StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 783 Edge of Darkness
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Otarian Rift.

The dark deep space dotted with stars suddenly twisted, and a monster-like human warship appeared outside the conventional space. In an instant, a hundred lit searchlights looked down at all living things from a high position, and each sampan-sized gun group turned to its position. A moment later, in the white light released by the folding of space, more behemoths broke through the rapids of time and space, cutting through the waves and moving forward, like countless lead weights smashed into the water.

All of the warships' armor lacked identification markings, meaning that these ships were never counted in the Empire's public fleet, but without exception, they were welcomed when they joined the Empire's various fleet channels.

Another imperial fleet arrived almost at the same time. The huge emblem of the Terran Empire was proudly painted on every warship, solemn and grand, their loyalty to the emperor was as scorching as the sun.

All of a sudden, the space was filled with newly arrived warships. The new soldiers stared with wide eyes, surprised and proud, and even the experienced sailors swore that they had never seen so many warships in one day.

Their own warships could be seen in every direction, and just trying to figure out their names was hopeless, and there were so many frigates, troop transports, hospital ships, and space fighters that even a ship returning to its mothership could get the wrong direction. Of course, if the enemy happened to stray into this place, they would immediately find themselves being targeted by tens of thousands of naval guns.

The death fleets of the Tal'darim Protoss and the battle groups of the Empire face each other from afar, forming a vast and spectacular array. In every century in the past, the death fleets have been a symbol of death and destruction, and those who hear of them are terrified and those who see them are terrified.

Those beautiful and eerie black warships were filled with scarlet fire, their obsidian edges were polished to a gleaming edge by the servants of the fleet lords, and the Tal'darim Phoenix fighters marching in formation were like rows of sharp guillotines, easily ripping open the enemies of the high-ranking lords. Rather than saying that the Tal'darim Protoss were decorating their warships with sharp blades, it would be better to say that their warships were forged from swords.

Solar reactor-driven Tal'darim Titan warp prisms are flying from one mothership to another. These behemoths carry thousands of Tal'darim warriors. Countless terrifying armies are gathering and waiting under the throne of Alarak.

Passing through the huge group of warships is the entrance to the Otarian Rift. Today, this place is filled with the Empire's orbital platforms, mobile space stations and large orbital shipyards. Their scale is breathtaking, like a huge orbital city.

Most of these man-made facilities were built on the core industrial worlds of the Empire and then warped here by Protoss engineers. Even so, the speed from the discovery of Ulna's existence to its completion was amazing.

Following a Viking fighter taking off from the Imperial Gorgon-class battlecruiser Reign of Fire, and a fleet of Imperial warships crossing the Otarian Rift, you can gradually see Urna slowly enlarging in your field of vision.

This is a planet-sized man-made structure consisting of countless maze-like corridors, ramps, and huge bridges that can span continents. It is also filled with city-sized temple complexes. Its grandeur makes almost everyone who comes here feel a sense of dreamlike unreality.

Based on the agreement, Urna is jointly governed by the Terran Empire and the Dalam Protoss, and is stationed with a large number of troops.

Undoubtedly, only the most elite warriors will be sent to garrison here, which will be regarded as the greatest honor among the Protoss. The Tal'darim and Ihan'li will also send warriors here, the former is almost equivalent to exile from the center of power, and the latter is a pious pilgrimage, just like the ascetics among humans who walk to Jerusalem.

At this moment, the fleets of various races gathered in the sky above Ulna were even more overwhelming, and flagship-level Gorgons were everywhere. The legendary Protoss motherships that only existed in legends were all over the sky, and their firepower could easily flatten every planet covered by their purification beams. Their names can be traced back to at least several centuries ago. They are the flagships of the greatest fleets of the Protoss Empire and have been praised countless times.

Even now, Golden Age motherships are returning home from the most distant worlds. Meanwhile, the Dauram Protoss have reclaimed the ancient advanced technology of the Glory Age to construct the flagships of the Golden Fleet.

Tychus joked that this time the boss was betting almost all of his fleet, which could be called his coffin book, while Durham pulled out all the burial objects in the grave to fight Amon.

The reason he wasn't beaten by Augustus and Tassadar in a mixed doubles match was simply because those two guys were too busy to deal with this idiot.

But it is hard to imagine that in just a few weeks, millions of human and Protoss troops have gathered from Ulrena and Ulzaan outside Ulnar to Ujari inside.

Here, legion-sized Protoss Templars are a common sight. Their silent ranks are filled with gold-and-blue armored fanatics, apostles, and powerful dragon riders, immortals, and colossi. The warp field stretches mile after mile outside the Temple of Unity in Ulnar.

And this is only a very small part compared to the troops in the fleet.

In addition, there is even a part of the primitive Zerg army here. Each of them is huge in size, not inferior to the largest armored personnel carrier of the Terran Empire. The largest individual among them is like a moving volcano, which makes people wonder what strange things they ate in the Koprulu sector.

When these primitive Zerg need particle weapons and cannons, they can evolve combustion glands to create unstable objects for projection. When they need to fly, they will immediately evolve membrane wings and air sacs. Of course, human biologists believe that if necessary, primitive Zerg can also absorb human essence, evolve and strengthen the frontal lobe, corpus cavernosum and language center in their brains, and quickly evolve powerful vocal cords and even other vocal organs, so that they will also have military musicians, carrying speakers on the battlefield.

However, in the eternal killing of Zerus, music and art are of no help to survival and killing.

Although many ancient primitive Zerg trembled at the mere mention of Amon and would rather die than set foot in the void, Dehaka, the primitive Zerg leader who was close to the Terran Empire, was clearly an exception. He formed an alliance with the most powerful primitive Zerg tribal leaders and participated in the fight against Amon in order to get a share of the Dark God's essence feast.

In addition, although entering the void to fight is undoubtedly a complete loss-making business, the Zerg Zurwen and other ancient overlords have always refused to enter the void, but they still sent out their most powerful primitive Zerg, otherwise once the Dark God extinguishes the stars, all the essence will no longer exist.

Augustus warmly welcomed every force that resisted Amon, but to the human and Protoss armies on Ulna, these primitive Zerg with no military discipline were simply a terrible scourge.

If it weren't for the fact that the primitive Zerg despised the essence of humanity, they might have fought the Empire before engaging Amon's forces.

The officers of the Imperial Logistics Department had to work hard to compete with the "Zerus Dinosaurs" who tried to steal things from the military camp, and they had to pull out the enhancers, nano-agents or other goods that were extremely attractive to the primitive Zerg from their throats in a chaotic manner.

Fortunately, the primitive Zerg understood that those huge human war machines did not have much essence, otherwise they would have caused even greater noise.

Beyond these huge armies and beyond the continuous surface buildings of Urna, one can see a huge crack that occupies the entire sky and is completely impossible to ignore.

This is a gate to the void, and it is a hundred times larger than the largest void gate that has ever appeared in Koprulu. Behind this void gate, the anger and resentment of the dark gods are almost tangible. It is an endless darkness, an endless void of a surging sea of ​​blood.

The void was never like this. For all the Protoss relatives who still remembered Aiur and Xel'Naga, it should be a beautiful dream land, rolling like colorful sea water. The colors of the world in the void are definitely not any of the colors in the real universe, and it is definitely not the blood red that makes people's scalps numb at a glance.

Between Urna and the Void Gate lies the entire fleet of the Purifiers and the Ihanli Protoss. Countless Purifier Suppression Towers and Xel'Naga Void Crystals stand in the air, and the light of the solar energy fragments and the Nebula Well is like rising suns.

After opening this void gate, the Protoss first reintegrated the scattered Urna components into a whole - this alone was an incredibly huge project.

Then, they built their own military production facilities on this basis. Because almost all Protoss refused to desecrate Ulnar, they chose to build a military fortress directly at the entrance of the Void Gate.

The Phase Technician who came up with this idea will definitely make his mark in the Khalai engineering community. They concentrated all the Protoss' power to move the mobile continents floating in the void to the vicinity of the Void Gate in order to build the spectacular, palace-like, epic Purifier Fortress.

By the time this was completed, Amon's dark army would no longer be able to drive the Protoss out of the Void Gate.

In fact, just before they opened the Void Gate and did so, Amon's servants had attempted to seize Ulnar many times. During one incident, they were even crazy enough to overload the Sky Lock facility that stored energy in order to destroy Ulnar along with the Empire and the Darram army on it.

After this incident, Augustus immediately realized that once Urna was destroyed, their future plans to attack the void would most likely be postponed indefinitely, and they would not even be able to find the next equally huge void gate during his lifetime.

Therefore, at a secret meeting between the top leaders of the Terran Empire and various Protoss factions, they decided to open the Void Gate of Ulna in advance and have the Purifiers guard it.

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Although Augustus and others were worried that this would alert the enemy, Amon's strategic shortsightedness and contempt for all living things in the real universe made him unable to believe that humans and the Protoss were stupid enough to want to kill it in the realm of God that he controlled.

Yes, the number of ants gathered together is so large that it takes some time to kill even a group of mosquitoes, but that's all.

Only a Xel'Naga can kill a Xel'Naga - at least a Xel'Naga of Amon's level.

Amon's mortal enemy, Xel'Naga Orus, the last and most stubborn guardian of the Reincarnation Universe, is too old and too weak to be a match for him and his servant Narud.

Amon may have even guessed what Orus wanted to do. The latter's only hope for a Jedi comeback was to give his own Xel'Naga essence to this generation of pure form and pure essence.

But obviously, Amon was convinced that the Zerg and Protoss that had been polluted by his interference could no longer produce qualified new Xel'Naga, because the rule of endless reincarnation was that the Xel'Naga could not interfere with their species, but let them undergo a long evolution and naturally upgrade to Xel'Naga.

Either Orus breaks the rules and bestows the essence on those who are unqualified, then the endless cycle will become a joke, and Amon may even welcome it, which will be the biggest irony to the entire Xel'Naga clan.

And in a way, that's what he wanted.

Or, Orus could find other races besides the Protoss and the Zerg - of course, this was impossible, and Amon wanted to laugh even at the thought of this possibility.

He didn't even bother to think about it.

Can't lose.

Therefore, when the Void Gate of Urna was opened, Amon's first reaction was:

Madness!

The God of Darkness immediately sent his terrible dark army to invade Ulnar, but he did not expect that humans and the Protoss were already prepared for it.

This time, the Purifiers were the most active, deploying their mothership, the Cybros, in Ulna. Now, this super-mothership built for destruction and purification is parked above Ulna. The Purifiers awakened all the ancient heroic personalities, and the greatest legendary beings among them could even be compared with Adun in terms of merit.

It was also at this time that the holographic troops were first used. They were the reproduction of the battle images of the human and Protoss armies recognized by the Purifiers. The Terran Empire also had similar technology, but it was expensive technology on a very small scale. However, the Purifiers made rapid progress in this regard. Their holographic troops were large in scale and amazingly powerful, not inferior to those void creatures composed of void energy, and they were also almost endless.

Relying on holographic images and the massive mechanical warriors in the large-scale Purifier data network, they were able to withstand Amon's frenzied attack and push back the Void.

At this moment, another important meeting is being held between human and Protoss leaders to decide the final time for launching a general offensive against the void.

However, this meeting was not held in Durham's Ark or the Purifier mothership Cybros, but in Augustus' flagship Hyperion. Even though Hyperion was much smaller than any Protoss flagship, it even seemed inconspicuous.

No Protoss or humans questioned this, believing that Augustus was not worthy of leading the coalition. The Tal'darim, the Purifiers, and the Ihan'li were all equally arrogant, but they would rather obey the Terran Empire than accept any instructions or even suggestions from Darram.