Live Q&A: I am the Star God of Heaven

Black Tower and Screw Goom headed into the interior of the Demogue Matrix, planning to use the Hand of Zagres to pave their way.

Black Tower: "Let's use that thing over there, Zag, Za... What a lousy name! I hereby declare—it's now called Black Tower's Big Hand!"

The Black Tower manipulated its massive hand to clear the area, annihilating all the surrounding Black Tide creations and smashing the large stone on the central altar.

"The Black Tower's hand is truly powerful! Continue. Still not finished? Is the Omnic Bro treating this like a junkyard? Finally done, let your treasure make its appearance."

After throwing several punches, Black Tower finally cleared the way down to Kiri Road, and now it was Screw's turn to make his move.

Screwgoom brought one of his spaceships up from below: "Object declaration complete. With the assistance of these machines, the hacking will be much more efficient."

Black Tower stepped forward and took a look: "Oh, it's an old-fashioned nuclear thermal engine? Quite tasteful."

"It's just a personal hobby; her name is 'Mistletoe'."

Why does your garden always seem a bit poisonous?

"It's also a personal hobby."

"It reminds me of the last time we fought that punk Lord brat, what did she call this kind of penetration tool again... oh, dirty data shell, used to wrap the core and fool the top firewalls."

However, yours is too clean; it lacks any sense of everyday life.

Screw Gum then reminded him, "Black Tower, your tone is atypical. I suggest we continue our previous topic."

"I thought that topic was long gone."

"The system does not allow me to ignore any variables, especially the most crucial one: your will."

Starry Sky Railway Bartrus: "Hmph, that despicable genius! He just casually renamed my Hand of Zagreus, shameless!"

Starry Sky Railway Black Tower: "Your name doesn't sound good to begin with, and it's also hard to pronounce. 'Black Tower's Big Hand' sounds much better!"

Starry Sky Railway Saifeier: "Actually, I think changing it to Hand of Sefaria is quite good, but if Lady Black Tower is interested, Onpharos has quite a few such big hands, how about buying them?"

Screw Gum: "The Iron Tomb's self-iteration will not stop; its evolutionary speed has exceeded the worst-case scenario. The moment calculated by the Star Gods is like a sword hanging over the Milky Way; every decision people make may accelerate its arrival."

Black Tower: "Therefore, we cannot afford to fail. The machine head is about to deliver its verdict on the poor galaxy again: the border trade war, the imperial war, the death of Rupert. Every time His moment is fulfilled, it means that humanity will have to undergo a bloodbath."

"But in the ultimate game of 'intellect,' you and I should be players, not pawns. Once you choose to use yourself as consumables, everything we do will lose its meaning."

Black Tower, you should understand that the galaxy will not stand idly by while a genius sacrifices himself—neither will I.”

"Don't say such discouraging things, that's why we came, isn't it? To find the 'Demyoga,' that lost key. I have no interest in being a savior, I just want to win—win over Zandal and the machine head."

Now all I care about is whether you're on my side.

Knowing the Black Tower's resolve, Screws was silent for a moment before saying, "Of course, it's time to board. Please go first."

"Let's clean this place up and see what this 'Demogue' really is. Hopefully, this matrix will be a bit tidier than the junkyard where the Emperor was born."

Honkai Impact 3rd Susana: "Wait a minute, are we going to kill off Lady Black Tower in the next part of the story?"

Honkai Impact 3rd Vita: "Maybe, the Black Tower will be directly merged into the Great Black Curtain by the Iron Tomb."

Mingchao Anke: "Big Sister Black Tower is such a kind person, please don't hurt her!"

Starry Sky Iron Tower: "Don't worry, that's something that happens on another timeline, it has nothing to do with this timeline. I guarantee I won't get my head pulled out by that Iron Tomb."

Black Tower: "Get ready, we're about to hack in—this..."

The two boarded the spaceship and continued deeper inside. After passing through a tunnel, they discovered that the internal space was even more polluted than the outside.

Screw Gum: "Black Tower, this space... has been thoroughly corrupted by some kind of energy."

“I know we’re thinking the same thing. Zandal, you really went all out to create this graveyard for yourself. And what’s that up ahead?”

Through continuous hacking into its interior, the Black Tower discovered a barrier before it.

Screw Gumm: "A fourteen-line algebraic barrier, used for isolation, not defense."

"In other words, the door to the tomb, right? Well, I'm going to see where the doorknob is."

"I detected several independent sources with data structures similar to the barrier. My speculation is that this information can be input into the terminal to reverse computing power and launch an attack."

"Use the opponent's strength against them; it's a traditional but effective method. Navigate to the nearest one."

Upon arriving at one of the independent signal sources, Black Tower immediately disembarked and began operations. As the beam of light was fired at the barrier, the barrier remained completely still.

Black Tower: "There was almost no reaction. It's not as optimistic as I thought."

ScrewGumm: "Single-point output power is only one-third of the requirement. Logic: Multi-terminal coordinated attack is required to locate the next target."

"Anything else discovered?"

"I couldn't find any logs about the cause of this ruin; Zandal had erased all records. But in the circuit, I found some noteworthy scars."

High-energy radiation, imaginary internal energy pollution—in my experience, only one phenomenon perfectly matches these descriptions.

"Forget the technical terms, screw. That thing only has one name... Star Core."

Cosmic Wanderer Gao Xuan: "Wow! As expected, Little Gray's brothers and sisters always make their appearances in unexpected yet logical ways."

Paimon from Genshin Impact: "No way! Onpharos actually has a Star Core? This was never mentioned before."

Honkai Impact 3 Kevin: "Thinking about it carefully, it's not surprising. After all, this is a world that is meant to nurture a Great Lord of Annihilation, so it's not surprising that a Star Core, which is closely related to destruction, would appear here."

Screw Gum: "The conclusion is correct. Zandal detonated a star core in order to completely cleanse the Scepter System."

Black Tower: "So this is what they mean by 'personally strangling' him. In order to transform the neurons of intelligence into repeaters of destructive iteration, he had to delete them no matter what... The life form called Demugg was the original target of the scepter's calculations."

"It's reasonable to assume that Changyeyue refers to them as the first intelligent species, which confirms this view. The First Cause of Life—this was the initial research topic undertaken by the Scepter ME13, and although it was abandoned, the search for its solution continues. Although the value of this problem lies in the process of solving it, rather than the answer itself..."