"!!"
With a stern look, Annie didn't react in a hurry. She quietly backed away without giving anything away, continuing to use her psionic energy to catalyze her bodysuit so she could maintain her optical camouflage. Her eyes stayed fixed on the figure that had just slowly emerged from the darkness and nearly cut her down.
"..."
Before long, under Annie's watchful gaze, the figure that had ambushed her and nearly struck her finally came fully into view.
Only then did Annie get a proper look. Unlike the Protoss Templars, who generally favored handsome suits of bright golden armor, the strange fellow before her wore armor in a much darker style?
From his ability to turn invisible, the glowing green curved blade in his hand, the Void Energy surrounding him, and the fact that he could roughly tell where she was despite her camouflage, she didn't have to think twice to know he was undoubtedly one of those troublesome Dark Templars!
Seeing that he was a Dark Templar, Annie naturally thought of that old fellow named Zeratul.
Unlike ordinary Templars, the Dark Templars' ancestors, Zeratul had told her, had been banished from their homeworld of Aiur for refusing to join the dominant collective consciousness of Protoss society—the Khala. After that, they had been forced to hide away on a planet called "Shakuras." From then on, they had abandoned the Khala's light and instead studied how to wield the dark energy granted to them by the Void, gaining the powerful ability to move freely in and out of a cloaked state.
By slipping into the Void, they could use almost unlimited Void Energy and bend light, allowing them to remain nearly permanently invisible. And by channeling Void Energy into weapons modeled after the Templars' psionic blades, they had created those extremely