Chapter 827: New Body

Pioneer waited on Trindade Island for over an hour, and by the time news of the battle's end arrived from Chongfeng's side, the island's radar had not detected any further invading targets.

"Seventeen invaders. Aside from one Decepticon known as 'Dirge' who managed to escape, all fifteen Replica Warriors were annihilated, and one Decepticon known as 'Thundercracker' was hit by an Electromagnetic Paralysis Bomb and captured!"

"Our side lost 24 Decepticon Warriors, with 9 severely injured..."

Pioneer quickly finished processing the received data. When his Core read the report of their losses, he frowned slightly, but showed no further reaction.

Decepticon Warriors are the first tier in their combat profession system, with the advantage of being easier to cultivate and consuming fewer resources.

However, their combat power is somewhat lacking; it often takes two fully armed Decepticon Warriors to handle a single Replica Warrior.

Therefore, after a battle, Decepticon Warriors are often sacrificed.

"Understood. First, bring 'Thundercracker' back and lock him up on the island. I have already reported the situation here to the Commander. You all go to the medical center to treat your injuries first!"

After having Chongci escort the captured 'Thundercracker' back to the Sub-base for confinement, Pioneer quickly reported the recent invasion incident on the island to Sun Cheng.

When he received the news from Trindade Island, Sun Cheng was at Base No. 2, making the final preparations before changing his body.

Yes, after more than half a year of research, design, and manufacturing.

His Decepticon Engineers finally manufactured a brand-new body tailored to Sun Cheng's requirements.

In the central command center of Base No. 2, inside a spacious Laboratory deep within the original Dixiadongku.

Sun Cheng was currently inspecting his New Body, accompanied by Atlas and a few other Decepticon Senior Engineers and Engineers.

Inside the spacious Laboratory, a hulking steel giant radiating a silver-gray luster stood proudly, supported by over a dozen scaffolding poles.

This was a savage mechanical giant whose size far exceeded Sun Cheng's current Frenzy Body. It stood nearly twelve meters tall, and its exterior lines were five or six parts similar to his current body; at a glance, it looked as if it were simply magnified.

However, standing before this brand-new body, Sun Cheng knew it was fundamentally different from his current one.

It is no exaggeration to say that, apart from a more savage face, four Missile Launchers mounted below the shoulders on the back, and some differences in the leg structure, it looked overall like a larger model of Jazz.

Looking at the hulking steel giant before him with excitement, Sun Cheng hurried to the giant standing quietly in the workshop and reached out to touch its body without delay.

The next moment, sets of data quickly emerged within his Core.

【Unnamed Model Body!】

【Main Armor Material: Xisitemu III Type 094 Hejin.】

【Core: Level 5 Enhanced Warrior-type Processing System.】

【Artificial Spark: 351700/351700.】

【Height: 11.72 meters.】

【Weight: 19.74 tons.】

【Auxiliary Power: 150000/150000.】

【Equipment: Back-mounted Missile Launcher*2, Arm-mounted Close-quarters Combat Missile Launcher*4, 30mm Aircraft Cannon*1, 57mm 20-tube Aircraft Rocket Launcher*1, Improved Type III 120mm Plasma Cannon*1, Soul-Suppressing Gun Storage System*1, Enhanced Special Band Reconnaissance Radar*1, Stealth Drone*2.】

【Status: Not Activated!】

The moment his palm touched his New Body, Sun Cheng had already activated the scanning function.

Because the body had not yet been activated, he mastered all the data regarding this new body of his without any effort.

While satisfied with his New Body, Sun Cheng still felt some regret!

He was satisfied because both the materials used and the capabilities the design could achieve exceeded his initial expectations for the strength a Leader-class Warrior should have.

Once he changed into the New Body and adapted to it, Sun Cheng could fully rely on the Soul-Suppressing Gun to hold his own in conflicts with veteran Leader-class warriors like Megatron or Optimus Prime.

Because he didn't know much about Leader-class warriors, he had truly bled heavily for this body of his.

Not to mention the various rare metals and other materials consumed in manufacturing the body, it was conservatively estimated to be worth at least ten billion US dollars.

Many materials simply couldn't be bought with money. For example, the several key elements added during the improvement of the enhanced System Alloy in Sun Cheng's New Body alone had a crustal abundance ranging from only four ten-thousandths to one-thousandth of that of iron, making them very time-consuming to collect.

He finally understood why so few Leader-class warriors had been born throughout the millions of years of Cybertron's long history.

Without a powerful force backing you, just collecting those materials was extremely troublesome and difficult, not to mention that the Cybertronian civilization had been fighting since the end of the Council of Ancients, and the war had almost never ceased.

As a result, even high-level commanders of the Decepticon Legion like Starscream and Onslaught were restricted to below the Leader level.

What made Sun Cheng bleed wasn't just the materials consumed in manufacturing this New Body; what pained him most were the two AllSpark Fragments.

Previously, during his trade with Optimus Prime, he had paid a large amount of materials and resources to exchange for more Matrix of Leadership energy, originally intending to use that magical energy on his New Body when he switched.

However, Sun Cheng had underestimated the consumption required to lift the restrictions on the Soul-Suppressing Gun, and in the end, not a single portion of Matrix of Leadership energy remained.

Fortunately, creating Hailishi with an AllSpark Fragment earlier had given him some inspiration.

In the end, worried that his New Body would be completely unable to compete due to their lack of understanding of Leader-class warriors, Sun Cheng later painfully took out two precious AllSpark Fragments and, after draining the energy from one of them, perfectly embedded it into the Artificial Spark of his New Body.

As for the other one, after it was also drained of energy, he embedded it into the Core of the New Body.

The reason he drained the energy from the fragments was also because Sun Cheng was worried about complications.

After all, if the energy of the two AllSpark Fragments happened to be just enough to cause his newly prepared body to abruptly awaken a self-consciousness, that would be troublesome.

Sun Cheng could accept the wasted resources and such.

But if the Decepticon that awakened self-consciousness refused to take orders, or even usurped his position, he would suffer a huge loss.

So, he could not afford to be anything but cautious!