Star Iron, conquer the world from Omphalos

Ash stared at the spear.

He had felt before that Nicardoli seemed to be particularly concerned about Kefale.

Although the two are enemies, in this situation, attacking Kephar seems meaningless.

After all, he was carrying a big ball on his back, so he couldn't cause any harm to Nicardoli.

But at this moment, Ash suddenly thought that maybe what Nicardoli cared about was not Kephale, but the Dawn Machine?

While thinking, the spear flew towards the Dawn Machine, but just as it was about to hit, the sky suddenly darkened.

Swish!

Night falls.

Ash calmed down and listened carefully, but he did not hear the expected explosion, the sounds of fighting, screams, and even Nicardoli's roar disappeared.

It was surprisingly quiet all around.

It’s like entering another time and space.

Something is wrong, something out of ten or even nine points is wrong.

He looked around. This time the darkness lasted longer than last time, giving him the opportunity to see what was going on around him.

At this time, in the direction of Ohma, the originally towering city-state had disappeared, replaced by ruins!

"What the hell?"

Ash frowned slightly.

Everything became dim under the eternal night, and the desolate atmosphere was brought to Ash by the cold wind. He controlled the quicksand to fly into the city and saw the situation inside clearly.

This was a long-abandoned city-state, devoid of people and any signs of past life. The Cloudstone Bazaar and the Cloudstone Palace had vanished, but from here one could still see Kephar, carrying the sky on his back, and the massive dawn machine.

"Another dimension... strange, why does it resemble the power of the Miracle Orb?"

The Miracle Orb could reflect images from different times and spaces within the same place. Ash was certain this was Ohma, but it wasn't the Ohma he was familiar with. It was dilapidated, run-down, and lifeless, having been destroyed for who knows how many years.

After confirming that there were no valuable clues in the city, Ash waved his power and flew towards Kephale.

call out! ——

A black arrow shot towards him.

Ash stopped it and found that it was not an arrow, but part of the black tide.

shhhhhh!

Large volleys of arrows were shot one after another, and then a boundless black tide suddenly surged out from the horizon of eternal night!

"Md, why are these things again?!"

Ash was a little annoyed.

This thing is too annoying, and you can never kill it all. If you kill one, there will be another. Even Nicardoli at his peak went crazy in the endless black tide. Even if he had the power of the sun to protect him, it would be useless to keep going.

[...Restart...Open up the world...]

A disembodied voice suddenly rang out.

[Heresy...Eradicate...]

This voice doesn't sound like that of a human, but more like the pronunciation of some kind of intelligent machine.

After the sound was rang out, the Black Tide's attack became even more fierce.

Then Ash soon discovered that this eternal night was also filled with extremely rich "memory".

Although he had not conducted in-depth research on the power of memory destiny, he knew that memory matter was related to memory. For example, Pinocchio was a world filled with a large amount of memory matter.

Through the power of memory, Ash can feel that there is a huge amount of complex information in these memories, and this information is being "deduced". The power of deduction also comes from something he is familiar with - knowledge.

Unfortunately, these two kinds of destiny power are too weak. If he could reach the level of a messenger, Ash could easily "see" all the truth from these deductions and information.

However, he had some guesses at this time. If this world was stored in memory, the continuous deduction of intelligence would allow Omphalos to repeat the cycle again and again, forming a relatively stable Möbius strip with the mysterious third force.

But his appearance disrupted this balance. Although he didn't know exactly how, Ash suspected it was related to his training in the temple. After that, the two fateful powers of intellect and memory emerged, even attracting Aha's attention. It seemed that everything changed in an instant.

Ash pondered while dealing with the continuous attacks of the black tide.

At this moment, he felt the world's hostility towards him.

How he returned to the real Omphalos in the memory world where he was alone wasn't the main issue, because even if he did return, the situation wouldn't change, but would actually get worse. The Black Tide erupted because of his presence; if he hadn't gone to the real world, the Black Tide wouldn't have been as severe.

After understanding this, the most important thing right now is how to completely get rid of the black tide. If the cycle is forcibly changed, it means fighting against the power of the entire world, which he cannot do with his current strength.

How to do?

The cycle was broken, but not completely.

Thoughts were constantly intertwined, and the world before my eyes was quickly filled with a black tide.

This is not the real world. The changes in the world of memory can be completed in an instant. Although Ash is protected by the power of memory, it cannot last long. The black tide has spread across the earth, spread across the sky, and occupied the entire world.

black.

It’s not eternal night, there are no stars, it’s completely dark at this moment!

The feeling of being squeezed in space became more and more intense, and even the air became sticky.

Ash gripped the scepter tightly, using the power of the sun to support a piece of space to protect himself from the black tide.

He could no longer see anywhere else around him.

At this time, we can only rely on power to support ourselves.

But if we continue like this, our strength will eventually run out.

"I can't endure this any longer. This is a memory world. There must be a core that maintains its power..."

Ash suddenly thought of Kephale.

The black tide did not appear for no reason. Thinking of the scene where Nicardoli attacked the Dawn Machine, Ash didn't care whether it was true or not and directly released his power to enter the Desert Emperor form.

boom!

The giant's figure broke through the shackles of the black tide, and golden power floated in Ash's hands. He chopped forward with force, and the huge power of the sun instantly split the crowded black tide, revealing a road leading directly to where Kephale was!

Although the black tide is powerful, it cannot completely suppress Ash in the form of Desert Emperor. However, there are too many black tides, filling the entire world. Ash cannot eliminate them all, and if this continues, he will go crazy like Nicardori.

dong dong dong dong!

He sped up and rushed forward, rushing in front of Kephale before the black tide filled up. Then he raised his scepter high and pushed the power of the sun to the extreme, smashing it down fiercely at the Dawn Machine - "Break it!"

Boom! ! !

The scepter smashed into the Dawn Machine, causing a terrifying explosion. The unleashed power annihilated all the surrounding black tides!

In the light, Ash saw a special power released from the Dawn Machine, like a deep starry sky that was broken open. The space cracked outward along the explosion site, and the crack became larger and larger, constantly swallowing Ash, until finally everything around him was sucked into the space crack!

Swish!

The tearing pain instantly took over all of Ash's nerves.

The space was violent and chaotic, and the power surging from all around was constantly tearing his body apart.

He looked around and found that what was around him was not the sky and the earth, but the real 'starry sky'!

"Fuck, you're not going to fuck me into outer space, are you?"

Ash was stunned.

Then, he found that his body was floating outwards uncontrollably, and was pushed by an invisible force into the embrace of the stars in the universe.

As he soared higher and higher, Ash turned back and saw the scene he had seen in his dream—Omphalos lay at his feet. The Möbius rings surrounding the planet shone even brighter than in his dream. The power of memory and intellect entangled, emitting a strange light. And beneath these two powers, a third special power lay hidden.

However, compared to the Möbius strip we saw before, there was a crack on the strip now.

Seeing this, Ash couldn't help but wonder, could this be the main reason why the stability was broken?

"No, that's not the issue right now."

I'm getting away from Omphalos now!

Desert Emperor's Space Flight???

He didn't come out by himself, but was kicked out by that force.

With his strength, a full-strength burst of power could rival that of a Titan in this world. Even with his third-level power, he could easily suppress a Titan. If the forces of this world wanted to deal with him, they would inevitably pay a huge price, potentially leading to a complete collapse of the cycle.

So the best option is to kick him out.

This power might not necessarily come from the third force of destiny; it could also come from a 'possibly' existing star core, or even the power of the intellect. Because the intellect is responsible for repeated deduction, and Ash, as a variable, is not part of the deduction, if he can truly defy the deduction, it means the cycle is completely broken, and Omphalos can truly be 'saved'.

That’s the truth, but…how to get back???

Farther and farther, he could no longer approach Omphalos, for the power of the world resisted him. But he had no spaceship, no starship, and no space battleship. He drifted through the galaxy relying only on his power to protect himself. Even if his power didn't exhaust him, he would starve to death.

And in the Milky Way, what is the probability that a person will encounter a passing spaceship?

Not to mention, Omphalos is still a shrouded area, and only the people from Liuguang Yiting can find it, so the probability of him encountering a passing spaceship at this time is infinitely close to 0!

Ash was stunned. He was the emperor of Shurima, but he didn't die on the battlefield, but was going to starve to death in the galaxy?

"Old Dragon King, please bless me."

Ash could only turn to the circular mark on the back of his hand for help, but this time his prayers were not answered and there was no change on the mark.

hum~

At this moment, a ray of light suddenly fell from the deep universe.

It descended upon Ash in the blink of an eye, and then he felt his body uncontrollably traveling towards the depths of the universe.

It was really a shuttle, the speed was so fast that he could not see anything around him clearly, and the feeling of space compression caused by the shuttle forced Ash to release all his strength to form a layer of hard "armor" on the surface of his body to resist the damage during the shuttle.

Swish!

Ash, in golden armor, shuttled through the universe. He had no idea where this sudden power came from, nor where he was going, let alone how much time had passed. Just when his thoughts were about to come to a halt—

A train traveling in space collided head-on with the speeding Yaxiu.

boom! ! !

"Waaaaaa! Conductor, what are you doing? What the hell is going on?!"

"I don't know either. It seems the train hit something, pa!"

"Go out and take a look!"

“…It seems like, it’s a person?!”

"It's over, it's over, there was a car accident, the conductor accidentally killed someone!"

“Pah!???”

...

Omphalos's Journey: Ending Remarks [New Chapters to Come]

The first half of the Omphalos arc ends.

In fact, many problems arose as the story progressed, which was anticipated. After all, it is only 3.0 now and there is little plot information, so the author deliberately chose to unfold the story before the 3.0 plot begins and use the game background to write his own story.

My original plan was to write Omfalos in two parts. The first half would cover the rise of Shurima, focusing on the wars and gradually touching upon the truth of this world. Then, at the end of the first half, the protagonist would go out to find a solution, and develop a story with the other characters of Star-Metal, while also waiting for the release of plot information after 3.0.

But the plot of the first half was actually a little beyond expectations.

The reason lies in the plot surrounding the character of Aglaya.

In fact, I have no ill will towards Aglaiya. The way the game plot is done does make players unhappy, but from her point of view, it is understandable. Politicians are destined to scheme and plot. I can only say that mhy can polish this part of the plot so that players will not feel so depressed. After all, there are actually quite a few such plots in the neighboring game Genshin Impact, and it is an old tradition for the protagonist to be humiliated.

In this book, Aglaya, as a character from her own perspective, does a lot to target the protagonist, which leads to a lot of hostility and affects the reading experience. I later realized that it was a bit late. Because I was updating a lot every day and was really busy during the Chinese New Year holiday, the plot was too emotional and the pacing was unstoppable. It was too fast and tight, which led to various problems in the handling of details.

So you will find that the following pictures are a bit "rushed".

Because I didn't want the plot to be entangled in this kind of rhythm. After all, this is a game fanfiction, and it can't be a long-lasting hatred. That would be too tiring to read. Moreover, the protagonist has been involved in the war, and his abilities and other stories in Star Iron need to be expanded.

Until now, because there is too little information about Omphalos, I am not sure whether there is a problem with the Dawn Machine. Let's just assume that it does. Anyway, it will probably take half a year to wait for the biggest secret of this version to be revealed. With the daily updates of this book, it will take half a year to finish it!

So there is no need to worry about whether to backstab or not!

This is essentially the start of the protagonist's second act, as the Emperor continues his conquests! Returning to Omphalos, the story is completely different from the game.

I have said so much just to let you relax from the tense plot reading. The author's ability is limited, I hope you can understand more and strive to give you more exciting content in the following stories.