Underground Ice Lake

The moment Sun Cheng and the others entered the passage he had blasted open with his plasma cannon, they immediately saw an even more brutal remnant of the ancient battle.

Wreckage!

Wreckage everywhere!

Countless mutilated corpses of Cybertronians and Predacons littered the original floor of the passage.

"That battle from ages ago was truly unimaginably brutal!"

What he saw made Sun Cheng raise a hand and gently stroke his chest plating.

An identical claw-shaped dent still remained on this new body, exactly like the wound inflicted by an unknown force when he had tried to peer into the [Matrix of Leadership] at the unknown temple.

It was said that six ancient Primes of Cybertron had once sacrificed their lives there to protect the [Matrix of Leadership], ensuring that The Fallen could not seize the treasure, and created a tomb that could never be found.

That had been the closest Sun Cheng had ever come to death. He had even felt that, within that place, death had been closer than when he had faced The Fallen himself.

He had deliberately kept the wound as a reminder, so he would never forget that feeling.

Sun Cheng had never doubted the strength of the Primes, but the few Primes he had encountered back then had clearly no longer been at their peak.

Thus, he had always lacked a clearer understanding of just how powerful the Primes had been at the height of their strength.

Here, although there was still no evidence that Maximo, one of Cybertron's Thirteen Primes, had personally intervened—

—judging solely by the bodies scattered across the ground, the attacking Cybertronian forces had included quite a few elite warriors.

Many of them appeared, based on their wounds, to have been killed in a single strike. This discovery made him wonder whether