The Collection of The End

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――TR.82.12.2――

Mysterious galaxy, planet Zerus.

"Where is this damn planet? The star map can't determine its position from the star position and brightness contrast."

"Fortunately for you, we have searched dozens of nearby galaxies through gravitational lenses. They all have 'Gaia planets', but none of them have given birth to civilization."

"Hell, even though I have a bad history, it's too obvious."

"Yes, it is exactly the same as when our ancestors were affected by the 'subspace storm' and came to the current star region."

"I don't want to start from scratch!"

"Looking at the bright side, maybe this place is closer to our origin - the earth."

"..."

After confirming the itinerary, Kerrigan continued to lean against the wall in a corner of the bridge, closing her eyes and concentrating, and unconsciously heard the whispers of many crew members in her ears.

Kerrigan understood their concerns. After all, they were not the "Queen of Blades."

"Feeling" is difficult to explain. Just like when the Federation planned to standardize the training of "ghosts" and counted the ways in which all psykers used their psionic powers, the results were varied. In the end, they had to give up and switch to inspiration. style of “instructor teaching.”

But now, Kerrigan can clearly feel as if she knows the effect of every use of psychic energy. As long as she collects something on the planet Zerus, she can directly send the Bucephalos back to Kerr. Sulu sector.

Generally speaking, the identity of "Queen of Blades" is like a precision machine with instructions for use. The "user" knows what it can do and how to do it, but if you have to explain the principle, you have to find the "user" Maker".

Kerrigan turned her head and glanced at Emil.

The little Princess Korhal was holding a bag of potato chips from Tarsonis, eating them over and over again while watching Arcturus work. After noticing Kerrigan's gaze, she blinked and tilted her head back.

Angela, who was standing next to her, smiled in this direction.

I always feel like the two of them are a little... guilty?

After giving yourself such a powerful power?

First of all, excluding "finding that he is too strong may pose a threat to them", the two of them have been jumping back and forth between "vulnerable" and "like gods". Kerrigan has decided to give up. Let’s explore their true strength.

Then, considering that Emil does not plan to go to the surface with him, a more reasonable guess is:

The previous "illusion" was created by their "enemy". He and she were probably evenly matched in strength. That's why they were unable to prevent the other party from invading their consciousness and creating a subspace storm. That "enemy" sent them here " Zerus" has a certain purpose, which Emil cannot stop for some reason.

Ha... The current situation is no different from when he was a "ghost", and he has become a chess piece in the game between different forces. The difference is that now his strength can crush the "chess players" in the "ghost" period.

However, since the little chess player here is quite cute, I can forgive her.

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Three hours later, the surface of Zerus.

Phew—touch!

Kerrigan landed with a ball of physical energy, and the resulting shock wave blew out a radiating crop circle in the surrounding tropical rainforest.

"[...Zerus.]" She stood up from a squatting position and scanned the surrounding environment with a condescending attitude.

According to her own opinion, there was no need to wait so long and she could just jump off the Bucephalos. However, Swann claimed that she would be equipped with a support turret specialized in tropical rainforests, which wasted a lot of time.

Although he had just arrived on the surface, Kerrigan was already sure that the equipment of the bearded old man would not be of much use because terazine was everywhere here.

It is not an erupting gas state, but a rare liquid state. They gush out from the ground and flow directly on the surface.

After mixing with ordinary rainwater, strips of "Diazine Rivers" are formed.

This also explains why those "primitive bugs" obviously don't need drinking water, but they build their nests by the river.

And because they have been surrounded by terrazine, their strength and degree of mutation are not comparable to those of the new species in Tarsonis. Siwang's fort... can only be said to be better than nothing.

However, since the terrazine here is so abundant, there is no need to continue with the previous plan of "slaying into a primitive insect camp and robbing them of resources."

After looking around at the terrain, Kerrigan strolled to a barely spacious forest clearing and raised her hand to summon the worker bees.

Buzz - Phew!

With a scream that pierced the sky, a spore sac that was bulging, like a plant and an animal, fell from the sky and hit not far in front of Kerrigan.

With a crash, the spore sac exploded outwards, and out jumped several bewildered worker bees, two hydralisks, and a large blanket of bacteria.

Of course, this was not summoned out of thin air by Kerrigan using psychic powers. The Queen of Blades did not have that ability yet. She only used psychic powers to make the specific sporangia prepared in advance on the Bucephalus glow, and the staff on the battleship would It "delivers" to where it is.

"[You guys, build a nest, you two, follow me.]" Kerrigan gave an order to several bugs.

Of course, she can command them to do this without speaking, but since Bucephalus has been observing her, in order to avoid the suspicion of Prince Korhal getting worse, and for the "sense of ceremony", it doesn't matter if she says a few more words.

Guji~Guji~ Several worker bees turned around a few times, dispersed, and then lay down on the ground, turning into a translucent cocoon, and began to mutate rapidly while pulsing continuously.

The underground lair where the "Lord" was originally evolved in this way, but such a large nest consumes no one knows how many resources it will consume.

Kerrigan looked at the well-evolved "worker bees" and led the hydralisk towards the nearest primitive zerg nest.

When I first arrived, I naturally had to... show off my skills.

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Splash~wow~

With Kerrigan's final kick, the primitive zerg nest exploded into a pool of blood and was washed away by the rain almost instantly.

"[Ha, interesting.]" Kerrigan landed again and looked at the insect nest that she had cleaned up, leaving only pieces of tissue structure.

These bugs are different from those in Tarsonis. In addition to being more bizarre in appearance, they also ignore Kerrigan's suppression of lower races as the Queen of Blades. Not only do they not accept control, but they have no idea of ​​​​escape. In this insect lair All units, including Drones, attacked Kerrigan relentlessly - and died.

If they are not naturally aggressive, there is a stronger will controlling them.

After making this conclusion, Kerrigan had a new guess as to why she came to Zerus. Perhaps, the "will" that she was completely unaware of was the purpose of this trip.

It's time to temporarily return to - wait, what was that?

Before Kerrigan turned her thoughts back to her base, she suddenly noticed a faint light shining in the center of the main nest that she had just trampled, and she could feel obvious spiritual energy from it.

This is so interesting. Generally speaking, by destroying an insect nest, you can at most obtain some biomass resources, but psionic energy cannot be spit out from the mouth of the insect.

Kerrigan stared at the light for two seconds and moved closer without hesitation. Even if there were any adverse effects, it would be meaningless to the Queen of Blades.

call out--

Without any traps or special reactions, the faint light approached Kerrigan as if it were attracted by a magnet, and sank directly into her body.

[Skin hardening], this is the message Kerrigan got from the light ball after contacting it, without any explanation or explanation.

Obviously, this thing does not belong to the "Queen of Blades", at least not before. You can only figure out how to apply it yourself.

However, this simple reasoning still does not faze Kerrigan.

She thought briefly for two seconds, then stretched out her arm and let the tip of the bone wing behind her lightly scratch the skin.

Ding.

The bone wing attack that originally killed insects was like chopping melons and vegetables. This time it struck Kerrigan's arm. It only made a short metallic friction sound and was then bounced away.

"[Very good.]" Kerrigan nodded: "[If this is the purpose of coming to Zerus, I can wipe out all the zerg on the entire planet.]"

Next, Kerrigan swept across all of Zerus.

Relying on the Zerg base she built, she continuously collected resources and hatched new units. By the way, she airdropped elite units from the Bucephalos one by one, and under suitable conditions called for support from Siwan's turret on the battleship.

Although this may cause Arcturus to become more and more jealous, but...whatever.

Naturally, the natives on Zerus were not to be outdone, and attacked the outsider one after another. However, because they did not know how to unite, they would fight among themselves when they met on the road, so there was no harm to Kerrigan in the whole process. How troubled he was, and sent a batch of "light balls" by the way.

In addition to [skin hardening], there is also [special speed] that causes her to move so fast that afterimages are produced, [poison enhancement] that makes her claws contain poison that only she can detoxify, and the attack of the bone wings that completely ignores defense. [Ghost Strike], and [Special Strength] that allows her to wrestle with the Thunder Beast head-on.

By the end of the fight, Kerrigan was able to form an army alone. No matter how large the lair was, she could not stop her from rushing in and out. Those elite bugs that needed help at the beginning were completely reduced to spectators in the end. If they could play cards, If so, we might have gathered a table.

Maybe this is called "sharpening the sword before chopping wood"? Kerrigan thought boredly after kicking another zerg nest.

However, even after defeating Zerus' invincible hand, she still did not relax her vigilance, because this kind of improvement was completely unreasonable. The "tentacle eyes" in the green sea did not look like a philanthropic person. He deliberately threw herself here. There must be something What purpose——

Um? Why did it suddenly get dark?

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same moment.

Bucephalus, bridge.

"Report the situation, adjutant." Arcturus sat on the captain's seat, holding his chin with one hand.

Although the crew members were talking in a completely undisciplined manner, there was a reason for the matter and he was not going to care about it for the time being.

"Yes, sir, Ms. Kerrigan's psychic level cannot be measured. Two analysis devices have been burned out." The adjutant's hand trembling while holding the record board: "According to the combat power she has shown, she should be able to defeat her with one blow. Shields of the Bucephalus.”

"Don't be nervous, ten thousand Apocalypse can break our shield with one blow." Arcturus glanced at him.

"Uh...yes." The adjutant obviously understood the implication of Arcturus' words. He glanced at Emil and calmed down a little.

While the crew may not know how capable Emile is, since she can protect Korhal, she can protect the Bucephalus.

"Continue to monitor and be ready to provide support to her at any time," Arcturus continued.

"What? Provide support?" The adjutant probably suspected that he heard wrongly, so he repeated it stupidly?

"There is no free lunch in the world," Arcturus glanced at the adjutant: "The subspace storm left us in this strange galaxy, and this planet happened to have something that allowed Kerrigan to grow. Could it be that you Do you want to say this is a coincidence?"

"Uh..." The adjutant didn't say anything else. He swiped a few times on the record board and forwarded Arcturus' order.

"It seems almost done~" At this time, Emil, who had been eating like a hamster, said this in a nonchalant manner.

"She should be able to survive." Angela answered naturally as if she knew exactly what she meant.

Arcturus thought for a moment and determined that they were talking about Kerrigan.

According to common sense, Kerrigan's strength has grown to such an extent that there should be nothing that can actually threaten her life, but since this is what Emil said...

Arcturus straightened up and clicked a few times to switch the broadcast screen in front of the captain's seat to an overlooking view of the "Queen of Blades".

"You can't see it that way~" Emil floated up from the wheelchair, grabbed Arcturus's sleeve and led him towards the porthole.

"Wait?" Although Arcturus was confused, he stood up in a hurry and followed his sister to the window.

Since it always rains on Zerus, when looking down from satellite orbit, the entire planet is obscured by ever-changing clouds, making it completely worthless.

After waiting for about a minute, nothing strange appeared on the planet.

"Amy——"

Before Arcturus could finish speaking, a huge snake face with a huge mouth appeared on the surface of Zerus' planet. It looked even more than one-fifth of the visible area of ​​the planet from this angle. As soon as she appeared, she suddenly closed her big mouth and swallowed Kerrigan and a large piece of land where she was.

Although the sound cannot be heard in outer space, everyone can imagine the crisp "click".

"..." Arcturus was speechless for a moment, and the other crew members were also basically stunned. In addition to the electronic sound prompts, the entire bridge could hear the needle drop.

When Kohal's "Planetary Defense Network" was activated, if someone was watching from space, they would probably have the same shocking and inexplicable feeling now.

"Bet two bags of potato chips, she'll be out in seven days."

"Two burgers, three days."

In the silence, only Emil and Angela were whispering unintelligibly.