Planet Lubo.
Silver platform.
Morning.
Little mortal was now chewing something while writing something on the whiteboard.
What he was writing was his analysis of new information that he gained about the evil Mainland's level up,
And how it could be applied to the enemy mainland to which he was going to be sent.
[ - The 'lunatic parasites' -> level 7
- Enemy manager -> at least two levels higher, level 9
- It means everyone, including 'Lord', is level 7
Question :
What makes them come after our weak mainland?
Answer :
Probably the pure law of 'speed'
- Conclusion 1 (For level 9 Mainland):
Final boss: Evil mainland's Level 9 manager
Mini Boss: Peak Level 7 Lord
Minions: bunch of Level 7
Goal: Devouring Speed Law to run from higher-level mainlands and hunt weaker mainlands.
- Conclusion 2 (For level 10 Mainland):
Final boss: Evil mainland's Level 10 manager
Mini boss: Level 8 Lord (?)
Minions: Bunch of Level 7 (or maybe more Level 8?)
Goal: looking for 'speed buff', to make their hunt easier.
Conclusion based on advanced mathematics :
- Level 108 guardian > level 10 or 8 or whatever enemy
- Chance of winning: 100%]
At the end, Little Mortal nodded.
"Everything is fine.
There is still no hope for anyone to stop my unstoppable rise."
Then he muttered,
"Now I don't need to be worried about the outsiders.
Even if they took over 100 universes,
They can't advance to level 8.
They are just here to contribute to the hunt and gain their mainland's approval for future level-up.
I can even let them take over as many universes as they want.
I just need to apply the Frontline effect to the child tokens.
This way, they can't even scratch my people under their temporary rule."
[ It is suggested not to risk the life of-]
"Mr. Token."
[ Yes, guardian mortal.]
"Do you know how strong my body is?"
[ There is no information related to-]
"Did you ever see a scratch on my body due to external reasons?"
[ Negative.]
"Exactly.
Even I, the owner of my body,
Can't measure how strong my body is.
So,
Do me a favor, and don't underestimate me while you, like me, don't know my limits."
[ Affirmative.]
"I know my body isn't stable from inside, but,"
He patted his chest,
"From outside, it's the definition of the word 'solid',
And no one in this 'zone' can harm me or anyone under my protection!
Do you... Understand?"
[ Yes.]
However, it is suggested not to let outsiders take over more than 10 universes.
They are already blended in with our zone,
Or their names wouldn't be in the 'ranking list'.
Taking over more than 10 universes might fulfill the condition to level up like others.
So they only need to release the suppression on themselves to become level 7 again.]
Hearing the analysis, Little Mortal's mouth was slightly opened.
Then he gasped,
"Oh no!
What was I thinking?
If they are part of our zone, after winning over 10 universes as a guardian, they can immediately advance to level 7!
Without me around,
They can basically start a mess or even expose my identity somehow!
All of my plans would be ruined by then, even though they can't kill any living creature!"
Then he patted the guardian token and said,
"Mr. Token, your suggestion was helpful.
Tell me what you want, and I grant you one of your requests as your reward if it's in my power."
The guardian token said immediately,
[ Free my master... when you are done with your 'plans'.]
Little mortal, hearing the immediate answer, smiled,
"Mr. Token, if you collaborate with me in my journey,
With all you've got, and put 100% of your output in the job,
I promise you, as the guardian, that I will release your master in 1 year, regardless of the situation I am in.
How about that?"
The token trembled.
Was it from excitement?
Did it see hope for its master?
Or was it shocked...
No one knew.
But it answered,
[ Affirmative.]
Little mortal nodded and turned to the rest of the birth treasures,
"You already know,"
Then he pointed at Entertainment Goddess and the rest in the sky,
"They can at most be a smokescreen for me in the future."
Then he pointed at them,
"But you, my friends, are my real comrades!
The ones who accompany me on the Frontline, for this great cause."
Then, with a genuine smile, he said,
"So, it's the same for you guys.
Help me for 1 year, with all you've got,
And I let your masters have a good ending."
And after a pause, he said,
"And it doesn't matter if I fail in my journey or not,
I grant you your freedom after 1 year.
When that day comes, you are free to stay on this planet or leave.
The decision will be yours to make."
The birth treasures could clearly hear the 'honesty' in his voice.
When they looked at the crowd floating around Entertainment Goddess,
While they were getting strong,
It was indeed too far from the enemies they were dealing with.
And this little guardian, and those who supported him to cover his weaknesses, were indeed the real 'soldiers' on the Frontline while the rest were a smokescreen.
Even an entity like the mainland manager was barely a support character.
So,
They completely believed what he said and what he meant by letting their masters have a good ending.
He indeed could decide their future at this point with what he had at his disposal.
He could easily challenge them and turn them into his puppets, or kill them and prevent them from being resurrected.
It was even better for him to do so.
Why not just turn all +6000 universe owners of their zone into his puppets?
Wouldn't he become level +6000?
Who could stop him at that point?
He only needed time for that, maybe a year or two, and it would be done.
But it was obvious that he had many 'red lines' unlike other higher beings...
Or he was thinking further away on the path and had other plans in mind.
There were many things that he obviously knew, but none of them had any knowledge about.
Like the Mainlands that seem to be of two kinds, normal and evil, or the Dark World and even Hell that he traveled to.
After thinking about these things,
The birth treasures decided to help him for a year.
They didn't know why only a year,
But they could guess it was because he was confident that he could reach his goal in this period of time,
And as powerful as he was now,
and as fast as he was leveling up to unknown levels,
He didn't really need any birth treasure or puppet after a year.
Little mortal noted what he analyzed in his notebook, and then jumped inside the backpack,
Changed into his martial arts clothes and said to himself,
"6 days to go, three Main planets' fates remain to be cut off!
I can do this!"
The birth treasures,
<-_->
You were done with 11 on the first day...
What are you encouraging yourself for?
The remaining 3?
How about you use your advanced mathematics to realize that '3' isn't that much bigger than '11', and you don't need 6 days for the job to be done?
...
God of Meteorite's main planet.
Little mortal was now standing in outer space, looking at it doubtfully.
The planet itself seems to act as a weapon, hurling meteors into space and gathering some in return.
It was like a cycle of throwing and catching meteorites.
When Little Mortal reached the ground, he was even more doubtful.
The surface of the planet was covered in large and small craters caused by constant meteorite strikes.
Some were still active, radiating hot air and molten metal.
Even some streams of liquid metal were formed, which flow through the planet, while glowing with heat and energy.
Looking at the craters and rocks all over the place,
With the meteorite shower everywhere,
Little mortal asked in puzzlement,
"Where are the soldiers or whatever creature he trains here?"
The token on his waist vibrated.
Little mortal scratched his head and tapped the token.
A passage opened, and God of Meteorite,
The stone giant walked out.
Then he looked around and shouted,
"Gather."
While Little Mortal looked around curiously.
A brief moment later,
The ground started trembling.
Different body parts began to rise from the ground.
In no time, mini stone giants filled the place.
It turns out that the So-called army was training under the meteorite shower, but they were buried after being hit by the meteorites for so long...
God of Meteorite said,
"I am dying."
The stone giants nodded.
The corner of Little Mortal's eyes, which saw them accept the fact so easily, twitched.
Then he shook his head, and the God of Meteorite said,
"Well, goodbye.
Listen to Guardian Mortal after my death."
The stone giants nodded again.
God of Meteorite gave them a last look and crumbled.
The giants stood there silently.
A passage opened, and Lubo took the planet away,
While the giants didn't show any reaction until the end.
...
Silver platform.
Little mortal came back,
"Well, that was awkward."
[5. The Rock Thrower's main planet
character: no one
Final boss: Rock Thrower
Mission accomplished ✓]
While he was putting the notebook back in his pocket, The Crystal came over and vibrated.
Little mortal frowned,
"Did it happen just now that his fate was cut off?"
The Crystal vibrated again,
Little mortal, while stroking his chin, looked at the stone giant and said,
"This dude is so suspicious."
And then shrugged,
"Forget it.
Little prison, take the rock thrower away.
If it can't generate law anymore, then there is no use for it."
The God of Meteorite stood up and walked towards the cage.
But before the prison cage could take it in,
Little mortal suddenly jumped above his head and slapped it with both hands.
*BAM*
Even though the two small hands looked harmless, the palm strike was so strong that from top to bottom, the stone giant started turning to powder!
The puppets and birth treasures were shocked by the sudden move!
What happened this time that triggered him?
Can you calm down for a day?
You just woke up!
But before anyone could understand the reason for his sudden 'rage', a *BiP* sound came from inside the stone powder on the ground, and alerted everyone.
The next moment, something fast shot out of!
Its target was Little Mortal's forehead.
No one in the crowd, even the level 7 God of Life and Death, could follow its movement.
Little mortal looked down the next moment after the *BiP* sound.
Now, there was a rectangular object, like a chip with a glass cover, between his thumb and index finger.
A red light was emitting from it while the *BiP* sounded every 10 seconds.
The onlookers didn't even see when he caught it...
Lubo's old voice sounded at this moment,
"Take a look at the new planet."
With a serious face, little mortal said,
"Little Mirror."
And the space mirror, which understood the meaning, opened a passage to where the God of Meteorite's Main Planet Had just merged with planet Lubo.
Seeing the scene on the other side,
Little mortal's jaw dropped.
At this moment, millions, if not billions, of the same 'chip' in his hand were floating in the air there.
But not just randomly.
It seemed they were trying to get into a certain formation.
The space mirror started vibrating at this moment,
And so did the glasses of knowledge.
< They are trying to open a wormhole! >
< They are planning to send 'information' through the wormhole! >
Little mortal asked hastily while doing some random hand seals,
"Can you track down the receiver's coordinates?"
The space mirror vibrated,
But if they form the formation, the moment the wormhole opens, I receive the coordinates immediately, but the chips can send the information they are trying to deliver! >
Hearing the answer, Little mortal's figure disappeared, leaving a sentence behind,
"Use everything we have as support and find the other party. Leave the rest to me!"
And as if his hand seals were finished,
"Secret technique, 100% stealth mode!"
The space mirror immediately began tracking the coordinates of the unknown location that was attempting to receive the information.
On the other side,
The flying objects attempted to form a formation and open the wormhole.
1 hour later,
The flying objects attempted to form a formation.
2 hours later,
The flying objects were still trying to make the formation.
3 hours passed,
And the flying objects still didn't succeed...
The birth treasure didn't understand why they were so slow.
The Crystal started replaying the record of the other side's activities for the past 3 hours to see if they could figure out what was going on.
The record started playing, and the crystal sped it up to 10x.
And sure enough,
Now they could see why these objects couldn't make the formation.
It was as though an invisible hand was continually picking them up and then placing them back where they had not long before been.
The entire scene that was playing out for them at 10 times speed was more like a 10-second loop for those millions of chips.
Everything would return to its starting point every 100 seconds...
It seems Little Mortal was actually on the move the whole time!
They couldn't help but admit that he was indeed fast, 100% invisible, precise, and accurate in keeping them busy so the space mirror could find the coordinates they were trying to connect to.
Four hours later, the space mirror finally locked onto a coordinate and then onto a planet.
From the size of the planet, which it couldn't tell how big it was, it knew it was probably another Mainland.
To give a sign, it wrote a sentence on the ground on the other side of the hidden passage.
[Found it.]
A moment later, a voice sounded,
"Good.
Everyone, help me catch them now!"
It was Little Mortal who came to this side and asked for backup.
And without a second word, the birth treasures took action!
The Heaven's Tear, Sea Goddess's birth treasure,
Went to the other side, followed by Frostveil Crystal.
One made the whole area rain,
And when the flying objects got wet,
The other one started freezing them.
While they could still fly, they were a lot slower now.
The Blood Devourer, the Punishment Stick, and the Pot joined after.
The aura emitted from the sword was 'heavy' like its master, and made the objects even slower.
The Pot appeared in the sky, upside down,
and turned bigger and bigger.
Then it fell over the flying objects and swallowed them all in one fell swoop.
And while it got smaller, Heaven's Tear filled it with water, while the Frostveil Crystal froze the water.
Underneath the Pot,
The Punishment Stick and the Blood Devourer were swinging at any of the chips trying to 'run out', sending them back inside the Pot.
All the flying objects were captured in a matter of seconds.
Little mortal, with 10 of them in his hands,
Which was too many for his small hands and left no more space, looked at the performance of his birthday gifts in shock,
And then at the 10 in his own hand, a little embarrassed...
A while later,
The hunting team was back at the 'base' after the successful hunt.
A whiteboard was placed, and Little Mortal's emergency meeting started.
"Alright, everyone.
As you see,"
He pointed at the ball of ice filled with the captured chips,
"We have new enemies, who are trying to stuff themselves into our story, uninvited."
The crowd nodded.
Indeed, they weren't done with the outsiders, 'Lord',
Evil manager, and evil mainland,
But a new and unknown enemy joined the fun.
"Now, let's analyze the information we have and figure out what we are dealing with here."
Then he pointed at the image that the crystal was playing,
"From what little mirror and glasses told us,
We know that if we weren't in guardian territory,
It was possible for these 'flying chips',
To even open a wormhole directly to their headquarters and rat us all!
This alone shows that we are dealing with a science-based opponent,
Not like our side, and the evil mainland's side, where only a unique birth treasure like the Space mirror is capable of opening wormholes.
This new enemy already knows how to do it by
themselves!
And not only that,
They can control a level 6 higher being with only a chip!"
Then he pointed at the coordinates and the information the space mirror found out.
"The location and the size of the planet that little mirror tracked down is far away from us, it is in empty space, not in a bubble, and it is as big as a mainland.
So, the enemy is surely another mainland,
And possibly another evil one at that."
The crowd 'nodded'.
They felt the only reason their mainland was fine,
was because of its speed,
Or there was no reason for it to still be in one piece.
"And here is my guess.
We are dealing with..."
The crowd,
With what?
"AI civilization or Aliens!"
The audience was puzzled,
Anything else?
Little mortal, seeing them interested, got excited!
"Let me tell you!
Civilizations like them attack on a large scale,
And just blow up everything!
The other day, in a movie, I saw them attacking Earth!
Everything was exploding,
People were crying, begging, asking for help,
But the aliens didn't care!
They just abducted them and took them away!
Or in another one,
AI took over,
It said I don't like these intelligent humans,
They are bad for the environment,
So let's just clean up the 'trash'.
Or-"
And so, Little mortal continued telling them cool stories about aliens and artificial intelligence
that the birth treasures didn't know the source of, or whether they were real or not.
Only when the glasses of knowledge interrupted him with a paper did little Mortal stop.
He looked at the paper and started reading it,
"Emergency situation.
The host has been destroyed - the mother chip has been detected.
The information below is necessary for the invasion.
- Mainland law: 100% speed.
(The Mainland can detect hostile universes )
Other Mainlands and insiders involved:
1. 11 Hunters under a level 10 manager from Hunters Mainland.
2. Body part from ancient mainland, RoboGenesis,
Has been detected
Mainland's total force and restrictions:
- Maximum entry level: 6 ( set by world law)
- Maximum entity level: 7 ( The Mainland manager )
The number of fighting forces:
+6000 Level 6
Hunter's insider:
- 10 level 7 hunters, 6 of them have been turned into puppets of an anomaly called Mortal.
- Anomalies:
1. Guardian law
A new law, integrated with world law, benefits from world law's direct support.
2. Planet Lubo, in the universe, belongs to a higher being called 'Assassin God', hosting the evil birth treasure with the highest danger level, 'Let us be one'.
The current density of law and energy of the planet is extremely abnormal.
The planet's current radius: 200 km
3. Newborn called Mortal
Age: 3
Origin: incomplete universe
Law: unknown
Birth treasure: none ( Thinks 'Lubo' is his birth treasure.)
Abilities:
- 100% invisibility
- Cutting off the connection of any living creature
with law
- Forcing equality of his age and movement ability to other living creatures
- Extremely strong body ( can't be measured )
- Moving black holes ( no information gained from our observation as to how it was done.)
- Controlling +30 birth treasures
- Ability to control the bodies of any creatures in his territory. (levels 6 and 7 included )
- Adding other universes to his territory through guardian law
Weaknesses:
- He is a Newborn
- Lawless
- Soulless ( more observations needed before a definite conclusion)
- Can't fly
- Can't use spiritual and mental connection with world law
- Brain damage ( unstable brain activity )
- Delusional (Thinks his Level is +100)
- Multiple personality disorder
- Unstable body ( vomiting blood a lot )
- Unstable temper ( he might kill anyone without reason )
Danger level:
- Unknown
- Avoid close contact with him at all costs
Current status:
Guardian of the universe (More than one universe)
Current location:
Assassin God's universe, planet Lubo
Conclusion:
Before invasion,
Destroy planet Lubo, and the universe containing the newborn mortal from at least 300 billion light-years distance.
In case of failure, retreat immediately,
A space treasure under the control of Guardian Mortal can open wormholes freely in less than a second.
In case of being caught, the only path of survival is taking a hostage from outside of Guardian Territory.]
After reading the paper on the extracted information from the chips by the 'investigation team',
Little mortal slowly raised his head.
The beginning was fine.
But in the end, when he was reading his 'weaknesses',
The atmosphere started changing.
His hand was now shaking.
His teeth clenching together.
Black veins were popping out under his skin.
His eyebrows were in a deep frown.
The objects around were slowly moving towards him,
As if a strong gravity force was being released little by little!
The glasses, which saw those bloodshot eyes with black veins staring at it,
Vibrated while shivering.
Little mortal's gaze moved away from it,
And locked onto the 'frozen chips'.
He raised his hand slowly, and the chips started floating.
Then the ice ball slowly moved towards his palm.
On the way, as if something was pressing them from all directions, the frozen sphere of chips started crushing in on itself!
When the chips reached the small palm, it was already compressed to the size of a candy.
Little Mortal caught the chip candy and threw it into his mouth.
*Crunch*x10
After a while munching, as if eating a 'painkiller', Little mortal turned back to normal, and the black veins and the gravity force disappeared.
After a brief silence, he took a deep breath,
And while shaking his head, he said,
"Even science-based civilizations are like this...
Spreading lies everywhere..."
The birth treasures vibrated,
Whoever didn't know, the birth treasures knew that the information these chips were trying to send was not completely right.
He was much worse than that....
And what was that gravity technique?
He used it on the God of Life and Death as well.
What are the conditions for him to use it?
Is it anger?
Both times he was pissed off about something...
Little Mortal gets back to the whiteboard,
"Okay, everyone, pay attention.
As you can see, my passive fate skill triggered again.
You might think I attacked that rock thrower because he was an emotionless rock that was useless to my big sister.
But,
You are wrong!
I did it because little crystal said it can't farm any law from it 'now'.
But guess what?
It wasn't like this before!
So, I found it suspicious and took action.
And as the result of this wise move of mine,
Now we know...?"
He pointed at the birth treasures.
He wanted them to finish his sentence.
And after a pause, vibration came from different birth treasures.
Little mortal smiled and nodded,
"Exactly!
Now we know that the 'Lord' is highly likely level 8,
The mainland after us is the hunters mainland, with level 10.
And the big head that we found is from an ancient race called RoboGenesis, and two other body parts are also here, which we don't care about for now.
While little glasses couldn't gather all of the information they had,
We can at least confirm that currently, the outsiders from the Hunters mainland are the only invaders."
Then he started writing the new information in his notebook.
The space mirror vibrated.
Little mortal rolled his eyes at it,
"Little Mirror,
Let me ask you,
What do you think is going to happen if you open a passage to this unknown mainland right now, after they lost contact with their chips?"
The space mirror vibrated confidently,
Little mortal snorted,
"You, my friend, are overestimating yourself,
And underestimating our enemies' technology.
If you open a passage there, then -"
But he suddenly paused, while the birth treasures thought,
'Then what? Just say it.'
But he instead said in shock,
"Wait a minute!
My fate skill was triggered before, so I can gain information about my future mission, 'behind the enemy line'!
And it triggered even before that, when those souls were freed to give me some other information...
So, doesn't that mean my passive fate skill was active for a while?
And it's probably still active even now?
Which means...."
Little mortal looked at the mirror and jumped to its side while saying excitedly,
"Open a tiny passage to their coordinates when I say!"
The space mirror, which was as confused as the rest, vibrated,
Little mortal started 'targeting' the mirror in different directions, like he was trying to find a specific target.
After a while, as if he felt something, he suddenly said,
"Now!"
And the space mirror opened a small passage as big as a coin, to the unknown mainland's coordinates, while Little Mortal looked away!
The birth treasures were now sure that he knew something, or he wouldn't look away.
And sure enough,
The moment the tiny passage was opened,
A blinding beam of light shot out!
It was red, fast, and unstoppable!
The space mirror panicked.
It tried to close the passage,
But it couldn't!
After 5 seconds, the red beam stopped, and the space mirror immediately closed the passage.
Little mortal's laughter sounded,
"Hahaha!
I knew it!
My passive fate skill was still active.
Little Mirror, tell me,
Did this laser beam go the same way as the three lightning and the cigarette's butt?"
The space mirror, while emitting hot air,
Tried to track down the direction...
The birth treasures watched with interest!
No way, right?
And after a while, it vibrated,
This unknown attack that Little Mortal called 'Laser beam' indeed left their universe in the same direction as the other four.
Was his passive fate skill real?
Were these adrift attacks really had a target?
If they had, who was the target- wait!
At this moment, the birth treasures made a wild guess!
Only one worthy and known opponent is out there for such an attack, who is somehow related to this little guardian!
The 'level 10 manager' of Hunters Mainland!
Is that guy the target?
While they were wondering about the possibility of such a coincidence,
Little Mortal said,
"What did I tell you, little mirror?
How could they figure out how to open wormholes, but not detect others opening one in their territory?"
The space mirror didn't vibrate.
It indeed overestimated itself...
It was opening and closing so many passages to dangerous places these days without being caught,
That made it overconfident.
But that wasn't important now.
The birth treasures glanced at Little Mortal, to see if he was fine or not.
That terrifying attack just now went through so many floating living creatures in the sky above, but they were unscathed.
So it means the 'harm' was delivered to a certain Frontline guardian, who was laughing now,
As if nothing had happened and he felt nothing...
The Crystal flew over and showed him an image.
Little mortal stopped laughing and looked at the picture curiously,
"Oh, you took a picture from the other side?
Good job, little crystal!"
In the picture,
There was a planet.
How big it was, it couldn't be measured from the picture.
Because there were no bubbles attached to it,
So they couldn't compare its size with that of their own mainland.
On the surface of this planet that seems to be covered with a silver color material,
Large and tall buildings and cylinders were everywhere on the planet's surface.
Only a small part of the surface was red, and it seems to be filled with lava, similar to the lava sea on the mainland.
At the top of a peculiar cylinder, which seemed to be targeting the 'camera', white smoke was emanating.
In the planet's atmosphere, millions of advanced-looking spaceships were flying.
Two of the spaceships, which were in line with the camera, and the cylinder with white smoke,
Had a big extra hole in them.
Each hole was probably 10 km wide, considering the size of the spaceship.
Farther away from the planet,
Many Sun-like sources of light were shining over the planet from different directions.
Seeing the picture, Little Mortal chuckled,
"I bet they wet themselves just now!
Look how clumsily they attacked out of fear!
Two of their spaceships didn't even have the time to get out of the way."
But the rest didn't think like him.
They thought that with so many spaceships,
They probably didn't care about two less.
The most important thing for the enemy was destroying the unknown passage that suddenly opened in their zone,
Which probably barely ever happened to them.
That 'laser beam' just now,
Could evaporate a higher being with ease.
And how many of those cylinders were on the planet's surface?
The attack didn't even come to this side in its full size.
The only thing passing through the passage was the size of a coin.
What would happen if anyone were to face the entire 10 km radius, like the two spaceships?
Once again, they were amazed by this Little monster's solid body, which took the attack indirectly, and didn't show any reaction...
Little mortal rubbed his chin while saying,
"I'll deal with them later.
That mainland seems like a 'war machine' to me.
If we face them now, we can't compare ourselves to them in terms of 'firepower'.
Right?"
The crowd nodded.
Please don't mess with new enemies,
We already have a level 10 manager on hand.
"By the way,
Does anyone know when that chip went inside the rock thrower's body?"
The birth treasures vibrated.
Telling him their opinion.
"Oh, so you guys think it was lurking in the dark in his universe, until I killed him in the arena, and it found the opportunity to take over his body while he was resurrecting,
And after the challenge and becoming a puppet, it was gathering information all the time?
You guys are smart.
Only because little crystal detected no emotion from the body we found out, or the chip's acting was pretty good."
Then he clasped his hands,
"Okay then.
Let's get back to work.
Where were we?
Oh, right, the speedrun.
Two more left.
Thug and the Troublemaker."
Then he encouraged himself,
"It's noon now,
Less than 6 days left!
I can do this!"
The birth treasures,
<-_->
Now they feel that if accidents like this happen more often,
And his 'passive fate skill' that they didn't know if it was real or not stays 'active', he might really be short on time...