Suddenly, everything around Valerian began to explode.
Humans, protoss, and the Moebius hybrid and the void phantom he created all fought together. The smoke and dust raised by the explosion rose into the sky like dry fingers. Traces and remains of the war were all over the entire temple.
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The flames washed over the walls of the temple over and over again. The boiling hiss when the energy weapon melted the metal sounded like a huge snake wailing in the flames. The air was heated countless times and became like sandpaper that was constantly rubbing.
Just as hot and rough. The originally indestructible wall also groaned under the erosion of void energy, turning black and blistering like a piece of plastic baked on fire, and eventually collapsed uncontrollably.
Now as long as Valerian raises his head, he can see the sky through the opened dome of the temple. The beam weapons of the protoss fleet across the sky are dazzling like approaching stars, rotating around the top of the celestial sphere and falling,
It continues to bake the atmosphere, and finally falls on the other side of the planet.
The Da'u teachings have become a thing of the past, and all weapons have been thrown into the battlefield by the protoss without reservation, and have been used to create the most horrific killing and destruction in the history of this planet.
Many protoss still believe that vitrifying a planet is the only way to rid the Void of corruption, as they did against the zerg. If they are convinced that all is lost, then rather than become a vector for Amon to invade the real world, she
The best ending is to be completely destroyed like Sagurath.
Instead of getting stuck in a horrific, quagmire war of attrition, the Protoss prefer to wipe the battlefield off the map.
In the past ten years, the Protoss has lost much more people than in the past thousand years combined. When the Doomsday War comes, this ancient and proud race has to use the banned restricted weapons. Because the number of warriors is increasing
The fewer there are, the protoss will have to rely on machinery for combat.
In the fifth year of this century, the Dallam Protoss made a deal with the Purifiers.
If a Duram Protoss is unable to continue with the team due to injury or disability, he will choose to become a Dragon Knight according to his own wishes and continue to fight against Emon.
When a dragon knight dies in battle, that is, when "glory" comes, he will get another chance.
His broken body will be buried in the cold mobile coffin of the Immortal, and his will will be integrated into the Purifier data network of Cybros, becoming the heroic personality of the Purifier, joining the immortality program and revenge protocol.
Therefore, they join the battlefield again until the mechanical host is destroyed, and wait until they are reborn again and again.
Phoenix is such a vivid example, but no one has been able to kill him so far. Some people joked that the heroic Phoenix remained standing on the battlefield, so that his mechanical clone had to change its appearance.
It would be very rude if he was bragging about it himself.
"Human Commander, I am Executor Phoenix, salute Emperor Augustus, Durham is marching."
At this time, Phoenix's voice came from Valerian's command channel. Based on the advanced communication technology of the protoss, it was easy to simulate human signals.
"En taro adun, Phoenix Executive," Valerian had learned Protoss, although that was barely enough: "I am Valerian Mengsk, the commander of the Empire here."
"I am extremely honored to see you here."
Phoenix, loyal, proud, defender of the Protoss ideals, and the greatest warrior of the Protoss Empire.
"En taro adun, it feels so good to meet another Mengsk here." It was obvious from Phoenix's voice that he was indeed very happy.
This is a master who can be called a brother to Augustus Reno, and is by no means a rigid person.
"Go forward, soldiers, the enemy is attacking." He said:
"Kill them all!"
At this time, the temple's shield was completely paralyzed. More protoss and human spaceships landed every moment, and a large number of warriors and combat machines were delivered to the battlefield.
The invincible Moebius hybrid swept across Valerian's army, and now he is retreating steadily under the offensive of the protoss. He is locked by hundreds of weapon systems and is under indiscriminate bombardment from all directions.
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Two fists are no match for four hands.
The Moebius hybrid is extremely large, but it is also an extremely conspicuous target. Once the protoss and humans begin to take the initiative, they can attack from all directions, including front, rear, left, right, up, and down.
Those beautiful protoss phoenix fighters were diving at high speed like a kestrel along the tractor beams they released, sharp and fierce, and from a distance they looked like a series of sharply falling bright spots.
Any Imperial pilot would rather fight ten Mutalisks than face one Phoenix, because this kind of fighter plane that can maneuver at high speeds in the atmosphere and outer space has unparalleled maneuverability, and can choose to easily get rid of or catch up with them.
For most of the enemies, you can choose where to fight them.
This batch of Phoenix fighter jets are even equipped with phase technology to avoid deadly enemy attacks.
Valerian swore that the Imperial Navy and Marine Corps Air Force dreamed of such a fighter, but even if the Protoss were willing to sell their technology, it would not be replicable. Even so, Imperial scientists could still learn from the Protoss weapons.
Experience and inspiration, apply similar technologies in all aspects.
At the same time, Stukov's reinforcements also arrived, and the Fleet Command even sent an Archangel to support the battlefield.
This giant machine can compete with the Moebius hybrid to a certain extent. Once on the spot, it used its extremely terrifying firepower to strafe, and its intensive missile strikes immediately cleared most of the battlefield.
Nowadays, almost no Imperial boy can refuse to drive such a cool mecha into the battlefield. Archangel is the king of Viking fighters. Each Archangel has its own name or special number, and each one is deployed.
Fight against the most terrifying enemies on the most dangerous battlefields.
And now the scene of the Moebius hybrid and the Archangel facing each other is enough to appear on the Empire's recruitment posters all over the Koprulu sector, and Tarsonis's filmmakers will work hard to produce dozens or hundreds of "The Big One".
Holographic videos like "Angels vs. Hybrids".
Under Valerian's orders, the Imperial army quickly evacuated the wounded and began to reorganize, then resumed its attack on the enemy.
At this time, the Moebius hybrid was almost cornered by Phoenix's protoss army, and the imperial army, which had turned against the wind, immediately began to beat the drowned dog.
Valerian's men are smart and down-to-earth, and they use small fusion weapons to poke the hybrid's toes like they did the Colossus. This trick is tried and tested. If they grow too tall, they may not be able to see themselves.
's feet.
Gradually, the shield of the Moebius hybrid was finally penetrated by this terrifying indiscriminate bombardment, and those huge siege tank shells directly bombarded its void carapace, which was harder than the armor of a battleship.
It exploded with the sound of metal and stone colliding.
The Moebius hybrid must have panicked, opening many rifts in the void at once, summoning more and more abominations.
However, these void creatures were just huddled together in a mess in the force field of the Protoss Mechanical Sentinel, and were blown away by the disruptors in the chaos. Groups of colossi also appeared, and the ground melted under the firepower of the heat gun.
The counting void creatures turned into a wisp of smoke in an instant.
As many void creatures as this monster summons, they will destroy them.
The Archangel of the Empire gave the Moebius hybrid the most fatal blow. When the hybrid was burned to pieces by the Void Glow Fleet, the Archangel "grabbed" him and used the Grimm with a thick barrel that could be called a cannon.
The machine gun fired at that ugly face until it was beaten to pieces.
It was only then that Valerian seemed to remember how to breathe.
After dealing with this Moebius hybrid, what they have to do now is to clean up the remaining void rifts and void creatures in the temple, or more simply, evacuate all ground personnel directly, in Baishel's high-altitude orbit
The general burned everything to the ground.
But there is also dark technology in this temple that they want to know about, such as the technology to reconstruct the nerve bundles of the protoss, which will definitely cause a sensation among the Durham protoss.
To use an inappropriate analogy, a protoss who loses Kara is like a severe drug addict who loses drugs. Augustus calls the withdrawal reaction of a protoss after losing Carla an Internet addiction.
Valerian is more concerned about the forbidden technology that transforms protoss and humans into hybrids. He believes that his uncle will not be interested in such evil ways, and if he has no other choice, neither will Arcturus.
Use it, but he must make sure that the Empire and not someone else owns it.
It is better to be a wolf than a sheep, this is Arcturus' philosophy of life.
But before that, Valerian must find Phoenix.
Valerian discovered that the other two Moebius hybrids had disappeared, completely missing from all the empire's sophisticated detection instruments.
This is very abnormal. Augustus told him that when things go wrong, there must be a monster.
But before that, Phoenix found Valerian first.
A warp prism carrying Phoenix landed next to an Imperial army that was evacuating the temple. Many injured Imperial soldiers were leaving on a transport ship.
Obviously, the Empire thought it had won this battle and decided to leave the rest of the matter to the Protoss.
But the protoss obviously doesn't think so.
At this moment, more protoss phoenix fighters and prophets jumped over, followed closely by a large number of shuttles and warp prisms.
These purple-gold protoss fighters are the most gorgeous that Valerian has ever seen, and can even be called gorgeous.
Even the Ihanli protoss would not leave such gorgeous and complicated decorations on their warships. The patterns and styles on their warships are more for the worship of gods and ritual purposes, and the ones in front of them are obviously extremely beautiful.
Gorgeous power.
Valerian had seen these fighters and warships of the same style during a diplomatic visit to Korhal by the Duram Protoss. At that time, his uncle asked him to remember the symbol of the Sirac, the old Arbiter Tribe of the Protoss.
To a certain extent, they are the products of the power game and political compromise between the old and new forces after the remnant forces of the Supreme Council broke away from Kara's control and joined Duram. They are the third force among the Duram protoss.
After Kara was corrupted, the order established in the past lost its foundation. The Supreme Council and their followers, who had broken with Tassadar, finally put aside their differences and made peace with each other.
The old forces represented by the Arbitrators are still a very large force. They have brought at least more than 50 million precious people to today's Durham Protoss, an Ark ship and the technological wealth of half of the Protoss Empire.
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Especially at a time when the Purifiers and the Ihanri Protoss refuse to join Dallam, and the Ta'darin are no longer interested in Aiur, this power cannot be ignored by Tassadar.
Also returning with the Conclave is the Arkship Pride of Otalis and its ancient warriors and engineers from the Golden Age, whose staffing is exactly the same as the Spear of Adon. Like the latter, the Templars in the Ark are now
Becoming a model of behavior for the new Templar class in Durham, even the Engineers gained incredible respect from them.
At the same time, with the return of the Arbitrator class, based on the huge contrast between the ancient glorious era of the protoss and the doomsday era, and based on the fear of reality. At a certain point in time, the trend of following the ancient path began to spread among the middle and lower classes of Durham protoss.
It became popular and traditionalism prevailed.
Some protoss began to wear ancient ceremonial armor from the Golden Age. Humanities and arts imitated the ancients. They used ancient technology and armed battleships and mechas with high-gloss armor in an attempt to regain the pride of the protoss.
The ultimate dream of this faction is to revive and revive the golden age of the Protoss Empire.
In sharp contrast to this cold reality is the height that the ancestors of the protoss have reached. After all, they still had Cass and Kara at that time. The beauty of that era seemed to come from another world that did not exist.
As far as the Tyran Empire knows, the Light and Shadow Parliament has reservations about this kind of movement, and neither recognizes nor explicitly prohibits it.
Today they can imitate the ancient people's gorgeous costumes, and maybe tomorrow they can learn from the ancient protoss council to massacre the Nerazim protoss.
There is no doubt that Tassadar is by no means a narrow-minded traditionalist and nationalist, otherwise he would not refuse to compromise with the Supreme Council. For the fragmented Protoss Empire, the Durham built on the ruins
It is a new force like the rising sun.
Tassadar does not believe that they can return to the golden age of the Protoss Empire. On the contrary, the Protoss should look forward.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see at a glance that the Supreme Council is undoubtedly behind this revival movement, and they have not concealed this at all.
At the same time, the Arbitrators, Templars, Kalai and Nerazim Protoss were gathered together. This was simply the second reorganization of the Protoss Empire.
During a meeting between the Empire and the leader of the Duram Protoss, Arcturus suggested that Tassadar should go to extreme lengths and directly kill all the remaining leaders of the Conclave and silence every mouth that would be detrimental to you.
Don't let them block your way.
Augustus suggested that before everything gets worse, don't push these people towards your political enemies - of course, at least until we kill Aemon completely, they will not dare to openly resist your authority. But if they finally
If you do it anyway, we will help you kill them.
In fact, long before the Supreme Council was preparing to re-merge with Durham, there had been a fierce dispute over this in the court of Emperor Augustus.
Putting aside the civil servants and generals, among the emperor's true confidants, Arcturus believed that Tassadar would not be an opponent of those political machines. If he could not ensure Durham's position towards the Terran Empire, Ogu
Stegler should step in, preferably to influence political elections.
Tassadar is too upright and kind, possessing all the great qualities of a leader, but he is not selfish enough, which is terrible. Those who rule an empire are often completely selfish. In the battle to regain Aiur, Tassadar was almost killed.
The combined fleet of Kalai and Nerazim, even from the current perspective, is definitely not Tassadar's fault, but it also affects his prestige.
In contrast, Artanis's reputation is growing, and he does not need to take the blame for the Battle of Aiur. At the most critical moment, it was Artanis who led the last protoss to turn the tide. He drove the Ark of Salvation, almost
The last ray of hope for the protoss.
Now that Artanis has truly achieved the glory of Duram, people have begun to call him the name of the Ark Commander to praise his legendary story with the Spear of Adon.
A thousand years from now, if anyone is going to write a biography or heroic epic for Artanis, they cannot avoid this great moment.
However, the dishonest Tychus has always looked down on Artanis, jokingly calling him the Ark Bum, implying that the protoss who lost their homeland were a group of refugees, and Artanis was the ragged leader of the refugees.
Valerian was fortunate that Artanis himself did not know about this.
Now no one doubts Artanis's status as successor.
After the return of the Conclave, just like the unspoken rule that Tassadar's bodyguards must be half Kalai protoss and half Nerazim protoss, the leaders of Dallam must ensure that people from all ethnic groups and factions
After the return of the Arbitrator class, they also demanded to have a status equal to the power they represented in the Parliament of Light and Shadow, in exchange for recognizing the legitimacy of Durham and the Archbishop.
——Even the original members of the Arbitrator in the Council of Light and Shadow felt that it was a bit shameful. After all, it was you who lost the ancestral foundation, but it was Tassadar and his disciples who took back El. It's shameful for you.
I want you to admit it.
But judging from the results, Tassadar still chose to accept rather than be constrained by prejudice. He did not accept Arcturus's suggestion because that was "something that only high-ranking lords of Tal'darin would do."
Laixingling is almost equivalent to a swear word.
Now, the Arbiters pilot the latest warships to fight for Duram, and they can be found in almost every fleet in Duram.
No matter what, now in Byshel, Phoenix is still deploying troops to the ground, even if it is used to deal with ten Moebius hybrids, it is enough.
It seems that Byshel has a far more formidable enemy than the Moebius hybrid.
Valerian originally only knew that Phoenix had brought a huge fleet, but the configuration of this fleet was enough to rule the sky of Korhal, and it was obviously not used to deal with a few Moebius hybrids.
"We still don't know what Amon wants to do on Byshel, but it must be an evil plan no less than the evil god's host." As soon as Phoenix came down, he immediately said to Valerian straight to the point:
"One sun cycle ago, my protector had given warning that Eamon was preparing to deploy a world-destroying ark in Baishel to carry out his terrible plan."
"So, I ordered the fleet to come at all costs. For this reason, I had to temporarily leave some warships behind."
For other reasons or more noble purposes, such as the three protectors of Zakuul, some of the protoss protectors refused to cut off the connection with Kara, just to get close to Amon, understand his evil conspiracy, and make prophecies.
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After all, Eamon never bothered to plot his own ideas.
When Amon decides to destroy a world, the Protectors may discover it in advance and warn any protoss world and allies.
This means that these great protectors gave their souls to Amon, and most of them have now gone mad or sold their souls to Amon.
This also caused the already sparse number of protoss protectors to almost disappear.
"The Ark of Destruction?" Valerian raised his eyebrows.
This is not the first time that the Ark of Destruction has appeared, but the Empire still knows very little about it.
It is said that Amon imprisoned Olanna, the highest protector of the Memory of Nessin, in this ark of destruction, and used Amon's Spear to point out the direction of destruction. An entire ark of Protoss Empire warriors turned into vengeful ghosts and resurrected from the dead.
, they are all truly immortal ghosts, and every death will usher in a stronger and more perfect rebirth.
This sounds completely beyond the scope of common sense, and even sounds like a fantasy novel, but Valerian believes that Amon may not be without such abilities.
"Where is she?" Valerian instinctively looked at the sky, and then he was annoyed at his own stupidity. The protoss and human fleets had blocked Byshel's high-altitude orbit, and it was impossible not to discover the dozens of miles long super battleship.
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Phoenix had read Valerian's thoughts and immediately laughed humorously: "Every time the Spear of Doom appears, it comes from the core of the planet. She comes from the ground."
"Then, she is at our feet." Valerian was surprised. ()