Chapter 477 Brood War

"Lord Azma——"

Dark Priest Azma is sitting among the intertwined canopy of the leafy branches of a giant tree. Looking down is a lush green forest, dotted with bright orange-red and purple colors of angiosperms. Red flowers and fruits.

From time to time, a long and rough roar echoed in the sky above the forest, and an empty and distant atmosphere rushed towards the face.

The color of the sky is between blue and indigo, which indicates 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 extends from the north pole of the planet to the south pole, 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. Therefore, it is not uncommon to see strange scenes of large-scale volcanic eruptions and lava surges in the green jungle.

Here, many 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 have created 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. Like a bird with its head on its feet, it landed on a branch as lightly as possible and could 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. They are keen on hunting zerg and hunting for fangs and claws for decoration to make up for the lack of water chestnuts in the protoss' body.

In the war against the Zerg, the warriors of the Nerazim Protoss tribe were the most active in fighting against them.

"I completely lost all contact with Sagulath, as if there was 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 Imam, 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 gauze appeared on the other side, and the xel'naga on her robe indicated that she should be a Respected and knowledgeable scholar.

Among the Dark Templar, the distinction between leader, warrior, and craftsman-scientist is not clear-cut, and anyone can be a powerful warrior.

"I also found that even species that are extremely different or even completely different 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, there was suddenly a sound of branches breaking and a fierce struggle coming from the distant tree crowns. Amidst the sharp hissing, a monster with two pairs of cortical membrane wings was biting another creature that looked like a snake but was not a snake.

The former looks more like a winged lizard than a bird. It also has a strong body of a reptile and rough light green skin. The front end of the wide snout and long mouth has light gray spots, and the sharp giant teeth below it look like Made for chopping everything up. 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 long and slender body like a 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 that are almost broken, and the spikes with pincers are swinging wildly, trying to pierce 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. .

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. Not only did it change its size, it also 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.

Even so, this still does not 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 there is no upper limit to their evolution, 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 have 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 Sagulas 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 had just been opened by the Overlord, causing the newly born creature to let out a spiritual roar that could not be heard by humans but was absolutely terrifying, and he was also horrified by the Overlord. severely injured by spiritual 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 to come. Now as long as he feels the aura of the Dark Templars, the Lord does not dare to open his eyes.

After that, Azma led his Dark Templar warriors through the wormhole to this strange planet without hesitation. Even though he was seriously injured, he and the Dark Templar around him had been closely monitoring the Zerg's every move on this otherworldly planet.

They don't have a spaceship, so they can neither leave the planet nor communicate with the people who warned them.

“When I pierced the Overlord’s ugly giant eye, 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 Overlord’s young thoughts and memories. "

"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 a way out."

"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 take over 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, 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 could be there besides them?" The Dark Templar was also a scholar who studied Xel'Naga theology. Before her tribe recalled her, she had been searching the universe for clues about the existence of Xel'Naga in the yellow sand and ruins.

"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 glowing 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 simply said, "That may be just the Lord's conjecture."

"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, why the zerg?"

"Chi la - chi la -"

The sound of large trees being broken was heard, and the entire forest immediately began to boil like a pot of water. 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 also appeared behind him.

"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 deep 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 insects are passing through the jungle. In the sky are king insects and alien dragons that cover the sky. The clatter, rustle, and furious roar of the zerg's carapace are enough to remind those 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 brainworms Dagoth and Ark, Tiamat and Jormungandr, the world-creating dragon and the world-devouring snake.

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, Azima is not sure whether the strongest brainworm Dagos or the new master is commanding the entire swarm. Obviously, the new master is far inferior to the previous master in terms of mind, ability, and prestige.

"But the creatures of Zerus are uniting." Azima looked to the other side.

Based on a common hatred or a way that other protoss cannot understand, the distant relatives of the zerg, the primitive zerg of Zerus, are uniting. Multiple extremely large tribes led by powerful primitive zerg leaders are gathering together, from the other side of the horizon. Appear.

Primal zerg are more like green dinosaurs than zerg, and their protection is made of hard leather instead of chitinous carapace. Many primitive zerg have similar appearances, but their sizes vary greatly. The giant primitive zerg that can be compared with the Ultralisk is like a small mountain, but compared with those incomparable zerg, it is as small as stardust.

A truly mountainous primordial zerg led most of Zerus's primordial zerg. It was so big 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. Suddenly, the roar shook the sky, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the flesh and blood were thrown into the air.

Neither the primal zerg nor the Charr swarms 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 both zerg species.

In extreme moments, even as long as it takes to swallow a piece of raw flesh, the primal zerg take on new forms by devouring swarms of Charr. The Charr 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.

1.7 million words, not easy.

In addition, continue to recommend this book StarCraft: Nerazim is incredible. I forgot to add my name when I was recommending it. What a fool.

——A protoss fan, writing about the dark templar warriors of the protoss, and also the world view of Koprulu.

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 promote it after I found out.

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 fan fiction 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’s 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 just that I'm not strong enough. Now, it still is.

Warcraft has this kind of novel based on a complete world view, so I thought why StarCraft couldn't have one.

But a fan who is purely a Koplu worldview will suffer a lot, because the readership is very limited, and he really can’t understand what he can’t understand. If you don’t know the plot, you can’t get it if you want to enjoy it.

No one can compare to the list of recommendations for new books in the issue.

This book has not even been recommended in categories. Not to mention those six-channel, Sanjiang, forced recommendations, none of them.

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This shows that this subject matter can still be written.

Without such results, I thought I would have given up on this career.