Star Iron, conquer the world from Omphalos

"What's up with these sea patrol rangers?"

Black Tower understands the truth, but where does the Sea Patrol Ranger come from?

Have they been fighting the Army of Destruction here all this time?

Forget it... Although these guys also believe in hunting, they are essentially a group of people completely different from the Xianzhou people. It is unlikely that they will be hostile to Ash because of the grudge between Shurima and the Xianzhou Alliance.

"We need to come up with something that can detect imaginary energy... Tsk~ I should have brought the Queen here earlier."

With few resources on hand, the Black Tower took a look around and picked up some garbage from two abandoned planets. After piecing together some, he managed to make an imaginary energy survey device.

Then, according to the data on the device, move deeper into this invisible maze.

It seems that there are no obstacles, but if you don’t follow a specific route, you will never reach the depths.

The same is true in reverse. If you don’t know the route, it will be difficult to get out.

That's why Black Tower was puzzled. These sea patrollers didn't seem to know how to walk through the abyss spiral, but they seemed to be looking for something.

Even in the abyss spiral, there are ways to get news out of it. It can be said that they are worthy of being sea patrol rangers, and they have all kinds of messy means. However, it is too inefficient to follow them to find it. In just a short while, the black tower has successfully entered the core area of the imaginary energy explosion.

"Ok?"

The data on the imaginary number device began to show abnormalities, an obvious energy storm appeared in the space, and the power of the entire abyss spiral showed signs of collapsing inward.

However, it is too difficult to collapse an entire abyss spiral, at least it is not possible with the power of an ordinary commander. The Black Tower had studied it before, and it is likely that five ordinary-level commanders would be needed to collapse the abyss spiral composed of the imaginary energy of the entire galaxy.

So the current situation is that the signs of collapse have already formed but are in a certain state of equilibrium. Seeing this, the black tower released its power and decisively attacked from the outside.

When her attack fell into the collapsing abyss spiral, this delicate balance was immediately broken, and the collapse spread outward layer by layer, like huge waves surging on the sea, one after another, and finally splashed a huge amount of water with a bang.

A flying ship immediately rushed out from the collapsed abyss spiral.

"Wow! It finally came out! Holy crap, what the hell is this thing? Emperor, how are you?"

"It's nothing serious, but Foehn should be gone."

"Damn it, he ran fast, otherwise I would have left two holes in his head!"

"Strange, the power fluctuation just now was..."

"Ash."

The appearance of the black tower interrupted their thoughts. Seeing her, Ash was stunned for a moment: "Why is it you?"

"Then who else do you hope for?" Heita said unhappily, "Who else but me would go to such great lengths to find you? Humph~ Do you know how much time and energy I've wasted trying to find you?"

"Who is this guy?" asked the cyborg cowboy next to Ash.

"Who are you?" Heita glanced at him.

"Me? You haven't even heard of me, you bastard? I'm the famous Poteo, the Sea Patrol Ranger. You've seen the company's bounty order, right? Remember it!"

"Oh, not interested."

Heita understood. No wonder there were so many sea patrol rangers outside. It turned out that they were all from the same nest. She probably figured out what was going on.

"What do you mean? Emperor, who is this guy? So arrogant! He just came on someone else's ship without permission."

"Her name is Heita."

"What black tower, white tower, even the rainbow tower...huh???" Poteo's eyes widened. "Holy crap, is she the Black Tower from the Genius Club?"

Ash spread his hands: "It's genuine."

"Haha! Lucky! I didn't expect to meet such a genius. This is so exciting!"

Heita gave him an expression as if he was looking at an idiot.

"So, what's going on? Where's Lord Extinction?"

"Ran."

Ash briefly told Heita what happened before.

When Ash encountered Foehn's attack before, the battle was so fierce that the sky was dark and the sun and moon were dim. They crossed one galaxy after another, and in the end, he didn't even know where he was.

And in this process, Potio appeared.

Of course, this was not divine luck, but Poteo had been looking for Ash because the latter helped him kill Schneider, the culprit who destroyed his hometown. He wanted to talk to Ash after the Harmony Ceremony, but Ash just left.

My god, how can this be possible?

Portio has been tracking Schneider's whereabouts. As a senior executive of the company, he is very powerful and he may never be able to take revenge in his lifetime with his power.

Although Potio didn't want to admit it, he really had no other choice.

But unexpectedly, I suddenly heard the news that Schneider was killed by Ash.

For the Sea Patrol Ranger, this great favor must naturally be repaid.

Then he chased all the way up, and was so lucky that he was attacked by the Lord of Extinction. Based on the principle that the Rangers must repay a favor, Poteo joined the battle without hesitation - although his help did not play any role, it was thanks to him that so many Rangers were summoned when Ash was trapped in the Abyss Spiral, otherwise the Black Tower would not have been able to find this place.

As for Foehn, he took advantage of the chaos to escape when the abyss spiral collapsed just now. Ash didn't plan to chase him because he couldn't kill him even if he caught up with him.

"Since everything's fine, hurry back. Shurima is in chaos without you... Oh, and there's a group of Sea Rangers fighting the Legion of Doom outside. But if this place collapses, the impact will spread quickly, so the fight probably won't last long."

"Damn it, these damned destruction forces, I have to go help!" Poteo said immediately, "Emperor, once my brothers and I have eliminated the destruction forces here, I will come to thank you!"

"Yes, you are welcome to Shurima anytime."

"Ha! Then I'm going to have a good look around... Damn it, it's hard to even find a way around this lousy place, and with all that destruction, I'm going to leave a few more holes in them!"

......

Ash did not get involved in the battle between the Rangers and the remnants of the destruction forces. After reuniting with the Black Tower, he rushed towards the Griffith Galaxy without stopping.

This move by Destruction also made him realize a problem that exists in Shurima today - whether it is Cain or Dorn, as messengers of other destinies, even if they themselves have no intention of betraying the empire, there will always be people who think that they should leave the empire and embark on the "correct" path.

So what is right?

Of course, it is the will to carry out this destiny.

To put it bluntly, it is your honor to be chosen by the Star God of destiny, and you should dedicate everything to the great Star God.

Of course, most people who embark on this journey will not think so specifically. What the Star God wants to do is not something they can decide. Unfortunately, most of the people who destroy are crazy. As for the company, they want to gather all the guardians and then spread the greatness of Clipper everywhere.

Fortunately, Dorn was determined enough. When he encountered the company's temptation, he chose to "call the police" on the spot. After being tormented by the Black Tower, the company decisively gave up this method, but Ash knew that they would definitely not give up.

As for Kane, Ash is not sure whether Destruction has contacted him yet, but according to Black Tower, the Legion of the Sons of the Sun is fighting against Destruction's people while carrying out the Great Crusade.

In just these five months, nearly twenty worlds have been conquered for the empire.

However, the value and significance of these worlds are not great, because the Immortal Boat Fleet has been attacking and harassing them, and coupled with the influence of the destructive forces, it is difficult for those worlds to be brought under the rule of the empire.

The main reason was that the defense layout of the Elro Galaxy had not been perfected. The Immortal Boat Alliance had clearly seen the Empire's intentions, so it had been sending fleets to attack. If it weren't for the Star Army's strenuous resistance, it would have been breached long ago.

The Yaoqing Immortal Boat did not participate in the construction of the Elro Galaxy defense line. Feixiao anchored the boat between the Elro Galaxy and Yalilo VI so that it could provide support to both sides at any time.

Heita could see that these core figures within the empire now had their own ideas. They used to carry out tasks based on Ash's orders. Now that Ash was away, the empire had lost its emperor, and it was like it had lost its backbone, and they couldn't get together at all.

After all, no one is convinced by anyone else!

Having a lot of talented people is a good thing, but too many can sometimes be a headache.

Ash wasn't particularly surprised. Ultimately, the Empire's foundation was too weak, it was too young, and many aspects were still imperfect. Outwardly powerful, but internally weak, the main reason was its rapid development. He had originally thought that after the Empire conquered Griffith, it would need some time to settle down.

However, when Ash and Heita returned to Griffith, bad news immediately came from the Heita Space Station.

The planet Calcas exploded!!!

Kalkas is an inconspicuous little planet west of the Griffith galaxy, located behind Yalilo VI. It is a secret research institute specially used by Ruan Mei to cultivate genetic warriors.

Only Ash, Black Tower and Ruan Mei knew about that location. Black Tower was responsible for helping to monitor and ensure safety. Every once in a while, Ruan Mei would send the latest genetic warriors from the research institute to Yalilo VI.

This transport line was classified as an absolute secret of the highest order in the Empire. Even the Primarchs, after coming out of it and arriving at Yarilo VI, did not know the route between the two.

It can be said that Ash has hidden the secrets of the research institute to the extreme, but unexpectedly, problems still occurred.

Moreover, the accident of Calcas happened just before the Black Tower found the location of the Abyss Spiral. The sudden violent energy explosion on the planet attracted the attention of the space station. The small black tower responsible for monitoring did not even have time to make any reaction. It only saw this inconspicuous little planet exploded with a small flame in the Griffith Galaxy.

Then completely extinguished.

When Ash arrived at the debris area of the explosion of the planet Calcas, he checked it out but found nothing.

"Is there anything abnormal in the transportation route of the genetic warriors during this period?" Ash wanted to curse. His house was robbed while he was out, his wife was gone, and his child was lost!

"No, at least never before I left the space station." Heita stared at the rubble area in front of him, suddenly stepped inside, then took out a mirror and pointed it at something.

"what happened?"

"Ruan Mei left a clue."

Ash came to the mirror and found that there was a small piece of silver-gray information in the image reflected in the mirror, which was invisible under normal circumstances.

Heita reached out, took the piece of information out of the mirror, and handed it to Ash.

"Come and see."

Ash took the piece of information. It was a piece of intellectual power. Ruan Mei hid the message she wanted to convey in it.

He integrated the power into his body.

"Um..."

Ash frowned slightly.

This information is incomplete.

"Look again."

Black Tower continued searching, and used her mirror prop to find two more pieces of information. After piecing them together, Ash got the content - an unknown entity attacked Calchas and tried to teleport all the Primarchs away, but at the last moment, Ruan Mei activated the emergency protection system that blew up the transmission. This protection system was originally set up to prevent the things in the research institute from being discovered by hostile forces, and it has the power to blow up the entire planet.

Due to the impact of the explosion, the teleportation lost its original effect, but the eighteen Primarchs in the research institute were caught in the space storm and disappeared.

In order to avoid the attackers, Ruan Mei chose to hide temporarily.

"How could they force Ruan Mei to this point?" Heita pondered for a moment, "Ash, I'm afraid we're in trouble now."

I just had a fight with Destruction and when I turned around, I found that my house had been robbed, and until now I haven’t even been able to determine the identity of the attacker.

But the fact that Ruan Mei chose to hide herself instead of looking for Heita or Ash was enough to show the other party's deterrent power, which even a genius like Ruan Mei was afraid of.

"Fuck, these guys really don't stop for a moment."

"That's normal. Shurima's rise has been incredibly rapid. Putting aside the open enemies, there are undoubtedly many who secretly seek to destroy Shurima... But I don't think this guy is out to destroy Shurima... Wait, could it be her?"

"Who did you think of?"

"Polka Kakamu, a very mysterious genius, and also an opponent that other geniuses fear."

Polka?

Ash felt that the name was somewhat familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a moment.

However, after confirming Ruan Mei's safety, he felt less worried.

The problem now is the missing eighteen Primarchs, and how to train subsequent genetic warriors after the research institute is gone?

"I can handle the genetic warrior matter. Ruan Mei gave me a copy of the backup data for safekeeping." Heita said.

"Oh? That's great."

Ash had no intention of using other Primarchs at this time. On the contrary, without the support of the Ascended Regiments, the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Army would be greatly reduced.

However, the loss of the Primarch is indeed a big trouble. These warriors who possess talents far beyond ordinary people in all aspects will be in trouble once they fall into the hands of hostile forces.

But there's no point in being anxious. I just hope the teleportation distance isn't too far. If they're still in the Griffith galaxy, it won't be difficult to find them. If they're in other galaxies...then they can only hope for the best.

"Fortunately, they were baptized with the Imperial Truth after they were born. As long as they don't turn against Shurima, perhaps they can live a peaceful life." Ash comforted himself.

After searching the shattered Kalkas again and finding no other clues, he returned to the space station with Heita.

He spread the news of his return through the space station, and soon Cocolia contacted him, reporting to him on the construction problems of the Astra Militarum and the Elro Galaxy.

Cocolia felt relieved about Ash's return.

Then came Dorn.

"Emperor, you are finally back! Please take care of that bastard Kane. How much more trouble does he have to cause us before he gives up?"

Ash had heard about Dorne's situation from Cocolia a long time ago, but it was not Kane's fault. The two of them had different personalities and strengths, so it was impossible to expect them to talk to each other.

After comforting Dorn, Ash contacted the Imperial Guard and learned that Julius and Ryan were attacking a secret base of the Immortal Boat Alliance.

This stronghold is one of the many supply points of the Xianzhou Alliance distributed in the Griffith Galaxy. While Kane led his men in a crazy attack, Ryan was not idle either. As an older generation of ascended warriors, their fighting never stopped.

Compared with the genetic warriors who are not even enough to form two regiments, the relationship between Ryan and Julius is simply a replica of the relationship between Kane and Dorn. These two big guys always think about the word loyalty. If you are also loyal, then we are half-brothers.