Mainland.
Outer space.
The figure of the white canary suddenly appeared.
Its eyes were filled with fear.
"What was that just now?"
The mainland manager was now staring intensely at the Assassin god's universe.
"Three world law punishment lightning...
One extremely condensed spirit stone...
And now this scary red beam..."
After a while, it started chuckling,
"What kind of plan am 'I' cooking in there that needs such a scary experiment?"
It wanted to go in and take a look, but it couldn't.
The universes inside these 'bubbles' were inside another space.
What the mainland was carrying with itself was akin to a 'dimensional node', and the bubbles in the sky were an image of what these 'space nodes' looked like, and what the universe's dominant law was based on the bubble's color.
Like the bubble of Nature God's universe, which was green.
The universe inside, though, was always hidden, and what was happening in them was 'invisible' to the eyes of those on the mainland.
These protective bubbles were designed to show themselves to the outside world if a mainland passed by, so they can join it if accepted and receive another layer of protection.
In that case, the universe would open a space node for the mainland so it can 'grab' them and take them away with itself.
That's why, while the mainland was large, it was only large compared to the largest planets, and nothing remotely close to the size of a whole universe.
And the manager of the mainland could only monitor the universe from outside.
That's why the white canary could detect the things coming out of the universe, but didn't know what the source was.
.....
God of Oppression's main planet.
The creatures on the planet suddenly saw the sky turn dark.
A man in full body armor, but in chains, appeared in the sky for everyone to see.
Everyone recognized the armor, the aura, and the oppressive feeling emanating from this entity.
He was their God!
Another man, much shorter, was dragging him by his chain.
He brought the God of Oppression to a chair and pushed him forward, forcing him to stand up on the chair.
The scene was obviously an execution...
What else could it be if not an execution with the rope that the little man was hanging above their god's head?
The man, or to be exact, Hangman, climbed up the 'god' because he was too short, put the rope around God's neck, and then jumped down.
He then turned to the 'camera' and said,
"Every 'Thug' may rise fast.
Every Thug may taste the power.
But,
Every Thug will fall someday,
And Every Thug's Ending is the same."
Then he pointed at the 'Thug',
"Like this one.
After years and years of acting unruly.
After years and years of bullying and breaking the law!
He is finally brought to justice!
To the 'chair', that is placed at the end of the road for every Thug...
To the chair of death!"
Then the small man went to the chair and said,
"Ladies and gentlemen!
Behold the ending of the biggest, baddest, and ugliest thug of your neighborhood!"
And kicked the chair under God's feet!
Under the dumbfounded gaze of the audience, who were already inside the nonexistent illusion,
The Thug, while hanging by the rope, starts struggling for his life!
The audience could only watch with an open mouth and wide eyes as the sudden execution scene unfolded before them, until their God stopped struggling.
The camera zoomed back on the small hangman, who said while pointing at the viewers,
"You!"
Then he pointed at the Thug's corpse,
"Don't be like him.
Don't be a thug,
Don't be a lawbreaker,
Or the same ending will be yours!
Turn over a new leaf, and start over,
While there is time..."
And then left.
The audience nodded obediently and promised not to become a Thug.
The sky turned back to normal for half of the planet,
And stayed dark for the other half.
Not because it was night on one side and day on the other side,
But because a big black hand was coming to take them away...
....
God of Disaster's main planet.
If you could call it that.
At this moment,
Little Mortal was standing on a surface that was completely on fire.
Even for a 1-meter-tall boy like him,
The curvature of the ground was visible to the eyes,
That's how small this 'burning planet' was.
But the fire wasn't burning, and it was actually gentle.
It gives the feeling to those who step on it,
That if you are a good boy, everything's fine, if not, you are going to be burned to ashes!
Little Mortal knocked on the token that was connected to the space mirror,
"Little Mirror,
You sure this is the right address?
I can even see the curvature of the ground!
This so-called 'main' planet is barely 70 km in radius."
It's connected to him by karma.>
While scratching his head,
A voice sounded from behind,
"Who are you, brat? What are you doing here?"
Little Mortal turned, looked at the source of the sound, and furrowed his brow,
"I am the man of justice, here to execute your boss."
The owner of the voice, was a red head that was poked out of the ground with two fiery horns!
The minion-like creature giggled with a creepy sound and said,
"Did you hear that, boys?
He wants to execute our boss!"
And then,
The sound of creepy giggling started echoing from every corner of this small planet.
Little Mortal shivered when he saw the sudden change.
From the ground,
Every 1 meter or so, an identical red head came out.
All of them with burning horns, red rough skin,
Yellow eyes with vertical pupils, and those with their hands out of the ground were holding a bone weapon.
The little minions started mocking him,
"For real?"
"This little brat wants to kill our boss?"
"Does he even know who our boss is?"
"Maybe he mistakes him for a pigeon?"
"Even pigeons are too strong for him to kill."
"A canary then?"
"At most a mosquito."
"I bet even that would be a draw."
Each sentence, each mockery,
Made a certain guardian get angrier.
At this moment, as if he couldn't take it anymore,
Little Mortal tapped the token, and a passage opened to his right.
A man with a creepy and twisted face walked out.
The laughter stopped.
The sound of gasping took its place.
And then,
*Crack*
The man whom everyone here recognized with one glance knelt on the ground.
But not in a normal way.
Both of his knees were broken now,
And he kneeled while his calves were in front of his knees,
Instead of the standard way where your knees are in front after kneeling...
The little boy, who was standing to the left of the man,
The same little boy who presumably was supposed to have a draw in his match with a mosquito,
Looked at the man, God of Disaster,
Coldly.
And then,
*Crack*
Again.
This time, it was his spine, which broke after receiving a kick.
But not a kick from the back,
But a side kick, that skillfully broke his ribcage,
And the broken ribcage broke the spine inside...
Or maybe the small leg itself,
Which went inside the body for a moment broke the spine.
Either way, the man, God of Disaster, while kneeling, without an intact spine, leaned to the left.
His neck was now in front of the little boy, who presumably was supposed to have a draw in his match with a mosquito.
The small boy smiled coldly,
And again,
*Crack*.
Some of the small heads, as if they fainted,
Dropped.
The little boy was now holding the man's head.
But,
With an extra 180-degree rotation.
The red-horned creatures,
Understood many facts after these three *crack* sounds.
First,
Their Boss just died.
Second,
The little boy wasn't as weak as a mosquito.
Third,
Because he was short,
He literally 'broke' their boss down two times to bring him down to his own height, so he can break his neck.
And fourth,
The real disaster was coming!
Because God of Oppression wasn't the main boss!
While they were in shock and panic,
Little Mortal was already gone,
And the black hand was already taking the small planet away.
....
Planet Lubo.
Little Mortal, slightly annoyed, walked out of the passage.
The moment he arrived, Lubo's old voice sounded,
"There is something wrong with this one."
And Little Mortal nodded,
"Yes, a bunch of idiots live there."
"Other than that."
Little Mortal shrugged this time,
"How should I know what's wrong with it?
I'm just a child."
And then, took out his notebook,
Wrote down the last two accomplished missions and put a ✓ in front of them.
[ 3. The Troublemaker's main planet
Main character:
Final boss: Troublemaker
Mission accomplished ✓
4. The Thug's main planet
Main character:
Final boss: Thug
Mission accomplished ✓]
And then wrote down his time for the speed run.
[ - 'Speed-run' project:
Cutting off the parasite's fate from the main planets -
Mission accomplished ✓
Speedrun time:
Less than 2 days
(Calculate the exact time if anyone in the future tries to break the record)]
And while fanning himself with the notebook,
Asked,
"Why is it so hot all of a sudden?"
Lubo's voice sounded again,
"I'm telling you, something is wrong with the new planet I just merged with."
The space mirror started vibrating too,
It's already locked on its target!>
Little Mortal gasped,
"What target? Where is it coming from?"
And the mirror 'pointed' at him, or to be exact, behind him, and vibrated.
"It's behind me and locked on me?"
While still fanning himself, Little Mortal turned around in puzzlement.
And as though his rotation was like rotating a 'key',
A door rose from the ground in sync with his rotation.
*BAM*
The familiar door, which made a hole in the silver platform, slammed open.
Hot air blew out like a storm.
The temperature that was already increasing,
started rising at a rate 10 times faster!
Except Entertainment Goddess, who was doing her own things with 'sealed senses',
All the other creatures floating opened their eyes in horror!
They all felt something horrible was happening!
And this feeling wasn't only for them,
But the planet itself was emitting a warning to every creature on it!
And then,
A loud and enchanting voice of a woman,
Boomed through the planet!
"You came to my territory as you please!
You leave my territory as you please!
You beat up my guard door as you please!
You use my underworld gate as you please!
And now, you even cut off my fate as you please?"
By this point,
Everything around was already blown away by the shock wave of this sound alone!
Even the oblivious Entertainment Goddess was sent flying.
Only Little Mortal, with a dumbfounded face, blank look, and slightly opened mouth, was still in front of the door!
It was as if his small legs were pinned to the ground.
The voice boomed again,
"Do I, Queen Of Hell, look like a pushover to you!?"
And a lady, with eyes literally on fire, emerged from the gate!
Flaming hair dancing around her,
At least 3 meters tall,
In a beautiful red dress that seems to be made of 'lava',
And two curved horns with liquid lava dripping from them!
As she was going to take the first step out of the gate, a certain little dumbfounded boy suddenly pointed at her and shouted,
"It's you!
Underworld manager!"
The lady, Queen of Hell, who saw the slippery 'rat' of her territory for the first time, was shocked for many reasons!
Why didn't this world burn and turn to ashes with her arrival?
Why was this little boy fine while standing in front of her?
And how did he know she was-
*BAM*
And how did he shoot the door on her face?
After closing the door,
Little Mortal snorted,
"Queen of hell?
What hell?
That's just the underworld."
Then he turned around and shook his head, disappointed at the crowd who were looking at the gate while shivering.
"You people are so easy to scare.
You should learn from my assistant."
Rose was the first to come back to her senses and arrived beside him,
"Boss, who was that just now?"
Looking at her, Little Mortal started laughing.
Smoke was rising from her, like all of the creatures on the planet, or the whole universe, to be exact.
A certain mainland manager almost had a heart attack when it saw the bubble with its 'will' inside suddenly turned completely red, as if being boiled from the inside.
After laughing at the crowd for a while, Little Mortal said,
"What do you mean by who was that?
Don't you remember her?
It was the lady who almost caught me the other day."
Now, even Rose, whom everyone thought was on the same wavelength as Little Mortal,
Seemed not to know what he was talking about.
The managers and birth treasures nodded to themselves.
Indeed, no one could keep up wh-
"Oh, the chains!"
'Huh!?'
Little Mortal started clapping,
"You are so smart, Assistant Rose.
Indeed,
In our scene where I sacrificed myself to save the world, when I came out of the 'underworld gate',
The chains that almost caught me belonged to this lady who just closed the door on my face."
The lady behind the door,
"-_-"
I was the one who shut the door in your face?
"Let me tell you,
The other day, when I went there for the scene where those three brats trapped me in 'Hell',
That manager lady actually tried to catch me!
So I ran here and there, but she never gave up!
I was like,
'This is our first meeting. What's your problem with me?'
But she didn't listen!
She shouted,
'I fry you first, then we can talk! '
But guess what?"
Rose chuckled and said,
"You didn't want to be fried?"
Little Mortal said while 'shivering' in fear,
"Yes, exactly!
Who wants to be fried?
So I ran, and she chased after me!
I ran even more, but she chased after me even more!
Until it was my turn on the scene, so I came back."
Those who saw the 'guardian ceremony', the first group from the cultivation planet, were the first to remember.
That day,
When he came out of that gate,
Some burning chains tried to catch him.
It seems those things were the real deal?
He actually messed with Queen of Hell just to record that scene?
Is he crazy...?
Oh well, he is indeed mentally unstable...
Rose furrowed,
"But boss,
Just now, I felt I might evaporate if your Frontline effect didn't protect me.
So, why did no one get hurt when the chains came out of the gate in the guardian scene?"
Little Mortal raised his eyebrows,
"You are so precise, Assistant Rose!
The reason for this is the law.
She is the underworld manager; the law is different there.
And the law there is called?"
He waited for Rose's answer.
"It's called 'underworld law'?"
Little Mortal started clapping.
The crowd far away was also forced to clap.
"Exactly.
And the carriers of these two laws can't affect each other or the environment with the other law.
For example,
That day, those chains entered our side,
So their effects could only affect me,
The one who trespassed on the underworld territory,
But not the rest of the people on the planet,
Whom my actions didn't have anything to do with."
Rose nodded,
"So it needs a 'reason' to affect the law, or creatures on the opposite side?
And you, boss, did something, and gave that lady a reason to affect everything on our side just now?
If you weren't here, would everything evaporate?"
Little Mortal kept nodding at first, but he started shaking his head when she reached the part that he was the reason for all of this!
"No!
Wait!
Assistant Rose!
Stop being smart for a second!
I didn't do anything, okay?
That's basically, y-you know,
The other day - oh yes!
I remembered!
You might not believe it, but the other day,
I saw that the Manager lady was bribing our world law to come here and burn everything!"
Then he looked around, vigilantly, and whispered,
"Our world law is actually a drug addict!
She gave it some 'goods' and bought it!
And guess what,
The world law actually sold us out just like that!"
The almost evaporated crowd,
"-_-"
The addicted World Law,
[...]
The lady with the door shut on her face, who could still hear the voices behind the door,
"O_o"
Rose giggled,
And to change the topic, she pointed at Entertainment Goddess,
"So, boss, is the lady over there the big sister you were talking about?"
Little Mortal, who saw everyone 'believed' him,
Said happily,
"Yes!
Isn't she awesome?
Look at all the colors changing in her hair and dress!
Let me tell you,
If it weren't for the effect of guardian law,
Most creatures couldn't even see her!
By the way, she is the best in the entertainment industry.
And believe it or not, the only way to keep intelligent creatures in one place without them killing each other is to keep them entertained all the time!
So, if she becomes strong enough, in the future our planet will be the most fun place to live for everyone, regardless of their race or beliefs, without everyone killing each other!"
Hearing the plans he had for this lady,
The birth treasures, especially Crystal, were shocked.
He actually had such a plan for Entertainment Goddess?
To create a world where everyone is so entertained all day, every day that they don't have time to think about killing each other?
Thinking about it now, it seems actually possible, especially with the Frontline effect and 'world hunger' that basically wouldn't exist in the near future.
Rose nodded in amazement,
"Boss, your thoughts are so far in the future!
I hope we can be helpful.
As you can see, with the benefit we are receiving from her, we are already indebted to her."
Little Mortal smiled arrogantly,
"Exactly, I actually thought to use the day she wants to advance as a way to let all the creatures on the planet become familiar with her!"
The birth treasures were speechless.
'Like hell you thought of that!
You didn't even know how to advance to level 7,
Let alone what will happen if someone advances here!'
Oblivious of their thoughts,
Little Mortal furrowed his brow and looked around,
"Can someone tell me why it's still hot in here?"
The main Crystal, while shaking in a way that seemed like it was going to explode at any moment, flew over.
Little Mortal looked at it and was shocked at first,
But the next moment, said,
"Oh! Good call to change the connection back to me and handle that lady's 'anger'."
Then he patted the Crystal,
"Okay, I'll stop doing anything else, so you can be the only user of our universe's support for now."
And the Crystal flew away and landed in Big Sister's hand, far away.
It had just recorded the lady called Queen of Hell, who was going to enter through the gate,
But the 'emotions' coming from her were so high-level that it almost exploded!
The only thing that came to its mind was to switch its connection from being its master's birth treasure,
To a borrowed state under Little Mortal, and save itself and Entertainment Goddess with Frontline effect.
Little Mortal didn't know, because he couldn't feel these spiritual connections between himself and the birth treasures,
But Entertainment Goddess, and the Crystal itself,
Knew well that the 'borrowed' state was still in effect, and it would end only after the 'deal' between the two of them was over.
That's why the crystal could survive the 'fire law' that seemed to be in its purest form, and coming from a source even higher than level 7.
And it was the reason for the fire law in its master's body going out of control, too, and raising the planet's temperature.
Entertainment Goddess's advancement was almost interrupted because she could feel her crystal might explode at any moment,
But the feeling kept disappearing the moment she thought the explosion was going to take place.
She wondered what her crystal had just recorded, and why it changed connection from her to that little troublemaker...
But either way, it seemed this weird cycle of 'almost exploding' and 'everything's fine now' was actually stable,
So she continued advancing when her crystal told her everything was fine.
There was a huge amount of fire law that she needed to absorb, which actually wasn't even 1% of the whole thing, because her crystal was trying to store most of it, or its master would explode in its place if she received everything.
Rose was going to ask more questions because she felt some new changes, but Little Mortal waved his hand,
"Go use the opportunity, Assistant Rose.
There is free law to farm now."
So, she could only leave.
The former floating creatures in the sky gathered again, floating around Entertainment Goddess.
But they were a lot farther now because of the high temperature around her.
Only Rose and some of the newborns who were back to their original level could get closer.
In front of the 'underworld gate', Little Mortal was still standing and didn't go anywhere.
The guardian token at his waist vibrated.
One of the birth treasures asked him what he was doing.
Little Mortal chuckled,
"Be quiet.
I'm acting as bait!
You don't know, but the underworld is connected to every mainland through the 'lava sea' on them.
There is one in our mainland,
I saw one from afar on the surface of another mainland on the way to our mainland,
And we saw one in the picture that Crystal took from the new 'science-based mainland'.
That's why I'm acting as bait."
The token vibrated again,
"You don't understand?
Isn't that obvious?
I'm trying to-"
But before he could finish his sentence,
The underworld's gate opened slightly,
A red burning chain came out,
Wrapped around him,
And dragged him inside.
The gate then closed and sank into the ground.
Only the token, which Little Mortal threw away,
Was floating there...
The birth treasures panicked!
The birth treasures were speechless...
....
At the planet's core,
The big black heart,
Lubo,
Was shivering now.
Was it excitement, or fear?
No one knew.
Only its old, trembling voice was echoing,
Talking to itself,
"A level 10... A legit, peak power level 10!
And this crazy mortal actually didn't even flinch facing her!
But... Why does she look so familiar...?"
And after a while, it muttered,
"Mortal, oh mortal...
What happened to you when I was sleeping?
What have you done with yourself...?
What price did you pay to gain such power...?"