The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

1026. Death Dungeon (Part 1)

There are a total of 8 protoss warriors who followed Xerakas along the way, led by the guardian of the temple, Talim. They are also wearing golden armor, and they are also inlaid with some Kyber crystals to strengthen themselves. of psychic power.

According to Xerakas, Kyber crystals can indeed replace the Catherine crystals in the world of "StarCraft" to some extent. Although there are some differences between the two, they both have a strong affinity for psionic energy/force exist.

It is precisely because of this that Protoss has a high degree of acceptance of this world.

Due to the problems of technology and production capacity, the armor on these protoss warriors is naturally far less majestic than what Darth Malthael saw in the game back then, but even so, the cost of such a set of armor is still painful .

Each protoss warrior has different habits of using psionic energy. The number and position of the kyber crystals they inlaid on the armor are also different, generally ranging from 4 to 8 pieces. In addition, they are installed on the wrist armor to use The kyber crystals used to activate the lightsaber, such a protoss warrior wears almost 10 of them!

Not to mention that this body alone is almost the cost of 10 lightsabers, and money is simply not considered money.

If it wasn't for the Fourth Civilization's occupation of the planet Christofsis, with a sufficient supply of various types of crystals, Darth Malthael really couldn't afford to support this small group of protoss.

But seeing these protoss warriors walk directly into the environment full of black dust without affecting their actions at all, Darth Malthael still felt quite worth it.

He was very convinced that such a protoss warrior could easily tear the Injori into pieces. The title of the most powerful warrior in the galaxy had already quietly shifted from the moment he awakened the protoss.

The main continent of the planet Taris is a forbidden zone for life. On this supercontinent equivalent to the area of ​​two Eurasian continents, life has long ceased to exist.

Even though Darth Malthael had already seen the tragic scenes of the destruction of many cities and the devastation of life on the spaceship, he could still feel a deeper level of fear when he set foot on the ground.

There were many charred corpses around. Darth Malthael kicked one of them and found that the corpse was very hard. It should have been killed by orbital bombardment of unknown weapons, and it had become like this after thousands of years.

The withered corpse still maintained the painful posture before death, with empty eye sockets and mouth wide open, as if screaming loudly.

The closer the mine entrance was, the more corpses there were, and many other corpses began to appear in it...

monster!

A humanoid monster with three-toed hands and feet, but thick, sharp, and deadly. The mouth is large and full of fangs, and there is a double eye in the middle of the face.

Undoubtedly, judging from the half-melted weapons and armored vehicles around them, these people had fought these monsters in their lifetime.

And these monsters just came out of the mine!

"Rakghoul plague [Note 1]." Xerakas squatted down and inspected the corpse of one of the monsters. He completely ignored the possible infection and stretched out his finger on the corpse. After a little bit of black dust, I rubbed it carefully on my fingertips for a while, "It has lost its activity, and there is no danger."

"The danger is underground." Darth Malthael said lightly.

"Lak Ghoul, this is what is repeatedly mentioned in the records of the Jedi Covenant... that is, the undead army created by Moore's amulet." Xerakas said, "Yes, the so-called undead army The summoner is actually the spreader of the virus."

"The 'just' in your mouth means the death of several planets and tens of billions of people." Lucian Del Rey's voice suddenly came out.

It seemed that he was still keeping an eye on the outside, and wasn't constantly sleeping as usual.

"This is a virus that is highly contagious, but completely powerless to psionic energy and the original force. It can indeed be described as 'just'." Xerakas said with the pride unique to the Protoss.

Then, Talim, the guardian of the temple, walked in the front and went directly into the ground.

Inside the mine, there are scorched black corpses everywhere, and it is pitch black everywhere. It is absolutely impossible to expect any energy here.

The protoss warriors turned on the switches on their wrists one after another, and a series of lightsabers shot out from the wrist armor, and the emitted light brought some soft light to the surroundings.

However, the light of the lightsaber can't shine too far, after all, it is not a cluster of light, but they are not ordinary people, and they can already see everything around them with a little light.

The corpses have been spreading on the ground towards the depths of the mine. They walked all the way for an unknown time. The mine is intricate and many places have collapsed, like a maze.

But Xerakas seemed to know the route, and kept moving firmly in one direction.

Darth Malthael had already roughly understood what he wanted to do, so he followed these Protoss warriors along the way.

Xerakas still explained to him: "The Jedi Covenant has been tracking down the whereabouts of Moore's amulet, and Lucian Del Rey sent Celeste Morn to the planet Taris to find it. The most important basis is that, There was a massive Lark Ghoul virus infection breaking out here at the time."

Darth Malthael nodded slightly.

"Planet Taris has a huge underground city. I don't want to know about the history of this planet, but this huge underground city should be built by the residents to avoid the war. The Lak ghoul virus came from the underground city. Start to infect." Xerakas said, "Because the dungeon is relatively closed, it will soon be completely lost in the face of the highly contagious Lark ghoul virus."

Darth Masail nodded, and said, "Planet Taris has been fighting against the Rak ghouls rushing out of the underground city for at least a long period of decades to hundreds of years, until the planet was destroyed by war. .With the end of the Old Sith War, this destroyed planet was almost forgotten until the outbreak of the Mandalorian War 4,000 years ago. According to records, at least 1 million Mandalorian Crusaders rushed into the planet Taris Afterwards, overwhelmed by the endless rak ghouls."

A faint golden light began to flash in his eyes, "And, they are still there!"

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[Note 1]: I think the translation of Lark Ghoul Virus is more accurate than the original 'Lack Hall Virus', because ghoul means ghoul, which is a compound self-created word that is very common in English games , can accurately express the characteristics of this virus.

[Easter Egg Chapter Attachment 1: Lark Ghoul. 】