On a fierce battlefield, even Psionicists might be unable to protect themselves. Each Zealot had to face hundreds or thousands of Zerg, and the psionically controlled plasma shields were beginning to crack under their attacks.
According to combat protocol, these warriors should have withdrawn once they lost their strongest defense. Yet dangerous battles were more likely to bring out their potential. Warriors known as Zealots rarely retreated at such a time; instead, they continued to swing their Light Blades and fight the Zerg.
The Zerg were lifeforms shaped by Gene Evolution, and could likewise be considered supernatural beings. The Protoss warriors, outnumbered as they were, could not emerge completely unscathed. At last, the first casualty appeared.
A Zealot was ambushed by a Hydralisk. A sharp spine shot out from the swarm and struck the warrior's armor. His shield had already been depleted in the long battle, and the damaged armor was pierced straight through, leaving a gaping wound in his body.
The agony slowed him down, and in a high-speed battle, that was a fatal opening. In just a few breaths, after killing more than a hundred Zerg in succession, the brave warrior finally met his end.
His sturdy armor shattered, and his body was torn apart. At the moment of death, his battered corpse evaporated like mist, as if its dissolution had been accelerated. Along with the Protoss warrior's anguished cry, it dissipated into the air like smoke.
"Their bodies are already mostly energy. At the moment of death, that energy flares up and burns away the remaining cells." Director Xu Chenghui watched the fallen Protoss on the battlefield with astonishment.
"Ah... I really want to capture a specimen. The perfect fusion of flesh and energy has always been one of the Biological Research Institute's most advanced fields of