When the old man saw the awkward silence, he coughed and said,
"You little ones worked hard dealing with these bullies.
Now stay back and have some rest.
If you are lucky, there will be a round two for you."
And he let go of Entertainment Goddess's shoulder.
Entertainment Goddess nodded and retreated to join her level 7 teammates, while with a wave of her hand,
Gathered the members of 'Secret Organization' to join them too.
The old man who everyone expected to float in the air,
After letting go of Entertainment Goddess,
Fell to the ground.
No one dared face this old man, so the hunters retreated as well.
The legendary level 10 creatures that none of them ever saw in their life and only thought Mainland itself could be a level 10 power, were going to clash now.
And not two of them, but three!
The old man looked at the vulture in the sky, which was locked onto him vigilantly, and said,
"How about we finish the bet ourselves instead of-"
*Whoosh *
Before he could finish his sentence, something dark and sharp connected to something like a whip moved towards him with an unimaginable speed.
The corner of the old man's eyes twitched for the second time after his line being interrupted, and he caught something behind his head,
"Juniors these days-"
*Whoosh*
The old man, who was going to say something about the juniors these days, was interrupted for the third time.
This time, it was something sharp that almost penetrated his head, but he caught it with two fingers.
Now, not only the corner of his eyes, but the corner of his mouth started twitching too.
In his right hand was something like a sharp blade connected to a long black tentacle; the other end of it was going inside the same pit with Lubo inside it.
And between his left hand's index and middle fingers was a sharp silver feather.
The two sneak attacks not only interrupted the old man but also were an attempt to kill him.
The atmosphere changed.
One look and everyone knew the old man wasn't happy at all to be interrupted twice in a row.
The old man, while trying his best to keep the smile on his face, said,
"As I was saying,
How about we-"
But again,
"Lubo!
How about we take care of this guy first?
Then settle our grudge?"
And Lubo, without saying anything, flew out of the pit and attacked the old man to show its agreement!
Both interrupted him for the third time.
At the same time, 10 more feathers were shot down from the sky, each of them bigger than the other,
With the first feather as big as a hand, and the last feather as big as a tree trunk.
At this moment, the calm and composed old man finally snapped!
"How dare you two juniors interrupt me three times in a row?"
The angry shout of the formerly calm old man, who turned to an angry old man now, shook the space, the ground, and the hearts of onlookers!
He suddenly pulled the black blade in his hand,
And Lubo, that was on its way to him,
Suddenly sped up and was now being dragged towards him instead of moving towards him on its own.
At the same time, he raised his right hand,
And the ten feathers in the sky moving towards him changed shape and size!
Simultaneously, when Lubo arrived at his left,
And the feathers to his right,
With a backhand strike, he sent Lubo flying back,
And with a right-hand rotation, he caught all of the 10 feathers between his fingers.
The feathers were now changed to needles, as if their shape had been transformed under pressure.
Now, with the previous feather, he had 11 feathers in his right hand, while the black blade connected to the tentacle coming out from the black heart was in his other hand.
Again, he pulled Lubo back like the previous time with his left hand,
And at the same time, twisted his right hand's wrist and threw one of the 11 needles towards the vulture in the sky!
*BAM*
Lubo, who arrived in front of him, was sent flying again with a backhand like the previous time!
*Whooosh*
And the needle that no one could fathom how fast it moved, made a big hole in the vulture's head in the sky!
But it wasn't over.
The old man pulled Lubo back again,
And threw another feather towards the vulture!
At the same time, he started shouting in anger, word by word, while between each word he threw a feather at the vulture, and a backhand at Lubo.
"DON'T. YOU. HAVE. ANY. MANNERS?
YOU. UNCULTURED. UNCIVILIZED. SAVAGES!"
After shouting the nine words,
Lubo was pulled over another 9 times, and it was sent flying 9 times.
While the vulture's head in the sky had another nine extra holes after receiving the first one.
The old man looked at his right hand,
And gasped.
His sentence was finished, but there was still one feather left...
So he snorted, pulled Lubo back again, which was now all swollen and deformed,
And this time, he let go of the blade and kicked it towards the vulture.
Then he threw the needle in the same direction,
But this time not with its sharp tip, instead, by its width.
The feather then started 'expanding' and becoming big like a tree trunk before it smashed into the flying Lubo.
Both Lubo and the blade smashed into the vulture's head above, and they disappeared inside the clouds.
No one could sense their presence from the start, so now nobody knew if they had survived the impact or not.
They tried to take a peek at the angry 'Heavenly Father', but he was nowhere to be seen.
The crowd felt a chill run down their spine!
They all wondered if he was going to take out his leftover anger on them?
And the answer was... No.
*Pufff*
The clouds in the sky exploded, and a big hole opened at the center.
Three figures with different falling speeds appeared!
One was a big black heart that seemed to be smashed by something from above,
And now it was on its way to crash to the ground.
The other one was a big 'formerly magnificent' vulture that seems to have been smashed by something from above too,
And now it was on its way with the same speed as the black heart to crash to the ground.
And the third one was the angry old man,
Who wasn't angry anymore,
With his 'I own this place' smile,
One hand behind his back,
One hand stroking his beard,
And his long hair dancing in the wind,
Who was falling like a rock.
*Bam* x2
*Bam* x1
The three crashed to the ground.
The vulture, with 11 bloody wounds on its body,
Was now looking at the old man coldly while its wounds healed with a speed visible to the eyes.
It was the same for Lubo.
"As I was saying..."
The old man spoke from where he was interrupted, but paused for a moment.
No one made a sound this time so that he could finish his sentence.
They knew he was testing them.
The old man smiled and continued when he saw nobody interrupt him this time,
"... How about we take our fight farther away from these juniors?"
The crowd was speechless.
'That's what you were going to say?'
The vulture smiled maliciously,
"I'm fine here.
What?
Are you scared of us hurting your 'children'?"
And then it heard a voice from behind,
"No."
And something hit its butt, and sent it flying to 'farther away'.
The crowd that saw another old man behind the Vulture kicked him, hurriedly looked at the original old man, and saw his figure slowly fading away.
Everyone gasped!
It was their first time seeing someone move so fast and leave an afterimage behind!
The old man turned to Lubo.
Lubo said hurriedly,
"I go by mysel-"
*Bam*
The crowd that saw the old man kick the black heart 'farther away' before it could go by itself, nodded to themselves.
With this old man's temper, it was indeed too late for it to go by itself.
The old man's gaze moved to the onlookers,
Who gulped down and unconsciously covered their butts,
"Be good and don't mess around.
Wait for your turn."
And he took a step towards the 'farther away',
And disappeared.
When the old man left,
Lord, who pretended to be dead all the time, stood up.
"What is even happening here?
I can't keep up with the changes anymore...
And why did our manager call that thing Lubo?
That black heart wasn't anything like that Lubo I remember..."
The crowd from both 'camps' turned their head.
It seems those people weren't the only ones who 'came back to life.'
While not knowing what to do,
They saw the girl from Speed Mainland who had just advanced to level 8 with the level 9 canary, which was white again and sitting on her shoulder, fly towards them.
Lord sighed and stood in front of their army,
"Stay calm, the mainland's will didn't only order us to not mess around."
The crowd gulped down and remained still.
Entertainment Goddess landed in front of them with a smiling face and walked to Lady Tyrant,
"Hello, fellow actors.
You did a great job!
Please forgive our side for not following the script in the first scene!"
The Hunters,
"...???"
The white canary who slapped its face with its wing,
"-_-"
The Crystal,
<...>
The unprofessional actors,
"-_-"
...
Farther away.
The old man was facing Lubo and the Vulture.
The two of them received a beating because they underestimated him.
But now, things were different.
The Vulture was thinking of a way to figure out about this old man's law and how it works.
And Lubo was thinking of how to avoid the future beating, because it finally calmed down and found out who this old man is.
When he kicked it just a while ago,
The kick made its body vibrate,
And the vibration was like the one birth treasures were using to communicate with a certain little monster.
The way of communication that he called Morse code.
And there was a clear message in the vibration,
< You stuffed yourself in my movie that you weren't invited to.
You interrupted my dialogs, too.
You even sneak-attacked me!
So now that you are already here,
Act like a good ally for this ugly Vulture, you stupid Lubo,
Or after the movie ends, I'll end you with it!
Do you... understand? >
Lubo, who was blinded by 'revenge',
Came back to reality after receiving this message that it didn't know how he 'delivered' it to him with a single kick.
Now it was in a dilemma,
'Should I forget about my revenge?
Or take revenge and receive my punishment later?
He can't kill me anyway...'
And it made its decision in an instant.
It would never bow,
It would never give up,
And it would never... betray its deal.
So it decided to forget about its grudge and let the now 'old' monster do its thing.
With him around, this Vulture's ending would be a miserable one anyway; what revenge did it need to take?
So it even took the lead, and under the surprised gaze of the Vulture, attacked.
And not pretending to attack, but attacked for real, to really kill the old man!
Now that it had the opportunity to kill this devil in the name of 'playing' its role, why not try its chance?
...
While the fight between 'final bosses' was ongoing,
The Entertainment Goddess explained to the confused hunters that from here on out, there would be no script.
So they need to play it by themselves, and from what the movie producer said,
There might be a round two for them, and they need to act accordingly.
Seeing this lady thinks everything is just a movie,
And all the casualties until now could be resurrected,
The crowd wondered if they were truly being led by a third party into this situation.
The strong, if they were 'really' strong, could indeed force others to play their 'games'.
Thinking carefully about it, Lord said to the excited lady about the possible fight with an undead army,
Or an advanced civilization with spaceships.
And Entertainment Goddess wrote a script right there and then, so they can divide the upcoming scenes between themselves.
At first, Lord was trying to buy some time so that this Lady and the level 9 canary wouldn't take action until their manager was done with the old man and had subdued Lubo under the mainland's contract.
But as time passed, the fight didn't stop, and it seemed to get more and more intense.
The crowd was confused as to why their mainland manager couldn't use the contract between the mainland and its creatures to force Lubo not to attack it at the begining.
They didn't know that the Vulture, who now had a teammate, was even more confused than they were.
When it saw Lubo attacking it at the start, and not getting punished by world law due to its betrayal, the Vulture became suspicious of this whole zone.
It didn't know that this old man was actually toying with the two of them,
And Lubo's contract with their mainland was actually active, but completely useless.
From the start, when Lubo tried to attack the Vulture, it was protected by the Frontline effect.
So even though it was supposed to be punished by world law,
The punishment couldn't enter the guardian territory under Little Mortal's protection.
Lubo knew about this too, and that's why it attacked the Vulture without fear of the world law's punishment.
The little monster lurking in the dark could even face the black punishment lightning; what was so scary about the punishment from its contract compared to that?
Hours passed without any unexpected situations.
Until the weather started getting cold and snowflakes began falling from the sky.
Seeing the change in weather, Entertainment Goddess became excited and said to the canary on her shoulder,
"Senior manager, we should go back to our group!"
Then she waved at the hunters and left after saying,
"Everyone, good luck with the next scene!
This is probably the scene where our 'final boss' is going to show his dominance over your 'final boss',
And then a new enemy will show up to make things even more complicated and give 'our' enemy, which is your side, some advantage and hope!"
Lord and the rest of the hunters didn't know what to say,
And just waved back at her, while sighing in relief when she left.
That white canary on her shoulder didn't seem happy seeing them.
Looking at the snow and the white steam coming out of their mouths, they knew this change in weather was indeed the sign of the Undead Mainland getting close to them.
But that old man didn't seem to be able to easily defeat their boss-
*TREMBLE*
The betting ground shook.
An object out of nowhere smashed to the ground.
Then two other objects landed on the first one.
*BAM*
As the dust settled, the crowd saw what, or to be exact, who they were, because they didn't feel any presence from them.
The first object was the big black heart, Lubo, who crashed to the ground first.
And the following two objects,
One was a huge Vulture, and the other one was the same old man from before, called Heavenly Father.
*Tremble*
The ground shook again,
And the onlookers saw the reason this time?
At this moment, one of the Vulture's claws was grabbed by the old man, while he was raising his hand and using the Vulture like a hammer!
*Tremble*
The old man brought his hand down again,
And the Vulture, with dizzy eyes, was smashed into the face of the big heart with a dizzy face.
The crowd glanced at the lady called Entertainment Goddess with shocked faces.
And she winked at them to say 'that's the dominance part I mentioned', while she was pretending to be shocked too.
The old man who raised his hand over and over again,
And swung the Vulture's body down, smashing it into Lubo left and right, suddenly paused.
A cold voice of a lady sounded at this moment,
"Krevaris, I see you couldn't deal with a level 8 mainland even after a day.
And not only that, you were even forced to such a miserable state?"
The crowd raised their heads.
But no one saw anything.
The old man raised his head, too.
He looked at the giant castle, which no one except he, the Vulture, and Lubo could see.
And then smiled mockingly towards the sky.
"Little girl,
We are in the middle of a bet.
Anyone who dares to bet on a mainland,
Can enter."
Morthyxis, the undead Queen, furrowed inside her castle and wondered,
'Who is this old man? And is that black heart actually that infamous Lubo?
Who let it grow so much?'
In the momentary pause, the vulture and Lubo find a chance to come out of their dizziness and retreat from the old man!
The old man who doesn't seem to mind, let them go.
The vulture now was looking solemn.
It couldn't figure out what this old man's law was.
It and Lubo both had the law of devour.
In reality, even its law originated from Lubo because it was the same law as Hunters Mainland, which was stolen from Lubo.
So when it saw even Lubo, who was supposed to be the one with the 'pure' devour law, couldn't suck anything from this old man,
It couldn't think of any options to deal with him either, so it just pretended to be 'weak' for now.
Only one thing about this old man was familiar to it,
And that was his martial art.
It seems his mastery in martial arts was the combined version of all those kids from the speedy mainland when they ran out of law and started fighting with martial art techniques.
It was as though each of them were a disciple of his, who learned a part of his knowledge...
"I even have a better deal for you, little girl.
Join the bet, and I will end your misery."
Said the old man towards the sky, and while the onlookers couldn't see anything,
The vulture could, and went into deep thought.
'It seems this old man knows her?
I must say he is not easy to deal with alone!
Even with Lubo here, already grown to a level 10 power, we still don't know how to beat him!
So, even if I win, I still need to deal with Lubo afterwards.
It seems there is only one path in front of me,
And that is to let Morthyxis join the fight, and after dealing with the old man, make a deal with her to take care of Lubo!'
"End my misery, you say?"
Said the cold voice from the sky in response.
"Are you capable of such a claim, old man?"
The second sentence was followed by dramatic music to announce the entrance of the 4th final boss.
When Entertainment Goddess saw that the snow was getting heavier, she started playing the music because she knew the new final boss was going to enter the fray.
And the castle, that in the eyes of the vulture was outside an invisible barrier,
Entered the 'betting ground', to show that the Undead Mainlad was now part of the bet too.
Seeing the ominous castle, the onlookers' hearts trembled.
The white canary looked blankly at the newcomer.
Now, it didn't care about anything but playing its 'role'.
It was better not to think too much in this kind of confusing situation with so many unknown elements.
Lord, who saw the undead final boss, which he had never seen before, entered the 'Movie', lowered his head, and so did Entertainment goddess when she saw him doing so.
The level 7 creatures all kneeled,
Except for the ones from the speedy mainland.
The level 6 creatures all fainted again,
Except for the ones from the secret organization.
Behind the castle in the sky, skeletons start appearing in batches of hundreds.
In no time, close to a hundred thousand of them were gathered behind a big skeleton Phoenix, forming an army.
The castle's gate opened.
Another skeleton, with a black robe made of death aura, two flickering blue flames in her eyes,
An ice crown on her head, and an ice staff in her hand, walked out slowly and made the snow even heavier while decreasing the temperature.
In a moment, the ground was covered in snow.
*BAM*
With a *BAM*, the castle behind her was kicked to the horizon.
*BAM*
With a second *BAM*, the cool-looking undead queen with all her glory was sent flying in the direction that Vulture and Lubo were.
A loud voice sounded, which brought the fainted level 6s back to their senses,
And made the +7 level creatures stand straight,
"ROUND TWO! FIGHT!"
And the familiar old man that no one knew how he ended up behind the undead Queen and kicked her castle and herself,
kicked the air behind him, and went towards the three level 10!
The stunned crowd, who didn't expect a new round suddenly began, heard another shot, but this time, 'Entertaining',
"To the battle!"
And thousands of avatars appeared in the sky.
Looking at the realistic avatars, the level 6 soldiers recognized some of them.
They were the ones they killed a while ago, and now they were back in the form of avatars.
However, there were an additional 4,000 avatars this time.
Even Entertainment goddess was shocked to see them because it was her Crystal who summoned them!
They were the ones from the Guardian token database, which documented challenges between Outsiders and higher beings.
The cultivators were the first to move and join the avatar army, followed by the helpless level 7 unprofessional actors.
Adventure god and divine doctor could only try to check with their birth treasures now and then to see if everything was still a movie or not.
These two peaceful elders really didn't have the 'heart' for so much 'action' in one day.
And fortunately, the movie was still ongoing...
...
In the audience seat,
Because of a snitch cultivation manager,
Everyone already knew who the old man was.
The werewolves and vampires nodded,
"So that's our ancestors' final form?"
The newborns shivered,
"With such a power, how can we rebel against the ultimate tyrant?"
The fairies flew around excitedly,
"Boss is invincible!"
"Did you see how he kicked that undead Queen flying?"
"Isn't she technically a woman?
Boss indeed doesn't show any difference between his enemies!"
"You are wrong, I think that's what Boss calls 'gender equality'!"
"There is such a thing? I didn't know that!"
Lilith, hearing the excited shout from behind her, was wondering how strong this little partner of hers is.
When she heard the newborns talking about a video about him, that he was a young man in that video, and turned his opponents to dust,
She asked them about it, and they showed her a video with the cultivation manager explaining an unusual technique of his called 'judgment by age.'
Lilith, who saw him use judgment by fear, too, nodded to herself.
"So that's why he is looking like an old man now.
He probably chose the vulture as an opponent to become his older version.
With his power that is far from level 6, and his look as an old man, he actually built a perfect disguise for himself!
Newborns can't advance higher than level 6 in normal ways because the universe is a necessity for any higher beings to advance, and they often die young!
That's why nobody is even going to think of him being a newborn to exploit his weakness!"
Then she looked at the old man in the 'movie' again, who couldn't 'fly', and thought to herself,
'He deliberately waited to let another mainland join, and even now he seems to be wasting time...'
She checked the underworld hexagons to see if there was more Mainland getting close?
But didn't see anything.
"If my guess is correct, he is waiting for that level 2 civilization, whose hexagon is completely gone, and the Lava sea there is fake...
Is he trying to win three mainlands at the same time with that guardian law?
But, does he even know those level 2 civilizations aren't as simple as they look when dealing with anomalies like him and Lubo?"
She thought for a moment and then looked at the group of birth treasures,
"Can you contact your boss?"
Hearing her question, the space mirror flew to her immediately,
Lilith nodded and said,
"Send him this message."
And sent a private message to the space mirror.
After a while, Lilith, who knew the message had been received, saw the old man tap something invisible on his waist.
"So that's how he communicates with his 'birthday gifts'?
And the thing on his waist should be invisible?
That 'blood' he said should be the reason..."
And then she saw a passage open, and the space mirror went inside.
A moment later, another passage opened beside God of adventure with the familiar backpack in the betting ground, and the mirror was secretly entered into the backpack.
Maybe only the other level 10 creatures and the white canary saw the mirror's sneaky move, but none of them cared.
Lilith furrowed when she saw nothing unusual had happened after that.
"That's it?
That's how he is going to deal with the possible danger?"
She wondered if he was underestimating the danger,
But it was unlikely when it came to this rascal...
"Alright, let's see how you are going to deal with it."
....
Far away from the betting ground, a fourth mainland appeared.
In the lead, the big brain was scanning the space.
From where it was, it could detect three mainlands, slowly revolving around a battleground with many higher beings inside, fighting an intense battle.
[ Full scan completed.
Hunter's army detected.
Undead's army detected.
Speedy mainland's army detected.
3 level 8 detected.
One level 9 manager detected.
Two level 10 managers detected.
One level 10 evil birth treasure anomaly detected.
One unknown anomaly detected. ]
The scene that Big Brain 'saw' after scanning the place, where everyone was fighting, allowed it to gather information about the forces clashing in a short moment.
But in its search, it saw an old man that it marked as 'unknown anomaly' because it didn't have any information about him in its database.
The old man was under the siege of the three level 10.
One of the three level 10 was using her ice law, making sharp ice-rain fall from above on the old man's head,
Another one was using its silver feathers to attack him, and the evil birth treasure, Lubo, was attacking him with the sharp weapons connected to many black tentacles.
Every single drop of ice-rain from the undead queen could freeze any creature under level 10 and show some effects on level 10 creatures.
Every single silver feather from the vulture could devour any law from the target it penetrates, and force level 10 creatures to at least avoid the law of devour inside it.
And the famous evil birth treasure whipping the old man with those sharp weapons, could cut any birth treasure or leave a wound on any level 10 creatures before suck them dry from their laws in a moment.
But the old man at the center of these attacks, standing only on his left leg,
Was reflecting the ice-rain drops with his right hand's index finger, slapping the feathers away with his left hand,
and kicking the weapons connected to the tentacles attacking him with his right leg in different directions.
From time to time, even the attacks would be reflected towards the attackers themselves.
That's why, while the big brain identified an anomaly, which was Lubo, it completely ignored it and focused on the old man, whose attacker's laws could not affect him in any way, and marked him as an unknown anomaly.
Then, without delay, it sent an order based on its protocol.
The Level 2 civilization mainland behind it, which was repaired to its former glory, starts changing the next moment.
All of the pillars on its surface begin to move forward and target the 'betting ground'.
The Big Brain sent the second order.
[Annihilate all the targets.
Focus on the two anomalies.]
The next moment,
At the betting ground, everyone suddenly saw the sky turning bright as if the sun was rising!
But not only one sun, instead dozens of them at the same time...