Chapter 730 Fallen Ark

The twelve squadrons of the Imperial Combined Fleet advanced towards Aiur in dense battle formations above the ecliptic plane, with a huge and spectacular scale. The tactic of concentrating the deployment of main battleships to avoid the dispersion of forces and being defeated one by one is still applicable from the ocean sail age to the space age.

Each squadron in the Combined Fleet has several full or nearly full naval squadrons under its command, with more than 100 main battleships, and the commanders are all famous generals of the time such as Horace Warfield, Matt Horner and Alexi Stukov.

In the holographic three-dimensional display screen in front of Augustus, the enemy logo in the direction of Aiur almost covered half of the screen, and the blue triangle cursor representing the power of the Protoss pierced into it like an arrow.

The multiple green light spots formed by the Imperial Fleet followed closely behind, and the red light spots appeared from all directions like pieces of red clouds and approached rapidly, and then were eliminated or swallowed by the green blocks.

The large digital announcements and special symbols on the display screen showed a series of data such as the distance measurement line, contact angle and predicted trajectory of the enemy Leviathan plasmid projectile, and this was the result of simplification by supercomputers. Otherwise, no one could process so much information at the same time.

His flagship White Star was at the forefront of the entire fleet's attack formation. On the left and right were the Augustgrad-class Royal Princess and Overlord. So far, only less than 20 ships of this class have been built.

From the sides of these two ships, the huge fleet of warships continued to extend to both sides, like a bow that was bent. The flashes of the swaying firepower of rows of gun groups were clearly visible, forming an orange-red sea of ​​fire.

Outside the porthole in front of him was a scene of a sea of ​​blood and corpses. A large number of Zerg corpses floated in the deep space, and were torn into pieces by the impact of the warships. Flesh and blood flew everywhere, and they flew around like ice thrown on the road. Muscles, connective tissue, exoskeletons and insect eyes were like hail.

The dense ATX gun laser barrage spread out like a big net in the White Star's path, crushing all the Zerg caught in it. The acrid secretions and gas in their stomachs made them burn briefly, and then they went out in the blink of an eye.

Augustus seemed to be able to imagine the sound of those huge Zerg flying creatures being smashed by the ship's guns, which should be no different from squeezing a juicy stink bug to death.

At this time, they were about 200,000 miles away from Ai'er in the center of the screen, but this was not a distance for the fleet. Imagine this ship as a vulture car, and it was just a few steps on the accelerator.

Ai'er was getting closer and closer. It used to be just a red and white dot, but now her huge projection with a gloomy death had occupied a large area above the porthole, like a grotesque ghost eye.

This was not the Ai'er in Augustus' memory at all. The void had corrupted her for a long time.

From here, Ai'er can already see the continental plates hidden under the atmosphere. There used to be a green and fertile land, but now it looks like dried bones, rotten, corrupt and barren.

Red gas emerges from the cracks, savagely changing the environment of the planet's surface.

If someone says that it is not Ai'er, but another planet, Augustus can't find any rebuttal.

"Your Majesty, the Tal'darim have cleared a landing area on Ai'er's satellite Sharok." Matt entered the command channel at this time:

"We can build a command center and supply station in the mining area to use it as a forward base and a fortress to resist the attack of the Golden Fleet."

Sharok, the moon of Ai'er, has a diameter of about 2,174 miles, which means that she is almost the same as the only moon of the third planet in the solar system.

In the ancient religious beliefs of the Protoss, the sun and the moon also play a very important role. From a mathematical point of view, Sharok is almost a perfect sphere, symbolizing purity, perfection and order.

However, the current Sharrock is a symbol of corruption and disease, with gray-brown creeping fungal carpets all over it, giant organ-like Zerg buildings growing vigorously on the mountain walls and plains, and hundreds of millions of Zerg digging and moving in the sparse underground soil.

"A model of efficient killing." Looking at the landing point that Matt was talking about on the screen, Augustus commented.

The Tal'darim Protoss, the representative of realism and pragmatism among the Protoss factions. They have used destruction rays and heat guns to clear all the large main nests of Sharrock, and nonchalantly razed those giant craters that were once endowed with religious meanings to the ground.

Such extermination efficiency is still unmatched by humans.

"Let's do it." Augustus was silent for a moment, and then said: "Build a star-based weapon station, deploy all orbital weapons and space mines, and it would be best if they can't move a step."

"Now is the time to clear the inventory, Matt, there is no need to be stingy." Raynor added.

A detachment of fleets then sailed towards Sharrock. The huge starship seemed so huge before it left, but it could not escape the law that things get smaller when they are closer. It gradually turned into a group of small black dots and disappeared in the shadow of Sharrock's backlit surface.

At the same time, the distance between the fleet and Sharrock and even Ai'er was rapidly closing.

Like a tragic car accident or a horrific shipwreck, the battlefield leading to Ai'er was filled with huge insect corpses and the wreckage of Protoss warships. Bloody corpses and broken hull support wreckage were scattered everywhere. The scene was horrible and terrifying.

The ages of these wrecks are even different. They come from various large-scale battles that broke out in Aiur in the past ten years. Every battleship and every behemoth represents an epic in the interstellar world.

"Emperor Augustus, we have cleared the way to Aiur." Artanis's image immediately appeared on the main screen. On his body was the Spear of Adon, which seemed to connect the magnificent bridge of the stars. Hundreds of Phoenix fighter jets were passing through the light blue energy dome, casting shadows that moved like broken leaves.

"I really don't know what you would do without me." High Lord Alarak appeared from the other side of the screen: "Augustus Mengsk, don't forget who is the one who contributes the most. "

Augustus nodded and motioned for Artanis to continue.

"The El swarm is trying to regain control of high-altitude orbit, but they have missed the best opportunity." Artanis continued.

As he spoke, Augustus could clearly feel that the Spear of Adon was suffering from Artanis's slightly trembling figure. To shake this unparalleled super ark, the power required would probably be unimaginable. .

"Activate the Spear of Adun attack cluster and destruction cluster." The high-ranking executive of the Protoss gave the order and said to Augustus:

"The zerg here are the craziest of all the species we have ever seen. Rather than using their lives to stop us from moving forward, it is better to say that their mission is to march towards death passionately in lamentations."

"The worst bug is always the next one," Raynor said.

"Death is the gift of the dark god." Alarak said in a mocking tone: "How kind and generous Amon is."

"They are stalling for time." Augustus took a few steps in front of the home screen and then turned back:

"Where is the evil god's body?"

"It has been confirmed once again that it is the place where the Lord once descended in El, on the Xel'Naga Temple." Matt said: "Now there is a void storm surge that rises and falls like a tide, and the energy level is sensing The index on the device is frighteningly high.”

"You may not like to hear this, but even our most powerful orbital weapons may not be able to penetrate this natural energy barrier and kill the evil god's host."

"Is this the original temple?" Renault asked, looking at the screen.

Amidst the surging void energy, one can suddenly see a majestic temple standing in it, with gleaming spiers and walls stretching as far as the eye can see. In that weird scene, there seemed to be countless weird void creatures meandering around.

Behind the endless temples, shrines and altars is the huge evil body of the evil god, a twisted monster that is a mixture of the flesh and blood of countless stars and insects. From a human perspective, it might not be extremely scary, but if the flesh and blood of the protoss were replaced by humans, it might not be so.

"If Amon doesn't go to work in Xel'Naga, then he might be a good architect and artist." Augustus sighed and shook his head.

Xel'Naga emphasizes that the successor must have pure spirit and pure essence, but does not realize whether the successor's mind can truly withstand the huge transformation and contrast "from human to god".

The ancient Xel'Naga were as faithful to their duty of guarding the reincarnation of the universe as ascetics, but the new successors may not be able to.

He continued: "Wasn't the original Xel'Naga temple destroyed by the twilight energy along with the Lord's body?"

"I'm afraid we just mistakenly thought it was destroyed. The Eye of the Void born from the psychic storm confused our sight." Artanis denied.

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Regardless of whether the Eye of the Void that swallowed up the Xel'Naga Temple and the Overlord's body came from Eamon's handiwork, or it was the butterfly effect produced by Augustus using twilight energy to kill the Overlord.

Before Kerrigan failed to become the Queen of Blades, the plot was still under Augustus' control. After the Brood War, it began to surge in an unpredictable direction.

Speaking of which, if this had not happened, Augustus would have been prepared to send people to burn the Lord's body in the future to prevent Amon from using it to resurrect him.

Be cremated at least three times.

"How can we destroy the incarnation of Emon?" Alarak couldn't understand what they were saying, but he didn't care: "I can't wait to crush its heart with my own hands."

"These void fragments." Matt came online again: "Similar to those that appeared in Augustgrad, but stronger."

"Emon's incarnation is absorbing the energy of the void fragments at an extremely alarming speed. Under this situation, even our most powerful military weapons have no way of harming the evil god's body."

"That means our weapons are not strong enough." Renault looked at Artanis, but the other party also expressed that he was powerless.

"I don't like things that can't be attacked," Augustus said.

"We can only destroy these void fragments first, and then concentrate our firepower to destroy them," Artanis said.

"Your Majesty. This will be very time-consuming. Our warships must deal with the attack from the swarm and cannot carry out orbital bombing." Matt looked at his watch: "The sensors show that new worm hive troops are still arriving."

"A large number of corrosive spore clusters are coming!"

"The shield failed and the ship trembled!"

"We were hit!"

There was a cry of surprise from behind Matt. The battleship under his feet was shaking, but his expression remained unchanged: "It can be expected that the Zerg's offensive will not slow down before they are completely wiped out."

"Before that, it will be difficult for the fleet to provide sufficient firepower support."

"Send troops to remove these void fragments." Augustus ordered: "Be quick."

"Artanis, have the El Xel'Naga portal and the warp matrix been destroyed?"

"We destroyed the Xel'Naga portal and two of the psychic matrix buildings that maintain the warp matrix from orbit." Artanis replied: "They are located in the Executor's Fortress and the Ancient Temple. The last one is located in the Xel'Naga Grotto, underground. I have sent a brave and combative Templar unit to destroy it."

"The final moment has come, and this is for the glory of the Protoss."

"Don't make any mistakes. If another golden fleet comes, we will have to die a lot of people." Raynor's face was clearly sad.

"Destroy the void fragments and the warp matrix buildings at the same time." Augustus looked at Artanis and said.

"Enemy ships have been detected jumping in." At this moment, an alarm sounded.

The screen on the White Star's main screen flashed, and a huge warship with amazing momentum was jumping in. The torn warp force field was extremely spectacular, and countless blue-black Protoss fighters were roaring out.

"So fast" Augustus was surprised, thinking that the Golden Fleet had come.

With this support speed, Ai'er would never fall in the past.

"Be careful, it's a big guy." Raynor also opened his eyes wide.

"How is it possible!" Artanis's calm demeanor could not be supported all of a sudden: "It's the Ark Otalis Pride. Even she fell into Amon's hands?"

It was a salvation ark that had fallen into darkness. The traces of void corruption were all over the magnificent and magnificent hull of the past. The huge clusters of void energy crystals extended out like swords, shining with ice-blue cold light.

"I remember that it was the arbitrators who were defeated by Tassadar who drove away. Since they still have Kara, it is only a matter of time before they are controlled by Amon." Raynor said: "These arbitrators should stop torturing the old man."

"Kill her!" Augustus said: "Do it."

"Yes, Your Majesty."