Chapter 833: Intensifying Conflict (Part 1)

As these words were spoken, Sentinel Prime, who had been sitting in the military command center for a long time without saying a word, suddenly spoke up.

"Frenzy? Is that the Decepticon from the 【Cassette Corps】 you mentioned before?"

Noticing his teacher's gaze fall upon him, Optimus Prime frowned slightly.

He knew of his teacher's hostility toward the Decepticons.

Years ago, in order to seize power from the nobles who controlled the Council of Ancients, Sentinel Prime had personally elevated Megatron, then merely a gladiator slave, to the position of military commander of Cybertron.

Then, Sentinel Prime made a great issue of Megatron's slave status, which severely shook the prestige of the Council of Ancients and the noble ruling class behind it.

Later, following the counterattack of the nobles, Sentinel Prime had to join forces with Megatron once again to completely crush and dissolve the Council of Ancients in the name of revolution.

It could be said that Megatron and the subsequent Decepticon Legion were personally fostered and created by Sentinel Prime for political needs.

The peaceful times did not last long; shortly after the revolution, Megatron, having grown in strength, backstabbed Sentinel Prime before he had fully consolidated the power ceded by the nobles.

Megatron, who had won over many former Cybertronian nobles and soldiers during the war, established the Decepticon Legion and, catching Sentinel Prime off guard, quickly seized several important military fortresses and industrial bases.

To this day, Optimus Prime no longer needed to ponder whether his teacher, Sentinel Prime, would have liquidated Megatron after digesting the power surrendered by the Cybertronian nobles, had Megatron not chosen to betray him early.

Megatron's betrayal, along with the war between the Decepticon Legion and the Autobot faction that had lasted for millions of years, had long since made the Decepticons and Autobots irreconcilable, mortal enemies.

It was precisely because of this that Optimus Prime had only briefly touched upon the alliance and cooperation between the Autobots and Frenzy, saying nothing about matters that might offend Sentinel Prime.

However, this was an important military meeting, and it was clearly impossible to simply gloss over it.

After thinking carefully for a moment, Optimus Prime nodded slightly, "Teacher, Frenzy can be considered our quasi-ally on Earth. Although he comes from..."

Before he could finish his sentence, his greatest concern happened.

"Absurd!"

Sentinel Prime let out an angry shout, leaving the military command center in dead silence.

Under the gaze of all the Autobots, he stood up and looked down at Optimus Prime, his tone extremely stern: "Optimus Prime, Decepticons are the most untrustworthy, evil existences."

He was, after all, the former leader of the Autobots and the king of all Cybertronians.

Sentinel Prime's cold gaze swept across the military command center; even the hot-tempered Ironhide, or Sideswipe, who did not care for him, all avoided his gaze or lowered or turned their heads away.

"In the millions of years to date, the one thing I regret most is choosing Megatron to overthrow the Council of Ancients and molding him, a slave by birth, into a hero of Cybertron!"

With his aura fully unleashed, Sentinel Prime used only a single glance to forcibly block the words that Optimus Prime, who had been attempting to speak, had on the tip of his tongue.

He looked at Optimus Prime and said sternly: "Decepticons are war machines born from the evil breeding experiments of the Quintessons. Later, after the cruel experiments of a group of evil scientists like Shockwave and Starscream, the cloned warriors they bred made them even more like the machines the people of Earth describe!"

"Optimus Prime, as the leader of the Autobots, you should think from the perspective of all Autobots in everything; we and the Decepticons are eternal enemies, and this point can never change!"

Optimus Prime's brow was tightly furrowed; in a sense, his teacher, Sentinel Prime, was not wrong.

However, on the issue of Frenzy, he was not the only one who agreed with making contact and cooperating.

Even Ironhide, who had not gotten along with Frenzy at first, had changed his attitude 180 degrees after more than a year of vigilance.

They had indeed gained a lot of help from Frenzy, and intelligence was only one part of it; if it weren't for Frenzy's reminder, Sentinel Prime wouldn't have known when he would have been rescued by them.

Besides that, the precious materials provided by the other party in exchange for the energy of the 【Matrix of Leadership】 had also eased the energy crisis of New Iacon.

Moreover, their material trade with Frenzy did not end with the conclusion of the two 【Matrix of Leadership】 transactions.

Since Frenzy suddenly invited the Autobots to participate in the Black Market trade on Trindade Island a few months ago, although the Autobots were not allowed to trade directly with humans, they could trade for some rare metals from Frenzy and his group on Trindade Island.

The Autobots were quite welcoming of this, as they discovered that they could obtain some rare materials on Trindade Island that were very uncommon on Earth.

According to their speculation, if Frenzy hadn't found an asteroid-sized meteorite that had fallen to Earth in ancient times within South America, then there was only one explanation: the other party had already begun mining in outer space.

Looking at the Autobots, Optimus Prime, constrained by the Autobot stance of non-interference in Earth's internal affairs, could not directly hide behind the scenes like Frenzy, manipulating the changes in human national regimes, or even forcibly occupying mineral resources already developed by European and American mining companies to quickly accumulate enough basic resources to develop and grow.

Therefore, even though Frenzy was actively controlling himself not to intervene in Africa, tacitly allowing the Autobots to develop there.

The expansion and development speed of New Iacon was still far from being comparable to Frenzy's forces.

The Autobot exploration teams could only prospect for minerals in some remote, sparsely populated areas of Africa, and tried their best not to intervene in local tribal conflicts and wars between local warlords.

Moreover, Frenzy was also a very good shield, attracting a portion of the Decepticon firepower and winning more room for development for the Autobots.

Under these circumstances, the importance of Frenzy and his forces to the Autobots was gradually shifting from quasi-ally to ally.

Their Decepticon identity, conversely, was not that important anymore.

Optimus Prime was the current leader of the Autobots; he understood the complex situation on Earth and the strength comparison between the Autobots and Decepticons better than Sentinel Prime.

He hesitated for a moment before speaking to refute his teacher.

"Teacher, the people of Earth have a saying: 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend'," he still respected his teacher, so he did not want to fall out with him, "Frenzy has defected from the Decepticons; he and some Decepticons have formed a relatively peaceful force and have had at least three conflicts with the Decepticon Legion in the past year."

"During the period before you were welcomed back, Soundwave, Astrotrain, and hundreds of cloned warriors were already eliminated by Frenzy and his forces."

"It is evident that the Decepticon Legion now treats him just as they treat us—wishing to kill him as quickly as possible!"

"After we Autobots were defeated and lost all our spheres of influence on our home planet, our strength was severely reduced. Many Autobots also abandoned us and became wanderers after we escaped our home planet."

"We need friends, and we need to unite more forces to deal with the Decepticon Legion together."

"This is a decision made after I discussed it with some advisors and commanders!"

These words left Sentinel Prime with an ugly expression.

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