Modern Cultivation : The Strongest Couple Bonded by Vampire System-Chapter 607: Taken Over

MingYue moved to intercept, but the ship’s gravity wave surged again, pushing her off-line and pinning her movement for a split second.

"Annoying," she whispered.

Ice burst from her feet, forming a long spear of frozen light.

With a kick, the spear crossed the distance instantly and pierced the first stone humanoid through the chest.

The geode core inside it flared, then went unstable.

The construct exploded into fragments, and every fragment froze mid-blast.

The other two made their move.

They slammed onto the ship’s back near Alex, their fists cracking the stone plating like thunder.

Alex moved back a step, but his palm never left the hull.

He raised his other hand and snapped his fingers.

Flame ignited in the air.

It thinned, sharpened, and stretched into a blade.

Swoosh!

The fireblade sliced across one construct’s arm.

The construct tried to regrow it.

Alex narrowed his eyes.

The fireblade moved again.

In quick succession, it chopped the severed arm into pieces, cutting any chance of reconnection.

MingYue forced herself forward against the gravity pressure.

Ice spread across her arms like armor.

She reached the ship’s side and slammed her palm into the hull.

A deep freeze spread through the stone, racing toward the glowing veins like frost chasing light.

The ship shook.

MingYue’s lips curled into a smile.

"Using life force as an energy source in front of me is courting death."

The green glow on the ship began to intensify.

A sucking force poured out from MingYue’s palm.

The battleship shook as its energy was drained at an unprecedented speed by MingYue.

The weapon system started failing, then the shield system.

Alex, who was trying to take control of the ship, could feel the engine also starting to shut down.

"MingYue, stop. We still need this battleship."

"Sure," MingYue said, reluctant.

She stopped absorbing.

The energy began flowing back into the ship.

The weapon system and shield system came online again, but now they were no longer under Mecalyte control.

Alex scanned the ship.

’There are only twelve Mecalyte here. Where’s the rest?’

He also found hundreds of alien species separated into a few sealed sections.

Alex quickly sealed their locations, then activated a security protocol that put all the onboard army to sleep.

He hijacked the twelve Mecalyte through their direct connection with the battleship.

Unlike normal battleships that were controlled through terminals and interfaces, the Mecalyte ship was connected directly to their minds.

Each Mecalyte was responsible for a set of modules, allowing them to control the ship efficiently.

Thankfully, despite Sigma’s warning, the Mecalyte underestimated Alex and MingYue.

They thought, how strong could two people from this level of civilization be?

That mistake was what allowed Alex to take control of the battleship with ease.

With everyone asleep, Alex and MingYue entered the ship.

Inside, the air felt heavy, like walking inside a sealed cave.

Every surface was polished, carved, and reinforced with thin crystal seams that glowed faintly under the surface of the rock.

The corridors were wide and tall, built for the mecalyte.

Alex also suspect if not because of their alien army that consist of insect and other carbon based lifeform, they probably won’t bother with air system for the battleship.

Clusters of luminous minerals were embedded into the ceiling.

Their light was like moonlight trapped in quartz.

As they walked deeper, the ship’s became clearer.

MingYue glanced around.

"This ship feels like alive," she said.

"It’s closer to a beast than a machine," Alex replied.

"They replicate their own body system into this battleship."

They passed layered doors that opened by shifting stone plates aside.

Behind some of them, Alex could sense sleeping presences.

He ignored them.

He had already sealed those sections.

They kept going, following the strongest concentration of life force.

At the center of the ship, the corridor widened into a massive chamber.

The ceiling curved high above them, covered in engraved patterns that looked like star maps, but the lines were made of mineral channels filled with flowing green light.

In the middle of the dome stood four huge reactors.

Each reactor was a towering crystal-rock structure, shaped like a rough pillar, but its core was transparent, filled with swirling life force energy.

The life force did not move like fire.

It moved like thick liquid, rolling in slow spirals, gathering and dispersing in steady cycles.

Around the four reactors, twenty-four tubes were set into the floor and walls, separated into three sections, eight per section.

The tubes were tall and wide, made of layered crystal with stone ribs supporting them like bones.

Only twelve of them were filled now.

Inside each filled tube, a Mecalyte floated in suspension, their rocky bodies held in place by green light and vibarnt energy threads.

Alex’s eyes narrowed as he counted.

MingYue stepped closer, her gaze landing on the reactors.

"So this is how they power everything," she said.

"They use life force, then circulate it like blood."

Alex’s expression stayed cold.

"All of this probably came from humans on my planet," he said.

"How long did it take them to harvest this much?"

Most of the humans harvested were just normal mortals.

Alex knew that with this amount of life force, the number of victims had to be astronomical.

MingYue glanced at the tubes. "How about those Mecalyte? Should I kill them?"

"No need. They’re already in hibernation," Alex said.

"I’ll create fake souls, then send some of them back to act as our spies."

Alex walked toward the center.

Inside one of the tubes, he saw a cube suspended in midair.

The cube was covered in symbols Alex recognized.

"This is rune," he said quietly.

"So they do have access to it, but they can’t use it directly in combat."

It reminded Alex of the limitation of silicon-based lifeforms.

They could not directly manipulate life force, and they could not use runes without tools.

Alex stepped closer to the tube.

His finger moved in the air, drawing a rune.

Then he pressed the rune forward and stamped it onto the cube.

The moment it connected, a stream of information poured into his Erx Chip.

Now he had direct access to the battleship’s full data.