
Artanis recalled back to the Spear of Adun, and the chain reaction utterly destroyed Shakuras. Artanis held long enough for the prism to overload and plummet to the planet's core. In doing so, he had completed the Shadow Walk, a dark templar rite of passage where a protoss separated from the Khala must face down a greater number of foes. Zerglings and hydralisks flooded the chamber, and Artanis faced them down alone. Alone Īrtanis began final preparations to overload the phase prism when nydus worms broke into the crystal chamber. The zerg used nydus worms to breach into the temple. Once Amon's forces began to overrun the temple, Artanis called for all protoss forces to dimensionally recall off of the battlefield, leaving him alone in the temple. Phase-smith Karax discovered a cache of solarite beneath the temple, and requested the Artanis hold the temple until he could extract it. Artanis mused that Amon must be testing their resolve.Īs the broods funneled in, hybrid did begin to funnel through the warp gate and siege the temple. All zerg forces on the planet began to converge on the temple, but strangely no hybrid were among their ranks. The protoss forces mounted a fierce defense, and sent out forces to destroy the zenith stones and the zerg broods surrounding them.


In addition, the temple's energies were regulated by three zenith stones, which had to be destroyed in order to put their plan in place. The Daelaam set up a defensive formation around the xel'naga temple grounds, and Artanis commented that without the Uraj and Khalis crystals it would take some time to prepare the temple for the overcharge.
