Modern Cultivation : The Strongest Couple Bonded by Vampire System-Chapter 589: Nano Cluster
Alex planted his hammer into the ground.
His mana, qi, and lifeforce surged together.
The runes he had drawn earlier began to glow again, brighter than before.
He poured more power into them without hesitation.
The symbols expanded across the cracked earth like a web of burning lines.
The violet fog shuddered as if something had grabbed it by the throat.
Then Alex drew another rune in the air.
The portal flickered.
The space around it warped again, trying to resist.
But the rune pressed down harder, forcing order into distortion.
The first portal collapsed into a thin line.
The second followed right after.
The third trembled for two breaths before it also shut.
Alex exhaled slowly.
"Now we can fight."
He dashed forward.
With the space completely sealed they are not much different than normal monster.
Their claws and tails still pose a danger, but nothing worth mentioning for someone like Alex
The first stag charged him head-on.
Its antlers flared, trying to squeeze space again.
The rune flared in response and snapped the attempt.
Alex stepped into its range.
His hammer ignited, flame condensed so tightly it looked like a molten core.
He slammed it into the creature’s chest.
BOOM!
The bark shattered.
Crimson cracks spread across the crystal veins.
The stag staggered backward.
Alex did not give it time to recover.
He swung his hammer in a short arc.
The flame around the head of the weapon expanded at the last second.
The impact crushed the creature’s neck and split its skull.
The body collapsed.
A thin stream of lifeforce rose from it and flowed into Alex’s palm.
The heat in his blood steadied, and the fatigue from earlier fights eased.
Two stags attacked together.
One rushed low with its hooked claws, while the other whipped its tail in a wide curve.
Crystalline thorns hissed through the air like a storm of knives.
Alex slammed his hammer down.
A ring of flame burst upward, forcing the thorns to detonate early.
He slipped through the smoke and reached the closer stag.
He grabbed its antler base with one hand.
With the other, he drove a flame-coated elbow into its jaw.
The bark shattered and the creature’s head snapped sideways.
He finished it with a hammer strike through the ribcage.
The second stag tried to retreat, but Alex was already there.
A short, qui ck swing ended it before it could build distance.
More lifeforce poured into him.
The herd began to adapt.
They spread out, trying to surround him and overload the sealing rune.
Small distortion pulses flickered at the edges, testing for weak points.
Alex responded by expanding the array.
His finger moved drawing more rune in the air.
With a flick it than shoot out to the ground.
Each impact carved another line of runes connecting into each other.
This is a technique Alex created after the fight with his fake father.
By condensing multiple rune into one he could make complicated array with just a view movement.
The sealed zone widened..
Alex went into melee like a storm.
His hammer crushed antlers, split bark, and shattered crystal cores.
His flames burned hotter with each absorbed life stream.
A stag tried to explode its tail again.
Alex saw the buildup and stepped in instead of retreating.
He drove a rune into the tail’s base with a palm strike.
The explosion died inside the creature’s body.
The stag convulsed once, then fell silent.
Alex absorbed its lifeforce without even looking down.
Another stag tried to leap over him.
Alex spun, releasing a tight spiral of flame that wrapped around its midsection.
The bark turned red, then black, then peeled away.
It hit the ground already dead.
Alex stepped over it and struck the next one.
Minutes passed.
The ground became a field of broken crystal, scorched bark, and ash.
The herd was still large, but they start feeling fear.
Their formations broke.
Some tried to run back into the fog.
Alex did not let them.
He sprint forward, flame trailing behind him like a waking disaster.
The violet fog began to churn again.
Not expanding this time, but compressing inward.
It gathered above the battlefield like a storm cloud with a heartbeat.
Alex slowed.
The remaining stags stopped attacking.
They lowered their heads and gathered into one spot.
The violet fog grew in size, covering the stag herd.
Then it began eating them.
"What is this, a transformation phase for the boss?"
Alex grinned.
"Do you think I will stay still and wait here? This is not a game."
He always found it hilarious how characters would stand around and let their enemies finish transforming.
It happened in games.
It also happened too often in novels and manga.
He slammed his palm into the ground.
The rune array brightened.
It began to move, tightening its coverage space, pushing all the way to the violet fog.
The fog churned, but it didn’t give up.
It accelerated, consuming the last of the stag bodies like a hungry tide.
Alex poured mana into his eyes.
His vision sharpened, peeling through the surface layer of the fog.
His expression shifted.
’I thought it was some kind of insect swarm. Turn out it was a cluster of nano machines.
Countless tiny units linking and separating like a battlefield hive..
They were rebuilding themselves in real time, upgrading with every second they fed.
Alex’s eyes narrowed.
’The Mechalyte technology cannot be underestimated. This is a weapon that learns while it grows.’
He was curious how the machines coordinated.
How it work, how capable it was.
But he had no interest in waiting for the answer to finish forming.
Alex raised his hammer.
Flames ignited around the head.
They condensed tighter and tighter, turning into a fierce white glow that pulsed like a living heart.
He swung once, then hurled it forward.
The hammer tore through the air like a comet.
BOOM!
It slammed into the violet fog.
The nano cloud surged to meet it.
Layers of distortion folded around the impact point, trying to dissolve the weapon from every angle.
But the flame did not scatter.
It exploded outward instead, roaring with lifeforce-augmented heat.
The clash lasted only a breath.
Then the entire fog mass detonated.
BOOOOM!
A pillar of white fire shot upward, tearing through the sky like a burning spear.
The blast lit the forest in a violent red glare.
Shockwaves rippled outward, flattening trees and cracking the ground beneath the sealing array.
Alex stood firm, eyes locked on the firestorm.
