Chapter 967: A New Shield

Still the same Laboratory, still Sun Cheng and the Forge of Solus Prime.

Looking at the more than ten tons of the latest model System Alloy piled up like a small hill on the open ground, along with some other rare metals and materials.

Sun Cheng looked at the Forge of Solus Prime in his hand, unable to wait any longer, "Forge of Solus Prime, we can begin!"

This was already half a month after the end of the Cairo Battle!

And Sun Cheng had still been keeping himself locked inside the Laboratory.

Recently, he hadn't even had time to continue absorbing the Memory Data of Sentinel Prime.

The reason was simple: ever since Sun Cheng found it, the Forge of Solus Prime, which had always been very indifferent to him, had actually taken the initiative to start chatting with him.

The subsequent development was even more magical; having long had the idea of persuading the Forge of Solus Prime to forge equipment for him, he naturally would not miss such a good opportunity.

And so, with Sun Cheng appealing to its emotions and supplementing it with the historical origins between the Cybertron civilization and the Quintessa Civilization.

In the end, he successfully persuaded the Forge of Solus Prime to start helping him forge some equipment that, in its view, could only be considered Normal.

That previous Shield was just a normal attempt.

Over the past week or so, Sun Cheng had used the Forge of Solus Prime to forge four similar Shields in succession.

As he continued to explore, the quality and strength of every Shield he later forged using the Forge of Solus Prime were better than the previous one.

After repeated testing several times, Sun Cheng had gained some experience.

So today, he prepared to forge a suitable piece of equipment for himself as well.

"Is it still the same specifications as before?"

The Forge of Solus Prime hummed and vibrated, and that female electronic voice, which Sun Cheng had become familiar with recently, also sounded in his mind.

"Yes!"

Sun Cheng nodded!

His philosophy was very different from the traditional Decepticon!

The traditional Decepticons, led by Megatron, cared more about powerful destructive power and combat capability.

Therefore, when designing a New Body, they focused more on firepower and strength, and did not pay much attention to protection and survival capability.

This point was particularly prominent in the Advanced Replica Warrior cultivated by Starscream.

Every single Replica Warrior he cultivated possessed the ability to severely injure or even kill a normal Autobot Warrior.

But relatively speaking, the fragile bodies of the Replica Warriors meant that, except for a very small number of Advanced Replica Warriors, the vast majority of Replica Warriors could also be easily injured and killed by Autobots.

And Sun Cheng was fundamentally different from the traditional Decepticons.

He first pursued protection and survival capability, because in his view, only by staying alive could one pursue more.

If one didn't even have life, what was the point of talking about power.

This was also the reason why Sun Cheng had always valued Optimus Prime more than Megatron.

In his view, Megatron was indeed an out-and-out ambitious and ruthless person.

The scheme of being able to risk walking on the edge of life and death just to trap his teacher—The Fallen—to death was indeed successful.

But it also hid too many risks and uncertainties behind it!

If it weren't for the fact that Starscream didn't dare to put all his eggs in one basket, and Optimus Prime still adhered to the stubborn philosophy of the Autobots, forbidding the United States from destroying his body.

Otherwise, whether Megatron would have had a chance to come back again would still be an unknown!

Of course, this did not exclude the possibility that Megatron had calculated everything and had already accounted for all possibilities.

But if it were Sun Cheng himself, at least he would not take such a big risk.

"I understand, let's begin!"

Compared to the first forging a week ago, Sun Cheng could now be said to be driving a familiar road.

Gripping the Forge of Solus Prime tightly, he skillfully created another Shield in his mind.

For the equipment he was forging for himself this time, Sun Cheng still chose defensive equipment that could improve survival capability.

He quickly designed the requirements and Shield design data all in his Brain, and then immediately transmitted the data into the Forge of Solus Prime.

Just like the last time, after the Forge of Solus Prime confirmed it, Sun Cheng immediately felt the Forge of Solus Prime he was holding in his hand as if it had been magnetized, tightly adhering to his hands.

At the same time, a powerful suction force also began to continuously emanate from the Forge of Solus Prime, drawing a steady stream of energy from his Spark.

"10%... 20%... 30%... 90%... 95%..."

Sun Cheng gritted his teeth and tried hard to persist, letting more than 90% of the energy in his Spark be absorbed by the Forge of Solus Prime to forge a more powerful piece of equipment for him.

A sense of exhaustion and weakness, more intense than the previous few times, made his body sway constantly, to the point where he could barely stand steady.

"Enough!"

With his face becoming increasingly ferocious, he roared in a low, powerless voice.

As if responding to him, the Forge of Solus Prime finally stopped absorbing energy from his Spark when the energy inside Sun Cheng's body was less than 5%.

The next moment, a beam of light abruptly flew out from the Forge of Solus Prime, sweeping up most of the materials on the open ground not far away and flying into mid-air.

Under the action of a powerful energy, those materials were quickly decomposed into an atomic state that even Sun Cheng's vision could not see.

Then the materials began to reorganize rapidly, turning into pieces of unknown components.

The components gradually changed and grew, and soon they seemed to attract each other like magnets, adhering together, and soon not even a trace could be seen.

At the same time, a giant Shield, about three meters high and half a meter thick, made of a brand-new metal material created by the Forge of Solus Prime from the new System Alloy, and silver-gray in its entirety, was finally completely formed after more than two hours of tempering, from nothing to something.

"A pretty good piece of work!"

The voice of the Forge of Solus Prime sounded in Sun Cheng's mind, and that female electronic voice, which he had become gradually familiar with recently, showed such obvious emotional fluctuation for the first time in days.

"Happy?"

Sun Cheng tried to analyze the emotion it revealed, but soon gave up.

His current gaze was completely attracted by the Shield in front of him.

After the Shield was formed, it clattered and fell onto the alloy floor in front of Sun Cheng.

Even though he felt an unprecedented weakness at this moment.

But Sun Cheng, having long been prepared, waved a hand, and two robots that had been waiting for a long time in a corner of the Laboratory pushed a special piece of equipment toward him.

After the equipment drew near, several joints immediately flew out from Sun Cheng's body and quickly submerged into the equipment.

The next moment, the slight, inconspicuous rust patterns that had begun to appear on the surface of Sun Cheng's body during that extreme period of time quickly began to dissipate and fade.

Abundant energy began to pour into his body in a steady stream and was quickly absorbed by the Spark within him.

Portable Energy Replenisher!

That was the name of the equipment in the Laboratory that was currently replenishing Sun Cheng's energy.

Its birth originally stemmed from a casual complaint he made about "energy replenishment being inconvenient" after heading to the medical bay to replenish energy following a training session.

Even Sun Cheng himself had not expected that, not long after mastering the relevant manufacturing technology for Energy Pillars, a Decepticon Senior Engineer under his command had actually tried to design a piece of equipment that was more convenient for carrying and replenishing energy.

As more and more energy poured into Sun Cheng's body, he let out a comfortable muffled sound.

The sense of weakness caused by the massive loss of energy was rapidly receding.

Lowering his head to look at the Forge of Solus Prime, only then did Sun Cheng finally understand why it had warned him that only a Prime could fully unleash its capabilities.

Indeed!

Even just to forge a piece that it considered only "not bad," it had nearly drained all the energy from the body of this Quasi-Leader Class Warrior.

The massive consumption of the Forge of Solus Prime could be glimpsed from this small detail.

As the weakness in his body gradually dissipated, Sun Cheng soon looked again at the weapon forged by the Forge of Solus Prime this time.

It was still a Shield, but it was vastly different from the shields he had previously forged using the Forge of Solus Prime.

This shield was about four meters high, almost reaching half the height of Sun Cheng's current body.

Its thickness remained around half a meter, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom.

The front of the shield looked somewhat smooth, and in the very center of the front, a Decepticon insignia was branded.

Two beams of light shot out from his eyes, quickly scanning the shield that had crashed onto the ground.

Soon, the information about the shield appeared in Sun Cheng's mind.

"A shield weighing a full six tons; it seems even harder than the surface armor of my body."

Somewhat surprised, he decisively ended the energy replenishment after his Spark had absorbed some energy and the sense of weakness was no longer so intense.

He placed the Forge of Solus Prime back into the charging crystal container, walked over to the shield, and bent down to pick it up.

Upon contact, there was a heavy weight to it.

This time, there was no need for the Forge of Solus Prime to teach him; Sun Cheng held the shield, his mind stirring.

The next moment, the shield in his hand seemed to liquefy, turning into a mass of liquid metal that appeared to possess self-awareness in a very short time, quickly climbing up along his left arm and soon wrapping most of his entire body within it.

And the liquid metal, not long after wrapping around Sun Cheng, began to squirm and deform again.

After about a few dozen seconds, a suit of silver-gray Armor only about ten centimeters thick appeared on him.

Sun Cheng closed his eyes to feel the feedback information just captured in his Core, and when he opened his eyes again, a smile reappeared on his face.

"It is indeed a good piece of equipment... even harder than the armor on the surface of my body... it combines the advantages of the previous few shields, can absorb certain energy attacks, and convert them into energy to replenish me... not bad, truly not bad..."

Although this Armor formed by the shield reduced his agility somewhat, it raised Sun Cheng's defensive power and survival capability by several levels.

Sun Cheng guessed that in the state of being a shield, it should be able to withstand the attack of a Leader-class Warrior.

As for whether it could withstand a full-force blow from a Leader-class Warrior, he was not sure.