For a long time, Otto has been looking for the answer to this question.
His time spanned five centuries, and the documents he retrieved spanned two eras.
His understanding of Honkai definitely ranks first among the 6 billion beings on earth.
He knows more and more.
He knows less and less.
In the end, Otto discovered that he didn’t understand Honkai at all——
Where did He come from?
Where is He going?
What drives it?
What result is it tending to?
Why was He born, why did He end, why did He continue, why did He stagnate, why did He explode, why did He remain silent——
Is He a personal existence or some kind of eternal rule?
Questions, questions......
Questions were like a roiling tide, submerging, sweeping, and pushing Otto into the darkest and most terrifying "abyss"—the "abyss" called the unknown.
He wanted to move forward, but he didn't know where to go.
He wants to start the journey, but he doesn't know where the destination is.
He explores, he doubts, he fails, he is confused.
He worries, he experiments, he suffers, and he is anxious.
Five hundred years have passed, and the hypotheses he has put forward are countless, and the conjectures he has denied are immeasurable.
One answer after another emerged in his mind, arranged, changed, and combined to form blueprints and paintings, torn and reorganized, reorganized and torn...
In the process of this cycle, a hazy phantom gradually outlines—
Now, let us imagine a tree, the tree of imaginary numbers.
There is a huge tree, its top cannot be seen, its branches and leaves cover the sky.
Under the trees is a vast sea, its depths undetectable and its boundaries untouchable.
There is only one tree and one sea between heaven and earth, and they begin an endless competition.
The sea continues to expand and swell, and giant trees continue to take root and grow.
One side wants to drown the other side, and the other side wants to absorb the other side.
The tree spent the years of Ganges sand under the infiltration of the sea, branched out the branches of Asamuni, and bore the flowers and leaves of Nayutha.
In this endless process, in some insignificant corner, among the newly reborn leaf buds - the civilization called human beings was born.
The tree of imaginary numbers, the moment he touched this term, Otto completed his eureka.
Everything that was chaotic suddenly became orderly, and he suddenly saw a winding path extending out of the darkness.
He began to run along the road, and the further he went, the brighter the light in his eyes became.
Unconsciously, he came to the end of science.
He knew that the research of his predecessors ended here, but he wanted to follow their path and leap into a darker and more invisible abyss——
Imagine that imaginary numbers are the foundation of mankind and the beginning of civilization.
Time flows on the trunk of the tree of imaginary numbers, branching out into infinite worlds like the crown of the tree.
Every branch is a form of civilized existence.
Every flower and leaf is the present and past they left behind in the latitude of time.
However, the development of the world requires constraints.
In the competition with the quantum sea, the growth direction of branches and leaves is constantly being screened and corrected by a mechanism.
A natural mechanism, a mechanism derived from imaginary numbers, a nurturing and nourishing mechanism, a baptism and elimination mechanism.
For humans, that is a disaster called collapse.
Yes, humans can never escape Honkai.
Humanity can only move forward because the tree of imaginary numbers must grow.
If not, we will eventually wither like those failed worlds and become another bubble in the quantum sea.
If we want to obtain permanent tranquility, human beings must return to the ** of civilization and return to imaginary numbers.
And the answer Otto is looking for must exist in the tree of imaginary numbers——
Otto, originally thought so.
If that's not found, then this is his answer.
That's right, it's the one from which both "All Things Return to Ruins" and "King Key" come from - the origin civilization.
This is what Otto called that civilization, because only the word "origin" can summarize the greatness of that civilization.
When he first discovered the ruins of that civilization, Otto originally thought they were just the ruins of a previous civilization.
Until he discovered some information from the ruins...
Some information that made him shudder.
It's still the same tree, and it's still the same sea, but this tree only has a trunk, and the sea is just a stream.
Relying on that tree, civilization... was born!
Yes, yes, the original civilization was not a branch on the tree of imaginary numbers, but the tree itself.
That civilization was extremely brilliant, and the power it controlled was unimaginable by modern humans.
Time and space are just the playthings of that civilization.
The planet, the galaxy, and the entire universe have been planted with flags by that civilization.
Their battleships are larger than stars, and their weapons can easily destroy superclusters.
Latitude weapons, dimensional weapons, memetic weapons, dark matter manipulation, retrocausal strikes...
Everything that today's humans think only exists in fantasy novels is nothing more than commonplace for that civilization.
That civilized human being has eternal life and superhuman strength.
For that civilized human being, everything was at their fingertips from birth.
For that civilized human being, they already know everything, they already have everything.
They control the tree of imaginary numbers, and they dominate the quantum sea.
However, they are not satisfied yet.
They try to know the "truth" and they try to control the "world".
So, they offended the "gods".
Then, divine punishment... came!
That existence was later called "The Herrscher of the End".
Of course, according to his analysis, the "Herrscher of the End" faced by the previous civilization...
That bloated figure, that slow movement...
It's just a shadow of the real "end" reflected in countless worlds.
The real Herrscher of the End has the power to overturn the universe with a single thought!
Latitude weapons cannot harm Him at all, dimensional weapons are like toys to Him, memetic weapons and retrocausal strikes are meaningless to Him...
Even time and space are nothing more than gravel stepped on by Him.
Everything that mankind is proud of is vulnerable to the Herrscher of the End!
That’s right, that’s right!
That civilization that thought it controlled the power of gods was as weak as a newborn baby before the true wrath of gods.
PS: When I first started this book, the plot had not progressed that far, and then the author was stabbed in the back by the original work. The setting of Honkai Impact here is different from the original work, because according to the original work, many things in this novel do not make sense.
.So, all the settings are based on this book, after all, it is fan fiction.