Night Shadow was completely stunned.
'Warp core...Warp...core...?!!!!'
Right now, he was completely frozen. If any bot saw him from far, they would think Night Shadow was some bot powered off. But internally, he is screaming in surprise.
Night Shadow couldn't believe he got a Warp core.
Here's why. Before the time of the transformers, the Beastbots ruled over Cybertron. They were said to be the first carbon-based beings in Cybertron. They were vicious and very powerful things. But due to some unknown reason, they were wiped out, and the time of the transformers started. There are still transformers who take the shape of the Beastbots but the things that make transformers different from Beastbots are the cores. More specifically, Warp cores. Warp core was the main reason why Beastbots were very powerful. It is said that only a thousand Warp cores ever existed. Warp cores came out of random warp holes, thus its name. Warp holes were tunnels that provided intergalactic transportation and they randomly appear.
Night Shadow was really, really lucky to be able to obtain it. Obtaining a complete Warp core was important than Cybertronian Steel. Why? Because there is a chance Night Shadow might obtain a beast transformation.
Night Shadow knew his core was in the most protected region in his body, the center.
Night Shadow opened his "chest", and saw a bright blue sphere. The core was the heart of a transformer. It sends waves of invisible energy to different parts of the transformer. He removed the core and suddenly felt weak. He knew this would happen (because there is no core to send energy to the different parts of his body) and quickly switched it with the Warp core. Night Shadow felt his strength return to him after replacing the core.
Suddenly he heard the system's message...
[Ding! The system has detected an unknown force in the host's core...Does the host want the system to absorb the unknown force?]
'You can do that?!'
[Yes, host]
'This system keeps surprising me'
Night Shadow gave out a sigh and said, 'Yes, absorb it'
[Okay...But the host will go to sleep mode for half an hour]
'Alright'
Suddenly, he felt sleepy and closed his eyes.
---Half an hour later---
Night Shadow woke up and felt nothing different.
Night Shadow heard a ding in his head:
[Ding! The system has added beast transformation]
[Congrulations to host for unlocking another attribute - Speed(SPD)...SPD means speed and speed determines how fast the host can travel]
[Congratulations to host for completing mission]
[Mission -
Rebuild and strengthen your body internally and externally.
Grade - D
Rewards - 250 Points, 200 XP, and Void Disintegrator gun blueprint]
Night Shadow became surprised because of getting a new attribute.
Night Shadow smiled and said, 'Put 50 Points in Absorption'
[Yes, host]
When Absorption got upgraded to level 2, Night Shadow let out a sigh.
Night Shadow felt he wouldn't find anything better than he got today so he started going towards the exit.
He found the exit and left Cyber-Junkyard.
He headed towards the airport and transformed back into the jet and flew back to the mechanics base but something happened before he could reach the base.
During mid-air, Night Shadow felt as if he was being followed. Night Shadow saw, on his radar, that there were 4 jets following him.
Night Shadow more or less knew the reason why they were following him, so he looked for a barren place to fight.
He started changing his direction and moved to an uneven barren land. Although Cybertron was a place where the law of the jungle applied, you couldn't just start fighting anyone anywhere.
Where Night Shadow was heading outside the city and started increasing his speed to around 600 km/hr from 400 km/hr. The four bots behind also increased their speeds to the maximum to catch up with Night Shadow.
After half an hour, all five of them reached the barren land. As soon they reached, the enemy bots started firing at Night Shadow. Night Shadow chose an uneven barren land because he knows that he will lose in 1 against 4 in a dogfight. So Night Shadow could use the terrain to his advantage.
Night Shadow started to use the uneven terrain as his shield. The four planes kept chasing him for at least a few hours when they got the chance and surrounded him and were closing in fast. Night Shadow targetted one of the planes and shot a missile.
Whoosh~
And then...
BOOM!!!
The plane was blasted to nothing but scraps and destroyed.
Night Shadow heard a dinging noise but did not care about it now. He moved with full speed and turned. He locked all three of the planes and fired.
Whoosh~
The three planes expected this but two of them got blasted and the third one got damaged severely.
BOOM!!!
BOOM!!!
The two planes crashed and the third was also landed roughly and transformed into a bot. Night Shadow flew towards the fallen bot and transformed into a bot with his hand transformed into a claw.
Swish~
Night Shadow's hand went through the damaged bot's chest like a hot knife through butter. Night Shadow's hand was holding a core. Night Shadow pulled his hand back and the bot fell down with no light in its eyes.
Night Shadow also saw the system's messages...
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for killing a non-living being. Gained 1000 XP]
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for killing a non-living being. Gained 1000 XP]
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for killing a non-living being. Gained 1000 XP]
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for killing a non-living being. Gained 1000 XP]
[Ding! Congratulations to host for becoming Level 7]
[Ding! Congratulations to host for becoming Level 8]
[Ding! Congratulations to host for becoming Level 9]
[Ding! Congratulations to host for becoming Level 10]
[Ding! Congratulations to host for becoming Level 11]
[Ding! Congratulations to host for becoming Level 12]
[Ding! Congratulations to host for becoming Level 13]
[Ding! Congratulations to host for becoming Level 14]
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[Name: Night Shadow
Level: 14(250/4700)
Race: Carbon-based
Points: 200
Attributes: STR 100, DEX 115, INT 75, LUCK 15, SPD 110
Stat Points: 255
Skill: Deconstruction lvl 2(0/100), Absorption lvl 2(0/100)
Status: The host is weak, level up!
Transformation: Human, Jet, Beast
Storage: Vision sensors, Core Hyphaetalia
Time until war: 14 years 364 days 17 hours]
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Night Shadow put the core into the storage and wanted to try something before going back.
He told the system, 'Transform me into the beast'
[Yes, host]
Night Shadow suddenly felt his whole body start changing. The gears inside his body moved, the hydraulics hissed, his hands turned into claws, his body changed, his face became long and sharp, two wings sprouted from his back, a long pointy tail extended from his back, his neck elongated and sharp teeth sprouted in his mouth.
ROAR!!
The earth shook as the majestic roar of a black dragon with purple eyes echoed.
Night Shadow looked at himself as he screamed in joy in his mind.
'I am a dragon!!!!'
Night Shadow's breathing started increasing rapidly.
A beast and that to a dragon!! Isn't he the luckiest or what?!!!
Soon, Night Shadow calmed down and transformed back to a bot.
'I better leave, or I may be exposed with a warp core'
Night Shadow start ran, jumped, transformed into the Black Demon, and flew away. Sure enough, minutes later a 35 feet tall, blue and red-colored transformer comes into the scene.
"I thought I heard a roar right now", he says in a deep voice, looks around with his blue eyes, and leaves after a few minutes.
Oblivious to this, Night Shadow is flying mid-air.
Night Shadow was planning to use the time he was flying to distribute his stat points. He had 255 stats points and he knew just how was going to put.
'Hey System, put 100 points in intelligence, 50 points in strength, dexterity, and speed. Also, place the last 5 points in Luck'
[Yes, host]
Night Shadow, suddenly, felt more power "flowing" through his body. He felt amazing like he could do anything.
In 1 hour, he landed back at the Mechanic's Base. But every bot, instead of looking at him with disdain, looked at him with respect. But Night Shadow knew this was temporary.
He reached dock tier - 72 and went to his workshop.
The first thing he did was transfer all the data from the "Mechanics" file. It took 5 hours to transfer all the information to him. He transferred the information because he could help with the orders given to the mechanics, gain experience, and create his new gun. Night Shadow could gain experience from doing anything mechanical, after all. Night Shadow also used his remaining Points for 200 mechanics data.
Night Shadow found out that 1 point could be used to learn 1 file of information and he was grateful for that because he wouldn't be able to afford huge amounts of points for 1 file of information. Night Shadow suddenly got a lot of messages:
[Ding! The host has learned lvl 1 Basic Machinery]
[Ding! The host has learned lvl 1 Basic Circuitry]
[Ding! The host has learned lvl 1 Basic Weaponry]
[Ding! The host has learned lvl 1 Basic Spacial Machinery]
[Ding! The host has learned lvl 1 Basic Metallurgy]
.
.
.
[All the mechanical knowledge the host has learned through the system, will increase with the host's level. Currently, they are level 14]
Night Shadow suddenly immense pain of his soul. Lots of information was being forcefully "attached" to his soul. The pain lasted for 3 hours before he could focus.
Night Shadow suddenly felt more knowledgeable than before and started understanding how things worked in Cybertron.
'This must be the effect of learning through the system but the side effect is also quite painful'
But this not even 1% of the knowledge. Night Shadow got excited and started daydreaming about the day when he would be able to learn all the information.
But he focused. Right now, he had to build the Void Disintegrator Gun. So, he asked the voice for the materials needed for the Void Disintegrator Gun and got them a few minutes later.
It took 2 hours for Night Shadow to completely perfect the gun. It was black in color and futuristic enough to make Night Shadow keep staring at it for half an hour. Night Shadow merged the gun with his right arm. Night Shadow got to know that he could transform his arm into a temporary blade or anything like a claw, but Night Shadow didn't understand why bots couldn't make their arms into guns.
(Author's note: Hey guys, the void disintegrator gun looks like the gun on the cover of the book but just in black)
Night Shadow was looking at the gun when he heard a ding...
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for creating the "Void Disintegrator Gun". Gained 750 XP]
[Name: Void Disintegrator Gun
Recharge time: 0.01 s
Speed: Void Speed
Bullet type: Energy
Distance: 300 m (the farther it is shot, the weaker the firepower becomes)]
Night Shadow was quite surprised with stats.
'Won't I be able to shoot almost infinitely and at high speeds?!'
[The host is correct]
Night Shadow was shocked this gun so OP and powerful. Void speed. Night Shadow knew how fast void speed is because of the information he obtained. Void speed is the speed after the speed of light. Why is it called void speed? Because when an object goes at that type of speed, it leaves behind void spaces which are very dangerous to stay around. Void spaces are space tunnels connected to the void. Nothing can escape the void, not the black holes, or a supernova. Everything comes from the void and ends in the void.
Night Shadow smiled after recalling the information in the head. He wanted to test the firepower of the gun. Night Shadow knew that the soldier training facilities were in the Soldier's base and started heading there.
Night Shadow's, slowest speed was around 30 km/hr because of the increase in his speed attributes, took only 5 minutes to reach the soldier's base. When he couldn't find the training facilities, Night Shadow asked one of the soldiers there for the way to the training facility.
"The training facility is not here on the base but if you want, I can give you the co-ordinates for it", the soldier said with uncertainty.
'Haven't all the newbies gone to the training facilities? Why is this newbie still here?'
Night Shadow looked at his uncertainty and guessed what the soldier was thinking.
"I am a mechanic, I wish to test a weapon. That's all", Night Shadow told his reason.
The soldier let out a sigh of relief internally.
'That's fine then'
The soldier gave the co-ordinates to Night Shadow and Night Shadow thanked him. Night Shadow looked at the location, jumped high into the air, transformed into Black Demon, and flew away.
'Isn't that Black Demon?!! Who the hell is that guy?!'
The soldier started feeling his core going to burst.
Night Shadow was going at full speed towards the training facilities. After 1 hour of flying a sound resounded in his communication device.
"You are currently entering a restricted area. State your name and business or else turn around and go away. If you continue to come here, today you will be facing death", a female bot's cold voice said.
Night Shadow instantly knew it was Elita One's voice.
"My name is Night Shadow. I have come here to test a weapon I have made", Night Shadow replied.
There was a moment of silence when Elita One said, "Alright, you may enter"
Night Shadow did not say anything and continued towards the location.
After half an hour, Night Shadow saw a translucent barrier protecting a base. Night Shadow guessed it was the training facilities. Night Shadow started descending and after lowering to a very altitude, he passed through the barrier and transformed into a bot.
Night Shadow did not care about the bots speaking about him and looked at the training facilities with a smile.