StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 730 Fallen Ark
The twelve squadrons belonging to the Imperial United Fleet each advanced towards Aiur in a dense battle formation above the ecliptic plane, and the scale was huge and spectacular.The tactics of concentrating the deployment of the main warships to avoid the dispersion of forces and being defeated one by one are still applicable from the age of ocean sails to the age of space.

Each squadron in the United Fleet has several full or nearly full naval squadrons under its jurisdiction, with more than one hundred capital ships, and the commanders are Horace Warfield, Matt Horner and Allie Famous players like Kesey Stukov.

On the holographic three-dimensional display screen in front of Augustus, the enemy logo in the direction of Aiur covered half of the screen almost impermeably, 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 like pieces of red clouds from all directions, up, down, left, and right, and quickly approached, and then were wiped out or swallowed by the green blocks.

The digital reports and special symbols on a large section of the display screen display a series of data such as the distance measurement line, contact angle, and predicted trajectory of the enemy Leviathan plasmid projectile. This is the result of supercomputer simplification, otherwise no one can simultaneously dealing with so much information.

His flagship, the White Star, is at the forefront of the entire fleet's attack formation. On the left and right are Augustegler's Pride-class Royal Princess and Overlord. Only warships of this class have been built so far. Less than twenty ships.

Seen from the two sides of the two ships, the huge battleship group continued to extend to both sides, like a big bow being bent.The flickering flickering firepower of rows of artillery batteries was clearly visible, forming a sea of ​​orange-red flames.

Outside the porthole in front of you is a scene of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. A large number of Zerg corpses are floating in the deep air, and they are smashed to pieces by the battleship. Flesh and blood are flying around like ice cubes thrown on the road. .Muscles, connective tissue, exoskeletons, and insect eyes were thrown down like hailstones.

The dense laser barrage of the ATX artillery group opened up like a big net on the way forward of the White Star, crushing all the Zergs caught in the net, and the acrid secretions and gas in the belly made them burn for a short time For a while, and then 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 naval guns, which should be the same as crushing a juicy bug.

At this point they are about 20 miles from Ayr in the center of the screen, but that's not much distance for the fleet.Think of the boat as a Vulture car, and it's just a few hits on the gas pedal.

Al was getting closer and closer, it was just a red and white dot, and now her huge projection with a gloomy death has occupied a large area above the porthole, like a grotesque ghost eye.

This is not the Al in Augustus' memory at all, the void has corrupted her for a long time.

From here, Al can already see the continental plate looming and under the atmosphere. It used to be a piece of fertile green land, but now it looks like dried bones, decayed, corrupted and barren.

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

If someone said that it was not Aiur, but another planet, Augustus could not find any words to refute it.

"Your Majesty, Tadalin has cleared a landing zone on Al's satellite Shalock." Matt entered the command channel at this time:

"We can establish command centers and supply depots in the mining area, so that they can be used as forward bases and fortresses against gold fleet attacks."

Shalok, the moon of El, has a diameter of about 2174 miles, which means that she is almost the same as the only moon on the third planet in the solar system.

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

However, the current Shalock is like a symbol of corruption and disease. It is covered with gray-brown overgrown creepers. Zerg buildings like giant organs are growing vigorously on the mountain walls and plains. Hundreds of millions of Zergs are growing in the soil Sparse underground digging, moving.

"A model of efficient killing." Looking at the landing point mentioned by Matt on the screen, Augustus commented so.

Tadarin protoss, the representative of realism and practicality among the various factions of protoss.They've wiped out all of Sharloc's great hives with destruction rays and heat guns, and nonchalantly leveled the giant craters that once had religious overtones.

This kind of extinction efficiency is still unmatched by human beings.

"Just do that." After a moment of silence, Augustus said again: "Build a star-based weapon station, deploy all orbital weapons and space mines, and it's best to make it impossible for them to move."

"It's time to clear the inventory, Matt, without digging," Raynor added.

A detachment fleet then sailed towards Sharlock. The huge starship looked incomparably grand before it sailed away. After all, it couldn't escape the law of nearness, size, distance, and smallness. It gradually turned into a group of small black spots and disappeared behind the backlight of Sharlock. in the shadows.

At the same time, the distance between the fleet and Sharlock and even Aiur is rapidly getting closer.

Like a tragic car accident scene or a horrific shipwreck, the battlefield leading to Aiur is covered with huge insect corpses and wreckage of protoss warships, bloody corpses and broken hull bracket wreckage scattered everywhere, the scene Horrible and frightening.

The ages of these wrecks are even different, and they come from the previous large-scale battles that broke out in Ayr in the past ten years. Every warship and every giant beast represents an epic in the interstellar world.

"Emperor Augustus, we have cleared the way to Aiur." The image of Artanis appeared on the main screen immediately, and on his body was the Spear of Adun, which seemed to be a magnificent bridge connecting 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." The high-ranking 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, motioning for Artanis to continue.

"The Aiur Swarm is trying to regain control in high orbit, but they have missed the best time," continued Artanis.

While speaking, Augustus could clearly feel that the Spear of Adun was suffering from the slightly trembling figure of Artanis, and the power needed to shake this unparalleled super ark was probably unimaginable .

"Activate the Spear of Adun to attack the cluster and destroy the cluster." The high-level Protoss executive ordered 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, it is better to say that their mission is to march toward death in an elegy."

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

"Death is the gift of the God of Darkness." Alarak said in a mocking tone, "How merciful and generous is Amon."

"They are delaying time." Augustus took a few steps in front of the main screen, then turned back:

"Where is the location of the evil god's body?"

"It has been confirmed once again that it is the place where the ruler once descended on Aiur, above the Xel'Naga Temple." Matt said: "Now there are void storm surges that rise and fall like tidal waves, and the energy level is sensing The index on the device is frighteningly high."

"Maybe you are not happy to hear such words, but maybe even our most powerful orbital weapons cannot penetrate this natural energy barrier and kill the host of the evil god."

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

Amidst the raging void energy, one can suddenly see a majestic temple towering over it, with spiers and walls gleaming with halos that can't be seen at a glance.In that eerie picture, there seemed to be countless grotesque void creatures winding their way.

Behind the endless temples, shrines and altars is the evil huge body of the host of the evil god, a twisted monster mixed with the flesh and blood of countless protoss and zerg.From a human perspective, it may not be extremely scary, but if the flesh and blood of the protoss is replaced by humans, it may not be necessary.

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

Sarnaga emphasized that the successor must have pure spirit and pure essence, but did not realize whether the successor's mind can truly withstand the huge transformation and contrast of "from man to god".

The ancient Naganaga were as faithful as the ascetics to their duty of guarding the cycle of the universe, but the new successors may not be able to.

He went on to say: "Hasn't the original Xel'Naga Temple been destroyed by the twilight energy along with the Lord's corpse?"

"I'm afraid it's just that we mistakenly thought it was destroyed, and the eye of the void born from the psionic storm confused our sight." Artanis denied.

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Regardless of whether the Eye of the Void that devoured the Xel'Naga Temple and the body of the Overlord came from Amon's handwriting, or Augustus used the twilight energy to kill the Overlord's butterfly effect.

Before Kerrigan failed to become the Queen of Blades, the plot was still under the control of Augustus, and the Brood War began to go all the way in an unpredictable direction.

Speaking of which, if this kind of thing hadn't happened, Augustus would have been prepared to send someone to burn the body of the master in the future, so as not to use it to resurrect Amon.

Cremate it at least three times.

"How can I destroy Amon's incarnation?" 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 went online again: "Similar to the ones that appeared in Augustgrad, but stronger."

"Amon's incarnation is absorbing the energy of the void fragments at an astonishing speed. Under such circumstances, even our strongest military weapons are unable to harm the host of the evil god."

"That means our weapons are not strong enough." Renault looked at Artanis, but the other party also said that there was nothing he could do.

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

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

"Your Majesty, this will take a lot of time. Our warships have to deal with the attack from the swarm and cannot carry out orbital bombing." Matt looked at his watch: "The sensors show that new hive troops are still arriving."

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

"The shield fails, the hull trembles!"

"We're hit!"

There was a burst of exclamation behind Matt, the battleship under his feet was trembling, but his face remained unchanged: "It can be expected that the attack of the swarm will not slow down until it is wiped out. "

"Before this, it was difficult for the fleet to provide sufficient fire support."

"Send troops to remove these void fragments." Augustus ordered, "Quickly."

"Artanis, have the Elxel'Naga Portal and Warp Matrix been destroyed?"

"We destroyed the Xel'Naga portal and two of the psionic matrix buildings that maintained the warp matrix from orbit." Artanis replied: "The two are located in the executive fortress and the ancient temple, and finally One lies underground in the Naganaga Grotto, and I have sent a valiant army of templars to destroy it."

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

"Don't make any mistakes, if there is another golden fleet, we will still have to die a lot of people." Renault's face was obviously sad.

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

"An enemy ship has been detected." At this moment, a burst of alarm came.

The screen on the main screen of the White Star flashed, and an astonishingly huge battleship was jumping in. The torn jump force field was extremely spectacular, and countless blue and black protoss fighters were roaring out.

"So fast" Augustus was taken aback, thinking it was the golden fleet coming.

With this speed of support, how could Al still fall back then.

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

"How is it possible!" Artanis's calm demeanor could not hold up all of a sudden: "Is it the pride of Ark Otaris that 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 glorious and magnificent hull of the past. Huge clusters of void energy crystals extended like swords, glowing with ice blue cold light .

"I remember that the group of arbitrators who were defeated by Tassadar drove them away. Since they still have Kara, it will be a matter of time before they are controlled by Amon." Renault said, "Arbitrator, it's better not to torment the old man."

"Get rid of her!" Augustus said, "Do it."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

(End of this chapter)