Modern Cultivation : The Strongest Couple Bonded by Vampire System-Chapter 616: Second Planet

Alex sighed. "It should be enough, but this is the best we can do for now."

"We could have held it with us and asked Vesa to eat it," MingYue suggested.

"That’s a good idea, but Sigma is an anomaly," Alex said.

"I still don’t understand that geometric pattern he used. There’s also the weird part of how he could use life force, and even create those runes."

"You’re still curious where he got all his information?" MingYue asked.

"Yeah," Alex replied. "But now we still have something else to take care of."

The warhammer in Alex’s hand dissipated into nothing.

"Vesa, are you free yet?" Alex called out.

There was no response.

Alex’s eyes narrowed. "Seems we have no other choice. Let’s move the city now."

"Why?" MingYue asked, confused.

"Sigma took the planet core," Alex said.

"Now he’s dead. That means it’s only a matter of time before this planet collapses."

As he spoke, the planet beneath them shuddered.

At first it was a faint tremor.

Then it became a violent shake that rolled across the surface like a wave.

Deep cracks opened across the ground.

The city lights flickered.

People who were still recovering suddenly lost their balance again.

"What’s happening!?"

"The ground is moving!"

"Hold the children!"

Screams spread through the streets.

Then the real catastrophe started.

Elyndra was a molten world.

It was already filled with pressure and magma river.

The crust began to shift like a broken shell.

A line of fire split open outside the city walls.

Magma surged upward, spraying into the sky like a fountain.

The air turned orange.

Ash clouds rose fast, blotting out the stars.

The dome formation was already destroyed, so there was nothing to stabilize the city anymore.

A second quake hit. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Buildings cracked, Walls collapsed.

A tower snapped in half and crashed onto the street, sending dust and debris flying.

People ran.

Some limped. Some carried the weak.

A mother screamed as she searched for her child in the smoke.

"My baby! Where are you!?"

A man grabbed her arm. "This way! The road is breaking!"

The street split open in front of them.

A crack swallowed carts, bodies, and rubble.

Heat surged from the gap like a furnace opening its mouth.

MingYue flew lower, her wings cutting through ash.

She stretched her hand out.

Ice spread across the broken roads, forming bridges where the ground had split.

The ice was not meant to last long. It only needed to hold for seconds.

People rushed across.

Some slipped, but others grabbed them and dragged them up.

Alex’s eyes scanned the city from above.

He saw the pressure building deeper down.

"This planet is breaking," Alex said.

MingYue glanced at him. "Then we don’t have time."

Alex shot toward the battleship.

He reached it in seconds and slammed his palm into the hull.

Runes lit up.

The ship’s systems woke up, switching from combat mode to emergency transport.

The hangar bays opened.

Massive ramps unfolded.

A low hum spread as internal gravity stabilized.

Alex amplified his voice with mana and projected it across the city.

"Everyone, move to the ship now!"

His voice rolled through the streets like thunder.

People froze for a moment when they heard it.

Then they looked up.

They saw the battleship descending.

It was enormous. Bigger than any flying craft they had ever seen.

A mountain of stone-metal and glowing veins.

Fear turned into desperation.

They ran toward it.

"Get inside! Hurry!"

Alex landed the battleship on a wide open area near the city center, crushing ruined walls and broken stalls beneath its landing pressure.

The ramps hit the street.

People poured in.

The first group hesitated at the entrance, staring at the strange interior.

Then the ground shook again and the hesitation vanished.

They rushed up the ramp.

The security robot tried to organize lines.

But there was no time for it.

Alex activated containment corridors inside the ship, guiding the crowd forward.

MingYue flew above the streets, sweeping through collapsing areas.

She froze falling debris midair.

She formed ice platforms to catch people who would have been crushed.

She pulled survivors out of cracks that were widening.

Behind her, volcanoes erupted one after another.

Magma pillars blasted upward.

Fire rained down in chunks of molten rock.

The sky turned red.

The city’s edge was swallowed by lava as if the planet was eating its own flesh.

Inside the battleship, people cried.

Some prayed. Some cursed.

Some held their children so tight their hands shook.

An old man stared at his wrinkled hands, still aged from the formation.

His lips trembled. "Why... why is this happening..."

A younger woman grabbed him. "Move! Don’t stop!"

Another quake hit.

This one was stronger than before.

The entire city tilted sideways.

A wave of magma surged across the ground like a tsunami.

It swallowed the tower.

It swallowed buildings.

It swallowed everything.

MingYue slammed both hands down.

A wall of ice rose from the ground, taller than the city gates.

The magma hit it.

Steam exploded upward, turning into a white cloud that hissed like a beast.

The ice wall cracked instantly.

MingYue gritted her teeth and poured more power into it.

It held for three seconds.

Four.

Five.

That was enough.

The last wave of people rushed into the ship.

Alex stood at the ramp, his hand wave, pulling people in with telekinesis-like mana control.

"Inside!" he shouted. "Now!"

The ramp began to lift.

The battleship’s engines roared.

The ship rose.

Below them, the planet’s crust cracked in giant plates.

Volcanoes burst like open wounds.

Magma oceans expanded, swallowing what remained of the city.

Ash storms spun across the surface.

The ground rotated unevenly as the planet’s gravity failed, making the entire world shake like a spinning top losing control.

From orbit, it looked like a molten sphere tearing itself apart.

And the battleship climbed away from it, carrying the last survivors as the world behind them collapsed into fire.

Alex continued. "This’s our stage now..."

"A war that will destroy planets," MingYue finished.

Alex nodded. "A single mistake nothing will left behind."

A final rupture split the planet’s shell, and a bloom of light flared out from inside, like the world exhaled its last breath.

Fragments of molten rock scattered outward, forming a glowing ring of debris.

Even from orbit, it looked like a scar.