Soul Stone: Kerrigan

【Quality: Gold】

[Number of activations: 5]

[Gained bonus: Heart of the Swarm (permanent), Psionic Control (permanent)]

After inspecting the soul stone, Fang Zheng was surprised to find that, unlike the Lich King's, the Queen of Blades' soul stone was more practical.

The reason for this is that it is determined by the nature of their soul stones. For Fang Zheng, the soul stone of [Arthas] is embedded in the dimensional code. If he does not activate it actively, there is only the buff of [Undead King] that works on undead creatures. And if you want to exert the true power of the Lich King, you must fully activate the soul stone.

But the Queen of Blades' Soul Stone was not like that. In fact, although her activation times were the same as [Alsace]'s, which was five times, after investigation, Fang Zheng discovered that the Queen of Blades' true power was exactly the opposite of the Lich King's. If the Lich King needed to consume the number of times the Soul Stone was used to exert its true power, then the Queen of Blades' Soul Stone could only exert its most powerful power when it was not activated.

The reason lies in the buff of [Heart of the Swarm (permanent)].

For this buff, the description is just one sentence: [Heart of the Swarm (permanent): can create and manipulate Zerg armies].

Just with this one sentence, Fang Zheng immediately understood what it meant.

To put it bluntly, with the Queen of Blades soul stone embedded in the state, he can directly open the Zerg base and play real-time strategy. After all, the most powerful thing about the Zerg is the endless swarm of Zerg. The overwhelming Zerg army is their real strength. On the contrary, Kerrigan's personal combat power is actually quite limited. In other words. If it were [Arthas], after the demise of the Scourge, he could still rely on his own strength to save the defeat. But for [Kerrigan], once the Zerg army is finished, she will have almost no second choice except to escape.

So for Fang Zheng, this soul stone is more suitable for his daily use, but... Kerrigan, Kerrigan, why are you Kerrigan?

The Lich King is not very likable, and the Zerg are even worse. Fang Zheng is sure that once this thing appears on the surface, it will definitely be regarded as the vanguard of the demon invasion... If you don't give me a Jim Raynor, you can give me an Artanis, why Kerrigan?

Fang Zheng already felt the deep malice this system had towards him. After all, he was its creator. If this game was a child, then he would be the father. Could there be such a naughty child who would disappoint his father?

It seems like naughty kids are always the ones who let their fathers down.

Although he felt helpless, Fang Zheng still had to choose to put away the soul stone. This thing would definitely not work in the main world, but it might be usable in the dungeon world. He didn't know what world he would be teleported to next time the mission was teleported.

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng couldn't help but glance at the dimensional code in front of him again. The cooling time on it had entered the countdown.

In 13 hours, transmission will be enabled again.

A night passed.

The next day, just after dawn, everyone set out again. To their surprise, unlike the day before, they did not encounter any undead creatures along the way. This made Malte and the others look extremely gloomy. You know, they are not escaping from the Shadow Canyon, but returning the same way. Logically speaking, the closer to the center, the more enemies there should be. Fang Zheng and Knight Conan had encountered several waves of undead soldiers on the way to the Blood Beach before. It doesn't make sense that the enemy would not pay attention to them now that they have "fallen into a trap".

Then there could only be one reason, obviously something more important than them attracted the lich's attention.

And the more important thing is what Malte said - the dark ritual.

“It looks like things are really bad.”

Standing on the cliff and looking down, Malte's face was as gloomy as a piece of ice. Below the cliff was a quarry that looked abandoned. It looked very old, and no one knew when it was made. But for Malte, he obviously didn't come here for archaeology.

"That quarry is the lair of the lich. We were ambushed here in the beginning. But now there is not a single undead creature to be seen here... Could it be that the ritual has already begun?"

Hearing Marte's mumbling, Fang Zheng raised his eyebrows. Due to the special effect of [Alsace]'s soul stone, he was very sensitive to undead creatures. As Marte said, he could not sense any breath of undead creatures outside the quarry, but this did not mean that they did not exist. In fact, deep underground, Fang Zheng did notice some clues. A large number of undead creatures were gathering deep underground under the quarry. Without asking, they were definitely not having a party there.

"What should we do next?"

Fang Zheng did not tell Malte what he felt. In fact, he was not willing to risk his life for a dark ritual whose details were unclear. Maybe they were trying to call back their loved ones from the underworld? To be honest, after getting along with these Templar Knights, Fang Zheng found that they were indeed worthy of the title of Knight. They were fair and kind, brave to sacrifice, fought for justice, had no dirty thoughts, and were mostly approachable. To be honest, Fang Zheng still respected them very much, but he himself did not have any special thoughts about it. It was like watching a Hollywood blockbuster. It was really touching to see those soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves for their country to stop some monsters and monsters. However, if I also went up to die, that would be another matter. Apart from anything else, why should I sacrifice my life for another country?

Not to mention that Fang Zheng had only been in this world for less than a month and had no feelings for it. Strictly speaking, he only knew Shi Dong and Miss M. It was impossible for him to risk his life for this world. So Fang Zheng decided to let Malte take the lead first, and he would just focus on being a bystander. It would not be too late to retreat if things got bad.

Anyway, the cooldown of his teleport is almost over. If all else fails, he can find a chance to use the invincible Hearthstone teleport and run away. It's not that difficult.

"Let's go down and take a look at the situation first."

Finally, Malte made a decision.

"Something must have gone wrong here. I don't believe they would be so careless. Even if they really wanted to hold a ceremony, they wouldn't have no scouts outside."

Since Malte had given the order, Fang Zheng naturally had no intention of objecting. He just walked down the cliff carefully with a few other people, looking around while walking towards the quarry.

The huge quarry was deserted, with only the swirling wind whistling through the cracks. Fang Zheng tightly grasped the Sky-breaking Sword and glanced around carefully - the Lich King's perception was limited to the undead and had no effect on living things. The fact that there were no undead creatures here did not mean that he could just rush in and die.

"Um?"

But soon, Fang Zheng found that something was not right here. In the ruins near the quarry, he found scattered bone fragments. From the appearance, these should be the remains of the undead creatures that have been eliminated. Fang Zheng originally thought that these were traces left after the previous fight between Malte and his team, but soon he found that there was a circle of footprints nearby - the footprints were very new, and it didn't look like they were left a long time ago. Instead, they looked like they appeared recently... and just before they arrived here.

“…”

Fang Zheng frowned, clenched the sword in his hand, and walked slowly along the footprints towards the ruins. From the outside, it seemed that there was once a house where an overseer lived, but now it has collapsed for the most part, with only a few walls still standing. Fang Zheng stared at the wall in front of him, then thought for a moment and raised the sword in his hand.

“Swish!”

But what Fang Zheng didn't expect was that before he swung his sword, a black shadow suddenly leaped over from the other side of the wall and rushed straight towards him. Seeing the black shadow suddenly jump out, Fang Zheng was also shocked. He quickly raised his sword and swept forward, colliding with the black shadow. Then he heard a "dong" collision sound, and the black shadow suddenly flipped back and then stood firmly on the ground. Until this moment, Fang Zheng finally saw the true face of the black shadow.

"What is this?"

Looking at the black shadow in front of him, Fang Zheng was also stunned. What appeared in front of him was not the undead creature that Fang Zheng had imagined. Instead, it was a cheetah with a completely black body. However, unlike ordinary cheetahs, its body looked like a deep blue similar to the starry sky, and the whole body looked translucent. Not only that, from the inside of the black panther's body, Fang Zheng could also see straight silver-white lines connecting its limbs and head. If the black panther was motionless, it would look more like a constellation in the starry sky.

What the hell is this?

Just when Fang Zheng was in doubt and was about to call for support from Malte and others, suddenly, an excited voice sounded in his ears.

"Mr. Fang Zheng! I'm so glad you're okay!"

Hearing this voice, Fang Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then he saw a cloaked girl running out of the ruins behind the black panther, panting, and waving at him happily. Although Fang Zheng was not very familiar with this girl, he was not unfamiliar with her.

"…Ms. M?"