Several weeks have passed since the protoss fleet pursuing Tassadar evacuated the Altera system, and Oasis Town has entered an increasingly hot end of March.
Like this uninteresting, sultry planet with a sky covered with green mist, Oasis Town was once nothing more than a gray town of modular houses and intertwined alleys, where criminals and pirates ran rampant, and every ten people
Nine of them are wanted criminals, drug addicts, parts thieves, smugglers and armed thugs.
Everyone has evil intentions, because innocent and pure people simply cannot survive in this dark world.
The Revolutionary Army has controlled and managed Oasis Town for nearly a month. Strict and effective administrative measures have gradually brought the town into order. For the people of Oasis Town who are accustomed to crime and fierce armed conflicts, the management of the Revolutionary Army
Closer to harsh and oppressive rule.
Even though Revolutionary Army Marshal Augustus Mengsk announced that he was pardoning those who should be detained for "trivial" crimes, approximately 20,000 people were arrested for various heinous crimes, about a third of them
People were accused of murder, kidnapping, drug smuggling, violence... Thousands of lawsuits were filed in Oasis Town Court within two weeks.
The people of Oasis Town have become accustomed to a life of intrigue and deception. Many sophisticated criminals have even been hiding here for more than ten years or even longer, and the evidence that declares them guilty may be far away in federal territory several light years away or has been
be destroyed.
However, Augustus ordered all Revolutionary Army psykers to participate in the detection of criminal cases, so even crimes that had been hidden for many years could not be unearthed even if high-level psykers worked one-on-one for long periods of time.
After the Nova Squadron with many Ghost agents surrendered to Augustus, the number of Ghost agents in the Revolutionary Army has reached close to ninety. These former Federation Ghost agents who have sworn to fight for Augustus Mengsk and the New Order are all
A brilliant assassin and telepathic darling, his mind-reading ability is feared by all federal politicians.
Even those drug lords and pirate captains with extraordinary psychological qualities cannot stand the gaze of a human psyker for a long time, and will always collapse under the pressure of one continuous question after another. Because the criminal who hides the crime does not
Knowing how much of their crimes the psyker across from them has read, every contradictory statement may expose them.
In addition to the Revolutionary Army, the Terran Federation and the United States of Umoyan will not waste their precious psychics on solving criminal cases, because that is really overkill, and even those courts that accept political cases will not let psychics
who intervenes.
The mind-reading abilities of psykers are obviously underestimated, firstly because their numbers are too rare, and secondly because the rulers do not believe in these psykers.
According to the laws of the planet under the rule of the Revolutionary Army, these guilty persons should be immediately sentenced to death or detained in Antiga Prison for decades, but they can choose to atone for their crimes by working in the mines.
At this moment, Augustus was on the top of a ridge in the oasis town. Directly below him was a large and rugged rift valley. This rift valley spanned sparse deciduous tree forests and shimmering blue in the sun.
The radiant exposed natural crystal veins are eventually buried in steep mountains filled with high-energy gas springs.
From Augustus's position, the vast rift valley was in full view. The mountains in the distance were dotted with geothermal fountains and high-energy gas springs, shrouded in green mist. The sun seemed to be setting, and the glow was burning.
All the clouds in the sky.
"Is the ceremony about to begin?" Augustus, who was wearing a long dark blue coat with a square collar, held a pair of telescopes in his hands and looked at the rift valley below from time to time.
"According to what Tassadar said, it should be at sunset." He continued talking without waiting for the people around him to answer: "Tassadar must pass through this hidden place with more than a hundred people at the turn of day and dusk.
The Rift of the Master Dark Templar, where the most powerful Dark Templar is the Dark Master Zeratul himself."
"It's unbelievable that as a Templar, Tassadar would accept the trial of the Dark Templar. He actually mastered the power of the void in such a short period of time - the last one who mastered Kara at the same time
The psionic and void psionic protoss is still the ancient protoss hero Aden."
Since Tassadar became familiar with Augustus and Zeratul, the Protoss Empire Templars, the Dark Templars of Sarcoras, and the leaders of the Human Revolutionary Army would often sit together and discuss their views on the form of war.
Views, and later even developed into the humanistic history of protoss and humans.
In many ways, Tassadar and Zeratul can definitely be called Augustus's teachers, and a relationship between them gradually formed as both teachers and friends.
Augustus also witnessed Tassadar asking Zeratul for advice on how to master the energy of the void - Tassadar did not think ignorance and asking for advice was shameful or worthy of shame, as long as the power of the void could help his people,
He doesn't care about asking for advice like a student.
It was also at this time that Tassadar discovered that combining the pure blue spiritual energy of Kara with the green void energy of the Dark Templar could explode into infinite power like a supernova. He also said more than once that using
This might be able to completely kill the Overlord of the Swarm, eliminate the threat of the Zerg forever, and keep the Protoss Empire intact.
Although Augustus followed Tassadar to attend Zeratul's classes, he was still confused. Only Kerrigan, who was allowed to come to the Starshuttle with Augustus, could learn from it.
Knowledge.
"Sounds amazing." Renault stood on Augustus' right hand: "Shadow Speed, this is like some kind of ancient tribal custom. The technology of the protoss is quite advanced, but the custom is primitive and ancient.
"
Shadowrun, the ancient ritual of the Protoss of Thaggurath, is the only way for a young Shadow Apprentice to become a true Dark Templar. They must go deep into the starless valleys and canyons of Thaggurath and accept other
The Dark Templar is tested until he defeats them all or proves his ability to become a warrior.
There is no doubt that such a trial is extremely difficult, and the Dark Templar must practice hard for centuries. Therefore, all Dark Templar, without exception, are extremely powerful warriors.
"The Protoss is a civilization that was forcibly promoted from the tribal era to the interstellar age by the god Xel'Naga. This is very common among them." Augustus' understanding of the history of the Protoss was also different from before.
"This is the Protoss. They can blow you to ashes from a few miles away, but they have to use a knife." Kerrigan was on Augustus's left. She was wearing a ghost tights with dense circuits, which was only small.
The sharp curve between her waist and hips is hidden under a gray revolutionary army coat with a long hem.
"Jimmy, where's Tychus?" Augustus stared closely at the rift valley below through the telescope in his hand, looking for traces of Tassadar and Zeratul.
This desolate canyon is not deserted. Across the Great Rift Valley is a mine established by the Kaimorians. Rows of factory sheds covered with red dust stand quietly in the wind. In the Rift Valley
In the central area, there is a geological survey station of the Revolutionary Army, and next to it is a blue crystal tower dozens of feet high.
"'Sheriff Tychus' is busy chasing criminals and rectifying the custom industry in Oasis Town." Renault laughed and said: "This old boy Tychus is really having fun these days. Never let a devil fuck an angel.
work.”
"Tassadar has appeared," Kerrigan reminded Augustus.
Augustus followed the sound, and Tassadar and his templars appeared. They were standing under the ridge. The dark templars who had been tested had already retreated into the shadows, waiting for Tassadar.
Dahl hiked across this treacherous canyon.
Tassadar is a powerful high templar, so the Dark Templar he faces are many times more powerful than normal Shadowsprint.
"What's going on? Why is Tassadar wearing a blanket? What kind of weird protoss custom is this?" Raynor held up his telescope and said in surprise: "He is almost naked."
"I have to say, this outfit is pretty cool, isn't it?"
In Renault's sight, Tassadar was not really naked, but he was not wearing shiny gold-blue alloy armor like other templars. He was just slung across his right shoulder and crotch.
A gray girdle in the style of a Dark Templar. Not only that, Tassadar was wearing no wrist blades that could activate psychic blades.
This means that Tassadar will pass the trials of the Dark Templar using only his own strength, rather than weapons or armor.
"..." Augustus also noticed this, but he said in his heart that they were not peeping, but observing in advance.
"Tassadar's power is far greater than before. In the past, Zeratul could still have an advantage in the competition with him, but now..." Kerrigan said.
"Jimmy, how far do you think you can go if you take part in the Dark Templar's Shadowrun trial?" Augustus said jokingly.
"Do you want me to compete with more than a hundred world-famous swordsmen with bare hands in my crotchless pants? Man, you will definitely see my shiny butt when I run around." Renault laughed.
At this time, without any order from the leader, the Templars had all retreated to one side of the rift, and Tassadar walked vigorously towards the depths of the rift. Considering the age of the protoss, Tassadar still said
No more than an old man, he is physically strong, and even in terms of memory of battles, few among the Templars and Dark Templars can match him.
However, in Shadowrun, the trialist needs both strong strength and wisdom to resolve the crisis. A powerful Dark Templar is by no means a reckless man who only knows how to use brute force, he is better at outsmarting the enemy.
"Guys, do you want to give it a try?"
Kerrigan shook her long red hair and turned her head to look behind her.
Originally there were only a platoon or so of Marshal's Guard soldiers behind them, including Corporal Faraday, but now more than twenty ghost agents of the Revolutionary Army suddenly appeared.
There were men and women among them, most of them were wearing helmets or masks, and no one could see their expressions underneath. The one at the front was a black-haired female ghost with a good figure, wearing a black
Yumo Yang's matte mask covers his forehead, eyes and nose, leaving only his purple lips exposed.
Charming, mysterious, and dangerous, she is the only 8th-level psyker in Nova Squadron, a powerful psyker named Lagdamen. Since the Ghost of Tarsonis
Since graduating from college, she has never experienced failure.
Removing the psychic suppressor from Ragdaman's brain was an extremely dangerous task. Once it went out of control, no one in the operating room would survive. Fortunately, the removal operation was completed without any danger.
Ragdaman, the dark-haired beauty with an Asian face quickly accepted her new identity - in fact, according to Kerrigan, Ragdaman was almost grateful to Augustus.
For Augustus, this is a dangerous statement. It must be said that ghost female agents are quite charming and dangerous.
Almost all ghost agents hate the Terran Federation and the Ghost Academy immensely, and this hatred eventually turns into a sense of identification and common hatred towards the Revolutionary Army.
"Dark Priest Zeratul once taught us the fighting methods of the Dark Templar." Ragdaman said lukewarmly: "Including but not limited to disrupting the enemy's vision, using the terrain to sneak around and touch the enemy's back.
"
"Then he took out a light blade."
"You must learn with humility, Ragdaman." Augustus hoped that his psykers could learn useful knowledge and skills from Zeratul, which would be taught to the new generation of human psykers in the future.
, to avoid the occurrence of tragedy.
"Zeratul is the most outstanding shadow master, and he can teach you more than this." Augustus said: "You don't want to know how much I spent asking Zeratul to teach you a lesson.
."
"Yes, Marshal." Ragdaman immediately saluted Augustus and said.
"Maybe we can't use the psychic blades of the protoss yet, but we can equip each of you with two long knives from the ancient earth era." Augustus said: "The best among you will be allowed to wear them.
The coat of arms of the Mengsk family and equipped at my left and right."
"There are always 'ghosts' around you." Ragdaman said.
As Augustus spoke, the sky gradually darkened. But even with night vision goggles, Augustus could not actually see everything happening in the canyon.
Only occasionally there was a flash of green light in the canyon, and there was a burning sound, like two swordsmen clashing their swords in the dark, retreating at the first touch, and the victory or defeat was decided.
The flash of swords and shadows were getting further and further away, but Tassadar was still moving forward without stopping.
"What can we learn from this?" Augustus asked his loyal followers, looking into the distance.
"We are stronger than ever," Ragdaman replied.
The ghost agents of the Revolutionary Army headed by Ragdaman all wore cloak hoods made of pseudo-light material outside their combat uniforms. Almost everyone carried ancient cold weapons sickles and long knives, and carried C-10 rifles on their shoulders.
Under the guidance of the masters of the Dark Templar, the Ghost Agents of the Revolutionary Army have made great progress in the use of cold weapons in close combat, and the Templars have taught them the art of controlling psychic energy through meditation and temperance, which makes the Austrians
The ghost agents under Gustus have become more proficient in psychic control and mind braking. The most significant change is that what they have learned cannot be taught by the Federal Ghost Academy.
The fighting methods of the ghosts of Augustus will be closer to those of the protoss. Since they can more easily control the spiritual energy in their bodies, they will also be able to release more powerful spiritual power, and with the help of the protoss, they will discover many unknown things.