Entertainment Goddess came here to see the situation.
In her Crystal's opinion, Little Mortal would be here to take care of the mess.
When she saw the whole place was empty, she knew she was late.
"By the way, do you think it's fine to take my castle back with me to planet Lubo?
There is nobody here anymore..."
The Crystal, after a brief discussion with the rest of the birth treasures, said,
< Take all of the castles with you, master.
Just put them where the rest of them are, the Open-museum. >
Entertainment Goddess nodded,
"Yeah, good idea, he won't kick them out if we say it's for his collection."
And the two were left with all of the remaining castles.
Now the Mainland was truly empty.
No living creature, no objects, no nothing, speeding in a certain direction, alone.
When Entertainment Goddess came back to planet Lubo, the crowd of higher beings from the former speedy Mainland came to ask her what they should do now.
The truth was revealed, and the little troublemaker turned out to be the little monster instead.
But Entertainment Goddess was now the guardian and the Fate representative, even if temporarily.
So she should be able to tell what the situation is and what the deal is with this 'Fate' mission.
Entertainment Goddess, though, was completely oblivious.
"I know nothing about Fate and what it wants to do.
I just keep getting a message from an unknown source connected to the world law, telling me to get ready, and after we gather the rest of the Fated ones and clean up the 'Exiled zone', we should go take care of the 'sinners' in the sealed realm between... "
And she gave them some explanation about scattered stories that Little Mortal told her so she could write the script, which turned into a complete mess later on.
The Crystal, though, kept its silence, not mentioning anything about the sealed area that was already cleared.
Who didn't know Little Mortal doesn't like spoiling the story?
God of Adventure shrugged,
"I don't care about this Fate game.
I go see if I can borrow my old backpack and continue my adventure."
And opened a passage to the silver platform.
At the other side of the passage, Entertainment Goddess saw a certain child crystal and an 'adult' notebook on the backpack, and said,
"Let's go there!
That crystal was going around with Mortal, it should know something."
And the crowd went there together.
Goddess of Memory tried to ask her former notebook about Fate's plans, but it didn't respond.
The backpack trembled at this moment, saying,
< Just show them his journey to the Exiled zone.
The version with a fake ending. >
The crowd was puzzled, but when they gained access to a certain exclusive video that was only displayed in the underworld and planet Lubo,
They basically saw the whole Exiled zone, the level 3 civilization, and the Mainlands there with a bunch of Bosses and mini-bosses.
In this video, Little Mortal saved a bunch of newborns and ran away.
It wasn't the video of him that he committed suicide in the end, and all of them turned to ashes.
Entertainment Goddess frowned,
"Something doesn't add up...
This video is fake at the end.
And I remember him telling me that he already conquered the world, so where is the part where he became the guardian there?
I even gave him a script for the three ancient ones there for the last part of his movie."
Then she looked at the child crystal,
"What were you up to there?
And where is Mortal now?"
The child crystal vibrated, saying,
He killed everybody there once, and secretly 'won' their mainlands and universes as guardian.
The Exiled zone is part of the guardian territory now, but neither you nor world law can sense it for a certain reason.
And Boss just told me, 'I'm retired, there is no need for you to follow me anymore, ' before leaving. >
The crowd was speechless.
"How many steps is he ahead of everyone?"
"And those people in the exiled zone don't know about any of these?"
"Is that why he retired? There is nothing left to do?"
Entertainment Goddess tried to sense the guardian territory outside and find the Exiled zone, but she couldn't feel anything except the Mainland that was moving towards a fixed destination at high speed.
So she asked the birth treasures,
"Does any of you know where we are heading?"
The space mirror vibrated,
< The Exiled zone.
With this speed, it takes 3 months to get there.
But I can open a passage there directly if you want to. >
The crowd waved their hands,
"Please don't..."
"Let us find out what we are dealing with first."
"But how should we know what Fate's plans are?"
"I'm pretty sure Little Mortal knows."
"He is hiding from Entertainment Goddess, though..."
Entertainment Goddess,
"..."
The always silent Hourglass of Time vibrated at this moment, saying,
< If you don't say anything to Boss, I know a way that we can find out about everything you want to know. >
Goddess of Time looked at her former birth treasure,
"What are you worried about?
If he blamed you for anything, just say it was a request from Entertainment Goddess, and you couldn't reject it."
And chuckled while looking at Entertainment Goddess, who nodded in approval.
The Glasses of Knowledge, which saw through the thoughts of Hourglass, vibrated,
< If Entertainment Goddess takes responsibility, we can even bait Boss here to 'supervise' the meeting.
This way he is involved and can't blame us for spoiling the Fate's movie. >
Entertainment Goddess didn't know what they were going to do, but didn't mind it.
"Sure, just put the blame on me.
That rascal thinks we are making movies here, but for us it's reality."
She knew Little Mortal always looked at her as a big sister, and the reason he never told her anything about his 'secret activities' was because he didn't want her to be involved or be in danger in any way.
But now it was different.
Soon, the birth treasures, after discussing the details of their plan, took action.
First, an announcement was made in Entertainment Goddess's channel.
[ I, Guardian Saraswati, invite all of the Fate experts on planet Lubo to a meeting for predicting the 'future' we are facing related to Fate's mission. ]
At the same time, Goddess of Foresight, who was always in the fairy's garden, received a message to go and join the meeting with her lantern.
Lilith, who saw the news, as a former 'Fate expert' and someone who went to the exiled zone with Little Mortal, was naturally invited.
And she joined the meeting immediately, because she was still worried about the part that the underworld would merge back with the world above.
Seeing the ruler of the underworld for the first time in person, the crowd stood up all together and greeted her.
The only one still a little smug was the white canary.
Lilith was its colleague and one of the two managers in the guardian territory, so it was natural to see her as an equal.
With the 'death' of the managers, and the Exiled zone being in the dark, the number of voters was back to 3 again, and Little Mortal was replaced by Entertainment Goddess.
Lilith didn't even know what she should expect from this new situation.
Her partner was suddenly out of the 'scene' as if he never existed!
Either way, with the arrival of the only real Fate expert, Goddess of Foresight,
The meeting began.
Someone snapped his finger, and instinctively, the backpack sent out some chairs for the crowd to sit.
Then another finger snap, and a whiteboard was placed in front of the crowd.
"Hello, everyone.
I hope all of you had a good day."
Said a man who walked to the whiteboard, and everyone looked at him in puzzlement.
They didn't recognize him.
Not because his face was unfamiliar, but because they could barely look at him, let alone see who he is.
Top to bottom, he was in gold.
But not any gold, this peculiar gold couldn't be looked at for long, or tears would fill your vision in a moment!
Entertainment Goddess, the only person who could barely see him, asked in confusion,
"You are...?"
She herself was the Fate representative, but one look at this man made her think he was the real Fate representative instead!
She could tell that the gold light emitting from his outfit, hair, and eyes all originated from Fate!
" I am Fate Manager, good to see you, Fated ones."
Said the man with a childish voice, but a polite tone.
The crowd with teary eyes, turned to Entertainment Goddess.
She was the Fate representative. Who was this Fate Manager?
Seeing her nod, they knew the man with the 'manager' title was legit and related to Fate.
Who was he, and where did he come from?
Nobody knew,
Except for the birth treasures and Lilith, who recognized the 'light of Fate' on the spot.
Who else had so much spare Raw Fate to 'paint' himself with it, if not a certain inactive guardian?
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The Fate manager cleared his throat,
"Alright, let's begin.
First, I invite the foresight team to come and tell us about their findings."
The crowd was puzzled.
What team?
Goddess of Foresight, with three birth treasures, walked to the whiteboard while covering her eyes.
Looking at the team, the crowd nodded to themselves.
Goddess of Foresight and her lantern, plus the Hourglass of Time and the Prophecy Orb, were indeed a foresight team.
The orb was without a master currently, because God of Prophecy was back to the resurrection point due to him being in Vulture's team originally.
So he was naturally killed as a 'traitor'.
The only non-traitor mainland was the Speedy Mainland in the 'eyes' of Fate,
because it never devoured or merged with any mainland.
Entertainment Goddess coughed and said awkwardly,
"Fate manager, because of your overwhelming Fate light, we can't see anything.
Can you do something about it?"
After a brief moment, the lights finally went off, and the crowd could see the whiteboard.
They looked down, and from their long shadows, and Goddess Foresight, not looking in their direction, they knew the Fate manager went behind them somehow.
"Okay, now we can begin."
The voice sounded from the back.
Goddess of Foresight gulped nervously,
"S-Should we really look into the future?
Guardian Mortal doesn't like spoilers..."
Before the movie, this timid goddess even saw the apocalyptic scene that was going to happen in the future and how messed up planet Lubo and the star system around it were going to be.
But even so, in fear of spoiling anything without permission, she didn't talk to anybody about it.
She knew from her past experience that any scary 'foresight' was invalid if it was too exaggerated and Guardian Mortal was involved.
Entertainment Goddess assured her,
"Don't worry, he is already retired, and if he said anything, leave it to me."
Fate manager approved too.
"Yes, it's fine.
The Fate movie isn't anything special anyway.
Who cares if we spoil it?"
Goddess of Foresight, who naturally knew about the 'great seer' and his Fate ball, sighed in relief when the Fate manager approved.
And so, the foresight team starts to look into the future.
First, an image appeared.
It was a dark space with two sources of light that everyone recognized.
One was the merged universe, and the other was Evil Mainland.
And that was it.
The crowd was speechless.
"That's it?"
"We could just go outside our zone at any time to see the same scene..."
Goddess of Foresight was at a loss for words.
She felt her law of foresight was stopped by something.
The fate manager spoke at this moment,
"Wait a second, everyone.
We have a connection problem.
I'll fix it in a moment."
And the light behind the crowd 'turned off'.
But just a moment later, the light was turned on again.
"Okay, try it again."
The crowd didn't know what he did,
but three birth treasures in the foresight team suddenly felt they gained access to an extra +100 million universes and an outside territory.
It was the Fate manager who went to the Dark World and asked the Dark Law to give them access.
The Exiled Zone was sealed, and even Fate didn't know what was happening inside, let alone Goddess of Foresight, who was just someone with a weak connection to Fate.
But now, through Dark law, the birth treasures gained a secret access to the guardian territory there.
Under the confused gaze of the crowd, the foresight team tried to see the future again.
This time, there wasn't an image anymore, but a whole cinematic scene of the Evil Mainland,
which was moving with an unimaginable speed, and crushed into something in the dark and empty space.
Then something shattered, and a whole new world unfolded!
Millions of universes, hundreds of mainlands...
The crowd gasped in shock when they saw the mainland rush into this 'hidden zone'.
Even if the Evil Mainland was far bigger than the mainlands there, it only had one universe following it.
The scene was really awkward.
But what made it even more awkward was the emptiness there.
There wasn't even a single living creature in this hidden zone with so many mainlands and universes!
The cinematic scene changed.
This time, only an image with two men appeared.
It seems that because the future couldn't be shown with too much detail about these two characters, they could only see an image related to them.
One of the two men in this image was familiar.
He was Seraphion, one of the three ancient ones.
The stern-looking old man they saw in the video of Little Mortal rescuing newborns.
They saw him at the other side of the passage that forbidden existence revealed, too.
But at this moment, his eyes were shining with a special golden glow.
"The light of Fate..."
Entertainment Goddess commented.
She could tell that the light originated from Fate.
She had it, too, now, because right now, she was the representative of Fate.
It seems she wouldn't be one for long, though.
Fate manager gasped.
"Little Se has been possessed by Fate!
And the 'coward' has been released!"
The second man facing Seraphion was naturally the cowardly AI, Hypermind, in his new body that nobody recognized.
Only the notebook knew its boss called Hypermind 'coward'.
Blond hair, blue eyes, and a confident smile.
The notebook memorized the new character.
The two seem to be discussing something in this image.
While the crowd was confused about the Fate manager's comments,
and who this mysterious man was that could talk to someone possessed by Fate face to face, the scene changed again.
A familiar little boy appeared in a hazy environment.
Nothing except the little boy in a black martial arts outfit emitting black smoke could be seen.
The crowd was speechless...
Entertainment Goddess gritted her teeth,
"What is this rascal doing? Isn't he retired?"
"He is probably just watching everything happening from his hiding place?"
"Where is he hiding that it can't be detected by Fate or world law?"
The birth treasures guessed that it should be a higher dimension.
Goddess of Time frowned,
"Is it because of the three birth treasures working together that we can see him?
I remember back then when I tried to use my law of time on him, he wasn't in any future that I saw..."
The crowd looked at Goddess of Foresight.
But she shook her head,
"It has nothing to do with the three birth treasures working together or my law of foresight.
It's not the first time we are teaming up to see the future, and he wasn't in any of those futures."
None of them knew the real reason was that the Dark World had already merged with Fate.
That's why Little Mortal could be detected with the secret help of Dark Law.
While the crowd was puzzled, the Little Mortal in the image slowly turned his head towards the camera!
Everyone’s hair stood on end!
Goddess of Foresight tried her best to change the scene, but she couldn't!
The Little Mortal in the image smiled, a moment later shook his head, as if he was disappointed by something, and said,
"Spoiler alert!"
And then snapped his finger, and the image shattered!
The crowd, who held their breaths instinctively, finally could breathe again.
"What was that?"
"Can he see others if they look at his future?"
"Even Fate or the blonde guy couldn't..."
"He can even communicate with the past!?"
"He willingly shattered the foresight, too..."
Goddess of Foresight was sweating profusely now.
She asked with a trembling voice,
"S-Should we continue?"
The crowd didn't say anything.
That little monster only had one 'big sister' whom he would listen to.
Entertainment Goddess scoffed,
"I know what he meant.
This troublemaker already knows what's going to happen, so he warned us about the future ahead.
The next scene is full of spoilers!
I don't mind being spoiled, though, if everyone agrees."
The crowd looked at each other.
Now they were dealing with Fate, a mysterious man, millions of universes, and hundreds of mainlands.
There were too many uncertainties.
Therefore, all of them agreed to be spoiled.
But Goddess of Foresight still waited for the most important person in the meeting to say his opinion.
"I don't want to be spoiled, so I leave."
Said the Fate manager, and his light turned off again the next moment!
The crowd was surprised by this obscure figure who came out of nowhere and just left.
But they ignored him for now.
Goddess of Foresight sighed in relief when she saw the little guardian left, and they continued.
A new image appeared.
One glance, and everyone understood why Little Mortal said, 'Spoiler alert! '
In the new image, three groups of creatures were facing each other.
One side was the same blond guy from before, whom nobody knew was Hypermind.
But his eyes were glowing with the light of Fate, and clearly under Fate's control.
It seems the Fate representative was changed again.
Right now, his face was full of anger, pointing at the other two groups facing him, as if shouting something.
Behind him, millions of different creatures, all with a level 10 aura, and eyes glowing with the lights of fate, were standing.
The two closest to him were Selene and Vaelgrim, the other two ancient ones.
Behind them, the current group of people watching the 'future', minus Goddess of Memory, were gathered.
Even Entertainment Goddess and special force members were with them.
And farther back behind them, was a huge shadowy figure that they couldn't tell what or how big it was.
The crowd was dumbfounded just seeing this first group, and completely stunned when they saw the second and third groups!
One of the two other groups facing this angry 'Fate army' was a familiar old man, with a long white beard and hair, the Heavenly Father.
But in this image, he wasn't the same as the one they knew.
That Heavenly Father was always calm and collected, with a forbidden existence tag,
But this one was furious, veins bulging all over his face as if ready to start killing everybody!
Behind him was a familiar army.
Full black body armor, eyes glowing red, with a peculiar one leading them, riding a black horse.
The same army that the forbidden existence summoned thousands of them not long ago to face Senior Mortal,
But in this scene, there were millions!
And the final group was being led by Lilith, the Underworld Queen.
She was standing on a red ceiling above everyone's head.
Beside her, two familiar ladies and a familiar old man were standing.
One of the ladies was Rose, and the other one was Goddess of Memory,
and the old man was Seraphion, who seems to be himself again and not controlled by Fate.
Another 'Lilith' was there too, but a smaller version.
She was Lilith's daughter.
And behind them was an army of minions that Lilith's daughter was leading.
The crowd watched the image in silence.
Nobody could make any sense of it.
Lilith's side was their allies.
But why was she facing them now!?
Forbidden existence died.
But he was back again, with an army of millions!
And why was Rose in Lilith's team, facing her own parents and friends?
The only thing clear was that Lilith and Forbidden Existence were going to face Fate and its team for some reason.
Entertainment Goddess was the first to speak,
"After I became Fate's representative, I saw some golden lines connecting to most of us.
Even our birth treasures are connected to an unknown source by these lines."
The crowd turned to her,
"Goddess Saraswati, I assume it's related to this 'future' image?"
"Yes, in this image, everyone with a line is on Fate's side, and those who are without it, like Goddess of Memory, Rose, or Queen Lilith, are on the other side..."
"Which means, those who are connected to Fate can be controlled by it forcefully?"
"It seems so..."
"Mortal's control was at least with invulnerability, but would that be the same when it comes to Fate?"
"Entertainment Goddess is Fate's representative, wouldn't that little troublemaker 'Enter the Fray' too and take the same side as her big sister?"
"And her assistant is on Queen Lilith's side..."
The crowd was completely at a loss now...
"He warned us about spoilers..."
Only now, they understood what Mortal meant by spoiler alert.
The future ahead was indeed a mess.
The white canary, who was silent all this time, snorted,
"That little brat is the most sly creature ever born!
All of this is his games!
What are you worried about?
And isn't he the frontline guardian?
Do you think anybody in this future image can kill anybody from his guardian territory, regardless of which group they are fighting for?
Don't forget that he is a newborn in the end."
The crowd,
"..."
The Evil Manager seems to be right about everything it said.
Entertainment Goddess remembered something at this moment and asked,
"By the way, who was that Fate Manager?"
And the birth treasures vibrated, saying,
< Mortal. >
The image of the future shattered at this moment, and the blinding light of the Fate Manager turned on.
He was back again.
"Okay, now that you have spoiled yourselves, I announce the ending of the meeting."
The birth treasures, who heard the voice of the person they had just ratted out, ran in different directions, leaving their former masters behind.
Entertainment Goddess yelled in anger,
"You rascal dare to act like some Fate Manager now!"
And tried to catch the Fate Manager!
The little Fate Manager turned around and ran away!
Lilith shouted,
"Find me before Fate's movie!"
She knew it wouldn't be easy to find him anytime soon, but she was really worried about what she saw in the foresight image.
The red ceiling she was standing on was the underworld ceiling.
It means in that part of the 'Movie', Fate was already aware that the sealed area was empty.
And whatever the source of the argument was, it should be related to the underworld.
The silver platform became silent in a moment.
The remaining crowd looked at each other awkwardly, not knowing what to do.
Can they go take a look at this planet?
Are they free? Are they prisoners? Is that little monster still holding a grudge against them?
While they were thinking about many questions that they didn't have any answers for, space passages opened, and they were dragged inside by their former birth treasures.
Good or bad, in the end, these birth treasures were born with these higher beings, and they would do anything they could to 'save' them.
Not long after, only Goddess of Memory was left with Adventure God and Divine Doctor...
She coughed awkwardly and said,
"Is it fine for me to join your adventure?"
After her notebook 'grew up', it seems her life was affected in a weird way by it, and in the future, she was going to end up in Queen Lilith's team.
Adventure God chuckled,
"Sure, let's go."
.......
When the silver platform was completely empty, Little Mortal appeared.
"Little notebook, we have lots of time until the day we arrive at the Exiled zone.
I want to merge some more of the dark world while I have free time.
Do you want to come with me?"
The notebook on his waist vibrated, saying,
< How about we take care of my idea, too? >
Little Mortal raised an eyebrow,
"What idea?"
< Semi-immortality. >
"Oh, right! Your idea when you saw my top speed.
Okay, I need to go to different places anyway, and we can take care of your project at the same time.
But before that, let me go make my remaining wishes."
And the two left.
Little Mortal first used the remaining raw Fate that he had to make wishes, so his body could stay behind when he leaves this world,
And take away the newborn's weaknesses.
When he saw just a tiny bit of his raw Fate was left, he used it on the +200,000 newborns from the first couple of batches, and forced them to become fated and advance to level 10.
Now there wasn't a single newborn under level 10 on planet Lubo, and not a speck of raw fate was left for him.
"Alright, we have nothing else to do here.
Tell Space Mirror to notify you when our mainland is going to reach the exiled zone.
and tell it to keep planet Lubo's coordinate fixed in our universe.
If the planet moves around, your project will fail."
< Done. >
.......
Entertainment Goddess, who was looking for Little Mortal everywhere, finally heard some news about him from her Crystal.
< Master, stop looking for him.
He just left after leaving a message for Space Mirror... >
"Left? Where to?"
< Outside of the zone, into empty space. >
Entertainment Goddess was stunned,
"Why is he running away outside?
Tell him I forgive him! No need to leave!"
< He's already gone.
And I don't think he is running away from you, because the notebook is with him.
If the two are together, there is something important happening that the notebook needs to record. >
Entertainment Goddess had already heard about the notebook that was recording all of Little Mortal's untold secrets.
She wondered if he was going to come up with another crazy idea...
Helpless, she sighed,
"Forget about him, let's go take a look at my main planet first, and then explore this planet!
I still can't believe this place is real!
We have three months to have fun!"