BOOM, World Law's voice echoed through the whole solar system,
[ Congratulations, Guardian Mortal, for becoming Solar System Guardian.
You are now qualified to participate in the contest for the position of Galaxy Guardian.
May fate be with you.]
Little Mortal ignored the message and shouted excitedly,
"Look, look, that's the shiny one I told you about!"
A while ago, Space Mirror opened a passage to a certain coordination that the Night Manager gave it, and a planet made of mostly iron content entered the solar system from a dark void without anything around.
The planet was floating by itself in an empty void until now.
And what was special about this planet was its strong magnetic field, which could mess with any artifact navigation, and its current frozen state.
Not long after that, another passage opened to the second, and last lost planet of the solar system.
The one that Little Mortal was excited about.
He introduced the newcomer of their solar system excitedly, while reading from his notebook,
"Crystalia, was its name before being lost.
Primarily composed of various types of crystalline structures, including quartz, amethyst, and rare minerals like opal and alexandrite.
The planet's surface is covered in vast crystal forests that reflect sunlight in a dazzling display of colors.
The unique crystalline formations on it,
Can create natural soundscapes as the wind passes through them, producing melodic tones.
Additionally, some crystals possess luminescent properties, glowing softly at night and creating a breathtaking light show.
And the planet's atmosphere is rich in gases that interact with the crystals, leading to spectacular auroras.
Isn't that awesome?
We should go there for sightseeing later!"
The crowd nodded blankly while looking at the new planet in the sky.
They learned many things about how big the universe is recently.
But those were just information, and they could only imagine it with their limited minds.
However, witnessing the arrival of a planet so dazzling in the sky was a completely different experience.
Little Mortal shouted,
"Okay, okay!
Where should we put it?
Where should we put it?"
The managers looked at the holographic image of the planet that had reappeared.
The updated version with the two planets combined.
Immortal Manager asked in panic,
"Guardian Mortal, what do you mean by where to put it?
Are you going to add this one to our planet, too?"
Little Mortal jumped up and down excitedly,
"Yes, yes!"
She, as the senior manager, could only shake her head helplessly,
"Alright, this place is the same one without living creatures..."
And like the other time,
the process of one side opening its mouth,
and the other side opening its mouth but bringing out its 'tongue' while going inside and fitting in perfectly, played in front of everyone to see.
The surface of the new planet became part of the old and bigger planet, while the core of both sides connected perfectly, as if they were always one and the same.
But they all only saw it on the hologram.
Like the other time, it all happened on the other side of the planet.
After that was the other planet's turn.
The next planet had a rugged terrain filled with iron mountains and valleys, giving it a rusty red appearance when the two planet managers saw it.
Little Mortal shouted,
"Lubo, be ready, the second one is coming,
Say AAAAA!"
And so, the planet became even bigger after merging with the second planet.
"Lady Night, it's your turn, let's do this while I'm warmed up!"
Lady Night, who was dumbfounded by what was happening, came back to her senses,
"What turn?"
Little Mortal shouted,
"It's your planet wedding night!
Where are there no living creatures on your planet? Point at it!
Be quick!"
Lady Night pointed at a place on the new hologram,
Her planet's hologram, to be exact,
"Here, here!"
Little Mortal's voice echoed with the crystal's help through both Night Planet and the merged planet,
"Alright, my dear passengers, sit tight!
Don't forget about your seat belts!
We are going to land!"
Night Manager's soul almost left her body...
She saw her planet literally being eaten...
Not long after, like the other time, Little Mortal started the celebration by giving snacks to everyone.
When the stressed crowd ate their snacks, Litt Mortal asked,
"Alright, everyone,
We need to change the name of our planet.
From now on, we should call it?"
Immortal Manager said,
"Guardian Planet?"
Little Mortal shook his head.
The Old Manager said,
"Secret Guardian Planet?"
Little Mortal attacked him.
Night Manager said,
"Vampire Werewolves Ancestor?"
Little Mortal rolled his eyes.
Assistant Rose said,
"The one Guardian Mortal chooses?"
Little Mortal nodded.
The crowd,
"-_-"
Why did you ask us then?
Little Mortal said,
"It's obvious what we should call it.
Let me ask you, what will happen if a planet's mass increases?"
The crowd shook their heads.
They didn't know.
"The gravity increases!"
Rose asked in wonder,
"Then why don't I feel any changes in gravity?"
Little Mortal smiled proudly,
"Because of Lubo, my birth treasure!
This silly World Law thinks it's an evil birth treasure, and that's not wrong!
But under my control, Lubo is actually the best treasure to merge planets without any changes on the surface, the gravity, or the atmosphere!
Especially with me as a guardian supporting it.
The process is close to perfect!
See how awesome my birth treasure is, and how good it is in managing our planet's physical form and characteristics?
So the Planet's name should be?"
Rose chuckled,
"Planet Lubo?"
Little Mortal clapped for her,
"My assistant is the smartest.
By the way, Lubo stands for 'Let Us Be One', it's just too long to call it that."
The crowd nodded in understanding.
The name made sense now.
Then he said,
"By the way, Lubo, that's three more planets.
In total, it's 499,995 years in my account to use your power before the payment."
Lubo, the evil birth treasure,
"..."
The rating of it getting fed didn't make sense to it.
It thought to itself,
'Mortal, oh mortal, I don't know what you are doing.
But I only need a couple of more angels to eat and regain enough power to give you a lesson.
I want to see if you, or World Law, can stop me by then...'
Little Mortal suddenly remembered something and shouted,
"Mr. Token, stop the guardian ceremony of the Night Planet if it was going to start!"
[It's already on pause.]
Little Mortal raised an eyebrow,
"Oh, now you are showing some intelligence, I see?"
Then he took out his notebook,
"Okay, let me see what task is still left."
[1. Install the Lubo ✓
2. Q&A after the ceremony ✓
3. Operation 'Let Us Be One' ✓✓✓✓✓(499,995 years)
4. Took care of the final boss of the neighborhood ✓
5. Be ready for the newborn's ceremony ✓
6. Send back the Crystal and get a new one ✓
7. See if anyone forgot to give me my birthday gift ✓
8.vGo with the vampire princess to find the lost planets✓
9. Complete the solar system ✓
10. Wake up the solar system manager.]
"Oh, I almost forgot about that guy!"
Then he asked,
"Mr. Token, is our solar system manager awake?
He should be fine now."
[ Affirmative.
He is on the way here.]
Little Mortal nodded.
"Give him permission to enter the planet."
Then he looked at the little newborns who seemed to be in a trance.
"What are they doing?"
Rose answered,
"They are watching your guardian ceremony from before."
Little Mortal gasped,
"You can watch it again?"
It seems he wanted to watch it too.
Rose bit her lips,
"If you can connect to World Law..."
Little Mortal froze, then stubbornly shrugged,
"Humph, I can see it with my crystal, right, little crystal?"
The little crystal vibrated.
"It's on the main crystal...?"
Little Mortal felt depressed.
He looked at the sky and muttered like a senior,
who was facing a great difficulty in life,
"This, too, shall pass."
To distract him from this topic,
Rose said,
"Guardian Mortal, we were so lucky, weren't we?
What if our two planets were separated from the sun instead of these two?
We would be frozen by now!"
The rest nodded.
But Little Mortal nodded then shook his head,
"It was indeed luck, but because I wished for it."
Immortal Manager raised her eyebrow,
"Oh, don't tell me it was the 'gold coin' you used in our bet?"
Little Mortal nodded,
"Yes, that's my lucky coin, another one of my birthday gifts.
But its good luck is a scam, that's why I don't use it much."
The Old Manager who found the coin was a birth treasure too, asked,
"How is it a scam?
You used it two times here, and it worked pretty well both times, right?
Once for the pill that Princess Xena made,
And once for the bet with Immortal World..."
Little Mortal gritted his teeth, walked to the old man, and said while glaring at him,
"It worked pretty well, you say?"
Old Manager's forehead was already covered in sweat,
"I-it didn't?"
Little Mortal said with disdain,
"First of all, I didn't use it twice, but thrice.
Now, tell me what else did I use it for?"
The Old Manager's hands started trembling.
What else?
Then he saw Rose secretly writing some words with light behind Little Mortal.
When he read the sentence, he just remembered,
"To wish our two planets 'luck'..."
Little Mortal nodded,
"That's why you stayed with the sun, and didn't freeze in some random place in the empty void.
Now, let me tell you why I said that the lucky coin is a scam.
It's because when I wish 'luck' for myself or others,
I need to pay the price for that used amount of luck, by receiving bad luck."
The crowd was shocked!
The Old Manager said,
"Then the reason for you to be stuck inside that snowball was the wish you made for Princess Xena to be lucky in making that pill?"
"Yep."
"And for the bet, you got unlucky because of the token not reminding you about Ronnie's blood and scholar's foreign knowledge beforehand?"
"Yep, it malfunctioned."
The Old Manager was puzzled,
"For such simple things, such bad luck.
Then what was the bad luck after you wished for our safety?"
Little Mortal looked at the others and said,
"Can anyone guess?
I give you a hint."
Then he pointed at the newborns watching his ceremony,
"In normal circumstances, newborns of incomplete universes like me and them are level 1 after they are reborn in the mainland.
And at the age of three, we are level 3."
Rose was the first to connect the dots!
She gasped in shock,
"So you should be like them too!
A level 3!
And the day you arrived here was the day of invasion!
But because of your invisible presence, they wouldn't see you as a higher being like the six children that we just 'like' and want to help without any reason,
But as a defenseless higher being that they could do anything with!?"
Little Mortal started clapping.
Then he looked at the rest, and they started clapping too.
"Indeed, it was like a death sentence for me if I were like them.
Nice analysis, Assistant Rose.
But,"
He turned to the old man again,
"I wasn't affected at all by any of my unlucky encounters, because?"
He waited for the old man to answer.
The Old Manager panicked and glanced at Rose secretly.
And she showed him a number this time.
"Because you are level 85!"
Little Mortal raised his eyebrows,
"So smart!?"
Then nodded, and in a helpless and sad tone, sighed while mumbling to himself,
"In front of absolute power, even bad luck can only bow down its head...
In this world, nothing can affect me anymore...
There is nothing to challenge me, or to make me feel scared, or angry...
Is this loneliness, the price of unlimited power...?"
The crowd was at a loss for words.
Only Rose was chuckling.
But they still couldn't understand what level he was,
And if he was supposed to be level 3, like these newborns, why wasn't he?
At this moment, the three managers looked in a certain direction.
Little Mortal looked at them curiously,
"What is it?"
Immortal Manager said,
"I think our solar system manager has arrived."
The two managers, after choosing to follow him,
Became level 4 with the support of the big orb.
Night Manager was already level 4.
So they all felt the arrival of a level 4 colleague.
Rose was feeling something, too.
Because she was going up the ranks currently.
It was the same for special force members with divine candy, because Little Mortal became Solar System Guardian just now, they could advance to a higher level.
Hearing the solar system manager coming,
Little Mortal jumped inside the backpack, changed into his suit, and shouted,
"Mr. Token, come here."
And then he hung it on his waist, tidied his suit,
And stood there with a professional smile.
Ready to welcome him.
The crowd nodded to themselves.
This little guardian was indeed respectful and professional when it was an official meeting.
A brief moment later, the same man whom the two managers saw in the bet, the middle-aged man in a purple manager's robe, descended from the sky.
Little Mortal waved his hand,
"Welcome, Solar System Manager.
I am-"
But the man raised his hand.
As if he was saying, 'don't talk', and went straight to the six little newborns.
Little Mortal's smile froze.
The crowd's hearts jumped to their throat.
Was he crazy?
Of all people, you are disrespecting this guy?
But to their surprise, Little Mortal took a deep breath,
Didn't get angry and acted like an adult.
He walked to him, who was floating and watching the newborns with a wide and kind smile, and said again,
"Hello, Mr. Solar System Manager,
I am Morta-"
But,
"Be quiet," said the man in a purple robe.
The crowd knew it was over.
But then again, Little Mortal didn't get angry.
Seeing him tolerate him for a second time,
They tried to send the man a message.
But the spiritual message was off because of Little Mortal, and the secret message on air was useless, because the Solar System Manager was staring at the six little ones with so much 'love' that he couldn't see anything else.
He didn't even blink.
Little Mortal cleared his throat and said for the third time,
"Solar System Manager, I am Solar System Guardian,
Our universal ranking is the same, so your behavior is disrespectful to me, and I don't appreciate-"
The Solar System Manager, without looking at him, in an impatient tone said,
"Quit yapping."
The crowd closed their eyes this time.
He was done for.
Little Mortal froze on the spot.
His hand was shaking slightly, from anger, probably...
He stood there quietly.
The newborns started coming out of the 'cinema' one by one.
Now, to some extent, they knew with whom they had made a contract.
He was a newborn like them, but seemed a little violent and a lot stronger.
Then they saw the smiling middle-aged man in a purple robe.
The Solar System Manager opened his mouth to say 'hi' to these higher beings that made him have thoughts of worshipping them.
But before he could say a word, his mouth was closed again.
The last thing he saw was the fear in the newborn's eyes, who seemed to be looking at something behind him.
A moment ago, Little Mortal jumped up, raised his hands, and, like two small hammers, smashed the man's head from above.
First, his skull dented, then his neck disappeared, and after that, his head.
All of it sank inside his chest due to the heavy impact.
And he became a headless man.
The six little ones gasped.
The Managers shook their heads.
Rose's eyes were shining while muttering to herself,
"That's what you get from ignoring my boss."
A moment later, the headless body turned to stardust, and a passing wind blew his remains away...
Little Mortal then said,
"Mr. Token, send a message to World Law.
This dude isn't allowed to step on our planet, or any other planet in my territory."
[Request has been sent.]
[Request has been accepted.]
"Send another message.
My birth treasures are allowed to use the law of my territory to support themselves."
[Request has been sent.]
[Request has been denied by Solar System Manager.]
Immortal Manager shook her head.
The Old Manager put a hand on his forehead.
The Night Manager felt that the guy was an idiot to say 'no'.
Rose furrowed.
She knew someone was going to learn another lesson...
Little Mortal nodded,
"Alright then, Space Mirror, use karma connection and find where that dude resurrected."
[ It is suggested to-]
"To what ?"
[... Nothing.]
The Token could feel it; Guardian Mortal was only one step away from getting angry enough to crush it for real.
A passage opened.
The guy in a purple robe was on the other side.
Little Mortal disappeared.
The next moment, he was in front of the guy's face with his hands open, as if he was going to hug him.
Then he clapped his hands with the guy's head in the middle.
The head exploded into stardust, and so did his body shortly after.
Little Mortal swam back from the void.
"Find him again."
The passage closed and opened again.
The man whose body had just formed again tried to run.
Little Mortal snorted, put one leg back, and placed both hands on the ground, like someone about to start a 100-meter race, and disappeared again.
The next moment, he had already passed through the body of the Solar System Manager, literally!
The three Managers felt the whole planet spin a little faster when he ran to the passage this time.
As if his body was kind of connected with the whole planet, and not just where he was standing.
Like when you are standing on a ball, if you try to go forward, the whole ball will rotate under your feet the opposite way, not just part of it...
Little Mortal swam back.
"Again."
A passage opened, and as he went in, a World Law message echoed in the ears of the Managers, and a voice message with the same content sounded from the Guardian Token.
[ Solar System Manager is under unknown assault. Frontline Guardian, Mortal, provide support.]
The crowd didn't know what to think...
They looked at the Solar System Manager, who got assaulted again and turned to stardust, and wondered how 'invisible' this little Guardian is.
Even this so-called World Law that he said is above all laws can't feel him?
And now it was asking the one who is responsible for the assault to go and stop the assault?
On paper, he was the 'Frontline Guardian',
And he himself or anyone else shouldn't be able to harm anyone in his territory.
But his invisible state makes it impossible for World Law to detect the source of the attacks.
World Law couldn't even send the 'damage' taken by the Solar System Manager back to the Guardian, because World Law couldn't find him at the moment...
The crowd shivered!
What kind of Frontline Guardian is that, if he could turn his presence off and on?
Little Mortal swam back,
"Again."
This time, the Solar System Manager raised his hand, to show his submission, but Little Mortal's hand was already in his throat.
Immortal Manager shook her head,
"Did he just try to communicate with him through spiritual messages?"
The other two nodded...
The only place Little Mortal could receive or send spiritual messages was the mainland.
Because the 'internet' was free for everyone there.
But here?
Impossible.
After the tenth time getting destroyed, there were visible cracks all over the Solar System Manager.
It was obvious that he was losing something related to his life force.
The crowd felt they might witness him kill someone for the first time...
But what would happen to their Solar System if its manager dies?
The voice of the World Law sounded again, but this time for the whole Solar System.
[ Unknown assault on your Solar System Manager has been detected.
The Solar System Manager is on the verge of death.
Guardian Mortal, the death of the Solar System Manager is equal to your loss of Guardian position.]
Little Mortal, who just came back, snorted,
"I already have a professional team of followers, managers, and special forces.
I'll go become somewhere else's Guardian.
Again!"
Another passage opened.
The worried crowd got their answer.
It seems he already thought it through,
And with his birth treasures,
He could just pack up everything and leave...
After 15 times of getting destroyed, and the constant messaging of the World Law, there was finally a new message.
This time from the Token,
[ Solar System Manager agreed to your request for your birth treasures' usage of law.]
Little Mortal didn't care and went inside again.
The crowd, who thought that unlucky Solar Manager finally used his brain, found out it was a little too late.
This time, when he got destroyed, and Little Mortal swam back, he didn't say 'again', and instead said,
"Alright, Space Mirror, let's go back to our galaxy,
Feel free to use the law of the Solar System from now on; the same goes for the rest of you.
I know it's not much yet, but soon, it will be."
The crowd finally sighed in relief.
Seems he worked out his anger.
The little newborns were hiding behind the White Tiger and whispering to each other at this moment,
"What should we do?"
"He is too savage, let's just listen to him..."
"Yes, I don't want him to explode my head!"
"What about our birth treasures?
It says in the contract that we can ask for them..."
"You really think now is a good time for that?"
"Just forget about it.
Our new home is a complete Solar System now.
We can become as strong as the Solar System Manager."
"Alright, let's just find a safe place far away from him."
And so, they asked White Tiger where the safest and farthest place from the 'Evil God' is, and after some thought, he took them away 'secretly'.
His destination?
Forbidden Jungle, Lady Turtle's territory.
...
Assassin God's Universe.
Outer part of the universe.
Galaxy 'ETC2361'.
At this moment, a humongous space passage opened.
First, a small planet arrived, followed by two smaller moons.
Not long after, the sun appeared.
The planet, or to be exact, planet Lubo, looked small because the sun was too big.
In reality, the original radius of the cultivation planet was around 6000 km.
But now, with the immortal planet that was 10 times bigger, and another three planets added later on, together,
The new Lubo planet was more than 15000 km in radius, with two moons orbiting around it.
But in front of their Solar System's sun, with a radius of 1,800,000 km, it was still looking small.
Little Mortal patted the mirror,
"You worked hard.
You too, Lubo."
One opened the passage, and the other pushed everything to the other side.
The Managers and Rose didn't know what happened.
The scale of the 'trip' was too big.
But from the usually dark sky, that was now full of flickering lights, they knew they weren't in the same place.
Only the Solar System Manager saw that they were back 'home', while they were still dumbfounded...
Rose asked,
"Boss, are these lights stars?"
Little Mortal shook his head,
"Not all of them.
Some of them are other galaxies.
But they are too far, so we see them like this."
Little Mortal then asked his token,
"Mr. Token, explain to me again how I can become a Galaxy Guardian?"
[ Challenge the strongest Solar System Guardian.]
"Well, find the other party so I can challenge him, or her."
[Searching...]
[Search failed, there is no Guardian except you in this universe.]
"What should I do then?"
[ Find the Galaxy Manager, ask for a challenge.
The Manager will be forced to choose someone as a representative to take the challenge.]
"Well, find the Galaxy Manager then."
[ Searching...]
[Search failed, this galaxy doesn't have any manager.]
"Okaaay, and?"
[Dead end.
Guardian should find a way for himself.]
Little Mortal scratched his head,
"Are you sure you aren't 'Karma Token'?"
[Affirmative.]
"Then why are you so useless when it comes to matters related to the Guardian? But so professional with karma connection?"
The Token didn't answer.
Little Mortal looked at the rest.
They knew he was looking for ideas.
Night Manager said,
"I might have an idea..."
Little Mortal raised his eyebrow in surprise,
"I knew you were reliable!
Tell me wh-"
But the prison cage hanging on the backpack suddenly started shaking, interrupting him.
Little Mortal furrowed and went to it.
After a brief communication,
"Oh, because we are back in his universe, he got a boost in power?
Well, for how long can you keep him in?
Feel free to get help from the laws of my Guardian territory."
The crowd gazed nervously at the cage.
Night Manager didn't know, but the rest of them knew,
There was a higher being inside.
And not only one, but two...
Little Mortal, after communicating with the cage, nodded,
"3 days?
Alright, we should hurry up then.
If this guy comes out, with his infinite revive skill here, I can't do anything to him..."
He was going to ask the Night Manager about her idea,
But his new crystal jumped up this time,
"What is it, Little Crystal?"
"Oh, I knew the word 'Guardian' could trigger someone.
But what's the problem?
The one buying it should 'feel' pretty much annoyed now, right?"
"Eh?
Not annoyed but suspicious?
And who is the other party?"
"Well, connect to the Token's karma function, see if you can find out who we are dealing with.
If it's someone related to me by karma, we can find out who it is."
"Oh, it's that foresight girl?
Never mind her, then, she is always like a scared little rat hiding behind the scenes.
But remember, if a real old generation god shows up at Big Sister's door, tell me immediately.
I can go there and show myself so that they won't be suspicious."
By the way, you have been challenged, but because you are here and not in the Mainland, your challengers are stuck in God's Arena.>
"And who are they?"
If you go back to the Mainland, you will be forced to participate in the duel with all of them.>
"You think the moment I go there, I will be forced to fight them?
Don't they know how the bottom rank with zero law works?"
The Crystal went silent and then vibrated.
"Eh!
You don't know either?
Wait... If you don't know, and they don't know,
It means I can just keep them there?
Oh my goodness...
This passive 'fate skill' is so overpowered that I'm speechless..."
The crystal started flying around his head while vibrating.
Little Mortal chuckled,
"I'll tell you, but you can't tell anyone about it!"
"Well, it's pretty simple.
Anyone with zero law, if challenged, the challenger can't fight him until he or she absorbs at least a single thread of law, or accepts the challenge willingly.
In the mainland, higher beings with any amount of law can challenge someone without law, like me,
But they need to wait for me to come to their 'law' category first, and then World Law is going to officially start the challenge.
If I don't have any law to lose, what's the point of the challenge? What do they receive if I lose?
Nothing!
And guess what?
Your boy here can't leave the lawless category even if he wants to."
And then he started laughing hysterically.
The crowd heard so much new information that they were speechless.
What did he do when he left for a couple of hours?
A bunch of higher beings challenged him?
They all looked at the new birth treasures.
'Are they the owner of his new birthday gifts?'
The backpack trembled at this moment.
Little Mortal stopped laughing and said confidently,
"Don't worry, big guy, no way they know about their birth treasures.
They challenged me just because I didn't call them gods, and instead used their real names in the list of actors in my second video."
Then he shook his head,
"They are so petty, aren't they?
Challenging a lawless, defenseless, and petite little boy like me five vs 1...
I'm embarrassed in their place."
But the Crystal vibrated again.
"Huh?
There is an extra one?
No way it's that fortune teller or the foresight girl!
Who is it then?"
"Puppet Master?
That disgusting guy?"
Little Mortal was speechless...
"I barely know him, and he is not even on my revenge list!
What's his problem with me?"
The birth treasures looked at the puppet hanging on the backpack, speechless.
You sure you don't have a problem with him?
The Guardian Token's mechanical voice sounded,
[ Karma connection with Puppet Master has been established...]
The place turned silent.
Only the prison cage was shaking...