Chapter 718: Justice Beating
Narud remembered that there were some people on the bridge, but now they were gone. The holographic screen that occupied the entire field of vision was full of light spots, emitting bright light. The high-altitude orbit of Korhal seemed to be crowded.
At least a thousand battlecruisers of various levels were gathering around the Xel'naga world ship. As far as Narud knew, this accounted for at least two-thirds of the main battleships of the entire fleet of the Terran Empire, or even more.
As soon as Korhal was attacked, Augustus recalled so many fleets. Was he going to give up the world outside Korhal?
This only proved that he had the ambition of a lion, but only the brain of a sheep.
If so, it would undoubtedly be good news for Narud and his master Amon.
Narud thought that unless Augustus was going to gather troops here to launch a large-scale counterattack, or even a decisive battle, instead of defending a mere galaxy and a few planets.
But Augustus and his Protoss allies didn't even know where to launch a counterattack - the enemy came from all directions, and it was an extremely large fleet of Zerg and Protoss. Although the progress was slow, it was always moving.
Augustus' only hope was to find and destroy the incarnation that Amon used to descend into reality, the evil god host. But even if they really succeeded, it would only temporarily delay the return of the dark god.
Even if Augustus had learned from Urna that the Xel'Naga must use an incarnation to enter the real universe, he might not have realized the existence of the evil god host so far, so how could he realize the necessity of destroying it.
Even if he took a step back, Amon's will could still reside in Khala, thereby affecting the present world, controlling the Golden Fleet, and controlling the Zerg. Then, Amon would reshape an incarnation with the bodies of countless Protoss and Zerg, but it would only take a little more time.
When Augustus found that he had done everything he could to prevent the advent of the apocalypse, it was all in vain.
All he could find on the ruins of the Koprulu sector was despair.
Narud has completed his mission, and his master, the dark god Amon, is about to return.
Soon, the greatest moment will come, Amon will return the universe to silence, take back all the life that the Xel'Naga once brought, and completely end this cycle of corruption. At that time, let Augustus rule over the void.
In this case, the matter is done, and it is not unacceptable even if this incarnation is destroyed. Once Amon returns to the world, he can also create a new body for Narud.
However, Narud still feels angry and is sure that his exposure is just an accident, because he can't think of anything else that would make him careless and reveal his feet. Narud must learn the truth from Augustus, otherwise it will haunt him forever and make him feel like a thorn in his throat.
Even if Narud admits that Augustus Mengsk is extremely intelligent, he is just a human after all.
But this time, Narud really fell into Augustus's hands.
Right now, the Terran Empire dispatched a huge fleet to deal with Narud alone, and even spared no effort to call on their Protoss allies, which really made him feel "flattered".
Ironically, even if Narud really served his only master Amon, he was sure that his contribution to the Terran Empire over the years far exceeded the crimes that Augustus would accuse him of, and the emperor must know this. If everything was planned by him, it would be terrifying.
He is a chameleon!
At this time, a Gorgon battlecruiser approached, her iconic spindle-shaped bow protruding into the energy shield curtain under the bridge of the world ship, and the sharp steel ram was aggressive, like a clenched iron-gray fist. Several Iron Ravens drove out from the shadow of the battleship, and the huge ice-blue wings seemed like thin ice.
Narud saw that the battleship's dock was opened, and hundreds of flashing points of light flew out, like a swarm of insects in summer. Countless boarding ships were packed with fully armed imperial soldiers, and other ships were carrying vehicles and mechas, and piled with ammunition.
Looking to the left and right of the Gorgon, more than a hundred battle cruisers were lined up in several rows and columns, and each warship was releasing landing ships, adding up to more than thousands. Some warships were firing, spewing terrible flames like angry dragons, but Narud didn't know who they were firing at, because the world ship under his feet could not actually prevent the enemy from boarding.
If Narud could activate the main weapon system of the world ship now, the void cannon and the accelerated high-energy particle ball would immediately turn this pathetic warship into ashes.
The Xel'naga must use an avatar to enter the real world, and must accept the shackles of the laws of the universe. Even the Xel'naga's spaceships must be driven by people, and Narud cannot bypass them to order the world ship to fire at Augustgrad, at least not now.
Things changed too suddenly. If he had known this earlier, he should have firmly controlled the warship, or opened up the permissions of the artificial intelligence monitoring system, allowing the world ship to fire autonomously like a mad bull.
Not only that, he did not have time to install a hybrid in the world ship, and there was no way to make the Xel'Naga world ship fire at itself. This was not within the scope of the original design.
All these things are bad for Narud, but if he had known this would happen, he would not have taken the risk to come to Korhal. But it's too late to say anything now, he is already trapped.
The Xel'Naga worldship is shaped like a lance with arm armor, and its predecessor is an abandoned space hulk. Narud peeled off the main part of the worldship from the thick meteorite covering like repairing a precious artifact, revealing the bright green hull, and then used composite materials to repair the damaged parts, reconstructed the decks layer by layer, and laid the compartment baffles. The difficulty is no less than rebuilding the magnificent temple of the past between the remaining columns of the Parthenon.
Today, the main body of the worldship is concentrated at the conical bow and stern, connected by a relatively slender column midship part, which looks like a viewing corridor leading to a glass ecological park. But even so, the hull is unusually large, spectacular, and has beautiful curves. Each deck can accommodate a hundred imperial battlecruisers.
Xel'Naga's thorough understanding of aesthetics and Narud's persistence in this made his world ship elegant, beautiful and shocking, shining under the brilliant starlight.
No wonder Narud was sure that Augustus would be ecstatic after seeing this world ship. In fact, Augustus was indeed very happy, but he had to use it with confidence after solving her creator, just like those emperors who ordered the craftsmen who built their mausoleums to be buried alive.
Narud didn't expect this.
Narud was in the bridge above the bow command deck at this moment, from where he could overlook the battlefield outside, and look inside to see the wide bow deck and battle deck below the bridge.
Looking back, an attack force composed of large mechas and heavy infantry appeared on the deck below. Their red and black power armor was particularly eye-catching in the vivid green light and shadow of the world ship. These soldiers advanced very quickly, but it can be seen that they were still very cautious, as if there were still hideous monsters hidden in every corner of the world ship.
He hoped this was true.
When he turned around, a Protoss troop in orange and white armor also appeared, marching in step with the Terran Empire army.
That was the Purifiers' army, a group of fearless mechanical Protoss. These mechanical Protoss were another form of "insect swarm". Among the multiple Protoss factions, only they still retained a strong military force, a force that Narud had never expected.
Amon despised these mechanical Protoss, just as he despised everyone, but Narud did not think so. He believed that the Purifiers were a potential huge threat, even far above the Terran Empire. It turned out that Narud was also prepared to alienate the relationship between humans and the Purifiers and weaken the latter's power, but now he could not do it.
Putting aside the confusion and resentment in his heart, Narud made up his mind not to admit defeat. This world ship was still his home court.
In the process of repairing the Xel'Naga Worldship, Narud used Xel'Naga relics collected from all over the universe, and even the hulls of other Xel'Naga spacecraft, because using most of the human materials is like using well-mixed yellow mud to repair the ironclad ship.
There are many intact Xel'Naga temples on the worldship. These temples have made up for the energy loss of Narud's weak incarnation in the past years, and now they provide energy for this huge warship. The Xel'Naga Worldship is loaded with eight Xel'Naga kinetic engines, which have terrible void energy and can be used to open a void door directly in the world.
At this moment, the Xel'Naga temple facilities and energy storage crystals can still continuously provide Narud with void energy. With so much energy amplification, he can show the tip of the iceberg of Xel'Naga's power.
With the blessing of this power, he will be invincible.
Although even if the incarnation dies, the Xel'Naga can return to the void, but Narud will never surrender.
Narud was not afraid of death, but he might have to leave this powerful world ship to the Terran Empire, as it did not have the ability to destroy her. If that happened, it would be Narud's biggest mistake.
More Protoss and human forces appeared on the bow deck of the world ship, the Dalam Protoss - an allied army of Templars and Dark Templars. Now, these Templars cut off their own nerve bundles and tied the ends of the cut nerve bundles with shining metal crystal ornaments like their Shakuras relatives.
The Dalam Protoss sent out their most powerful psionic warriors, Archons and Dark Archons, among which the green light groups with hazy shadows represented that they were the rarer Twilight Archons.
The Twilight Archons were very powerful, formed by the fusion of a Templar and a Dark Templar. These Protoss warriors from different Protoss factions had established a relationship beyond life and death during the years of fighting side by side, ready to sacrifice themselves at any time.
Narud felt threatened by these terrifying psychic creatures. By this time, he had already absorbed a considerable amount of void energy from the Xel'Naga Temple in the world ship, making the grotesque and abominable void illusion behind him more substantial. At the same time, countless streams of void energy were pouring in from all directions, converging on Narud's body, like fine and dense green silk threads, making him look like a spider weaving a web.
He summoned a terrifying hurricane that swept across the bridge deck. The raging void energy eroded and peeled off the majestic hull of the world ship, but those ignorant fools still boarded the bridge through the floating ladder and the ramp inside the accelerator, including both humans and Protoss.
Among them was Artanis, the high-ranking executive of the Dalam Protoss. He was Tassadar's hand-picked successor, a young Akiri Protoss who was difficult to convince. Amon originally valued this Protoss leader far more than Augustus Mengsk, but now that he had Tassadar, it was not worth mentioning.
Alarak, the first ascended of the Tal'darim, stood on the other side of Artanis, and on the other side was a female Nerazim warrior and a weird-looking mechanical Protoss.
Narud could vaguely recall who Alarak was. He might be powerful and arrogant among the Tal'darim Protoss, but he was just an insignificant little person here.
Alarak claimed that Amon had betrayed his people and was determined to take revenge on the Dark God, and he even allied with humans for this. But Amon didn't care about this at all, which was the greatest contempt.
But what surprised Narud the most was that among these Protoss, there was a slender human woman who was particularly eye-catching.
Sarah Kerrigan wore a slim light blue dress, and her long fiery red hair was tied into an elegant bun. She looked as if she was just attending a banquet.
But she was the queen of the empire and shouldn't have come here at all.
But since Augustus was crowned emperor, Kerrigan hadn't taken action for seven or eight years, maybe she had been itching to do it.
For some reason, this human posed an even greater threat to Narud, and he even suspected that the other party was no longer a human.
"Narud, you betrayed your emperor and your people!" Artanis came to Narud in front of the surging psychic storm, and his slightly straightforward words seemed to not see that the other party was a non-human void creature.
"The son of Shakuras must pay with blood." Vorazun said.
"Draw your sword, you monster!" Talandar said.
"Very well, this is a Rak'shir ritual." Alarak lit the bloody blade.
"Do you want to escape your miserable fate?" The longer the time drags on, the better it is for Narud, so that he can accumulate more power.
But if Augustus is willing to destroy the temple and the charging crystal in the world ship, Narud's power will be significantly weakened.
"No, I am the master of my own destiny." Alarak said to Narud: "I have the final say in this matter."
"Kill him!" Kerrigan said nothing else, and took the initiative to act.
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