"That's so overpowered that you want to be 'complete' before even answering?"
[ Correct. ]
"Fine, take the rest..."
[ Merge. ]
"The ability is Merge? Merge what?"
[ Everything. ]
"Oh, so that's how it is... You want me to merge that silly, stubborn Fate with the world law and underworld law, even if it refuses?"
[ 50% correct. ]
"50% again? What else do you want me to merge?"
This time, there was no answer.
Little Mortal suddenly saw the gate that the souls of the dead were going into come to him by itself.
He looked at it with interest.
Then images start taking form on the Gate, and different scenes start playing.
Each one seems to be a vast world, going through time, universes born and then die in those worlds.
But in all of the scenes, the same scenario happened at some point in time.
Each time a civilization advanced too much, or a certain creature got too strong,
And they started learning knowledge or gaining power related to the dark energy and dark matter.
But every time the ending of these civilizations or creatures was the same.
They tried to mess with the reality itself, playing as 'Gods', or trying to look for 'God'.
And every time to stop them, the world split into three parts.
World law, underworld law, and Fate.
The three 'brothers' tried to stop their madness, and 'restart' everything back to normal.
Little Mortal was speechless,
"This 'three split sealing technique' is like a protocol to face such situations!?
So this isn't something new?"
[ Correct. ]
The scene continued.
The Dark World always gave support from the shadows to help the three split parts, and it succeeded every time because it helped Fate with its inevitable future.
And always, in an 'Epic battle', the other side, civilization or the God-like creature, would be defeated by Fate and its Fated ones.
In many cases, Fate itself would take over one of its fated ones to fight the other party directly!
Little Mortal nodded in approval,
"I thought Fate was ignorant and overestimating itself.
But it seems it knows a certain 'big brother' is helping it in the 'Dark', and there is nothing to be afraid of..."
[ Correct. ]
The scene ended, and a familiar era started.
This time it was the sinners' race, and their journey to type 4 civilization, gaining some understanding of how to use dark-energy and dark-matter, and how they build Hypermind.
Somewhere in their journey, a group of extremist followers of science and religion formed.
They manipulated Hypermind behind the scenes, and their secret activity to 'Meet with God' began,
which naturally failed miserably, and got their race screwed, exiled, and sealed away in the Exiled zone.
Then the 'crazy group' was found by the 'normal group', who didn't have any plan to meet with 'god', and they were only looking for new knowledge,
Whether it was medicine, technology, or understanding the universe itself, it was their only goal.
Knowing what kind of mess these people made, they gave up on everything, destroyed all the knowledge they had at a higher level, and forced their race to downgrade to type 3 civilization.
Even a war broke out between the two sides in the exiled zone, and most of them died.
The only ones that remained, or they thought they remained,
were Xyron, Zyren, and a couple of more cyborgs who had a copy of their brain's information installed in the current cyborg's body they were in, and it would activate in case they died.
Even a type 4 civilization didn't know how souls really work, and in their knowledge, if you die, you are dead, and that's it.
What was after that? It was unknown.
But through their research, they found out how to 'extract' small parts of the soul from other creatures.
They even used it on a certain project, and made a batch of cyborgs secretly, that Little Mortal faced in sealed spheres later on.
The same cyborgs that Xyron at some point found, and tried to bring 'God' out in his second attempt using Hypermind, which was a failed attempt again, and the cyborgs were sealed.
The 'normal' scientists knew for a fact that making a copy of your brain and everything inside wasn't really called being 'alive', that was just a copy.
The way for them to live for long was to manipulate their bodies in a way to think they're immortal, and later on, replace their body parts with mechanical parts to live as a half-machine, half-living creature.
And in the war between the two sides, the 'good guys', who had access to more knowledge and were more advanced, could easily tell whether these fanatics were the real ones or the fake ones.
That's why the Xyron group knew the only way for them to keep living was to make a copy of themselves, not a body that contained a soul, because it was detectable for their opponents.
Either way, the rest of the story was the same as Little Mortal already knew.
The 'living-dead' cyborgs tried to use the remains of 'war' that they found accidentally, and couldn't figure out the technology behind it.
These cyborgs mixed with dark matter and raw souls inside were their best shot to bring God out again,
And Hypermind, who was the only one who could control them, showed up again at this part of the story.
Little Mortal chuckled,
"This hypermind dude is so sneaky.
In all those wars and killings between the two sides, it was always hiding in the shadows, pretending to be dead, and everybody forgot about it..."
The scene changed.
As always, the world was split into three parts, sealed the cyborgs alongside Hypermind, and Fate came 'online'.
But this time it was different.
Hypermind, which was sealed with the cyborgs, didn't act arrogantly.
It stayed there in the sealed realm and studied this mysterious sealed sphere with those cyborgs as helpers.
It used the cyborgs as researchers, the sphere as a research facility, and the ground that sealed them as research material.
It was at this point that it found about three facts.
First, there is a higher dimension that doesn't matter how strong it becomes; it cannot face it, which was the Dark world Little Mortal had access to.
Second, the only way to survive is to use this dimension, and the matter it is made of, because even the world itself wasn't exactly aware of this dimension due to it being on a higher 'floor'.
And Third, with the knowledge it gained, it could sneak out, because the spheres, while made of dark matter, only a small part of it was made from it.
So, hypermind sneaked out without even the world law's notice, and went straight to the exiled zone.
It knew that place was a good place to hide.
And it was in this journey that it came across Fate while moving secretly between dimensions!
Little Mortal's jaw dropped when he saw it come across Fate 'accidentally',
"What in the world is this? How did it 'accidentally' end up bumping into Fate at the fair ground?
The possibility is so low!
Why is Fate even there in the first place, close to the Exiled zone?"
Then he gasped in shock,
"No way! It was your doing?"
[ Correct. ]
Little Mortal was at a loss,
"Why?"
[ Dark world can only interfere with the world in lower dimensions in three circumstances.
1. When the world splits, to help with the main seal.
2. When one of the three parts is in danger.
3. When someone worthy appears.]
Little Mortal, after a brief silence, frowned and said,
"Let me guess.
You are tired of this endless cycle.
Right?
Your three useless little brothers are messing up every time,
And you can't do anything about it because there are only two opportunities for you to make a move,
And in normal cases, you can only have some small effects here and there at most, like covering up for my guardian activities."
[ Correct. ]
"And because there was never anyone that you could count on, you were forced to help Fate every time to prevent it from getting destroyed, and deal with the problem?"
[ Correct. ]
"This time, because of Lubo, newborns, and the appearance of many unique birth treasures, you saw a chance that something good could come out of this combination?
You let Hypermind see through Fate's plan, so it doesn't get itself killed too fast, and buy some time for the ones you were counting on to meet!
You are the one who gathered Lubo and the birth treasures that I have now in one place?"
[ Correct. ]
"I assume that the 10 billion years that I endured Lubo's torture was the condition that allowed you to have a 'representative', and you were waiting for it all this time?"
[ Correct. ]
"And I'm not the first one.
You had a representative in the previous eras, too, as you showed me.
But they failed, due to being late to join the Fate storyline, or they just chose different paths that didn't lead to a point where they could aid you, because they weren't a 'kindhearted' Newborn..."
[ Correct. ]
"Am I the only one who ended up with Lubo, guardian law, the correct time frame of the Fate storyline to use as my cover, the right motivation, which was revenge, and the right choices on my path of revenge in line with your goal?"
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[ Correct. ]
Little Mortal took a deep breath,
"Now I know why you said '50% correct' for my answer to the first conspiracy!
You don't care about Fate, Hypermind, or those sinners...
You want me to merge the Dark world with the world on the lower floors so you can interact with the world freely without any restrictions!
You want to have the power to act directly and just slap away any civilization or creatures who act like some 'God'.
You want the world to be in 'one complete piece', so none of this nonsense keeps happening...
And my 'passive Fate skill' triggering every now and then, or even big sister memory of my 'yawning' weakness shown to Fate that it wasn't supposed to see because of my invisible presence,
And many other 'coincidences' were all your doing too!
You provide these little helps that you could do behind the scenes so as to speed up my progress without any mishap in 3 years' time!
Anything that seems like a 'coincidence' was your doing!
Not Fate!
You wanted me to get ahead of Fate before it gets itself killed, while allowing me to achieve my own goals!
We had a mutual corporation all along!
My current plan to unite the world and make it a place where no evil can bully others was exactly in line with your goal!"
[ 100% Correct. ]
Little Mortal, after a brief silence, gave the dark world a thumbs up,
"How long will it take for such a group of variables to gather in one era again?
This opportunity cannot be missed!
Even if I was used and lost most of my soul because of your secret plan, that's the best outcome."
This time, there was no answer, but the gate trembled slightly.
Little Mortal felt something, and his eyes widened in shock,
"My soul! It's on the other side?
I thought when you said I need to sacrifice it for our deal, you meant destroying it!
B-But you kept it?"
[ Correct. ]
"Is it waiting for me?"
[ Incomplete souls stay behind for their missing parts. ]
Little mortal raised an eyebrow,
"So the raw souls in those cyborgs, or the souls Hypermind is extracting, are going to be whole again when they enter the gate?"
[ Correct.]
"And where does the gate lead to?"
[ Unknown.]
Little mortal,
"-_-"
He tried to extract some hidden information from the other side while asking questions back to back, but he failed.
"Alright, let's watch the rest of the story."
The scene continued.
And the things that happened after were what Little Mortal already knew.
Hypermind became obsessed with peeking into fate, studying dark matter, weakening the sealed realm by destroying Mainlands, and collecting fated ones.
and Xyron, who collaborated with Hypermind because he knew bringing Mainlands to the exiled zone was beneficial to him.
He was even happier when Hypermind suddenly came up with the idea of the 10 planets.
While Hypermind found these planets in a certain universe connected to a unique mainland with a special 'zone', and wanted to use them for studying the emotions of living creatures to stuff the raw souls it was extracting with those emotions,
Xyron used the opportunity to steal part of the law that the higher beings in each season were attracted to advance.
And the end was Little Mortal making chaos everywhere.
Seeing how destructive he was, Little Mortal himself was in shock,
"Who in the world is this guy?
We need to get rid of him!"
[ Correct.]
Little mortal froze for a moment, then gasped,
"Wait a minute! That's me!"
Even he was dragged into the nonexistent illusion of teacher Motimus Mecimus Motidius.
"You want me dead at the end, right?"
[ The three-year deal.]
Little mortal sighed helplessly,
"Yeah, a deal is a deal... From the start, I wasn't supposed to be around for more than 3 years.
But!
I have some requests before leaving."
[ State your requests.]
"Alright, first, I want my body to stay behind.
You can even use it if things go wrong, but its Frontline effect should stay, and so my guardian territory!"
[ The price will be 80% of your raw Fate.]
"Fine.
Second, I want Lubo's Fate to change.
After eating my heart, Lubo is a part of my body, and I'm sure he will die when I die.
Separate its fate from me, and let it become a creature who can be itself, not driven by the resentment devouring it every day."
[ Use 5% of your remaining raw Fate to make a wish.]
"Good.
Third, I want the newborns, all of them, to become fated and advance to level 10.
They are the best 'guardians' for my guardian territory after I leave."
[ Use 5% of your remaining raw Fate to make a wish.]
"Fourth, the living creatures of any universe born after the Merge should have the chance to join the guardian territory if they want to.
And even if they don't, or the universe doesn't have any living creatures yet, it should be somewhere close to my guardian territory."
[ Agreed.]
"Fifth, take the weakness of newborns being exploited by the lives of other living creatures, and stop the incomplete universes from being created after the Merge,
and if there are still newborns out there that aren't in the guardian territory, they should be sent to planet Lubo, I don't care where they are!"
[ Its price will be your remaining raw Fate minus 1%.]
"And bring privacy back!
What even is this rule for creatures with 3 or more levels higher that allows them to peek into people's minds and manipulate them?
Delete this nonsense completely!"
[ Agreed.]
Little mortal nodded,
"Alright, we have a deal."
And while shocked, said,
"You actually take away all of your remaining pieces, and all of my raw Fate except that 1% that I'm sure is going to be used.
You're not going to leave a way out for me!?"
[ Correct.]
Then, while muttering to himself,
"I never felt so poor... and free."
Little Mortal left.
His destination?
The castle of Entertainment Goddess to tell her about the upcoming movie based on the answers he found out here, so she can write the script.
.....
1 hour later.
Evil Mainland.
Entertainment Goddess, after her meeting with the rest and telling them about their birth treasures, came back to her castle.
She knew it might take a while for Little Mortal to come up with some 'secrets' that he needed to discover, so she could write a script for.
But more importantly, she needed to talk to him about his current actions.
"This little brat is making trouble everywhere...
I should talk to him so he calms down a bit.
If Heavenly Father, for whatever reason, has his back, it doesn't mean he should go and do whatever he wants."
The Crystal pretended not to hear her.
Her master was far too deep in a misunderstanding that it was better to just leave her there.
At some point, she would know the truth anyway...
Entertainment Goddess went to the garden that she brought Little Mortal to for the first time when he came to the mainland.
She knew he would come here to look for her first if he just came in without knocking.
Looking around, she smiled,
"This little brother of mine keeps appearing and disappearing everywhere as he pleases,
that even now I feel like I'm seeing him sitting behind that table, writing something!"
Entertainment Goddess shook her head helplessly.
The little boy was like a nightmare for many, which even affected her, a level 10 creature.
The Crystal was at a loss for words,
The smile on Entertainment Goddess's face froze!
"L-Little mortal?"
The presumably nonexistent little boy raised his head and waved his hand,
"Oh, hey, big sister! Welcome back.
Do you want something to eat? Feel at home.
Go pick whatever you want.
The kitchen is over there."
And started writing whatever he was writing again.
Entertainment Goddess looked blankly at the little boy...
"Didn't you go to discover that whatever conspiracy?
The hidden truth?"
Little mortal, without raising his head, said,
"I already did.
Please let me focus.
I am writing down the movie material you are going to write the script for."
Entertainment Goddess rolled her eyes at him,
"Even if you want to pretend you discovered the 'conspiracy', you should at least wait for a day or two, then come here..."
Little mortal snorted,
"I found the source of the conspiracy, asked it about my guesses directly, and it said 'Correct.' or '50% Correct.'
That's how I found out about everything in an hour."
Entertainment Goddess gritted her teeth and muttered,
"So you found the Conspiracy itself..."
But didn't say anything else and let him be.
She just asked her Crystal,
Hearing Crystal's reply, she knew this brat was playing around.
Time passed, and after half an hour, Little Mortal was done.
"Here, big sister, this paper is what we need to work with, and the second paper is the thing we need to pay attention to.
But remember, this is high security information that can't be disclosed to anybody!"
Entertainment Goddess took a deep breath and received the paper.
She read the first paper,
"- After the scene of our battle with the 500 level 2 civilizations, the level 3 civilization is going to be notified about what happened here.
-Then we attack them while they are prepared.
- The enemy side has +100 million level 8 fighters and an army of cyborgs.
- Our side has +60 million level 9 fighters.
- Our top force is Ugly Vulture, Lubo, and +300 level 10.
- Their Top force is +500 level 10, three ancient ones, a bunch of cyborgs whose boss has a secret project,
and Hypermind, which is an advanced AI left from a type 4 civilization..."
Entertainment Goddess frowned,
"Why are the two forces so unbalanced?
From the looks of it, our 'fighters' can beat them up, but their 'top force' can beat us up easily...
And who are these ancient ones, cyborgs, and Hypermind?"
Little mortal answered,
"If I'm going to act as Lubo, then I can balance the power problem, so don't worry about that.
And don't underestimate the 'cyborgs' in the 'fighter' group; there are too many of them.
But either way, it doesn't matter; I can control everyone using my 'coach assistant' technique, so the same mess won't happen again.
And about the ancient ones, Xyron and Hypermind, they are the main characters from the enemy camp, with Xyron and Hypermind who have two secret projects."
Entertainment Goddess nodded in understanding.
"Alright, forget about Xyron and Hypermind then.
Let's focus on the old man.
He is on the scene from the start, and he can use the technique he used on the unprofessional actors last time...
But can he - I mean you, can 'you' make them say the right dialogues too?"
Little mortal nodded confidently.
"Yes! Wait no! The cyborgs and the Hypermind are excluded; you can see their information on the second page.
Oh, and the ancient ones are powerhouses stronger than level 10, like Little White on our side."
Entertainment Goddess nodded,
"With a battle on such a scale, there won't be much talking anyway.
Until there are fewer people 'alive'."
Then she read the rest of the information on the first paper.
When she was done, she read the second page, which contained the information she needed to pay attention to.
"Oh, the information about the two that you said can't be controlled.
1. Hypermind, an advanced AI.
2. Xyron, a 'living-dead cyborg' from the sinners' race.
You even know about their secret plans?"
While reading the 'secret information' about the two and their origin story, she asked her crystal secretly,
And how many of them are just his imagination?>
And the Crystal answered immediately,
Entertainment Goddess shivered.
A real-time live action movie like last time?
Don't you have permission from that old man to show me something?>
You can give yourself a good role too.
And the old man is in front of you, just ask him for permission.>
Are you for real?>
<...>
After a while, Entertainment Goddess was done asking questions about the 'materials',
And she ignored the part where her crystal said that the old man was in front of her.
How could his adorable little brother be that scary old man?
"Little Mortal, we are the 'evil' side from what I see, right?"
Little Mortal, who was looking at her with a face full of anticipation, froze!
He read the two papers, checked everything a couple of times, and shouted in disbelief,
"What in the world is this? Why are there so many villains on our side?
Why is it always our side winning like the villain's side, who start strong in the beginning, but end up losing in the end?"
Entertainment Goddess chuckled,
"That's fine.
Isn't there some conspiracy that you write here?
'Unexpected events' might happen.
So we can let the 'Evil' side win, while the two secret projects of Hypermind and Xyron succeed.
This way we can let 'You', the main villain, 'die' while facing the 'Unexpected event' heroically!
What do you think?"
Little Mortal jumped up and down excitedly,
"Yes, yes! Let's do that!"
Entertainment Goddess, seeing him all excited, shook her head.
After a while, she was done writing the script based on the information.
Little Mortal took it and started reading excitedly.
From time to time, he wrote something on another paper.
Entertainment Goddess raised an eyebrow,
"What's that for?"
Little mortal chuckled mysteriously,
"That's the role for the 'source of conspiracy'.
It needs to support us while we are recording our movie."
Entertainment Goddess bit her lip and said,
"Little mortal..."
"Yes, big sister!"
"Don't be that child..."
"What child?"
"The one in that famous phrase from your hometown."
Little Mortal frowned,
"Which one?
Oliver Twist? Pinocchio? Hasan Kachal?
There are many of them.
Which one do you mean? What was the phrase?"
"I mean the one in this phrase,
'The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth. '"
Entertainment Goddess sighed,
"I know you are angry at higher beings because of what they did to those humans in your hometown,
But you should stop making trouble everywhere at some point, right?
Your revenge should have an ending..."
Little mortal scoffed,
"Because of those humans?
Big sister, you think I'm doing this because of them?"
Entertainment Goddess raised an eyebrow,
"Aren't you?"
Little mortal slammed on the table,
"No way!
Those human leaders were mostly crazy!
There was only a handful of good leaders among billions of them!
Some of them were even crazy enough to say,
'A world without me or my country isn't worth living!'
I mean, how do you think they blew up everything at the end?
Nobody forced them to do that; it was themselves who went mad...
What I was angry about was the dinosaurs.
Those guys lived for 200 million years without messing up the planet, and that stupid parasite sent them to the afterlife with a meteor!
If they were still around, would those crazy humans come around and, after just 'a while' living, blow up the whole planet completely!
Let me tell you, I was so scared when they suddenly went crazy all together and started bombing each other that I ran to the moon!"
Entertainment Goddess was speechless.
"I-I thought it was because of them..."
"No way!"
Entertainment Goddess felt there was a big misunderstanding here...
After a brief silence, she said,
"Well, either way, you are going too far in your path of revenge for those dinosaurs!
For how long are you going to continue?"
Little mortal scratched his head,
"How about this time will be the last time that I warm myself with the burning village!?"
Entertainment Goddess smiled,
"Promise?"
And he nodded firmly,
"Yes, promise!"
Entertainment Goddess patted his head,
"Alright then..."
The Crystal was speechless...
It thought to itself,
There is nothing left out there to take revenge on...>
What kind of promise was that?
After that, Little Mortal left happily.