Hunters mainland.
A while ago.
The castle of 'Lady Tyrant', who was the oldest higher being after Lord.
At this moment, in her castle, which was more like a big tavern, around 400 to 500 level 7 men and women were drinking a blueish liquid while chatting quietly.
While the place was close to full, you couldn't see a single creature in a form different from humans.
It was the rule of the 'tavern'.
Change to human form if you enter and don't make any loud noises.
Behind the bar counter, an old lady with green eyes, a stern face, and gray hair sat, looking at the people in the description area, sipping their drinks and whispering to each other.
No one dared to look into her green eyes.
Her eyes weren't 'beautiful green',
But they were the scary kind that you wanted to avoid looking at, even when talking to her.
She was one of the first level 7 higher beings of the mainland.
The only person she would show respect to was Lord, the only level 8 on their mainland who had a close relationship with her.
Nobody except Lord knew about the existence of the Vulture, which is why he was the most respected person.
Lady Tyrant's castle was like a temporary resting place for level 7 commanders.
She was- *BAM*
The tavern door, which everyone always opened and closed slowly, was suddenly kicked open at this moment.
Everyone's heart skipped a beat, and they thought of the same thing.
'Which idiot is tired of living to enter like that?'
Even the narrator was interrupted.
All of them, including 'Lady Tyrant', turned their heads to the door.
The snow from Undead's mainland, which was part of the weather here for a while, blew into the tavern from outside.
At the entrance, a dirty little boy with a sleepy face, messy hair, and bare feet, was standing, looking at the people inside with a slight frown.
Seeing the presumably newborn, the crowd became speechless and started whispering,
"Why is he out?"
"Did he slip away?"
"Who can run away from that 'Spider'?"
"Let me call someone to come and take him away."
"Be quick before Lady Tyrant sends him to his grave."
"Yeah, one less newborn is one less bottle of liquid for us."
And while many of them started making fun of the newborn, some others tried to send a message out so someone would come and take him away.
But,
"So many snitches in one place?"
The crowd heard an arrogant, but childish voice, mocking them.
And then they felt none of their spiritual or private messages were sent out of the tavern!
They all looked at the little boy,
And then at each other.
All puzzled.
Then they started asking each other in private what happened, or who this kid was talking to like that?
But again, no one could send or receive any private message!
More people became interested and started sending messages out, but they couldn't either.
The little boy said arrogantly again,
"That's the second time.
There won't be a third time."
Then his gaze moved to the people on the left, while he raised his left eyebrow,
"Don't you juniors know about that old saying?"
The crowd, who were called juniors, was stunned!
'What did he call us just now? Juniors?'
Spiritual sense and different auras surged.
They all tried to scan the little kid to figure out what was wrong with him.
But to everyone's surprise,
No one could even feel his presence,
Let alone figure out something.
The little boy's gaze moved to the right, and he changed the raised eyebrow from the left one to the right one as he said coldly,
"It seems none of you heard about it.
Then I will tell it to you."
His gaze then moved to Lady Tyrant,
And stared at her scary green eyes, without a hint of fear, while saying,
"Snitches end up in ditches."
The crowd gasped.
Lady Tyrant, who tried to send a message and ask someone to come take this newborn away, furrowed.
Her message was sealed in the tavern, too.
The atmosphere became heavy.
Everyone tried to analyze the situation.
First, he called them juniors.
Second, any kind of private message was 'off'.
Third, they couldn't feel his presence at all!
And fourth, he didn't show any fear towards Lady Tyrant!
Only one other entity on this mainland was like this in their eyes!
Lord!
They couldn't feel anything from him either...
Now, everyone doubted that he was a newborn!
He could be just short and probably a...
At this moment, the little boy jumped.
He spun 180 degrees in the air,
And threw a kick.
At the same time, everyone heard a thick voice saying,
"Get out of the way, kid."
And then a man of big stature appeared while his hand was moving towards where the little boy had been standing just a moment ago.
It seems he was going to push him out of the way.
The crowd in the tavern gasped.
The little boy was now standing on the stretched hand of the man with one leg,
His hands behind his back like a senior,
And his other leg was stopped just a hair away from the big man's face.
"I almost sent your head flying, big boy.
Be careful who you try to touch next time,
Or it might be the last thing you touch in your life."
Said the little boy arrogantly, and jumped down with a backflip and another 180-degree spin before landing on the floor steadily.
The big man was frozen on the spot.
The crowd's mouth was slightly open.
What just happened?
The little boy, with his hands behind his back,
Walked towards the bar counter.
The way he acted was as if he owned the place.
The big man turned red from anger.
He was going to make a move,
But saw no one talking, even Lady Tyrant was looking at the little boy with doubtful eyes.
He looked at some of his friends, and they shook their heads, signaling him not to act rashly.
He tried to ask them what was going on through a private message, but it didn't work.
So he felt something wasn't right, like everybody else, and went to his friends, who waved at him to join them.
The tavern was deathly silent now.
Everyone's gaze was locked on the unknown entity.
No one wanted to risk testing who this kid was.
A newborn, or an unknown senior?
Which one is it?
The little boy suddenly stopped,
Pointed outside, and said,
"Oh, a dragon!"
And everyone, including Lady Tyrant, turned towards the direction he pointed at.
"A dragon?"
"Is it the undead dragon?"
"The Undead mainland attacking?"
"I thought they had a phoenix, not a dragon!"
But it didn't matter where they looked; there was no dragon!
'Did he just fool us?'
The crowd turned around to see why he said that, but their eyes widened in shock, while some of them had a weak heart attack!
The little boy was now on a seat behind the counter, sitting comfortably in front of Lady Tyrant.
But what shocked everyone was the items in front of him on the counter that he was inspecting!
Many of them were forced to check for a second time to see if they were seeing things, or if it was really their stuff!
And sure enough, it was theirs.
On the counter, there were around 20 birth treasures.
Even the birth treasures themselves didn't know how they got here after they 'turned around' to see the 'dragon'!
And the little boy, with a disappointed face, was flipping them around and looking at them up and down, checking them with disappointment.
"So ugly, don't like it...
What is this?
How could a sword be so blunt? Don't want it.
Oh, this hat isn't bad... But it smells, go away.
Is this a cane? Youngsters these days use a cane?
Stupids...
Why would a man use a 'red cape'?
Aren't they embarrassed..."
While he was inspecting a batch of birth treasures, nobody knew when or how he snatched them away, and as if it wasn't enough surprise for them,
The ground slightly trembled, and hands made of rocks started coming out!
The crowd was now on high alert!
This was Lord's special way to search the mainland when he was looking for a specific person.
The whole mainland would resonate with him, and these hands would come out to find the living creature he was looking for!
None of them knew it was the Vulture who was searching the mainland for a certain little boy who was missing from the cage, and Lord couldn't do such a thing at all.
However, because Lord was the only one in contact with them and they were unaware of the Vulture's existence, they always thought it was his doing.
The hands started stretching out and touching everyone once.
After recognizing who the other party was,
The hand would retract back to the ground.
Now, everyone was eager to see what the reaction would be if the hand touched the unknown kid.
An unknown kid who suddenly appeared, and a mainland search was suddenly triggered?
It couldn't be a coincidence, right?
But,
When the hand stretched towards the little boy's head, which was still checking the birth treasures,
He slightly moved his head away from its path with a dissatisfied face, as if disgusted by it, and the hand passed by his head and went to Lady Tyrant.
After touching her, the hand retracted to the ground without going after the little boy.
The crowd's hair stood on end at this moment!
Even the mainland couldn't feel his presence?
Doesn't that mean he is even stronger than Lord?
Or how else couldn't he find him just now?
The little boy, with a dissatisfied tone, waved his hands, and, while throwing away all the birth treasures on the floor like trash, asked,
"What's the deal with the ground?"
And turned his head towards the crowd.
The crowd who received their 'trash', which was flying to them, felt nervous now.
What is he talking about?
Someone brave asked nervously,
"Ground?"
And the little boy nodded, seeming to be puzzled,
"Yes.
Why is it made of rock?
It was grassland everywhere last time I remember."
The crowd was confused now,
"...?"
What is he talking about?
Wasn't the mainland's ground always rocky?
But Lady Tyrant asked in shock,
"For how long have you not been around?"
The crowd's eyebrows raised.
From her question, it means that at some point, the mainland's ground was really a grassland?
Some of them remembered about the evil mainlands not being 'evil' from the start, and connected the rumor to this new information.
So it was true?
Probably everyone from the time it was a normal mainland is dead by now, except for some rare ones like Lady Tyrant and Lord?
Some older ones even remembered some blurry memories of the past that the Hunters mainland was indeed green, but they couldn't tell when or if it was really their mainland.
As if something was influencing their minds!
The little boy shrugged,
"Don't know, I went to sleep when only one of them was left."
Lady Tyrant furrowed her brow,
"What are you talking about?"
The crowd nodded in their minds.
It was their question too.
Is he an old monster or not?
How did he take their things without their notice?
And only one of 'who' was left before you went to sleep?
The little boy knocked on the glass in front of him with his finger and made a *ding ding* sound,
While saying,
"If you want to hear the story of that day, then fill this up, little girl."
Hearing him talk to Lady Tyrant in such a way,
The crowd wanted to run now.
He actually called the fearsome Lady Tyrant "little girl"?
The flask in Lady Tyrant's hand crushed!
Her aura surged!
The weaker level 7 creatures almost kneeled under the pressure.
The crowd's hearts started beating faster,
The fight was on!
Let's go!
But the little boy didn't even frown,
As if he didn't even feel anything.
Seeing his reaction, Lady Tyrant controlled herself.
Even she was now wary of this nonexistent creature in front of her.
She tried to test him a couple of times and make him submit with the pressure of her aura, but the little guy didn't even notice...
That was too bizarre and even embarrassing for her.
So she decided not to risk it and controlled herself.
But as she took out a liquid container filled with the same blue liquid that others were drinking, the little boy looked at her coldly,
"Are you tired of living, little girl?
You really want to pour that sinful liquid for me?"
The crowd thought there would be a fight right here and right now this time!
No doubt about it.
He even told her if she is tired of living?
Lady Tyrant's hand froze.
But after a brief moment, she took out something else instead of getting angry, unlike what everyone thought.
This new drink was like pure water.
This time, the little boy didn't say anything and just snorted arrogantly.
The crowd felt envious.
That was actually a drink that only Lord could get here.
Lord was like this, too; he never drank the blue liquid.
The little boy picked up the glass and took a sip.
He then closed his eyes and nodded,
"Good."
But no one cared about his evaluation of the best drink in the mainland.
They were all looking at him with eyes wide open in shock!
They finally confirmed it!
He was an old monster!
From his body, raw law was emitting now!
The amount was exactly equal to what he had just drunk.
And the meaning of it?
It means his body was full to the brim with law and couldn't even keep a single thread of law anymore!
That was the signature characteristic of an expert at the top of his level!
And if they can't feel his presence with their level 7 of power, it means he is at least level 8.
And not a normal one at that, but a peak level 8, the top power any creature can reach!
Or why else would his body reject such pure law from Lady Tyrant's special drink?
Even Lord wasn't like this!
Lady Tyrant gulped and felt happy for not acting rashly when he talked to her like that.
This little man was actually a 'senior'!
So she took a deep breath to calm her nerves and tried to ask for his name,
"I-it's good that you like it, senior...?"
And the little senior answered,
"Mortal, the strongest."
The crowd was shocked for the second time.
Such an arrogant name.
It wasn't Strongest Lightning God,
Or Strongest Fire Lord, or something along those lines,
But only "the strongest"!
As if his title was saying,
'There is no room for discussion, I am the strongest, and that's it.'
Lady Tyrant, with a forced smile, asked,
"S-senior Mortal, you were going to tell us about your last day before going to sleep."
And Senior Mortal nodded,
"Yes."
He took another sip and started his story,
"I remember, one day I was watching the sky,
Enjoying the sight of the colorful bubbles revolving around the mainland."
Hearing him saying bubbles revolving,
Everyone knew it was a long, long time ago.
Because the mainland has been moving in one direction for a long time now.
Only if it were in a war with other mainlands would it stop.
Any other time, it was after other mainlands to hunt them down, or on rare occasions, it was on the run itself from a stronger mainland.
Senior Mortal continued,
"And while I was enjoying the scenery,
A group of people suddenly flew by.
I frowned at them because they ruined my moment and the scenery I was watching.
But because they were juniors, I just shook my head and didn't care.
However, one of them seemed to be dissatisfied and said,
'Who are you frowning at, old man?'
And,
After that, it was the colorful grassland and the tired me who went to sleep.
The end."
And he took another sip of his drink.
The crowd, who were going deep into the story,
Suddenly saw 'the end' and became speechless.
'That's it?'
'You call that a story?'
Lady Tyrant asked cautiously,
"Senior Mortal,
I think you missed a part of the story..."
The crowd nodded in their heads.
But Senior Mortal shook his head,
"I didn't.
When he talked to me like that, I snapped.
And guess what happens when I snap?"
Lady Tyrant gulped,
"Y-you lose control?"
Senior Mortal nodded and asked,
"And then what do my eyes see if I lose control?"
Lady Tyrant thought for a moment,
And when she thought of the missing story part,
Gasped,
"Y-you only see blood!"
Senior Mortal smiled and nodded,
"You are a smart one, little girl, aren't you?"
Lady Tyrant bit her lip in embarrassment.
When did anyone call her 'little girl' like that?
Never!
Someone in the crowd asked,
"W-why was the grassland colorful?"
Senior Mortal turned to the one who asked the question.
From his face, he seemed to be disappointed by many things.
Their birth treasures, the mainland ground, and even themselves, with their stupid questions.
With an impatient tone, he asked,
"Little brat, what's the color of your blood?"
The little brat turned pale but answered,
"B-blue."
Senior Mortal pointed at another random 'little brat',
"What about you?"
And the random little brat turned pale too,
"R-red!"
Senior Mortal nodded and looked at the Lady Tyrant again,
"Little girl, you tell them why the grassland was colorful."
And she answered immediately,
"The grassland was painted with the blood of different creatures on that day!
So different creatures, plus different blood colors, equal colorful grassland."
The crowd gasped.
How many higher beings were killed that day to turn the grassland colorful like that...?
Lady Tyrant remembered something and asked,
"Senior Mortal, you said you went to sleep when only one of them was left.
Who was the one that you left behind?"
The crowd nodded; Lady Tyrant was indeed paying attention to details!
Only now they understood what he meant by 'one of them'.
Senior Mortal closed his eyes.
As though he was trying to remember the past.
And after a while, he said,
"Don't remember him clearly.
But that brat's hair was always messy,
His clothes untidy,
And he was extremely lazy.
So lazy that I always called him Little L every time that I saw him.
He probably survived that day because he was too lazy to come and see what was going on."
Then, as if he remembered something funny,
He chuckled,
"Later, when his friends heard me calling him Little L,
They asked him what the L means.
And he said 'Lord' to not lose face in front of his friends."
And then he started laughing while sipping on his glass and shaking his head like a senior who remembered the good times he had in the past.
The crowd's jaws almost dropped.
The appearance he described,
The name that he said!
All of it was pointing at one person.
Lord!
Their boss was actually the only survivor of that day?
Even Lord was a junior in his era?
Little L?
Cold sweat appeared on everyone's back.
This old monster actually cleared the whole mainland because of a single sentence from a junior?
Senior Mortal then asked again, but in a dissatisfied tone,
"So, you didn't tell me.
What's wrong with the ground?
I don't like it to be made of rock."
The crowd started shivering.
He didn't like the ground,
He called the blue liquid 'sinful',
And he could 'snap' at any moment.
Everything was leading to a future 'colorful rocky ground'!
Everyone looked at their only hope.
Lady Tyrant!
If she can prevent this Senior's eyes from being filled with blood, they could survive.
If not, Lord would probably be the only survivor again!
Lady Tyrant didn't dare to lie and told him everything,
"S-senior, our mainland's way of growth has changed..."
And then gave him a simple explanation about the Mainland devouring and hunting process, and how it was green before it advanced to level 8.
The day they won a challenge against another mainland to merge with and advance to level 8, their mainland suddenly devoured the other mainland instead of merging with it!
It was from then that they changed to a rocky mainland.
Senior Mortal listened in silence, with closed eyes.
In the end, he sighed, shook his head, and said,
"Don't like it."
Then he jumped down from his chair.
The moment he landed, everyone unconsciously held their birth treasures tightly.
Senior Mortal, seeing their reaction, shook his head in disappointment again and then asked,
"Who is the highest ranking around here?"
The crowd pointed at the same big guy from before, who was hiding in the back all the time.
He actually tried to push away such a monster?
The big guy suddenly saw the crowd open a path from where he was to the counter, while they were pointing at him.
He looked at them in puzzlement.
What were they doing?
The crowd, who didn't hear any reply from Senior Mortal, turned to him to see if he had any other questions or instructions.
But to everyone's surprise, he wasn't even there anymore.
Then they heard his voice coming from the other side of the tavern,
"Big boy, let's go for a stroll."
Followed by the sound of some items dropping!
The crowd turned around and gasped.
The big man was now shivering and sweating profusely.
On his left shoulder, Senior Mortal was standing; nobody knew how he ended up there.
On the floor, another batch of birth treasures, which no one knew when they were taken away from them, was dropped on the ground!
The crowd gulped nervously.
What was he trying to prove with this sneaky move?
That he can silence anyone who snitches on him?
That even your so-called highest ranking is nothing but a junior in his eyes?
That our birth treasures are 'trash'?
And he can take our 'trash' at any time he wants to?
While their minds were in chaos, Senior Mortal patted the big man's head,
"Let's go."
And the big man stood up and said obediently,
"As you order, Senior Mortal!"
And he left with the little Senior on his shoulder,
Which was still emitting raw law.
*Phew*
The crowd wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads when they saw him finally gone!
"Where did this monster come out of?"
"A peak level 8?
I thought our mainland could only have one level 8 at a time!"
"Didn't you see that?
Even the mainland couldn't feel his existence!"
"You mean this old monster is a level 8 that even the mainland itself never knew about!?"
"How are you so sure that he is level 8?"
"He is right, why not level 9?"
"If the mainland can't detect his existence, maybe it can't stop his advancement to higher levels either?"
Reaching this unbelievable conclusion, the tavern fell silent...
Lady Tyrant's figure disappeared at this moment.
The crowd, who didn't dare to be a 'snitch' and leave the tavern, nodded.
"Lady Tyrant's loyalty to Lord is unquestionable."
"Things will be complicated if Senior Mortal and Lord become enemies."
"He seems to be dissatisfied with the current mainland though..."
"Let's hope he doesn't turn it into a colorful land and go to another round of sleep..."
"By the way, is everyone's birth treasure with them?
Did he 'like' anything at all?"
"Mine is still here!"
"Same..."
"I wonder what his birth treasure is that ours is just trash in his eyes..."
....
"S-senior Mortal!
He has been awakened!"
Said Lady Tyrant to Lord.
She came here as fast as she could to deliver the news.
Lord asked in confusion,
"Calm down and explain to me what exactly happened."
And Lady Tyrant told him about Senior Mortal's arrival.
At the end, Lord started laughing.
Lady Tyrant was puzzled.
What is he laughing at?
Lord knew why they misunderstood him for a level 8 like himself.
From the information they received,
He knew this Senior Mortal was the same troublemaker they were looking for.
The newborn that Lubo was supposed to eat.
Mortal.
They thought he was as strong as him because of his innate ability that he used to snatch their birth treasures.
They thought he was a peak expert because he couldn't absorb any more law.
But he knew the reason was his body, which couldn't do it naturally, not because he was 'full'.
His law was actually 0, and couldn't be more.
And if he was like this from the start,
It means Lubo actually didn't have a way to connect to that zone's world law from the start anyway, because his 'host' didn't have the ability to absorb law to begin with...
And using Lord's name as if he were a survivor was because he probably heard it on the way to the tavern, and just used the name without care.
He was fearless and mentally broken, and didn't care about anything.
Lord?
That's a lazy brat and the only survivor of my massacre.
Mainland?
It was green before I went to sleep.
Your birth treasures?
All trash!
My temper?
I don't have any, and I might snap at any time!
My eyesight?
Nonexistent if it's filled with blood!
A perfect display of an old monster with a bad temper!
The only thing he didn't understand was why they couldn't use mental message to 'chat' privately?
Was it because of his innate ability?
He even affected the environment around him so the signals would lose their target?
But the most annoyed at this moment was the Vulture, who heard its searching attempt had actually failed so embarrassingly in front of so many people.
He just dodged the hand?
That was the 'mainland's hand',
The most effective way for it to search the whole mainland...
Nothing was supposed to hide from its search!
To be sure, Lord asked,
"Did he fly?"
And Lady Tyrant shook her head.
"Did he attack anyone?"
She shook her head again and told him about the big guy who almost lost his head, but Senior Mortal showed mercy.
Lord nodded while chuckling,
"Yeah, it's him."
He was sure now.
From the information, he couldn't fly, and he was extremely weak.
So he jumped, pretending to hit his target, but didn't.
He acted like a dignified senior giving his junior a chance, while hiding his weakness in reality.
But he could get himself killed at any moment by taking such risks.
Any of those people could attack him casually and kill him.
He was indeed fearless!
Lady Tyrant was now sure about Senior Mortal too.
"So you know him!?
That's good then."
Seeing her sigh in relief, Lord was speechless.
She believed his story about that colorful grassland, didn't she?
She believed he left only one person alive, didn't she?
While thinking of a way to clear this misunderstanding later, he chuckled and asked,
"Where is he now?"
"He left for a stroll with the level 7's top commander."
Lord nodded and waited for the Vulture to find the big guy.
This time, it found its target in a moment, even though he was alone on its 'radar'!
But seeing him so nervous, the Vulture knew this so-called 'Senior' was with him!
.....
When Senior Mortal left the tavern with the big guy,
He asked him to act like a tour guide, showing him around, and the big guy did as he was told.
He started flying around while showing him different places.
Senior Mortal didn't care about either of these places because the fairy's land, or where the newborns were, wasn't between them.
He didn't ask about them either.
Then they reached the area where a group of nearly 90,000 level 6s were 'pulling' the mainland with their universes.
The other level 7s hurriedly came to report to the commander, but when they saw a little boy on his shoulder, who patted his head, and he kneeled on the ground so he could 'get out of the vehicle',
They all froze on the spot!
'Who is this kid acting like a young master?'
And they heard the kid saying,
"I go for a round of patrol to see how ready our troops are."
The big man nodded respectfully,
"As you order."
And shouted for everyone to hear,
"Everyone, listen to Senior Mortal's orders!"
And then, signaled the rest of the puzzled level 7s to come and stand beside him in line,
While Senior Mortal, hands behind his back, went for his troop inspection.
.....
Lord, with the Vulture on his shoulder, was flying toward the direction of the commander,
But he suddenly lost control over his body.
The Vulture was now the one controlling him.
His speed became 10 times faster.
Lord was going to ask what happened that it suddenly sped up, but before that, he saw the reason with his own eyes.
The smile that was on his face all the way here, froze.
He muttered to himself,
"For how long has he been here?
Truly a troublemaker..."
....
Not long after, the big guy who was watching the sky with a dropped jaw heard,
"Where is he?"
Hearing the familiar voice, the big guy finally sighed in relief,
"My lord, Senior Mortal is currently inspecting our troops and making new formations."
Lord didn't find it funny anymore.
What formation?
This was a mess!
"Where is he making this new 'formation'?"
The big guy pointed at the soldiers and answered,
"I don't know.
He walked between them a while ago.
We can't feel the senior's presence, and we lost track of him after he was out of sight."
Lord looked at the sky and gritted his teeth when he saw the so-called 'formation'.
And so did the vulture, which gritted its beak.
On the way here,
They both saw the 'formation', and they couldn't believe what they saw.
The thousands of bubbles pulling the mainland were now indeed in a new 'formation'...
Looking at it from the ground, not only could you clearly see the formation, but you could even 'read it'!
The bubbles pulling the mainland were changing place to form some sentences in the dark sky.
[ I am Mortal, the strongest.
Those idiots who changed my grassland to rockland, come and receive your punishment.
If you don't come - ]
Even at this moment, senior Mortal's 'formation' still wasn't done!
You could see bubbles moving slowly to make the next word and finish the sentence!
What was he trying to do? Write an essay?
The vulture was so angry that it almost killed all of the level 6 soldiers in front of it!
If it were only a sentence, that would be fine.
But the new 'formation' actually changed their straight path that was previously towards their force on the speedy mainland!
A couple of hours more, and they would be on a completely different path!
Even a certain level 10 undead queen in the neighboring mainland was looking at this new formation with confusion,
Wondering what these hunters are doing, and who is 'Mortal'?
Lord hastily walked towards the group of level 6s who were merged with the ground.
Then he sent a mental message to everyone,
< Raise your left hand. >
And everyone raised their left hand,
Except for a group of people in an area who seemed not to have received the private message.
Lord looked in that direction and said,
"He should be there."
And flew there.
The big guy gulped.
The inevitable fight was going to start.
Lord vs. senior Mortal!
Old monster vs. Younger generation prodigy!
With the sentence in the sky,
Senior Mortal was sending a message to everyone!
'I am the strongest, come at me if you think otherwise, or submit and be punished...'
He was indeed looking for a fight,
Or a massacre to be exact!
The clash of titans was going to happen at any moment now.
A moment later, Lord reached above the area where the people who hadn't received his private message were gathered.
At the center, a little boy was walking around,
Looking at the people,
And nodding or shaking his head, ordering them.
"A little higher, yes, that's good!
Stop it right there!
Alright, you are next.
No, that's too high.
Bring it lower and a little to the left."
Lord was going to land and stop the mess, but the Vulture stopped him,
"You stay here!"
Its eyes were shining now, trying to scan the little boy in all kinds of ways, but to no avail.
Even here, if it closed its eyes,
It couldn't feel the presence of the little boy!
What kind of concept was that?
It was the manager of this mainland.
How could neither the mainland nor its manager feel this kid?
The Vulture's anger disappeared in an instant and was replaced by greed.
This innate ability was one of a kind!
So it went down personally, and on the way down became smaller and smaller, until it became as small as a pigeon.
Then it landed on the little boy's shoulder gently without his notice.
Lord furrowed his brow.
But he didn't do anything.
He knew this kid brought too much attention to his ability, and here, that was like signing his own death sentence.
This mainland and its manager loved to devour any unique law that came across their path.
The vulture on Senior Mortal's shoulder opened its beak towards his head, as if trying to suck something out of him.
But nothing happened.
The Vulture furrowed its brow in confusion.
The Lord was shocked, too.
Even though he didn't see it, he sensed that the Vulture had actually used the signature technique of this evil mainland.
'Devour', to take away the law, talent, or even innate ability of the little boy!
But nothing came out!?
It was something new to him, and even for the Vulture.
Only level 10 creatures were immune to this technique!
The vulture made an illusion around the area,
And then, with a wave of its wing, it moved all of the bubbles in the sky to their original place.
It was better to stop the mess first.
Everyone, even the Lord, didn't see the change in the sky.
But, *Slap*
"Are you stupid?
Why did you send the bubbles back to where they were?"
Senior Mortal shouted in anger while slapping the face of the closest level 6 to him.
The level 6 creature looked up in confusion, but didn't see any changes in the sky; the 'formation' was still there.
It was the same for the level 7s and even the Lord, who looked at the sky while furrowing his brow.
The Vulture was now speechless.
Where was this kid's limit?
He could even see through the illusion it made?
The Vulture's aura suddenly surged, and everyone except the Lord was forced to prostrate themselves on the ground!
Everyone's forehead hit the ground without them being able to resist, while they started sweating again.
It seems Senior Mortal was now mad for some reason!
Once upon a time, he cleared the whole mainland due to a sentence that he didn't like, and only one survivor was left.
Was he going to clear the whole mainland again, just because of a sentence?
And again, leave only one survivor!?
They all saw that Lord was the only one not being affected, so he would naturally survive.
And they didn't suspect him to be the one using his aura because they saw Senior Mortal was still standing too.
The Lord and the vulture were both shocked!
Not only was this newborn invisible to everything else, but even everything else, if it was something that he couldn't see or feel, was invisible to him!
The Vulture thought,
'The illusion didn't affect him because he didn't have any law to connect him to the world around him,
That's why the changes around didn't apply to him?
And he wasn't affected by the pressure of my aura because he couldn't sense it!?
Can his innate ability actually counter all of this?
It can't be devoured either, because again, it can't be 'touched' or connected to!'
The Vulture was now slightly vigilant.
'What would happen if I could devour his innate ability?
Wouldn't it mean all of my law might actually go to waste, and I would become like him? Lawless?'
The Vulture was now sure that the reason Mortal was lawless was because of this innate ability.
It was the 'price' that he paid for such an unreasonable invisibility.
And it would be the price anyone or anything else who took his invisibility should pay, including itself, or their mainland!
The vulture shivered just from the thought of losing everything!
It was indeed too rash for its own good and acted only on its greed without thinking, almost screwing itself up.
Now, it had the thought of just killing him and ending it here.
But it suddenly remembered something and looked in a certain direction.
Or to be exact, at the white mainland moving alongside them.
A creepy and evil smile appeared on its face.
And yes, level 10 birds can smile.
At this moment,
Everyone heard a weird, chuckling sound and felt the pressure lift.
The crowd, while sweating profusely, raised their heads cautiously.
Senior Mortal was gone.
The bubbles were all back to their original places.
And Lord was standing in the air with clenched fists and a stern face.
Everyone knew what had happened just now, even without anyone telling them.
First, Senior Mortal forced Lord to come here to show him his overwhelming power by moving thousands of bubbles in the sky, which Lord couldn't do.
Next was the illusion that fooled them all, and again, Lord couldn't do it.
Then he slapped his man's face in front of him, which Lord didn't dare to retaliate against.
After that, he forced all of them to bow to him, and again, Lord could only watch helplessly,
And in the end,
He left while laughing at him mockingly!
It was all a joke!
Senior Mortal came back after billions of years of slumber to just prove to them all, even if he was not around for a while,
He is still the Strongest!
- The End.