Dark Priest Azma is sitting among the intertwined canopy of the leafy branches of a giant tree. Looking down is a lush green forest with overlapping green covers and dotted with the bright orange-red and purple-red of angiosperms.
Flowers and fruits.
From time to time, a long and rough roar echoed in the sky above the forest, and a vast and distant atmosphere rushed towards the face.
The color of the sky is between blue and indigo, which shows that the planet's atmosphere contains more methane and nitrogen, and also proves that the vegetation on it has gone through a long evolution process.
Everything on this strange planet is far from the Sagurath that the Dark Templar are familiar with.
The vast expanse of land stretches from the North Pole to the South Pole of the planet, and is covered with prosperous and diverse populations of higher fern vegetation and dense forests. The continental plates of the planet are still in a fairly active state, and many active volcanoes erupt from time to time, so
Strange scenes of large-scale volcanic eruptions and lava surges in the green jungle are not uncommon.
Here, numerous and vast lakes replaced the oceans in the early stages of the planet's formation, and dense clouds and strong air currents brought abundant precipitation. The diverse ecological environments formed by factors such as latitude, altitude, sunshine, and water flow shaped the
A primitive world full of vitality but full of dangers.
"The wormhole opened by the Overlord has been closed, and all communication connections have been interrupted." A dark templar wearing a purple shirt and black armor appeared in the black mist billowing between the tree crowns, and was accustomed to being in the branches.
It lands on a branch as lightly as a bird with its head on its feet, and can stand firmly on it without climbing.
This is a Nerazim dark templar from the Zerathai tribe. The armor is full of huge teeth and bright crests from the zerg. The warriors of this tribe are famous hunters and they are keen on hunting.
The zerg also hunted fangs and claws for decoration to make up for the shortcomings of the protoss' body that was too round and lacked water chestnuts.
In the war against the Zerg, the warriors of the Nerazim Protoss tribe were the most active in fighting against them.
"I have completely lost all contact with Sagulath, as if there is an entire void between her and me."
After saying that, the Dark Templar master stopped talking and was as silent as a black rock.
"Master Immortal, I have discovered thousands of species of plants in this place, many of which are poisonous or extremely aggressive. There are many groups of ferocious creatures living here. What is incredible is that almost all of them are
Predators, it is extremely common for members of the same race to kill each other." Another female dark templar wearing multiple layers of dark purple veil appeared on the other side, and the xel'naga on her robe indicated that she should be a
A respected and knowledgeable scholar.
Among the Dark Templar, the distinction between leaders, warriors, and craftsmen and scientists is not clear. Anyone can be a powerful warrior.
"I also found that even extremely different or even completely different species have similar characteristics, which means they may have had a common origin millions of years ago," she said.
"These powerful creatures are fighting each other all the time, fighting to the death, for generations, endlessly."
While the Dark Templars were talking, a sound of branches breaking and a fierce struggle suddenly came from the distant tree canopy. Amidst the sharp hissing, a monster with two pairs of cortical membrane wings was tearing apart with
Biting another creature that looks like a snake but is not a snake.
The former looks more like a winged lizard than a bird. It also has a strong reptile body and rough light green skin. The front end of its wide snout and long mouth has light gray spots, and the sharp giant teeth underneath it look like
It is designed to cut everything into pieces. This monster has multiple pairs of golden vertical pupils like reptiles. Each pair of eyes is hidden in the folds of thick leather. When opened, it is enough to make people stand on end.
The other one is a creature with a slender body like a long snake. Its bright color means that this creature is deadly poisonous or extremely dangerous. There are several pairs of vein-like membrane wings on its back.
Broken, the spikes with pincers swing wildly, trying to pierce into the opponent's body.
In less than ten seconds, the weird lizard used its thick and powerful upper and lower jaws to bite open the skull of the long snake, and quickly devoured the snake as if it was sucking in a spicy stick.
Already.
Immediately afterwards, what surprised Azma and other Dark Templar warriors was that after swallowing the prey, the lizard immediately underwent an unexpected transformation. The skeleton under its thick skin collided at a speed visible to the naked eye.
It changed and grew more wings, eyes and even poisonous needles.
These transformations made this reborn monster roar like a warrior, as if it was invincible.
"Incredible." The female Dark Templar left quietly, and soon brought back this creature that horrified and shocked the Protoss Dark Templar.
It was bound in a stasis field generator entangled with void energy, and was struggling violently, trying its best to attack the surrounding Dark Templar warriors.
Even so, this still cannot change the inherent disadvantages brought about by its turkey-like body shape and relatively short limbs.
"Evolution? It has actually accomplished in such a short period of time what other races could do in hundreds of thousands of years." said the Dark Templar scholar.
"It's unheard of. Some species in other places may not change much even after tens of millions of years because of the immutable environment and lack of competitiveness," she said.
"This is a species with unlimited potential. If their evolution has no upper limit, then..."
"That's another kind of zerg." Azma stared closely at the screaming monster: "It's even possible that it can evolve into a super creature like Leviathan by its own power, or another kind of zerg.
Something more terrifying."
"Is there a civilization at a higher level of evolution here?" Imam Azma asked.
"There are huge groups that gather together in groups - the tribal leaders and the most powerful members among them have considerable intelligence, and they can even speak a special language." the Dark Templar replied.
"Although they do not possess psychic powers, their perception of psychic powers is extremely keen. I suspect that these creatures have discovered me."
"This must be the case. This is the original birthplace of the zerg, Zerus. These creatures are likely to be distant relatives of the zerg, although they have diverged on their evolutionary paths thousands of years or more ago."
Dark Priest Azma stood up, but his movements were no longer as sharp as before the expedition.
"Just like the protoss of Sagurath and El now."
When the Overmind opened the wormhole, Master Azma may have been the protoss closest to it.
At that time, Azma had already pierced his psychic blade into the giant eye that the Overlord had just opened, causing the newly born creature to let out a spiritual roar that humans could not hear but was absolutely horrifying, and he was also horrified by the Overlord.
severely injured by the psychic power.
It's just that it's not enough to kill the awakened master, and the power in his body is no longer comparable to any Dark Templar warrior.
But I am afraid that the Overlord will have a lingering fear of the Dark Templar for a long time in the future. Now as long as he feels the breath of the Dark Templars, the Overlord does not dare to open his eyes.
After that, Azma led his Dark Templar knights through the wormhole to this strange planet without hesitation. Even though he was seriously injured, he and the Dark Templar knights around him have been closely monitoring the presence of the Zerg.
Every move on this otherworldly planet.
They don't have a spaceship, so they can neither leave the planet nor warn their tribesmen.
"When I pierced the ugly giant eye of the Overlord, I had a brief contact with its mind." Azima said: "I learned that this is the place where the zerg was first born in the mind and memory of the Overlord's young mind.
"
"The zerg were once born in Zerus, and then left it, and never came back for a long time. In the consciousness of the new master Chaos, a terrifying and irresistible voice ordered it to leave and flee from Char.
So, this monster who is not mentally sound enough panics and chooses his own way."
"Sir, where does that voice come from?" the female Dark Templar asked Azma, driven by her insatiable thirst for knowledge.
"From...the void..." Azma let a shiver control him, which made him deeply ashamed.
"After the master woke up, the void energy awakened in its body briefly broke through the boundary between void and reality - I don't know what it got in it."
Dark Priest Azma has a high status among the Dark Templar, and his years of experience and knowledge have given him powerful combat skills and wisdom.
He has seen bright but short-lived young stars born in nebula collisions, extremely hot blue stars and gradually cooling red dwarfs, and also seen terrifying neutron stars and super black holes in the centers of star clusters.
But there was only one thing that could make the Patriarch tremble with awe - the void.
Fear the void.
"Xel'Naga. Who else can there be besides them?" The Dark Templar is also a scholar who studies Xel'Naga theology. Before her tribe recalled her, she had been searching for yellow sand and ruins in the universe.
There are clues about the existence of discipline in Xel'Naga.
"The Xel'Naga come from the void. If they disappear, they should return to the void. After all, they are immortal and they are gods in the void."
"This is an omen." Her luminous green eyes swayed like fire: "But if there are no other signs and prophecies, I can't figure out what this means."
"I have no way of knowing." Azma just said: "That may be just a conjecture of the Lord."
"If that's the Xel'Naga, then I don't understand why he never responded to us so clearly and gave us any guidance." Another dark templar who had been staying in the shadows couldn't help but show up.
explain:
"Have we not done enough?"
"We have disappointed the Xel'Naga so much that it makes sense that they have never looked at the protoss again," said the Dark Templar scholar.
"But why, and why the zerg?"
"Chi la - chi la -"
The sound of large trees being broken was heard, and the entire forest immediately boiled like a pot of water, and all kinds of weird-looking Zerus creatures immediately dispersed.
Dark Priest Azma arrived at the top of the tree canopy in an instant, and the Dark Templar warriors appeared behind him one after another.
"The zerg have shown their fangs, and the world is about to be destroyed." One of the Dark Templar said.
At the edge of this forest, a large number of zerg buildings with brown-black exoskeletons are rising from the ground at a terrifying speed. The dark purple carpet is spreading like a prairie fire through the emerald green jungle and primeval forest, swallowing up the
The land suddenly turned a dull and sickly gray.
Under the thick clouds and dark sun stained by volcanic ash, the Overlord has taken root in a vast jungle. Hundreds of millions of zerg are passing through the jungle. In the sky are the king worms and alien dragons that cover the sky. The zerg carapace
The rattling sounds of collisions, rustling sounds and violent roars are enough to remind those enemies who have fought against them of their past fears.
The swarm is expanding.
Based on their bright red and purple carapace, they can be identified as the groups of Cerebrates Dagoth and Ark, Tiamat and Jormungandr, the Dragon of World Creation and the Serpent of Devouring Worlds.
Just by referring to the names that humans give to these insect swarms based on fear, we can generally understand their fighting style and terrifying aspects.
Nowadays, Azma is not sure whether the strongest brainworm Dagos or the new master is commanding the entire swarm. Obviously, the new master is far inferior in terms of mind, ability and prestige.
Not as good as the masters of the past.
"But, the creatures of Zerus are uniting." Azma looked to the other side.
Based on the same hatred or in ways that other protoss cannot understand, the distant relatives of the zerg, the primitive zerg of Zerus, are uniting. Multiple very large tribes led by powerful primitive zerg leaders are gathering together, from the other side of the horizon.
Appear.
Compared to zerg, primitive zerg are more like green dinosaurs. Their protection is hard leather instead of chitin carapace. Many primitive zerg have similar appearance, but their body shapes vary widely.
A giant zerg on a par would be a small mountain, but a stardust compared to those incomparable zerg.
A truly mountain-like Primordial Zerg led most of the Primordial Zergs on Zerus. Its size was like a Juggernaut, so much so that the ground collapsed because it could not bear its weight.
For the primitive zerg of Zerus, it's a fight for survival.
"We will stay here until we get in touch with our tribe." Dark Priest Azma said, "I hope my old friend Zeratul can find us."
"Rashagal, please protect us."
At this time, the Charr swarm and the primitive zerg, each occupying half of the sky and half of the continent, collided with each other, like two colors of ink blending into each other. In an instant, the roar shook the sky, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the flesh and blood were thrown into the air.
Neither the primitive zerg nor the Charr swarm will rest until one side is completely destroyed.
Continuously absorbing high-quality genes and rapidly evolving characteristics have been reflected in different but equally terrifying ways in these two types of zerg.
In extreme cases, even as long as they swallowed a piece of raw flesh, the original zerg gained a new form by devouring the Char swarm. The Char swarm obtained the long-forgotten genome from the original zerg.
And derived new and powerful variants.
One of them will perish, and the other will be far worse than before.
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It’s 1.7 million words, not easy.
Also, I continue to recommend this book: StarCraft: Nerazim. It’s incredible. I forgot to add my name when I was recommending it. How stupid.
——Protoss fanfic, written about the Dark Templar warriors of Protoss, also based on Koprulu's worldview.
The author is an old reader of mine and supported me when I first started writing, so I remembered the ID and took the initiative to recommend it after knowing it.
Usually I only recommend my friends’ books, but if they are eunuchs, I can criticize them.
Let’s talk about other things, let me say a few words. In fact, I have been trying to avoid talking about topics other than this book.
You can write about this topic.
Interstellar fanfiction is quite broad. It writes about interstellar systems traveling through different worlds and popular worlds. There are many good results and some excellent works.
There is nothing to cry about, is it really a niche?
I also felt that the poor performance of my previous book was due to the minority, who complained and kept complaining. Later I figured it out, and it was indeed very flawed.
Being a niche is not an excuse, it's because I'm not strong enough. That's still the case now.
Warcraft has this kind of thing written according to a complete world view, so I thought why StarCraft couldn't have it.
But a fan who is purely a Koplu worldview will suffer a lot, because the readership is very limited. He really can't understand what he can't understand. If he doesn't know the plot, he won't be able to get the fun.
The new book recommendations in the issue are always at a disadvantage, and no one can compare with them.
This book has never even been recommended by category. Not to mention those Channel 6 and Sanjiang, none of which have been recommended.
I cannot do without your support. In one year, from the first order of 400 to more than 2,000 now, I see hope.
This shows that this subject matter can still be written.
Without such achievements, I think I have given up on this career.