StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Chapter 337 Shadow Run
Weeks had passed since the protoss fleet hunting for Tassadar evacuated the Altera galaxy, and Oasis entered the hotter end of March.

Like this uninteresting, sultry planet with green, hazy skies, Oasis was once nothing more than a gray town of prefab houses and criss-crossing alleys.Criminals and pirates run rampant here, with nine out of ten wanted criminals, drug addicts, parts thieves, smugglers and armed thugs.

Everyone has evil intentions, because innocent and pure people can't survive in this dark world.

The Revolutionary Army has controlled and managed Oasis Town for nearly a month, and the strict and effective administrative measures have gradually brought the town into the right place.For the people of Oasis Town, who are used to crime and fierce armed conflicts, the management of the Revolutionary Army is closer to a harsh and high-handed rule.

Even when Revolutionary Marshal Augustus Mengsk announced that he was pardoning those who deserved to be detained for "insignificant" crimes, about 2 people were arrested for various appalling crimes, about a third of them People were accused of murder, kidnapping, drug smuggling, and violence. Thousands of lawsuits were brought to the Oasis Town Court within two weeks.

People in Oasis Town have become accustomed to a life of intrigue and deceit. Many sophisticated criminals have even hidden here for more than ten years or even longer, and the evidence proclaiming their guilt may be in the federal territory a few light years away or already be destroyed.

Augustus ordered all Revolutionary Army psykers to participate in the investigation of criminal cases, so even the crimes that have been buried in the dust for many years cannot be hidden by high-level psykers one-on-one for a long time.

After Nova Squadron, with its many Ghosts, fell on Augustus, the number of Ghosts in the Revolutionary Army was close to 90.These former Federation ghost agents sworn to fight for Augustus Mengsk and the New Order are brilliant assassins and favorites of telepathy, the ability that all Federation politicians fear.

Even those drug lords and pirate captains with extraordinary psychological qualities cannot bear the gaze of a human psyker for long, and will always collapse under the pressure of one after another.Because the criminal who concealed the crime did not know how many crimes the psyker on the opposite side had read about him, every contradictory statement might make them reveal their feet.

Besides the Revolutionary Army, the Tyrann Federation and the United States of Umoyan will not waste precious psychic users on solving criminal cases, because that is really overkill, even in those courts that accept political cases, they will not let psychic users intervention.

The mind-reading ability of psykers has been obviously underestimated, one is because their number is too rare, and the other is that the rulers don't trust these psykers.

According to the laws of the planet under the rule of the Revolutionary Army, these sinners should be sentenced to death immediately or imprisoned in Antiga Prison for decades, but they can choose to pay for their crimes by working in the mines.

At this moment, Augustus is on the top of a ridge north of Oasis Town, and directly below him is a large and rugged rift valley.The rift spans sparse forests of deciduous trees and outcropping natural crystal veins that glisten blue in the sun, before burying itself in steep mountains dotted with high-energy gas springs.

From Augustus's position, the vast rift valley can be seen as far as the eye can see.The mountains in the distance, dotted with geothermal geysers and gushing high-energy gas springs, were shrouded in a green haze, and the sun seemed to be setting, burning up the clouds in the sky.

"Is the ceremony about to start?" Augustus, who was wearing a long dark blue coat with a square collar, held a pair of binoculars in his hand, looking down at the rift valley from time to time.

"According to what Tassadar said, it should be at sunset." Without waiting for the people around him to answer, he continued on his own: "Tassadar must pass through this dark place where more than 100 people are hidden at the turn of day and night. Canyon of the Templar Masters, the mightiest of the Dark Templars is the Dark Master Zeratul himself."

"It's unbelievable that as a templar, Tassadar would accept the trials of the dark templar. He really mastered the power of the void in such a short time - the last one who mastered the karaling at the same time The protoss who can communicate with void psionics is the ancient protoss hero Adun."

Since Tassadar got acquainted with Augustus and Zeratul, the leaders of the Templars of the Protoss Empire, the Dark Templars of Sargolas and the Human Revolutionary Army often sat together to talk about their views on the form of war. Views, and later even developed to the human history of protoss and human beings, talking about everything.

In many respects, Tassadar and Zeratul can definitely be called the teachers of Augustus, and a relationship between teachers and friends gradually formed between them.

Augustus also saw Tassadar ask Zeratul for advice on how to master the energy of the void - Tassadar does not think that ignorance and asking for advice are shameful and worthy of shame, as long as the power of the void can help his people, He doesn't care about studying with an open mind like a student.

It was also at this time that Tassadar discovered that when the pure blue psionic energy in Kara was combined with the green void energy of the dark templar, it could explode with infinite power like a supernova. He also said more than once that using this Such a species may be able to kill the Swarmmaster once and for all, solve the zerg threat forever, and keep the Protoss Empire safe.

Although Augustus followed Tassadar to attend Zeratul's class, he was also confused. Only Kerrigan, who was allowed to come to the Star Shuttle with Augustus, could learn from it. Knowledge.

"Sounds amazing." Renault stood on Augustus' right hand: "Shadow Run, how does this seem to be some kind of ancient tribal custom, the technology of the protoss is quite advanced, but the custom is primitive and ancient. "

The ancient ritual of the protoss of Sacoolas, Shadow Run, is the only way for a young shadow apprentice to become a dark templar. They must go deep into the starless valleys and valleys of Sacoolas to accept other dark templars. until he beats everyone or proves he has what it takes to be a fighter.

There is no doubt that such trials are extremely difficult, and the dark templars must practice hard for centuries.Therefore, all Dark Templars without exception are incomparable fighters.

"The Protoss is a civilization that was forcibly promoted by the Naganaga from the tribal era to the interstellar era. This is very common in them." Augustus' understanding of the history of the Protoss is also different from the past.

"This is the protoss. They can blow you to pieces from miles away, but they insist on using knives." Kerrigan was on Augustus's left, she was wearing a densely woven ghost bodysuit, but The sharp curve between Xiaoman's waist and buttocks is hidden under a gray revolutionary army coat with a long hem.

"Jimmy, where is Tychus." Augustus stared closely at the rift valley below through the telescope in his hand, looking for traces of Tassadar and Zeratul.

This barren canyon is not uninhabited. Across the Great Rift Valley is a mine built by the Kymerians. Rows of factory sheds covered in red dust stand quietly in the wind.In the central area of ​​the rift valley, there is a geological survey station of the revolutionary army, next to it is a blue crystal tower tens of feet high.

"'Tychus Sheriff' is busy chasing down criminals and rectifying the customs industry in Oasis Town." Renault said with a chuckle: "Tychus, this old boy is really happy these days, never let the devil do it Angel's work."

"Tassadar has appeared," Kerrigan reminded Augustus.

Augustus followed his gaze, and Tassadar and his Templars appeared, standing at the foot of the ridge.The testing Dark Templar had already retreated into the shadows, waiting for Tassadar to cross the dangerous canyon on foot.

Tassadar is a powerful High Templar, so he faces many times as many Dark Templars as a normal Shadowrun.

"What's going on, why is Tassadar wearing a blanket, what kind of weird protoss custom is this." Reynolds raised his binoculars and said in surprise: "He is almost naked."

"I have to say, this outfit is pretty cool, isn't it?"

In Renault's sight, Tassadar wasn't really naked, but he didn't wear shiny gold-blue alloy armor like other templars, but he wore it cross-body on his right shoulder and crotch. A dark templar style gray girdle.

Not only that, but Tassadar didn't even wear the wrist blade that could inspire the psionic blade.

This means that Tassadar will only pass the trials of the dark templar by virtue of his own strength, not weapons or armor.

"." Augustus also noticed this, but he just said that this was not peeping, but a pre-arranged observation.

"Tassadar's power is far greater than ever. In the past, Zeratul could still have an advantage in the contest with him, but now." Kerrigan said.

"Jimmy, how far do you think you can go if you go to the Dark Templar's Shadow Run trial?" Augustus said jokingly.

"Do you want me to compete with more than 100 world-famous peerless swordsmen with bare hands in crotch pants? Augustus, then you bastard will definitely see my sharp ass when I run around." Renault laughed .

At this time, without the leader's order, the templars had all retreated to one side of the rift valley, and Tassadar walked towards the depths of the rift valley with vigorous steps.Considering the age of the protoss, Tassadar was not yet an old man. He was physically strong, and even in terms of combat skills, few templars and dark templars could surpass him.

However, in Shadow Run, the tester needs both strong strength and wisdom to resolve the crisis.A powerful Dark Templar is far more than a brash man who only knows how to use brute force, he should be better at outwitting.

"Guys, do you want to try it?"

Kerrigan tossed her long red hair and turned her head to look back.

Originally, there was only Corporal Faraday and a row of Marshal Guard soldiers behind them, but now more than 20 ghost agents of the Revolutionary Army suddenly appeared.

There were men and women among them, and most of them wore helmets or masks, and no one could see the expressions underneath.In the foreground is a well-built, dark-haired female ghost wearing a black Umoyan matte mask that covers her forehead, eyes, and nose, leaving only her purple lips exposed.

Charismatic, mysterious and dangerous, she is the only 8th-level psyker in Nova Squadron, a powerful psyker, Lagdamen (instructor of the Ghost Academy of the Tyranid Empire).Since graduating from the Academy of Ghosts in Tarsonis, she hadn't tasted a defeat.

Removing the psychic suppressor in Ragdaman's brain is an extremely dangerous job, once it gets out of control, there is absolutely no way anyone will survive in the operating room.But fortunately, the excision operation was finally completed without any danger.

Ragdaman, the brunette beauty with an Asian face, quickly embraced her new identity—in fact, according to Kerrigan, Ragdaman was almost grateful to Augustus.

For Augustus, this is a dangerous statement.It has to be said that the female ghost agents are quite charming and dangerous.

Almost all the ghost agents hated the Tyrann Federation and the ghost academy extremely, and this hatred eventually turned into a sense of identity with the Revolutionary Army and a common hatred.

"Zeratul, the Dark Master, once taught our Dark Templar how to fight." Ragdaman said calmly, "Including but not limited to disrupting the enemy's vision, using the terrain to sneak into the enemy's back. "

"Then took out a light blade."

"You must study with humility, Ragdaman." Augustus hopes that his psykers can learn useful knowledge and skills from Zeratul, and this will be taught to the newborn human psykers in the future , to avoid tragedy.

"Zeratul is the most outstanding shadow master, and he can teach you more than that." Augustus said, "You don't want to know how much I spent asking Zeratul to teach you a lesson." .”

"Yes, Marshal." Ragdaman saluted Augustus immediately.

"Maybe we can't use the psychic blades of the protoss yet, but we can equip each of you with two long knives from the ancient earth era." Augustus said: "The best of you will be allowed to wear The coat of arms of the Mengsk family is on my left and right."

"Your side is always 'ghostly'." Ragdaman said metaphorically.

As Augustus spoke, the sky gradually darkened.But even with night vision goggles, Augustus couldn't really see what was happening in the canyon.

It's just that there are occasional flashes of green light in the canyon, and there is a scorching sound, like two swordsmen touching their blades in the dark.

The lights and swords were getting farther and farther away, but Tassadar was still advancing without stopping.

"What can we learn from this?" Augustus asked his loyal followers, looking into the distance.

"We are stronger than ever," Ragdaman replied.

The ghost agents of the Revolutionary Army headed by Lagdaman all wore cloaks and hoods made of pseudo-light material outside their combat uniforms. Almost everyone carried ancient cold weapons sickles and long knives, and carried C-10 rifles on their shoulders.

Under the guidance of the dark templar masters, the ghost agents of the revolutionary army have made great progress in the use of melee cold weapons, and the templars have taught them the skills of controlling psionic energy through meditation and temperance, which makes Austrian Gustus' ghost agents are more proficient in psionic control and mind braking.

The most notable change is that what they learn is not what the Federal Ghost Academy can teach.

The fighting methods of the ghosts of Augustus will be closer to those of the protoss. Because they can control the psionic energy in their bodies more easily, they will also be able to release more powerful spiritual power, and with the help of the protoss, they will discover many unknowns. New abilities discovered.

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(End of this chapter)