Fantasy Tech Reviewer

That wait, measured in units of at least ten thousand years, is all Tony Stark has experienced since he stepped into the quantum dimension and entered this world.

This long period of time has worn away his humanity. In fact, it should also wear away the other part of his existence.

Even steel and machinery have a lifespan.

The passage of time will corrode steel, and the accumulation of cumbersome data in the processor will cause the system to collapse completely.

Originally... it was supposed to be like this.

But Tony Stark was not like this. The iron-hearted tyrant discovered this after an unknown amount of time.

He is not affected by the passage of time.

This metal body made of living metal and a telepathic skeleton seemed to undergo some unspeakable mutation after he traveled through the quantum dimension.

He became a living metal, or in other words, a machine containing a soul.

It seems that it is not a wrong title for the humans created by him to call him the God of All Machines.

He is indeed not far away from the gods that humans call him.

Tony found the group of exiles based on the coordinates left by Orix.

They live on an asteroid several galaxies away, where the sun is even more 'vicious' than the temples, and their lifespans, renamed the Necrontyr, are even further shortened.

When Tony found them, he saw this kind of race.

Short-lived, cold, crazy, pessimistic, and full of endless resentment against everything that has longevity.

But what they resented even more was actually the gods of darkness.

Their myths, the stories they passed down, completely distorted the story of Oryx and the 'worm', and evolved into an endless hatred and resentment towards the dark god and his monsters that eroded flesh and blood.

They believe that the curse of the dark gods deprived them of their original life span and their homeland.

This may sound a bit ridiculous, but it is the norm in the world.

For the insect swarm, which has a lifespan of nearly eternity, that is just recorded history, but for the Necrontyr, whose lifespan does not exceed twenty years, a hundred years of circulation is enough to turn into legends and myths.

Tony chose to come to this planet... as an auxiliary.

But even so, these Necrontyrs, who struggled to survive under the short lifespan and environmental devastation, still recognized him as a god.

This time, Tony acquiesced to this title.

This is not taking advantage of the situation, it is just a little comfort for a group of fragile lives struggling in torture.

When we are trapped in a hellish reality, how can we ask our fragile lives not to pin their last hope on fantasy?

Tony stayed on this planet for three hundred years.

After sixteen generations of Necrontyr, he witnessed with his own eyes the original feudal dynasty thrived with his help, established higher civilization and technology, and spread their rule throughout the star system.

He left the world of the Necrontyr again after the first hundred years, because they had passed the most fragile beginning of life and no longer needed the existence of gods.

However, the reality still did not go as Tony expected.

After witnessing the universe, the resentment and unwillingness in the Necrontyr's heart did not weaken at all, and even became more persistent because of the expansion of his horizons.

They cannot accept their twenty-year lifespan and try their best to extend their lives.

They... got nothing.

As Oryx said, the root cause of the Necrontyr's short lifespan is not the environment or genes, but the roots they created were radiated by the 'abyss' when they passed through the quantum dimension.

They are existences that are incompatible with everything in the positive universe, and they are negative people who should not exist in this bright world.

So, the civil war broke out.

The crazy war almost destroyed the Necrontyr's civilization, and after the demise of several worlds, a man came to Tony.

He went deep into the ocean of his home star and found Tony Stark at the bottom, who was quietly observing everything.

He looked at the legendary God of All Opportunities with joy, and firmly believed that it could solve the problems of their race.

Yes, Tony has an idea.

He listed the story of the soul-stealing king Oryx to the young man, and told them that the root cause of short life cannot be solved by the technology of this universe.

Tony even said that he could help them guide the 'worm' out of their bodies and embark on the path of Oryx once again.

But... the young man refused.

Their history and legends, stories passed down for hundreds of generations, make them persistently hate those dark gods and those expanded flesh and blood.

They are unwilling to accept such a pitiable and abhorrent immortality, and are unwilling to invest in the darkness and flesh that they hate infinitely.

They rejected the path to immortality, and Tony...he took out the second filing.

Like he said, there was nothing he could do to help these Necrontyrs prolong their lives. The root cause of short life is a curse, an abyss, and their incompatibility with the material world.

The only thing that can save them is the thing from the abyss, and what Tony has... is the wisdom of the abyss.

Traveling through the endless quantum dimensions, how could it be impossible for Tony to be affected by the radiation from the terrifying Zagreb?

His soul, which was trapped in steel and machinery, was this influence, and the 'knowledge' that penetrated into the darkness in his mind was even more of a gift.

Only this dark knowledge can save desperate lives, but Tony doesn't know what the consequences will be.

He put the choice in front of the young man, and his answer was very straightforward.

He accepts this choice.

He, his dynasty, and his people chose to accept the gift from the God of All Machines. Become an experiment under this dark technology and become the first victim on the road to eternal life.

So, Tony performed this technique.

The name of this technology is - living metal conversion technology.

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What is the basis for judging the existence of a life?

Is it wisdom? Is it thinking? Is it memory? Or soul?

If all of this can be imitated, if all of this is so real that it is impossible to detect whether it is true or false, then does the argument about the existence of life have any meaning?

'Tony' looked silently at his hands, the black metal skeleton body, a body built for the young Necrontyr.

In accepting Tony's favor, the young man made his only request.

He hopes to merge everything about himself with the God of All Machines.

What is the intention of this Necrontyr, who is full of self-sacrifice and ambition? Maybe it was for the sacrifice of the tribe, or maybe it was just that he wanted to take everything from Tony beyond his ability.

Tony agreed.

This is the first body, made of living metal created by dark knowledge, mixed with metal refined by knowledge that is incomprehensible to common sense.

He put his soul and memory, wisdom and everything into this body.

This is not simply building a robot and then transferring consciousness, but a real... transformation of the race.

So, did he kill this man and create a piece of metal that contained his soul and intelligence? Or did it really transform his existence?

Tony doesn't know...

Even if one has enough computing power to calculate the stars, and possesses knowledge and technology accumulated over millions of years, how can one answer this philosophical question of tracing its origin?

But that doesn't matter anymore.

He inherited the soul and wisdom of this young man. Perhaps he should change his style and move forward with the purpose of continuing the new possibilities and future of mankind.

Yes, from this moment on, he throws Tony Stark's name and past into the dark abyss.

He will lead this new variant of mankind to survive with a new identity, a new name, and a new soul!

He would inherit the name of the young martyr - Szarak.

From today on, he is Szarak, the Silent King.

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This universe is so vast and diverse, with countless species of life competing with each other in the vast sea of ​​​​stars. It is not surprising that there is an extra race.

Therefore, when the Necron rose, it did not cause any waves among the stars.

The Silent King Szarak returned to his homeland. The prince, who was on the verge of destruction, announced to him and his subjects the gifts he had brought from the endless depths of the sea.

The principle of eternal life obtained from the great God of All Machines.

When Szarak revealed the dark metal body beneath his cloak, his subjects were stunned.

There is no doubt that most people... cannot accept this undead body.

Not everyone has the perseverance to choose to transform their body into metal. That is almost the biggest subversion and test of existence and self-understanding.

The Silent King allowed those who did not want to undergo the transformation experiment to leave this last city.

Only a handful of people who are approaching their end of life and are willing to fight to the death remain.

Szarak transformed these less than three hundred people into new Necrons, and at this moment, an army a hundred times his size surrounded the last royal city.

That battle was Szarak's victory.

Transformed into this ghostly metal body, it not only brings endless lifespan and strong body, but also endless and terrifying unimaginable technology.

Although due to time constraints, Szarak only had time to create a suspended undead tomb.

But that's enough.

Three hundred Necron, brave and useless, crazy and bloodthirsty, and they will never die in battle, or even be injured.

Any trauma caused to the living metal will be healed in the shortest time, and even if they are crushed into powder, they will be transported to the suspended tomb to repair themselves and return to the battlefield the next moment.

In this battle, Szarak showed the entire Necrontyr race the power and tenacity of an immortal body.

This moment broke the hearts of countless Necrophobes who were on the verge of death.

They repelled a hundred times their enemies, transformed ten times the current number of Necrons, and received a huge supply of resources.

The scientific crystallization that comes from the scientific knowledge accumulated by Tony Stark for thousands of years and the dark wisdom obtained from the void has been realized with the supply of a large amount of resources.

The underworld structures that surged like waves flooded an entire continent. These mechanical insect swarms that could decompose and transform all materials established their material foundation.

Tomb pilots use their almost magical technology to reverse time, reconstruct matter, and reshape reality.

Technology that cannot be understood by ordinary people is magic and miracles.

Even though the Necrontyr's technology had developed to the point where it could capture stars before then, it was so insignificant in the face of the dark wisdom accumulated from the abyss and endless time.

With such terrifying technical support, Silent King Szarak effortlessly unified the entire Necrontyr society.

However, he gave up the fact of being a dictator and instead established the "Three Saints Council" to select the remaining two leaders to check and balance his power.

In this way, Szarak gained the recognition and love of the entire Necrontyr clan.

He once again proposed the biological transformation protocol, and this time, the entire Necrontyr clan joined in the plan.

So from that day on, the race that feared death became a thing of the past.

The newly born one is a cold and powerful Necron shaped from the blood and bones of darkness!

But... is the wisdom of the abyss really so easy to spy on?

Destiny has already marked the price before bestowing the gift.

As a branch of humanity, the Necron took the opposite path from the swarm, shedding all their flesh and blood and sublimating their machines!

But like the opposite of the Swarm…

The Swarm plunders souls, and the Necrons... lose their souls.

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"For most life among the stars, transferring the soul to another body is an extremely bad choice."

Trazin played with an ancient ornate cane between her fingers and told the story of the race in a relaxed tone.

"When the King of Silence led our entire clan to transfer our souls to this metal body, our species headed towards an unstoppable demise."

In this universe, death is not only a rule, it also represents a supreme will.

The great 'Death' does not bear grudges against those who escape death, but the iron law she has set also determines that things like 'escape from death' are difficult to achieve on a large scale.

Even as great as gods, when the Asgardians left the earth and established themselves as a group, they inevitably lost the eternity that could be guaranteed without being able to maintain it, and became dependent on golden apples to maintain their immortality.

And the Necrontyr chose to transfer their souls to gain eternal life...how could it be so simple?