World Traveler Villain

[Chapter: 72 Silver City of Transformium]

The crimson tide of magma finally subsided, leaving behind a nightmarish landscape—a city now encased in shimmering silver-white metal. The entirety of Hong Kong had been transformed into a lifeless metallic wasteland, its vibrant life and architecture reduced to a world of deformable Transformium. However, less than one percent of the resultant Transformium held true value.

Only Transformium derived from organic matter—living entities such as trees, flowers, birds, animals, and humans—could form the essence required to create Transformers. The rest, derived from inorganic materials like cement, concrete, iron, glass, buildings, cars, and rods, was nothing more than lifeless debris, devoid of worth.

This understanding had driven the original Galvatron's plan: to detonate the seed in one of the most densely populated cities on Earth. His goal was simple but ruthless—to maximize the yield of valuable Transformium by sacrificing as many living beings as possible. Although he failed to acquire the seed, his intentions underscored the horrific cost of its detonation.

Hong Kong, with its population of six to seven million, had provided an enormous amount of organic material. Even if only one percent of the Transformium had intrinsic value, that one percent represented an unfathomable amount—an ocean of potential, forged in the annihilation of an entire metropolis.

The magnitude of the devastation was staggering. An entire city's worth of people, animals, and plant life had been wiped from existence, their essence distilled into a fraction of Transformium, now scattered across the metallic wasteland. A testament to the seed's terrifying power—and a chilling reminder of the cost of its use.

At sea, a green sports car slowly floated up.

"Sister Su, look." Tessa slowly looked ahead through the window, her mouth so wide open that one could fit a duck egg inside.

Su Yueming's mouth also widened, shaking her head constantly. "This is not... this is impossible. How could Hong Kong become like this?"

The sound of Crosshairs came through the horn. "This is the effect of the Seed explosion. It seems the Seed exploded here. This is the power of the Seed," Crosshairs growled, his voice cutting through the horn. "A new world, forged in fire and chaos, rising from the ashes of the old!"

"You said the Seed exploded here? Awful! William... William, he won't—" Su Yueming couldn't finish her sentence.