Chapter 873: Plundering Fleet (Patreon)

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Orion Arm, amidst the vast expanse of stars.

Hundreds of warships of various sizes were engaged in fierce combat.

Inside the command deck of a colossal warship measuring over two thousand meters in length, a massive one-eyed mechanical giant stood indifferently by the window, observing the ongoing battle outside.

He was none other than Shockwave, the Military Commander-in-chief of the Skytiger Legion.

Surrounding the enormous warship where Shockwave was stationed, thousands of small combat airships and drones were fiercely exchanging fire and entangled in combat.

Occasionally, a small combat airship or a drone would be destroyed, and the flames caused by blastoff illuminated the space around the warship.

"Commander-in-chief, the 17th and 51st flying squadrons have suffered heavy losses, requesting permission to withdraw for reorganization!"

"Tell them, the battlefield is not a laboratory; let them choose a burial ground!"

"Understood!"

Several commanders of the Skytiger Legion were also present in the command deck. Facing battles in outer space, even the Elite Warriors-level cybertronians couldn't exert significant influence unless they possessed a flight form.

Well, unless they had a flying form.

"I never expected the Quintessons to still exist, and it seems their strength has recovered almost completely!"

Speaking was Skywrap, a Decepticon and an old-timer.

Back during the cybertron Council of Primes era, Skywrap served as a senior researcher at the renowned Spaceship research center on Cybertron. Due to his friend Thundercracker siding with Megatron, Skywrap caught the attention of Megatron.

Because the Council of Primes rejected his mechanical body modification, Skywrap eventually sided with Megatron. With Megatron's strong support, he completed the mechanical body modification for the Cybertron Air Force's guerrilla army, most of whose members had already joined Megatron.

Although many of the Skytiger Legion's Air Force Majors had their initial modifications done by Skywrap, he did not take a prominent position in the Legion's hierarchy after its establishment.

Unlike most Decepticons, Skywrap cared little for "external things" like power and honor.

He had a strict personality flaw, showing enough intelligence and rationality only when conducting research. At other times, Skywrap resembled a typical Decepticon, often wandering aimlessly, only revealing extraordinary intelligence when researching his interests.

Because of this, Megatron trusted him enough to appoint him as Shockwave's deputy.

And indeed, Shockwave's deputy lived up to expectations. Besides contributing to some of Shockwave's research projects, he also participated in numerous military operations initiated by Shockwave, using various tactics such as ambushes and surprise attacks. He even carried out dozens of massacres and abuses against Autobot civilians.

As a result, Autobots who despised Skywrap labeled him the "most despicable Decepticon," placing that title squarely on his forehead.

Shockwave's crimson single eye showed no sign of emotional fluctuation.

However, his uniquely cold tone echoed, "Not long ago, I received encrypted communication from His Majesty from the Solar System. They discovered traces of Quintesson's Planet Modification Squad having visited Earth!"

Beside him, the Triple Changers, particularly the Gas Bomb, trembled involuntarily at the words.

Shockwave, who considered him his most failed creation, possessed combat power far surpassing ordinary Elite Warriors.

However, due to his cowardly nature, Gas Bomb, who had been a deserter several times on the battlefield, had long been kicked out of the center of power. Now, Shockwave only used him as a transport captain.

Before being abandoned, Gas Bomb had been entrusted with leading the Skytiger Legion's army in pursuit of the Quintessons.

His current timid nature was a result of the madness inflicted by those Quintessons.

The Five-Faced Monster never considered ordinary Quintessons as its kin. After all, when it came down to it, only the Five-Faced Monster was the most primitive Quintesson.

The rest of the Quintessons were mostly slaves plundered by the Five-Faced Monster after occupying some planets and civilizations. After a series of brutal experiments, they were transformed into soldiers serving the Five-Faced Monster.

Although, for the sake of their own rule, the Five-Faced Monster implemented a clearly defined aristocratic system within Quintessa civilization, the aristocrats' share within Quintessa civilization was less than even a tenth of this interstellar civilization.

The majority of Quintessons were just lowly slaves. And after being modified and brainwashed, they fought fiercely, using fearlessness to climb to higher positions and enjoy better lives.

For example, the Quintessa Plunder Fleet encountered by Shockwave's Decepticon fleet in the Universe, even though their numbers were less than a tenth of the Decepticon fleet, displayed exceptional fierceness.

They not only actively attacked the Decepticon fleet but also, when they realized the battle was turning against them, boldly deployed soldiers piloting small combat airships for suicidal attacks against the Decepticon fleet.

Through the window, Shockwave silently watched as his fleet's Spaceships were damaged by the Quintessons' suicidal attacks in the starry sky.

And throughout, his face showed no change in expression.

The absolute gap in strength is not something courage can compensate for.

The stalemate of nearly a day's battle was approaching its end.

The blastoff of the drones did not affect the Decepticon fleet's victory.

With an absolute advantage in size and strength, they began the final siege against the Quintessa Plunder Fleet.

The small combat airships and interstellar warships of the Quintessa Plunder Fleet, under the Decepticon fleet's attack, burst into brilliant fireworks in the starry sky.

However, under the stimulus of death, Quintesson's counterattack began to significantly increase the losses on the Decepticon fleet's side.

Finally, with several warships from the Plunder Fleet, daringly crashing into the encircling Decepticon fleet warships.

A breach was opened, and simultaneously, a Quintessa Plunder Fleet interstellar warship broke through the encirclement, abruptly activating warp engines regardless of the danger, and escaped.

In the flagship, Shockwave, who had been commanding the fleet to besiege the Quintessa Plunder Fleet without changing a single command throughout, finally showed a slight emotional fluctuation on his face.

"Let one fish slip through the net!"

His icy gaze looked into the starry sky where the vanished Quintessa warship could no longer be seen.

After a moment of contemplation, he issued the order, "Adjust the course, pursue!"

Quintessons were a vengeful race, especially since the Cybertron civilization had a deep-seated enmity with them.

In the recent battle, both sides had exposed certain things about each other.

Shockwave was well aware that if they couldn't eradicate them completely, what awaited them next might be a continuous influx of Quintessa fleets from other star systems.

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