Star Iron, conquer the world from Omphalos

"Are these things afraid of the sun disk?"

"But my power clearly comes from the sun disc, so why isn't the effect so obvious?"

Although he didn't understand why, since it worked, Ash immediately turned the power of the sun disc to its maximum.

boom! !

The scorching energy exploded from the sky like a hot weapon. With a loud bang, the black tide was directly "burned" into ashes in the area covered by the explosion of the sun's power!

Ash's eyes lit up.

The effect is much better than cleaning it bit by bit.

"Everyone back off!"

Ash raised his scepter and shouted.

The Shurima warriors in the rear who were about to follow the Emperor were stunned. Although confused, they still obeyed the order and retreated towards the city wall.

"Look at my space-based railgun!"

boom! boom! boom!

Several more waves of bombing fell.

After several rounds of attacks, the black tide on the front wall no longer posed any threat, and the remaining black matter began to retreat rapidly.

"You still know how to run?"

Ash even doubted whether these things had consciousness.

After hesitating for a moment, he did not continue the pursuit, but mobilized the power of the sun disk to support the other three directions.

boom!

boom!

boom!

As bombs fell one after another, the Shurima soldiers soon discovered that the black tide, which they had previously regarded as a taboo, was destroyed in an instant.

"this..."

Julius had just led the First Imperial Guard Company to charge out, but before he had time to show his skills, he saw that the Black Tide had been annihilated in the bombardment of the Golden Sun.

He scratched his head and turned around to see that the quasi-ascendants around him were all looking at him.

"Captain, didn't you say it was urgent? Then this is..."

Julius said angrily, "Isn't the Black Tide's attack a matter of urgency? You're all alive because of King Ash. Why don't you thank King Ash right now?"

"what?"

"Oh shit! Say thank you, King Ash!"

The imperial guards shrank their necks and thanked King Ash.

Julius turned his gaze toward the black tide outside the city. After a moment's deliberation, he ordered the Imperial Guards to split into four teams, each assigned to guard a different city gate. It would be better if the black tide receded immediately, but what if something unexpected happened? With the safety of the royal city at stake, no mistakes could be made.

Elsewhere, Xiadie had just informed Old Otto and the others and was arranging for his people to evacuate when he suddenly witnessed a scene of slaughter at the Sun Disc. The Shurima capital wasn't horizontal, but sloped upwards from the outside inwards. Some residents living near the temple could see the distant scenery outside the city from their homes.

"The black tide has receded! The black tide has been destroyed by the sun!"

Someone shouted excitedly.

"What? Retreat?"

"Isn't there a massive Black Tide monster attack? The priests just said they were going to take shelter..."

"What is the black tide in front of the sun? Praise King Ash!"

"Praise King Ash!"

The excited cheers spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, and soon spread throughout the entire city-state.

After about half an hour, most of the black tide around the royal city was eliminated, and the remaining ones also receded and disappeared into the land shrouded in eternal night.

...

at the same time.

Ohma.

The same scene also happened in the holy city of Omphalos, but there was no sun disc here, and the threat it faced was far greater than that of Shurima.

"Guard! Quick! Defend!"

"The Black Tide is coming! The Black Tide is coming!"

"Damn, where do all these monsters come from!"

"Where are the Golden Ones? Aglaya said he would protect the Holy City!"

A cacophony of noise echoed through the streets of Ohma, and in the Yunshi Bazaar, teams of Holy City guards were transferred to defend outside the city.

The sudden attack of the Black Tide threw the city into chaos. Compared to Shurima, Ohma was much larger. The number of people entering and leaving the city-state every day was more than the entire population of Shurima. This meant that when the Black Tide hit, chaos would take over here immediately.

Fortunately, after the guards of the holy city realized something was wrong and rushed out of the city to launch the first wave of blocking, the golden people also began to take action.

"How could this be?"

Aglaya stood on the city wall, her golden eyes staring outside the city. The pitch-black tide was spreading towards her. Seeing this scene, even her heart was gripped.

Too much.

The Black Tide is not a human army and is difficult to deal with. It seems that it can go everywhere and devour anything.

If they are not careful, the guards of the holy city will be eroded by the black tide and turned into monsters that attack their companions.

Originally, with Ohma's strength, dealing with a Black Tide of this magnitude wouldn't be a problem. However, having recently lost 3,000 men in Shurima, and now with several thousand more dispatched to the front lines to distract the Hanging Vanguard, Ohma's remaining forces were limited.

The good news is that there are quite a few Goldenborn stationed in Ohma.

"Warriors, don't worry. Under the glory of Kephar, the Golden Race will obey the oracle and eliminate all obstacles!"

"Fight! Follow us, follow the Oracle's footsteps!"

Following Aglaya's order, the golden descendants of Ohma rushed out of the city and attacked the monsters emerging from the black tide.

The Holy City Guards followed closely behind.

It must be said that in terms of overall military quality, the Holy City Guard was superior to the Shuriman soldiers. Furthermore, they possessed far greater experience in dealing with the Dark Tide than the Shurimans. Seeing the Dark Tide's spread halted, Aglaya produced a message tablet and issued an order.

The existence of the message stone tablet can multiply Ohma's execution ability. With the Golden Descendants in power, Aglaya's orders were issued one by one, and Ohma gradually stabilized from the initial panic.

After doing all this, Aglaia did not join the battle, but raised his head and looked at Kephale, the dead man.

The figure of a giant stood between heaven and earth, carrying the dawn machine on his back, bringing light to this earth as always... Aglaia's gaze passed through Kephar and looked towards the deep night sky.

The entangled golden threads weave the trajectory of fate, and in her eyes, she seemed to see another landscape.

But Aglaia soon frowned again. After all, her power could not reach higher than Aigle, and she could not glimpse the changes in the power surrounding Omphalos.

"Aya, are you looking for me?"

At this time, Tibao flew to the city wall and came to her side.

"Master... do you see this? This black tide, its appearance is by no means accidental. I can sense that a certain established balance seems to have been disrupted. But the golden thread of fate cannot extract more from a single piece of information. Can you see anything?"

Tibao tilted his head slightly and shook it.

"With our current power, we can't make further predictions about fate. Unless we perform the ritual of Janus and allow the power to open the door to the unknown, perhaps we can glimpse some secrets."

"Is that so... I'll take care of the ceremony. Ask Tining if Bai'e has been attacked by the Black Tide."

The army heading towards Hanging Blade is led by Bai'er, and Aglaya wonders if Ohma's situation is unique.

The three priests of Janus were of one mind and one origin. Soon Tibao learned the situation from Tining, who followed Bai'e to attack. The army led by the latter also encountered the black tide.

However, they only fought a small-scale skirmish. Bai'e asked the spies to spread out and check, and found that the activities of the Black Tide seemed to become more frequent.

After receiving this news, Aglaya became more certain that the appearance of the black tide was no accident and something must have happened that she didn't know about.

After making sure that the threat outside the city would not spread, Aglaya returned to the Yunshi Palace and then entered the vortex of creation.

She raised her head and looked at the place under the azure starry sky, which symbolized the twelve Titan fires.

"There's no change here either... What force caused the Black Tide riot?"

If even the Creation Vortex could not get the answer, then Aglaia would be really confused. After all, this was the place where the original divinity of the Titans resided, and the Titans were the existence of creation. Once Omphalos suffered a drastic change, corresponding changes should have been reflected here.

"Hmm? Oronis's spark... split?"

Aglaya suddenly discovered a problem.

Something peculiar had occurred with Oronis's fire, something she had not noticed before.

Because even if it splits, the power of the spark will not weaken, it will only be transferred. But normally, Titans will not do such a thing easily, because splitting the spark means losing some of its power, which will make them weak.

Aglaya frowned slightly.

She didn't think the changes in the Black Tide were caused by this, but...if Oronis's power weakened, it might be an opportunity for them to seize the Allspark.

...

"King Ash, according to the latest investigation, the black tide has completely receded. Thanks to your protection, Shurima has not suffered any losses."

Julius came to the temple and reported to Ash what happened after the Black Tide attack.

"I understand. Send someone to investigate the situation in other places to see if they have been attacked by the black tide." Ash said.

"Your will."

Julius took the order and left.

Ash withdrew his gaze from outside the temple and looked up at the large disc again, feeling a little confused.

The appearance of the Black Tide was so sudden that he always felt as if it had something to do with him...right?

This series of events made Ash feel as if some force in this world was eager to destroy him and eliminate the threat.

"Ok?"

Ash returned to the sand bed under the sun disc and was just about to check his physical condition. After all, he had suffered the dual effects of the black tide and the sun disc before. As a result, he soon discovered that there seemed to be two more powers in his body.

"Is this...memory and intellect?"

I was busy dealing with the black tide before.

No one noticed when these two forces emerged.

But before Ash could carefully feel the situation of this power, the circular mark on the back of his hand suddenly lit up, and then the power of the sun in his body activated the disk, and a golden force came down with a bang.

Rumble~~

The power of the sun suddenly rushed towards the two forces "madly".

The entanglement of the three forces stirred wildly in Ash's body, causing him to almost groan in pain.

"Shit! What's going on?!"

The impact of the black tide just now has not subsided yet, and now the situation in his body has started to fight again inexplicably, which really makes him confused.

Ash gritted his teeth and persevered, because the chaos of power made it impossible for him to concentrate on controlling the sun disk.

Fortunately, the fight between the forces did not last long.

He found that the power of the sun quickly suppressed the other two powers, and then began to devour them, just like the transformation he had undergone after obtaining power in the ruins of Gioria. However, at that time, the power of Gioria had lost its "consciousness" and was left to him to refine.

"The power of the sun is rejecting these two forces?"

Ash was stunned.

The power of the sun activated the sun disc. Power itself has no thoughts. So, was it the will of the old Dragon King? Or was it because of this mark?

Just as he was thinking about it, the power of intelligence and memory and destiny in his body, which had been forced into a corner, suddenly burst out at the same time and pressed towards the power of the sun again.

Buzzing~~~

A buzzing sound came from the space, and at this moment Ash felt that time in the world had stopped.

His thoughts also paused at the moment when the three forces were entangled.

He raised his head.

The image created by the brief glance before suddenly reappeared.

A crystal figure wearing a crown, an old, worn-out machine head.