Saitama didn't bother keeping tabs on the fighting down below. After he'd flattened a few Dragon-level monsters, the tremors died down anyway.
He went home, crashed hard, and had barely opened his eyes again when the system chimed in his head.
[Ding! Host! A new world has been discovered—the Transformers world! Enter now?]
"Huh? Another new world?"
"Hey, uh… did that X-Men world finish already?" Saitama remembered that, before, the Transformers-adjacent stuff only opened after the Marvel world wrapped up.
[It has not. Previously, the X-Men world unlocked after the Marvel world because Marvel is the primary world; the others are subordinate.]
"Got it… I don't get it. But this Transformers thing sounds kinda fun. Alright—enter! Transformers world!"
When Saitama opened his eyes this time, he wasn't mid-air—he was on the ground. He immediately broke into a coughing fit. The stench of smoke and propellant was ridiculously thick.
He looked around. Buildings were torn up everywhere. Where even was this?
With a helpless look, Saitama started walking. Judging by the wreckage, it felt like a city that had just been hit by monsters.
"Hey, system—where is this?"
[Ding! Host, this is the world of Transformers 5. This world has two opposing factions of robots. You can think of them as "robot heroes" and "robot monsters." Right now, the "robot monsters" hold an absolute advantage and are slaughtering humans on a massive scale.]
"What the heck?"
Saitama frowned. If that was true, this world was basically in an apocalypse.
"So… what's the mission?"
That was the important part. By now, Saitama had gotten used to each new world's weird premise.
[Ding! Main quest: Obtain the AllSpark Core from the Decepticons and keep possession of it for over seven days. Reward: AllSpark Core.]
[Ding! Side quest: Before completing the main quest, ensure the Autobots are not annihilated. Reward: 1 Mystery Draw.]
[Ding! Side quest: Before completing the main quest, keep the human population above fifty million. Reward: 1 Human Remodeling Serum.]
[Ding! Side quest: Travel to Cybertron and destroy Cybertron. Reward: Cybertron Core.]
"One main, three sides, huh?"
"Except for that third side quest… the rest seem doable."
[Reminder: The current human population is critically low. If you do not actively protect humans, the side quest will soon fail.]
"Eh?"
Saitama's mouth twitched. No way it's that bad—were there really so few humans left?
As if answering him, artillery thundered in the distance.
"What now?!"
Saitama stamped his foot and sprang upward, bounding off a few nearby structures until he landed on the roof of a thirty-meter building. From there, he could see the whole city at a glance.
Okay, so…
It looked like two forces were clashing. On one side, human armored units—tanks, APCs, that sort of thing. On the other, a swarm of robots—some only two or three meters tall, others towering fifteen meters or more.
The battle had reached a "fever pitch."
Which, honestly, was just a phrase. Their power levels weren't even close.
Against the small bots, the tanks simply couldn't track the speed. Against the big ones, even a direct hit didn't do much.
In short: shoot the small ones—you miss. Shoot the big ones—you barely scratch them.
From this one engagement alone, it was obvious—humanity was at a crushing disadvantage, maybe a point of no return.
[Host, what you're seeing is a microcosm of this world. Whether in terms of evolutionary tier or technology level, the two sides are not on the same rung. In fact, the Decepticons hardly need advanced weapons—hand-to-hand alone is enough to wipe out the human species.]
"Yeah, I can tell," Saitama said, nodding at the scene. "It's like a world with no heroes."
"But didn't you say there are two robot factions? Why am I only seeing the side that's massacring humans?" He frowned. In places overrun by "monsters," shouldn't heroes also show up?
[The ones butchering humans are the Decepticons; the protectors are the Autobots. The Autobots have been all but wiped out—only two or three remain. If you want to meet what's left of them, protect the humans here. Then you'll encounter the ones you want to see.]
"I see…"
Saitama rolled his shoulders and stretched. He needed to protect humans anyway. Might as well start… here!
He stomped down.
The building underfoot collapsed—the recoil when he kicked off was just that intense—hurling him toward the tallest robot on the field.
Sparks.
"Boom!"
He punched straight through it. Mid-air, he twisted, glanced back, and watched the battleship-sized bot erupt into a fireball.
"What is that?" someone in an APC gaped as Saitama's "light" jab turned another ten-meter robot into scrap.
"Oh my God—Lord above! Have you come to save us?!"
"No! He's a baldy! A baldy superman!" a tanker crewman whooped—right as Saitama dropped from the sky and dented the tank's hull in with a neat landing, making the guy jump out of his skin.
(End of Chapter)
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