Modern Cultivation : The Strongest Couple Bonded by Vampire System-Chapter 606 - 606: Battleship

After their small talk, Alex and MingYue shot out toward space.
Alex decided to experiment later and deal with the Mecalyte first.
He felt Sigma was too dangerous to let roam free.
After finishing the Mecalyte, he would return and face Sigma head-on.
'I wonder what he was making. It should be related to space energy and that weird symbol on his finger.'
Alex doubted it came from the Mecalyte.
So he concluded Sigma either discovered it somewhere else through contact with other species, found it in the Hunter Association's archives, or figured it out himself.
But Alex felt the second option was less likely.
In the past, he did not have the authority to read all the secret information gathered by the Association.
He believed there were more power systems and universe secrets stored inside.
It was just that the president at that time did not have the ability to use them.
A new power system would become a huge risk without proper research and understanding.
As for universe secrets, without power, knowing them would only make you prey on the larger stage.
There was no point in learning them.
It did not take long for the void ahead to ripple.
A shadow slid across the starlight, too wide to be a natural asteroid.
Then it came into view… A battleship.
But it did not look like one alex's expect.
It looked like a floating mountain.
Its hull was made of layered stone plates like an endless puzzle of dark crystalline rock.
The surface look like a raw mineral, polished in places until it reflected distant stars like cold glass.
Glowing veins ran across it, thin lines of pale green light trapped under translucent stone, like quartz carrying life force energy.
Its shape was sharp geometry, angled ridges, and fractured spires.
Some parts jutted outward like sharp cliffs.
Other sections formed hollow rings.
Chunks of rock floated near it in a controlled orbit, moving in formation around the main body.
If not because Cyrith intel, Alex will mistaked it for a debris.
But they're not, even with their appearance.
They were armor, or weapons, or both.
MingYue narrowed her eyes. "That's their ship? More like a fortress"
Alex's gaze hardened. "Yeah. That's Mecalyte."
The battleship shifted, and the stone plates along its side separated like scales.
Inside the gaps, Alex saw bright cores embedded deep within, like geodes cracked open to reveal a blazing heart.
A cold pressure rolled outward.
"Let's go," Alex said quietly.
As if responding to his words, the ship's front ridge unfolded.
A spear-like structure extended forward, layered with mineral segments that locked into place one after another.
The veins of light flared.Alex and MingYue stopped in place.
Alex's gaze narrowed. "Sigma already told them about us."
"It's fine," MingYue said. "Let's finish them before they can inform others."
Alex nodded. He accelerated, his body turning into a blur.
In the next moment, he appeared on top of the battleship.
He lifted his hand and began drawing a star-shaped rune, sealing the space around them.
Since he already had detailed information on the battleship's specs, he knew what to expect.
The moment the last line of the rune connected, the area around the ship tightened.
The Mecalyte ship reacted instantly.
The floating rock plates around it shifted and formed a rotating shell.
Then the glowing veins under the hull flared, and the ship's front ridge opened again.
A silent pressure surged outward, like invisible hands trying to crush everything in range.
MingYue stepped forward and raised her palm.
A wall of ice formed in front of her, then shattered into a storm of blue shards that spread in a wide arc.
The crushing pressure hit the shard-field and weakened, like it was being cut apart by countless tiny blades.
"Alex, they're using some kind gravity weapon."
"I know," Alex replied. "Buy me time."
MingYue moved.
She slid across space with short shifts, each step leaving a lotus frost that hung for a heartbeat before dissipating.
The ship's orbiting rocks broke formation and shot toward her like a swarm.
They moved like guided missiles.
MingYue swung her arm, and a crescent of ice cut through the swarm.
BAM!!!
The front rocks split cleanly, but the pieces did not stop.
They twisted in mid-flight and tried to reform, like shattered bodies stitching themselves back together.
MingYue's eyes sharpened.
A second wave of frost erupted from her skin, and the fragments froze in place mid-repair.
They became statues, floating helplessly in the sealed space.
On the ship's back, Alex's rune continued to expand.
Thin lines spread outward, forming layers, each layer locking a wider section of space.
The Mecalyte ship's act again.
The hull plates opened along multiple ridges, revealing bright mineral cores buried inside.
Then the ship fired.
Hundreds of razor-thin crystal spears launched in a fan, each one carrying a humming vibration that made MingYue's skin prickle.
MingYue exhaled slowly.
The temperature around her plunged.
A dome of ice formed layered like overlapping scales, each layer rotating in the opposite direction.
The crystal spears hit the dome.
For a second, the dome rang like glass.
Then the spears cracked, their inner vibration disrupted, and they shattered into glittering dust.
MingYue snapped her fingers.
The dust froze, clumped, then slammed back toward the ship like a reversed storm.
The Mecalyte hull plates shifted to block it, but the frozen mass hammered the ship with enough force to bend the outer stone ridges.
Chunks broke off.
"Good," Alex muttered.
He pressed his palm to the stone hull.
Many lines and nodes appeared in his eyes showing where the ship's control system ran through the rock.
It was structure-based computing, crystal logic embedded into mineral layers.
The ship was a brain made of stone.
Alex gather lifeforce into his fingertips.
A tight ripple spread from his hand, slipping into the hull like a key sliding into a lock.
The ship shuddered.
"Useless, your ships I mine now," Alex said under his breath.
Below him, the ship's orbiting rocks regrouped.
They merged into three larger bodies, each one forming a rough humanoid shape with thick arms and heavy torsos.
Their heads were smooth, featureless stone.
But their chests glowed with bright, cracked geode light.
They launched themselves upward toward Alex.