If it was a blessing, it wasn't a curse; if it was a curse, there was no avoiding it. Since the Trigonians had delivered themselves to his doorstep, Shen Jun could only deal with them all at once. In any case, there were not many Trigonians on Giant Elephant Star—just over a hundred. Shen Jun felt he did not need to fear them too much.
He had Talandar lead the Light and Dark Zealot forces to join up with the four hundred Dark Zealots lying in ambush in the jungle opposite them, handing all ground command over to Talandar. Shen Jun believed that Talandar, who possessed all of Fenix's memories, would not disappoint him.
Shen Jun kept Zeratul and all the Dark Templars by his side. Their role on the frontal battlefield was not as prominent as that of the High Templars, but for an assassination operation against the Trigonians, no one was more suitable.
Shen Jun once more controlled the remaining three thousand badly wounded Alien Beasts, sending them to tear into the three thousand ferocious Alien Beasts brought by the Elephant Man army. No matter how many Alien Beasts died, he would not feel heartache. Wearing down the enemy's living forces was what mattered.
Just as he was about to continue watching the battle, he heard Rohana's warning.
"Alert, Commander. A Trigonian appears to be able to receive the signal frequency of the Alien Beast mind-control devices. It is flying this way! Its speed is rapidly approaching the speed of sound... It is less than two hundred meters away from you. Dangerous distance! Please evacuate immediately or eliminate the threat!"
Shen Jun was no longer in the mood to listen to Rohana's report, because above him, the Trigonian was already hovering in the air, its body swaying.
Its three huge nostrils were aimed directly at Shen Jun.
Shen Jun's pupils contracted as a strange headache, seemingly rising from within, struck him. His head had not been physically attacked. What the Trigonians excelled at was mental power.
Trigonians were fundamentally different from God River Bodies and Beast Bodies. In the Super God Universe, whether Beast Bodies or God River Bodies, both had chosen an intelligence-based evolutionary path: developing their brain regions and relying on continual scientific research and technological advancement to understand the universe.
The Trigonians' brain-region development speed ranked first among the three major life forms, yet they did not enjoy developing technology. Instead, they chose to delve deeper into the potential of their brains.
In the end, they evolved an ability that could directly attack the minds of living beings. Moreover, their highly developed brains caused tremendous changes in their form. Not only did they transform from dolphins into Manta Rays, they also learned how to fly and survive in space.
"Protect the Commander!"
Zeratul roared as he rushed over and stood before Shen Jun. But how could flesh and blood block an attack directed straight at the mind? He too was enveloped by the Trigonian's mental assault.
The Trigonian expanded the range of its attack. Every Dark Templar felt excruciating pain in their heads and temporarily lost the ability to think, though they suffered no tangible injury.
Every Dark Templar underwent a selection rite called Shadow Walk. Without formidable willpower, it was impossible to pass it. Thus, the Trigonian could not shatter the will of these Nerazim blades in a short time.
But Shen Jun was in danger. He had never undergone Shadow Walk, nor was he a reborn individual with some cheat buff that gave him twice the soul of an ordinary person. Under the Trigonian's attack, blood flowed from his seven orifices, and his consciousness grew increasingly hazy.
"Th-This... what is this feeling?"
The young Zeratul was not yet the worldly old mystic he would become in the future. This was his first time experiencing a mental attack, and he found it difficult to adapt.
Remarkably, after only a dozen or so seconds, Zeratul unexpectedly felt the headache weaken. In the end, he could not feel it at all! The other Dark Templars also regained their normal ability to think.
Only Shen Jun had collapsed to the ground and lost consciousness.
Zeratul did not know what had just happened. He only knew that his commander had been attacked. What was there left to say? He raised his Warp Blade and went for it!
Black smoke enveloped Zeratul, and he vanished from where he stood. Then, a cloud of black smoke silently appeared on the Trigonian's back. After circling around it several times, the smoke dispersed, revealing Zeratul's figure.
Blink was an advanced application of Void Psionic Energy used by Dark Templars, capable of producing an instantaneous movement effect within a fifty-meter radius. Unlike warping, which was technological, Blink was Void displacement based on the Protoss' own abilities.
The Trigonian sensed something foreign on its back and instantly flew into a rage. These malformed, low-level life forms—who knew whether they were God River Bodies or Beast Bodies—actually dared resist the great Trigonians! Its mental waves became disordered for an instant. This was a Trigonian, offended beyond measure, unleashing its mental attack at full power.
Zeratul felt as though someone had struck the back of his head with a heavy club. He was briefly dazed for one second before returning to normal, and only then did the Trigonian realize that the unknown creature on its back possessed unimaginably high mental resistance.
Sensing trouble, the Trigonian tried to throw Zeratul off. How could the young Dark Prelate allow that? He drove his specially made Warp Blade straight down beneath his feet. The Trigonian's tough hide was utterly incapable of withstanding the blade's sharpness, and Zeratul pierced straight through the unfortunate Trigonian.
Suffering a fatal wound, the Trigonian crashed onto the mountainside. The Dark Templars then swarmed forward and pinned it down. Lacking a vocal system, it could only emit a silent wail. Its three huge nostrils released a stream of information, attempting to convey the situation here to Trigonians' City in the depths of the ocean.
However, before that information stream had traveled even ten meters, an invisible interference field blocked its path.
"Commander, the Trigonian communication signal has been successfully intercepted. Parsing in progress... Estimated parsing time: one minute."
It was a signal-jamming wave released by Rohana. Shen Jun had somehow already risen to his feet, uncleaned blood still beneath his nose as he gave the Trigonian a sinister sneer.
The mental attack had indeed inflicted tremendous harm on Shen Jun, and his unconsciousness had been real. However, Rohana had provided him protection at the first moment, ensuring he suffered no actual damage. Otherwise, without protection, Shen Jun would have become a vegetable at best or suffered brain death at worst.
Shen Jun was not some great saint who repaid grievances with kindness. This Trigonian had nearly cost him his life. If he let it escape alive or transmit the information, then his surname was not Shen!
"The analysis is complete. The Trigonian communication band has been successfully deciphered. Commander, we can now freely detect everything within the Trigonian base."
Upon hearing that Rohana had incorporated the Trigonian's transmitted information stream into the Protoss database, Shen Jun knew this Trigonian no longer had any reason to exist.
"Zeratul, do it."
Shen Jun spoke, and Zeratul immediately understood. With a single slash, he split the Trigonian in two.
After deciphering the Trigonian information code, Shen Jun no longer feared the so-called Trigonians. He had been overly cautious before, to the point of forgetting about a trump card like Zeratul.
What had made Zeratul famous back then?
Assassinating Overminds!
Overminds were beings capable of mentally controlling millions of Zerg with microscopic precision and without the slightest error. When it came to psychic abilities, could mere Trigonians compare to Overminds?
Although Zeratul was still young, his innate talent was enough to make him a natural nemesis of the Trigonians!
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