Inside a vast open area, Little Mortal was now standing in front of a big screen, watching an agent explain what this 'new season' everyone was going to register for is.
There were others here, too, watching the same screen.
But whoever arrived would see a version specific to themselves, explaining everything from the start.
Little Mortal was naturally forced to join someone else's 'view'.
Agent 99 was now explaining everything necessary to the newcomers who joined the mainland after the previous season.
[ First of all, I should welcome you all to our mainland.
By now, you surely received the order of your mainland manager to come here, register, and later participate in this event.
As you know, you are obligated to participate, and this is a necessary part for the future survival of all the mainlands and universes in our world.
Hence, while you contribute to our world, try to learn the rules of our worldwide event, and use them as a tool to benefit from it, because many opportunities await you.]
Little Mortal nodded and was ready to take notes.
Agent 99 continued while an image appeared.
It was the central mainland and the 10 planets around it, connected with elevators.
[ As you can see, there are 10 planets in our orbit.
Each of the planets is connected to our mainland with the elevators that are the only way to enter them.]
Then the image zoomed all the way to one of the planets, showing footage of it.
Many humans were fighting and killing zombie-like creatures there.
The crowd frowned because everyone was as weak as a normal level 1 creature in this record.
Agent 99 explained.
[ If you wonder why every creature seems weak in this record, the reason is simple.
Everyone starts their journey as level 1 on the 'first planet', and their form will be fixed as the normal human race.
This way, there won't be any advantages or disadvantages at the start.
Each season has its own theme, event, and story on each of the 10 planets.
Though you don't need to be worried about the higher planets until you finish your first season.
The footage you just saw was from the first planet, your starting point. ]
The image changed again.
An auction appeared.
[ To have advantages in your journey,
You can buy a 'newborn's card' by paying with living creatures in this auction, and receive their help in your journey as your trusted soldiers.
The newborn auction will be held the same day as the start of the new season.]
The one beside Little Mortal nodded.
Newborns were indeed the best soldiers you could have with you, and you could trust them without worry.
Little Mortal gritted his teeth, and a cold light flashed through his eyes.
The image changed again.
It was a skyscraper that Little Mortal followed an agent into one of before.
The 'card vault' building.
[ This is our special vault that you can buy our 'special cards' from by paying with law directly or paying with living creatures indirectly.
To buy special equipment, you need to contact the 'card stores' in the city.
Believe it or not, these cards are the source of victory, especially with you losing your levels at the start.
We have all kinds of equipment cards that can be used to your benefit.]
Little Mortal chuckled,
"So it's a 'pay-to-win game'!
I like it.
But why are they asking for living creatures as a form of payment?
You can't bring any creature except higher beings out of the universes, so what's the use of them?"
The image changed again, revealing one of the elevators.
[ You need to enter the planet through the elevators.
Each individual needs to register a username if it's their first time using the system.
After your arrival on the First planet, you receive a random ability and an infopad.
Then you should leave the registration area to spawn at a random location.
Your birth treasures or any other kind of treasures will be useless, though.
So please don't count on them, and know that only our cards are usable inside the planets.
And about the ability,
You should know that each participant gains a random ability at the start of season one, which stays with them until the end.
But,]
The image changed, and the picture of three people appeared.
One woman and two men.
They were the three ancient ones.
[If you have an invitation card from one of the ancient ones, you get two abilities at the start.]
The image changed back to Agent 99.
[ The ending of seasons depends on the storyline, events, and the different decisions of those who participate.
There are even special ways to finish each season and receive special season-end rewards that I suggest you don't try; that's for the 'Tycoons'.
But in the end, it's on you to choose what to do.
You can ally with others, you can start killing each other, or even just ignore each other.
It all depends on you, and no need to worry about death.
If you 'die', you will be resurrected in a place called the 'waiting room'.
You need to stay there after death until the season ends on all of the planets, and then come out.
So it's better not to do anything rash and go slow and steady in your first season because you have a lot of time there.
But even if you end up in the 'waiting room',
Don't worry.
That place is connected to the world outside, and you can absorb law from your universe freely.
In the end,
I should tell you about those who survive and finish the season on their planets in one way or another.
The winners of the first planet can be directly sent to the 'Second planet' if they choose, through another elevator inside the First planet.
And it is the same for higher seasons too.
Or you can go to the waiting room and wait for the season to end.
The choice is yours.]
[Now let's talk about the benefits.
Through the season, you gain points depending on your contribution in each season, and you can buy different cards using your points inside or outside of the planets.
So even if you 'die', you can join back for the new season in the future, with more experience and equipment.
And if you win and survive until the end, each planet pushes you 1 level higher.
Which means at the end of the First planet's season, you advance to level 2.
This continues until the Fifth planet, and you can become a higher being there and advance to level 6 at the end of it.
After that, you need to finish two planets' seasons to advance by 1 level.
Which means at the end of the Seventh planet, you can advance to level 7,
And at the end of the Ninth Planet, to level 8.
And at the end of the road, the last planet, a surprise awaits you.
You might ask, what if I die on the second or higher planets, and the season itself ends?
Well, to answer your question, I must say you can always start again from the last planet you were on.
That's why we have an elevator connected to each planet, so everyone can enter the last planet they were on in the previous season.
But either way, everyone needs to participate regardless.]
[ In the end, I should say,
Because we agents can't enter any of the 10 planets,
And this is a known fact, many in the past tried to steal something from us before the season, and then went inside the planets to hide.
We can deal with such people in two ways.
First, place a bounty on their head.
Second, wait for the season to end and catch them directly.
So don't try to make the same mistake as the others.
Anyway,
In 2 weeks, the new season is going to start for all 10 planets.
Those without an invitation will be registered automatically when they leave this area.
And those with an invitation from one of the ancient ones can show up on the first day of the season without registration and enter the elevator.]
And the record ended after Agent 99 said,
[ Best of luck, and have fun, everyone.]
Little Mortal scratched his head,
"Is my fate skill still working or not...?
Do we have more than one Fate?
This mandatory 'game' seems to be exactly what we need.
Everybody needs to participate, and they are free to do whatever they want in there.
From what we saw until now,
It seems they designed everything in the game to gather 'living creatures' and 'law' in the name of protecting the world.
I'm sure those three ancient ones are happily contributing too."
Little Mortal, while stroking his chin, looked up,
"Big head 99 said we can't go there without using elevators.
Let's fact-check that first."
And then he disappeared.
From down here, all of the 10 planets were hidden in a layer of fog, and you couldn't see anything inside.
So a certain guardian was curious what was happening inside.
Not long after, Little Mortal exited the dark world and found himself inside water.
While confused, he saw a fish passing by, as big as a car with a terrifying appearance.
Seeing the fish was upside-down, he realized it was actually him who was upside-down.
So he started swimming downward, and after a while, he reached the water's surface.
The sky was filled with clouds, and it was raining heavily.
All around was nothing but water.
"Alright.
We already confirmed that I can enter here without using those elevators.
Not only that,
This planet isn't the one he showed us,
So I can enter any planet I want."
Little Mortal took out his notebook and looked at his quests.
[1. Secure the territory, stop any information leakage, destroy all possible spy devices ?
2. Investigate the current condition of level 3 civilization. ?
3. Find a way not to leave a single 'weakness' to be exploited ?]
"Alright, I'm done with my main quests.
Now we need to plan for our future actions."
And started writing,
[ New quests :
1. Kill everybody with a universe and become their secret guardian.
2. Kidnap everybody without a universe.
3. Do something so that everyone thinks you are not a newborn.
4. Buy some time.
5. Make a base of operation on each planet.
6. Gather enough equipment to be prepared for the game.]
"Okay.
What do you two think?
Should I add anything else?"
The notebook vibrated, saying,
< We'd better search every corner of the mainland for living creatures.
You can protect the universes after killing their owners and taking over, but what about the Newborns in the mainlands?>
Little Mortal nodded and added,
[ 7. Find a Newborn detector and search every corner of the mainland.]
"What else?"
The Crystal vibrated, saying,
[ 8. Install 'Eagle eye'.]
Little Mortal wrote the last quest, put the notebook in his pocket, and disappeared from this 'water planet' after saying,
"Alright, we have 2 weeks to prepare, let's start with... Quest number 4: Buy some time."
....
Evil Mainland. ( The former speedy mainland )
Little mortal appeared above the lava sea and dived inside.
He immediately swam to the depth and disappeared again.
A moment later, he appeared inside the sealed area between the world above and the underworld.
He looked around, and after he saw the 'chained spheres' still intact, went to the dark world.
"Dark World Law, it's me, Mortal.
I want to start.
Please start the guardian cover-up operation."
Not long after, the Dark World Law whispered in his ears,
[ Your 1 day starts ... Now! ]
And Little Mortal disappeared again.
The next moment, he was back in the sealed realm between.
He immediately moved towards a sphere, found a small crack, and entered it from there while saying,
"100% stealth mode, Activate!"
The next moment, he was back to the familiar scenery with black ground, liquid-like air, and colorful dust everywhere.
But this time, he was completely hidden from the cyborgs.
In just a moment, he found the tower far away and ran towards it.
Around 10 seconds later, he was in front of it.
"Expand."
One word, and the whole tower was separated into tiny particles.
Little mortal, as if looking for something, scanned the floating dust in front of him.
"Fine you!"
Amidst the dust, he noticed some green particles shining in a specific way.
"Condense."
One word, and a small green gemstone formed from the green dust.
Little mortal who separated the whole tower and its guard to found the stone with essence law,
After finding it and restoring it to normal, he went back to the crack and left.
A moment later, he was outside the sealed sphere again.
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"Last time, my domain was only 20 km, and I couldn't cover the whole sphere.
But now, with a 330 km domain... Hehe ."
Little mortal chuckled and said,
"Condense."
The whole sphere suddenly starts crushing and condensing to a single pearl before dropping into his palm.
Now he had one green gemstone and one black pearl.
Then he looked down at the ceiling connected to the underworld, and nodded in approval.
" Look, do you see how reliable rooftop's law is?"
The notebook and crystal, who were watching silently all the time, vibrate, saying,
Both ceilings up and down were now entirely covered by a black cover, as if the sealed area was in the Dark world now.
Even the two chains connected to the former sphere that was now a pearl were still floating in the air, as if they didn't know the sphere was gone!
Little mortal left the green gemstone and the pearl with his Crystal and said,
"You stay here and farm the law inside until I'm done here."
< Got it. >
And went to the next sphere, while he and the notebook whispered/vibrated,
<"998 left! We can do this !" >
....
Underworld.
Queen's citadel.
Lilith was now having a good rest.
After billions of years, she could finally feel relaxed today.
'Is it because the burden of fate has been lifted from my shoulders?
Or is it because I have a certain monster as a partner ?'
Lilith wondered to herself.
Then smiled and muttered,
"With that troublemaker gone, everything is peaceful."
And looked at the dark sky.
"Huh?
Why is the sky so dark?"
Lilith, who didn't even know when the ceiling above suddenly changed color, hurriedly flew up and reached the ceiling.
"What is happening now...?"
She tried to touch the ceiling, but found out that she can't, as if it was in a completely different dimension, and she can only 'see' it now, but not interact with it!
She gritted her teeth,
"I don't have permission to enter again...?
Is it Mortal's doing?"
Lilith hoped that it was him.
At least if it was him, things were chaotic on the surface, but under control in reality.
....
Mainland.
The castle of Entertainment goddess.
While speaking to Rose, Entertainment goddess suddenly felt something, and while smiling awkwardly, asked,
"Assistant Rose,
Can you ask your boss to give me a list of people that he wants to advance alongside you ?"
Rose asked in puzzlement,
"How many, big sister ?"
And she answered,
"It doesn't matter,
They just need to have a child crystal with them ."
Entertainment goddess, even at level 10, suddenly felt her beloved crystal was going to explode again from the crazy amount of law being stored in it.
As always, it was coming from a certain child crystal.
A child crystal that, from the first day, its owner allows it to send any law being donated to it to her.
She looked at her crystal, which was now disconnected from her again to not explode, and asked,
"Is he having fun again ?"
She knew the old man was probably spoiling him again.
And the Crystal, after a pause, said,
After Little Mortal deal was done with Entertainment goddess, he told her Crystal to feel free and tell her anything she asked truthfully.
But the Crystal, to keep her master's heart protected from a heart attack, let her have her own guesses by answering this way, while never lying to her.
...
The sealed realm.
Little mortal placed another black pearl and green gemstone beside a pile of more than 300 others.
He was going to leave, but the Crystal vibrated.
Little mortal raised an eyebrow,
"Hmm... Who to choose?
With 300 mainlands, 22 'rat civilization mainland' in total, plus the vulture and the undead mainland,
We have 324 slots for level 10 creatures in our territory.
Big sister and assistant Rose take 2, so we have 322.
As you can see,
With advanced mathematics, I just solved a complicated question of how many level 10 creatures we can have. "
The Crystal was speechless.
The notebook vibrated, saying,
< Crystal asked, 'Who do you want Entertainment goddess to help advance, not 'how many can.'>
Little mortal coughed,
" I know.
You didn't let me finish.
Let me see.
One is surely Madam turtle, because she needs to rest all day long and doesn't have the time for something useless as advancement.
One is our biggest, baddest, and strongest cat, Mr. Tiger, because struggling to advance is beneath him.
Two slots for my little brother and sister-in-law, because they are busy governing the people.
That's four.
Our managers need to advance too, or they advance forcefully like the mainland manager ? "
The notebook vibrated, saying,
Little mortal nodded,
" Then that lazy old manager, lady immortal, and lady night from the former night planet take one slot each.
That's another 3, total of 7.
Now, my special force team from the former cultivation planet.
These people are cultivators and extremely bloodthirsty, so give them one if they want.
But they need to sign a contract to act like a real righteous cultivator from the stories,
the ones who normally die in the first couple of episodes, and no one cares about,
not like those main characters with low IQ and plot armor who start chaos everywhere they go.
For the Night planet, give two to my vampire and werewolf descendants.
Give 10 slots to assistant Rose, and give 1 slot to everyone who gave me a birthday gift, except those on my revenge list and the outsiders.
Give 10 to my partner.
Give 10 to big sister.
And ... Give one to that little deer, the new Spirit of fairy's garden.
Is it enough, or can big sister help more to advance ?"
" In total, we only need to use 295 of them.
And we can use one per day to buy a one-day cover-up for each day.
But I don't want to risk it because things might go wrong, and it's better to help 'rooftop' become 'complete' ...
That's why... We should do this instead!
Little crystal, ask for another crystal to take your job, store the law, and let the newborns take the remaining slots.
We leave 700 pearls here and use the 299 others to buy time.
If everything went as we planned, your replacement crystal can use them for 290 more days.
If not, and something unexpected happened to me,
Then... Well, do whatever you want, because if anything happens to me, the world will be done for."
And while laughing like a maniac, he left.
The Crystal shivered.
Because Little Mortal was too overpowered, they often forgot if he got exposed,
While others can't force him to kill, they can compel him to do many other things that might cause significant changes without his notice.
A simple one was to tell him 'go away', and without him around, Lubo was enough to make an unforgettable disaster in guardian territory ...
Either way, the Crystal sent the list and what he said to Rose, and she gave it to Entertainment goddess,
Who didn't think too much about it when he heard what he said in the end and chuckled,
"My goodness, look at him all arrogant and spoiled!
He even threatens that the world will end if something happens to him?
Whoever doesn't know him, and how cute and harmless he really is, might say he is serious!
Right, my beloved crystal ?"
The main crystal felt awkward.
He is serious... And he is not cute or harmless...
Not receiving any answer, Entertainment goddess said again,
"He is joking, right? "
But the Crystal, after a brief moment, answered truthfully,
It indeed didn't know what would happen if something unexpected happened to him one day.
Would that be the end of the world?
Entertainment Goddess gasped,
"My beloved Crystal... Tell me the truth,
Did he tell his Daddy to kill everybody if anything happens to him?"
The Crystal thought for a moment and said,
< No. >
Entertainment Goddess sighed in relief,
"Alright, that's good...
He is still like a newborn, harmless and adorable.
I mean, bad things happen around him all the time, but..."
The Crystal wanted to knock on its master's head and bring her back to reality, but 'shook its head' and thought,
'sometimes, ignorance is indeed a blessing...'
....
6 hours passed.
Little Mortal dropped a pearl and gemstone on the ground and shouted,
"Time!"
The Crystal showed him the time.
5 hr and 55 minutes.
Little Mortal, who suddenly thought to turn his 'sealed realm clean up' into a speedrun, nodded,
"Did you reduce the time that we were talking about the slots?"
Little Mortal took out the notebook and wrote down his record.
"Little notebook, remember my record, and little crystal, I want you to encourage the future generation to break my record.
I know it's too fast and looks impossible to break, but tell them that I said,
'Never say never !' "
The notebook vibrated,
< I will keep this record forever! >
The Crystal, who wondered what future generations should do if there was nothing left to speedrun, looked at the notebook in confusion.
This little notebook has changed these days.
It seems a lot more active.
Little Mortal looked at the pearls and green gemstones and said,
"I'm going to bring a bag.
Is the child Crystal ready ?"
< It's on the silver platform. >
And Little Mortal left.
Not long after, he came back with two bags and a small child crystal.
"Alright, let's leave.
This crystal can stay here with the 700 pearls."
And he packed up the 999 green gemstones and 299 pearls before leaving.
...
Silver platform.
Little Mortal with two bags appeared.
He left the notebook, the crystal, and the bag with gemstones on the silver platform, and left with the pearls.
...
Dark world.
Little Mortal with a bag of 299 pearls ran to the big gate with dead souls going in.
While emptying the bag, he said,
"Dark Law, bro, here 299 days.
I kept 700 in the sealed realm.
Can you take them if I wasn't around ?"
And while the pearls started melting and moving towards the gate to merge with it,
And 'raw souls' started going inside the gate, a voice whispered in his ears.
[ Only with your permission. ]
Little Mortal nodded,
"You have my permission.
If, for any reason, my identity as the secret guardian is exposed anywhere outside of my guard territory to creatures not related to my territory, feel free to take them all.
If that didn't happen, later on, I will bring them to you personally ."
After a while waiting, Little Mortal, who didn't hear any answer, left while mumbling,
"Dark Law is so cool, no wonder it chose me as its representative.
We are both men of few words...
We never waste our breath on unnecessary words.
Our voices are rare, but when heard, they change the course of history... "
And while mumbling non-stop, he disappeared.
....
Underworld.
Lilith was looking at the ceiling nervously for hours now.
But nothing unusual happened.
She checked her crystal to see if her partner uploaded anything, but no, there was only a sentence in his channel.
[ A new speedrun record has been set.
I, your friendly guardian, Mortal, encourage you to break it.
Speedrun : 'sealed sphere clean up'
Record : 5 hours and 55 seconds
-Like : 1k , Dislike : +300k - ]
Lilith chuckled when she saw all the dislikes and negative comments that asked where this speedrun even took place.
Or how are they supposed to break it when they don't even know where to go and try it?
She shook her head,
"What even is this sealed sphere clean u- huh ?"
An image suddenly appeared before her eyes.
A sealed realm with 1000 chained spheres on it.
"Don't tell me..."
She immediately opened a gate to planet Lubo and was going to enter, but heard a familiar laughter coming from her armory somewhere outside her citadel.
Most of the time, she automatically ignored all of the voices in the underworld.
But there was a certain sound that she always paid attention to, which was her daughter's, Nyxara.
"What's so funny inside my armory?"
Lilith's eyes focused, pierced through all the obstacles, and locked onto her daughter.
She was talking to 'nobody' at this moment, while covering her eyes as if something 'hard to look at' was in front of her.
"Great Elder, you look like a rich young master from a noble minion family now!"
And the 'nobody', with a familiar voice, replied,
"Little Ny, you might not know,
But back then, I was so rich that even your mother would come and borrow money from me."
And while shocked, Nyxara led the 'nobody' called 'Great Elder', inside,
"Please come in, Great Elder.
I know you were here before, so feel free to choose anything."
Lilith bit her lips in frustration,
"It's him!
He is back already!"
And rushed to the armory to meet with the Great Elder, whom she used to borrow money from.
When she arrived there, she saw her daughter, who was covering her eyes and walking around with a small 'sun-like' person beside her.
The little sun was like this because he wore a golden t-shirt, golden pants, and shoes,
A gold-framed pair of glasses with no lenses, two to four gold rings on each finger, a gold wristband, a gold necklace, and...
Lilith felt her eyes tearing just looking at this little walking and talking sun, and couldn't see the rest of the gold objects hanging on him,
as if the material that the items on him were made of was something special that she wasn't supposed to look at.
Lilith muttered to herself,
"Are the things he is wearing made of Fate...?"
She remembered him receiving a gold ring after 'eating' a green gemstone that he found in the head of the tower guardian he dealt with in the sealed sphere.
Later on, he claimed it's 'Fate' that he was married to.
"So... He actually cleaned up some of those sealed spheres, ate the gemstones, released the essence law inside, and... Made some clothing and jewelry for himself?
But why is there no announcement in the world above about his contribution? "
Lilith rubbed her forehead in frustration.
Her child crystal vibrated at this moment.
For the first time after receiving it, she actually received a direct message.
" Who could it be...? "
While wondering, she read the message.
[ Greetings, Queen Lilith.
You received 10 advancement slots.
You can choose 10 creatures on your side to advance.
They can advance to a minimum level 9 or a maximum level 10 if fated. ]
'So he made more of those pearls, and now Entertainment Goddess is using them to help certain people advance?
She can do that to others, too, with her birth treasure?
Such a scary duo... '
Then she looked at her partner,
'So considerate, huh?
You gave me 10 slots too... '
And looked away again because tears started streaming down her face.
Lilith didn't know what to say.
She was sure without the Frontline effect protecting them, anyone who saw her partner now would go blind with just one glance, because he was literally wearing a chunk of Fate now...
She could even see some images with different events happening on them flashing around him, but they were all blurry, as if they needed an order to take form...
As if these were the inevitable future that could happen, but someone needed to decide on that.
'If my guess is correct, he can use this raw Fate to make 'wishes', and fate will turn his wish into an inevitable future for him...'
Lilith was completely flabbergasted now.
'Is this even legal?'
She didn't know Dark World Law was 'covering up' for the activities related to the secret guardian, and because it was a law from a higher dimension, Fate couldn't sense anything.
Or someone gathering so much raw Fate and bringing all the lost essence laws back to the world could trigger a big change in Fate's source.
And for the same reason, Little Mortal didn't care if those who were connected to fate advanced beyond what they were 'supposed to' in Fate's storyline.
This was an activity related to the guardian, so Dark World Law completely concealed it.
Little Mortal was now using Dark World Law's support fully to cover anything related to himself.
While 'blinded by fate', Nyxara brought the Great Elder to a place with 20 sets of armor.
"Great Elder, these are the armors my mother would give the noble minions like you to use when going to the land of believers for executing missions."
After her first encounter with the Great Elder, Nyxara researched his 'kind' and learned who he actually was.
He was a rare survivor from the noble race of the minions.
The brave minions who fought for the underworld in the above world and her mother granted them a human-like appearance so they can blend in when they are up there.
The Great Elder nodded and looked at the 20 armors.
Then he disappeared, and so did the armors!
With him gone, Nyxara felt a nonexistent illusion break.
"No way!
He fooled me again?
How could I bring him here without Mother's permission!
And he actually stole everything!"
While stressed, she heard a voice she didn't really want to hear at that moment.
"It's fine."
Nyxara shivered and looked behind her.
"M-Mother I di-"
Lilith waved her hand,
"I said it's fine.
He is not a thief, so don't worry..."
Lilith doubted her own words, though.
He was actually a professional thief...
...
Dark world.
Little Mortal dragged all of the armor with him to the dark world.
"Oh, only this red armor doesn't have a line..."
He looked at the only armor that didn't have any connection with fate and could be used without worry, and scratched his head.
"No wonder there is no fate connection..."
The red armor was rusty and dull.
From the dents and cracks all over it, you could tell the stories of countless battles.
It seems to be a completely useless armor, and maybe that's why it didn't have any place in Fate's story.
Little Mortal changed into the armor, and then condensed all of the 'Fate objects' on himself into a golden ball, and placed it where the former gold ring was.
Now the line showing his path to level 3 civilization was brightened by a wide road that led to the horizon.
This time, because he was 'undercover' and Dark World Law was concealing his activities, no one received any World Law message.
Even the essence law itself did not know it was 'saved', let alone world law that still didn't know its lost part was back.
After he was done, Little Mortal in the old red armor, went back.
.....
Underworld.
Queen's private armory.
20 sets of armor appeared.
Nyxara gasped,
"Great Elder, you are back!
Where did you go ?"
But she didn't receive any answer.
Only a paper was on the chest of one of the armors.
Nyxara read the sentence written on the paper,
[ If you find me after at most 20 guesses, I will give you a gift. ]
And became excited.
Lilith shook her head.
"She is bewitched again, right...?
20 guesses when there is 20 armor?"
Nyxara said excitedly,
"This fancy armor is the only one that fits you, great elder!"
And she opened the face protection of the helmet.
But it was empty inside.
Nyxara gasped.
"No way!
Then this one?"
And she was wrong again.
As she guessed again and again, a memory appeared before Lilith's eyes.
It was from long ago, when Nyxara was just 'born' and wasn't older than 4 years.
She was playing the same game with a group of minions, in this same armory...
Lilith sighed.
All of those minions were sacrificed to help the mainlands above not become victims of evil mainlands, and they all failed.
After 19 wrong guesses, Nyxara finally found the great elder.
"Found you, great elder!
Why are you in this ruined armor?"
The Great Elder snorted,
"What do you mean by why?
Let me ask you this,
What is the use of this armor?"
Nyxara answered immediately,
"To protect you from harm!"
But the great elder shook his head,
"Wrong!
That's for the weak.
For someone as strong as me, this only has one use."
Nyxara asked curiously,
"What use?"
And the great elder puffed his chest and said proudly,
"To tell everyone that I am the underworld's envoy!
Nothing else, nothing more!
So whoever used this armor in the past,
Already had a body stronger than any armor!
By the way, do you want to know about an interesting fact?"
Nyxara, while in shock at hearing about this historical truth behind the rusty armor, nodded repeatedly,
" Yes! Please enlighten me, great elder! "
And the great elder told her the fact,
"Your rebellion has failed!"
Nyxara froze.
The great elder suddenly ran to Lilith, who was watching in silence, and shouted,
"My queen, you arrived right in time!"
And kneeled on one knee in front of her while shouting,
"The rebellious princess was going to empty your armory, equip her own army of traitors, and overthrow your government!
But I arrived in time and protected your belongings from the rebellious princess!"
Lilith, who was dragged out of her sweet memories of the past, wanted to kick this loyal subject out of the underworld and be done with it.
Nyxara turned pale and wanted to say something, but she was at a loss for words.
"I-I-I... "
Lilith shook her head,
"Nyxara, he is joking with you..."
Hearing the great elder chuckling secretly, Nyxara was stunned for a moment, and then gritted her teeth in resentment,
"Great elder!
How can you scare me like this every time?
And I thought I won the previous game, and you are going to give me a reward too!"
The Great Elder stood up and said,
"I didn't lie about your reward."
And threw a child crystal at her.
"Here, you can at least advance to level 9 this."
Nyxara, who didn't believe him at all, snorted and left.
Little mortal scratched his head,
"I say, partner, I'm looking for a 'Newborn detector'.
Do you have any?"
Lilith,
"...??"