Modern Cultivation : The Strongest Couple Bonded by Vampire System-Chapter 600: Space Power

"Found it. Let’s go, Mingyue."

Alex turned on his heel and moved in a different direction.

The world leader was nothing more than a mob to him. Useful as a lab rat, nothing more. Sigma was different.

It created a core that unified mana and qi. It created the stag.

It somehow contacted the Mechalyte, triggered the invasion, and negotiated with them.

It did all of that without being discovered by the human progenitor.

’Sigma is not something I can underestimate.’

Alex’s mind churned as he walked.

’Where did it come from?

A freak incident? A hidden project?

Something those primordial made?’

He already concluded one thing.

Sigma had evolved far beyond what he expected.

’Just how strong can a robot become?’

He and Mingyue slipped out of the city hall and into the quiet streets.

The holiday lights were still shining, but the city felt colder now.

The farther they went, the fewer people they saw.

Only patrol drones and maintenance robots moved in the snow.

Alex looked up.

In the center of the city stood the tallest structure.

A pillar that rose like a spear into the dome.

The foundation that held the dome stable.

"That’s where the signal is coming from," Alex said.

They moved fast.

Alex jumped first, using a burst of qi to lift himself. He landed on a maintenance platform, then stepped again, rising like the air was a staircase.

Mingyue followed without effort, each step creating a solidified ice in the air..

They reached the top.

There was a wide circular platform with antenna spires and sensor towers.

In the center stood a humanoid robot.

It was tall, a head taller than Alex. Its body were different than those Alex have seen.

The frame was smooth and compact, with layered plating that looked like black metal mixed with dark ceramic.

The chest had a faint triangular core light that pulsed slowly, like a heartbeat.

Its head was not human, but close enough.

A sharp jawline.

A narrow faceplate, without any mouth.

Only a thin seam where a mouth should be.

Its eyes were two clean lenses, red and cold.

They looked like real optics, focused and intelligent.

Along its spine, thin blade-like fins lay folded, as if they could open at any moment.

Its hands were human-shaped, but the fingers were segmented with perfection.

Each part filled with some kind of mechanism.

The robot tilted its head slightly.

"So you came," it said.

The voice was like a human filled with emotion.

Alex’s gaze sharpened.

Mingyue stepped beside him, her palm half raised, ready.

"Sigma?"

"Yes. I am." Sigma’s voice was calm.

"Could you do me a favor and let them live for a while longer?

A year will do.

In exchange, I will help you with your task."

"You help me?" Alex’s eyes turned cold.

"You’re the cause of my planet’s fall."

"Yes, and?" Sigma tilted its head.

"An enemy yesterday can be a friend today. Isn’t that how humans do things?"

Alex didn’t answer.

Sigma continued, like it was explaining a simple trade.

"With my help, you can take over the Mechalyte more silently.

I have a deep understanding of them.

You can try to take it by force, but I will make sure to destroy all the information."

It paused for half a second.

"In the first place, I don’t understand your rejection.

My goal is just a planet for me and my kind to survive. Isn’t yours the same?"

"They’re different," Alex said.

"Your survival cost my race’s survival."

"But that is in the past," Sigma replied.

"I was never interested in harvesting human lifeforce. That was a deal with the Mechalyte.

I came to them asking for information and help. It is just coincidence that what they wanted was humanity’s lifeforce energy."

Alex’s eyes narrowed.

Logically, what Sigma said made sense. If this was him in the past, when his power had just gone haywire, he might have accepted it without a second thought.

But now, he couldn’t.

Alex’s body blurred forward.

White flame ignited around his fist as he punched straight toward Sigma’s chest.

Sigma raised its palm.

The space around its hand flickered, like the air itself had folded.

BAM!

The punch was caught. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

All the power Alex poured into it dispersed and redirected, bursting outward into a shockwave that rolled across the top platform.

Thankfully, they were so high up that no one noticed anything below.

The world leaders were too busy indulging themselves to check the dome’s situation.

Even if they were sober, they still would not notice.

They had handed all responsibility to machines and blindly believed whatever the robots told them.

As long as they could live however they wanted, they were satisfied.

"This power," Alex said, pulling back. "Space."

He understood it the moment his fist connected.

It wasn’t that Sigma was so strong it could block him head-on.

It was that Sigma moved his momentum and power somewhere else, leaving its body untouched.

"You know I can do this all day," Sigma said, confident.

Mingyue flashed in from the side.

A sword appeared in her hand. She slashed down without hesitation.

The force froze the moisture in the air, forming a thin line of ice along the blade’s path.

BAM!

Again, an invisible shield rippled around Sigma.

The energy was redirected, swallowed by a distortion, and sent away like it never belonged here.

Mingyue didn’t give up.

She raised her sword and slashed again.

This time, Alex backed her up. He drew a rune in the air, forcing it to spin into a small formation.

It was similar to the one he used on the stag, only stronger and more focused.

The moment it activated, the air around Sigma warped.

The space field became unstable.

Alex’s eyes narrowed.

If Sigma’s defense was space redirection, then disturbing space should crack the structure and force the energy to leak.

"That won’t work," Sigma said.

A strange carving appeared on one of Sigma’s fingers.

It looked like a hard geometric imprint, like a circuit line etched into the air.

The barrier around Sigma flickered.

Then it turned solid again.

BAM!

Mingyue’s blade hit the field and was deflected again.

The rebound sent a cold shock through her arms, but she didn’t step back.

Alex frowned.

’What is that symbol? I’ve never seen that formation before.

Is it something Sigma learned from the Mechalyte?’

He looked at his own rune.

It was still spinning, still suppressing.

But the moment it touched Sigma’s field, it got neutralized, as if Sigma’s carving was reading Alex’s distortion and correcting it.

The symbol countered Alex’s rune and stabilized Sigma’s space ability.

Sigma’s head tilted slightly.

"Now can we stop wasting time?"