At night, princess Xena, the former 'grandma', woke up.
She felt she had the most comfortable sleep of her entire life.
She looked around her and suddenly remembered she wasn't at home, so she stood up hurriedly.
But everything around her was quiet.
A little farther away, the two managers were sleeping soundly on their sofa with blankets covering them.
She looked in her own hand and saw that there was a blanket.
Neither of them needs to sleep anymore ...
So what happened?
She then heard a 'crunching' sound and looked behind her.
The little guardian was writing something on a whiteboard while eating a spirit fruit.
She tried to read what it was, and in one glance, she knew her time had finally come!
On one side was a list of tasks,
[1. Install the Lubo ✓
2. Q&A after the ceremony ✓
3. Operation 'let us be one' ✓
4. Took care of the final boss of the neighborhood ✓
5. Be ready for the newborn's ceremony
6. Send back the Crystal and get a new one
7. See if anyone forgot to give me my birthday gift
8. Go with the vampire princess to find the lost planets
9. Complete the solar system
10. Wake up the solar system manager
11. Welcome the uninvited guests.
And the other side was task number 8 in detail.
[ 8. Go with the vampire princess to find the lost planets
< Secret mission >
Destination :
Night planet
Main characters :
- Guardian Mortal ( in complete undercover mode )
- Princess Xena ( The Insider)
Main quest :
- Find the coordinates of the lost planets
- Side quests : ( not necessary )
- Information gathering
- The current condition of the planet manager
- The outsider's identity
- The two families of puppies and bloodsuckers
current situation
- Place the perfect baits for the wanted criminal
Classified Bonus mission:
Yes or No?
- If Yes, the preparation plan
- If No, the evacuation plan ]
Princess Xena,
"..."
Alright, she was completely exposed.
And she was going to be the insider, for the reason she already saw.
To find the coordinates of the other planets.
At this moment, the guardian token of Little Mortal sounded,
[ Assistant Rose asking for permission to teleport to your location. ]
Little mortal looked at his token blankly,
"Huh !?"
Princess Xena raised an eyebrow and tried to connect to her own token, which she didn't have access to before.
And sure enough, there were two options: one was to follow the guardian, and the other was not to follow him. There were also two functions that she could now use, because Little Mortal was officially the Guardian.
One was to teleport to anyone else who had a guardian token.
But they needed permission if the other party was the guardian himself.
However, for themselves, they need to lock it manually.
And the second function was the karma function to find relatives and their location!
So Rose was using the teleport function now?
Little mortal scratches his head,
"Permission granted ?"
And Rose appeared beside him, while shocked!
"Oh, boss!
It really worked!"
Little mortal,
"o_o"
He looked at the guardian token,
"What is this ?"
The token answered,
[ The owners of child tokens can teleport to each other, and they can find the location of their relatives through the karma function of the guardian token.]
"And why didn't I know about it?"
[It's written in the token manual.]
"And where was the manual?
I didn't find it when I took you from that place."
[ You can see the manual the moment you connect to the guardian token through law.]
"But I can't use any law..."
[...]
Rose looked at the whiteboard and said,
"Eh!
Boss, you are leaving? "
Little mortal kicked the guardian token away with a spin kick and answered,
"Yes, I need to find the rest of the planets of our solar system to become its guardian.
By the way, did your grandmother find her parents ?"
Rose bit her lips,
"Only one of them, her father...
I actually wanted to ask you for help!
Can you help us find them?
The group that came from 'war ground' told us about it after waking up...
It seems their life doesn't matter at all there, and under the influence of higher-level creatures, they die while fighting like maniacs ...
Thousands of them every day!
So, my grandmother thought of going there to find her mother with the token 'karma function' before anything happens to her..."
The immortal manager who heard the noises was awake and heard the conversation.
She walked over and said,
"Guardian mortal, I can go with them if it's possible.
In the end, they are all like my children."
Little mortal smiled at her,
"You, young lady, are so considerate!
Unlike a certain person!"
Then he attacked the old manager,
"How long are you going to pretend to be asleep ?"
The old manager screamed,
"Guardian mortal, forgive me!
This sofa and blanket were too comfortable!"
Little mortal, after beating him for a while, came back,
"No need to go there for now."
Immortal manager furrowed,
"Wouldn't that break your guardian rule to protect everyone?
Or does it only apply to your territory?"
"It only applies to my territory, but I already took care of your missing people.
They don't fight for now."
Rose asked in confusion,
"But aren't we already exposed to the higher being of our universe?
He might use them as hostages?
Or just kill them out of anger?
Or even worse, won't he bring other higher beings to deal with you?
From what you said, it seems they hate guardians!"
Little mortal snorted, puffed his chest, raised his chin, and said arrogantly,
"You are right, he would do that if he were free.
But I already caught him.
And not only him, I even caught that thug!
With no big boss around to send orders to
'war ground', the war between the two sides will be in a temporary ceasefire! "
Princess Xena chose the 'follow the guardian' option the moment she heard what he said!
And so did the two managers!
There was no doubt that they were in the same boat with this little guardian from now on!
He just went out to catch a big fish, and came back with two 'big fish'?
By Big Fish, he meant higher beings?
No wonder the feeling of getting assassinated is gone now...
If he says he is at level 85, then he is, even if such a level doesn't exist!
Rose said excitedly,
"Boss, you are always a couple of steps ahead of everyone!
You are like a 'secret guardian' now, right ?"
Little mortal who was nodding arrogantly, suddenly froze,
And jumped up,
"You are right!
'Secret guardian'!
I am a Frontline guardian, but in secret, like that secret guardian!
So I can pretend to be a 'secret guardian' while I am the Frontline guardian! "
Then he shouted,
"You, silly token,
Send a notice to everyone!
From now on, everyone should call me 'secret guardian' in official meetings !"
A message was sent to the token owners,
[Everyone, from now on, in official meetings, please refer to the Guardian mortal by his new title, 'Secret Guardian'.]
And so, another layer of 'cover' was added to Little Mortal.
He then said,
"Alright, any other questions?
We are in an 'official meeting', so you can ask any question you have."
It was obvious that he was looking for someone to call him 'secret guardian'.
Immortal manager chuckled,
"Secret Guardian, what is the plan from now on?
What should we do?"
The old manager nodded.
Indeed, what now?
Little mortal smiled happily when he heard her calling him Secret Guardian,
"You are the manager, young lady.
Do as you please.
I'm just a simple guardian.
My job is to go and find the rest of the planets of our solar system first."
Immortal manager nodded,
"Alright.
We connect the big orb to the planet and try to restore the spiritual energy first."
Little mortal suddenly remembered something and said,
"But leave the part without living creatures to be empty as it is."
The two managers nodded while puzzled.
Rose, who was a level 3 now, but the others didn't say anything because, as the number one fan of the little guardian, it was only natural for her to follow him without question,
Asked,
"Secret guardian, is there a way to improve the maximum level of creatures of the planet itself?
Not just for the token owners through following the guardian ?"
The rest were curious too!
Was that possible, or was it all about luck and where you were born?
"It is.
The slow path is to let it be until it happens.
How long does it usually take?
At least a couple of billion years.
The faster way is,
To catch a creature 1 level higher than planet potential, sacrifice it to your planet. Then, the maximum level increases by one for everyone.
But it's only on paper.
The problem is, in reality, only equal to the number of creatures that you sacrificed for the Planet, creatures can advance.
For example,
If we kill one level 3 here in the cultivation planet, with level 2 as its maximum, then everyone's maximum level will be 3, but the first person to become level 3 is going to close the path for the rest."
Rose was a little disappointed.
It wasn't an orthodox way.
And it was too barbaric and bloody.
So she asked,
"Is there any better way?
Doesn't that mean you need to keep killing higher-level creatures?
It's close to impossible to do that for any planet . "
"Well, there is a way, and it's the same way, actually.
Just with less killing.
If you sacrifice a level 4 creature for our planet, which is two levels higher, then everyone can advance to level 3 without any limit, and like before, only one creature can advance to level 4.
But even so, it's not easy to advance even if your planet doesn't limit your maximum level.
All living creatures start at level one anyway, except for higher beings.
They are level 6 from the start."
They thought it was basically impossible for them to achieve such a feat.
And they already knew they can't count on this little guardian when it comes to killing,
Or he could sacrifice the whole Invaders' Army to the planet and build his own army!
But if he had such a plan, he wouldn't choose the
'Frontline guardian'.
The best way they could think of was for those who follow the guardian to do it after he officially becomes the solar system guardian, and then they become level 4 because there is no planet limit on them, and catch a level 4 creature themselves ...
The old manager asked cautiously,
"Secret guardian, about the heart...
Why did your guardian token call it
'Evil-birth treasure?" "
Little mortal without thinking was going to attack!
But stopped,
"Oh, that...
Because it won't listen to anyone."
Then he looked around while vigilant and whispered,
"Let me tell you a secret!
But don't tell it to anyone!
Okay?"
They all nodded!
Something that even he considers a secret?
What could it be?
"Birth treasures are all actors!"
"Hmm?"
Even the backpack silently came over with the rest of the treasures hanging on it to see what he was saying about them, which was a secret!
"Let me tell you, these treasures are all pretending to have a master that they listen to.
But in reality, they are all faking it !"
The backpack behind him suddenly starts jumping up and down, while the rest of the treasures start vibrating like crazy!
Little mortal kicked the backpack with the treasures and the four-armed guy away,
"See?
They are trying to fool me by saying they are all loyal to their masters!
But as I said, none of them said we 'obey anything our master says'!
They are just saying, 'We are loyal.'
But so what?
You can be loyal today, but a traitor the next day.
Right !?
Didn't they attack me before, even though they are mine now? "
The crowd didn't know if they should believe it or not.
The old manager asked,
"What about the Evil-birth treasures? "
Little mortal snorted,
"The only difference is, they don't pretend like these cowardly birth treasures.
They show their true self to everyone from the start.
They kill, they destroy, they devour!
Let me tell you,
Even higher beings born in the same universe as the evil-birth treasure itself will be eaten by them! "
The crowd was speechless!
How are you alive then?
The old manager asked,
"What about the one here? "
He pointed at the ground.
Little mortal rubbed his chin,
"Hmmm...
I never heard about any Evil-birth treasure, crazier, stronger, or more ruthless than this one.
And let me tell you, there is not a single level 6 being out there who can control it."
The crowd's forehead was now covered in cold sweat.
Is he for real?
Or just boasting?
The old manager asked with a trembling voice,
"A-are we in trouble? "
Why was it impossible to ask him a question without getting stressed...?
Little mortal face suddenly becomes full of anger,
and attacked the old manager!
"You silly old man!
Are you even listening to me !"
Rose ran after him to separate them,
"Secret guardian, please calm down!
We forgot you were talking about level 6!
You are level 85, how can it be hard for you to deal with some random treasure!"
The old manager only now understood where he was wrong!
Little mortal gritted his teeth while letting go of the old man's hair and said,
"Alright.
Anything else?"
Rose said,
"Secret guardian, do you want to question the four-arm creature?
Or it doesn't matter now that the two sides are in a ceasefire?"
Little mortal looked at the guy hanging on the backpack, which was kicked away with it, and said,
"Don't know."
Immortal manager, seeing him clueless, said,
Can you ask him about the place our people are being held?
Then we can go scout the way for when we want to bring them back."
Rose added,
"The seniors who came back told us that only level 2 and level 3 beings are allowed on the war ground,
So it shouldn't be that dangerous for us.
We might even be able to bring them back."
Little mortal shook his head,
"Don't want to.
You might go there and ruin my plans.
And level 4 beings can go there too,
They just aren't allowed to fight.
Not only that, someone is watching over the battle too, so no one cheats."
Rose didn't give up,
"Secret guardian, your plans are always perfect!
Isn't it easy for you to design a plan to rescue our people?"
Little mortal, when he heard that his plans were perfect, became arrogant!
"Alright!
Let me design a perfect plan!"
Then he shouted,
"Whiteboard!"
Another whiteboard came out of the backpack and replaced the old one.
Then he started writing,
[ < Perfect Rescue Mission >
Main task:
- Rescue the creatures of the immortal planet
What we have to work with:
- The main boss
- One of the generals
- The main boss's castle
- The boss's former birth treasure ]
The crowd was at a loss for words...
You have the main boss, who probably refers to the sneaky guy, his castle, his birth treasure, and one of his generals.
What plan can come out of this?
Little mortal then muttered,
"A perfect plan will be..."
Then he added some tasks,
[Mission tasks:
- Enemy deception
- Hostage evacuation
- Hostages cleansing process]
And nodded to himself,
"Alright, now I need to interrogate the general first, and see how much influence he has."
Then he ran to his backpack, went inside, and came out again.
Now he was wearing a military commander's outfit,
With lots of medals on his chest, a hat with a bunch of stars, and a stick in his right hand!
He jumped on the table and started giving his orders like a commander that he was now.
"Big guy, search the castle!
I want you to have access to every item there!"
The backpack trembled,
"Little knife, come out!"
The silver knife came out of the backpack.
It was shivering at this moment,
As if it were a junior and all the other treasures were its seniors!
"Don't be scared!
They are your colleagues now."
Then he introduced them to each other.
"Little knife, everyone!
Everyone, little knife!"
The other treasures, with a senior aura, vibrated once.
As if they nodded at the silver knife.
And the silver knife vibrated a couple of times as if it was showing respect to its seniors.
"Alright.
Little knife, I want you to act as if I'm your previous master."
The knife vibrated in agreement.
It didn't know how its master changed to this little monster after hearing him whisper, 'I choose you as my birthday gift, ' but that was a fact.
"Little crystal.
Search your database for the sneaky guy's records.
I want you to filter my voice."
The Crystal vibrated.
"Space mirror, seal the place when the interrogation begins!"
The space mirror vibrated.
Then the backpack and the crystal started vibrating.
They were done with their job.
The little commander nodded, dragged the four-armed guy, and dropped him in an empty spot.
"Alright.
Little crystal, make it dark.
Space mirror, seal the interrogation room.
Big guy, be ready.
Little knife, activate!
With my countdown, operation 'enemy deception'
Will begin!
3
2
1
Action!"
The crowd, who didn't know what was happening,
Saw everything turn dark.
They could only stay quiet...
Guardian Mortal suddenly decided to take this rescue operation seriously!
With a slap, the four-armed guy woke up.
He looked around him hurriedly!
But there was only darkness!
A voice sounded,
"You failed."
The moment he heard the voice,
He prostrated himself towards the voice,
And said with a trembling voice,
"M-my lord, I don't know what happened!
I-i think someone far stronger than me was involved in this matter."
The Assassin god's 'voice' snorted,
"Why do you think my clone brought you back?"
The four-armed guy didn't know what to say...
"Because it was an impossible mission for you.
So, I'll give you another chance to redeem yourself."
The four-armed guy said excitedly,
"My lord, I'm ready even to die to complete the mission this time!"
"Hmmm.
I personally intercepted the other party.
But I want you to bring everyone from the immortal planet who went to the war ground back here,
So I can kill them one by one in front of him."
The four-arm guy gasped!
Assassin god indeed had such a hobby, to kill the relatives of those whom he hates in front of them!
But,
"My lord, what about the war with the god of oppression?"
The voice sounded, while a silver light flashed by and cut one of the four-armed guy's hands and turned him into a three-armed guy!
"Are you questioning my judgment?"
The three-armed guy started headbutting the ground,
"I was ignorant, my lord!
I was ignorant!
Please forgive my stupidity!"
The voice sounded after snorting,
"This time it was a hand, next time it will be a head.
Do you... understand?"
The three-arms guy agreed repeatedly,
"Yes, my lord!
Thank you for sparing me!"
The voice then told him his mission,
"Now go bring them over.
You know what you need, right?"
The three-armed guy answered,
"Yes, my lord.
Your 'seal' to open the passage to the war ground.
Your 'war horn' to summon our troops.
And something to prove that it is your direct order!"
The backpack sent out two items at this moment.
An iron plate as big as an adult's palm.
And a horn, Viking style.
The two items dropped in front of the three-armed guy, who picked them up respectfully.
The voice sounded again,
"My birth treasure will accompany you as proof."
The three-armed guy answered,
"Yes, my lord, I go immediately!"
But the voice said,
"No need.
I asked Space goddess for help again to open another passage.
Go through the passage directly."
Because Assassin God's clone's arrival was through a passage that was detected by the space mirror, little Mortal already knew the space goddess had sold him a one-way ticket.
The team, after killing everybody, would be silenced by the clone, and the clone itself would vanish after its job was done and didn't need to go back.
It couldn't go back anyway, either, because the mainland was moving too fast for anybody to catch up with in empty space.
The three-armed guy headbutted the ground while saying,
"Yes, my lord!
Yes, my lord!"
Then the space mirror opened a passage.
The other side was the scenery of an empty space,
And a big stone door floating in the void.
Only when the three-armed guy went to the other side could you tell how big it was!
The guy was like an ant in front of a mountain, considering the size difference.
Then he took out the seal, and the big door opened slightly.
Two more four-armed were on the other side of the door and seemed to be standing guard.
The two stopped the three-armed guy and questioned him about his business, and he told them why he was there.
Then, as if they were suspicious, they didn't let him in at first, but when the two became three-armed too,
They let him in while prostrating themselves before the passage that the previous three-armed guy had walked out of...
The little knife came back after it was done 'proving' Assassin God was the one behind the order.
Little mortal was speechless!
"What in the world is wrong with you, you savage knife?
If I see you cut anything without my permission again, then I will sell you to some slaughterhouse to work there forever!"
The silver knife, which thought it did a good job, was shivering now!
The other treasures didn't have a head, or they might be shaking it now...
This little knife still didn't pay attention to its boss's newborn identity...
Little Commander Mortal then sent another order,
"Guardian token!
Summon everyone from the special force here!
Assistant Rose, call my followers to come for help!"
In no time, followers gathered while looking confused.
The special force came too, but some other people followed them!
What was happening?
They got a message for an emergency gathering.
It was mandatory, but how could they say no to the guardian?
One of the immortals whispered,
"That's the war ground's gate..."
The other one nodded,
"Are we going back to find others?"
"I don't know..."
But when they saw the little commander silently waiting with his hands behind his back, the rest became quiet too.
After a while, the large gate began to open again.
From the war ground, anyone who looked at the passage could only see darkness.
But from Little Mortal's side, they could clearly see what was happening on the other side.
The gate began to open completely while the two three-armed men were pushing it.
Behind the door, as far as the eye could see, was nothing but a deserted ground.
Those who were on the war ground already knew.
This desert with extremely hard ground was the battlefield that they couldn't even make a hole in; even the strongest warriors there couldn't...
While they were wondering what they should do now that the guardian had asked them to come,
They suddenly saw, far away in the sky over the war ground, a group of creatures flying their way!
As they got closer, they could tell the estimated number of the creatures flying over...
It wasn't one or two,
It wasn't a thousand or a hundred thousand either,
It was millions or even billions!
Everyone started sweating profusely!
The newcomers were all filled with killing intent at this moment!
Even a dark cloud above was formed because of the killing intent emitting from them!
All of them were following the same three-armed general from before who had a horn in his hand.
The little commander, seeing them coming, turned to the crowd,
"Alright, everyone.
As you know, we are currently in the second phase of our 'rescue mission'."
The crowd thought,
'No, we didn't know...'
"First phase, 'enemy deception', as you can see,
is going to end soon with 100% success."
Then he began clapping in celebration of the success of the first phase.
Those who acted fast started clapping with him.
Those who were slow or new were 'forced' to clap with him.
After the short 'celebration' for the success of phase one, he pointed at the whiteboard.
[ Mission tasks:
- Enemy deception (100% completion)
- Evacuation
- Cleansing]
"Now we need to execute the last two tasks at the same time.
For this, I need everyone to be ready for transportation of the cleansed bodies of our comrades."
Then he turned to the passage again.
The crowd didn't know what he meant by 'transportation of the cleansed bodies',
But they were ready!
The crowd on the other side, with the order of the general, started entering the passage that became big enough for 1000 people to enter at the same time.
As the first batch entered,
And their overflowing killing intent was going to spread,
They all punched their own faces and dropped to the ground...
'Alright, now we know what he meant by 'transportation of the cleansed bodies'...'
So he would knock them out, and after turning them into 'cleansed bodies', they would transport the bodies....
After around an hour, the little commander sent another command,
"Ask for the cleansed bodies who woke up to come and help.
We don't have time for days to wait here!"
And so, the more creatures were 'cleansed' from the influence of the assassin god, the more creatures joined the transportation process, and the bigger the passage got.
It took 7 hours for all of them to enter.
It was around 10 billion lifeforms, mostly humans,
That came in from the gate, which was big enough at the end to allow 400,000 to 500,000 of them to 'evacuate' at the same time!
Around the morning, little commander Mortal, who knocked out the last batch and kicked the three-armed guy who was going to enter the passage away, said,
"Alright.
Good job, everyone.
The second and third phases of the rescue mission have been completed with 100% success.
I announce the end of the mission.
Soldiers, dismissed!"
The crowd, who were around, suddenly lost control, and all of them, after a military salute, shouted,
"Sir, yes, sir!"
Then they turned around and left...
Only the same people from before, Rose, the two managers, and Princess Xena, were still there.
Looking around blankly.
What happened?
They asked him to design a perfect plan...
However, the plan was designed, started, executed, and completed in just 7 hours...
Was that how a 'Frontline guardian' operated?
But they helped with 'transportation' at least,
And little mortal said they broke the 'corpse transportation' record too...
So they actually helped?
Rose took a deep breath and looked at the extra 'cleansed body' that was still here.
Little mortal kept this one and didn't let anyone take her away.
She was an old lady with a familiar face.
At this moment, the old lady slowly came back to her senses.
When she was completely conscious, she heard a teasing voice,
"My old rival, Lady Butterfly, we meet again!"
Rose,
"-_-"