On the battlefield,
A figure clad in a long, flowing black cloak appeared.
The fabric of his cloak appears tattered and worn, adding to his ominous presence.
The hood of the robe obscures his face, and he might look mysterious to the audience if a certain crystal didn't already show his real face on the imaginary pillar in the sky.
The face shown there was from the main crystal database.
That's why it was another face.
This skeleton man was the God of Life and Death, and the book hanging on his waist was the 'Book of Names', his birth treasure.
Facing any opponents, he could use this book,
Find their names, and 'slash' at the owner of the name.
There was no way out for the opponent except facing the attack.
The book opened at this moment.
The pages start flipping one after another until they come to a stop.
A name appeared on one of the pages among many others.
As if it just added.
The name was 'Mortal'.
God of Life and Death was confused.
'Mortal? And the name was just added because he challenged me, or my birth treasure couldn't detect him?'
It was the same name of an invisible newborn that caused them a great deal of trouble.
And the same name of the so-called 'guardian' who challenged him.
He was now even more confused.
Not long ago, his clone was in the middle of absorbing law from some newborns and transferring the law to his main body.
But this little rat's live stream suddenly showed his clone to everyone, alongside their secret business!
At that time, it was too late for his clone to flee, so he just tried to figure out the situation and catch him.
But in the end, his clone was killed immediately by an unknown attacker with the help of the guardian god, which was supposed to be their puppet.
While puzzled, he tried to contact the God of Prophecy, but he didn't answer.
Then he tried to contact Soul God, which didn't answer either.
And when he was going to contact Puppet Master, who was stuck in the arena, he saw that the other party was already dead!
Knowing he doesn't have access to any of his 'teammates' that were involved with the transformation of Guardian God to a puppet,
He was going to ask for a meeting with the rest of the outsiders, but he suddenly heard that he had been challenged by someone called 'Guardian of the Universe, Mortal'.
At that time, before he could react, he was sent to an empty ground to wait for his challenge, because apparently, others were challenged at the same time by the same person, and he was at the end of the line.
Before long, he noticed that he couldn't leave the empty ground he had been transferred to, or make contact with anyone outside.
He remembered long ago, when the so-called guardians started the 'rebellion' in his universe,
It was an extremely similar situation, but the challenge was between normal creatures under his rule, not between universes!
He first thought that the God of Prophecy was betraying him, trying to use the Guardian God puppet to take over his universe.
But on second thought, it was impossible, because they were all under an oath.
And the oath was witnessed by the world law of their Mainland's zone, it couldn't be broken because their lives were on the line.
Each mainland was basically inside a 'zone'.
Each 'zone' was like a territory with the mainland and the universes attached to it.
While world law acts the same everywhere, it always favors the creatures in the same 'zone' over the invaders from other 'zones'.
That's why here in 'Speedy Mainland', even though they sneaked in without Mainland's notice, they were labeled as 'outsiders' by world law.
It was a way to provide each zone with an extra layer of protection on its path to growth.
World law was the force above all forces; nothing could deceive its 'eyes', but the Mainland was different.
And that was the reason for him being sure no one was a traitor, because his teammates couldn't find any ally in this zone except each other, and betrayal meant death.
While he had many unanswered questions in his mind, he had already filled the whole battlefield that he was summoned into with a kind of black smoke.
The red flaming eyes of the skeleton looked around in search of this so-called guardian of the universe, 'Mortal'.
Soon, his eyes locked onto a certain area with a whirlpool made of black smoke, as if a gravity source just appeared there out of nowhere!
But there was no one there, and not only that,
He suddenly noticed that the birth treasure, which was in his hand a second ago, was no longer there.
At the same time, the Grim Reaper that he already summoned, ready to 'slash' at the owner of the glowing name in his now missing book, raised its scythe and slashed at something on his shoulder!
But the tip of the scythe's blade stopped before it could hit its target, while the skeleton crumbled as if it had lost the force that was keeping it together.
Everything happened so fast and unexpectedly that the God of Life and Death didn't even have time to know what was happening...
Little Mortal, reading a book mid-air with one hand,
And holding the tip of the scythe between his middle and index finger with the other hand, glanced at the bones on the ground and nodded.
"Indeed, lunatics..."
Then he closed the book and threw it away, turned his head to the Grim Reaper that just attacked him, and said, while pointing at it,
"I choose you as my birthday gift."
The Grimm Reaper's body trembled violently.
As if something was happening to it.
Little Mortal, exclaimed in surprise,
"Eh, why didn't it work? I'm sure he is invited to my birthday party!"
At the same time, a golden sword appeared out of nowhere and pierced through Little Mortal's head from behind!
Or it was what it seemed to happen in the eyes of the audience.
A voice sounded, while Little Mortal's afterimage with the sword piercing his head faded away.
"Yeah, he has Life and Death in his name, it makes sense for a 'Life' part to exist too!"
While still holding the tip of the scythe,
Little Mortal was now standing on the edge of the golden sword, which pierced through his afterimage.
BOOM
Only now, the sound of the sonic boom came from where the black smoke was being pulled together some time ago, and the sound barrier broke a couple of times close to Little Mortal's current location.
The speechless audience knew the speed was many times faster now; that's why the delay in breaking the sound barrier was much longer.
Little Mortal, while rubbing his chin with his other hand, muttered to himself,
"So, this lunatic actually mixed his body and soul with his birth treasures, which is a 'twin' birth treasure!
That's why I couldn't take half of it as a birthday gift?
But how can I combine it to take the whole package?"
While muttering to himself, he already swung the scythe that seemed to be one body with the Grimm Reaper at the newcomer who attacked with the golden sword.
An angel, with a golden ring floating above his head,
Three pairs of wings, golden eyes, and a golden sword in hand were the new attacker.
As Little Mortal swung the Grimm Reaper,
The angel dodged the first two swings successfully, maybe because Little Mortal was muttering to himself and didn't pay much attention to him, but that was all.
After that, Little Mortal suddenly disappeared, and so did the Grimm Reaper with him.
The next moment, something smashed the angel from behind.
"You like to ambush people, don't you?"
The voice sounded from behind the angel, which was sent flying, and was hit again.
BAM BAM
Every time the angel was sent flying, Little Mortal would appear behind him to smash it to the ground, or send him flying while using the Grimm Reaper as his 'stick'.
It was like the two couldn't let go of their weapons, the scythe and the golden sword,
And they kept getting smashed into each other.
This continued until the Grim Reaper changed its mind and let go of the scythe, while the angel let go of its sword; then the two exchanged weapons.
Little Mortal was confused,
"What's the difference?
I just beat-"
But before he can mock his opponents, the scythe that was stuck between his fingers disappeared, and turned into the golden sword, which was shorter, and now free from his fingers!
"-_-"
It seems these two and their weapons could change places at any moment!
Little Mortal snorted.
The next moment, he was beside the angel and grabbed him by his wrist.
"Let's see how you deal with this then."
Another round of beating started with the angel's body swinging like a stick at the Grim Reaper.
"Huh!?"
Little Mortal suddenly saw the skeleton, which had been lifeless until now, suddenly stand up.
While he didn't know what was going on,
The angel and the Grim Reaper transformed into white and black mists and approached the skeleton.
Little Mortal, who seemed to finally understand what was happening, gritted his teeth and shouted in anger,
"You stupid coin!
That silly 'Lubo Rebellion' wasn't my bad luck.
It was this stupid fight!"
Most of the audience who heard him didn't understand who the 'stupid coin' was that had suddenly become important in the middle of this fight.
They didn't see any coin all this time or any Lubo Rebellion.
But a certain group of treasures knew 'who' the 'stupid coin' was and how the series of unlucky accidents not long ago led to Lubo finding an opportunity to rebel for a short moment.
But its rebellion ended as fast as it began!
Now, Little Mortal seems to be angry at the 'Lucky Coin',
the birth treasure of the Goddess of Luck,
which he used on the mainland for his 1 vs. 6 battle in the arena, and he thought 'Lubo' going out of control was a result of 'bad luck' for using it.
But it turns out it wasn't?
When they thought about it, they could guess what the bad luck was.
The bad luck was that he and the child crystal not checking their opponent's profile beforehand,
and then due to that, not knowing the one they killed was just a clone of this skeleton, and not the real one that only Main Crystal knew about.
And then his opponent later on turns out to be a higher being who combined himself with his own 'twin birth treasure'.
This opponent was basically the best counter for Little Mortal's techniques.
He used his 'equality' on the skeleton at first, and that was why it just crumbled.
But then the part of him that was the two birth treasures started fighting back, and it seems his divine techniques were ineffective when it came to birth treasures.
And after Little Mortal tried that unreasonable
'I choose you as my birthday gift' nonsense, this time, he couldn't take over the birth treasure of God of Life and Death as if something went wrong!
And all of that aside, his body condition wasn't good at this moment either.
The cracks were getting worse as the fight dragged on.
If he knew beforehand about this guy being a clone, he would challenge him immediately as his first opponent to silence him as soon as possible!
A certain 'Lucky Coin' was now shivering in the backpack's pocket.
Its power was actually really good.
However, the one who used it in the past was the Goddess of Luck; the bad luck never affected her in any way because of her overwhelming good luck.
And she never used it to go and kill six higher beings either...
But this new owner...
The birth treasures of outsiders in Little Mortal's team were now shivering.
The other team members were puzzled by this.
What were they scared of?
And the three who were shivering thought about the same thing,
'God of Life and Death is going to release his suppression and level up!'
No one knew, but these outsiders, to avoid triggering any harsh reaction from the world law of the zone they invaded, always infiltrated other places with 'suppressed level' to disguise themselves as the same level as the creatures of that mainland.
This way their 'danger level' wouldn't be too high in the 'eyes' of world law.
However, due to this emergency situation, the God of Life and Death was releasing his suppressed power, as his entire universe was at stake in this challenge.
On the battlefield,
The skeleton transformed completely.
A 3-meter-tall Grim Reaper, with three pairs of black wings and a black halo above his head, appeared.
A scythe in his left hand, and a golden sword in his right hand.
The new transformation looked extremely powerful.
ROAA-
The God of Life and Death's angry roar echoed through the battlefield, but it was interrupted by two small feet that smashed his chest and sent him flying!
BOOM
He was hit so hard that his body broke the sound barrier.
The outsiders' birth treasures who thought Little Mortal is done for,
<...!?>
The next moment, the God of Life and Death got hit from the back the same way.
This time, though, as if he had predicted the next attack, he swung the sword and the scythe behind him.
But two small hands caught him by the wrist and started kicking his chest without letting go of his hand while shouting,
"Special move, bicycle kick!
HUDADADADADADA!"
The God of Life and Death could feel his body was getting weaker after each impact to his chest.
But he laughed like a maniac while spitting white blood and shouted,
"I don't know who you are or how you get so strong,
But it seems you can't keep this up!"
And then he let go of his sword and scythe.
The two immediately slashed at his own hands without hesitation!
The hands that Little Mortal had grabbed were severed, and his body was sent flying by the upcoming kicks.
Ignoring his injuries, he turned around and ran away while his law of 'Life' tried to regrow his arms!
But he didn't go too far before Little Mortal appeared again and grabbed him by the ankle this time.
The two weapons manifested beside him, cut his leg this time, and he ran away again.
The game of 'grab' and 'slice' continued.
Next was his other leg, and the right shoulder after that, he even tried to slash at Little Mortal with the scythe when he sliced himself with his sword.
But when the scythe struck Little Mortal's body, it bounced back as if it had hit an iron wall.
Either way, he didn't lose his confidence, and while getting cut and running around, he was regrowing the lost body parts!
He already knew how Little Mortal's power works, and being close to him weakens his connection with world law!
However, he also discovered another fact.
If he stays farther away from his opponent, he can reconnect with the law!
That's why he kept running around.
Everyone watching the fight knew things weren't good.
Little Mortal was actually far stronger, but with an extremely unstable body.
Anywhere he appeared, the black mist around him would immediately be pulled towards him, revealing that the unknown gravity of his body was growing stronger.
Seeing him running like this, Little Mortal stopped.
He looked at his hands, which were in a terrifying state with cracks all over them, and sighed.
"This Final Boss 'second phase' is a waste of time.
I should be able to use that technique in this unstable form and beat him up to get back my stolen twin birthday gifts."
Then he took a deep breath and shouted,
"Listen carefully!
First, evacuate all the living creatures within a 20 km radius of the silver platform!
Second, little mirror, leave a space passage for me to the same place I went the last time!
Third, wristbands and headband, wait for me on the other side of the passage. You can use everything as support, except the support needed for Little Cage.
You have one minute!"
The God of Life and Death, who was laughing while running around, didn't understand what he was saying or to whom he was talking.
But on the planet Lubo, everyone panicked!
The silver platform disappeared,
The birth treasures flew in different directions.
The managers started evacuating all the living creatures in the outer sect city,
The Demoness Sect and the part of the Forbidden Jungle nearby.
The birth treasures began pushing everything away, including the Outer Sect City and the Demoness Sect.
The 'World Tree' picked up all the trees and ran away to the depths of the Forbidden Jungle.
After 50 seconds, only an empty land was left in a 20 km radius, and a space passage with a headband and two wristbands floating nervously on the other side.
Everyone turned their heads to the sky.
What was he going to do that needed this kind of preparation?
And not to their surprise, they saw him doing some clumsy and random hand seals.
The audience was speechless...
Is it really necessary for these random hand seals?
Then he clapped his hands together and shouted!
"0.0000001% power, unseal!"
His body was now full of cracks.
You could clearly see the inside of it through the cracks, which was complete darkness, with only a single flickering light!
After 'unsealing' his power, Little Mortal disappeared and reappeared beside the God of Life and Death.
His palms were now towards him.
Like someone who is asking for a double high five.
Then he shouted,
"Condense!"
The God of Life and Death, who was ready to cut another body part, tried to distance himself from him.
However, as he fled, his speed gradually slowed until he began moving backward.
Looking in the direction, he saw that he was being pulled back towards the two little palms!
He sent an order to his birth treasures, and the two flashed past him and attacked Little Mortal, who smiled at them in a friendly way!
As if he was welcoming his own birth treasures back!
When the two reached a certain distance from him, they both began to change shape.
And when they reached Little Mortal himself, they were both condensed into two small spheres!
One black and the other golden, and then they stuck to his palms.
Seeing the fate of the two weapons, the God of Life and Death turned pale from fear!
But it didn't matter how hard he struggled or how loud he shouted; it was to no avail.
And soon, while screaming, his body started crushing and compressing as he got closer to Little Mortal while being pulled by the gravitational force.
In no time,
Another small sphere, half golden and half black, was added to the other two.
Little Mortal smiled mockingly and clapped his hands together.
The force in his palms became even stronger, and the three small spheres in his hand merged while he chuckled and said,
"I choose you as my birthday gift.
Let's see if you can reject me again!"
The sound of world law echoed through the universe,
[ Supreme Being, Thanathel, has been chosen as Mortal's birthday gift.
Mortal wins.]
[04/11.]
A moment later,
Little Mortal, under the nervous gaze of the creatures of the guardian territory, disappeared from the battlefield.
The next second, everything on planet Lubo,
It didn't matter where they were; they were pulled towards the same direction as the former silver platform's location for an extremely short moment.
And because of fear, no one paid attention to the world law that called the defeated opponent 'Supreme Being'.
....
One hour later,
At the former place of the silver platform.
Rose and a group of managers were looking at the former training ground of the followers.
There was a lake in this place now.
20 km in radius and 20 km in depth.
Liquid lava filled the bottomless pit.
On the lava, small creatures were swimming, as if it were a real lake filled with water.
While the managers were speechless,
Rose was confused as to how these worms, bugs, and insects could survive in such a harsh environment.
But then she remembered the 'Frontline effect' of her boss...
Even these creatures were protected?
She looked at her guardian token and the last message her boss had sent.
[ I enter seclusion for the next 2 million years. ]
While everyone left in a hurry, the guardian token went to the other side of the passage and joined the headband and the wristbands.
The reason for it was unknown.
Perhaps because it knew revenge was impossible for it, and its best bet was supporting this little monster.
Or it was what a proper 'guardian' token was supposed to do.
After a while,
Rose waved her hand and picked up the swimming creatures from the lava, and while muttering,
"2 million years...
If I can live that long, I'll wait for you, boss!"
She left.
The managers left, too, after breathing a sigh of relief and muttering,
"It seems we have 2 million years of peace..."
...
Planet's Core.
At the center of the planet, Lubo was frowning while thinking to itself,
'The one he just beat up and turned to his birthday gift...
Now that I see him, I remember who he was!
He was one of the 10 Supreme Beings who woke me up to devour an incomplete universe attached to their new 'target'; this extremely fast mainland.
How many times have they taken advantage of me like this?
My memories are too hazy...
And this little brat, I devoured his heart to use his body as a connection line with the world law of this mainland.
I just needed him to absorb a bit of law, and I could start devouring everything,
But he never absorbed any law and caused these outsiders' plans to fail in their first step!
For how long did he endure my torture?
I know it wasn't short...
He refused to let me devour everything, because he didn't want me to harm the 'world'.
Even when those higher beings appeared,
And even when they destroyed the life on the planet he could grow in, he never absorbed even a thread of law...
Newborns are indeed forced to the most ridiculous acts because they can't harm the world or creatures around them...
That's why he never let me 'free' even though his own home planet was being ravaged.
My freedom could bring a bigger disaster on a universal scale, and his good nature forced him to sacrifice everything for the 'Greater Good'...
But what happened later?
How did he suddenly become so strong to defeat a Supreme Being?
Aren't newborns limited to level 6?
And when did he sacrifice his universe?'
Lubo thought for a while longer, but couldn't remember anything more, as if it had missed a big part of the story just because it had slept for a while...
....
Outer space.
A huge asteroid was slowly moving in a random direction in space.
On its path, if any other small rocks, meteorites, or anything else appeared, they would move towards it before merging with it.
At the center of this wandering and abnormal asteroid, a little boy was sleeping soundly, dreaming about his past.
The little boy dreamed that he was swimming inside a vast ocean.
While going around,
His eyes suddenly shone, and he focused on a small creature.
It was a microscopic organism.
The little boy smiled and said,
"Buulbublulb."
What he said was unknown, but from the happy tone, it was likely that he congratulated the creature on its birthday.
At this moment, the little boy in the dream,
heard a whisper in his ears, that he was the only one who could hear it.
[ Higher Being, Mortal,
You endured 10 billion years of suffering to prevent a calamity that would have affected the multiverse, your mainland, and your 'zone'.
You proved your beliefs are unshakable.
'Dark World Law' recognized your effort and deemed you worthy.
You are qualified to be the representative of Dark Law. ]
The little boy in the dream was stunned for a moment,
And then his body completely disappeared!
Not long after, something like a ticket fell from the sky and came straight to where he had just disappeared.
At this moment, the world law was going to send him a message too, but the dream ended, and the little boy jolted awake!
....
Mainland.
Entertainment Goddess was sweating profusely now.
The amount of law coming to her was like a tide.
First, it started with law converted from anger, and then fear from two familiar higher beings.
One was Assassin God, and the other was God of Oppression.
Not long after, she received wave after wave of law from the 'suddenly resurrected' higher beings.
Each wave started with 'surprise', then extreme 'shock' and 'anger', and in the end, fear and despair!
If that were all, it would be manageable.
However, the last wave of law was so intense that even the world around the castle began to exhibit some visible phenomena!
The source of the law was unknown to her, and its quality was so high that she felt it shouldn't even exist!
She only knew the main source was the law of Life and Death!
Entertainment Goddess didn't even have time to think about the quality of this law, because its uniqueness made it obvious who was the source of it!
She kept begging her crystal to stop sending her the 'unlimited power', but her Crystal said it couldn't!
And it really couldn't because the crystal was already 'safe-keeping' 90% of the law.
Especially with Little Mortal's emergency situation, it couldn't 'borrow' the support of more universes.
So it could only ask for help.
And the 'help' was the reason Entertainment Goddess was sweating profusely now!
Above her castle, a mirror was slowly spinning at this moment.
Entertainment Goddess felt the space was sealed around her castle after the timely arrival of this famous birth treasure, hiding the phenomenon around her castle from prying eyes in time.
She wondered when her crystal became friends with the Space Mirror?
And when she asked, it said,
< Not telling. >
She could only grit her teeth and endure.
At first, she thought Space Goddess had found out about her secret, and she was helping her so she could invite her to the Gods' Council later.
But when her power reached the top 100 strongest in the ranking, she suddenly saw another name, which was now gray.
It was the name of Space Goddess!
She is dead?
And the reason she could see her in the ranking list was because after 'death',
The higher beings would drop in ranking temporarily,
until they are resurrected and return to their original rank.
And now, she saw Space Goddess' name as a dead goddess, even though her birth treasure was here, covering for her!
Again, she asked her crystal why Space Mirror was here while its master was dead, but it said,
< Not telling. >
It means her crystal either knew who was controlling the Space Mirror, or it was here by itself!
If she didn't know how birth treasures function,
She might even think there is some secret 'love' story going on between her birth treasure and Space Goddess's birth treasure...
She tried to figure out by herself what was going on, but everything ended in a deadlock.
She only found out that a significant part of these changes originated from a certain child crystal she had recently given to a certain troublemaker.
'Little Mortal...
What apocalyptic scene are you recording?
Who is murdering and resurrecting everyone?
I thought you had been caught...'
Entertainment Goddess felt like crying.
She was indeed worried about him after seeing him caught by the mysterious man and had been checking his name on the ranking list all this time.
She planned to become as strong as possible and then bring him back by force.
But then this happened.
It was indeed all because of him recording scenes with these higher beings who were going through extreme emotional changes that she was in such trouble, being forced to absorb law nonstop...
Once again, she remembered Little Mortal's deal with her and muttered,
"Unlimited power, huh!?"
And as if her power had now grown to a certain threshold, a memory suddenly unlocked in her mind.
While surprised, she focused on the memory.
She saw her past self standing behind a young man in black clothes.
She could only see his back.
In the memory,
She chuckled and said,
"They finally did it, huh!?"
The place where the two met was on the moon of a planet.
The surface of this moon was covered with impact craters of various sizes, which seemed to be created by collisions with asteroids and comets over billions of years.
The young man didn't turn around and just stared at the planet far away, which Entertainment Goddess had just now chuckled at and commented on.
The planet was currently a mess.
Mushroom clouds were rising here and there.
It was obvious that an atomic apocalypse had started there, and it was getting worse by the minute.
The young man in black sighed after a while and said,
"Big sister, let's make a deal."
Entertainment Goddess raised an eyebrow and asked with interest,
"What's in it for me?"
The young man answered confidently,
"Unlimited power!"
And the memory ended there.
Entertainment Goddess came back to her senses and took a deep breath while mumbling in annoyance,
"Even when those humans from the planet he loved started a nuclear war, he didn't absorb law to stop them.
I never understood what made him so wary when it comes to absorbing or mastering any law.
As an incomplete Higher being, he should do everything to save them, but he didn't do anything ...
But I'm sure at the time of this memory, he was different.
He could leave that planet called 'Earth', and even communicate with me in outer space, unlike now, when he can't even fly."
Then she suddenly saw her real ranking and gasped,
"I'm already in the top 50!?
If this continues, soon it won't matter if I'm exposed or not!
I can protect myself and that little brat, even if he makes trouble.
I just need to figure out a way to repay the one controlling the Space Mirror..."
While Entertainment Goddess was dealing with her 'unlimited power',
Most higher beings were trying to contact the 'suddenly resurrected gods' and ask what trick they had used to come back to life so quickly.
Because resurrection would take at least a month,
And even after that, they needed some time and effort to regain their peak power, depending on how powerful they were originally and how much law had accumulated in their universe.
God of Judgment sent them a message as well.
This group of gods who died in a suspicious way, especially God of Contract and the six in God's Arena, needed to come and explain how they died.
Entertainment goddess, who had witnessed all these changes, no longer dared to go out.
Everyone thought Little Mortal was caught and had nothing to do with any of these 'suddenly resurrected' higher beings.
But if they found out he was even recording them not long after their resurrection, he would be in even more trouble...
Entertainment Goddess muttered to herself,
"I wonder how he is involved with so many secrets and accidents?"
And her Crystal that thought to itself,
'He is the one making these accidents in secret...'
....
Planet Lubo.
Two days later.
Forbidden Jungle,
At night,
The Solar System Manager, the same middle-aged man in a purple robe who almost got killed by Guardian Mortal,
was looking at the big planet in front of him in amazement.
"How is this planet so huge? Such a thing shouldn't even exist!
That aside, how is it so orderly, as if someone is adding each new planet to it in the right places?"
Even now, he could see new planets merging with it one after another.
While in his own thoughts,
Behind him, suddenly, a big passage opened.
But before he could sense anything or react to what was coming out, he got hit by it and was sent flying in a random direction.
What was sent flying was a 'condensed' asteroid, at least 3 kilometers wide, that came out of the passage just now.
At this moment, the asteroid was collapsing, and all kinds of rocks of different sizes were getting separated from it.
On planet Lubo, the managers became alarmed when they saw the asteroid suddenly appear out of nowhere and fall towards the planet.
Luckily, as it got closer, it turned into smaller parts,
And when the parts entered the planet's atmosphere,
All of it started burning.
A beautiful and, at the same time, scary scene of a meteor shower appeared in the night sky.
However, while all the rocks turned to ashes, one small part remained unchanged in size, even as it burned the whole time.
As if it didn't want to surrender to its fate.
The managers looked carefully at this peculiar part and gasped in shock.
This small 'rock' was actually a person.
A man, to be exact, with hair and a beard so long that it makes it hard to see him clearly.
In the man's hand was a book, and on his waist a token, which everyone recognized as the guardian token!
The man was sitting cross-legged, his eyes closed, as if he didn't realize he was falling.
His beard and extremely long hair danced behind him, giving him a cool and, at the same time, ridiculous aura.
The managers looked in the direction he was falling, and all of them tried to stop him in panic.
He was going straight towards the 'Fairy's Garden',
Where the fairies and newborns lived!
At this moment, the newborns and the fairies already saw the falling man too.
So they were ready for the impact.
But it didn't take long for them to start running away in all directions!
They saw that any of the managers who tried to stop this man's fall couldn't do it, and their power would disappear when they got close to him.
Even the first two who tried to catch him started falling alongside him when they reached a one-meter distance from him.
There was something definitely wrong with this man.
Some tried to slow down his fall, but any technique they used turned to nothing within the same one-meter radius, as if they had never existed.
BOOMx2
The two managers who got close to the man and lost their powers hit the ground first and fell unconscious.
BOOOOOOM
And after them, the man who was still sitting cross-legged fell to the ground.
His impact shook the whole planet!
Even Lubo was alerted!
How heavy was this guy, and why did his weight affect the whole planet, and not just the area of impact?
When the dust settled,
The fairies and newborns gathered around cautiously.
Two fairies dragged the two unconscious managers away first, but didn't get close to the man with his long beard and hair all over the ground.
"Who is he?"
"Maybe an expert who was traveling the universe?"
"You mean he was accidentally pulled here by the planet's gravity while passing by?"
"Why else do you think he fell here?"
"He seems to be in seclusion even now."
"How strong is he?
Should we arrest him for illegal entrance?"
"I can't tell.
He has no aura..."
At this moment, Rose arrived too.
She looked at the fairies and newborns and didn't know what to say.
She just received a message from the birth treasures that someone had sneaked inside the backpack and then left through a passage with stolen long hair and a beard...
Seeing Rose coming, the crowd started greeting her.
They heard from managers that she was an even better 'backer' compared to Wise Turtle and Mr. Tiger.
But she didn't have a fixed place and was always on the move, managing the planet with the birth treasures.
"Assistant Rose, welcome."
"Assistant Rose, we were about to arrest the trespasser!"
"Assistant Rose, be careful getting close to him,
You might lose your power!"
Rose chuckled and went to the man without fear.
The crowd gulped nervously.
Rose sat down beside him and said in a lowered voice,
"After two million years, you are finally back..."
Her tone was like that of a friend welcoming another friend after a long separation.
The fairies and newborns raised their eyebrows,
"Do we know him?"
"I don't, but Assistant Rose seems to know!"
"But he just got here..."
"I bet Evil God can beat him up!"
"Yes, boss level last time I asked was close to 90!"
"How is that possible?
Isn't level 6 the end?"
"Big boss is different, you newborns don't understand!"
"But he isn't here now!"
The old manager was speechless...
These fairies and newborns were focused on the wrong topic!
The important thing was the 2 million years!
He even remembered Rose being born 20 years ago. What was she talking about?
What 'after 2 million years'?
While the fairies and newborns were discussing together, dramatic background music suddenly started playing!
The noisy crowd became silent.
"What is this music?"
"Where is the sound coming from?"
"Don't tell me it's his background music?"
"No way, right!?"
"Isn't background music only for Main characters?"
"Gasp! Is he a main character?"
At this moment, the man's eyelids trembled a little, as if he was going to 'wake up'.
As the dramatic music grew louder, the man's eyes began to open too.
From his eyes, light started emitting.
Around him, a golden aura started circling.
The light and the music got louder and louder as if he was coming out of his long slumber!
Everyone knew he was definitely a main character!
But at some point, the music became so loud, and the light coming out of his eyes became so blinding, that no one could see or hear what was happening.
Everyone watching started shouting in fear and panic.
"Heavens!
I can't see anything!"
"Who is this man!
I beg you, close your eyes!"
"Senior, control your aura if you hear me!"
"Your background music! Please turn off your background music!"
"What is happening? I can't even hear myself!"
A pillar of light was already going towards the sky.
The booming sound of the music was shaking all the trees and mountains around.
Level 4 and 5 creatures who joined the planet in the past few days rushed over to see what was happening.
When they saw the light pillar and trembling Forbidden Jungle, they turned around to leave immediately.
What even was this?
Who dared to mess around in that jungle with Wise Turtle and White Tiger inside?
Only Rose, who was close to the source of the chaos, barely heard someone shouting,
"Stupid crystal, turn it off!
Turn it off!"
And the next moment the music stopped, while the light turned off.
Everyone's ears were ringing, their eyes were blurry and filled with tears, and their heads were dizzy.
What an experience!
After a while, everyone slowly came back to their senses, and they heard someone saying in a low voice,
"Divine technique, time reversal, to before Assistant Rose says you are finally back."
And when everyone could see the surroundings again, they saw Rose, exactly like before, say,
"After two million years, you are finally back..."
Some people already knew who was back after two million years when they heard the 'time reversal'...
They just stood there speechless, accepting their fate.
But those who didn't know about 'time reversal',
watched in confusion.
The crowd saw the man's eyelids twitch again, as if he was going to open his eyes again.
And even the background music started playing again.
"Oh no!
He reversed the time!"
"We are in a loop!"
"A lifetime torture of light and music!"
"No, I don't want to!"
"Don't surrender, comrades!"
The fairies started flying around and shouting in panic.
The newborns covered their ears and closed their eyes.
The man's eyes slowly opened again, but this time the light coming out was warm and majestic.
A golden aura surrounded him, rotating gently.
The music matched the scene.
In just a moment, the panicked crowd was dragged into the nonexistent illusion of 'Senior's Return after two million years.
As the man's eyes opened, and his gaze passed by them, they felt the 'great senior' had just tested everyone's potential with that one glance.
But the man's eyes were still unfocused.
He slowly stood up, giving the illusion of growing taller and taller, perhaps reaching a height of one meter.
Wait, one meter tall?
Why is he so short?
The nonexistent illusion shook, as if it was going to break at any moment.
The man looked around and muttered,
"What a familiar place...."
Then he walked a couple of steps forward and smelled the air.
His beard and hair were dragging on the ground.
He muttered again,
"What familiar air..."
The crowd, who had almost come out of the nonexistent illusion, were dragged in again.
"The great senior is remembering the past after coming back?"
"Look at his guardian token! He is in Evil God's team!"
"No way! Maybe he is his master?"
"Is he an enemy or a friend?"
The man looked at Rose, who was looking back at him with a smile.
The confusion in his eyes slowly disappeared, and clarity took its place,
"You are... Assistant Rose?"
Rose nodded and said while chuckling,
"Boss, your beard and hair grew so much in these two million years that it was hard to recognize you."
The crowd sighed in relief.
If Assistant Rose calls him 'boss', it means she knows him and everything is fine.
But wait... Boss?
The newborns and fairies froze and gulped down while looking at the man more deeply.
But shook their heads shortly after.
No, it's not the same 'boss' they knew.
The man who heard Rose comment on his appearance nodded,
"Oh, you are right, let me 'shave' then."
And after some random hand seals, he said,
"Secret technique, self-barber."
And then his body disappeared, except for the long hair and beard, which did not.
A second later, as if the beard and hair found out there is no one 'holding them', they dropped to the ground.
The man's voice sounded from another direction,
"It's good to be back."
The newborns turned around with stiff bodies.
And fairies turned around with fear mixed with excitement.
When they saw the 'great senior',
who was now standing with a shaved face and a cheeky smile, they started screaming.
The newborns,
"Oh no!
It's the Devil God himself, he is back!"
"Run! Run for your life!"
"I thought we had two million years to get stronger and plan the rebellion!"
"We are all going to be his puppets!"
"Run! Run, comrades!"
The fairies,
"Big boss is back!"
"Time flies, huh?"
"Two million years... It was like two days..."
"Wasn't it two days, though?"
"If the big boss says it's two million years, then it is."
A little fairy jumped on Little Mortal's head,
"Big boss, what level are you now?"
Little Mortal raised his chin, puffed his chest, and said,
"97."
The fairies,
gasp
And then suddenly,
The Managers who were a couple of times more in number now,
The level 4 and 5 creatures who came to see what was going on and tried to leave when they saw what was happening,
The newborns on the run, and the flying fairies,
all of them stopped at the same time, turned to him,
cupped their hands, bowed a little, and shouted together,
"WELCOME BACK, GUARDIAN MORTAL."
The End.