Underworld.
Queen's citadel.
On a balcony, with the sea of fire as a view,
The underworld manager, Lilith the infernal, was enjoying the fresh hot breeze of her realm.
The sound of screams and the agony of the sinners was like lodic music to her ears.
While resting on her rocking chair with closed eyes, she was focused on a circular plate made of a special material on the table beside her.
The plate was deep blue, and a single sentence was written on it.
'Ancient ones special invite'
At this mont, the plate suddenly started moving slowly towards the edge of the table.
Lilith opened her eyes, and when she saw a small hand taking the invitation plate away, she smiled coldly and placed a finger on it.
"Hmm?"
A voice sounded, and a head ca up from behind the table.
"Oh, partner, you are awake!
I asked your daughter about you, and she said you are resting, so..."
And the small hand tried to pull the plate away again with more force.
Lilith, without letting go of the plate, said,
"I was going to destroy this invitation, but I had a hunch that you might co after it."
*Gasp*
"See!? That's Fate guiding you!"
Lilith smiled coldly,
"How about you tell what you have been up to recently?
Then I give you the invitation."
The owner of the small hand, Little Mortal, said,
"I didn't do anything to report...
I just went to that level 3 civilization, and when I heard about the invitation you destroy every ti, and they sent you one recently for that event, I hurried back to see if you still have it.
By the way, stop trying to smile coldly.
The only smile you can show is warm."
Lilith gritted her teeth.
She controlled her emotions and said,
"You didn't do anything?
You suddenly cut off the connection between the mainland and the underworld.
You cleaned up everything on the mainland, in heaven and earth, literally.
And you call that nothing?"
Little mortal raised his eyebrows,
"Oh, you're talking about that...
It was just a minor ergency that I didn't have ti to discuss with anyone.
Don't worry about it.
And look!
Isn't everything better than what it was before?"
And again, he tried to take the invitation.
But Lilith didn't let go.
Calling that sudden heart attack a minor ergency made the corner of Lilith's eyes twitch.
She pressed her finger with even more force on the invitation plate and said,
"How about you tell about your trip then?
How is the investigation?"
She knew he didn't want to talk about his sudden 'mainland purge' for so reason, but what about his 'investigation'?
Little mortal searched his pockets, and after finding nothing, said,
"Oh, right, I wrote the investigation result in my notebook, but because I couldn't bring it here, I left it at ho.
And you know, because of old age, we, the ancestors, can't rember the events happening in our daily life... Sigh..."
Lilith waved her other hand, and a gate opened.
"I gave access to all of your birth treasures.
You can go bring over whatever you want."
Little mortal looked at the other side of the gate, which was the silver platform, and said helplessly,
"Alright..."
But before leaving, he furrowed and asked,
"Partner, why do I feel the underworld is a lot more crowded and lively now?"
Lilith chuckled and said,
"You are asking ?
I heard so creatures tried to ss around in your territory and failed your 'Loyalty test',
So your assistant got angry, went to the judge hamr, and judged all of them.
After the trial, she sent all of the sinners down here."
Little mortal gasped,
"It should be her 'cultivator bloodline' that just activated!
I'm telling you, these cultivators are all like this.
They like to remove the 'problem' from its root.
And my assistant is actually a cultured one among them!
You should see a real cultivator! They are brutal!"
After sharing a few more horror stories about how savage and unreasonable cultivators are, and how good and responsible his assistant is, he was about to leave but stopped again.
This ti, he looked at Lilith thoughtfully.
Lilith, who thought for a mont he was going to use force, flinched.
Little mortal, while looking puzzled, walked to her and held her hand.
Lilith didn't dare even to move or make a sound anymore.
Did she go overboard?
Then she saw the world around her had changed, and now she was in the Dark world with phantoms above her head.
Then she heard a *gasp*, and she was back in her citadel.
*Sigh*
Hearing soone sigh, Lilith looked down at the little boy who was looking at her with pity, and asked nervously,
"W-what?"
While thinking to herself,
'Am I dying?
Why is he looking at like that?'
Little mortal shook his head and said,
"Fate is so ungrateful, right?
All this ti, I thought you were a Fate expert.
But guess what?
You weren't.
The only reason for fate being connected to you was those two communication devices..."
Lilith's eyes widened in shock,
"How is that possible?"
And tried to feel her connection with Fate.
And sure enough, there was no connection!
She looked at the person who seed to be closest to Fate while Fate was farthest from him, and asked,
"Can you explain what's going on?"
Little Mortal nodded,
"Yes, I can.
But I won't, that's classified information."
Lilith was speechless.
She asked,
"At least tell if it's a bad thing or a good thing?"
But Little Mortal left as if he had heard nothing.
He didn't leave through the gate, though, but went directly to the dark world.
What he just saw was obviously related to the Fate storyline.
There was no Fate line connected to Lilith anymore.
Little mortal started muttering to himself to figure out what happened to Lilith's connection with Fate.
"Fate had a plan for my partner.
First, she was supposed to be the vulture's partner, and enter the story through the lava sea of Hunters mainland.
And second, she probably was supposed to help the Vulture find the level 3 civilization by using her communication devices to lure so agents out.
But the lava sea isn't connected to Hunters mainland now; instead, it is connected to the speedy mainland.
Not only that, the communication devices she had were destroyed too.
Both things that could connect her to Fate and let her be part of Fate's story are now gone.
That's why she isn't in the story anymore...?"
Little Mortal gulped down nervously,
"Did I make a mistake in destroying those devices?
Would that alert Fate or hypermind?
What I did forced my partner to step out of the Matrix..."
Then he shrugged and left after muttering,
"Whatever.
This is what it is, and I hope there is no serious consequence for what I did."
After a couple of minutes, Little Mortal ca back with his notebook to the underworld, opened a page, and gave it to Lilith.
"Here.
This is the part of my investigation that your security level allows you to read."
Without knowing her security level, Lilith set aside the 'Fate' issue and read the investigation report.
[ Level 3 civilization investigation mission:
1. Travel is through underground subways.
(Rich people can use wormholes.)
2. 'Smart streets' (I can't use it.)
3. Agents are all information law users (So obvious why, right?)
4. For so reason, this mainland is lawless.
(It seems the reason is the high level of security.
Basically, there is no privacy here, not even in the toilet.
Disgusting...)
5. Nobody flies here except the big heads?
6. Buildings might be bigger and taller than they look.
(The floors are expanded in different dinsions, probably.)
7. Vault 44 is the prison
(There might be more of them.)
8. Vault cards can be activated by the agents
(Vault 44 was activated by Agent 44.)
9. All of the vault's cards have a mark.
11. Xyron, the sa storyteller who left a ssage in the robot that no one cared about its na.
He seems to be a cyborg, acting as a boss or sothing.
15. That sneaky Hypermind is the only one who knows about the sealed realm.
- Hypermind is pretending to be a god here.
16. It seems Hypermind knows about the sealed realm receiving reinforcents.
It sent its hunting dogs out to investigate.]
Lilith, who saw parts 10, 12, 13, and 14 of the investigation missing, asked,
"Where are the report numbers 10, 12, 13, and 14?"
"I just told you.
Your security level only allows you to see this much."
Lilith felt really annoyed.
She didn't know that Little Mortal didn't let her see the things related to the Fate plan so that she wouldn't expose him indirectly later.
More importantly, he didn't want her to know about the agents fooling her for so long right now.
"So the sinners' race is still around?
And you even found evidence that Hypermind is real?
Didn't you have your crystal with you?
Show so records!"
But Little Mortal, with a stern face, said,
"No!
That's classified information!
And I told you my investigation isn't complete,
So you should wait.
I just ca back to rescue the 'invitation'."
This ti, when he tried to pull the invitation plate, Lilith let go of it and asked,
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"I presu you are going to participate in sothing using this invitation?"
"I don't know yet.
By the way, can you give an underworld identity card that I can use there if needed?"
Lilith snorted,
"I'm not giving you anything until you tell what's going on there.
From your 'investigation', it seems you even know where Hypermind is, and you even know things that the sinners' race themselves don't."
While looking calm on the outside, Lilith was afraid inside.
She was ready for him to take over her body and force her to give him the ID card.
But Little Mortal put the plate in his pocket and disappeared after saying,
"Don't want it then."
Seeing him suddenly leave, Lilith was stunned!
"Why did he leave like that..."
Not long after, she suddenly sensed the mainland above starting to move.
Fast!
"What is it now?
Is it because of the 'hunting dogs'?"
....
Planet Lubo.
Silver platform.
Little Mortal ca here and called for the guardian token,
"Tell the mainland to move."
And the guardian token asked,
[Direction?]
"Opposite of the level 3 civilization's coordinate.
And by the way, tell it to gather any universe it sees on the way and don't leave anything behind."
[Affirmative.]
The guardian token imdiately contacted the space mirror, provided the coordinates received from it to the mainland, and inford it of what its guardian ordered.
Because the speedy mainland was always the winner of the bets between mainlands, its main law was still 'speed', and now with unlimited 'raw law' fueling it continuously from the black holes in the universe connected to it,
It was far faster than before and didn't need to save law for ergencies at all.
....
In the empty void,
Little Mortal looked at the two white dots far away, one small and one slightly bigger, in shock.
"Look how fast it got!
I really want to know if Hypermind's turtle mainlands can ever see the trail left behind from it, let alone catch up to it...
Anyway, it doesn't matter where they search for it.
They don't know that we know about their starting point, and our mainland only needs to move in the opposite direction from where they start their search.
With empty space having no end, and our mainland being far faster than them...
They basically can't catch up to it for eternity."
While chuckling, Little Mortal went to the dark world and started running back towards the level 3 civilization's mainland.
On his way, he started a conversation with his notebook and crystal.
"Okay, let's discuss our next move."
x2
"Now we know that hypermind is fooling the sinners' race, and they think it is a god.
Anything else to add?"
The Crystal vibrated,
And the Crystal said,
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