above the sky

In the vacuum, countless phantoms emerged, and then became more and more real.

The ether is gathering, and the endless ether is like the ever-expanding universe. In an instant, it turns into a vast nebula. The silver-green brilliance shines in the endless nebula, condensing one after another that is different, but An ordinary and unique figure.

Each one is a different Ian.

Each one is the same Ian.

With the idea of ​​'Ian', all Ians began to be guided from the past and future history, because they are the ring and part of infinity. All 'Ians' understood the moment they were called. understand the meaning of it all.

"So, this is the last moment?"

"Maybe it's not the last, maybe I'll fail again, but this time, I'm closest to the 'end'."

"Haha, finally! It's the first time I've seen it so close!"

"Finally. I have the answer."

"How interesting."

Either sighing, admiring, or regretting that they only saw this scene at the end, or staring at the huge darkness with curiosity, and then smiled.

This is a view that almost all Ian has never seen.

So watch. Hence the gathering.

That's why I came here.

Witness the [Ending].

"bring it on."

【Let's end this】

In the vacuum, Ian held up the Sutton Black Hole Seal in his hand, and all Ians raised their hands, pulled out their swords, and clenched their fists.

elder. child. emperor. poet.

traitor. The bearer. Changemaker. Destroyer.

Step forward with determination. Died with hatred. Left with no choice. Looking forward to the future.

One.

One after another.

Because it can't be done.

Because I can't give up.

Because I vow not to give up.

Because I will never admit it.

Therefore, [Ian] rotates in the ring again and again, reincarnating in endless time and space!

From the beginning, which is no longer known how far away, I have used my own blood and bones to pave the way with the fire of the world and the ashes of fate.

Until now!

Until, this [farthest ending] was created!

Everyone was determined.

Radiance rose from the endless shadow of Ian, and all the light was converging, heading towards the black hole in Ian's hand. It expanded and contracted between breaths, expanding and expanding, becoming bigger and bigger, but In the next moment, it collapsed smaller and smaller.

The violent distortion of time and space began to spread with Ian as the center, and a hot, bright, and dazzling feeling began to rise.

That is a black hole - even a black hole that can absorb even light, with the blessing of endless etheric light, it is extremely dazzling at this moment, like a silver sun!

[The Cradle Ends] stopped traveling.

It stopped.

The darkness turned around and looked at the endless light. This scene was like a projected shadow looking back at its source.

Just like Star God and Terminus.

The brilliance of Endless Ian merges into the black hole seal, and dozens, hundreds, thousands, thousands of generations of different civilization trends, different brilliant flames, different historical processes and endings are all merged into it.

Finally stopped. At this moment, in its judgment mechanism, it is clear that there is only one person in front of it, but it is more dazzling than the future of an entire bright civilization in the distance.

No. Can't say that.

Because it was that civilization that gave birth to such a brilliant person!

Therefore, I finally stopped and began to 'hesitate' in my judgment. At the moment when Ian has left Terra independently, should it let Ian die first, or should it let Terra civilization die?

It has neither the time nor the ability to think. In the end, you will only judge.

And Ian made his judgment earlier than it did.

not enough.

Calling out the Endless Ians and inputting their civilization information and past experiences in time and space into the black hole for preservation. This is certainly a way to increase the amount of information sealed by the black hole, but the other Ians have all been 'finished'. Although they are powerful, they have no 'future'.

The price I have paid is not high enough - it is not the sacrifice, but the ‘investment’ is not high enough!

Therefore, behind Ian, an extremely complex geometric outline once again emerged. Endless collections of tiny bodies formed an ever-changing geometric body behind him, and in front of his forehead, the cross star crown composed of stars was also gradually clear. Emerging from the light of nothingness.

"Pioneer Space! Guiding Star!"

Without any hesitation, Ian directly invested all his etheric body and mind-light body into it!

Yes, almost all the immortality of the past generations of Ians is entrusted to the Guiding Star. Without the Guiding Star, the next generation of Ians may not be able to grow so smoothly and will lack many hints on the path.

but.

So what?

——He has failed thousands of times, so he doesn’t mind losing thousands more times!

“The me now, even a trace of ether, is stronger than the tens of thousands of immortality accumulated in the past.

"But the Guiding Star is different. It represents my future."

“Pioneer Space is my present, my foundation, everything I am, and the answer to my lifelong questions.”

"But so what?"

At this moment, the black hole seal became completely no longer dark - pure ether penetrated the event horizon, opening up the black hole seal and the internal space-time distortion layer, directly exposing the 'singularity' to the outside space-time!

At this moment, it finally trembled.

That is it - the essence of the end of the Terran Universe [Return to the Great Star]!

That terminal singularity that is located at the infinitely distant, impossible-to-reach end of time and space, collapsed and exposed in the endless void sea!

"Come on, finally! I will show you the way!"

At this moment, holding the black hole in his hand, Ian's eyes seemed to be burning with silver-blue flames. He smiled happily and watched as the cradle in front of him finally completely changed its direction and began to move towards him instead of Terra. Coming from migration!

——Since you are a pioneer, you will always have a new present and a new future!

The years he spent, the reincarnations again and again, will not become Ian's burden, nor the weight that prevents him from walking far away. Although he has experienced abandonment and farewell again and again, each farewell makes him better. Feng Wu realizes that they will eventually meet again.

Not afraid of separation, Ian looked beyond the end and looked at Tyra.

There, a new civilization is slowly transforming.

He couldn't do it. Even Ian couldn't do it and make everyone yearn for the sky.

They will be attached to the earth and its wealth, power and warmth.

"Go. Go. Without the breadth and solidity of the earth, how could anyone stand and look up at the stars?"

He held the small telescope on his chest and whispered softly: "Live, love, and enjoy—it's all your will."

"My friends, my disciples, and my country will create an era where everyone has no tears, is happy and peaceful, and can wait. I can't see it, and I don't have enough time, but I can foresee it."

"And I will be waiting for you in the sky. No matter it is in the past, future or present, I will turn into a star."

"To guide you."

“Forging your path and your future.”

——The eternal future——

——Infinite Guidance——

Then, absolutely, absolutely...

Haha, don't worry, not now, not now. I haven't thought about this yet, and I just need to think about this.

Just wait...wait.

Everything I love.

With expectation, Ian looked towards his hometown, and his water-colored eyes seemed to have a star of his own imprinted on them.

One last look.

Ian turned around.

The human body radiates light from the inside out, transforming towards a more sublime place. The huge ether shakes time and space, creating a ray of light that flies towards the end.

Crossing that last half step, decisive and gentle, it seems that the light that will guide the future direction of all things lights up from here, and is about to set off!

The newly born Star God no longer looks back, but heads towards the [Crack in Hell, where it finally comes from] outside the cradle of Terra!

The dazzling stars cut through the silent darkness, heading straight to the sky, and the deep shadows are like a deep abyss, swallowing up everything, chasing the light.

As they moved forward and chased all the way, the dazzling stars absorbed all the broken planetary fragments along the way, those comets and asteroids, and those Oort clouds that diffused outside the galaxy, and transformed them into even more dazzling brilliance. It serves as an accretion disk surrounding the etheric black hole, a tiny but rotating light wheel at the speed of light.

On this light wheel, traces of light with inscriptions emerged one after another. They rotated and turned into cities and kingdoms, mountains and plains, endless oceans and waves, scorching sun and bright moon.

An entire world, the [Core World] derived from the Pioneer Platform, is based on the event horizon sealed by the black hole. It is a small universe, a boundless [Boundless World] that conforms to the continuous spread of the ether - one after another. Silver rays flew out from it and flew towards infinity.

It will seek, invite, guide. Invite [pioneers] from endless time and space, countless human worlds, countless worlds, and all other parallel time and space to come here and become the stars and light in everyone's eyes!

Eventually, Ian reaches the wound in Terra's cradle.

The membrane that spans between the 'cradle' and the 'big universe'.

He crossed.

In just a moment, he crossed over the high wall that blocked almost all of Ian and came to the outside world.

In the dark universe, everything is dim, all the stars are extinguished, or protected by cradle, there is not even the slightest starlight, there is only pure silence and darkness in the entire universe.

However, Ian can see, just as he saw when he came to the outside world with the deep space shuttle before, he saw that with the power of ether transcending time and space, from the perspective of infinite parallel time and space, he can see a river .

A cradle river that rushes and turns endlessly!

The surging black torrent is rushing in the quiet universe, and countless cradles are rotating and flowing, turning in straight curves in the infinite universe.

The endless cradle is connected by the cosmic string. The long river of this cradle, the infinite ring of time and space, rotates across the entire infinite universe. It stirs time and space, turning the entire universe into a Gödel model universe that can easily reverse time and space. It is even more complex, connecting endless parallel time and space.

The cyan veins are spreading, and the universe is split into countless tributaries, and each tributary can derive countless tributaries. This endless derivation itself is endless, and the power of the Star God is the axis of all this, allowing all The derivatives turned into the light that revolved around them. The huge space-time mass and cause and effect form the infinite cradle into a cosmic-level ring.

And the center of the universe, the center of the ring, the hollow of all cradle-twisted singularities, leads to all parallel time and space, and even to the outside of the universe.

That's why Ian can use his immortality so easily and simply to find other parallel times and spaces and project his own existence.

The silver-blue star was like a straight ray, leaving Terra's cradle and flying toward the center of the universe.

And a dark shadow, twisted and tumbling, followed closely, swallowing all the light, heading towards the stars.

No.

Even more than that.

As the huge ether spread beyond time and space, a large number of 'ends' that were frozen in place in many time and space, and those that did not belong to the 'Cradle of Terra', also noticed the brilliance of Ian, so they reversed their direction and headed towards Go in the direction of Ian!

Countless dark branches spread in the vacuum.

Front, back, left, right, up and down, it finally came from all directions, like some indescribable beast clenching its fist to extinguish the light and block it.

But it can never grasp, cannot bind all the light.

The source of the universe, the Star God.

The end of the universe, the end.

The two who never come into contact are separated from each other by the ether that transcends time and space, creating endless disputes.

In the end, he is destined to chase the ether and the star god.

This is the true purpose of the Star God.

They kept all civilizations in cradles, ensuring that every cradle was protected by a perpetual motion machine or a star god, and then withdrew all the ether in the universe.

Immediately afterwards, they collectively left the [Ether Universe] through the cosmic void constructed by the infinite ring, heading towards the void outside the universe.

In this way, as a star god whose reality is higher than that of the universe itself, he can attract most of the most dangerous terminals, and after he leaves, he can take terminals with him to fight outside the universe.

And then left a quiet universe.

Of course, using the Ring of the Infinite Cradle to open the void in the universe and go to the void will also cause an influx of information from other universes.

The original Ian was that message, a true spirit who arrived here by accident and miracle.

A miracle, and not a miracle.

All causes and effects are inevitable, but at this moment, what Ian did... was a miracle!

Soon, Ian also entered the infinitely fast tachyon universe. He continued to move towards the center of the universe, but in the end he kept up without any reason.

But, where is the center of the universe?

That is a concept that does not exist. The universe is infinite and there is no center in the universe. Even if there is, it is definitely an unreachable goal, because it is just like the edge of the universe and requires 'infinite time to reach' .

Unless, the ‘destination’ is known.

As long as you know the destination, you can skip it.

With the most essential power in [Ether]...the power that Ian calls [the long way], all processes will be skipped!

If it were an ordinary star god, it might take a long time to observe the center of the universe through the ether and then set off - but Ian was different.

The original Ian originally came from this void in the universe. He originally came from the [Central Hollow in the Universe]. His source, the source of time travel, and the source of the story, is right there!

Therefore, the ‘destination’ is already known.

Even if he doesn't agree with this idea, even if he doesn't approve of this idea, the new Star God still uses that power - because he wants to step on the shoulders of giants, go further, and then solve all the problems caused by this idea.

The light comes on. At this moment, the long journey was launched.

What does that feel like?

At this moment, Ian transcended time and space and reached the center of the universe.

At this moment, he saw the hole and the scene outside the hole.

It's called...

【——Icy Void——】

It was like solidified amber, like the icy ocean, the crystallized void.

In the stagnant nothingness, countless dim crystals are spliced ​​together dejectedly. In the silent nothingness that is darker than darkness, something profound and gigantic is stagnating.

That is the universe. One after another, completely different universes were born based on different foundations.

Ian stared at these darkness, silently staring at these darkness that was darker than the vacuum of the universe and darker than the end.

This void is so dead and indifferent, desolate and silent... It has no future at all, it is just a lifeless ruin.

That's darkness. A dark prison.

It is the prison of the loser, the prison of the denied, the place where burned ashes settle, the frozen void.

Everything trapped here is just a prisoner of fate. The great seal covers everything, and there is no place that can be called freedom.

Outside the Star Prison, there is still a seal that imprisons the universe and an even greater existence.

It is precisely because the void is frozen that the void in the universe is so dark, as if there is nothing.

but……

"So that's it. This is where the Star God wants to lead Wan Yan."

The silent young man stared at the darkness, but smiled, a smile that he could no longer sigh with, and could no longer look forward to.

"It's so interesting." He said from the bottom of his heart: "It seems that there are more truths and mysteries outside of Terra waiting for me to explore."

At this moment, countless endings, different endings, are now the endings of [Ian’s End], which also span time and space and follow Ian.

But it doesn't matter.

Because Ian takes another step.

Toward the end of the etheric universe, the direction that breaks the time and space of the universe and leads to the void passage [Icy Void], the darkness that is deeper than darkness...take a step!

——He took a step and set sail towards a more distant and larger journey!

It will eventually move towards the ether, and it will also block the outflow of the ether, so some star gods must fight and sacrifice... Moreover, when the ether withdraws, it will inevitably lead to some accidents.

Heavenly Father and the Cradle of Terra were such an accident.

The Star God headquarters has left with the final body, but what to do with the scattered final fragments caused by accidents?

Have the Star Gods ever thought about how to deal with those cradles like Terra's that have damaged loopholes and can lead to the final entry if not careful?

The answer is simple.

That is believing.

Believe.

[The end is endless, and so are our Star Gods]

[Even if our goal is the other side of the frozen void, we also believe that there will be countless new star gods, with endless end, heading towards the void outside the universe together! 】

——The Expedition of Nothingness·1,600 Years——

The first new star god was born.

His name is Ian Silver Peak.

The eternal future, the guiding star.

Before him, countless star gods were born.

After him, countless star gods will be born.

Compared to the grand war between the Star God and the End, the birth of a Star God is nothing more than a trivial matter like dust. It can even be said to be insignificant.

But, he is special.

He is the first person to ascend to the heavens by relying on his own strength, without the guidance and care of the Star God, to take one step at a time and step onto the throne of the Star God!

Endless brilliance shines, and as the light of the pioneer space continues to spread in the universe and space, one day, there will be endless new star gods guided by Ian and born!

So, right now.

All the Star Gods, all the Star Gods who had already flown into the distance and shuttled through the darkness of the frozen void, seemed to have noticed something.

They all turned around and waved to those who came after them.

In the dark void, one light after another lit up.

Just like lights, just like torches, they light up one by one, shining with radiance, endless light, incomparable beauty.

just like……

The sky is filled with stars twinkling.

——The sea of ​​stars twinkles on the other side.

The children who longed for the stars, the young people who lost the stars, finally stepped into the distance, stepped towards the high sky, and stretched out their hands.

Finally saw the sky full of stars. He could finally reach out and touch the brilliance of those stars.

A drop of tear falls, reflecting the brilliance of thousands of stars. It is so dazzling that it shines to infinity.

Smiling and crying, Ian picked up the small telescope in his hand. It was impossible to see clearly into the frozen void with this. The teacher's eyes looked towards his dream before he did.

"Teacher...teacher. Did you see it?"

"I finally touched it and saw it..."

"That high in the sky...my stars."

——Above the Sky·Part 3·Beyond the Star Sea·End!

——The first part of the "Above the Sky" series, finished!

　The first part of "Above the Sky" ends here. As mentioned at the end of the chapter, this is just the end of the first part.

　　I have said in the reader group and in many places that what "Above the Sky" originally wanted to write was a science fiction background like a cosmic fantasy space opera, and this "Above the Sky" is just a planned prequel. How the "Future Sage" who created a new order for the entire universe transformed the entire universe after stepping out of his own planet created a series of "background settings" for the beginning of the story.

　　But as I set the stage, I found that this prequel alone was very interesting. It would be better to say that if I didn’t write this prequel, I wouldn’t be able to write other books at all, and I was extremely itchy.

　　Above the sky, only the two words "curiosity" and "love" are written from beginning to end. Ian steps forward because of curiosity, thinks because of love, and finally steps forward, taking away the end, leaving behind Terra a safe cradle.

　　The last volume was written in a hurry, but I actually found that there was nothing to write. There are too many stories that I have arranged in [Ian's encounters in other world lines], where you can discover those of 'Ian in the past life' The story design is very complete, and several of them are the original outline of the third part. Why did I want to write a tragedy, so I threw it in as Ian in other world lines.

　　Of course, this is just the end of Ian's story. He has set foot in the sky and touched his own stars. The story of the world of Terra going to the sky, the resurrection of the teacher, and the death of Ian and the monster from the previous game. The dead connection, as usual, is released in EX and extras

　　(End of this chapter)