1026.Death Dungeon (Part 1)
There are a total of 8 Protoss warrior who followed Zerakas along this way, led by the temple guardian Talim. They are also wearing golden armor, and they are also inlaid with some Kyber Crystal to strengthen themselves Psionics.
According to Zerakas, Kyber Crystal can indeed replace Kylin Crystal in the "StarCraft" world to a certain extent. Although there are some differences between the two, they both have a strong affinity for Psionics/the Force.
It is precisely because of this that Protoss has a high degree of acceptance of this world.
Due to issues with technology and production capacity, the armor worn by Protoss warrior 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 painful.
Each Protoss warrior has different habits of using Psionics. The number and position of the Kyber Crystal they inlaid on the armor are also different, generally ranging from 4 to 8 pieces. In addition, they install the Kyber Crystal on the wrist armor to stimulate Lightsaber. Such a Protoss warrior wears almost 10 of them!
Not to mention other things, this one alone costs almost as much as 10 Lightsabers. It simply doesn't take money seriously.
If Fourth Civilization hadn't occupied Christophsis and had a sufficient supply of various crystals, Das-Malthael really couldn't afford to support this small group of Protoss.
However, seeing these Protoss warrior walk directly into an environment full of black dust without affecting their actions at all, Das-Malthael still felt that it was worth it.
He was very convinced that such a Protoss warrior could easily tear Indjori into pieces. The title of the most powerful warrior in the galaxy had already been quietly displaced from the moment he awakened Protoss.
The main continent of Taris is a restricted area of life. In this supercontinent, which is equivalent to the area of two Eurasia, life has long ceased to exist.
Even though Darth-Malthael has seen the tragic scenes of many cities being destroyed and all life lost on the spaceship, when he sets foot here on the ground, he can still feel a deeper level of fear.
There were many charred corpses around. Darth-Malthael kicked one of them and found that the corpse was very hard. It should have become like this after thousands of years after being killed by Orbital Bombardment with an unknown weapon.
The withered corpse still maintained the painful posture before death, with its empty eye sockets and mouth wide open, as if roaring loudly.
The closer you get to the entrance of the mine, the more corpses there are, and many other corpses begin to appear in it...
Monster!
A humanoid monster with only three toes on its hands and feet, but it is thick, sharp, and very deadly. The mouth is large, full of fangs, and has a double-layered one-eye in the middle of the face.
There is no doubt that judging from the half-melted weapons and armored vehicles around them, these people were fighting these monsters in their lifetime.
And these monsters came out of the mines!
"Rakghoul plague (Rakghoul plague) [Note 1]." Zerakas squatted down and took a brief look at the corpse of one of the monsters. Completely ignoring the possible infection, he stretched out his fingers and dipped a little black dust on the corpse, and then rubbed it carefully on his fingertips for a while. "It has lost its activity. There is no danger."
"The danger lies underground." Das-Malthael said calmly.
"Rakghoul, this is what is mentioned repeatedly in Jedi Covenant's records... that is, the undead army created by Muur Talisman." Zerakas said, "Yes, the so-called summoner of the undead army is actually the spreader of the virus."
"The 'only' in your mouth means the death of tens of billions of people on several planets." Lucien Del Rey's voice suddenly came out.
It seemed that he was still paying attention to the outside world and was not sleeping as usual.
"This is a highly contagious virus, but it is completely powerless against Psionics and the Force. It can indeed be described as 'just'." Zerakas said with the unique pride of Protoss.
Then, the temple guardian Talim walked at the front and went directly underground.
Inside the mine, there were charred corpses everywhere, and it was pitch black everywhere. It was absolutely impossible to expect that there would be any energy here.
Protoss warriors turned on the switches on their wrists one after another, and Lightsabers shot out from the wrist armor, and the light emitted brought some soft light to the surroundings.
However, the light of Lightsaber cannot shine too far. It is not a concentrated light after all, but they are not ordinary people. They can see everything around them with a little light.
The corpses kept spreading on the ground toward the depths of the mine. They walked along for who knows how long. The mine was complicated and collapsed in many places, like a maze.
But Zerakas seemed to know the route and kept moving forward firmly in one direction.
Das-Malthael had roughly understood what he wanted to do, so he followed these Protoss warrior all the way forward.
Zerakas still explained to him, "Jedi Covenant has been tracking the whereabouts of Muur Talisman. Lucian Dre sent Celeste Moen to come to Taris to find it. The most important basis is that a large-scale Rakghoul plague infection broke out here at that time."
Das-Malthael nodded slightly.
"Taris has a huge Lower City city. I don't want to know the history of this planet, but this huge Lower City city should have been built by residents to avoid war. And Rakghoul plague "The infection started from Lower City," Zerakas said, "Because Lower City is relatively closed, it quickly fell completely in front of the highly contagious Rakghoul plague."
Das-Malthael nodded and said, "Taris, at least in a long process of decades to hundreds of years, continued to fight against Rakghoul who rushed out of the Lower City city, until the planet was destroyed by war. With At the end of Old Sith Wars, this destroyed planet was almost forgotten until the Mandalorian Wars broke out 4,000 years ago. According to records, at least 1 million Mandalorian Crusaders warriors rushed into Taris and were overwhelmed by endless Rakghoul."
A faint golden light began to flash in his eyes, "And, they are still there!"
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[Note 1]: Rakghoul plague I think it is more accurate than the original translation of 'Rakhoul virus', because ghoul means ghoul. This is a compound self-created word that is very common in English games and can accurately express the characteristics of this virus.
[Easter egg chapter attached picture 1: Rakghoul.]