Mainland.
While the night planet was in a state of panic,
Little Mortal appeared on a grassland.
Looking around, there wasn't anything special in sight, just plain grassland.
But when he looked up, while not his first time, he was shocked, as if it was his first time seeing this fascinating scene.
The sky background wasn't blue while it was daytime, but only dark.
In the darkness, there were no stars, nor any planets.
It was only bubbles.
Big and small bubbles, with different colors, some far away from each other, and some close to each other.
There were around 4 to 5 thousand of them, all in one part of the sky, illuminating the land, with some of them clearly a couple of times bigger.
The other side of the sky was completely dark.
In this land, shadows were always in one direction if you didn't move.
Looking at the grassland from above, it was like a vast planet, one side always bright, the other always dark, with nearly five thousand bubbles chasing the green planet, or perhaps carried by it with invisible 'ropes'.
Looking carefully,
There were even two bubbles in the sky that were touching each other's surface, with one of them missing a small part of it.
Little Mortal snorted,
"Look at that Thug's handiwork...
So barbaric."
Then his gaze stopped on five colorless bubbles, that were like glass, with cracks all over the surface, as if they could break at any moment.
He muttered to himself like a senior,
"That's the last five incomplete universes, huh?
I await your arrivals, you pitiful brats."
Then he looked at the other bubbles, and nodded, as if he was approving of their appearance.
Each one was emitting different lights, which made the place he was standing as bright as the day.
After watching for a while, he muttered,
"Mainland is no joke, carrying so many 'universes' with itself...
I never understood why it's always moving so fast towards one direction when Big Sister told me about it, until I saw the reason...."
Then he became excited,
"Oh, right!
In the Mainland, I can send secret messages!
World law here is free to use for these simple things."
Then he tried it and sent a 'secret message' to the crystal.
This is my last order for now, listen carefully!>
The Crystal, who received the 'secret message', replied,
It could finally go back to its master!
Release the 90% only if there is a life and death situation.
And remember to separate a part of yourself to the child crystal that Big Sister is going to give me so that I can use it.>
It didn't understand what he meant by 10% and 90%, but after being around him for some time, it became accustomed to these silly riddles and the logical answer that would be revealed when the time came.
Little Mortal, in his old, dirty clothes, muttered,
"Secret disguise technique, 'Silly Boy'."
And his face, from the normal, naughty, and intelligent boy, started changing to a clueless 3-year-old who seems to be oblivious to the world around him.
After that, he started walking in a random direction while saying random words.
"Rabbit."
"Rain."
"Fish."
And every time he said a word, it would actually become reality.
When he said rabbit, a white rabbit manifested and started jumping around him.
When he said rain, a small cloud appeared one meter above his head, and rain started falling as he giggled.
When he said 'fish', a small fish manifested, and as if it were in the water, it started swimming around him 'happily'.
This was the unique characteristic of the Mainland,
The only place for higher beings that could contain them, except their own universe.
After strolling in the plain grassland for a while,
On the horizon, a castle comes into view.
The mainland was a flat ground with a grassy surface, no rivers, no mountains, and no trees.
The only thing out of place was some big castles here and there.
Each castle had a unique appearance and a unique territory that was manifested from the imagination of the castle's owner.
And the first one that came into sight was an ice castle!
But there was nothing manifested around it, maybe because its owner didn't care, or perhaps it was just here temporarily.
Little Mortal gasped at the sight of the castle and muttered,
"My passive 'fate skill' failed?
Why would I bump into this guy?
Or it didn't fail and instead triggered,
I don't know the reason why!"
Either way, he didn't care and just walked past the castle, as if he didn't see it.
But after just a few steps, the roof of the highest building on the ice castle exploded, and an ice statue flew out!
However, Little Mortal didn't panic or react in any way.
He was still saying random words while moving towards a random direction, as if oblivious to everything around him.
The familiar ice statue, which appeared once before on the blue planet, and the dragon from there called him,
Ice God, looked at Little Mortal coldly, and then a cold smile appeared on his icy face.
"Look who's here?
The man that no one could find..."
Little Mortal, who was playing with his manifested rabbit, suddenly saw the white rabbit turn to ice and then shatter!
He ran to it and shouted in panic,
"Little rabbit, little rabbit!
What happened to you? Wake up!"
And then his fish, too, turned to ice, dropped, and shattered...
And then the raindrops became ice drops!
Little Mortal, while crying, screamed,
"Stop it, it hurts!
Someone, save me!"
At this moment,
The ice statue appeared above his head, and with a cold smile, said,
"Look how silly you look now.
And look how defenseless you are,
Mortal, the lawless."
But Little Mortal didn't react and kept shouting for help.
The ice statue laughed coldly,
"It hurts?
Then let me help you."
And with a wave of his hand, Little Mortal began to freeze from his feet to his head, while shouting in panic!
"Nooo, I'm freezing!"
In the end, with a face full of fear, as he pointed at the 'Ice God', he froze completely...
But looking more carefully at where his finger was pointing, it wasn't the Ice God himself, but something on his waist.
It was a 'snowflake', big as a palm, which was changing shape from time to time.
Not a single similar shape could be seen, even if one were to watch it for years.
Its name was 'Frostveil Crystal'.
The birth treasure of the Ice God.
Which received a 'secret message' from the little frozen boy at this moment,
Stay connected to him for now, and don't leave him.
When I make my move, jump into the passage with the newborn, if there is any.>
The 'Frostveil', which didn't know what had happened all of a sudden, could only feel that its owner had changed, and the new owner even gave it an order that it couldn't undresatad...
Ice God, oblivious of losing his birth treasure, snorted,
"If you had any law, I might not recognize you, because I never saw you.
But who could you, a lawless newborn, be, if not Mortal?"
Then he was going to pick up the frozen boy, but suddenly felt something and created an enormous ice wall behind himself!
The next moment, he heard an angry voice of a woman, which, while it seemed angry, was really entertaining to hear,
Accompanied by the phantom of a muscular man,
That punched the ice wall alongside him at the same time, sending him flying!
"How dare you harm my little brother, you ice trash!"
Ice God, who was smashed to his castle wall,
Shouted back,
"Don't interfere, it's personal!"
But the lady, who descended from the sky, didn't care.
She waved her hand, and the phantom of the muscular man changed.
Now it was replaced by a lady in a red dress, with fireballs all around her!
The Ice God's originally pale face turned even paler,
"Have you gone mad, you crazy woman!?
It's not that serious!"
However, the lady acted as if she hadn't heard him.
Fireballs as big as houses started raining down on the ice castle!
'BOOM BOOM'
What else could Ice God do except run away?
He went to his castle in a hurry, and the castle, under the bombardment of the fireballs, flew away!
The lady's angry face changed immediately when she saw him running.
She smiled, turned around, and said,
"I hope everyone enjoyed this live stream.
See you later, don't forget to smash that 'law button'."
A crystal, like the one that Little Mortal had, floated behind her, broadcasting the entire event live for other higher beings.
After she finished her 'live stream', the crystal came back to her.
The lady who arrived on time,
was Entertainment Goddess, which Little Mortal and most higher beings on Mainland, called 'Big Sister'.
Not long ago, she felt the arrival of her beloved birth treasure and rushed over.
She already knew who was with it.
But when she arrived and saw her little brother being bullied, she immediately started a live stream.
The Phantom that appeared while using her power was her unique law.
It didn't matter who, and it didn't matter what law,
If she sees it once and records it with her birth treasure, she could use it freely!
And to summon these phantoms, she needed to spend the law that she would receive from the 'law button' or law donations.
But nobody knew about the last part, and they only thought that if she saw the technique and recorded it with her main crystal, she could use it without limit.
That's why she was one of the most annoying opponents in the Mainland to pick a fight with.
And that's why Ice God ran away without hesitation.
In front of this lady, no one had the guts to fight against her,
or even fight against anyone else if she was close by!
If there were a big fight, they would avoid her first, then start the fight.
She was already at the scene?
Then don't fight or use some simple law techniques, and never show your divine techniques...
And all that aside, she liked to give 'child crystals' to everyone to start a 'channel' for themselves in her 'platform', and use it to gather 'law' for themselves.
It was for this reason that while many didn't like her, many younger higher beings loved her.
They could make content that includes their law, or their universe, or anything interesting in general,
And then share it in their channel, which was in her 'platform',
And those who enjoyed the content would 'click' the 'law' button.
The law button was a way to give law to others through this platform.
The amount of law sent by the 'law button',
wasn't much at all, especially for older generations of higher beings.
However, when it gathered and many viewers sent them laws, it would be a considerable boost to their power.
Entertainment Goddess herself would benefit a percentage of what they were gaining, which they could choose freely by themselves.
She didn't even mind if it was 0%.
That's why she was extremely popular among new higher beings.
Entertainment Goddess, or Big Sister as many called her, turned to the little ice statue behind her.
She was in her disguise at the moment, not the dreamy appearance that would change color with her emotions.
In her so-called 'public appearance'.
A Lady, in a simple white dress, not too beautiful,
But looking extremely friendly.
Anyone looking at her for the first time,
Would feel the same, and thought,
'Oh, she is the big sister I know from back then...'
At this moment, Big Sister could feel her beloved birth treasure inside the frozen statue of the little boy.
But why was this little boy, who claimed to be her little brother, Mortal, now in such dirty and old clothes?
Last time she saw him, he was in a suit, all handsome and polite, but now...
She waved her hand, and a special kind of fire appeared around the frozen boy.
If a certain goddess with the law of fire were here at this moment, she would grit her teeth in frustration seeing this scene.
The ice melted slowly, and the little boy was finally free.
But he dropped on the ground like a corpse...
Big sister was speechless!
He is so weak?
Didn't he boast just a day or two ago about his 'strongest law'?
She walked to the 'unconscious' boy and picked him up.
She shook him a little, but he didn't wake up.
At this moment, she suddenly frowned and looked around.
She could feel it clearly.
Five higher beings, which one of them was the ice god from before, were locked onto the little boy in her hand...
There was even some feeling of resentment and annoyance in their gaze!
She wondered what this little brother of hers did that made them angry?
Soon, she remembered the reason, but didn't care and just ignored them while flying away.
After a while, when they were far away and she couldn't feel their gaze anymore, she said,
"Stop pretending...."
And Little mortal slowly opened his eyes.
Then looked around in confusion, and the moment he saw himself in the sky, he gasped in shock!
"Oh no, beautiful lady!
Save me!
Don't let me fall!"
Seeing him acting silly like this, and now clinging to her neck, big sister didn't know what to think anymore.
"Alright, don't worry."
She felt maybe he had a reason for acting like this.
So she just hurried back to her castle with him.
After a while flying, a city appeared on the horizon.
It was a modern city with all kinds of advanced technologies.
In the center of the city was a tall mountain, extremely out of place.
Above the mountain peak was a vast castle.
From afar, you could see clear moving images on the castle walls and even above it.
The screens above the castle seem to be special.
On each of the castle walls, or to be exact, screens,
Some interesting, terrifying, or even bloody scenes were playing.
This was the castle of Entertainment Goddess.
Any higher beings with a 'child crystal' who reached a certain view count on their content had the chance to show it on the castle walls, or even better, on the screen above it.
It didn't matter where on the mainland you were living; if you looked carefully at any of the screens playing in the castle, that screen would be zoomed for you, and you could watch it as if it were in front of you.
And the modern city around the mountain was something that higher beings called real-illusion.
It was the same as those little animals that little mortal manifested, but a lot more advanced.
It was a display of a higher being's imagination.
The bigger it was, and the more details it had, the stronger that higher being was.
And all of this was another unique aspect of the mainland that only the new higher beings like to use.
If a higher being imagined something here, it would manifest itself the next moment.
The stronger they were, the more complicated things could be manifested.
That was why the mainland itself was just a plain grassland.
It was like a 'white paper' for them to draw whatever they wanted on it.
And this whole city was just a real illusion that didn't really exist.
Looking farther away, more castles were circling the city.
They were the other higher beings who were addicted to watching the newest news and content the moment it was released.
Not long after,
Big sister finally arrived at the top of the mountain and went inside her castle.
Then she went towards the deeper part of the castle until she reached a garden.
All kinds of small animals were jumping and flying around that you couldn't tell if they were real or not.
A certain phoenix with a missing feather from its tail was also in the mix.
Entertainment Goddess walked beside a small lake and dropped the little boy in her hand.
But, before falling into the lake, Little mortal flipped around, slapped the surface, balanced himself on the water, and ran to the other side while throwing a crystal at her.
Big sister, who had caught the crystal and seen him running on the water's surface, was at a loss for words...
Not because it was something incredible, but because it was so... embarrassing.
A higher being was supposed to fly easily. What was this clown act?
Then she remembered about this little guy being lawless, and placed her hand on her forehead.
She was helpless and frustrated...
"Little mortal, come here, you lawless brat!"
Little mortal who was playing with some cats on the other side of the lake, ran back to her, again, while running on the water surface...
Big sister, seeing him running on the water again, gritted her teeth and said,
"Well, well, well, if it isn't Little mortal, the thief of my crystal!"
Little mortal smiled smugly,
"Well, well, well, if it isn't big sister, the lady in the entertainment industry?"
Big sister knocked his head,
"Don't copy me!"
Little mortal chuckled,
"Hello, big sister.
How have you been?
Do you want me to tell you about an interesting fact that I just found out?"
Big sister didn't answer immediately.
She needed to check some things first.
She first tried to see what he had done while her crystal was with him.
Her crystal was always recording everything 24/7.
And not just the things happening around it, but it could record everything happening, even on a whole planet, if there were no higher being to stop it.
But soon, she found out that she didn't have access to any of its records from the time it was stolen!
'What the...!'
"What did you do to my birth treasure?
Why can't I have access to the records inside?"
Little mortal shrugged,
"How should I know? I'm just a child.
Anyway,
Do you want me to tell you about an interesting fact that I just found out?"
Big sister gritted her teeth again and tried to ask the crystal itself about the reason.
But she only got a short answer.
This deal again...
"Then tell me why those five were looking at you like that?
Did you do something bad to them recently, or is it that old grudge?"
Little mortal looked puzzled,
"Which five?
Anyway,
Do you want me to tell you about an interesting fact that I just found out?"
Big sister, who was getting tired of hearing about 'interesting fact' again and again, said,
"I'm talking about the ice god, Nature god, Sea goddess,
God of disasters and God of meteorite."
Hearing the names, Little mortal rolled his eyes,
"Big sister, you said their names wrongly!
By the way,
Do you want me to tell you about an interesting fact that I just found out?"
Big sister knocked his head again,
"I dare you to say 'interesting fact' one more time!
And what's the 'right' names if I'm wrong?"
Little mortal, who didn't show any reaction from the knock, said,
"I thought you might like to hear about an interesting fact, but if you don't want to, then fine.
And the real names of my school bullies are
gardener, mermaid, troublemaker, rock thrower, and Chunk of ice."
Big sister covered her mouth as fast as she could!
She almost burst into laughter when she heard the names.
No one dared to call a higher being like that, except for this little brother, who called them this way and even saw most of them as parasites.
"And what's their problem with you?
The same old ones?"
Little mortal snorted,
"Yes, they lost to me in hide and seek, and they even made a mess somewhere they shouldn't have.
Now they have the audacity to be angry?
Humph, wait for the day I execute them in public!"
He even shook his head at the end, as if disappointed with them.
Big sister didn't understand what he meant completely, but he was indeed good at hide and seek, and she remembered in the past, a rumor was spread about where he lived, and some higher beings went there, and she was one of them.
"How about this.
Do you want me to talk to them?"
Little mortal shook his head stubbornly,
"I took care of them later.
I caught two already."
Big sister was interested now,
"Who and who?"
Little mortal pointed at the news screen in the sky.
There was a female higher being who was currently talking about the war between two universes that suddenly turned to a temporary ceasefire between the two sides.
"You mean you caught Assassin god that no one can even find, and the god of oppression with his full body armor that basically can block any attack?"
Little mortal narrowed his eyes,
"You said the wrong names again, big sister.
It's the sneaky guy and the thug.
What god of this and god of that?"
Big sister closed her eyes.
She was slowly, but surely, getting angry now,
"Did you master the law of bluffing?"
Hearing her, Little mortal started laughing,
"You are so funny, big sister!"
Big sister shook her head,
"Forget about that.
Let's talk about this deal you made with me.
Why do you have so many privileges over my Crystal?
What did you, a lawless brat, could offer to make me agree to such a deal?"
Little mortal suddenly shouted,
"Unlimited poweeeeeee-"
Big sister knocked his head again,
"Be serious!"
"Yes, big sister!"
"When are you going to tell me what's going on?"
Little mortal pointed at her crystal,
"Give me a crystal so I can upload my videos, then you can watch what's going on with everyone else."
Big sister felt frustrated,
"I mean about the part related to me."
"That's not only related to you."
"Who else?"
"Don't know!"
"You!"
"Just give me a child crystal, and then you'll know about another part of the deal."
Big sister tapped on her crystal gently, and a copy of it appeared.
"Here."
The moment she gave him the child crystal, she heard a whisper in her ears.
[Higher being Saraswati, you fulfilled the second part of your deal with higher being Mortal.]
Big sister's eyes, who was just called by her real name, widened in shock!
"Oh, right!
Our deal was witnessed by world law!
And this was the second part?
It means I already fulfilled the first part?"
Little mortal smiled arrogantly,
"Cool, huh?"
Big sister suddenly looked above her castle.
The main screen in the middle, which was exclusive for important news and events and was mostly for her own content, now had a shared owner!
She could clearly feel it; this little boy just shared the usage of the main screen with her.
And not only that, if he was going to play something there, she couldn't stop it, because he had the 'higher level' of access...
"Little mortal..."
"Yes, big sister?"
"You said you can't harm me in any way, right?"
"Yes!"
"And who else is in the deal?"
"Nobody!"
"Didn't you say there are others involved?"
"I did.
Though I made a deal with you, I made a bet with others."
"What bet?"
"Not telling."
"Did anyone win the bet?"
"The bet isn't over yet."
"Who did you bet with?"
"Don't know."
"World law is keeping their identity secret from you?"
Little mortal only nodded this time.
"So, to sum it up,
You made a deal with me that gives you lots of privileges over my platform if you don't harm me, and I even gain benefits?"
"Yes, yes!"
"And simultaneously, you made a bet with some higher beings too, that you don't even know who they are?"
"Yes, yes!"
"And I am somehow related to your bet?"
"Yes, yes, you told everyone about it!"
"Oh....
Wait, what?"
Big sister was now completely stunned,
"How could I do such a thing without remembering it?
No wait... If world law is involved, it's normal,
And that was the 'first' part of our deal.
But again, how about others?"
Little mortal chuckled,
"They don't know about the bet either at the moment.
It was part of the necessary rule in my bet for whoever wants to participate.
They can't remember they made a bet with me or what they bet on.
This continues until the bet is over, or I tell them.
But guess what?
I don't know who I bet with, so I can't tell them."
And he started laughing...
Big sister bit her lips,
"What in the world did you do...
A bet that you don't know who you are betting with,
And those who participate in it don't know about you or what they bet?"
Little mortal scratched his head,
"Now that you said it, it sounds ridiculous..."
"And what do they get if they win?"
Little mortal shrugged,
"Don't know."
Big sister was at a loss for words.
She just stood there silently for a while.
Little mortal, who saw her not saying anything, started playing with his new crystal and commenting on the news.
"Oh, old Aladdin has gone mad, and everyone teamed up to seal him?
Well, that's what you get from stealing from kids, old thief."
"Marco Polo and Dr. Quinn are missing?
But I just saw them the other day...."
"Lady Astronaut won't provide long-distance passages anymore?
Should I take her place?
Forget about it, I'm busy now."
"Oh, look who's here!
Mr. Fortune teller, the certified scammer, is here to take a newborn under his wing?"
"That crazy Prison warden is now even worse?
As if she is 10x more sadistic?
She isn't even using her punishment stick and uses bare hands and a whip?
So scary!"
"Oppenheimer didn't blow up anything recently, and peace has come back to certain places?
I'm so helpful?"
Big sister, who heard his comments, was confused at first, but when she tried to see the news that he was reading, she could at least understand who he was commenting about.
Dr. Quinn was the divine doctor, and the old friend of Marco Polo, or God of Adventure to be exact, the owner of the most famous backpack, the best utility birth treasure known in the multiverse.
The two suddenly disappeared not long ago with their castles.
Fortune teller was the God of prophecy, one of the most famous higher beings on the mainland, and a member of God's council.
He had a planet under his control that you could use to find any lost planets through it.
No one knew how it was possible, or what made it unique.
He never told anyone.
Old Aladdin was the god of thievery, infamous for stealing from everyone, and being unstoppable when it comes to running away because of his birth treasure, the unstoppable ride.
He suddenly went mad in a secret area that no one knew existed until recently, and got into a fight not long after. She even went there and broadcast part of it live.
Lady astronaut was the space goddess who could open a passage for you to anywhere she had been before or had the coordinates.
Her space mirror was indeed like a gate to any place in the multiverse.
Lady Prison Warden was the goddess of punishment,
She was responsible for 'taking care of' higher beings who broke the law of the mainland.
Her castle was their prison, and her birth treasure, the punishment stick, was one of the most feared treasures on the mainland for any higher being.
It was a nightmare for lawbreakers.
She could accumulate law through people's pain.
Those who received a hit from her punishment stick could still feel the pain to this day!
And Oppenheimer was the god of explosions.
This guy was someone who loved explosions, and part of the mainland was constantly shaking because of him and his experiments.
However, because the mainland could repair itself in an instant, no one really cared about him destroying the ground; the main problem was the sound and constant trembling.
However, he became silent recently...
So many changes happened in these couple of weeks on the mainland, and she was running around everywhere to cover the news.
Even she herself experienced a significant change with her birth treasure missing, which turns out to be her little brother's doing.
Looking at him talking like this, calling gods with weird names, commenting nonsense, and even bluffing about catching two higher beings while acting as if his memories were already back completely,
She finally understood what was wrong with him...
In reality, it wasn't 'his' memories that were back, but...
She sighed and patted his head,
"Little mortal, I know you liked that universe, but it was an incomplete one; it was destined to be gone one day..."
Little mortal put away the crystal and looked at her.
Big sister looked into the two big black eyes that were staring at her in confusion and continued,
"I know because of what you were forced to do and experience,
Everything in your head is in chaos now.
I know you loved that place, and you never wanted to abandon it, and now you feel guilty about it...
But, this is what it is; fate can't be changed.
Unfortunately, because of the 'reality' that you don't want to accept, all of your memories from there are still trying to manifest themselves in your 'reality', so you think they still exist..."
She sighed again and said with a hint of sadness,
"I thought you unlocked your memories ahead of time.
But now I see your true self is still in there, a clueless 3-year-old.
What is showing itself is just the memories from your past, that you don't want to lose...
That's why, before releasing your own memories, you release the memories you had of the creatures from that planet first, to ensure you never forget them.
But don't worry, as you grow up, and as more of your own memories come back to you, you will be normal again..."
Little mortal, with a shocked face, asked,
"What in the world are you talking about?
What place?
What true self?
What memory release?"
Big sister shook her head and, while patting his head, said,
"I understand, I understand."
Little mortal asked in confusion,
"What do you understand?
Wait, that's my line!
You can't use it!
By the way, can I tell you about the interesting fact that I found out now?"
Big sister, who understood his condition, nodded this time while smiling,
"Yes, tell me about it."
Little mortal became excited,
"The fact is about that chunk of ice!"
"Oh, what fact?"
"The fact that he can only smile 'coldly',
Speak 'coldly', and look at you 'coldly'!
I bet even if he snorts, it will be a 'cold' snort.
He can't do anything if it's not 'coldly'!"
Big sister, who tried not to laugh and pretended to be serious,
"-_-"