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Chapter 908: The War (Seeking Subscription)
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"The day has finally arrived!"
Quietly standing in the square outside the City Hall of New Iron Fortress, Sentinel Prime gazed at a towering column of light rising from the southwestern corner of the city, muttering to himself.
How long had this plan been in the making? He couldn't even recall anymore.
Perhaps only a few hundred years, or maybe even tens of thousands of years, or it might have originated even earlier.
Sentinel Prime first learned of the existence of the planet Earth during the Council of Primes era.
Back then, he was just a Superior General overshadowed by the nobility and the Council of Primes. He vaguely remembered that during a meeting convened by the Council of Primes, someone mentioned a Pathfinder who had discovered a small planet in the remote corner of the Milky Way that harbored Carbon-Based Life.
They named it "Azure" because most of Earth's surface was covered by oceans.
In the millions of years that followed, Cybertron's history was marked by turbulence.
Sentinel Prime supported a revolution from behind the scenes, overthrowing the rule of the nobility and the Council of Primes through rebellion, becoming the true emperor with absolute power.
However, before the throne of power had a chance to warm, Megatron, who he had nurtured and had risen to become the Commander-in-Chief of Cybertron's military, dealt him a fatal blow.
Megatron rallied a significant number of nobles who had initially been defeated by them and took almost the entire army, forming a faction called the Decepticons.
Subsequently, the Civil War began, igniting the flames of war on Cybertron Planet, quickly spreading to all their extraterrestrial colonies.
The endless Civil War, spanning millions of years, eventually drained both Autobot and Decepticon.
Watching the balance of victory gradually tipping in favor of the Decepticons, Sentinel Prime, who couldn't tolerate his own failure, began seeking an opportunity for a comeback or an escape route.
He pondered and contemplated for a long time.
Finally, one day, from the obscure recesses of his memory, Sentinel Prime stumbled upon the mention of a planet called 'Azure,' which had been discussed countless years ago.
From that moment on, he lost interest in personally commanding the Autobots.
Sentinel Prime transferred full military command of the Autobots to his student, Optimus Prime, redirecting all his energy into researching the 'Azure' planet.
From that moment on, the entire Autobot faction had been completely abandoned by him.
Sentinel Prime quietly dispatched his trusted subordinates to locate and ultimately pinpoint the planet's location. His exploration teams even discovered many more intriguing things.
On this life-sustaining planet, which was barely larger than Cybertron's satellite, there were not only traces left behind by Pathfinders from Cybertron but also a continuous history of visits spanning ancient times to the present.
Even legends about the Thirteen Primes had been preserved here.
As a descendant of Primus, established personally by the Thirteen Primes, Sentinel Prime was privy to many secrets unknown to other Cybertronians.
For instance, the legends of the Thirteen Primes were indeed true, and the Primus lineage was indeed the first batch of Cybertronian life created by the Thirteen Primes.
When Sentinel Prime was still a Superior General, and Cybertronian civilization was at its peak, he once met an elderly and wise man in the ancient Iron Fortress City Library, whose birth history was so ancient that nobody knew.
The man called himself Titan Master, and his sole purpose was to record and preserve the history of Cybertron.
Titan Master had given Sentinel Prime two prophecies: one foretelling that the Superior General would face betrayal and the other predicting the birth of an entirely new race due to Sentinel Prime's actions.
The old man even left the peculiar word 'Autobot' in his mind.
For some inexplicable reason, the Superior General never visited the old man again.
When he finally remembered the old man and attempted to visit him once more, many years had passed, and the old man had disappeared.
However, in that library, Titan Master left Sentinel Prime with a very peculiar image.
It wasn't until he personally arrived in the Solar System hundreds of years ago that Sentinel Prime finally realized that the seemingly ancient Primus-like figure had left him with a star system chart of the Solar System.
"Solar System... Earth... What kind of secrets are hidden here to make Pathfinders from one generation to another, even First Generation, continuously visit this place? And why are there legends and graves of thirteen Primus here?"
Thoughts kept surging through Sentinel Prime's mind as his gaze remained fixed on the southwestern part of New Iron Fortress City.
He could sense the strange fluctuations emanating from the teleportation gate he had designed himself.
Sentinel Prime knew that Pandora's Box had been opened by his own hand.
Moon, beneath the Steel Dome.
Within the fortress built atop a meteor crater, Vehicons roared and shouted, and some even engaged in brawls due to the overcrowding and resulting friction.
Starscream and the others paid little attention to this scene as they all gazed at the enormous alloy gate before them.
Dozens of Engineers were busy around the alloy gate, and with their continuous efforts, the brilliant blue light on the gate grew increasingly dazzling.
"Master, Earth coordinates have been locked, and the teleportation gate can be opened!" one of the Decepticons reported while kneeling.
With a sinister grin revealing his sharp teeth, Starscream responded, "Open it!"
As he gave the command, eerie electrical arcs continuously danced and flickered on the teleportation gate.
Soon, a nearly transparent water-like membrane appeared on the gate.
Starscream looked at the teleportation gate with fanatic excitement in his eyes. "It's about to begin!"
He turned to Lightning, who had mostly recovered from the injuries sustained during the sniper attack on Optimus Prime after a few days of treatment. Lightning had a serious expression, and this was not the time for arguments or disputes.
Inside the Steel Dome, Megatron's cold and menacing voice echoed, "Lightning, you will take command of this operation. I have only one requirement: cooperate with Sentinel Prime to destroy any forces that attempt to obstruct us. However, don't draw too much attention; let Sentinel Prime take all the spotlight. We want to push this Superior General to the throne and watch him and Optimus Prime become enemies, witnessing the Autobots fall into internal conflict."
"Humanity will thoroughly despise Sentinel Prime and the Autobots from now on, and we will be the ultimate victors."
"Do you understand?"
Lightning respectfully bowed and saluted the holographic projection of Megatron within the Steel Dome. "Yes, Your Highness, Megatron. I promise to complete the mission!"
Starscream also lowered his head slightly in a gesture of respect, though a smile played on his face, revealing an inscrutable meaning.
"Very well, then, let's go!"
With Megatron's command, inside the Steel Dome, countless Decepticon Vehicons roared and charged recklessly toward the teleportation gate, without hesitation.
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