that level 3 civilization was proud of was like a sad joke compared to what he could do with black holes...
It seems even this 'final boss' looking civilization still had a long way to go to deal with an anomaly like him.
Little Mortal, after a while, asked,
"What did you an, level 2 civilizations?
There is more than one?"
The puppet nodded,
"The collective information from all of the souls points to at least 5 of them, but we were trapped for too long, so we don't know if there are more or fewer of them now."
Little Mortal asked in wonder,
"How is it that there are so many of them?
One could be a coincidence, but how many stupid parasites can be out there to let more of such civilizations rise in their universe?
And all of that aside, how can they even enter the Mainland and deal with all the other parasites there?
It doesn't make sense at all!"
The puppet shrugged,
"None of the souls knew much about them, except the level 3 civilization, which is backing them up.
Either way, no one knows where this level 3 civilization is.
The only thing that you might encounter from there is their 'Agents', that the souls only heard about their na and didn't know anything else about them except appearing in random places."
"Alright, anything else?"
The puppet pointed in a certain direction,
"Guardian Mortal, I saw many normal creatures advancing to level 6 there, using the higher beings' advancent.
You'd better stop them."
Little Mortal furrowed his brow,
"Why would I?"
"Because a creature who goes from the first step of level 1 up to level 6 is far stronger and more dangerous compared to a higher being who never experienced being weak.
The reason no higher being allows any creature in their universe, even to reach the peak of level 5, is this.
If they beco level 6, they are invincible!"
Little Mortal gasped,
"No way!"
The puppet nodded,
"Yes!
You should stop them!"
And Little Mortal nodded repeatedly,
"Alright, alright.
What else?"
The puppet sighed in relief,
"Nothing much.
Only the limit on evil and normal Mainlands,
that you should already know."
Little Mortal nodded,
"Yeah, I read about it recently.
Evil Mainlands can only have one level 8 at their peak, with an unlimited number of level 7s.
Normal Mainlands can only have one level 9 at their peak, with an unlimited number of level 8."
Then he chuckled,
"It seems World Law really isn't satisfied with either of them, huh?"
The puppet didn't understand what he ant and said,
"So, Guardian Mortal, can we stay here for a while longer?
I an, I, and the other souls thought if you let us stay, we can be helpful..."
Little Mortal nodded,
"Sure.
Anything else?"
The puppet shook his head while surprised as to why he accepted his request so easily,
"That's all, I take my leave!"
And left excitedly to give the news to the rest of the souls.
After the passage closed, the backpack trembled.
And Little Mortal shook his head again,
"Nah, as you know, I don't like to ss with the 'natural order' of the world around ."
When he said that, all of the birthday gifts started sending private ssages to the backpack,
But the backpack trembled anyway, out of habit.
Little Mortal suddenly froze when he heard what it said, and then attacked!
"What do you an, 'this planet you are making is destroying any natural order'!?
This is my ho, I can design it however I want!"
*Bam* *Bam* *Bam*
A one-sided fight broke out with Little Mortal against all of his birthday gifts, who saw the beating was coming and tried to team up and resist!
The whole planet started shaking!
Poor Goddess of Foresight, who felt better after being comforted by thousands of fairies, started crying again when she saw a certain guardian beating up a group of famous birth treasures that he won in his bet!
But to her surprise, the fairies were all excited, watching the fight with the newborns' crystal Live.
"Oh, look!
Big Guy said what it shouldn't, again!"
"Senior Backpack is indeed fearless!"
"How many tis did it do this?"
"Legend says that Senior Backpack was like this from the first day!"
"Oh no, Boss caught them before they could run inside the passage!"
"Look at that stupid blade trying to cut him down!"
"Hahaha, he caught the blade with two fingers!"
"Such an embarrassnt for a cool-looking blade!"
"Eh! They predicted his move?"
"I bet that snitch Hourglass is trying to see who gets beaten in the future and is snitching on Boss!"
"Well, they can try!"
"And *Bam* another perfect uppercut!"
"In front of absolute power, all these fancy laws are nothing but a clown act!"
Watching the scene and the excited fairies, Goddess of Foresight joined them with teary eyes.
A certain crystal would show Little Mortal's acts of violence to everyone on the planet anyti there was an opportunity, to farm law.
And on special occasions, it would show them live, like now, and this ti made a certain goddess cry again watching it.
Goddess of Foresight didn't know, but others knew that this little monster was never serious when beating up his own 'people'.
He was just playing around with them.
They all saw him fight more seriously in his challenges and they could tell the difference.
After a while, Little Mortal cald down and rubbed his chin,
"Should I go to my partner in the underworld now or later?
Well, I'll go after I beco 'Secret Mainland Guardian'.
I want to see the difference in our Underworld hexagon."
And then he went to help with planet developnt.
All day, every day, different planets, mostly without life, were being added.
So he took the supervisor role until nightti, before eating his dinner and going to sleep.
All those who thought this little guy would be gone for a week or two, but saw him coming back after a day, finally felt peace when he went to his sleeping bag.
"Zzzzz..."
....
Morning.
While eating his breakfast, Little Mortal said,
"Mr. Token, leave a child token here that has access to the Tokens with Outsiders.
When you change places with that child token on the hunter's side, I need to know about their progress and how many universes they won."
A special child token appeared,
[ Through this token, you can see their progress in real-ti.]
Little Mortal looked at the token with the five nas of the remaining outsiders on it and the number [3] in front of each na, and nodded.
"Looks like they worked harder and beat up two more of our parasites.
Well, off you go, Mr. Token.
That ugly vulture should have the child token by now and awaits your arrival.
It has been 1 day on our side, so it should be 10 days on their side."
[ Affirmative.]
And the main guardian token changed places with its child token.
"Little Puppet, see what ssage is in it."
The puppet, using its forr master's connection, tried to connect with the child token.
As if sothing scanned the Puppet master, a ssage was delivered to him.
The puppet master repeated it:
[ Let the main guardian token stay with here.
Only contact us through this thod two more tis.
Once when everyone is at level 7,
And once when you are ready on your side to slow down the Mainland, so we can catch up with you.
Please note that we have no other ans of contact with you.
The 'contact orbs' on our side were all destroyed by black lightning.
Lord.]
Little Mortal's spoon, hearing the last part, froze in front of his mouth!
The birthday gifts were stunned!
That black lightning actually went there and destroyed their communication device?
Little Mortal took a deep breath and continued with his breakfast,
"I can't believe it.
My 'passive fate skill' is untraceable, unpredictable, and mysterious to my enemies, and even myself.
Even I, the one who activates it, am incapable of understanding it, and what its real target might be...
Let alone my enemies..."
He couldn't help but shake his head like a defeated senior under his own power.
The birth treasures were speechless.
It seems that challenging the 'Pirate God' had nothing to do with his so-called fate skill.
That lightning was doing its job, with or without him on the scene, to cut off the communication between the two sides.
In this way, the risk of 'God of Prophecy' exposing them in any ergency call from Lord was removed.
It was as if, after Little Mortal beca the guardian, and the world law said, 'may the fate be with you', he was always receiving a secret help from fate.
Little Mortal finished his breakfast and asked,
"Let's get back to work.
Little Crystal, upload today's picture on my channel."
And Little Mortal went to watch the new planets joining them.
.....
Hunters Mainland.
The vulture who pretends to be Lord,
Received the main guardian token.
"Good, it's the real token.
It seems that kid, Viros, isn't planning anything stupid.
Now, if everything goes as I planned,
In around 20 weeks, based on our ti, they can slow down the mainland."
.....
Speedy Mainland.
A second picture was uploaded in Little Mortal's channel with the title, [ Our new neighbor.].
Everyone was confused seeing it,
Except outsiders, who wondered, 'How did this happen?'
It was a picture of Little Mortal, taking a selfie of himself, snow falling from the sky, and a white planet covered in snow farther away in the background.
Those who didn't know thought it was the planet's moon, and only wondered why the rest of the sky was so empty with no flickering light of stars.
Which wasn't that rare to them.
Different higher beings had different ways of managing their planets and their galaxy.
But the outsiders recognized the 'Moon' on the spot and wondered,
'That's Undead Mainland, which was supposed to be far behind us!
What happened that they caught up?'
Now they felt the urgency to not only beco level 7, but level 8 too, because the undead had a lord plus an army as strong, if not stronger than them.
Now everything depends on them to level up here as fast as they can, and then face the undead army.
Even one more level 8 on their side could change the outco of the war completely.
They all asked God of Prophecy to ask Lord about this new developnt on their side,
And he said he would contact Lord ahead of their scheduled ti to ask what was going on and how those undead were now caught up.
....
Day 3.
Another picture was uploaded.
This ti, it was Little Mortal standing beside a man's feet.
ssy hair, unkept beard, with a lazy aura that even looking at him made you feel sleepy.
The man was pointing in a certain direction, and Little Mortal was looking at him thoughtfully.
The picture's na was,
[ My friend and I, discussing the future developnts.]
The outsiders who saw the 'friend' were dumbfounded, and a terrifying fact ca to their minds.
'What if even Lord can't feel his presence?
What if he starts a chaos similar to what he did here?
Were they not considered traitors for sending him there?
They would die under the mainland's contract on the spot if that were the case!'
But the sa day, they received a ssage from Apollo, God of Prophecy, who told them what the Lord said in response to his call!
[ Everything is fine, don't worry about him.
We just let him play here while we act as his friends,
This way he won't run.]
The outsiders gasped in shock.
So even Lord couldn't find him if he turned invisible,
But he ca up with this idea of becoming his friend to prevent him from going 'undercover'.
That was smart!
Why didn't they do that?
....
Castle of Entertainnt Goddess.
"He is making trouble again, isn't he...?
But he told that he will co back soon,
Why is he still there then?
I bet he ruined everything and even that 'secret organization' just abandoned him..."
The Crystal was puzzled,
It was with its master all the ti, and knew everything about Mortal, who was indeed back 3 days ago, but how did she know about him?
Entertainnt Goddess was going to answer, but paused for a mont, and then said while smiling mysteriously,
"Not telling!"
The Crystal was speechless.
She is taking revenge, isn't she?
The white canary, which was the only one feeling the 'real' aning behind this picture, was now thinking to itself,
'So he showed the man with level 8 aura,
Because he knows I am the only one who can feel his aura, to say this guy is the one I need to deal with?'
The canary was confused,
'What was that white planet in the previous picture then?
Another mainland?
If there are two of them, then...'
The white canary gulped down nervously.
It couldn't understand the aning of these pictures completely...
....
Day 4, the fourth picture was uploaded.
[ I and my army.]
This ti, it was the picture of Little Mortal among thousands of people, who were connected to the ground by so hands made of rock.
Seeing the number, the white canary was shocked.
'Is this the number of their higher beings?
That's the army we need to face?"
And the outsiders could only sigh helplessly.
'Why Lord letting him show these pictures?
Because no one knows that's a mainland?
Or like us, he doesn't know he smuggled a child crystal with himself?'
They felt like crying.
----
Day 5.
[ Undead apocalypse.]
In the picture, a vast number of skeletons, and the sa people from the 'army' picture, were in the middle of a colossal battle.
The 'ignorant higher beings' thought the higher being of this universe was training his soldiers using the undead.
The outsiders thought that the 'chaos effect' of a certain invisible newborn was taking effect.
Entertainnt Goddess nodded and thought That's how it should be with Little Mortal around.
And the White canary thought the unknown entity was trying to tell him the other side is a mainland they need to face too, but the two aren't allies.
----
Day 6.
[ I called for the support team to co!]
In the new picture, nurous spaceships have been added to the war.
They were now attacking the undead planet.
The 'Ignorant higher beings' were speechless as to how literally an invisible character, and probably on the run, can even call for such a 'support'?
The outsiders thought they were basically traitors with the ss over there, and they could die at any mont, so they started challenging everyone like crazy to save their own lives by taking over this mainland.
Entertainnt Goddess nodded once again and thought it was still not enough chaos; this little boy's potential was more than this.
And the white canary, who saw the sign of the third mainland entering the equation, was now completely at a loss...
What is even happening?
.....
Day 7.
[ My new ho.]
This ti, it was a picture of the undead and spaceships destroying each other on a snowy planet in the background, while Little Mortal was in a city filled with construction robots and advanced-looking technology.
The ignorant thought he ran to another planet.
The outsiders who didn't see their troops on the scene, and wondered why?
Received a ssage from Apollo,
"Lord said,
'I finally got rid of the 'mole' and kicked him out of our mainland to make trouble sowhere else.
We are back on the road again."
The outsiders could finally breathe a sigh of relief...
'So even Lord couldn't handle that troublemaker...'
Entertainnt Goddess nodded for the third ti, and thought he was done with the previous planet, so he entered a 'new map'.
The canary who saw two enemies fighting and one missing, wondered if it ans the one they are going to face soon is now alone, but tired from the fight it had with the undead?
....
Day 8.
[ My new ho is so fragile.]
Now there was no undead in the picture.
The advanced-looking planet was in ruin.
The spaceships seem to be falling from the sky as if they were off.
All of the tall buildings in the picture were collapsing, and a trail of fire was behind Little Mortal...
The ignorant were speechless...
The outsiders were speechless...
Entertainnt Goddess was speechless...
And the white canary was speechless too...
Everyone thought,
'Did he just cause the destruction of a whole planet/mainland?'
-----
Day 9.
[ I am the only survivor.]
In this picture, there was nothing but darkness.
An empty and dark space, with Little Mortal floating alone towards an unknown direction...
It seems he was kicked out of that place, too.
Everyone wondered about the sa thing this ti.
'Who will be the next unlucky one?'
In just a couple of pictures, they actually saw the chaos and destruction happening around this troublemaker, and how he actually survived all of them, while everyone else's fate was unknown!
Entertainnt Goddess looked at her Crystal,
"Is he fine?"
The Crystal,
< Not telling. >
"..."
....
The white canary looked at the bubbles in the sky.
Its eyes shone, and it saw many lines connecting different bubbles to each other.
It wondered,
"What should I do now?
Make a move and kick out these universes taken by those outsiders?
Or wait?"
*Sigh*
Because he helped advance to level 8, I trust him one more ti."
Then it thought about the pictures,
"From what he showed , I understand what he ans.
There are many enemies out there after us,
So we can't run away forever, and us to fight!
But I only wait for two more days.
If he wants to play his ga, he'd better show a sign before I kick all of these outsiders out of the zone..."
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