Chapter 617: The Harvester (Please Subscribe)

Inside the Nameless Pyramid, Sun Cheng was like a spider, climbing on the upper end of the superweapon.

Countless metal bone joints extended from his body, either inserting into or adhering to the superweapon.

As Sun Cheng performed information retrieval on it, a massive amount of data began to transmit from the superweapon into his mind.

This included not only the overall structure, capabilities, and operating methods of this superweapon named the 【Stellar Extraction Tower】, but more secrets were also being revealed to him bit by bit.

"Harvester... Solus Prime... So that's how it is..."

Seemingly very confident in himself, The Fallen had not left any protective measures on this superweapon he had created.

Because of this, Sun Cheng was able to easily infiltrate the 【Stellar Extraction Tower】 and obtain a great deal of information that was very useful to him.

The electric arcs circling between his body and the 【Stellar Extraction Tower】 grew increasingly intense, lasting for nearly two full hours before Sun Cheng's body suddenly shuddered.

At the same time, those metal bone joints that had extended from his body to insert into or adhere to the 【Stellar Extraction Tower】 retracted back into his body.

Looking at the superweapon in front of him again, his eyes now held a bit more wariness and fanaticism.

Before him, this superweapon hidden within the pyramid no longer held any secrets from Sun Cheng.

From materials to structure, from capabilities to operating methods, he knew it all.

But it was precisely because he knew that Sun Cheng began to feel troubled.

Because he now knew that he had no way to replicate this superweapon—the 【Stellar Extraction Tower】.

Yes, the 【Stellar Extraction Tower】 could not be replicated at all.

The reason this superweapon hidden in the pyramid possessed the power to destroy stars and create the 【AllSpark】 was entirely because there was a divine artifact hidden at the core of the 【Stellar Extraction Tower】—the Harvester.

The Harvester was a divine artifact custom-made by Solus Prime, one of the Thirteen Primes of Cybertron, at the request of the then-unfallen Megatronus, to help the Thirteen Primes fight against a certain powerful evil entity in the ancient past.

Solus Prime was the only female Prime among the Thirteen, and if one were to truly calculate it, she could be considered the progenitor of all female Cybertronians.

Regarding Solus Prime, Sun Cheng had also only recently found some scattered introductions from the core of Jetfire.

It is said that she had a close relationship with Megatronus, that she was once the best blacksmith among the Thirteen Primes, that she once created a forging hammer with incredible divine power named after herself, and that she had also forged suitable weapons for many other Primes.

Time has covered up too much; many things from the past have become secrets.

Many things about Solus Prime were no longer verifiable to Sun Cheng, but upon just reading the information from the 【Stellar Extraction Tower】, he did indeed discover some secrets.

For instance, hidden at the core of the 【Stellar Extraction Tower】 was a divine artifact—the Harvester.

In Jetfire's memories, the Harvester had always been Megatronus's weapon.

This was a very powerful divine artifact that could extract energy from stars to grant itself and its master peerless combat power.

The Fallen had based the 【Stellar Extraction Tower】 on this ability of the Harvester, using it as the core.

The 【Stellar Extraction Tower】 could enhance the Harvester's abilities, allowing it—which originally could only absorb and borrow stellar energy—to possess the power to directly shatter stars, drain their energy completely, and then convert it into the 【AllSpark】.

Because of this, even if Sun Cheng stole the manufacturing method of the 【Stellar Extraction Tower】, it would be useless.

Because the 【Stellar Extraction Tower】 was just an amplifier; unless he snatched the Harvester at the very core of the tower, it would be useless even if he built one.

But whether or not to snatch the Harvester really stumped Sun Cheng.

The Harvester was the weapon of The Fallen; if he snatched the Harvester, the taunting effect would surely be maxed out.

Next, Sun Cheng would have to consider the possibility of the opponent's relentless pursuit.

Moreover, this Harvester was not as perfect as imagined.

The 【Stellar Extraction Tower】 was, after all, not a Mechanical Life; it stored a lot of information inside, which allowed Sun Cheng to see many things.

As the weapon of The Fallen, why was the Harvester used by him as the core of the 【Stellar Extraction Tower】 instead of him carrying this powerful weapon with him?

A very important reason was that back then, when Solus Prime perceived that evil had already arisen in Megatronus's heart, he was too cold and ruthless toward all life.

To prevent him from eventually going down an evil path, Solus Prime had left some control measures within the Harvester.

And these control measures were activated by the other Primes after Megatronus fell and became The Fallen.

After the control measures left by Solus Prime were activated, the Harvester had become an out-and-out weapon that devoured its master.

It could no longer, as it once did, extract energy from stars when needed to replenish consumption.

Every time The Fallen used it, it required the consumption of terrifying amounts of energy.

This was also the reason why The Fallen had installed it into the 【Stellar Extraction Tower】 to serve as the core, and why he was obsessed with seizing the 【Matrix of Leadership】.

The 【Matrix of Leadership】 was not only a huge energy source that could be used to replenish the consumption when using the Harvester.

In the legends of Cybertronian civilization, the 【Matrix of Leadership】 was almost extolled as an omnipotent divine object.

Sun Cheng guessed that The Fallen might possess some intelligence he did not know about.

For instance, perhaps the 【Matrix of Leadership】 could erase the control measures left by Solus Prime within the Harvester.

"So... should I snatch the Harvester or not..."

Slowly crawling from the 【Stellar Extraction Tower】 toward the more spacious area below, two different thoughts collided violently in Sun Cheng's mind.

He was intoxicated by the magic of the Harvester, but he also feared the power of The Fallen, as well as Solus Prime's control measures, and could not make up his mind to snatch this divine artifact.

But to let Sun Cheng turn and leave, entering a treasure mountain only to return empty-handed, clearly did not fit his consistent style.

Two diametrically opposed ideas were constantly colliding violently in his mind.

The blue light in Sun Cheng's eyes also became flickering and unstable due to the intense collision of thoughts.

The tower, hundreds of meters high, was almost like flat ground for a Quasi-Commander-class Decepticon.

In just a short dozen seconds, Sun Cheng had already arrived at the very bottom of the 【Stellar Extraction Tower】, in front of a building that looked very much like a natural draft cooling tower of a thermal power plant.

Looking at the core device of the 【Stellar Extraction Tower】 in front of him, which hid the Harvester inside, Sun Cheng closed his eyes for a moment, and at the same time, a coin that looked very much like a real-world Xia Yuan coin appeared in his palm.

He tossed it high into the air, and then he did not pay any more attention to it.

Because the moment the coin was tossed, Sun Cheng had already made his decision.

The Harvester—he was determined to have it.

PS:

I apologize; something came up at home today, and I had to head out early in the morning. I didn't return until nearly 2:40, so this chapter, which should have been delivered at 2:00, is late.

Dingdian