As Nova Squadron special operations teams descended to the surface of Urna in airdrop pods and transport ships, thousands of high-precision scans were continuously uploaded to the White Star's supercomputer and handed over to the battleship.
Imperial Xel'Naga scholars research and decipher in the laboratory.
But Augustus didn't have much hope for his scientists and archaeologists. He was more waiting for the cracking results from the Protoss.
When it comes to archaeology, Star Spirit is still professional.
The Xel'Naga hieroglyphics, which even the Imperial scientists could not decipher even if they scratched their heads, were nothing more than children's flashcards to the protoss. After all, they had been studying them for at least thousands of years.
The way the protoss reads and understands the Xel'Naga text is much more advanced than that of humans. For them, the arrangement of each atom has its own meaning, and it is not just left on the surface.
"This place is really scary."
Renault carefully looked at the scan of Urna's main structure on the main screen, as if trying to figure out the mystery behind those towering mountain-like stepped pyramids and hexagonal prism platforms.
Urna is not a sphere or a regular cube, but an equilateral double cone glowing with soft blue light. Along its steep surface, spectacular steps and huge corridors arranged diagonally rise to the sky.
Giant figures large enough to house the city are clearly visible.
The largest Xel'Naga temple in the Koprulu sector is not worth mentioning in front of Urna. In comparison, it is just a hillock made of sand next to the pyramid, which can be flattened by a burst of rain.
But this is obviously not all the mysteries of Urna. If you want to truly find out, you may have to go inside.
"Legend has it that Urna was the first planet created by the Xel'Naga, and it was also the place where they first spread life." Zeratul was also excited when he saw the scene in front of him. He had a premonition that everything confused him.
All mysteries are about to be solved.
If Augustus hadn't stopped him, Zeratul would have been ready to go down and find out for himself.
"Zeratul, this means that Urna already existed before the first life in the universe appeared." Augustus couldn't help but think about it. Before humans appeared, Xel'Naga had already stood at the apex of the universe.
, but now their ethnic group has completely disappeared, and there are not many left.
In Augustus' view, just moving these mountain-like boulders here and then polishing and carving them into shape is really amazing, let alone pouring such a huge amount of void energy into them. With the current level of human technology,
This is simply impossible to do.
It can be imagined that in many fields such as engineering and genetics, Xel'Naga has already reached the pinnacle.
For the entire universe, the history of the stars and humans is just a brief moment. Countless civilizations have risen and perished, and only loneliness and death remain forever.
But the lives of the Xel'Naga are calculated based on the cycles of the universe. In a sense, they are gods. Some Xel'Naga believe that they should play the role of gods and perform their duties, while others do not think that they are gods.
God should not interfere with the natural evolution of creation.
This is the point of disagreement and one of the triggers of the Xel'Naga Civil War.
"Boss, the void energy below has blocked the communication signal. The signal here may not be transmitted to the outside. You'd better be careful." Swann, who was working in the White Star armory, appeared in the communication channel: "
I've never seen anything like this."
"Hey, hey, hey, Swan is calling the bridge, can you hear me?"
Swann raised his voice as if it could offset the buzzing electricity on the channel.
"You hear me, old man." Augustus couldn't help but smile and asked him: "Swan, how do you think we should enter the Urna Temple?"
"Oh, this." Swan thought for a moment: "Wait a minute."
"Hey, great inventor, what do you have in mind?" Renault asked.
"I saw that gate. It's so big that it looks like it was built for giants." Swann sent a set of pictures and said in a loud voice.
It was a giant door built into an organic rock wall. The giant door was made up of many geometric bodies tightly spliced together. It was quite large in size, and the Imperial soldiers standing below seemed like a group of small
of black spots.
"No matter what method you use to break open the door, the entrance is right there." Swann waved his hands: "To be honest, damn, I'm so angry about breaking the door. All the methods I can think of will not work."
"It seems like it will take a lot of effort to get in." Renault said, rubbing his chin.
"Go and do your business, Swan will call you later." Augustus nodded to Swan, not embarrassing him, after all, he was not omnipotent.
"Emperor Augustus Mengsk." At this time, Artanis once again entered the communication channel with good news: "My soldiers discovered a Xel'Naga called Skylock on the surface of Urna.
Facility, Supreme Protector Rohana thinks that may be the key to opening the temple."
While Artanis was speaking, a psychic signal that was converted into a radio signal sent the image of the "Heavenly Lock" in his mouth.
It can be seen that the so-called Sky Lock is actually a giant obelisk located in the Xel'Naga Altar, with the buzzing bright green void crystal looming in it. The core of the Sky Lock is made of superb, like a miracle
The organic boulders are arranged and built with extraordinary engineering attainments. The surface of the polished boulders is inlaid with exquisite void crystal decorations. Complex and beautiful extraordinary spiral patterns and arc patterns outline the astonishingly perfect outline, with symbols shining on them.
The green flash of life.
This is a poetic elaboration of Xel'Naga aesthetics. From these beautiful and fascinating lines, you can see not only the twinkling stars in the universe, but also the mountains, flowing water, trees, flowers and grass. Just looking at it, you can't help but be immersed in the tranquility.
with elegant temperament.
"Key..." Renault raised his eyebrows: "How to use it?"
"There are a total of five skylock facilities like this." Artanis replied: "As long as all five skylocks are controlled, the road ahead will naturally appear, and everything will be as the prophecy said -
It’s destined, I’ve mentioned it a long time ago.”
"Hmm..." Zeratul responded, indicating that he saw it that way too.
"Urna is both a temple and a palace." He continued: "This is the testing ground for the successors of Xel'Naga, and the successors must show their strength here before they can embark on the journey to ascend to the gods.
level.”
"Perhaps, this is the first step to gain the recognition of Xel'Naga."
"In other words, this is the entrance exam." Renault said thoughtfully: "I think I know what to do. In short, we have to perform well in front of these Xel'Naga."
"Contact Purifier Executive Officer Koralion immediately and ask him to discuss the next plan." In any case, Augustus had to drag the Purifier with him to feel at ease.
Augustus kept one thing in mind, that is, Urna is close to the void and is more susceptible to the influence of Amon.
In other words, compared to the physical universe outside Urna, Amon can corrupt Kara and control all the El Stars in it more easily.
With the purifier star spirit escorting him, Augustus felt confident.
On the other hand, the golden fleet led by Tassadar is likely to have arrived in Aiur soon, and if it is to be finished, both sides will probably be finished together.
As long as Eamon creates a ripple in Kara, countless protoss will fall into madness. Only the protoss with the strongest will can barely resist Eamon's corruption, but even so, the time they can maintain themselves without being controlled is limited.
Very short.
I'm afraid Augustus will have to help the Protoss again, and it seems that this can only be the case - since the Battle of El, Augustus can be said to have reached the full favorability level with the Protoss.
It is estimated that it can be maxed out in one go.
Jokingly speaking, maybe he can even be canonized as a saint by the protoss.
"I am extremely honored to receive the wise guidance of a legendary executive ancestor," Artanis said immediately.
Coralion's reputation in the Protoss Empire is already quite large, otherwise his deeds would not be widely spread among the Templars to this day. When such a person stood in front of Artanis, he could only be humble.
"I'm Koralion." Koralion responded quickly.
"Salute to the Executor of Coloralion, may your fame last forever." Zeratul said.
"Dark Master Zeratul, I have heard of you." Koralion said: "Brave Dark Templar, you deserve the respect of the Purifiers."
The Purifiers have a much better attitude towards the Nerazim protoss than the Aiur protoss. This is probably because they all experienced suppression and exile by the Supreme Council. It can be seen that there is a reason why the Supreme Council ended up in this situation.
of.
"Executor Corola Leon." Augustus looked at him and said: "Executor Artanis told me that if you want to enter the Urna Temple, these five sky lock facilities may be the key. Now, we are
The plan is to send troops to control these areas."
When Colorarion heard this, he was silent for a moment, not only confirming the location of the sky lock sent by Augustus, but also distinguishing the authenticity of this information.
There is a Supreme Protector on Artanis' side. This position was extremely rare even in ancient times. He is knowledgeable about the past and present, and can be said to be a mobile library. In this way, there is really no doubt.
To this day, the Purifiers still cannot fully trust the Dalam Protoss, because the attitudes of Tassadar and Artanis and other high-level officials do not determine that ordinary Dalam Protoss will not treat the Purifiers as slaves.
Come to think of it, this human being believed the words of a foreign race without reservation, as if he already knew the function of these sky locks.
Of course, this is impossible, so this trust is really valuable.
"We will occupy the two Heavenly Locks in the northeast and northwest." Korora Leon said.
"We will be responsible for the southwest and southeast ones." Artanis said immediately.
"It seems we can only deal with the one in the middle." Augustus smiled.
"Wait a minute, Your Majesty, our Iron Crows have detected a large number of Tal'darin and hybrid signals near Skylock." Suddenly, a warning sounded from the bridge, and a large-scale attack by the Tal'darin protoss army immediately appeared on the main screen.
The image of the march was also mixed with a large number of terrifying hybrid beasts.
Since no fleet was found to come in with them, these servants of Eamon may have already come in.
"Hybrid!" Renault's eyes widened: "It's not that small!"
"It's Tal'darin, why are they here?" Artanis said in surprise.
"Tal'darin, tempered thousands of times, a body forged by gods, is forged..." Koralion muttered an ancient star language. He was a little surprised, as if he thought Tal'darin was still alive now.
A very strange thing.
"It seems they have really found their god and got what they wanted."
"It's really haunting." Renault cursed and said, "Their god is not a good thing."
"What are they going to do?"
"If Aemon's army captures the Sky Lock first, they will enter the Urna Temple before we do." Artanis said.
"Maybe it's not that simple." Renault thought for a while and said, "I guess they want to blow up this place."
"Oh? Marshal James Raynor." Coralion said in a tone closer to the ancient Protoss language, which was mixed with many Kalani words that are no longer used by the protoss today: "How can you see it?"
"This is the intuition of an explosion expert." Renault spread his hands and said.
When he was following Augustus in the revolutionary army, Renault often brought people and explosives to blow up the federal colonial governor's building and armory. And he knew that if he wanted to intercept a federal train used to transport important supplies, then all he needed to do was
Just blow up the rails.
"Well, if Amon controls all the Skylocks and overloads them, Urnadu may be at risk of destruction." Artanis also agreed with Raynor.
But when Artanis was about to say something else, he was interrupted by Renault's exclamation.
"Oh my God!" Reno almost moaned.
When the Iron Crow's detection system locked and zoomed in on a ground target near a sky lock, a large number of imperial soldiers wearing black and red power armor appeared in the center of the screen.
But they did not deliver soldiers of the Moebius Legion to the surface of Urna.
"Gods, there are humans in Aemon's army!" Artanis obviously saw it too.
"They are soldiers of the Moebius Corps!" Renault said through gritted teeth: "I think I already know where the missing Moebius fleets have gone."
Eamon used the hybrid to corrupt and control these humans, and then used the controlled humans against themselves. This is Eamon's usual bad taste, making this race kill each other, and its own people against its own people.
"Damn it..." Looking at these soldiers with blood-red eyes, a burst of sadness flashed through Augustus's heart. Sooner or later, he would have to settle this account with Eamon.
"These respectable human warriors were corrupted." Zeratul also sighed: "Their spirits were tortured, but they were still defeated by the hybrid!"
"Deploy the legion warriors immediately and march towards the Sky Lock!" Koralion knew that this matter could not be delayed any longer, so he said with the coldness of an ancient executive:
"Kill all enemies without mercy."
Before the Kalash Arbitration incident, the Protoss Empire had fought wars with many races. At that time, the executive officers played a role similar to executioners, and they would not be merciful when dealing with alien races.
As for Tal'darin, who was also a protoss, when they resisted the enslavement of the Supreme Council, they killed a lot of their compatriots.
"Deploy all our ground forces and mobilize the fleet." Augustus knew very well that the next battle would be much more dangerous than before.