StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 678 Aurus: The inheritors of this generation move so fast?

"The remaining airdrop pods are being recovered"

"All ground personnel have been evacuated."

"The doomsday device has been deployed."

The voices of the communication sergeants on the bridge deck of the White Star sounded one after another. At the same time, there were almost hundreds of people talking on the communication channel of the entire fleet, but they were still in an orderly manner.

"Where's Zeratul?" Augustus asked after another moment of waiting.

At this moment, under the porthole in front of you is the huge imperial fleet anchored on the high-altitude orbit of Atriais. Hundreds of warships of different sizes and models are connected end to end, lined up endlessly, vast and spectacular.

Under the fleet, the planet that was being pulled into the void little by little was trembling in Amon's anger, and the huge red spots formed around the void cracks were all over it, and the sight was extremely terrifying.

"No news yet," Reynolds replied.

As if nothing had happened, Zeratul hadn't heard from Zeratul since entering the Temple of Aerys.At that time, the Temple of Iris had been completely reduced to the medium through which Amon pulled the planet Atriaes into the void, filled with violent void energy and terrifying void creatures, even the imperial soldiers in heavy armor of looters Also hard to get close to.

"Then wait a little longer." Augustus warned himself to be patient.

But after a while, the situation on Planet Atriaes became worse visibly with the naked eye.The psychic storm sweeping across the entire planet has brought drastic changes in the weather, and the cyclone that often covers half the continent indicates that a terrible catastrophe is taking shape.

Augustus' heart sank as he stared at the dreadful sight.He would not allow Atriais to just fall into the void, otherwise the surrounding empire colonies would be put in an extremely dangerous situation.

Atrias must be destroyed.

"Sir, the voidseekers answered our call." Finally, a comms soldier shouted at this moment.

"Come in," Reynolds said.

"Brothers, gods bless me, I made it." In the other picture, Zeratul is personally driving his Xel'Naga spaceship Voidseeker through the stormy, lightning-thundering atmosphere of the planet Atriaes .

"Your return safely is more important than anything else, my friend." Augustus breathed a sigh of relief: "Zeratul, what did you find in the Temple of Iris?"

"Augustus Mengsk, I'm afraid even you can't imagine what I experienced in the Temple of Ayres." Zeratul had just experienced a bloody battle, and his simple and low-key armor and battle robe were stained with blood. The blood of the enemy.He must have narrowly escaped death, but he was overjoyed to see the hope of saving the world.

I can imagine that I also know that Sarnagaorus must communicate with you through the Temple of Ayres, and even know what he told you.Augustus complained in his heart.

"Have you found that prophecy, Zeratul?" Raynor asked.

Augustus also showed me a curious expression. He really wanted to know if Aurus would say something more this time.

"Yes." Zeratul rarely gave a very positive reply: "In the void catalyst deep in the Temple of Aerys, I heard a friendly omen, as if an ancient voice from the other side was calling me .”

"In that voice, I seemed to see the birth and death of the universe, during which countless civilizations rose and countless civilizations died, like the sun rising and the moon setting, unchanged from ancient times."

"That voice." Augustus looked at Zeratul, and said to himself that you are still playing tricks at this time.

This is Zeratul's usual way of speaking. He always speaks eloquently, one after another, and pauses from time to time, as if waiting for you to ask.Occasionally, Zeratul did play tricks on people, but not now.

"That voice told me that the Keystone will guide you to hope," Zeratul continued.

"Keystone?" Augustus was very cooperative.

"In a bright light, I saw that the keystone was the Xel'Naga artifact kept in the Skegel Research Station of the Tyrannian Empire." Zeratul said happily.

Zeratul should indeed be delighted, because as early as after the Xel'Naga artifact was unearthed and assembled, humans had already begun to study this magical creation.

Recently, Zeratul even witnessed a breakthrough in the research work on the Xel'Naga artifact, and even found the coordinates of Urna.

Apparently, that was the "guidance" that the voice was talking about.

And Zeratul still remembered that he blurted out Urna's name at that time, which made the voice in the strong light gasp slightly.

Not sure why, but probably Zeratul misheard, and he has no ears.

"It's really a coincidence." Augustus said that fortunately, we happened to be studying the Xel'Naga artifact. It was really lucky.

"What else did that voice say?" Raynor urged Zeratul.

"In the final battle, Naganaga will help us fight against Amon." Zeratul said again: "I believe that is the last part of the prophecy, the most important piece of the puzzle."

"Sarnaga. Where are we going to find Sarnaga at this time? Hell." Renault patted his head and suddenly realized: "Urna, the hometown of Sarnaga."

"I don't believe it. It's impossible not to find a Naganaga. But if they could deal with Amon long ago, why do they have to wait for us to find it?" He thought of many things in a flash, and felt that this script seemed familiar:

"Are these Naganagas imprisoned, waiting for us to rescue them?"

Renault thought he understood.

And if Tychus was here, probably BB's sentence would be such a waste, what's the use of being rescued, it's better to die.

"This is good news." Augustus nodded: "But only when we really enter Urna, can we reveal the answer to the puzzle."

At this time, the White Star's advanced sensor array has detected the position of the Void Seeker, indicating that it has ascended into the high-altitude orbit of the Atriaes planet.

"Swann, you can start." Augustus ordered: "Activate the doomsday device and end this."

A Moser-class doomsday device is capable of reducing a planet to ashes, destroying all life on it.This is a terrible weapon of planetary extermination, more terrible than a thousand apocalypse-level nuclear bombs.

And after Rory Swan's transformation, the power of this old federal doomsday device is even more terrifying.And the Atriaes planet, which stores a large amount of high-energy gas resources inside, is itself a huge explosive barrel. Once it is detonated, its terrifying power is enough to throw the entire continent into the air.

Even during the second all-out war, the number of times the Tyranid Empire had activated this device was one of the few. They would rather use nuclear bombs or virus bombs for large-scale orbital bombing than use such terrible weapons.

Soon, Augustus' orders were passed down layer by layer.At a certain moment of silence, huge and bright spots of light suddenly flashed on the planet Atriais, and the violent explosion ignited the huge cracks filled with high-energy gas at an extremely terrifying speed.The fissures formed by the flames spread across the surface of the planet at an incredible speed like a spider web, all the volcanoes were erupting violently, and countless lava rivers overflowed and flowed.

"Hope we don't have to use this weapon again," Augustus ordered. "Send us out of orbit, Navigator."

Suddenly, Augustus discovered that a war could be so simple.No matter how terrible the Tal'darim and voidcraft on Atriaes are, they have to play with this planet.

Sometimes, he doesn't have to win the game at all, he just needs to turn the tables.

This feels... a little weird.

Hopefully this doesn't open a Pandora's box inside of me.

Following the order of Augustus, led by the White Star flagship, the huge imperial fleet jumped into the opening hyperspace channel one after another, and disappeared without a trace.

In an instant, the brightness of Atriais suddenly increased by a thousand times until it became the second sun in the galaxy.After struggling for a while, the short-lived sun turned into a shattered ball of light in an extremely shocking gesture, and shattered loudly.

It exploded as the last of the Imperial warships disappeared from view.

Countless pieces of planetary debris were thrown into the air, some comparable to starships and others much larger than August Gradler.The explosive chain detonated the second and third satellites of Atriais, and threw the largest satellite violently to the edge of the galaxy until it completely escaped the star's gravity and became dark and cold. wandering stars.

Most of the volume of Atriaes is shattered, and the rest will slowly darken as the remaining oxygen and high-energy gas are burned out, but it will not cool down.Over millions of years thereafter, its crust and much of its mantle may have recooled and coalesced, re-forming a broken, dead planet.

This is the trace left by a civilization-to-civilization war, a human civilization that rose on the edge of the Milky Way.

A few standard Earth Days later.

Sigma Sector, Imperial Colony Chiron III.

The first to discover the planet was a Kel-Morian explorer who was lucky enough to find it in a system where colonies were thought impossible.

This explorer is also a "gold digger", the kind of interstellar escort who explores crystal veins between the stars all the year round.In those core worlds that have long been controlled by the consortium, even unexploited resources have been collected as their private property.

On the endless starry sky, all resources are ownerless. As long as you explore far enough, opportunities will always come to you.

Of course, you have to keep these treasures, and the wisest way is to sell them as soon as you make a fortune.

After receiving considerable credits, the explorer dedicated the planet to the great Augustus, and returned to his hometown where he had been away for 13 years to reunite with his wife and children.

The colonists' landing point on the southern subcontinent of Chiron III was near an estuary delta with a favorable climate, abundant water, and far from the dangerous native wildlife populations of the main continental plate.

It was autumn. In the dense forest outside West City, the largest settlement in the Chiron colony, golden fallen leaves covered the ground, but the forest trees shone with colorful luster.

A white road runs straight through this forest, also covered with golden fallen leaves like a thick blanket.The sky here is very blue, with soft white clouds piled up in clusters, and when a gust of wind blows, golden rain falls from the sky again.

There are many gorgeous small birds living in the area around the forest near the water, and you can pick up a lot of eggs anytime and anywhere. If you want to fish, just sit by the river for an afternoon and you can harvest a whole month. Chiron trout.

The people of Chiron III were very lucky. They caught up with the era when the Tyranid Empire opened up new colonies in the Sigma sector, and this planet was indeed the paradise that everyone dreamed of, as the Imperial Immigration Bureau said.

There are close to [-] proven habitable planets in the Sigma sector, but very few of them have a high degree of development. Some of them are either too far away from the mainland, or there are terrible nature disaster.

As for such a beautiful land like Chiron III, even in the Sigma star region, it is difficult to find a second one.

Today, the Chiron III colony can basically achieve self-sufficiency, and no longer needs to transport supplies from the mainland in the Koprulu star sector.

Within two years, more than 2 colonists who arrived at Chiron III one after another built a city using the materials at hand and relying on water pumping facilities.As the first batch of pioneers, people reclaimed new land, established convenient automatic irrigation facilities, and harvested food from the land promised by Emperor Augustus.

Gradually, around the first settlement, the colonists continued to expand outward, building small towns and villages around new farmland and new mining areas.With the development of the colony, small-scale shops, restaurants, and hospitals have also sprung up. On the other side of the galaxy, a small human society that is small and well-equipped has formed naturally without deliberate guidance.

When people no longer had to worry about survival, the population of the colony also began to increase on a large scale. In the first month of this year, about [-] newborns were born on the Chiron III.

These newborns know nothing of their parents' native land, for them it is home.The only constant is the flag of the Tyrannian Empire flying over every colony.

In the imperial colonies in the Sigma star sector, every colonial governor is still an official sent from Keha Augustgrad, and their children will also grow up in this land during their term of office, which belongs to this era of great expansion unique memory.

It's pretty much perfect - except for being near the Tal'darine protoss domain.

Today, however, there is an air of uneasiness in the colony because of the presence of many imperial soldiers in uniform.Although the huge imperial fleet is still moored in the orbit of the planet, the colonists who are catching wind and shadows soon realize that war is approaching.

Fortunately, this was just a false alarm.These imperial soldiers who came to Chiron III were not wounded soldiers who had to be evacuated to the rear after the war. They were dressed in double-breasted dresses, tricorn hats and tasseled badges, and they just came here to accept the emperor's honor.

(End of this chapter)