Dark world.

  Little mortal was back again, with a paper in hand.

  "Dark law, bro, look, this is your support role in the script that you need to play.

  How much do you want for your contract?

  I can even pay with spirit stone!"

  And took out 3 broken spirit stones from his pocket.

  The dark world was quiet for a while, as if trying to understand its 'role' in the script, and if it is even possible.

  After a brief moment,

  [The price is the early Merge.]

  Little mortal raised an eyebrow,

  "Oh, I forgot you can't interfere with our floor right now.

  Alright, we have a deal.

  But for me to start the Merge, I need to level up and unlock my Merge ability, but Hypermind might find out about it!"

  [Hypermind will not know.

  The Fate law will not know.

  The law of the World will know.

  The law of the underworld will know.]

  Little mortal was surprised,

  "World law and underworld law are going to know because guardian law is mixed with them.

  But if Hypermind and Fate won't, how about we 'secretly' Merge that silly little brother of yours, too? What do you say?"

  But there was no answer this time.

  "I'm talking about Fate.

  Would it know if I merge it?"

  This time, there was an answer.

  [It will, if the space around it is not merged.

  It will not, if the space around it is merged.]

  Little mortal nodded in understanding,

  "Got it.

  So you want me to go to the exiled zone, merge the dark world there first, then merge the Fate?

  Nobody knows about it this way?"

  [Correct.]

  "Alright.

  I was going to check on them anyway.

  Do I need to merge anything else, too?

  Or can Dark World start merging by itself, starting from the exiled zone?"

  [Dark world can merge by itself, but slowly.

  Too slowly.]

  Little mortal frowned,

  "You said 'slowly' twice.

  You want to say it might take too long, and another civilization or creature might show up and mess things up in that period of time because the original world law is going to split into three again and stop you from continuing merging?"

  [Correct.]

  Little mortal stroked his chin,

  "Hmmm... After I level up to level +100 million, I can cover a big chunk of empty space.

  If I merge this much in my free time, would that be enough?"

  [Unknown.]

  Little mortal shrugged,

  "Whatever.

  I'm going to leave my body behind.

  If you can't stop whatever villain rises up in the future, even with my level +100 million body, this world is better to stay the same mess as it is now..."

  The Dark World law,

  [...]

  "By the way, at some point, we need to reveal that there is nothing in the sealed realm.

  At that point, the underworld is going to come up again, and it will merge back with world law.

  If we secretly merge 'Fate' right now, while Fate itself doesn't know about it, the world law and the underworld law know.

  So, the original world law is going to make a comeback at that point, even if Fate doesn't know exactly what's happening..

  Is that correct?"

  [Correct.]

  "Okay then, here is my question.

  When world law is 'complete' again, how is it going to react to my existence?"

  For a while, there was no answer.

  Little mortal waited patiently.

  The answer to this question was important for the upcoming live-action movie.

  After a while, he heard the answer,

  [- Your existence will be marked as forbidden.

  - You will lose the support of the guardian law.

  - Fate will find out about you.

  - Your 3-year 'Deal' with World law will be terminated due to its change to the original world law.

  - Fate, because of your interference with its inevitable future, will try to exterminate you.]

  Little mortal, hearing the long answer, was at a loss...

  "My goodness!

  I helped them so much, and that's how they repay me?

  I'm even going to merge that silly Fate sooner, so it won't get itself killed because of Hypermind, which tries to completely change its inevitable end...

  But it's going to exterminate me?

  And even world law and underworld law are going to go back on their words and break the deal?"

  Little mortal gritted his teeth.

  "Dark law, bro, what's going to happen if I don't do anything from now on?"

  [World without Fate.

  The cycle continues until one day Fate restores.]

  With Hypermind's plan, in this era, Fate was going to get hit from somewhere that the Dark law couldn't protect it like it always had.

  Fate was going to destroy itself basically, and the cycle of high-level civilizations or God-like creatures' rise and fall would continue until Fate comes back online after who knows how long and get back to work.

  Little Mortal's eyes suddenly shone,

  "Wait a minute!

  In those scenes from the previous era you showed me, this silly Fate always took over the strongest character if things didn't go as it planned!

  If I can give the opportunity to Hypermind and let it come to 'life', and if the underworld joins the world above and exposes me,

  Then Fate has only one way to kill me!

  It is going to take over the strongest body,

  Which is Hypermind's!

  Hypermind's body is strong enough to live freely without anybody stopping it after Fate is 'dead', because the current world law can't control it due to its Newborn state.

  But what about after the three useless brothers join together, even though one of them is oblivious to the fact?

  When it comes to the original world law, Fate can easily convince the other two parts to join hands, take over Hypermind's body, and 'exterminate' me, the forbidden existence!

  Even before the three of them join, Hypermind might let Fate control its new body if it finds out about my existence!"

  [Correct.]

  Little Mortal became silent for a moment and then chuckled,

  "That will be a good twist for our ending.

  I should just let it play out for itself and see what happens.

  Alright, bye for now.

  I'll come back to level up after I speak to Big sister about the new changes."

  And left again.

  ......

  Mainland.

  The castle of the entertainment goddess.

  Before Entertainment goddess could even relax for a while, Little Mortal was back again!

  "Why are you back again?"

  Little Mortal ran to her and whispered,

  "I discovered some more secret information from the 'unexpected part'!"

  Entertainment goddess sighed helplessly,

  "Alright, just tell me about it so I can change the script..."

  A while later, after hearing his new 'ideas', she first asked her crystal,

  

  Entertainment goddess knew that while she didn't have access to the 'secrets' happening inside that united universe and that unreal planet,

  Her crystal's friends, the lost birth treasures, knew a lot, and they were in contact with her crystal.

  That's why anytime she heard something that didn't make sense, she would check it with her crystal.

  The Crystal, after asking the others, answered,

  

  Entertainment goddess nodded,

  

  The Crystal didn't know what to say.

  It knew this little monster wouldn't lie to her master when he wasn't messing around.

  And this matter was related to something serious, so...

  Entertainment goddess, after a while of thinking, said,

  "Little Mortal.

  For this idea of yours that you are the forbidden existence to make sense, you can't be exposed until the end.

  Not only that, Lubo and the vulture can't be that powerful either to beat up all of the level 2 civilizations.

  From what you write here, those cyborgs will be notified by the level 2 civilizations about what's happening here,

  and that won't be realistic for only 2 characters to beat up everybody.

  Only someone at the level of 'forbidden existence' should be capable of such a feat."

  Little Mortal frowned,

  "Then what should we do?"

  Entertainment goddess stroked her chin,

  "We need reinforcement.

  A lot of them, and all level 10, to help our side fight those brains.

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  Do you have any?"

  Little Mortal nodded,

  "We can use the managers from the other mainlands that joined us recently."

  Entertainment goddess was surprised,

  "They are alive?"

  Little Mortal rolled his eyes at her,

  "I am a newborn, how can I possibly kill anybody?"

  Entertainment goddess almost believed that he was the one beating up mainlands and bringing them here with their universes to merge with them, not the Old monster behind the scenes.

  "Alright, Mr. Merciful, can you let them join the fight?"

  Little Mortal nodded confidently,

  "Anytime."

  Seeing him so confident, she didn’t waste time and wrote the new script.

  Not long after, Little Mortal left with the edited version of the script.

  Entertainment goddess shook her head,

  "This little brat has already lost his mind...

  Hypermind, Fate, original world law, forbidden existence...

  What's that old man's plan that while doing it, he allows this little 'young master' to go wild?"

  The Crystal,

  <...>

  He is the old man... And nobody knows what he is really doing either...

  5 seconds later.

  *Sigh*

  A sad sigh sounded out of nowhere.

  Entertainment goddess, while surprised and sad for some reason, looked at the source of the sound.

  "Little Mortal... Why in the world are you back again?

  And what's with the long face?"

  Little Mortal sighed again,

  "I just received some bad news..."

  Entertainment goddess chuckled,

  "What, your crazy ideas weren't approved by the real boss?"

  She thought heavenly father told this kid to stop messing around.

  But Little Mortal shook his head,

  "No, I'm everyone's boss myself.

  Who do I need to gain approval from?"

  Entertainment goddess gritted her teeth,

  "What is it then, Mr. Everyone's Boss?"

  Little Mortal sighed for the third time,

  "I just received news about my little brother...

  He... He..."

  And then started 'crying'.

  Entertainment goddess was ready to kick him out.

  Whoever couldn't tell, she could tell that he was acting!

  "Just say what happened..."

  Little Mortal, though, cried for another 10 minutes.

  After he was done 'crying' and wiped his nonexistent tears, he took a deep breath and said,

  "I-it turns out that my little brother has fallen!"

  His eyes then turned cold, so much so that both Entertainment Goddess and her crystal shivered.

  He suddenly shouted,

  "Now it's not about the script anymore!

  It's about my revenge!"

  And *Bam*, slammed the script on the table in front of Entertainment Goddess, shattering the table as he continued,

  "Fix it, little girl!

  Big brother is going to join the fray and take revenge for his little brother!"

  Entertainment Goddess's heart skipped a beat.

  Her eyes widened in shock!

  Not because of this little rascal's cold gaze, not because of the news of his nonexistent dead brother, but because of the shattered table!

  The corner of her eyes twitched, while Little Mortal suddenly felt something and gulped!

  Veins popped on her forehead as Little Mortal started stepping back nervously!

  And... she finally snapped,

  "Now you get so unruly that you are breaking my stuff?

  In my own home? In front of me?

  You even give me orders?

  I'll give you a lesson that you will never forget, you stupid brat!"

  *knock* x 100

  *Ouch* x 50

  "Big sister, stop! I wasn't lying!"

  "I saw you grow up! What little brother!"

  *BAM*

  *ouch*

  "Let me explain!"

  "I don't want to hear any more nonsense from you!"

  And so, a one-sided beating began that was immediately live-streamed on Little Mortal's channel.

  The Crystal, while showing it live to the other birth treasures too, thought the same thing as what everybody else thought on planet Lubo,

  
  Who else has the courage to beat up this evil brat?>

  The one-sided beating didn't stop until the Crystal sent a private message to her master,

  
  That's a character that can be used...>

  Entertainment goddess,

  "O_o"

  A while later, when she heard about a certain 'Dead character' that could be added to the story, she snorted.

  "Forget about that for now.

  If something 'unexpected' happened, we can add this character, his Twin Brother, or whatever else you want into the script.

  Go away now, I'm angry at you!"

  Little Mortal, seeing his attempt to add extra characters to the script had failed, left shortly after.

  ......

  Planet Lubo.

  Planet's Core.

  Little Mortal, after getting beaten up, came here.

  He was going to let Lubo know about his role.

  "What's up, little Lubo?"

  The 'still small black heart' looked at the little boy appearing in front of him, and a smile appeared at the corner of its scary mouth.

  "What's up, you ask?

  I feel like I'm dying, that's what's up."

  Little Mortal, not surprised at all, nodded,

  "That's only natural.

  You are going to learn not to eat whatever you see next time.

  Oh wait!

  It seems you are going to learn your lesson in the hardest way, because there is no 'next time'."

  Lubo sighed,

  "At my current strength, I am even stronger than my peak from the past...

  Nothing should be able to kill me in this world, not even those ancient ones or whatever AI you encounter in that Level 3 civilization."

  Little Mortal scratched his head,

  "So what? You are still going to die because you ate something you shouldn't have."

  Lubo gritted its teeth,

  "I always wondered what price you paid to become this strong in such a short time and without the world law doing anything to you.

  But now that I feel my death is near, and I am naturally your heart, I know the price you paid was your life...

  Why else would I suddenly feel my death is coming?"

  Little Mortal chuckled,

  "Cool, huh?"

  Lubo rolled its eyes at him,

  "What's so cool about this?

  Your stupid revenge means nothing.

  When both of us die, everything will be the same again in no time.

  This planet with all its glory,

  This so-called 'heaven' you made so nobody can harm the other...

  All of it will be gone in the blink of an eye without us being around."

  Little Mortal nodded,

  "Yeah, what about it?"

  Lubo stared at his eyes,

  "Did you do all of this just to take revenge on me?

  Because you didn't find any other way to kill me?"

  Hearing what it said, Little Mortal's eyes widened in shock,

  "Wait a minute!

  I completely forgot about taking revenge on you because so many other side characters kept jumping into my story!"

  Lubo froze!

  "Y-You forgot about it...?"

  The two looked at each other, speechless.

  After a brief silence, Little Mortal snorted,

  "Forget about it, who cares about a dying old man like you!?

  You are already miserable enough to be eaten by your own resentment day and night."

  Lubo didn't say anything.

  It was indeed made of resentment, and this resentment wasn't only directed at other creatures, but at itself, too.

  Little Mortal gave him a paper,

  "Here, this is the script for the two upcoming live-action movies that are on the way.

  The story continues after the previous one that you invited yourself into without being invited!"

  After that, Little Mortal shook his head in disappointment because of Lubo's unprofessional act in the previous movie and left.

  Lubo was speechless,

  "He is completely crazy...

  Who cares about a stupid movie if we are dying?"

  But it suddenly frowned,

  "Or he is just enjoying his remaining days?

  Even if it's short, he wants it to be glorious..."

  Then it shouted,

  "How much time do we have?"

  And Little Mortal shouted from afar,

  "I have a little more than 200 days."

  Lubo frowned and wondered,

  'Why did he say 'I'?

  What about me? Am I going to die sooner?'

  .....

  Dark World.

  Little Mortal came back to start his level up.

  "Okay, let's begin."

  The next moment, his skin started cracking.

  A day later.

  The cracks started closing as he stood up.

  "Alright, I should go tell Mr. Token to ask the mainland to gather all of the level 2 civilizations.

  Meanwhile, I take care of the exiled zone, Fate and the Dark World merge."

  And his figure disappeared while encouraging himself,

  "I can do this!"

  .......

  Planet Lubo.

  Silver Platform.

  The birth treasures who were tracking Little Mortal's movements were waiting for him to come and meet with them at the silver platform after he went to the planet's core.

  They heard from the main Crystal that he was going to let them go after at most 220 days.

  They wanted to know if they could pay him with spirit stones before their 'retirement', so their masters could become 'Fated' and advance to level 10 like Rose and Lilith's daughter.

  But after he disappeared, he didn't come back for a whole day.

  The birth treasures became nervous.

  Any time they lost contact with him, especially if the child crystal or the notebook weren't with him, something extreme could happen!

  But after 1 day, he came back quietly, without going on a rampage or anything.

  "My goodness, it took me a whole day to level up this time!

  Can you believe it!?"

  Little Mortal was speechless!

  Leveling up to +100 million took him a while.

  The birth treasures were even more speechless because they knew that with his +3 million level, he shouldn't take too much time to level up!

  How many levels did he advance that took him a full day?

  A little fairy with a small notebook suddenly flew over and landed on his head, asking,

  "I am the 'Level Confirmation Fairy' from the Level Up Association.

  I heard someone leveled up here.

  Please tell me your new level, so I can update your information."

  Little Mortal, recognizing the other party, puffed his chest, raised his chin, and said arrogantly,

  "Level +100 million."

  The fairy nodded, but paused before writing down the number, asking,

  "Boss, how many zeros does your level have?"

  Little Mortal and the birth treasures were speechless.

  It turns out this little fairy wasn't that good with numbers, and probably didn't even know how high 100 million was.

  Little Mortal answered helplessly,

  "Eight zeros..."

  The little fairy nodded and, after writing it down, left.

  Little Mortal shook his head,

  "What's the point of leveling up this much if the one registering it doesn't even know how high the number is?"

  The backpack trembled, saying,

  

  Little Mortal raised an eyebrow,

  "About what?"

  
  Can we come back here if we go back to our masters?

  Or are you kicking us out?

  And can we pay with spirit stones so our masters become Fated and advance to level 10 like Rose, or not?>

  Little Mortal stroked his chin,

  "About staying here or not, you can come here if there is a use for you, and if you are helping with the planet's development.

  If not, what's the point of you guys being here? Just stay with your boring masters.

  And about your masters, I don't think there is a need for me - *cough* 'Great Seer', to help them advance.

  If my guess is correct, a certain petty law is going to help them with that.

  The only one that can't advance is probably Lady GPT, the little notebook's former master, that I - *cough*, the Great Seer will do something about it later."

  Mentioning the little notebook, Little Mortal glanced at it, or at least where it was supposed to be, and frowned,

  "Who are you? Where is my notebook?"

  The notebook vibrated, saying,

  

  Little Mortal's frown deepened,

  "Why did the words on your cover change?

  It was a simple 'Notebook' before, but now it is..."

  He tried to read it,

  "The Story of Little Mortal, the Strongest:

  The Unseen and Unbound Guardian!"

  Little Mortal was shocked,

  "When did you become a story book?"

  The notebook vibrated, saying,