A hidden security room inside a hidden dimension.
Xyron was now watching over many screens with different views of the Level 3 civilization mainland.
At this moment, he suddenly saw an alarm in one of the camera footages.
It was a slight change in the temperature.
Xyron, who saw this change in the third elevator area, immediately said,
"Initiate the dimension lockdown, now!"
And the whole central mainland was suddenly covered by two layers of a bubble.
One was to lock down the entry to the lowest level of dimensions,
And the other was an information changer.
The job of the first layer was to stop anyone from entering the lowest level of dimensions,
And the second layer was responsible for changing the information in the 'light' reflecting outside to a fixed reality.
To make it simple, from outside, no one could see what was happening inside anymore, and only the image of a peaceful mainland would reach their eyes.
Xyron nodded and sent a series of orders,
"Alright.
Tell the agents to act accordingly.
Watch over the ancient ones; they don't know about what's happening inside, but they might find out if we aren't fast.
The opponent is extremely dangerous; be ready to initiate my orders."
[ Affirmative . ]
....
Elevator number 3.
Agent 33 sensed the changes in the atmosphere, that none of the creatures entering the elevators could see or feel, and scanned the crowd.
Around 50% of the participants had entered, and it seems their guest from the underworld was going to show up too.
The participants, while taking their time to enter, suddenly felt the temperature change.
"Why did the weather get so hot ?"
"I thought the mainland's temperature is always fixed ?"
The fixed temperature was indeed the reason for the alarm in the security room, because the weather and temperature never changed in the Level 3 civilization's mainland.
While the crowd was confused, and Agent 33 was doing his best to find the source of the increasing temperature, a voice sounded from his right, around ten meters away.
"Friend, did you pay for the stuff I bought?"
And as if the sound was carried by 'fire', everyone started sweating out of nowhere and turned their head towards the source of the sound.
*Gasp*
When they saw who the other party was, they froze.
Not only because they were surprised to see the armored man that all of the agents and ancient ones were looking for these days,
but because a certain agent used his information law in this area and pressed the 'pause button'.
While walking towards the man in blazing armor,
Agent 33 said,
"Why should I pay for your stolen items ?"
But he didn't expect him to answer, because like the rest, he was 'paused' by his information law.
Then he arrived in front of the unmoving armored man and brought out a card.
The crowd who saw this sighed in relief.
It seems everything was going to end peacefully with this scary guy being imprisoned.
But, when Agent 33 was going to place the card on the armor, his hand was caught by something, and then,
*Whoosh*
*Bam* x2
The crowd heard three sounds.
One was a cutting sound, and the other two were the sound of impacts.
No one saw who or what made the sounds, but the result of it was in front of their eyes to see.
They even felt that their bodies could move again,
But none of them dared to move...
They all looked at the man in blazing armor and gulped down with dry throats.
Now,
In the man's hand was the severed arm of Agent 33, which was going to imprison him with the card that was still being held by it.
The result of the cutting sound had naturally been this severed arm.
In front of the man in blazing armor was now a headless body too, with a hole in the chest!
From the hole, they could see the dark and empty eyes of the man in blazing armor, staring at their soul!
The two impact sounds had naturally resulted in this.
From both the hole in the chest and the body with the missing head, hot lava was dripping...
Looking at the leg of the man in blazing armor, whose right leg was now shining red, they could tell that this specific leg was the culprit behind the hole and the missing head.
The scared crowd, while sweating profusely, turned to their right and could tell where the missing head went.
How could they tell?
Because the head obviously opened a clear and straight path for itself towards its final destination.
And this path was filled with hundreds of dead and crippled creatures who got hit by it, and the head itself, which was splashed against a wall at the end of its journey...
Only one thought came to everyone's head,
'Who in the world is he !?'
From the first time joining this mainland, they had never seen anyone oppose these agents and come out victorious!
The ending of all of them was the same.
'Imprisoned'.
But today, an agent actually got killed?
The man in blazing armor spoke again.
"You are the one who invited me here.
How dare you accuse me of theft ?"
Hearing the hoarse voice, everyone shivered and thought,
'Who are you talking to?
The guy is already dead...
You should have said that before killing him !'
A voice sounded from the sky at this moment,
"The act of violence against agents cannot be tolerated here."
The crowd, upon hearing the voice without looking, could tell it was another agent because their bodies were 'paused' again, like the man in blazing armor.
Agents 22 and 44, the two closest to elevator 33, reached here in no time.
Not even 10 seconds after the alarm, they were already locked on their target and arrived here.
Seeing how one of them was 'killed' so easily,
Both of them tapped their chest, and red-blue armor covered their bodies from head to toe.
They immediately landed on either side of the man in blazing armor and brought out two chips.
This was another device for catching criminals, far more efficient than the previous method.
*Bam*x2
The sound of two more heavy impacts echoed.
The crowd felt they could move again, which, again, they dared to.
As before, no one saw who or what made the sounds.
But the result of it was in front of them.
This time, the man in blazing armor had two severed arms in his hand,
And each of the hands had a chip in it to prove that the previous owners were the agents.
To the right and the left of the man in blazing armor, two paths were opened.
At the end of each path, an agent, with a footprint's mark on their chest dripping with liquid lava, was splashed against a wall.
Maybe their armor was fine, having only a footprint, but it was obvious that they had exploded inside...
And in the two paths that the two agents traveled, like the previous time, all of the creatures on the way were dead or crippled from the impact.
The crowd gulped and looked at their only hope to survive this disaster.
The elevator!
But no one dared to be the first and try to run for their dear life...
The man in blazing armor, the source of this horror show, spoke again,
"First, you accused me of theft.
Now you call my act of self-defense... violence ?"
The crowd shivered when they heard the hoarse voice changing in a bad way...
It seems he was getting angry.
They all wondered,
'So he wasn't angry until now?
That's how he normally is?
And why is he talking about 'reason' after killing his opponents?
Isn't that supposed to be before killing them...'
Another voice sounded from the sky,
"Lilith's envoy, how about you come with us so we can solve this situation peacefully ?"
The crowd, who knew the newcomer was another agent, because they lost the ability to move again,
Wondered who 'Lilith's envoy' was that made these agents talk about a 'peaceful' solution?
Is it this guy?
If he is, then who is Lilith?
The name sounds familiar...
Oh no!
Lilith the infernal?
Is he the Queen of Hell's envoy?
Why is he acting crazy then?
Aren't we allies !?
The man in blazing armor, as if opening his eyes, and two burning fires appeared in his previously dark and empty helmet, moved his gaze towards the voice.
But that simple move made everyone's hair stand on end.
They felt like crying.
Everyone thought,
'Why is every move of this guy so aggressive? '
And this thought was the last thought for many of them.
Because as his now burning gaze passed by them, anyone his gaze glanced at on its way to the Agent, turned to the ashes on the spot!
The survivors could only think of him as an extremely strong fire law user out of control...
As many of them incinerated, and the burning gaze of the man in blazing armor finally landed on the agent in the sky, who wasn't alone, and five other agents were together with him, he spoke again.
"When was the last time that anyone dared to call my Queen by name ?"
Before any of the agents, who were in silver armor now, could answer him, he answered his own question with a tone full of anger,
"Never!
Nobody ever had the audacity to call my Queen by name!
And you, lowly peasant, dare to do so?"
And his figure disappeared!
The crowd knew they were done for.
Those stupid agents actually offended this unstable fire monster again!
And sure enough, they were completely right.
Above the sky, a figure appeared between the six agents and shouted,
"For your disrespect, I summon hell on earth as your punishment !"
And one of the three fire rings on his left hand that nobody cared about until now lit up.
The six agents weren't that slow either, and with six sharp-looking blades almost cutting him down!
But before that, a fire sphere suddenly covered the man in blazing armor, and then expanded in every direction!
Anywhere the fire passed turned any living creatures on its way to ashes!
And the six agents, who survived the fire because of their armor, were blown away in six different directions!
....
Inside the secret security room, Xyron, with a deep frown, muttered to himself,
"This is not a normal fire law.
You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.
It is the same as the last time this person appeared and destroyed two of our type 2 mainlands.
Is it specific to the underworld?
The agents' information law can't affect him either.
Is it because his law originated from the underworld, and we have no information about it?
And how did he appear between the agents..."
He replayed the record in slow motion and snorted,
"Oh, he is just fast, that's all.
I thought for a second that he could still move between dimensions."
Then he sent an order,
"Activate the tier two cyborgs.
Send a new batch of agents to lead them before things get escalated!
And when we are done, erase everyone's memory who saw what happened with the chips inside them."
[ Affirmative.]
Then he looked at the empty area where only the ashes of former creatures could be seen.
"Wait, what is he doing?"
......
Close to the third elevator, the armored man in blazing armor was now gathering cards that were left from the ashes of thousands of dead creatures.
While the fire burned the creatures,
A certain Queen's envoy inside the armor who had already tested the 'fire' on the cards,
And knew how resilient they were, asking a certain Queen, who couldn't be called by name, to keep the temperature in check.
This way, the creatures would die, but the cards would remain.
As the man in armor ran around, all of the cards started moving towards him, as if a gravity pull was sucking them towards him, and then they disappeared into a black storage card.
When he finished cleaning up, he was about to leave, but something suddenly hit him and sent him flying.
Far away, on a skyscraper, a cyborg said,
[ Target has been hit, I repeat, Target has been - .]
*Bam*
The cyborg that seemed to be a sniper got crushed by something, and its body dropped down from the skyscraper with two missing hands.
The man in blazing armor, holding the two remaining hands, appeared on the rooftops.
He tried to separate the sniper rifle from the hands to give it a try,
But it actually produced a shockwave and exploded.
*Bam* x10
At the same time, 10 more snipers shot at their target from 10 different directions.
The man in blazing armor dodged the bullets this time and looked at the sky.
From the sky, wormholes opened, and 3-meter-tall cyborgs in black armor came out with a huge sword in hand.
Down below, many agile-looking cyborgs emerged from the ground and started climbing the skyscraper.
Simultaneously, 9 agents walked out from 9 different wormholes.
Except for Agent 1, who was still in front of the first elevator, all the other agents were back.
All as good as new, in a special kind of blue armor.
It seems these agents had many copies of themselves.
Agent 11 looked at the surrounded man in blazing armor and said,
"Are you sure you don't want to solve this problem peacefully, Queen's envoy?"
The man in blazing armor starts chuckling in a creepy way.
"Hehehe..."
The sound of chuckling gets louder and louder, and turns into maniacal laughter,
"HAHAHA..."
His armor started burning in fire while he muttered secretly,
"Is the 10-line speech ready, little notebook?"
And as if he received an answer, he shouted with a voice full of madness,
"At last, I am free — free from the Queen's dictatorship!
Free from the infernal grasp of that wicked Queen!
No more commands whispered like venom in my ears!
No more laws to bind me, no more rules to break!
This world — this lawless, boundless void — it is mine now!
I will carve my name into the bones of this place.
I will tear the silence apart with a scream of triumph!
Let the skies shatter, let the ground crumble —
For every broken thing is a song of my freedom!
I am not a servant anymore!
I am not a prisoner anymore!
I am the Annihilator of Realms, Mortal, the strongest!"
With the end of his speech, the two remaining fire rings on Mortal the strongest's left hand lit up!
And then, there was a *BOOM*.
With the crazy and now free warrior in armor at the center, everything within a 100-kilometer distance crumbled, turned to ashes, or was blown away, depending on how resilient they were.
Even the Annihilator of Realms, Mortal, the strongest himself, was stunned!
It seems the 'dictator Queen' didn't like what he said and amplified the effect...
...
In the security room, Xyron looked at the mess blankly.
"Lilith, oh Lilith...
What kind of monster did you release on our side...?"
The agents, the so-called tier 2 cyborgs, the buildings... everything just disappeared in a moment!
Xyron thought of something and said,
"Everyone, this is an order!
No need to capture him alive anymore!
Eliminate the target on sight!
He is not Lilith's envoy!
He is just a psychopath who ran from whatever hell Lilith created in the underworld!
He is an anomaly!"
And left immediately.
If he wanted to stop this madness, it was better to act personally.
An alarm sounded on the mainland.
A warning was issued for everyone to run into the elevators immediately.
When Xyron saw him gathering cards,
He knew what this crazy guy's final goal was.
He wanted to enter the First planet while fully equipped.
Xyron didn't really care about the 10 planets.
But it was unacceptable for an unstable factor to go to a place that they didn't have access to!
Even Hypermind, who could see what's going on in the ten planets, was out of reach for the next year.
....
The sounds of the explosions and laughter echoed everywhere.
The unstoppable monster in blazing armor was getting beaten up now.
It seems the new batch of tier 2 cyborgs couldn't be destroyed by him easily after he used that attack.
The cyborgs weren't few either, and they could show up anywhere using wormholes.
But while getting beaten up, he seems to enjoy it.
From time to time, a red dot on his right arm would light up, and a small sun would attack his pursuers.
The shock waves created by the collisions between him and various cyborgs would shatter space and occasionally reveal a hidden dimension.
In this chaos, nobody cared about these exposed dimensions, and nobody noticed that each time one of these dimensions was exposed, before everything go *Boom*,
Some cards, or newborns, would disappear in the middle of the explosions.
...
One hour later.
Little Mortal, in the midst of chaos, said,
"Alright, let me see..."
And looked at some coordinates and an address in his notebook.
"Okay, this one was the last one.
We have our equipment ready,
We have our food ready,
We have our newborns in the lowest dimension rescued,
And we only need to take away the 100 newborns you said were missing from the auction.
But before that,
Should we go to the card vaults too or not?"
The two birth treasures didn't answer.
And Lilith, on his shoulder, pointed forward blankly,
"How are you doing this exactly...?"
Little Mortal looked at where she was pointing and saw the blazing armor, in the middle of a fight, moving by itself.
"What do you mean by how?
That's my ability that I unlocked at level 1000,000.
The invisible me."
The two birth treasures who finally understood why this armor, even when they left it, was still moving around, gasped.
Only now they remembered this new ability that he had only used once before.
Lilith raised her eyebrows in surprise,
"You can do that?"
Little Mortal nodded,
"Yes, if I see it, I can control it.
If not, I can only leave an order inside.
So, should we go and empty their vaults or not?"
Lilith took a deep breath and shook her head,
"I know you want to use Crystal's ability to impersonate the agents and just walk in.
But they are in a state of lockdown, so they can see through you easily.
And didn't you already gather so many things?"
Little Mortal, while slightly disappointed, nodded,
"Alright."
Lilith asked another question that bothered her,
"By the way, are these creatures' universes that died part of your guardian territory now?"
Little Mortal scratched his head,
"It should be.
But I didn't level up, so it means they are not 'registered' by world law, and my 'guardian activity' is covered by the dark world perfectly."
Lilith felt relaxed.
If even he himself can't 'level up', it means the cover is working really well.
Little Mortal led the armor to a specific place and said,
"Partner, your turn.
Make it big enough so the level 2 dimension hidden here shows itself."
Lilith nodded and sent an order to the armor.
And the armor, after throwing a black card 'secretly' towards a random direction, exploded the next moment.
The explosion was 'strong' enough to reveal a storehouse in the second hidden layer, and made all of the pursuers ignore the black card that disappeared on the horizon.
Inside the hidden dimension was a storehouse containing only 100 cards, kept in a special box that disappeared in the blink of an eye.
And then, the exposed dimension turned back to its hidden form, and all of the pursuers lost their target after this suicidal attack.
....
Dark world.
Little Mortal appeared here.
He looked around and then walked to an empty place that, in his eyes, wasn't empty at all.
Lots of tiny Mortals were gathered here.
He then saw where five tiny Mortals with white headbands were; instead, a bunch of tiny newborns had replaced them.
He picked them up, turned them as big as Lilith's size, and said,
"Partner, please keep these ones inside our headquarters.
They are supposed to be dead now."
Lilith, who had wondered until now how he was going to save the newborns they saw, and suddenly saw these tiny newborns appearing, wondered to herself,
'Did he use the 'invisible me' that works with 'command'?'
After the 'Giant Mortal' sent the dumbfounded newborns inside the Queen's citadel, which seems to be his headquarters now, he immediately left the dark world again.
"Let's go recover my delivery!
Don't forget our plans!
We need to create an opportunity at the end of the ninth planet, and we only have one chance!"
Lilith nodded,
"By the way,
Remember to give me a chance to exchange information with one of the ancient ones at the end."
Little Mortal chuckled,
"I'm pretty sure with what we are going to do, Xyron can't ignore his own opportunity either."
During their 'secret investigation', they discovered something Xyron was building and realized he needed the 'law' from the Exiled zone.
And after looking at some secret information, Little Mortal's group found out that when someone advances in any of the 10 planets to a higher level than their original level,
A unique kind of law from this Exiled zone will go to the planet to help the other party advance.
Little Mortal couldn't tell because he couldn't feel the law here, but Lilith could sense that this Exiled zone had a law that gave her the feeling of the 'complete' version of world law.
They guessed that because the sinners' race was exiled before the separation of the original world law,
This Exiled zone was filled with the original world law from back then.
The use of the 10 Planets for Xyron was to steal part of this law that was intended to help the participants advance.
What was the use of the 10 Planets for the real creator, Hypermind, was still unknown.
But either way, the group made their plan based on the changes they could create at the end of the ninth planet's event to take action.
....
Elevator Number 1.
Until now, Agent 1 has been standing guard here all the time and has never left.
But he was receiving the news about the situation.
Farther away from him, one more person using some special equipment was hiding, whom even Agent 1 didn't know about.
He was Xyron, in a black cloak, completely invisible.
"Last time was like this, too.
When the armor exploded, we thought he had killed himself.
But this time is different.
I saw him picking up cards, and from the reports, any hidden dimensions that were revealed have missing equipment.
A lot of them!
Some of the warehouses are even completely emptied or destroyed..."
Then he received an urgent message.
"Oh, those 100 'special' newborns are gone?
He knew it was impossible to buy newborns at the auction, so he stole some from the participants at the 3rd elevator,
And when his suicidal explosion revealed the newborn's storehouse, he snatched those 100 we don't use anymore...
Well, that will be a surprise for him.
But either way,
All of this preparation shows even if crazy, he is a smart one.
Everything he does is planned!
If I can catch him and place a chip in him, he will be the best candidate to be released in the underworld..."
While planning how to deal with this peculiar psychopath, he heard someone saying,
"Good evening, Agent 1."
Both Agent 1 and Xyron turned towards the source of the sound.
Farther away, a tall man in a black suit, red tie, and leather shoes, was walking leisurely towards the elevator where Agent 1 stood.
Looking at him, only one word came to their mind.
Gentleman.
Agent 1, who saw him get closer and closer,
Was going to look up at him, but the man, as he got closer, didn't get taller, but seemed to become... smaller?
Only when he arrived in front of Agent 1 did the illusion of 'Tall gentleman' break and change to 'Little gentleman'.
Agent 1 asked awkwardly,
"You are?"
The little gentleman brought out a blue plate from his pocket, and while showing it to him, said,
"I am Mortal.
I was invited to participate in your worldwide event."
Agent 1 nodded when he recognized the 'special invitation' belonging to the ancient ones.
"This is Queen Lilith's special invitation.
Alright, you can go in."
The little gentleman nodded and raised his left hand as if he were going to catch something.
It was only at this moment that the real nonexistent illusion shattered, and Agent 1 and Xyron finally understood the situation!
'Mortal?
Queen Lilith's invitation?
That's him!'
But it was already too late, because in a split second, many things happened.
First,
The little gentleman caught a black card that flew over to him from nowhere with his already raised left hand,
Second,
He kicked Agent 1's leg with his right leg, and broke it, which forced him to lean over because of his broken leg.
Third,
He slapped the big head of Agent 1 with his right hand, and made the head spin so fast that after it was separated from the neck, it stayed mid-air, spinning for itself.
Then he walked leisurely to the elevator with one hand in his pocket while leaving a sentence,
"A lawless world, I like it."
It was only now that the spinning head splashed,
The body with the broken leg dropped, and Xyron came out of his hideout while speechless...
"He acted so naturally that both of us ignored who he really is, and we only saw a gentleman..."
Then he chuckled,
"He was lurking in the dark for days here!
So he knew we could kill him if we brought our big guns out, right?
But he didn't know that wasn't possible for us.
Those ancient ones would detect the battle fluctuations if we use those...
Though he didn't know that, and tried to run inside the First planet.
He thinks that after the season ends, a long time has passed, and we might recruit him as a bounty hunter?
What a complicated man..."
After a moment of silence, he sent an order,
"First, repair everything.
I don't want those ancient ones to-"
*Boom*
Before he could finish what he was saying,
Above in the sky, something like glass broke.
Xyron shook his head,
"Alright, never mind, they are already here."
And he immediately adjusted his expression to a pitiful one while waiting for the guests to arrive.
A brief moment later, three figures appeared in the sky, and when they saw him, they came to him directly.
When the'Five' newcomers joined him.
The old man in white armor spoke first,
"Xyron, what happened here?"
And another voice, that none of them heard, said worriedly,
"Little Xy, who bullied you?"
And another voice that again, none of them heard, asked,
"Partner, can we leave already..."
Xyron, who only saw 3 out of 5 worried people, sighed,
"Senior Seraphion, we were wrong.
The other party wasn't an envoy, but an escaped psychopath..."
And showed them the crazy act of the man in blazing armor, while explaining to them how they were forced to 'seal' the mainland to stop him as they evacuated everyone to planets for protection.
The three were flabbergasted.
"Lilith never sent anyone up here, and now that she sent one, this is what we got...?"
"Who even is he?"
"The Annihilator of Realms?"
"Mortal, the strongest?"
"What an arrogant name!"
"I never heard of him..."
"I know him, I know him!
That's your ancestor!"
"Please stop..."
"We should ask Lilith for an explanation..."
"Are you silly little Va?
If you want to complain, you should find another ancestor, not a junior..."
"They can't hear you, partner..."
"Xyron, what are you going to do now?"
"If you are sending bounty hunters in, then give this to them; this disaster can't continue inside the 10 planets!"
"What is it? What is it?
Give me one too!"
Xyron nodded gratefully and received the ancient one's token.
"Thank you, seniors.
Then I will trouble your participants inside to collaborate with our bounty hunters if needed.
This way, we have more manpower on each planet."
The three nodded and left to ask 'Lilith' for an explanation.
Xyron, who saw them gone, chuckled,
"Well, that went well.
But we should equip our bounty hunters properly; this way, there is no need for them to collaborate with anyone."
Then he sent his orders,
"22, go and be ready to give them an explanation in Lilith's place.
44, go and release our bounty hunters, all of them.
66, equip them fully.
77, show them the records of their target.
And 1, when they are done, send them in immediately.
The reward for catching him, dead or alive, will be a 'wish'.
The rest of you, gather for a meeting to analyze the aftermath."
After he gave the orders, Xyron left immediately.
It seems he really didn't care about catching the psychopath alive.
Little Mortal waved at him,
"Good luck, little Xy, you can do this!"
Lilith said in a frustrated tone,
"Are we done here?"
Little Mortal, while walking to the elevator, said,
"I'm done.
I just wanted to know if this guy is going to send all of the bounty hunters in or keep some and send the rest.
Now that I'm sure all of them are going to join us,
we only need to clean up the 10 planets, and we are good to go."
Then he turned to Lilith and chuckled,
"Partner, do you want to go and see yourself giving an 'explanation' to your old comrades?
I know the way."
Lilith gritted her teeth,
"No."
Little Mortal chuckled, and before going inside the elevator, jumped up.
While in the sky, he said,
"Look.
What do you think?
Do you feel better now?"
Lilith looked at the destruction, the ashes, the burned buildings, the body parts of cyborgs, and the mess they made and snorted,
"Not bad, but not enough."
The fanatic notebook,
< Beautiful... >
The Crystal, who felt it was the only normal member in this group,
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