The Dark Templar Lilac, who walked out from across the Xel'Naga portal, looked at Augustus and Tychus, the distance between his eyes widening: "They are human beings... crude and ugly,
Weak but violent. Human beings kill each other, always bringing violence and destruction.”
"Wow, you're on to the point, ugly thing." Tychus immediately shot back.
"...You may be right, but Augustus Mengsk and his human revolutionary army are different from those humans." Zeratul introduced himself to his fellow Dark Templar warriors.
of human friends.
Zeratul praised Augustus thus: "Augustus has the soul of a star."
When a protoss says that a human resembles a protoss, it means that they have recognized the noble qualities beneath the human's appearance and are willing to treat him as a similar person.
"I believe you, Zeratul. This human being does have a straightforward, cheerful and fearless heart." Lilac looked at Augustus for a few seconds, then turned to Tychus: "But why, the same
Human beings, these two are complete opposites."
"I can't understand."
"I'm going to be angry," Tychus warned Lilac.
"Tychus Finlay is actually an upright and selfless man. He is as reliable as a high wall you lean against." Augustus said some kind words for his old friend.
"I don't mind if you praise me a little more." Tychus smiled brightly, without any shame or blush. Augustus was good at discovering and praising the good qualities of others, but Tychus was almost never praised.
.
"..." Dark Templar Lilac lost interest in humans, and he narrowed his eyes warily when he turned to Tassadar.
"A Templar... High Templar, I am not happy to see you here." Lilac said his thoughts frankly. It is true that he has no feelings for the El Protoss.
The hatred is not as profound as that of some of the Nerazim's compatriots, but there is no favorable impression either.
"To this day, you are still hunting us!" His smooth skin, which is darker than Tassadar's, is showing spots with anger: "Even if he is executed, the Dark Templar will never agree with Kara.
"
"Kala is a cage, a chain around our necks."
"It clamps down on our thoughts, suppresses independent personality, and blurs the differences and boundaries between each other. We choose to liberate freedom and embrace freedom and truth. This is the meaning of Nerazim, people who embrace truth."
"I am not here to hunt down the Dark Templar. On the contrary, we should be compatriots and allies." Tassadar confessed his views on the Dark Templar: "I have always thought that you and the power you control are heretics and mistakes.
Yes, but now that I have seen Dark Master Zeratul prove to me the bravery and kindness of the Dark Templar."
"What did he say? Cages and chains?" Tychus, who was listening on the sidelines, retrieved the key words and whispered to Augustus: "Someone put chains around the necks of those protoss. This
Reminds me of a dog leash.”
"What kind of person can do that? Treat the protoss as a dog."
"I care more about whose hand holds the other end of the chain." Augustus' tone sounded like he was joking.
"No matter what, it must feel pretty good," Tychus said.
"Tassadar was once a Protoss Imperial Executor, but was exiled for disobeying the Conclave's orders to destroy zerg-infected colonies. Now Tassadar and his Templars have broken with the Conclave.
"Zelatu explained to Lilac at this time.
"...You surprised me." When Lilac heard that Tassadar, as an executive, actually broke with the Supreme Council, his attitude towards him suddenly changed 180 degrees: "High
Templar, I see some qualities of Adun, the Apostle of the Twilight, in you. Salute to you, Tassadar, you are a friend of the Nerazim."
"It's my honor, brother." Tassadar made a forward bow.
"Zeratu, there must have been many magnificent stories during the long years you left Saguras." Lilac turned to Zeratul and Augustus again: "You just mentioned the zerg...
..."
"The disturbing whispers in the void have intensified again, which heralds the coming disaster. Abominable things are destroying the Xel'Naga garden. This may be the beginning of the end." He looked at Zeratul and said.
"The matriarch has learned about the Xel'Naga creation bugs that are raging in the Koprulu sector. You are the only dark patriarch nearby. The matriarch hopes to know what is happening there."
"I'm glad." Zeratul spread his right hand flat on his shoulder to show respect for the matriarch Lilac said, and then looked at Augustus and Tassadar.
"I hope to invite you to my hometown of Sagulath, Augustus Mengsk, Tassadar."
"I would be honored," Tassadar said immediately.
Dark Templar Lilac didn't seem to have any objections: "Sagulas welcomes the non-hostile Templars and Karai, but does not allow any arbitrator of the Supreme Council to step in."
"If you invite me, elder, I will go." Augustus said after pondering for a moment: "But I may bring a few people in with me. My people have not seen much of the world."
Augustus would not miss the opportunity to meet the leader of the protoss dark templar. After all, Zeratul cannot represent all the protoss of Saguras Nerazim. If possible, Augustus
Hoping to gain support from the Nerazim Matriarch.
"Sagulath welcomes them." Zeratul looked at Tychus and Corporal Faraday, and then he led Lilac and Tassadar through the portal.
"Notify the headquarters that I will be away for a few hours. During this period, Major General Xander Marks will be the supreme commander of Haji." Augustus first conveyed his order to the headquarters, and then prepared to follow Zeratul through the sea.
Pass through the Xel'Naga portal in front of you.
"Do you really want to go there? We don't even know what is behind it." Tychus was not very willing to go there: "Do you know what kind of place that Sagulas is? The protoss is completely different from us, who
It wouldn't be harmful to us to know where they could live."
"Follow me, you have nothing to be afraid of." Augustus smiled and provoked Tychus and said: "If Jimmy were here, he would definitely not complain about this and be afraid of that."
"Faraday, let's go."
"Do you want to bring the guards?" Faraday said: "I'm worried that those protoss may be harmful to us. I know what you think, but the revolutionary army can lose me, but they can't lose you."
"No need, we are not going to fight." Augustus shook his head and walked into the blue whirlpool of the Xel'Naga portal regardless of Tychus's muttering.
As soon as Augustus stepped in, he found that he was stepping on soft sand. The blue light from the portal illuminated the sand and the surrounding huge clusters of purple crystals, but further away there was darkness.
Sagulath is shrouded in eternal twilight, as if it is forever between day and night. Its deserts reflecting lavender light and mountains buried in crystal veins stretch across its vast and empty land.
This planet has sparse vegetation, and strong winds can easily roll up sand. The sand swirling and flying in the wind reflects the blurred blue-purple light under the light of the moon, bringing with it a unique, strange and magnificent beauty. It is fresh and cold here.
The air can meet the standards for human breathing, but you must be careful about the broken sand in the wind.
In the distance is the lavender desert, empty and vast, as quiet as silence.
There were two huge purple moons in the sky, which occupied almost half of the sky. This made Augustus feel that the sky was so close to him, and the mountains like the dragon's back seemed to be on the moon.
Not far from the portal is the magnificent Protoss building complex, with several giant dark green crystal towers radiating bright light outwards.
A small Protoss shuttle, only a hundred feet long, was parked under the steps of the Xel'Naga portal. Zeratul, Lilac, and Tassadar were talking as they walked down the steps toward the ship.
As the small dark shuttle approached, the atmosphere seemed quite harmonious rather than tense at first.
"Why is it so dark, full of sand and pebbles... How come we have come to these barren planets these days, such as Mar Sara, Antiga, Char, Haiji and this ghost place?
"Although Tychus was reluctant, he finally followed.
Tychus walked next to Augustus, took out a laser lighter from his pocket and started to light a cigarette.
"Isn't it?" Augustus looked at Tychus and walked towards the Protoss shuttle with Corporal Faraday.
Augustus followed Tassadar into the shuttle through an iris emitting green light, and was surprised to find that the interior was filled with dark templar warriors wearing black armor. This was not so much to represent darkness.
The Templars paid more attention to the guests than to be wary of them.
Facing twenty or thirty silent Dark Templar warriors, even Tychus did not dare to complain about the bad weather in Sagulas. Augustus sat down calmly and passed by as the shuttle took off.
Its huge portholes allow you to enjoy the magnificent and fantastic natural scenery of Sagulas.
The shuttle in the blue glare emitted by the portal is as light as a butterfly spreading its wings. It is almost non-reflective and silent.
The shuttles drove one after another in the twilight sky of Sagulas at a speed far exceeding that of conventional human low-Earth aircraft, passing through vast deserts, mountains and shallow lavender rivers. Augustus even saw a group of
A creature that looked like a pterosaur flew past the shuttle.
About two hours later, a glorious and magnificent city finally took shape.
It was a majestic city standing in the lavender twilight and thick fog. Thousands of dark golden towers and majestic pyramid-shaped buildings rose from the ground on the rocky ground spread like thorns. Countless green crystal towers
and light bridges connecting high-rise buildings form a shining city.
It seems to be made of bright metal and crystal, and looks like flowing gold and silver in the dim twilight. A large number of detectors and long spindle-shaped dark green spacecraft are flying over the city, like fish swimming in the water. A ship
The magnificent Nerazim warship is sailing out of the star gate in the sky, followed by hundreds of Dark Templar pirate ships.
"Taimatros, the first city founded by the Nerazim protoss after arriving in Sagurath." Zeratul, sitting opposite Augustus, introduced the city to Augustus.
"It's shocking," Augustus said in admiration.
The city center of Taimatros is the towering Xel'Naga Temple. It is more majestic than any human building or temple Augustus has ever seen. Its shining organic metal surface is dotted with golden ratios.
Geometric shapes and spiral patterns like young fern tendrils.
It is like a mountain with a shining spire, the top reaches into the sky, surrounded by hurricanes, standing tall against the sky and the earth.
The shuttle flew around the Xel'Naga Temple in a circle and headed to another conical spire suspended in an anti-gravity flying saucer. At the top of the spire was a spectacular take-off and landing platform, with a large number of elegant Protoss dark black shuttles.
Ups and downs.
The internal structure of this giant spire is unique, consisting of multiple sets of spiral staircases, which seem to be hollow structures suspended in the air. It is gorgeous but does not appear to be arrogant, shining like metal and gems but as light as velvet.
When Augustus walked down, he noticed that he was on a huge circular platform, with dark golden spiral-carved ground beneath his feet. On the edge of the platform stood dark templar warriors wearing dark purple cloaks.
Everyone stood still.
If the matriarch of the protoss of Sagulath is here, then those warriors would think that this is the Shadow Guard.
A gorgeous dome with exquisite carvings stretched in front of Augustus, surrounded by green crystals embedded in dark gold alloy walls that emitted a gentle and bright light. The several hundred feet high statue in the center of the platform was particularly eye-catching.
That is a composite statue.
A Protoss Templar with the same decoration as Protoss Executor Tassadar was standing in the middle. He looked softly at the slender Protoss girl who was half-kneeling in front of her and holding the end of her robe close to her forehead. Standing around
Among a few templars and a large number of ragged protoss.
"That's Adun!" Tassadar said in surprise.
At this time, two elder Dark Templar warriors who were much more stooped than Zeratul and a young and fit female Dark Templar warrior appeared in the shadows and approached Zeratul and Tower beside Augustus.
Sardar came over.
"Zeratul, my old friend, welcome back! You're home... Hahaha." The elder Dark Templar hugged Zeratul, and both of them made a sound similar to that of the old man.
Hearty laughter.
"Mohandar, the wise man." Zeratul was also very happy.
Dark Priest Mohandar.
"Priest, mother is waiting for you." When the young female templar said, her shining green eyes stayed on Augustus and Tassadar for a while. Her eyes
His gaze is extremely aggressive, alert and sharp, like a wild ocelot in the jungle.
This tall and slender female Dark Templar wears dark armor and a purple tabard, with a long veil like Zeratul fluttering in the wind. Her twilight tabard is like a spread long skirt, like stars.
Green jewels adorn it.
Proud figure, slender and sharp-cut, these are the symbols of elegance and beauty in the hearts of Nerazim protoss.
At first, anyone who sees this Dark Templar will take it lightly due to her slender wrists, but she is definitely a powerful and majestic Shadow Master with many disciples.
Augustus knew her as the daughter of the current Nerazim matriarch Rashagal and the future matriarch Vorazun.