38. The First Order. Dagon

A new day has dawned in Wasteland Hell.

Of course, there is no daily rising sun to indicate the flow of time, but the local demons have formed their own set of biological clocks during the long imprisonment.

Under Raven Lord's rule, when the day opens, the demons start to work.

Yes, in this special hell, the demons here have to work in exchange for the right to survive.

In the wasteland world, there are also mineral veins that coexist with the earth, and the Mechanicus has an endless thirst for raw materials, so the demons exiled here need to constantly collect the minerals here.

The "merciful" Lord Raven will not let the demons use their claws to mine. The designers of Mechanicus have designed different models of mining machines for the demons, and they use those machines to mine minerals.

The demons will definitely not be so obedient, but the more ruthless omnics are merciless in suppressing the riots. Facing the oppression of the omnics whose number has far exceeded the demons, the hell creatures here have to get used to this new survival mode.

As for those who really can't get used to it, they will not be crushed in the Styx River and executed.

That would be such a waste.

The souls of those rebellious creatures from hell will be extracted and cut open to be used as materials for the Mechanic Cult's "Machine Soul God Descending" ceremony.

There will never be enough soul fragments in the warehouse of the Mechanicus.

Speaking of it, it is very likely that after a while, these demons probably won't need to exist in this hell.

When the demon slaves started working today, outside the mechanical temple, on the ashes plain that had been completely covered with metal, in a giant colosseum, a battle began as usual.

The two sides in the battle are the Grand Knights of the Mechanicus and the legendary Scourge of the Cybertronians.

And, a silver-white, 15-meter-tall Tyrannosaurus Rex, which is completely made of metal and machinery, can breathe fire, is full of brute force, and has great destructive power.

It's called Grimlock.

It is the most powerful of the 5 ancient mechanical beasts brought back from the underground world of the Ark by Ms. Icarus, and it is also the leader of the 5 mechanical monsters.

"Aw!"

With the opening of the heavy fence gate, the metal dinosaur weighing tens of thousands of tons roared, stomping on the ground with its stout legs and lowering its head.

Amidst the humming of the engine in his body, he slammed into the natural disaster holding the warhammer.

It's not like the streamlined Cybertronians.

This metal beast is like a real ancient beast, with uneven metal scales all over its body, probably to show its own strength, this mechanical dinosaur is covered with metal bone spurs.

On its spine, there is also a row of metal spiked bone plates extending to the tail.

The outer armor on its body is not a whole piece, but more like a complex combination of finely divided metal modules according to its body shape.

Especially the tapered tail, which is the fit of layers of metal rings, looks full of the unique sense of mechanical coupling.

However, it is very successful for the simulation of Tyrannosaurus rex.

Every time it opened its mouth and roared, the sharp teeth that covered the corners of its mouth looked like a Tyrannosaurus rex preying.

It also has a flexible metal tongue, and most amazingly, there are two silver-white horns on its heavy head.

This makes it look, on the contrary, a bit like an oriental dragon.

This silver-gray guy is not easy to deal with.

In the past period of time, after getting a new body, the Scourge, who was still in the adaptation stage, accepted Icarus' order to make these five rebellious mechanical dinosaurs the "guardian beasts" of the Cult of Mechanicus.

Natural disasters used the most direct method to tame these five powerful mechanical monsters.

With his hammer in hand, he defeated them one by one.

Silt, howl, darts, and iron slag.

But only the Mechanical Tyrannosaurus Grimlock made the mighty Mechanical Knight suffer the shame of at least 5 failures.

Now, these two big guys are really fighting.

Each day will be spent in frenzied battles, with each winning and losing, but the Scourge won't stop until the savage Grimlock surrenders.

"boom"

Scourge nimbly avoided Grimlock's savage impact, causing the huge metal Tyrannosaurus Rex to slam into the border of the big Colosseum.

Grimlock's sturdy head knocked out a huge dent in the metal border, and his own head was also stuck in the broken border. The beast struggled frantically, its tens of thousands of tons body bouncing endlessly on the spot.

In the part where the neck was stuck, between the metal friction, there were dazzling sparks shining.

Well, compared to those Cybertronians whose parts would fly away whenever they were hit, the shells and bodies of these five mechanical monsters were extremely solid.

Unless it is completely torn apart, there will be no sense of fragility of parts flying around.

"kuang"

Scourge held the barbed metal warhammer in both hands, seized the opportunity, and beat frantically towards the stuck steel lock.

The appearance of his new body is not much different from Optimus Prime's body, but the internal structure is completely different from before.

After using the Decepticon Commander, Brutal Shockwave combat mod, the Scourge becomes a legendary warrior of strength and projectile power.

His strength is enormous. From the perspective of pure brute force, natural disasters are probably the undisputed No.1 in this wasteland world.

After all, Raven Lord is no longer the former Merlin. After his resurrection, his fighting style is more inclined to magic.

"kuang"

Another blow of the hammer, this time the hammer of the Scourge was hitting Grimlock's pulled head.

It was like a blow to the head, and the Grimlock he hit staggered back.

"Are you convinced! Are you convinced?"

Scourge crazily beat Grimlock, who was making wailing sounds, while questioning loudly.

The moment Grimlock was knocked down to the ground, the sturdy warhammer in the robot's hand also broke, and the furious Scourge simply rushed forward with his bare hands, pressing Grimlock on the spot and rubbing wildly.

After several minutes, Grimlock, who had always only howled, finally gave in for the first time.

It stuck out its mechanical tongue and shouted in a rough voice:

"I'm convinced! Don't fight anymore!"

"It's enough that I am willing to join your church, don't slap me!"

"Ha ha ha ha"

Scourge let out a hearty laugh. He pushed Grimlock up from the original place, and then, like a real knight, turned over and rode on the back of Grimlock, a huge mechanical dinosaur.

He waved his hand towards the stands, where a crowd of onlookers also stood up, cheering or applauding.

"Mom, are the five of them not deformable?"

The little girl Red Queen sitting next to Icarus, that is, Alicia, drank the special engine oil "juice" to lubricate the gears and modules in the body, and asked curiously:

"Why do they always maintain the appearance of beasts? Although that is cool, it always feels weird."

"Of course they deform."

Icarus stroked his daughter's hair, looked at the Scourge riding on the back of the dejected steel chain, walking towards the outside of the Colosseum, she said:

"Grimlock and the others have been used to the state of beasts for tens of thousands of years. Transforming into robots would make them very uncomfortable, but as Cybertronians, they are fully capable of transforming."

"oh."

Alicia nodded, and the blond girl quickly turned her attention to the other side.

On the seat far away from her, Merlin the Raven Lord was sitting there, leaning on the chair, reading the book of Emperor Weishan in his hand.

And his left hand was hanging on the edge of the seat, stroking the new pet's head.

At Merlin's feet, a silver-white lion lay there lazily.

Just like Grimlock, it has a completely simulated beast shape, but its body is completely made of metal and machinery, and its eyes are two beautiful rubies.

The lion also has a mane made of sheet metal, which glistens white in the light.

It's called Nemoa.

It used to be the mascot of Numbani Industrial Park, but in fact, it was the first beast of flesh and blood infected by the energy of the fire source on earth.

It used to be a carefree male lion on the African savannah.

But now, it is a mechanical lion that gave birth to wisdom.

Its name was given to it by Merlin, who was the deputy director of S.H.I.E.L.D., and it was engraved into its thinking circuit, and it will never be changed again.

"Mother."

Xiaohong reached out and grabbed Icarus's sleeve. She pointed to the lion at Merlin's feet and whispered to the glasses girl:

"I want that! That big cat, beautiful."

"Why don't you ask Merlin for it."

Icarus reached out and brushed his long blue hair, and said to his daughter:

"Say obediently Uncle, and he will give you Nemoa"

"Really?"

The red queen blinked, and with the encouragement of the glasses girl, she walked up to Merlin nervously.

In the past period of time, the Little Red Queen has understood Merlin's position in this hell and his significance to the existence of Mechanicus, which made Alicia very nervous every time she faced Merlin.

Of course, there is still some hatred for taking away the mother, but Merlin has always been gentle and patient with the child, so Alicia no longer hates him as much as before.

"Um?"

Merlin raised his head and shifted his attention from the obscure white magic spell to the stammering red queen standing in front of him.

He said:

"What's the matter? Little Red Empress, what's the matter?"

"That that"

Alicia lowered her head and twirled her intertwined fingers and thumbs. She said in a kitten-like voice:

"Uncle Merlin, I want I want your cat, this cat!"

Pointing to the mechanical lion lying at her feet, she said:

"Can you give it to me?"

"sure."

Merlin chuckled, and said to the little red queen:

"But you take good care of it. Nemoya's thinking circuit chooses me as the master, but this right of ownership can be modified."

"Alicia, you can't use your ability to directly modify it, you have to keep it as a pet, wipe its body, lubricate it, replace parts and so on."

"If you can do it, I'll give it to you."

"Well, I can!"

Empress Xiaohong nodded vigorously, then took the pet leash from Merlin's hand, pulled the dissatisfied Nemoya towards Hope, and went to show off to her sister Hope.

"You are really scheming."

Icarus walked up to Merlin, and she said dissatisfiedly:

"Aren't you ashamed to deceive children in this way?"

"I just want her to accept me, nothing else."

Merlin closed the book in his hand, stood up, touched Icarus' face, and said:

"Is there a problem?"

"About 'Dagon'"

The glasses girl lowered her voice and said:

"Its design is completed, do you want to go and see it?"

"So fast?"

Merlin asked in surprise, and he nodded.

"Of course I have to take a look. It is the first order of the Mechanicus, and it will be the most destructive weapon of the Wasteland Hell Legion. I still hope that it can win me victory in the future hell war."

A few minutes later, accompanied by Icarus, Merlin came to the forging workshop under Mount Doom.

In the open area on the lowest floor of the workshop, a huge object was combined with a steel frame, standing in the dim light.

That's a skeleton.

With a height of nearly 200 meters, each huge bone is very complete, and after it is assembled, the posture of the skeleton is very similar to the king of monsters that Merlin saw a few days ago.

godzilla

In fact, the two are the same species.

This skeleton was found by Merlin in the cave below the mountains in Southeast Asia. It is a relative of the other Godzilla who has been dead for a long time. It is bigger than Godzilla.

Merlin named it "Dagon", the mythical evil sea beast.

"let me see!"

Merlin said something.

The glasses girl stepped forward and activated an instrument in the workshop.

In the jump of the blue light, a projection quickly covered Dagon's skeleton, like a construction process of filling the skeleton with mechanical modules and shells, which was speeded up by more than ten times.

One after another complex mechanical modules are installed in this huge skeleton, obviously after detailed and complete design planning.

There are also various strange weapon systems, which are also outlined on this skeleton.

"According to our tests, the hardness of Dagon's bones can reach 85% of that of Adamantium alloy. If enough vibrating gold is used to reshape the skeleton, after the final construction is completed, Dagon's physical defense will reach the theoretical level. ultimate hardness."

The glasses girl stood in front of the rapidly changing projection, like a salesman, and introduced to Merlin with her hands behind her back:

"According to the suggestion of the natural disaster, we used Grimlock's internal structure as the blueprint, as Dagon's drive system, and built three large-scale ark reactors in its body as the energy source for the body's actions."

"Dagon will be equipped with the most advanced weapon system currently developed by the Mechanicus, but according to the shape of the skeleton, it may be more inclined to close combat when it is finally formed."

"However, we will also imitate Godzilla's fighting style and add energy weapons similar to atomic breath to Dagon."

Having said that, Icarus looked at Merlin, and she said:

"The remaining problem now is that you said before that you will use psychic magic to awaken Dagon's remaining soul"

"I can't do it."

Merlin shook his head in disappointment, and said:

"Dagon has been dead for too long, and its soul has dissipated long ago, so you still have to use a mode similar to the 'machine soul', and choose a soul that is tough enough and strong enough to be the manipulator of Dagon."

"There is one."

Icarus says:

"That Kazan, the fallen angel who has lost its physical form, can theoretically withstand the data pressure brought by manipulating Dagon's huge body, but it must first accept the soul code to be transformed into a mechanical soul"

"That was a painful process, I don't think it will"

"Why ask for its opinion?"

Merlin said softly:

"If necessary, do it. Since Kazan has joined the wasteland, he must make sacrifices and contributions to this world. That is the responsibility he must fulfill."

Lord Raven raised his head and looked at the fully constructed mechanical Dagon in the projection.

The kind of war weapon that combines biology and machinery made his blue eyes narrow, and he said:

"Build it ASAP"

"In the upcoming first battle in Wasteland Hell, I want to see Dagon join the battle! And its kind, other first-order god-created creatures, leave their body searches to me."

"The lords of hell who are ready to move are waiting for our debut"

"How can I disappoint those old warmongers?"