Modern Cultivation : The Strongest Couple Bonded by Vampire System-Chapter 618 - 618: Meeting Faerith

With the robot army decimated, the spire golems spread out in different directions.
They moved like hunting dogs released from a leash, each one picking a route and sprinting across the dust.
Their cannons stayed aimed outward, scanning for any remaining signals.
Only after the area was cleared did the battleship descend.
It landed with a low, crushing thud that made the moon surface tremble.
The giant robot Haid piloted leapt forward and landed in front of it with a boom, kicking up a ring of gray dust.
Inside the cockpit, Haid's asked. "Are you even sure it's him?"
Faerith's reply was immediate. "I told you. Me and him signed a deal with our souls. We can feel each other's presence."
Haid cursed in his mind.
What if he's compromised?
But He did not say it out loud.
He knew better than to undermine Faerith. That would only trigger a disaster.
Even back when they were still researchers, she always pushed her own research no matter how much pressure came from above.
She never backed down, to the point she was banished by the scientific community.
Ironically, that trait was also what pulled Haid toward her in the first place.
Her intelligence, paired with that stubborn refusal to yield, was what made him fall for her.
'I should have known better after that blood experiment,' Haid thought.
'The more she succeeded, the more headstrong she became. Not that I hate it.'
The battleship opened.
Alex and MingYue walked down the ramp, observing the people of AVALANCE.
The moment the AVALANCE soldiers saw humans stepping out, many of them relaxed their shoulders.
But none of them dared to fully relax.
They had lived on the moon for years, barely surviving.
Three months ago, their base was found.
After that, they fought almost every day against the robot army, suffering heavy casualties each time.
They were on their last leg, running on fatigue and stubbornness more than hope.
Some of them had started wondering why they were even still alive.
The Mecalyte clearly did not lack the strength to finish them off.
So why keep them here?
As entertainment?
As a living experiment?
The giant robot stepped closer, looming over Alex.
At this range, Alex could tell who it was immediately.
"Faerith," he said quietly. "It's been a while."
"A while?" Faerith's voice snapped out of the robot's speakers.
"It might as well be a whole era at this point. You left for so long… do you forgot I even exist."
Her tone sharpened, turning into anger that had been simmering for too long.
"Do you think you have no responsibility in this world? Do you know how many of your people have died?"
The AVALANCE soldiers looked at each other, confused. Only a few of them knew the truth about who was inside the machine.
""Enough Faerith, he has his own circumstances. This isn't the place for this."
A gruff voice cut through them all, heavy enough to make Faerith fall silent.
The crowd split as their leader approached… Solomon.
Alex felt a pang of guilt the moment he saw him.
The Solomon from the past, the strong and gallant man, was nowhere to be seen.
In front of Alex now was a thin old man. Both his arms had been replaced with crude mechanical prosthetics.
His legs were gone.
He sat in a wheelchair.
A beautiful woman pushed him forward.
Alex recognized her right away.
Karen, Solomon's secretary.
She stopped the chair and bowed slightly, then smiled with tired warmth.
"It's been a while, Sir Alex. We always waited for your return."
Alex swallowed. "Sorry I'm late."
MingYue placed her hand on his back. She did not speak, but the gesture is enough.
Inside the AVALANCE base, in a huge hangar-like room, the key people gathered.
Alex, MingYue, Solomon, Karen, Haid, And Faerith, still inside the huge robot, crouched at the space like a steel statue.
Other leaders were busy preparing their return to Ainode.
The people Alex had rescued were placed asleep and moved into separate rooms at the mecalyte battleship.
He did not want AVALANCE to meet them.
He could already guess what would happen. Some would not care they're just a descendant.
They would vent all their hatred toward them anyway.
That was part of humanity too.
When people live inside unfairness, they start looking someone to blame, even if the target is not truly guilty.
"You daughter is looking for you," Alex said to Haid.
Haid's shoulders sagged. "How is she? I should've returned faster if not because of how much trouble her mother is."
"Hey!" Faerith snapped. "I'm right here. And this is not my fault. That Sigma bastard almost killed me!"
Faerith then told Alex what happened.
She had been trying to find the Mecalyte weakness and uncover what really happened back then.
Following the trail led her to Sigma.
That was where her misfortune started.
She escaped from her family to avoid implicating them, then searched for AVALANCE to fight back.
Unfortunately, it was already too late.
Sigma still hunted her.
When she was close to dying, Solomon arrived with a small team of elite hunters.
The operation succeeded, but with a huge cost.
Solomon's life force was partially absorbed. His arms and legs were torn apart, leaving him in his current state.
Faerith knew her body was beyond saving.
So she made a decision.
She moved her soul into a container.
It was a huge gamble, as it was a plan born from her shallow understanding of the Mecalyte and Sigma.
Thankfully, it worked.
"Where's your core?" Alex asked.
The robot knelt down further.
A cockpit panel on its chest opened.
Alex jumped inside, followed by MingYue.
Behind the cockpit where Haid usually sat, another door slid open.
It revealed a narrow entrance with a ladder going down.
Alex climbed down quickly.
He dropped into another open space, as large as the cockpit above.
In the center, suspended by locking arms, was a clear sphere giving off a soft green light.
Alex stared at it.
"What's this container?" he asked. "I've never seen this material before."
Faerith's voice came out with smug pride. "Fufufufu. This is one of my masterpieces. I created it by experimenting with materials from the universe."
She boasted about its strength, about how it could hold pressure and energy far beyond normal limits.
Her original goal had been to use it as a bomb, something strong enough to destroy a Mecalyte battleship.
Unfortunately, she had been forced to use it early, before perfecting it as a vessel for her soul.
Alex narrowed his eyes.
He focused life force into his vision, blending it with mana and qi, trying to read the structure of the sphere.
As he studied it, Faerith's voice became quieter.
"So," she said, awkward for the first time, "Alex… you can recover my body, right?"
Living as a robot gave her power and possibilities, but she dreaded every second inside it.
Just like Haid feared, she also felt she could not face Aira in this state.
And there was another problem she never said out loud.
The lack of sensation.
She couldn't feel touch, heat, vision, nothing.
Everything she understood about the world now came from streams of data gathered by sensors.