Modern Cultivation : The Strongest Couple Bonded by Vampire System-Chapter 554: Escape from The Area

Meanwhile, Alex was now focusing on his task. His hand wielded his hammer, pointing it toward the east. Blood then seeped out from his body, engulfing and hardening, turning into armor. It also covered the hammer, changing its form.

At the same time, Vesa created a complicated rune formation. She then burned this pattern into Alex's crimson armor, changing its appearance. The pattern was black in color, but soon it started changing into green. While this happened, two pairs of wings came out from Alex's back, expelling a rainbow aura, making it look graceful. But in reality, this aura was the contamination from the lifeforce. Since Alex didn't have a way to convert it to pure energy, he expelled it all.

From his knees to his feet, his crimson armor shot out like roots from a tree, carving deep underground to absorb more lifeforce.

In his eyes, indicators started rising: [current lifeforce 1,231, 4,623, 10,833]. The numbers kept growing until finally, it stopped at 15,000. It didn't even take Alex two seconds to gather this much, making him realize there was more to runes for him to learn. If he had done this himself, there was no way he could have come up with this efficient absorption while filtering all the impurities. 'Now I hope there's nothing outside my speculation,' he thought.

Alex prepared three times the energy to pierce the strongest material he knew existed on his planet, just in case they had created the strongest one. Without giving them a chance to attack him, Alex released all the energy. The hammer now looked more like a cannon, with its form inspired by one of the games Alex had played before.

SHH!!!!! BOOOM!!!!

The energy shot out like a particle cannon, while flames exploded from his wings, creating a counter shockwave to stabilize his position. Seeing this, the drones and robots didn't stay quiet. Each of them started blasting their weapons and magic, but none of it had any effect.

The energy beam just ate everything like it was nothing. It then reached the wall. The moment it made contact, sparks flew everywhere as a barrier appeared. Alex's eyes sharpened, seeing the clash. His crimson pupils glowed with a green hue as he observed how the barrier worked. 'It seems it's just a normal kinetic barrier made using mana,' Alex thought while feeling confused.

With all the lifeforce utilized to create the structure underground, how could they not use it to fuel their barrier? The same also happened with the robots and drones. Now that he really focused on it, he could see that the lifeforce was barely used in their operation. 'They don't even know how to harness lifeforce properly,' he mused. 'This whole setup must be something they get from those so-called Mechalytes. Probably left with just the basics and no way to truly understand it." ƒгeewёbnovel.com

The energy barrier started to crack, unable to hold against the attack. It didn't even take a second for it to shatter. The beam then continued its journey, melting the metal to ashes. Seeing the contact, Alex triggered the energy to explode at that spot. It was better for him if it created a huge opening there rather than piercing through and exploding elsewhere.

BOOM!!!!

The energy exploded, creating a huge gap in the wall. Without waiting for the smoke to dissipate, Alex, Mingyue, and Alice quickly flew, leaving the area. On the path, Alex could see cables hanging out from the ruins. They wriggled like living snakes, excreting liquid material to fix the structure. The method was very different from the sewer he had been in. This confirmed his speculation further, but then another possibility came to his mind. If the Mechalytes built the sewer, did it have more purpose than just throwing all trash?

He had seen human body parts flow through, coming from one of the buildings in the area, but Alex hadn't seen where it went. Now that he really thought about it, with this kind of technology, why would they even need to throw trash into the sewer? Even in his old world, all trash and waste would be incinerated using magic or other methods. With so many options, they could easily reach heat that turned this kind of material to small ashes. The remains would then be given back to the family, or if they didn't care, it could still be used as fertilizer or for other uses.

"If they have human farms, wouldn't it make more sense to put those facilities directly inside rather than moving waste through the sewer? It's not like they need a lot of space for an incinerator. This can only mean one thing… the sewer must have another purpose," Alex muttered, looking back toward the city that had now already become a silhouette. His gaze passed through the legion of drones that came flying to pursue them but hopelessly failed to match their speed. "The sewer…"

Meanwhile, back inside the city, in one of the buildings stood a translucent pod. Inside was a woman wearing a VR headset with many cables coming out from her body. "Good, they're gone. Now I can get back to my game," she muttered with a smirk.

Alice was afraid for the governor to come out pursuing them, but in reality, the governor was not even in town. He was not even on the planet, as he was busy taking care of something with the Mechalytes. Because of this, all the responsibility for the city was put on the acting governor, who was also his daughter. Different from the governor, his daughter didn't have a single care about what was happening, nor did she have any interest in hunting down a fugitive. All she wanted to do was enjoy her game and get back to the grind. "Just 8 percent more to level 100. I'll be the first on the server to hit max level," she muttered excitedly.

This wasn't how things usually went. Otherwise, the governor would never have left the responsibility to her. But the governor's daughter, Aira, had only discovered this game a few days ago when it launched. Road of Exile 3 was proving to be too addictive. "If they'd just fix the trade system, this game would be perfect," she mumbled, letting her consciousness dive back into the game's world.