Shadow of the Beautiful World

In the wasteland hell, in the mechanical palace of Mount Doom.

In Merlin's magic laboratory, Icarus carefully held a special mechanical core.

That thing was made by her in the Smart Tower, a substitute made to imitate the Cybertronian's mechanical core, and it was specially used to carry the new mechanical soul in her hand.

It was the soul fusion of the legendary warriors Optimus Prime and Shockwave.

This is not some evil experiment.

In fact, it was a rescue.

The bones of the two legendary warriors were not left in the explosion of the ark, and the mechanical cores left by them were also incomplete, causing the mechanical souls of both of them to be damaged to varying degrees.

Merlin may be very good at dealing with human and alien souls, but he can't handle the mechanical souls of the Cybertronians at all.

This method of forming a will aggregate similar to a soul, which is piled up by data in a mysterious way, is completely opposite to the magical knowledge that Merlin is good at.

Fortunately, however, he has a personal secretary who is very good at handling data.

It took some time for Icarus and Merlin to work together to complete the Spirit of the Machine this time.

A tall name.

In fact, the essence is to cut apart two broken machine souls, and then recombine them into a new machine soul.

Optimus Prime and Shockwave were dead in the soul cut just now.

This newborn...

Possesses most of the memories and war instincts of both, but with a whole new awareness.

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Icarus fitted the mechanical core with a manufactured Horcrux shell, used the machine soul to carry the newborn soul, and then temporarily put it into the body of an omnic.

With the opening of the instrument for energy and magic power conversion in the omnic core.

The energy of the omnic was converted into magic power, and as the Horcrux was injected with magic power, the drowsy machine soul also seemed to be poured with a basin of ice water on a hot summer day.

He woke up almost immediately.

The temporary omnic body was activated, and this newborn will manipulated the weak body without the stiffness of the omnic.

He stood up just like that, moving his limbs, sensing this strange place.

Finally, he looked at the two people in front of him.

A man and a woman.

The man was wearing a black robe that did not conform to the aesthetics of the Cybertronians. With his hands behind his back, he was floating on the ground in a strange posture, looking at him curiously.

This newborn consciousness was very curious about Merlin's power. He thought that Merlin must have used some kind of advanced technology that he couldn't understand. Perhaps, under his feet, there was a pair of propellers maintaining the suspension.

And compared to a man with power beyond measure, the women around him are much easier to understand.

a robot.

A robot equipped with bionic materials that simulates the appearance of a human female.

The energy level in her body was very high, not much different from the Megatron in his memory, and the mechanical shape was very graceful, full of a unique beauty of machinery.

But he couldn't understand why this kind of person insisted on covering himself with a layer of bionic material that was inconvenient to move around and would reduce combat effectiveness?

May I have your name?

Merlin looked at the omnic in front of him, and he asked:

Can you still remember things from the past?

Um.

This omnic imitated Merlin's movements, put his hands behind his back, activated the thrusters under his feet, and hovered at the same height as Merlin.

He answered frankly:

My database has all the memories of Optimus Prime and Shockwave. I also know most of the secrets of Autobots and Decepticons. I know the grievances of Cybertron...but my name...

The omnic bowed his head and thought carefully for a few seconds, then he shook his head and said:

I don't remember having a name.

You once called yourself the Great Dark Sky!

Merlin said to the omnic:

But I think another name suits you better.

Merlin glanced at Icarus beside him, and he said to the newborn soul in front of him:

I'm going to call you a 'scourge', a mechanical Scourge, what do you think?

Um...

The omnic blinked and said:

The Great Dark Sky was given to me by Quintessa, who claims to be the Goddess of Mechanics. This seems to be the name of a tyrant in the feudal dynasty of the Cybertronians. She may be using this name to mock me.

But it's okay, I'll call it a natural disaster!

A purple stream of data flashed in the omnic's eyes, and he wrote the name code natural disaster into his own thinking circuit.

From now on, he is called a natural disaster.

You just said that Quintasha is a 'self-proclaimed' mechanical goddess?

Standing aside, Icarus, who was silent, caught a special meaning in the words of the natural disaster.

The glasses girl reached out and took out the black-rimmed glasses from her pocket, and put them on her face. She pushed the frame of the glasses and asked softly:

What does that 'self-proclaimed' mean?

She's fake.

The Mechanical Scourge had a calm tone, and said almost absolutely rationally:

When Optimus Prime was covering the evacuation of the autobot rebels from the dying star Cybertron, he fell into the crack of the planet torn apart by the internal explosion in desperation. It fell into the mechanical core of the world, where it met Kun Tasha.

Quintasha claimed to Optimus Prime that she was the Goddess of Mechanics, a remnant of the will of the creator of the Cybertronians, 'Tianzun' or 'Yuanshi Tianzun'.

She deceived Optimus Prime, who was in despair, with a clumsy lie, and gave Optimus Prime, who was already planning to die, a new psychological support.

Although he has the memory of Optimus Prime, the natural disaster talks about Optimus Prime's past, describing it completely from a third-party perspective.

In Scourge's eyes, Optimus Prime is dead...

Although that tragic hero makes people sigh, it has nothing to do with him now.

The reason why I say that Quintasha is a fake mechanical goddess is because I have enough evidence.

He explained to Icarus and Merlin:

Optimus Prime is a robot born in the peaceful age of Cybertron, who regards the legend of Cybertron as myth, but Shockwave is not...

Shockwave once had a high position on Cybertron. It even participated in the war to expel the 'slave masters'. It has experienced those 'mythical' eras.

Optimus Prime can't understand Quintessa's form of existence, but Shockwave can.

The eyes of Scourge projected a blue halo, forming an unclear projection in front of Merlin and Icarus. He said:

In Shockwave's memory, I found some very interesting things, maybe they can explain Quintasha's origin.

In the projection cast by the natural disaster, Merlin and the glasses girl could see some strange creatures with a semi-cylindrical body, five heads, and five faces.

With the advancement of the projection, the natural disaster also explained slowly:

These creatures are called five-faced monsters.

In the galaxy where Cybertron is located, the five-faced monster was known far and wide in ancient times as a sinister, cunning and ruthless creature.

They are a group of researchers, a group of arrogant scientists, traveling among the stars, exploring knowledge and power, and they don't care about the serious negative impact that their pursuit will bring to other life.

In human terms, they're a bunch of sociopaths with little empathy. Not only are they indifferent to pain, but they take terrible, perverted pleasure from hurting others.

In the projection of the natural disaster, a group of five-faced monsters drove a unique spaceship among the stars, and landed in a world composed of bare steel and the earth.

In that projection, Merlin could see a group of very primitive, ancient Cybertronians, who were very similar to omnics, being tortured and killed by five-faced monsters using high-tech captives.

The five-faced monsters captured many slaves for themselves. They freed themselves from all labor and became greedy and lazy over a long period of time.

Cybertron is not their first conquest, nor will it be the last, but what happened on that planet is unforgettable.

Scourge explained in an emotionless voice:

They stayed a lot on Cybertron, in order to make the captured mechanical slaves work better for themselves, to protect their own rights, and to resist possible foreign enemies in the stars, these five-faced monsters are Cybertron's The primitive robots had a clear division of labor.

Two different production lines arose in the original Cybertron world, one for military use and one for civilian use.

At the request of the five-faced monster, more and more robots appeared on Cybertron. But these robots with no creativity at all can't satisfy them.

The five-faced monsters thought the primitive robots were too stupid. They racked their brains and created new instruments in the depths of the Cybertron world that could give the robots a real soul and creativity...

The narration of natural disasters stopped.

A strange projection appeared in front of Merlin's eyes, it was a metal creation similar to a magic circle.

In a majestic metal sanctuary buried deep under the surface of Cybertron, an exquisite mechanical scepter shining like a blue lightning halo was inserted in the center of that unique metal creation.

A group of five-faced monsters hovered above the scepter. They manipulated energy and gave wisdom to the robots kneeling on the ground.

This is the ancient history of the Cybertronians.

Merlin narrowed his eyes when he saw this.

He probably guessed the answer to the natural disaster, about the true identity of the so-called mechanical goddess Quintasha.

But the narration of natural disasters did not end, he continued:

Because of the 'gift' of the five-faced monster, in just a few hundred years, there are almost no ignorant robots on Cybertron.

Because of the blessings of wisdom and creativity, primitive robots began to rapidly become wise and capable, and also created their own civilization system and myths and legends. The stories about Tianzun and the emperor of the universe, and the true story of the Cybertronians the origin.

These signs of rapid development of civilization made the five-faced monsters realize that they had made a terrible mistake. They seriously underestimated the potential of the Cybertronians, but the greed and cruelty stemming from their nature made them unwilling to give up this already The world is built.

They began to cruelly squeeze the awakened robots, and rebellions appeared all over the world. In order to quell the riots, the five-faced monsters made an exception to produce a group of ignorant but powerful robot guards.

Robots with intelligence can think, but they can't fight at all. Under the oppression of the robot army of the five-faced monster, the little resistance was quickly suppressed, and the world seemed to have returned to its former arrogance and brutality.

But in fact, the fire of resistance has never died out. Although civilian robots are not good at fighting, the level of technology they have secretly studied and researched has far surpassed the five-faced monster in thousands of years of oppression and resistance.

Under the pressure of survival, these robots were forced to develop their potential and finally learned the ability to disguise themselves by changing shape.

They began to recruit those stupid battle robots and taught them the ability to change shape. Finally, millions of years ago, a great uprising swept across Cybertron.

The voice of natural disasters became a little passionate at this moment, he said:

The five-faced monsters were caught off guard. The armed robots who were originally loyal to them launched the deadliest blow to them at the request of their compatriots. The five-faced monsters suffered heavy damage.

They fled Cybertron in a panic and were never seen again...except for the last one who didn't escape in time!

The projection projected from the eyes of the natural disaster was divided into two parts at this moment.

One is a golden five-faced monster locked in an underground temple on Cybertron.

The other is a golden robot with a female appearance. On that screen, the robot is talking to the seriously injured Optimus Prime.

But even though the appearance of the two is completely different, the environment they are in is exactly the same, both are the temple located deep in the underground of Cybertron.

The temple that was once used by the five-faced monster to infuse the soul and creativity of the Cybertronians, the only difference is that the metal scepter that was once inserted in the center of the temple has disappeared.

Quintasha is the last five-faced monster imprisoned on Cybertron. In Shockwave's memory, there is information about her.

The natural disaster revealed the answer calmly, he said:

During millions of years, the body of the five-faced monster has also decayed, but for some unknown reason, the feudal kings of Cybertron actually reshaped her mechanical body and transferred her will into that body.

She tricked Optimus Prime into looking for her scepter on Earth. That thing can't save Cybertron. In other words, it can indeed heal the broken Cybertron by absorbing the energy of the earth, but it's definitely not because of Kun. Tasha has kind thoughts in her heart.

Quintasha did all this just to rebuild the long-lost dynasty of the five-faced monster, and use that scepter to rewrite the thinking of all the Cybertronians in the stars, making them the most loyal servants of the five-faced monster, nothing more.

Scourge lowered his head, and said:

Optimus Prime is indeed a hero...

But unfortunately, this time, it succumbed to its own desperation and used lies to paint an illusory future for itself, and made it its own goal.

It let its world down, it let its friends down.

As for Shockwave, that guy doesn't care about it. He has no nostalgia for the world that destroyed it. There is nothing in his heart, only war.

I, Scourge, I will not make the same mistakes as them.

He raised his head, looked at Merlin, and then at Icarus.

He raised his left hand and put it on his chest. He said softly and firmly:

I've seen the future in the rotation of data.

Cybertron's only hope is not in the stars, let alone in Quintasha's lies, it is here, in the two of you.

I beg you two to save my world, for this, I am willing to give everything...

Praise... the God of Myriad Machines!