Chapter 629: The Battle of Fate (Part 1) - Third Update

Sun Cheng didn't care whether Frenzy was playing dumb to hide his true capabilities, or if he really had nothing left in his head.

A Commander-level chassis was something even he himself hadn't enjoyed yet; the cost of the materials required to manufacture each unit, when converted into Earth currency, was no less than several billion US dollars.

Sun Cheng could indeed produce such a chassis as a bargaining chip, but if Frenzy didn't cough up something good, it wasn't even worth considering.

Not to mention Hailishi, who was sailing toward the Atlantic Ocean, and Sun Cheng and his group, who were haggling on the ship.

The gaze shifted back to Egypt, to the Cairo Giza Plateau, in front of the Nameless Pyramid.

The Fallen slammed his right fist shut, and the frost congealed on his right arm immediately shattered and fell off.

"Temperature weapons, huh..."

Glancing at the massive sand pit centered on him, which had been bombed until it was nearly five or six meters deep, The Fallen checked his current physical state, and his mood worsened even further.

His current state was 11% worse than when he had just awakened; a few uneven battles had actually resulted in him being injured by these vermin he looked down upon, and it had even affected his recovery.

Proud as The Fallen was, a fire seemed to be burning in his chest right now, and he wished he could kill the culprit—Frenzy—immediately.

Unfortunately, after the opponent used a low-temperature bomb to temporarily freeze his movements, he had fled.

The Fallen tried to search for his weapon, only to find that its energy signature could no longer be detected at all.

"Could it be a 'Space Bridge'? Was the Requiem Blaster teleported thousands of kilometers away by Frenzy?"

His mind couldn't help but recall the relationship between Frenzy and Jetfire that Starscream had once mentioned.

The Fallen had not only met that former student of Shockwave, but had even tried to recruit him once.

Unfortunately, that stubborn guy was ideologically more inclined toward the Autobots; if Alpha Trion hadn't also seemed to notice Jetfire, he would have moved against Jetfire directly back then.

However, although he didn't like Jetfire, The Fallen also admitted that Jetfire was indeed a genius when it came to long-range spatial teleportation.

Sentinel Prime, a descendant of the Primes whom even The Fallen was very wary of in the past, had once invited Jetfire to serve as a teacher and learned from him for a long time.

If Frenzy was also related to Jetfire, it was hard to say whether he had used a Space Bridge to teleport the Requiem Blaster to some other place.

At this thought, he looked at the pyramid beside him, which had begun to collapse in large sections amidst the repeated bombardments and explosions, and turned to leave with a cold snort.

This time, he could consider it a small loss suffered under Sun Cheng; he hadn't expected that although the opponent's individual strength wasn't high, he had plenty of tricks up his sleeve.

There were electromagnetic pulse bombs, depleted uranium armor-piercing shells, and temperature weapons.

Clearly, they were all prepared specifically for powerful Mechanical Life.

That such a guy, who dared to covet his weapon, actually came from the Decepticon Legion made The Fallen frown for a moment.

It seemed that from him, the mastermind who single-handedly fostered the birth of the Decepticon Legion, to his ambitious student, or high-level commanders like Starscream, and the Decepticons below, there were few who were well-behaved.

Frenzy had escaped very decisively; although he had many tricks, he lacked a weapon that could truly threaten The Fallen.

The opponent clearly realized this too; after temporarily freezing him, all that remained were those two missile attacks that were no different from a mosquito bite to The Fallen.

Realizing that the opponent likely possessed a Space Bridge, The Fallen, despite hating Sun Cheng to the core, temporarily abandoned the idea of continuing to hunt him down.

He was truly afraid that if he pushed the opponent too far, he would use the Space Bridge to escape to another planet.

The universe was so vast; if he wanted to track the opponent then, it would be quite tricky unless The Fallen could recover to his peak period.

"Let him keep the Requiem Blaster for now... The top priority should be to snatch back the Matrix of Leadership first..."

The Fallen knew better than anyone why he had abandoned the Requiem Blaster.

Even he hadn't expected that when Solus Prime forged this weapon for him, she would leave behind a means of control within it.

At this thought, the hatred in his heart grew a little heavier.

Leaping into the air, The Fallen quickly transformed into a small space warship that had never appeared on Earth. After hovering in mid-air and sensing for a while, he immediately locked onto the energy signature of the 【Matrix of Leadership】 again and flew toward the south.

Meanwhile, in Aswan.

When the last Autobot warrior recovered his state, Optimus Prime smiled and took back the 【Matrix of Leadership】, tucking it into his chest.

"Truly amazing!"

Arcee clenched her fists; she had also been bitten by Ravage and suffered some minor injuries during the previous battle where Starscream and the others assassinated Optimus Prime.

Because her injuries were the lightest, she was arranged to be the last to receive treatment.

However, Optimus Prime clearly took great care of her; the surging energy that poured into her body during treatment far exceeded the consumption required to heal Arcee's injuries.

As a result, Arcee now felt her state was unprecedentedly good; a vibrant, surging energy was constantly remodeling her Spark and even her body, giving her the feeling that she was becoming stronger with every passing moment.

Well, although the magnitude of the increase was very small.

"Leader, I'm afraid we have trouble!"

An Autobot who was only about one meter tall and very short ran quickly toward Optimus Prime.

He was the Mini-Autobot—Blaster, the captain of the Cassette Troops.

The intelligence agency under the former leadership of Soundwave—the Cassette Corps—had helped the Decepticons win key battles many times during the civil war by relying on their powerful intelligence-gathering capabilities.

For this reason, the Autobot high command learned from their mistakes and, targeting the characteristics of the Cassette Corps members—being short in stature, inconspicuous in disguise, and convenient for intelligence gathering—they also gathered a group of Mini-Autobots and, modeling them after the Cassette Corps, formed an intelligence-gathering squad belonging to the Autobots—the Cassette Troops.

Blaster, who had arrived on Earth just two days ago, was the captain of the Cassette Troops.

With strength not even equal to an Ordinary Warrior of the Autobots, he indeed had obvious shortcomings in terms of combat.

However, as an intelligence squad formed by the Autobots themselves to counter the Decepticon Cassette Corps, Blaster and the Cassette Troops he led possessed intelligence-gathering capabilities not much worse than the Cassette Corps.

And so, this time, after Blaster transported Optimus Prime's remains into Aswan, Egypt, with the team, he detached from the team, transformed into a tape recorder, and hid in a human hotel.

Just now, in the hotel, Blaster had obtained several very important pieces of intelligence through human communication systems and hurried over to rendezvous with the team.

Unable to care about the surprise of the Leader's successful resurrection, he was about to report the important intelligence he had just collected to Optimus Prime.

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