H34 Contest of the Mechas

Book Cover

## About

### Cover Characters

Alex, Fenrir, Sally, Hank, Tuklaa, Pelagius, Tempesta, Mundus, Major Roger, Ramson Spalding, Brighton

### Chapters

* Automation King
* Mecha Contest
* The Battle Begins
* Going Deeper
* Losing Control
* The King Joins the Fray
* Flying Fist
* Thank You

**Contest of the Mechas*,*** the 34th book in the The Golden Age of Adventures series was published in December 2020. It is the English language edition of the original Chinese comic, "**铁甲飞拳**", which was published in November 2020.

## Synopsis

ALWAYS ON ADVENTURE! TRACKING DOWN THE TRAITORS!

The Global Alliance has issued an order to Alex and his team: find Major Roger and Lieutenant Graham within 10 days or face punishment. In an attempt to locate the traitors, they join a mecha contest and unwittingly discover the identity of the genius behind the Soul Transfer Machines.

## Cast

* Alex
* Hank
* Brighton
* Tuklaa
* Sally
* Ramson Spalding
* Major Roger

## Plot

***Spoiler warning!** Plot and/or ending details follow.*

### Chapter 1: Automation King

Fortunately, Jones survived the explosion of Sigurd Bodon's dynamites. He and the other injured are resting in the hospital. Robert, on a speaker, informs them Steel Fang is under a temporary suspension because of Roger and Graham's betrayal. Adventurers are allowed to move freely because Steel Fang allowed it, but no restriction has been made.

Alex and co. are to apprehend the traitors in ten days or else Steel Fang will be dismissed. Alex will most likely be taken into Alliance custody due to his violent behaviour. Hank suspects Sigurd is an Adventure Aristocrat. Robert says he does not appear in the Rodrick family's records. He has sent two people to help find the traitors. Marie Wright bursts through the door, going to "save" Lulu. Sally wants Alex to let her examine Roger's hand.

In a workshop, Roach passes the no. 7 wrench to his master. Ramsen and Roger enter the room. Ramsen has come to inform he has found the last three of the Blood Clan: Ming, the Void and an unnamed scientist. He calls to his master, for it is the time for the Blood Clan's abolishment. Sally says Roger's hand can only be made by one person: Brighton the Automation King. Brighton denies Ramsen's call.

### Chapter 2: Mecha Contest

The enmity of previous generations does not concern Brighton. Ramsen can't defeat Ming because Sigurd still sees him as an asset. Since Brighton refuses, Ramsen wants him to replace Roger's hand. What he meant was to use the Soul Transfer Machine. Brighton doesn't want to recall that abomination. Roger forces Brighton to help since he keeps refusing. Brighton, with his master skills, removes all the parts of Roger's hand. All Roger and Ramsen wanted was to fulfill Brighton's father's wish of destroying the Blood Clan. Brighton talks about his mecha contest.

No one has ever seen Brighton. Only mecha contest winners can. Hank speculates the Automation and Adventure King are the same person. Tuklaa confirms the contest is in seven days. A puzzle must be solved to know the location. The Adventurers solve all the math problems. The answers are longitude and latitude in degrees, minutes and seconds. This year's mecha contest will be held in the Pinnacles Desert, Australia.

### Chapter 3: The Battle Begins

Seven days pass. Fly High has been modified to be a land vehicle. Hank, Tuklaa and Sally wear disguises. Fenrir is a gun turret... Pelagius, Mundus and Tempesta will come with Alex. The mechas have gathered at the venue. The goal is to find the treasure beneath the sands of the giant ant lion's nest. The contest begins. Alex and co. move out. On a CCTV, Brighton spots Fenrir, the kind of golem his father used to make.

### Chapter 4: Going Deeper

Alex and co. are the first to dive below. They split up. Alex wonders where are Nemus and Luminus. No help can be expected from them. Nemus hates humans for destroying nature. He has created diseases for millennia to drive them to extinction. Pelagius and Mundus stopped him. Luminus left Earth to watch the sun for an eternity.

A sand flood is triggered by a team's wrong answer. With its hand, Fly High is latched to a wide stalactite. An armoured contestant attempts to destroy Fly High. The contestant dodges Fly High's mini rockets by his backpack track. He accidentally triggered a trap. Mundus slows the sand down so that Alex can save him.

### Chapter 5: Losing Control

After what happened at the Giant's Causeway, Ming told Sigurd the laser for his elemental gun can open portals. Sigurd was greatly interested in it. Presently, Roger and Ramsen get in position.

David, the green armoured contestant, helps Alex win the contest. They find a puzzle. They have to match the halves of the half-animal tiles. David pushes the button, making sand drop into the large bowl. He solves the puzzle, and a crystal is caught by Alex. This is the treasure Brighton mentioned. Roger knocks out David. Three golems explode on Fly High's windshield. Mundus and Tempesta protect Alex. Seeing David injured makes Alex about to lose control. Fenrir reminds him of his training in Tibet. Alex has calmed down.

### Chapter 6: The King Joins the Fray

Sally tends to David and Alex. Hank destroys Roger's left arm. As Tuklaa chases Ramsen, Brighton joins the fray in his mecha. Brighton asks Fenrir how he got his soul into a golem. Sally talks about the Soul Transfer Machine in London. It is with the Global Alliance. For fear of someone duplicating it, Brighton allows no one to leave. Roger and Ramsen escape. Brighton changes his mind: everyone, except Sally and Fenrir, are to infiltrate the Alliance and retrieve Brighton's machine.

### Chapter 7: Flying Fist

Brighton's wife suffered a terminal illness. Brighton transferred her soul into a machine by creating the Soul Transfer Machine, a creation no member of Iron Heart had succeeded to build. His wife's pain was gone. After a year, she couldn't bear to not do human activities like eating and sleeping. Creating a machine that can do human activities was beyond Brighton's ability. Before he could put her soul into Lar's metal, she already burned herself.

Hank blows her missiles to the mecha, but there was little damage. Brighton was the one who created her suit, which was meant to function in water. Sally notices the dent Hank made on the mecha's leg. The mecha is heavy, so it would fall when it is hit there again. Alex had installed a controller in one of Fly High's hands. With his IBYon cells, Alex carries the hand, aims and blasts off. The mecha's leg is destroyed.

### Chapter 8: Thank You

Now that the leg's insides are exposed, Alex throws his electrocuter to it. Brighton comes out of his mecha. Alex realises he wasn't the man in Ireland. Brighton detaches Fenrir's golem body. Brighton will free Fenrir's soul, but Fenrir gives his thanks to him. In a golem's body, he doesn't have to worry about going on rampage. Alex knocks Brighton out.

In an Alliance prison in America, the Void has made the guards pass out with his creations. He breaks into Woe's cell, giving him an Alliance report of the Glee and Fury hybrid. He is angered by seeing Ming in the photo, figuring out he's of the Blood Clan. The Void gives him his mask. Woe wears it and breaks out of his cell. He promises Alex he will not hurt anyone **but Ming**.

## X-Venture continuity

### In the series

* The unnamed Blood Clan scientist made a cameo in H26 Escape from the Dark Banquet. He was talking to the Void.

### In other series

* **Exobot Academy**: an older Roach and a redesign of Brighton's mecha appear in this series. The mecha is named Hercules. Brighton passed it on to Roach one time after the series. Roach passed it onto his granddaughter, Bella. Another redesign was in Terran Defenders season 1.
* **Ultimate Showdown**: The unnamed Blood Clan scientist is known as Melvin, an antagonist in this series.