Chapter 18: The Return of Charl

Kprustar Zone, the Ash World of Char.

Zerg territory, Char low-altitude orbit, 18:12 time on the Protoss ship.

An hour after the high-level meeting ended, the entire fleet of the Protoss quietly dived from the planet's periphery into the low-altitude orbit with the help of the powerful stealth effect of the Arbitration Spacecraft. The main fleet of Cylandis will continue to stay here, and at this point in the low-altitude orbit, they will be able to land on Char and evacuate the planet with great ease.

So far, neither the swarms on the planet Char nor the mercenary organization of Shezar have known that the Shacuras Protoss and the Ranger alliance have arrived here.

The operation had been planned for a long time, with a predominantly ground-based combat supplemented by air, with Celantis' air forces providing air support in the planet's low-altitude orbit and as a guarantee for evacuation regardless of the success or failure of the subsequent operation.

The surface where the Kaytarin Crystal is located is currently at its lowest volcanic activity, which is enough to facilitate their ground operations, and after the negotiation of the higher-ups, the task of recovering the Kaedarin Crystal stolen by Orega was given to Zeratul and the Dark Templars.

Shadow raids, no one is more suitable than them, no one will question that.

Ship time at 18:30. A Protoss transport plane broke away from the main fleet and flew towards the surface of the planet of ashes, carrying the Dark Templars led by Zeratul.

Supporting the rest of the fleet, various divisions are put into combat readiness and ready to respond to possible war situations. Frank, on the other hand, was more direct, and he had even prepared the Rangers to land on Charl, which seemed to indicate that he felt that war on Charr was inevitable.

Char planetary surface.

In the northern part of this ash world, the Protoss transporter carrying Zeratul and other Dark Templars traveled to the high latitudes in the northern part of the planet. The spacecraft flew at an ultra-low altitude above the surface of the earth, flying near Platform Mountain, where the transport plane streaked through the area without slowing down or stopping at all, and then turned back into outer space again.

However, during this time, Zeratul and his men all jumped off the ship while it was flying at a low and uniform speed. Naturally, the invisible Dark Templar was not discovered.

For fear of exposing the target, the spacecraft did not dare to land at close range on the platform mountain, and after Zeratul and the others landed in Char, they arrived at their destination in about forty-five minutes.

Along the way, the Shadow Squad passed through a swarm territory on the outskirts of Platform Mountain, where the bugs appeared to be under control, though they did not find the Dark Templars lurking in the shadows. On the outskirts of the platform mountain, there was the sound of swift footsteps on the ash surface, and Zeratul, hidden in the shadows, stood on a gray rock. He overlooked the island in the center of the platform mountain. In front of him, a sea of fire filled with hot lava a few months ago was now frozen and unusually solid, the volcano here periodically went dormant and showed no signs of activity for the next month, and the extremely low temperature on the surface of Char quickly froze the lava field with no heat supply.

Fortunately, the volcano in this area has ceased to be active, otherwise the hot lava would have directly blocked their access to the island in the center of Platform Mountain. The price they will pay for seizing the crystal will be to storm the central island from the front, which will inevitably bring more losses.

"Proceed with caution. Our enemies also have the same stealth abilities as we do. Zeratul whispered. Moving again, he headed towards the central island, followed by a group of Dark Templars.

Along the way, Zeratul led his small army cautiously into the central island, a land of ashes that showed no signs of life. However, Zeratul believed that the Dark Templars were able to conceal signs of their life, but when they were glad to arrive on the central island unharmed, they found that there was no sign of life. There's something terrible about the silence here. There is only a bleak and bleak world of ashes.

"Is it possible to establish the source of the energy flow?" Zeratul's voice rang out in the void.

"The sounding instruments have shown the exact coordinates, which is a low-lying area 800 yards ahead." A voice came.

When Zeratul led his men to the location of the energy flow and entered the low-lying area, everyone saw a round platform with a dark green crystal floating on it.

"It's Kadaline Crystal!" A Dark Templar exclaimed in a low voice.

Suddenly, the silence of the central island was suddenly broken, and there was a violent vibration from the south side of the island, and Zeratul suddenly changed color, "Oh no, it seems that we have been ambushed, maybe Orega has already discovered us, we have been tricked." ”

The sound of vibration became more and more obvious, and the next moment, they saw that in the edge area of the south side of the central island, a huge creature emerged from the surface of the ashes, the huge size of this creature broke through the ground, the cysts on both sides of the body expanded rapidly like inflatable balloons, and between the two dark purple cysts, rows of barbs were erected, and this huge creature actually began to rise into the air, and more than a dozen tentacles as thick as human bodies fell weakly.

"King Worm!"

Zeratul looked at the gigantic creature in horror.

"We're exposed." A Dark Templar said suddenly.

"Watch your feet, I feel a lot of insects lurking underground." Zeratul whispered.

The king insect units of the swarm were able to detect their presence, and the hidden advantage disappeared in an instant, and they were inevitably exposed.

As soon as Zeratul finished speaking, the last of the calm of the central island was shattered, and the entire area seemed to be shaken, the earth shook violently, the ash of the earth was dusted, and the sound of bad news reached the ears of Zeratul and every Dark Templar present.

One by one, the roaring insects broke through the ground, both in the distance and under their feet, one by one.

The nimble and powerful Dark Templar was not attacked by the insects that broke through the ground under his feet, and stabbed the dark green energy blades into the insects' bodies, and the insects in close proximity were quickly eliminated.

However, more and more insects broke through the ground, surrounding Zeratu and others in this low-lying area.

Jumping insects, stinging snakes、、、

An amount that even the mighty Dark Templars can't resist.

One by one, the insects opened their bloody mouths, revealing bloodthirsty and crazy faces under their hideous fangs, and the liquid secreted from their mouths flowed at the corners of their mouths, which was terrifying to watch.

"Zeratul, the number of insects is huge, and we are no match for them. If we continue like this, we will be devoured by the insects. A Dark Templar said.

"That Overseer Worm has exposed our traces, we must find a way to eliminate them, otherwise we will not even want to leave alive, but we must not only survive, but also take back the sacred Kaedarin Crystal completely." Zeratul glanced at the king worm in mid-air and said.

Two of the Dark Templars looked around, already surrounded by biters. The two Dark Templars looked at each other and nodded at each other, silently yet making a heroic decision. One of them looked at Zeratu and said, "The Overseer King Worm is handed over to us, Zeratul." You must return safely with the crystal, and you must not allow the insects to desecrate the sacred Kaedalin Crystal. ”

"Hiydon! Don't be impulsive, we should think of other ways. Zeratul was shocked when he heard the other party's decisive tone, he seemed to have guessed what decision the other party was going to make, that would indeed destroy the Sky Guardian King Worm, but the price would be too great.

"Time does not allow us to come up with a new countermeasure, and this is clearly a trap set by Orega with the Kaedalin Crystal to lure us in. Zeratul, you and your brothers must preserve your strength for the sake of the Kaedarin Crystal returning to Shakulas safely. The Dark Templar known as Hiyodon said. He then turned to his compatriots beside him: "Gusa! ”

With that, Hiyodon took the right hand of his compatriot Gusa with his left hand, and at this moment, the dark green eyes of the two Dark Templars burst into light, and the color of their eyes turned into flame-like red, and the two of them frantically operated the ghost energy in their bodies, and Hiyodon's right hand and Gusa's left hand were clawed at the same time, and the two arms flashed red, with a crackling red electricity, which instantly turned into red lightning.

"My brother," Zeratul sighed, turning his head to the side of his head not to see this happen.

Hiyodon and Gusa's bodies slowly floated in the air, and around them, the violent energy swept up the dust, and a dazzling red singularity erupted from the hands of the two people holding them, their bodies twisted, and after a while, the entire bodies of both sides were sucked into this red singularity、、、、、、

The singularity grew brighter and larger, and finally wrapped in red lightning.

The next moment, a red singularity erupted, and a dazzling light like a flame illuminated the dim world of ashes.

"The darkness is irresistible!" A new Dark Archon was born, and a deep voice echoed through the void, the Dark Archon's body seemed to be surrounded by flames mixed with lightning, and powerful energy fluctuations flowed from this huge body.

(To be continued...... (To be continued......)