The passage behind Little Mortal closed.
There was only a dark void around and nothing else.
Little Mortal stepped inside the 'nothing' in front of him and sat down silently.
This was the invisible cage, or, to be exact, the delivery box in which the gifts for the Lord were supposed to be sent.
After around 10 hours, Little Mortal said,
"I'm going to sleep.
Don't wake me up until those lunatics find us."
[ Affirmative.]
"By the way, Mr. Token,
I chose you as my birthday gift."
The guardian token didn't reply.
However, it felt that the last connection with its master had been cut off completely.
The guardian token was the birth treasure of the guardian god.
But after the enhancement that it received from the world law in their zone, it became a tool to serve the guardian.
At that time, it didn't care because it already belonged to the guardian, who was its own master.
But things changed.
Its master faked his death, and 'it' listened to his last order, and became the supporter of all guardians.
It listened to the world law too, and sent 'tickets' out for the fated ones to become the next guardian.
It didn't know that its master scammed the world law by sacrificing himself to mix the guardian law with the world law of their zone.
It only knew he was alive somewhere because of its connection with him that still existed.
Even when the next 'guardian candidate' with the ticket arrived, it only served the other party while waiting for its master to finally return.
But it turned out his master wasn't the only one acting in the dark, nor were the outsiders.
The guardian token 'looked' at the little guardian who became its real owner just now and, like all the other birth treasures, wanted to know 'How?'.
How could you choose birth treasures as your birthday gift?
At this moment, the guardian token could only helplessly notify its new boss of the new function that was unlocked.
[ New function unlocked.
Guardian can now change the place of the main token and child tokens at will.
This way, the main token can be sent to safety at any time. ]
Little mortal raised an eyebrow,
"Oh, you unlocked a new function?
If it were any other time, I would say it's useless; do you even need to protect yourself with me around?
But now, when they take you away, I don't need to look for you later with the child token."
The crystal vibrated too.
Little mortal nodded in understanding,
"You unlocked a new function too when big sister leveled up to 7?
How does it work?"
But this works only on level 6 creatures, and level 7 creatures probably can notice it if she uses this function on their crystals.>
Little mortal gasped,
"Big sister's entertainment law is so sneaky."
Then he looked at his guardian token,
"See?
You should learn from little crystal.
Look how useful its new function is.
But you?
I will probably only use it once..."
Then the two looked at each other while speechless.
The guardian token thought its function was indeed useless.
However, it had a feeling that it was only intended for a specific time and purpose.
Little mortal shook his head in disappointment and went to a corner to sleep.
But,
"Oh, I forgot to write down my new quest lines."
Then he took out his notebook.
The notebook vibrated,
< Give me some black liquid to hide myself. >
Little mortal gasped!
"You can talk too? I thought you were so young and you didn't know how to talk yet!"
The notebook,
<...>
Little mortal, who saw it turned quiet again, scratched his head,
"You don't need to hide like your teammates, who might get separated from me.
You are always with me, so no one can find you or harm you in any way.
You are basically in the safest place in existence!"
The notebook,
Little Mortal didn't know how shocked the notebook became, and started writing his new quest lines.
[ - behind the enemy lines operation's quests -
- Prove to Vulture that I'm weak but useful
- Force Vulture to threaten me with the newborns
- Find the fairy's land of Hunters mainland
- Find the newborns
- Rescue the newborns
- Transfer the fairy's land (If I don't do this, everybody dies.)
- Reach our side in time to start the script big sister wrote
- Become the mainland guardian before Hunter mainland arrives
------
[ 50% extra mission reward ]
1. Finish the operation without being exposed
2. Become the Mainland guardian without anyone's notice ( promote as the Mainland's secret guardian.) ]
Seeing the new quests, and the one that if he can't 'transfer' the fairy's land, everyone dies,
The guardian token sent a message back to everyone on planet Lubo about this quest immediately.
The birth treasures hurriedly went after the 'world tree', the nature god's birth treasure,
Which was always with the fairies these days, to bring it back to the silver platform.
It was the one who could bring that place over,
And it needed to stay alert until the moment it needed to take action!
No one took this matter lightly!
They knew he never joked around when it came to his quests and tasks.
After writing everything that needed to be done,
Little mortal put away the notebook and said,
"Alright.
Goodnight.
And from now on, we enter 'radio silence' mode.
Don't talk to me until I am the one who starts the communication."
The guardian token and crystal didn't reply.
Radio silence mode was already active.
...
Mainland.
With the departure of the troublemaker,
Everyone could finally feel at ease.
Just his existence alone was like a walking anomaly that could start a commotion at any moment.
Not killing him on the spot was only because the judgment law in the mainland didn't allow it with the god of judgment around.
The judgment should be fair in the mainland.
If God of judgment wasn't there,
And God of prophecy wasn't 'live' when he received him,
The person who captured him could get rid of him right there and then.
But many wouldn't even if they had the opportunity.
This little invisible boy was too special, and they could use him for many things.
Either way,
With the representative of the judgment law judging him,
The result was unchangeable.
Now he was gone forever, and the world law wouldn't keep getting triggered anymore, right?
Well, wrong.
*BOOOM*
The sky turned dark again.
But this didn't happen only in the mainland, but in every universe attached to it, too.
On planet Lubo, everyone looked at the sky!
Wasn't Guardian mortal gone?
What is happening now?
Unlike the oblivious creatures, the birth treasures knew the time had finally come for the truth to be revealed.
The world law's voice echoed through the whole 'zone'.
[ Higher being, Mortal,
Your last 'birthday gift' has been retrieved.
The bet with the higher beings of your zone has ended.
Mortal wins.
The law of his universe will now be back in its raw form.
As the last part of the bet,
Now those who were invited to mortal's 'birthday',
Can see the context of the bet.]
If the birth treasures had 'jaw', it would be dropped to the ground now.
Even the world law itself admitted that they were birthday gifts, and it was a birthday party?
The higher beings in the mainland looked at the sky with eyes and mouths wide open!
Some of them even started crying.
What was happening again?
Is he still around?
Didn't God of prophecy say he expelled him personally?
Even the mainland manager, the white canary, was dumbfounded.
"What is happening now? There was a bet going on between that brat and the whole zone that I wasn't aware of?"
It didn't know anymore if its title as manager was real or not...
In the dark sky,
A scene started playing for everyone in the zone to watch.
A moon, with the view of a planet that was covered with mushroom clouds, appeared in the dark sky.
A young man and woman were standing on the moon,
presumably watching the planet in front of them being destroyed by a nuclear apocalypse.
Inside her castle,
Entertainment Goddess instantly recognized the scene because she was the woman in the scene, and the man was Mortal.
But not the little version of Mortal that she never saw in the past until he came to the Mainland, but the adult version.
She could remember exactly when it was.
It was after she asked Mortal what benefit she would receive from the deal, and he told her,
'Unlimited power.'
But she didn't remember what happened after that?
Now she could finally see it.
After a brief silence,
The lady in the scene, whom everyone recognized immediately, spoke,
"Alright, we have a deal then.
What do you want me to do in return?"
And the young man that nobody recognized, and couldn't see his face, answered.
"It's simple.
I want to make a bet with the parasites in the Mainland.
After the day I sacrifice my universe,
the parasites who participate in the bet will be allowed to divide the law of my universe between themselves if they win the bet."
Just the word 'Parasite' was enough for everyone to guess who the young man was!
He was Mortal, the troublemaker, before sacrificing his incomplete universe and being reborn as a 'newborn' in the Mainland!
Who else dared to call them parasites?
Entertainment Goddess asked,
"How much of your universe law do you want to place as the bet?"
Seeing her not react to the way he spoke, it seemed the Entertainment Goddess was used to him calling the higher beings parasites.
The young man answered,
"All of it!
I take nothing for myself, and because I swear to World Law, even after the sacrifice, World Law won't let go of the law to be released until the bet is over."
The higher beings in the Mainland, even now that everything was over, were tempted to participate in such a bet.
After the sacrifice of an incomplete universe, the law would be scattered; they couldn't absorb the whole thing, and there would be many higher beings around to take a share.
Even the newborns could take a small part of it for themselves to use after they are reborn.
But if World law kept the whole thing for a bet, it would be far better, and there wouldn't be any wastage.
Entertainment Goddess, while slightly surprised, said,
"Alright, if you've made your decision, I won't stop you.
You already know that after being reborn, things will be hard for you, but even if you lose the bet, I will take you away myself, don't worry."
"Thank you, big sister.
Now, let me tell you about the bet and its rules."
Entertainment Goddess nodded,
"Tell me."
The young man explained,
"First,
After my universe is sacrificed, and I'm back in the Mainland, those who accepted the bet are invited to my 'birthday party', and no one can refuse the invitation later on.
Second,
The venue for my birthday party is the whole world.
Third,
I can choose any object that they have as my birthday gift.
Fourth,
no one will know about their bet with me until the end of the party.
Fifth,
I don't have access to the list of those who are invited to my birthday party.
Only if I see them will I know that they were 'invited'.
Sixth,
The party ends four years after I arrive on the Mainland.
Seventh,
You, big sister, are not invited to this party.
Eighth,
To make it fair for me,
If I take a birthday gift from those who are invited,
They can't mention anything about it to others if they didn't see me collecting my gift.
But if they saw me, they are allowed to expose me however they want, end the party, and receive the prize as the winner.
Ninth,
both sides of the bet, me and them,
should accept the World Law as our witness."
Hearing the young man, many were surprised.
That was such a good bet. Why didn't they participate?
And a certain group of higher beings with lost birth treasure turned pale and started trembling with anger!
The scene changed.
The grasslands of the Mainland came into view.
Entertainment Goddess appeared in the sky and muttered to herself,
"Alright, after this part, like everyone else,
I'll forget about everything based on my deal with him, and my first part of the deal will be fulfilled."
Then she used a divine technique,
"Forced Live Stream."
No one knew what this divine technique was.
They never heard about it or saw her using it.
But the moment she said the name, a memory unlocked in everyone's mind.
They remembered this day!
The day that Entertainment Goddess used an interesting divine technique, which 'forced' everyone in the Mainland to 'watch' her 'live'.
The stronger higher beings could easily refuse her, though.
However, they didn't, because everyone was interested in knowing why she had suddenly used such a divine technique.
It was surely something interesting to watch.
And then,
She told everyone about the bet, Mortal's birthday party, and the conditions.
Many hesitated for a moment that day.
They felt it was too good to be true.
But a certain group of outsiders and higher-ups from God's Council, except Goddess of Foresight,
knew that the newborns after coming to the Mainland wouldn't be free for 2 or 3 years.
And even after that, they didn't have their own birth treasure, and would be downgraded to level 3 under the lava sea.
So it was basically impossible for any newborn to take anything away from them in only 4 years.
And that's why, while many were hesitant, this group of higher beings with more 'knowledge' accepted the bet without hesitation.
More importantly, they were sure Entertainment Goddess didn't know about the newborns' real condition in their 'landing' place,
And she was nothing but a messenger who never mentioned to Mortal about the condition of the newborns after coming to the Mainland due to her own ignorance.
No one, except a few, even knew about the newborn's facility that outsiders had made here.
The group of bullies who messed with Mortal's planet joined the fun too, and so did a sneaky Guardian God in his hiding place, who wasn't captured and turned into puppet by outsiders yet.
And that was the reason for Little Mortal to find out later on that Guardian God was alive.
The day he saw the Guardian Token,
He felt that this birth treasure was in the 'bet' too, and he could choose it as his birthday gift.
But he didn't do so.
He wanted to make the sneaky owner regret his decision, but ultimately failed due to outsiders catching him first and turning him into their puppet.
Either way, on that day,
After a certain number of the higher beings joined the 'birthday party' and accepted the bet, World Law stopped the others from participating.
And the reason was simple.
That incomplete universe had limited law, and this group was enough to take it all.
Only Adventure God and Divine Doctor were trying to show kindness in this group of hungry wolves.
They thought of letting this newborn take a 'gift' from them while they pretended not to see him, which their gift was a certain suit and a sleepwear...
The sky turned bright.
Many were puzzled because they didn't know how Mortal won.
If they didn't know who Mortal is, they would think he surely couldn't take anything from them anyway before the 4-year timing is over.
However, Mortal was actually the winner, and no one won the bet to obtain the 'law' from his universe.
Not a single person.
At this moment,
Only those with lost birth treasure knew what he took as a birthday gift from them, and how he won the bet.
But to everyone's surprise, the show wasn't over!
The World Law's voice echoed again,
[ Now, behold the journey of Mortal, and how he retrieved his birthday gifts.]
The sky turned dark again.
Another scene started playing.
It was a dark underground place.
A golden ring appeared, and a little boy dropped out of it.
The boy seems to be unconscious.
At this moment, a little fairy flew to him from farther away.
When the fairy arrived beside the little boy, who everyone recognized with one glance due to his insulting everyone multiple times, it said,
"Why didn't this one land on the platform?"
And while flapping its wings, it tried to pick him up.
But,
"Why is he so heavy?
I can't move him at all..."
And after a short period of time, trying different ways to pick him up, but failing every time, it said,
"I should call the thief over."
And left.
But the scene was still locked on the little boy.
White mist was covering his whole body at this moment.
It didn't take long, and the boy's body started fading away.
The next moment after he disappeared, everyone saw a familiar old man in white, with a kind face that showed he was a good person, appear.
He was God of Thievery, that everyone's eyes started twitching just from seeing his face.
While the old thief was looking around for the little boy, the scene ended, and the sky turned bright again.
"...???"
Everyone was puzzled.
Where is Mortal's journey?
Is World Law scamming them?
Or...
A possibility that seems impossible comes to the mind of many.
Is it possible that even World Law couldn't track him down after he turned invisible?
At this moment,
Everyone remembered the two videos that Mortal uploaded for 3 billion and 500 million price before being caught.
[ My Journey To Gather My Birthday Gifts.]
Price: 3 billion.
[ My Precious.]
Price: 500 million.
Now the names of the two ridiculous video clips made sense!
Now, his shouting that he has treasures makes sense!
In just a moment, the 500 million clip was bought.
Everyone was eager to see what the video was.
Even those who had lost their birth treasure didn't have the time to buy it, and it was already unlocked by others!
Again, whatever was playing on the main screen of Entertainment Goddess was interrupted.
A giggling sound echoed.
The expelled Little Mortal came to view.
He was digging the grassland again with a bunch of monkeys and rabbits helping him.
After he was done digging,
He dragged a bag over and started bringing out some items from it.
First, he brought out a stick that made everyone's eyes hurt to look at.
Everyone recognized it.
Punishment Stick, and a small cage hanging on its handle.
The cage was something that no one ever cared about, and no one knew what it was for.
Little Mortal giggled,
"My precious stick, go hide there with your twin brother.
There are lots of thieves around here, and I need to hide you from them."
Then he kept bringing more and more items out and called them his precious, cleaned them with his dirty clothes, and stuffed them inside the hole that he had dug.
God of Prophecy's Judge Hammer.
'Divine Pot' belongs to the God of Gluttony.
'Notebook' belongs to the Goddess of Memory, who was another kind-hearted higher being who thought she needed to give the little newborn a gift of knowledge when she caught her.
'Glasses of Knowledge' belong to the God of Knowledge.
'Gold Coin' belongs to the Goddess of Luck.
'Hourglass of Time', belonging to the Goddess of Time.
'Pair of Divine Candy' belongs to the Goddess of Health and Home.
'The headband and wristbands' belong to the God of Power.
And the birth treasures that many didn't recognize because they belonged to outsiders.
'Voidstone Amulet' belongs to Abyssion, the Eternal Void.
'Crown of Decay' belongs to Thalgrim, the Corruptor.
'Scepter of Pestilence' belongs to Zaldrath, the Plague Bringer.
'Blood Devourer' belongs to Karnath, the Blood Lord.
'Eyes of Despair' belongs to Sanguinia, the Wraith of Despair.
And at the end, there was a famous tricycle, which was hard to recognize.
But from the 'unstoppable' aura emitting from it, there was no doubt about its owner.
God of Thievery's Birth Treasure, Unstoppable Ride!
Sixteen Birth Treasures in total.
At the end, everyone's jaw on the mainland had dropped to the ground!
In the scene, Little Mortal wiped them all clean, gave them a last greedy look, and filled the hole.
The ground then reverted to its normal grassland look.
And the video ended with Little Mortal jumping up and down and disappearing on the horizon, while singing a song to himself,
"Oh, buried treasures, under the grass,
Stories of wonder from ages past.
We walk the paths where secrets hide,
The open plains, so vast and wide."
And the screen turned dark.
- The End.
The Higher Beings,
"O_O"
What in the mainland's name did they just watch!?
....
On Planet Lubo, the Birth Treasures, Rose, the puppets that Crystal found a good opportunity to extract emotions from, and sneaky managers watched this video that Little Mortal told Crystal not to show in the Guardian Territory.
But they were watching it now secretly with another Crystal.
This was the unregistered Crystal, who won the 'bounty' for the puppet that pretended to be the 'imposter' with the hanging 'mask' on its waist and captured Mortal, the wanted criminal.
Many of the newborns had a Crystal, too.
So basically everyone saw the video, which wasn't supposed to be seen here.
The Main Crystal just gave everyone on Planet Lubo a child Crystal if they were Level 6.
With Little Mortal around, he could stir everyone's emotions from time to time on the planet.
All of these Level 6 creatures were the source of Law for its master.
After the video ended, everyone was puzzled at first.
Because whoever didn't know, they knew,
The number of birthday gifts was supposed to be 36, and many of them were missing in this video.
So, why didn't he show them all to show off?
And after a short meeting, the Birth Treasures figured out the reasons why he didn't show most of them in this clip.
Many of them were key treasures that, if they were exposed or shown with the other birthday gifts,
It would reveal many hidden truths for outsiders, the manager, and even others.
The puppet, Cube, Prophecy Orb, and the rest were such examples.
They were used in the outsiders' meeting,
They were controlling the Guardian God as a puppet,
And many of them were supposed to be with their owners, who were puppets themselves, to cover up for Little Mortal behind the scenes.
If they were shown,
He would be easily exposed as the mastermind,
And all of his plans would be ruined.
He was pretending to be lawless, and when in hiding, nobody could force him by using a hostage.
But if he was exposed, he couldn't pretend anymore!
Little Mortal didn't include the backpack and the medkit either, because the owners would be out of the backpack soon to level up with the rest.
Only puppets, or those not in the Guardian Territory, could know about the bet.
Puppets couldn't talk, and those outside didn't know who Little Mortal really was or what he was cooking for everyone in the dark.
However, Adventure God and Divine Doctor were not in either of the two groups.
So the backpack knew if they found out,
Then they needed to become puppets,
Or be kicked out of the Guardian Territory after signing a contract to keep everything secret.
Little Mortal was actually showing some kindness toward these two indirectly, to be out of the 'story' for now and not get involved.
.....
Mainland.
In her castle,
Entertainment Goddess was shaking now.
"Mortal, oh Mortal...
What have you done...?
You actually took their Birth Treasures as birthday gifts?"
At this moment, she felt a memory unlock in her mind, and she had access to it now.
It was her deal with Mortal in detail.
[ First,
Mortal will pay you with unlimited power.
Second,
Mortal can't put you in danger in any way.
Third,
Mortal can't accept you to his birthday party.
Fourth,
Mortal can lie to you as much as he wants.
In return,
First,
Saraswati cannot lie about things related to Mortal to others.
Second,
Saraswati allows Mortal to borrow her best Crystal.
Third,
Saraswati should deliver the ticket she received from Mortal.
Fourth,
Saraswati grants Mortal complete access to her main platform.
World Law will witness the deal.]
After reading the deal,
She felt everything made sense now.
Why did she suddenly lose her 'best Crystal'.
Why was there an unknown ticket that she had already told Mortal where it would be for him to come and pick it up, even though she had completely forgotten about it.
Why couldn't she lie if anyone asked her anything about Mortal.
Why did he say he can lie to her as much as he wants, because he didn't want to let her interfere in anything.
Why did he never stay with her, or go with anyone to take 'shelter', because he was going around gathering birthday gifts.
Why he ran from the 'landing platform' of newborns, because the bet was started from the moment he arrived.
And why did he say everyone on the mainland was trying to steal his stuff!
He wasn't the thief in his own head, but a little boy gathering his birthday gifts, legally!
Entertainment Goddess took a deep breath and looked outside of her castle.
Then shook her head...
"Even after being expelled, he is still causing chaos!"
The mainland... or to be exact, the grassland was now in a mess...
An embarrassing scene was unfolding at this moment.
Those who had lost their Birth Treasures were digging the grassland like crazy beasts.
But because these people were all Higher Beings at the top of the ranking, their 'digging' method was earth-shattering!
No one dared to approach this apocalyptic scene.
Only her Crystal was secretly recording them.
Entertainment Goddess looked at her Crystal,
"Is he fine?
I can still go and find him."
The white canary from before, who stopped her from rescuing Mortal and introduced itself as the mainland's Manager, and it even thanked her for coming to the mainland after leveling up,
told her that someone is going to accompany Mortal on a secret mission outside, so she doesn't need to worry about him.
She knew the Manager was the same Level 7 she had felt some time ago, which was Level 8 now.
However, it didn't reveal to her which mission Little Mortal was participating in.
She didn't want to believe it, but this little canary was so strong that her ego crumbled not long after becoming Level 7.
The previous week, Level 7 was a legend for her,
And this week, a Level 8 was on her shoulder...
She felt a couple of seasons of 'mainland series' were missing.
However, the other party didn't ask her anything about how she had advanced so quickly.
So it already knew.
How could the mainland Manager not know?
But after it left,
Her Crystal told her that it doesn't know about her way of gathering Law, and how or where she advanced.
That made her even more shocked and confused.
What her Crystal said meant that the other party was really the mainland Manager, and not only that, her Crystal already knew who it was and even what it knew about them!
What was the secret organization that her Crystal and Little Mortal were involved with?
"My beloved Crystal, do you know about the hidden entities behind this secret organization that even the mainland Manager doesn't know about?"
The Crystal responded,
This answer was enough for her master.
Because it didn't say it doesn't know,
It means it knows the answer, but it is not telling her.
Entertainment Goddess sighed,
"Alright then.
Now at Level 7, I can hide from others.
Let's go record some content."
Entertainment Goddess,
"..."
She felt fear from her Crystal, as if something scary was out there that it didn't want to get involved with!
She didn't know that her Crystal was actually really scared now.
With that little invincible monster around, they feared nothing.
At first, when he took them away, they thought he wasn't strong.
But later on, he showed them that not only is he strong, but he is 'strong enough' for any situation.
So even though always scared of him,
They felt fearless when it came to any other enemy.
But without that little monster around,
Those scary Level 7 outsiders who disguised themselves as Level 6 were now the real dangers.
They could find her master's presence easily.
The consequences of them suddenly finding out about the existence of another Level 7 would be unimaginable in that case!
What if they mistook her for the Mainland Manager, who was supposed to be 'sealed'?
...
While under the speechless gaze of a certain white canary, the mainland's grassland was getting turned upside down,
No one cared at this moment how that little thief stole their Birth Treasures if it was buried somewhere on the mainland!
They just needed to find them!
But as time passed and they couldn't find any trace,
They started paying for the other video too.
For them, that was the only clue...
The culprit himself was now in the dark void and probably invisible again.
After 10 hours of their speedy mainland distancing itself from him, it was impossible for anyone to find him in the infinite space outside.
And finally, the second video was unlocked.