StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Against the dark and cold backdrop of the void, the Protoss Storm battleship's field of vision and range spanned half of the battlefield. Superheated particles driven by kinetic overload quickly passed over the Imperial fleet, like thousands of ice-blue suns releasing terrifying flashes, majestic and magnificent.

As if focused sunlight penetrated the melting ice, the Hyperion's main laser gun group killed the Mutalisks that attacked the bridge one by one. A large group of Mosquitoes were ignited by the point defense laser beam and turned into a huge exploding fireball one after another.

At this time, the Flame Reign, which was only a few meters above the port side of the Hyperion, roared silently, and a dazzling red light flashed and extinguished quickly. A small group of Zerg Corruptors and Devourers were almost desperate to avoid this destructive force, and suddenly fell into the crossfire of the Last Judgment, Thor's Hammer, Thunderstrike, Paradise Regained, and Icebreaker.

The tendrils of shadow continued to extend, and the Aether Storm roared and bombarded every warship. There was war and destruction everywhere.

The Hyperion advanced through the countless fragments of metal and flesh, as if rowing through a mass of dead fish floating in the water.

"The sound came from the front." On the bridge, Kerrigan was listening with her eyes slightly closed, as if she could really hear something.

"That Xel'Naga is right in front of me. I can already see the illusion he presents before my eyes. That is the natural law of the movement of stars in the universe."

At this moment, Augustus could only hear the voices of the imperial marshals issuing orders on the command channel.

Warfield, Raynor, Horner, and Prior each led a quarter of the Imperial fleet, while Duke's Alpha Squadron served as the surprise force, rampaging through the enemy lines to disrupt them.

All commands must be short and precise, except for a brain worm that was laughing wildly and shouting to burn all the Zerg and Void creatures to death, and kept clamoring to kill, kill, kill.

This guy did kill a lot of enemies, but he was either too excited or too scared, so he yelled and laughed loudly, without even taking a breath for hours, so that everyone else had to kick him to the side channel.

Augustus could see nothing except the blue, green, and red dots fighting each other on the tactical display.

These entangled spots of light are one in you and the other in me, one layer wrapped within another, like a thousand pieces of colored paper stacked in a shuffled order.

From the perspective of a naval battle, they were too close to the enemy, so close that it seemed like they were drawing their swords to fight each other.

The portholes reflected the orange-red flames of the cannons, and the enemies torn apart by the gunfire turned into pools of terrible blood. The dying monsters looked like groups of snakes roasted alive by the flames. And every time a void creature as big as a city wall was killed, it would immediately turn into a thick fog that spread shadows, as if these things were originally made of the ashes of the planet.

An infected Gorgon-class battlecruiser lay less than five thousand yards away from the Hyperion, now completely destroyed by the Imperial fleet. It burned and quickly disappeared from sight, like a mountain left far behind by a speeding train.

This huge battleship has lost its glory now, and along with the thousands of imperial soldiers it once contained, it has become a huge monster that is half metal and half flesh and blood. Its fighting style is completely different from the past. Augustus was impressed by its jets composed of corrosive acid and toxins. Even the missile nests and space torpedo compartments have become breeding grounds for explosive mosquitoes.

Needless to say, this must be the masterpiece of the brain worm Carlos and the infected UED Admiral Dugar. Augustus swore that even if they survived until the end of this battle, he would hunt them down to the end even to the ends of the earth.

Now, let alone seeing the Xel'Naga that Kerrigan mentioned, if Augustus looked out of the porthole, he would only see countless void creatures interspersed. New shadow warships appeared every moment, all of them were monsters bigger than the Gorgons, all of them were created by Amon using corrupted void energy in a way that created things out of thin air.

Imagine that this is a nightmare you can't wake up from. It is pitch black around you, and from time to time it is illuminated by red lightning that tears the entire sky and the flames of countless artillery fires. From the ground to the sky, there are huge fires everywhere, and those are burning warships.

The starry sky here is morbid, evil, and covered with terrible red moss scars. Even the starlight is grotesque, as if it is heartbreaking.

Now, even Augustus was secretly worried. He didn't think Kerrigan had gone in the wrong direction, but the number of the enemies seemed endless.

This is the Void, what Amon calls the realm of God, which, in abstract terms, means he can amplify his minions and weaken his enemies.

More practically speaking, the Shadow Corruption that fills the entire void has been constantly attacking Augustus's fleet, slowly eroding their shields and armor until the accumulation of small amounts will eventually wear away the stone.

Just as those terrible void creatures cannot exist in the real world for long without energy supply, when the real world's army enters the void, the "air" here is also poisonous to them.

"Your Majesty, an abnormal energy source has been detected ahead." A communications officer also reported to Augustus at this time: "Dr. Stetmann said he is waiting for you on the channel."

"Do as he says," Augustus said immediately.

"Your Majesty, no one told me that we were going to have a party with these monsters today." Stetmann went off topic as soon as he entered the channel: "Did you notice those naval guns? Da da da - da da da - all the enemies are dead!"

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"Just a joke." Stetman smiled awkwardly: "I found that since we started to enter the void, this thing in the laboratory - emphasize, I mean the Xel'Naga artifact."

Egon Stetmann's frequent failures to grasp the point of his speech were as bad as the refinement of Matt Horner's words, but few in the Empire dared to point this out to this eccentric genius.

Stetmann said, "The artifact has been absorbing void energy at an alarming rate, with almost no waste. It's far beyond our expected limits, like an alternate dimension pocket. I guess we can use it to recharge the Hyperion, but Swan's people might kill me."

"That's it?" Augustus's eyes left Stetmann no doubt that the emperor could kill him right now.

Although this was not Stetmann's fault at all, in the time it took him to speak, thousands of Imperial soldiers were being destroyed along with their warships, sinking into the deepest part of the void bit by bit.

The Protoss' situation was no better than that of the Empire. In the front line of this huge combined fleet, they served as vanguards, rearguards, and scouts, and suffered greater pressure and casualties.

"Well, on the other hand, I can be sure that we are approaching the creator of the artifact, the real Xel'Naga - not those corpses in Urna." Stetmann swallowed.

"But it could have been Amon," Augustus pointed out.

"Yes," Stetman said, "but based on the existing evidence, we assume that there is more than one Xel'Naga."

"In fact, we believe there are at least two more Xel'Naga there besides Amon, but they are much weaker."

Augustus finally smiled. He knew Narud would not be happy to hear this. As for Aulus, the man they were looking for, he was probably too old, too weak, and had been tortured for too long.

When Stetmann's image disappeared from the screen, as the Hyperion continued to move forward, Augustus finally saw what he wanted. It was a piece of outer space in chaos and madness, a forgotten cage.

Large tracts of floating continents were right in front of Augustus. Floating islands and house-sized meteorites surrounded this area. Every bulge, section, or crater-like pit was shrouded in the smoke-like shadows of the void. On it, densely packed corrupted structures seemed like nails driven into the skin, sharp and pointed. Some kind of red steam rose up, emitting a blood-like light, like a hell of flaming flames.

Amon had corrupted Aiur before, but not even one ten-thousandth of the degree of corruption here.

"A large number of void creations and countless corrupted creatures." At the same time, Kerrigan also opened her eyes.

At the same time, another large group of gathered enemy forces were trying to attack Augustus' flagship. It was a large cloud composed of Zerg wings or void shells, and the size of this cloud was planetary.

The Purifier Protoss fleet turned and accelerated without a word, rushing to deal with these newly emerged enemies.

And now, even Augustus could hear what Kerrigan was saying.

"Go forward. Purify the corruption." Xel'Naga Orus no longer needed to hide his true intentions in front of Amon. He was now more worried that Augustus and Kerrigan did not trust him.

He only hoped that Augustus truly believed Zeratul's prophecy.

"I am Aulus, the last guide of the cycle, the enemy of Amon, and I am imprisoned here by him."

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"Zeratul directed you to rescue me, to help me escape his control and complete the last link of the endless cycle."

"Whose control?" Kerrigan asked.

The scene changed, and a sinister and vicious voice appeared in everyone's ears. At the entrance of a Xel'Naga temple that occupied the entire floating continent, a void creature as huge as it suddenly appeared.

It was a nightmarish creature, ugly and evil, more like a dirty jailer than a guardian of the temple.

It is hard to imagine that Narud always behaves elegantly and politely in front of the human incarnation in the real universe.

"You didn't expect that! Augustus, what a surprise!"

"Yes, I'm surprised." Augustus' expression clearly proved that he was not as surprised as he said.

Augustus cleared his throat and decided to humiliate Narud in return for his despicable behavior of making fun of his childhood before he was exiled back to the void: "I never thought that without a body, you Xel'Naga would return to the void. Here, you can continue to live, but we are not so lucky."

Narud made a suppressed gurgling sound, as if he had swallowed a mouthful of shit with difficulty.

This is what he was going to say!
In fact, Narud had already prepared a long speech to humiliate and mock Augustus, in revenge for his previous abominable behavior of using a Xel'Naga like a donkey!

"How do you know?" Narud almost blurted out these words in extreme astonishment.

"Knowing that you are the Xel'Naga?" Augustus answered the question with a question: "Isn't that obvious?"

"Think about it carefully. Think about when you gave yourself away. You are so smart, Emil Narud. You will understand it if you think about it."

"." Narud could never have imagined that Augustus had actually read the script.

"This is impossible!" Amon's servant completely lost his composure and was obviously a little broken.

At this time, more human and Protoss warships have arrived here and seized advantageous positions under the orders of their respective commanders.

Augustus, like a villain eager to explain his genius evil plot, began to tell Narud everything:
"Yes, you are right. I have been using you from the beginning, using your Xel'Naga technology to build my empire."

Now, Augustus is like a scumbag who abandons his lover after having sex with her: "When the time comes, I will kick you away."

While Narud was furious, Augustus gave another order: "Jim, Matt, throw down all the nuclear bombs and doomsday devices we brought. Don't show mercy to the enemies of the empire."

Obviously, Augustus was not prepared to send troops to the ground to eliminate the void corruption bit by bit.

Then, Augustus connected with Tassadar and Alarak and said, "Archbishop, High Lord, I need all the firepower support you can provide now."

"..Without precise coordinates, the target is too big. What we need to do is destroy everything there, an entire moving continent."

Although more warships were fighting hard with the Void Shadow, a considerable number of them still broke away from the battle and began to move towards Narud's position, risking being torn to pieces by the enemy to carry out orders.

"Full fleet firepower!"

In fact, less than one-tenth of the warships in the entire fleet successfully opened fire in the first round, but various bombs, Gauss cannons and nuclear warheads like raindrops still reduced all ground targets to ashes.

Millions of suns rose at the same time, and their light was almost comparable to that of the supreme stars in the universe. The dazzling reflection turned the entire continent into a vibrating ball of light.

Beams of bright white light flashed above the Hyperion, and when the Protoss' two arks and more than a hundred motherships opened fire together, the continent was immediately cut into pieces and boulders like a cake on the table.

"No! Augustus! No!" (End of this chapter)