Planet Lubo.
Little mortal knocked on his crystal,
"Get it?"
The crystal vibrated.
Little mortal nodded,
"Okay, all the birthday gifts, gather.
We are going to start a eting for my upcoming seven challenges."
Rows of silver chairs ca out of the backpack, and the treasures sat down.
Little mortal was going to start, but two people arrived.
"Oh, Assistant Rose, Lady Immortal Manager,
Do you want to join the eting?"
Immortal Manager smiled bitterly.
She was asked by the rest of the managers to co here and try to stop him from 'betting' on the whole universe with other higher beings in the na of challenge.
But she didn't expect to arrive when the eting for the next seven challenges was about to start...
They weren't even done with the new one, and this little guardian was after more.
And the real problem was that he couldn't feel the specific changes happening to the world around him after each universe was added to the guardian territory.
They themselves didn't know what it was, though.
They asked the Guardian Token about it, but it stated that Guardian Mortal is the first person to beco the guardian of the universe, let alone challenge other universes after that, so it didn't have any information related to these changes.
Either way, she ca here to talk to him about it.
She even asked Rose to co with her on the way, because she understood her boss better than they did.
But now...
The two could only sit down.
Immortal Manager raised her hand,
"Secret Guardian, are these challenges necessary?
If not, I was going to ask you about sothing."
Little mortal nodded,
"It is necessary.
For two reasons.
First, the two old generation parasites in the little cage.
If I don't win more universes, then it can't keep them in.
Second, 6 out of these seven parasites that I'm challenging now saw sothing they shouldn't have.
I need to silence them.
If there is anything to talk about, let's do it after my challenges."
Immortal Manager looked at the cage that was shaking slightly, and then at the little guardian,
And asked,
"How confident are you, Secret Guardian?
I ask this because the whole universe, that I don't even know how big it is, is on the line now..."
Little mortal puffed his chest and answered with confidence,
"100%.
If you don't believe it, just watch my plan, and you know."
Immortal Manager raised her eyebrows,
"Let's see it then!"
Little mortal snapped his finger, and a whiteboard appeared for him to start writing his plan.
[ List of the opponents:
1 - The Gardener [Pan]
Forr birth treasure -> World Tree
2 - The rmaid [Amphitrite]
Forr birth treasure -> Heaven's Tear
3 - The Troublemaker [Khali]
Forr birth treasure -> Gauntlet of Disaster
4 - The Rock Thrower [Hecate]
Forr birth treasure -> Starfall Stone
5 - The Chunk of Ice [Nejord]
Forr birth treasure -> Frostveil Crystal
6 - The Puppet Guy [Viros]
Forr birth treasure -> Puppet
7 - Grave Robber [Thanathel]
I haven't taken my birthday gift from him yet (outsider)
My teammates:
1. Punishnt Stick
2. World Tree
3. Heaven's Tear
4. Gauntlet of Disaster
5. Full Body Armor
6. Starfall Stone
7. Frostveil Crystal
8. Silver Knife
9. Prophecy Orb
10. Space Mirror
11. Headband and Wristbands
12. Judge Hamr
13. Punishnt Stick
14. Star Fusion
15. Soul Cube
16. Guardian Token
Helpful information that was confird in my previous challenge with the Politician:
- Higher beings who just resurrected are 20% weaker than usual
- The fighting ground for challenge is like the mainland,
And I can send secret ssages for free.
- Parasites who lost their birth treasure are 20% weaker than usual.]
After he was done writing, he turned to the crowd,
"Everyone, as you can see, I and my 16 birthday gifts, who are coming with , are going to face opponents with a 40% attack debuff.
With them being level 6, and being level 89,
What do you think the chance of winning is?"
Immortal Manager and Rose,
"-_-"
They looked at the chairs, and only now they rembered that every one of these treasures 'sitting' on these chairs was able to affect planets, if not solar systems, just by themselves...
What were they thinking when they thought he might put their world in danger?
And his opponents were already 40% weaker?
"Secret Guardian, what do you an, 20% weaker after they resurrect?
Aren't they alive?"
Little mortal chuckled,
"I just sent them all back to the lobby.
So they are resurrecting now."
The Immortal Manager gulped down.
She knew by 'lobby' he ant their starting point, probably.
100% chance of winning?
You are just going to fight an opponent you already defeated!
And they are even 40% weaker...
That's 1000% winning chance.
Little mortal continued,
"Alright, now, let explain our plan for the upcoming fights.
We have two versions of fighting.
The first version is before they are turned into puppets.
Second version after turning them into puppets.
Alright?
In the first version, we need to be cautious and use the elent of 'surprise', which is the responsibility of my birthday gifts.
By the way,
Do you know what the elent of surprise is?"
Rose answered,
"Like the fire elent that burns everything.
The elent of surprise can 'shock' everyone."
Little mortal gasped in 'shock',
"Assistant Rose!
You just used it on !
That's why I was shocked..."
The Immortal Manager felt Rose was now completely in sync with this little guardian's line of thought...
She could guess what the 'elent of surprise' was, but she didn't know he actually ant it as a real elent like fire or ice...
Then Little Mortal explained how their team of 16 birthday gifts is going to use this 'elent'...
Immortal Manager was speechless.
A Team of 16 overpowered 'fighters' 40% attack debuff on the opponent elent of surprise and a level 89 challenger...
Those seven opponents had no chance at all.
Little mortal clasped his hands,
"Any questions?"
The birth treasures 'shook their heads' and mourned for their forr masters...
"Alright.
And the second version of the fight will be the fancy one, with lots of special effects that I will decide about later.
Now, let's start."
Then he took a deep breath and said,
"I, guardian of the universe, Mortal, am challenging the higher beings Amphitrite, Pan, Hecate, Khali, Nejord, Viros, and Thanathel."
The sky turned dark.
The lights were turned off once more.
The voice of World Law sounded,
[ Guardian Mortal challenged seven higher beings simultaneously.
The living creatures in Mortal's territory can choose in his place to fight all of them at once,
Or one by one.
1. 1 VS 1
2. 7 VS 1 ]
Little mortal looked at the sky in shock!
"Wait, what?
I- I didn't an that!
I didn't want to waste ti and challenge them one by one!
Everybody, vote for one vs. one!"
Little mortal turned pale when he saw that two people had already voted for him to fight all of them at the sa ti!
"Who are they?
Do we have traitors?
Why would they vote for that?"
But that was the only two votes.
No one else voted for him, fighting them all together after that, and billions of votes were given for one vs one fights.
Little mortal wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead.
And so did the 'managers' who made a move just now, so that no one would vote for the seven against one.
They ssaged the creatures connected to them from their forr planets the mont they saw the voting...
Because of the Frontline effect, they could no longer force anyone, so they simply used the 'sent to all' ssage option.
A certain nephew in the Human Empire shook his head in disappointnt,
"Everyone is underestimating my great uncle's prowess..."
And a certain godson in the Demoness Sect,
"Yes, boss..."
The two who voted for '1 vs 7' without hesitation were naturally these two...
World Law,
[ 1 vs 1 fight has been chosen.
First challenge,
Mortal, against Nejord.]
....
Ice God, who just started his resurrection, appeared in a barren wasteland.
He was slightly shocked because World Law suddenly interfered with his resurrection and accelerated the process.
Then he heard the voice of World Law echoing through his universe,
[ Higher Being Nejord, you have been challenged by the Guardian of the Universe, Mortal.]
And then he appeared here.
The process is similar to when you challenge others, and then you appear in God's Arena.
Many questions ca to his mind.
'Challenged by Guardian of the Universe?
Mortal?
Wait, who killed in God's Arena?'
While his mind was in turmoil, Ice God tried to find the one who challenged him.
And then his eyes locked onto his opponent, which made him so shocked that a certain Goddess of Entertainnt on the mainland imdiately looked for his na in God's Ranking List to see how a dead god suddenly showed so much emotion!
What did Ice God see that made him so shocked,
Was a 3-ter-tall man,
In full body armor, wearing a pair of familiar gauntlets on his hands.
In his right hand, he had a familiar hamr,
And in his left hand, he was holding a familiar stick.
But those weren't the only familiar birth treasures he saw!
A famous headband and two wristbands.
A silver knife flying around him,
a group of treasures around his waist, which were all familiar to him, like everything else he just saw!
World Tree of Nature God,
Heaven's Tear of Sea Goddess,
God of teorite's Starfall Stone,
God of Prophecy's Prophecy Orb,
The Space Mirror of Space Goddess,
God of Explosion's Star Fusion, and most importantly,
His own birth treasure, Frostveil Crystal, which was floating above the man's head and emitting a cold blue aura at the mont, was there too!
'What even is this lineup?
Is this a birth treasure rebellion?'
With all the shock and 'surprise', he didn't hesitate and jumped up.
As he jumped, the ground froze in an instant, trapping the man in full body armor alongside it.
In the blink of an eye, a 2-ter thick layer of ice covered the ground and the man in armor, who seed to be too slow to react.
At the sa ti, a mountain-sized glacier appeared in the sky, falling towards the man.
Sharp icicles started shooting from the ground all over the place towards him, too.
But the next mont, as if Ice God felt sothing, the mountain-sized glacier changed direction towards him,
and simultaneously, an ice pillar with him as its center ford around him before expanding upward and downward.
And then,
BAM
The danger he suddenly felt hit his head from above, and he was smashed to the ground faster than the speed at which he had just jumped.
The whole ice pillar around him that was supposed to protect him, shattered from top to bottom while Ice God went through it.
He tried to transform his body into ice particles and rge with the ice ground, but he felt that his connection with the ice Law was unstable.
It kept connecting and disconnecting.
So, his body, which was about to change form, reverted to normal.
And then sothing smashed into his chest while he was lying on the ground.
The impact was so heavy that the ground shook and the 2-ter thick layer of ice on the ground with him as its center cracked in all directions!
The mountain-sized glacier that missed its target last ti changed direction again to hit Ice God himself and whatever smashed into his chest.
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It was only then that the birth treasures could free themselves from the frozen state.
And BAM, the glacier fell on Ice God.
The birth treasures looked towards the 'landing site', and they could only hear the sound of impact and the shock waves spreading in every direction, accompanied by the roar of anger underneath the mountain that had just crushed the two.
But the angry shouts weren't from Ice God,
Instead, they were from a familiar guardian.
"Do you rember ?"
BAM
"It's , Mortal!"
BAM BAM
"Weren't you so strong when you bullied my people?"
BAM BAM BAM
"You picked the wrong person to ss with!"
BAM BAM
"How does it feel to be the one getting bullied?"
BAM BAM
"You’re not so tough anymore, are you?"
BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM
The audience watching could feel the hatred in their guardian's voice...
What did this ice man called Nejord do to him?
The newborns watching this scene gulped down while sweating profusely.
Maybe they were the only ones who could understand how strong one should be to crush a Higher Being like this!
It didn't take long before the shock waves of Little Mortal's attacks pushed away all the ice and rubble around them and revealed him, who was beating up the motionless Ice God.
From ti to ti, a layer of ice would appear on Little Mortal's body, which would shatter without being able to freeze or slow his attacks.
As if it were Ice God who was trying to freeze his opponent, but it wasn't effective at all.
After another 100 or so punches to Ice God's face, Little Mortal suddenly stopped.
Ice God's body was full of cracks now, as if he would shatter at any ti.
Little Mortal stood up slowly,
"Cube, puppet, Finish Him!"
The two flew over hastily and started their job to 'Finish Him'.
Not long after, World Law announced the winner,
[ Nejord has been turned into Guardian Mortal's puppet.
Mortal wins.
Guardian Mortal, be ready for your next challenge.]
The next mont, the sky returned to normal, and Little Mortal appeared on the silver platform with his teammates, who had brought the new puppet.
The mont Ice God's body appeared, the silver platform froze imdiately, and the ice started spreading in every direction.
The prison cage hurriedly took him in.
Little Mortal looked at his slow prison cage, but didn't say anything.
Rose, who had just frozen with Immortal Manager, was freed by Frostveil Crystal, the Ice God's birth treasure.
She pretended nothing happened and ca to Little Mortal,
"Boss, are you fine?"
Little Mortal nodded, but didn't say anything.
"Boss, why didn't your birthday gifts help you at all?"
Little Mortal chuckled,
"Each of them needs a universe as support in normal circumstances to show their power.
But they are now sharing only the universe of the sneaky guy, that thug, and the politician.
And little cage needs the most support to keep the two old parasites in for now.
As I said before,
They are responsible for the 'elent of surprise' and nothing else."
Rose didn’t ask anything else.
It seems her boss wasn't in a good mood.
Everyone rembered when this little guardian had said in the past that his ultimate goal was 'revenge'.
Turned out that he wasn't joking.
And these Higher Beings weren't simple creatures at all.
Even that broken body of 'Nejord', which had the aura of only level 4 when it appeared on the silver platform, spread its effect to the surroundings so fast that nobody could react...
The sound of World Law echoed,
[ Second challenge.
Mortal, against Pan.]
The sky turned dark.
Little Mortal clenched his fist in anticipation and said,
"Alright, I'm level 90 now.
I can do this!"
The birth treasures, and the rest,
"-_-"
You just leveled up?
Little Mortal, before disappearing again, said,
"Good job, Little Crystal."
In the sky, a stone pillar made of 7 squares appeared after the start of the first challenge.
A question mark was in each of those squares, and at the beginning, only Ice God's face was revealed on the first square.
At this mont, another square with Little Mortal's face on it, which was in front of Ice God's face,
Started moving up to the next square with the '?' mark.
When it reached in front of it,
A picture appeared in the '?' place.
By now, everyone knew what this imaginary pillar was for.
They were the guardian Mortal's opponents, which would be revealed one by one after defeating the previous one.
And now another opponent was revealed.
The face of an Ent, the true face of Nature God.
A tree with a human face, and a human body to be exact.
In the sky, the sa barren land ca to everyone's view.
One side was the sa man in full body armor with all kinds of treasures from the previous challenge, and the opponent was the 'World Tree' this ti.
A halo of a huge tree with golden leaves was above the head of the man in armor.
The mont God of Nature saw his opponent, while shocked, he turned to his true form.
A towering Ent, at least 10 ters tall, appeared.
The barren ground instantly turned into a forest.
All kinds of trees and plants began to grow.
God of Nature opened the fight with a roar that echoed across the forest.
He was truly angry when he saw his own birth treasure flexing for him!
The tree roots rose from the ground as he summoned the forces of the earth and lashed at the man in full body armor like a whip.
The man in armor was sent flying like an empty shell,
And at the sa ti, a hole was made in God of Nature's head.
BAM
He was dumbfounded.
'What attacked ?'
The next mont, the whole forest trembled as if sothing had hit the ground!
Before Nature God could see what passed through his head and smashed the ground, another two holes appeared in his chest.
He only saw the afterimage of a small figure that appeared sowhere in a huge pit that seed to be the landing site of whatever shook everything, and made the hole in his head!
Before he could figure out who or what was attacking him, holes started appearing in his huge body, while the sound barrier was breaking all around him!
It was as if he were inside an invisible and unbreakable sphere, and sothing unstoppable was bouncing inside with him as its target!
Nature God, with visible fear on his face, tried to track down his target, but soon found out that even the sound barrier breaking was always with a second delay compared to his attacker's movents!
Every ti he first felt a new hole in his body, and only a second later, he could tell from the sound which direction he was attacked from!
He couldn't track down the other party!
At this mont,
The harmless trees and plants on the ground suddenly began transforming into horrifying tentacle monsters with mouths full of sharp teeth and thorns all over their bodies, while the tree trunks grew thicker and thicker.
In no ti, the whole forest moved around Nature God to protect him from the unknown attacker.
But even when these plants' random attacks hit or blocked the invisible attacker, they just shattered without exception, or got a hole in them to prove the attacker was still unstoppable.
After a while, God of Nature finally fell to the ground.
With each hole added to his body, he was getting weaker and weaker, and his connection to his Law of Nature beca less and less.
Until his connection was completely cut off and he could no longer bear it, causing him to fall under his own weight.
While lying on the ground,
His big head turned to the left with difficulty.
He could tell his attacker had finally stopped and landed there.
He saw a familiar little boy, looking at him with visible hatred in his eyes.
A Guardian Token was hanging on his waist.
BAM
Another hole appeared in his forehead, and now the little boy was on the other side of his head.
"Finish him!" said the little boy...
Not long after, Nature God, who finally saw who his real opponent was, joined the puppet team.
[ Higher Being, Pan, has been turned into Guardian Mortal's puppet.
Mortal wins.
Guardian Mortal, be ready for your next challenge.]
The group of one 'little man' and many birthday gifts appeared on the silver platform with the new puppet once again.
The trees in the surrounding area started growing at an unimaginable rate the mont God of Nature appeared.
But the cage took the new puppet in as fast as it could this ti.
Little Mortal looked at the stone pillar in the sky,
"I wonder who is next?"
[ Third challenge.
Mortal against Amphitrite.]
Little Mortal's face moved one square higher, and at the sa ti, the '?' in the pillar changed to the face of a woman with blue hair that was dancing like sea waves around her.
Her eyes were like the ocean itself; even one glance at them, and you had the feeling of being lost in a vast blue ocean.
Little Mortal smiled confidently,
"Now I finally broke through level 90!
With level 91,
I can finally unlock my second divine technique!
Who can stop now?"
Rose asked curiously,
"What divine technique?"
Little Mortal smiled mysteriously,
"Just watch!"
And disappeared with the 'Elent of surprise team'.
The sa barren land, the sa full body armor opponent, and the sa shocked, surprised, and finally, angry Higher Being after seeing the 'main character'.
Above the man's head in armor, a single drop of water was floating, while emitting blue auras with the background sound of sea waves.
Sea Goddess, Amphitrite, seeing her own birth treasure acting all cool and aweso for soone else, exploded in anger.
The ground suddenly turned wet, and the next mont water started rising from it.
The whole battlefield turned to sea in no ti.
Heavy rain started falling from the sky.
Any creature contacting the water would be locked on.
The man in armor, as if an invisible pressure had been applied to him, knelt.
The pressure of ocean depth was now applied to every corner of the battlefield.
But the pressure suddenly disappeared when a voice sounded,
"Bulubul."
And the next mont, Sea Goddess was the one who kneeled.
Two small hands at so point in ti were wrapped around her neck without her notice.
While choking her, the owner of the hands whispered to her ear,
"Blublllubul."
And while the words seed aningless, because it was spoken in the Mainland language, which was a universal language, she understood them.
The first word was,
"Equality."
And the whisper in her ears was,
"Sleep, little rmaid, sleep..."
And as she was downgraded to a 'mortal', or to be exact,
A level 1 'rmaid', her vision slowly darkened, and she fainted in shock and disbelief.
Little Mortal smiled mockingly at her and let her go.
The cube and the puppet both ca without being asked this ti.
At first, they thought that he might eventually drop below 51% soul.
Even if he could cheat the 51% law condition, because he was lawless, Soul was different.
But after five tries, they knew clearly that not only was this guy's law zero,
He probably didn't have a soul either, and like his law that was 0, his soul was Non-existent too.
And again, 51% of nothing was still nothing if he didn't have a soul...
He could basically have as many puppets as he wants!
While pondering how a Higher Being can move around and defeat people without a soul and without law, and even remain alive, another puppet was added to the team.
[ Higher Being Amphitrite has been turned into Guardian Mortal's puppet.
Mortal wins.
Guardian Mortal, be ready for your next challenge.]
The group ca back to the silver platform.
A small table with so fruit juice was ready now.
Little Mortal smiled,
"Assistant Rose, is it-"
Rose answered before he finished his question,
"It's 'spirit' fruit juice, boss!"
Little Mortal said,
"Oh, then I drink it after my challenges.
If I drink it now, that blue mist might expose my location."
Rose nodded,
"By the way, boss.
What was that 'Equality' you just used?
Isn't that like 'Judgnt by Age'?"
Rose, because she knew the language of the Mainland, could understand him even when he talked underwater.
Little Mortal shook his head,
"It's not if my opponent is a Higher Being.
They are born at level 6, so even if I use Judgnt by Age on them, and they beco 3 years old -
Wait, no, I an 40 years old!
Cough, sorry I mixed it with sothing else...
Anyway, as I was saying, even if they are the sa age as , they are still at level 6, just weaker.
But my other divine technique, 'Equality', is making us equal in terms of law temporarily.
And by the way, I didn't unlock it after reaching level 91; I could use it before, too.
What I unlocked is the ability to use it without touching people."
Rose rembered him punching or kicking people, and they would lose connection to the law inside their body and beco mortal on the spot.
"So it's that technique.
But how big is the area where you can affect your opponent without touching them?"
"10 cm (3.9 inch) in radius for each universe is the area of my domain now.
Which is...?"
"Sneaky guy, thug, politician, gardener, chunk of ice, and now rmaid?
That's 60 cm."
Little Mortal nodded,
"Add fortune teller and soulless guy too.
That's 8, and I'm now at level 92.
So basically, I'm unstoppable in an 80 cm radius..."
Then he shook his head in sadness,
"At the 'peak' of power, I was already feeling so lonely,
so indifferent... but now, I'm even going higher and higher..."
Everyone thought he was indeed invincible in these challenges!
He could use the 'elent of surprise',
He could hide completely from everyone's eyes,
And he could position the opponent in his 80 cm (31.5 inch) radius with his invisibility and turn them into level 1 creatures.
A sure win.
But they were wrong.
[ Fourth challenge.
Mortal, against Hecate.]
Little Mortal's face moved one square higher and stopped in front of the next '?'.
The '?' disappeared, and a stone head replaced it.
Little Mortal and his team appeared on the battlefield.
Seeing the new opponent, everyone beca speechless...
A giant, made of stone, at least 100 ters tall,
Appeared.
A mont later, the sky was filled with red dots.
And the red dots got bigger and bigger, as if they were getting closer and closer to the ground.
The birth treasures thought their little guardian could
at most use his 'Equality' technique on the tip of the pinky finger of this huge stone giant...
It was basically useless.
But, they were wrong again.
"Judgnt by Age."
Turned the stone giant into a small version of itself.
Smaller than 2 ters.
And then,
"Equality."
And that was it.
God of teorite received a beating alongside the teorite shower, which was now falling on its own head...
Little Mortal didn't even care about the teorites that were coming for them both and punched him enough to make the stone giant full of cracks.
The cube and puppet flew over to do their jobs.
This ti, the main character of the 'surprise elent' team, Starfall Stone, couldn't show off because the opponent didn't care about it at all.
Stones didn't have feelings, and it was the sa for this stone giant, who didn't show much surprise seeing its birth treasure with soone else.
The birth treasures even asked the Starfall Stone to change the direction of the teorites towards Little Mortal and its forr master to see what's going to happen.
And while it was excited because its forr master had lost control over the teorites when its law was reset to 0, it actually did as it was asked by the rest of the treasures.
And as they expected, the little boy didn't even have a scratch- ehhhh?
The birth treasures didn't have eyes,
But if they had, it would be wide open in shock now!
There were actually so small black cracks on Little Mortal's face now!
Did that really work?
Did they go overboard?
They all felt the shadow of death was slowly but surely towering over them!
[ Higher Being Hecate has been turned into Guardian Mortal's puppet.
Mortal wins.
Guardian Mortal, be ready for your next challenge.]
The group returned to the silver platform.
Seeing her boss's face, Rose was going to ask what had happened to him, but she saw the birth treasures making all kinds of signs for her not to ntion anything about the unknown cracks on his face.
Rose just furrowed her brow and didn't say anything.
Little Mortal stood there in silence for a while.
His fists were clenched, his face serious, and his breathing calm.
He muttered,
"Level 93.
My power is going out of control...
I need to be quick and go to that thing cultivators go to!
What was it called again?
Conclusion? Inclusion? Delusion?"
Rose tried to help,
"Seclusion?"
Little Mortal said,
"Yes, yes!
I need to go to that!"
The birth treasures,
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