Chapter 564: Extracting Element Energy Blocks

Outside the Elemental Land.

Large quantities of Cyberk soldiers are gathering; the outside is already a mess, and many transparent storage tanks contain various members of the Elemental Race.

Cyberk Commander A-45S watches the soldiers collecting element energy on the tactical interface and sends a message back to the First Defense Zone via an encrypted channel in the Shared Consciousness Network.

【After this period of attacks by the Elemental Race and the Zerg, we have reached the outside of the Elemental Land. Please instruct us, Sage, whether to directly conquer the Elemental Land.】

Soon, A-45S received a reply from the First Defense Zone.

【Sage's instruction: After resting, you may attack the Elemental Land. The Sage intends to stop attacking the Zerg for now; enough materials for producing nutrients have been collected, and a large amount of combat data has been accumulated.

The Sage is considering attacking the Demon Territory; the Demon Territory is our greatest obstacle on this planet.】

After seeing this communication, A-45S issued an order in the Shared Consciousness Network.

"Quickly clear the battlefield; we will attack the Elemental Land in two and a half hours."

Upon receiving the order, the Cyberk soldiers on the battlefield significantly accelerated their speed of collecting Elemental power.

Beside the Cyberk's thousand-meter-long mobile base, the Elemental Race members imprisoned in transparent storage tanks are being sent onto a conveyor belt by Cyberk soldiers, one by one, to be transported into the mobile base.

"eu356, the Element Energy Blocks made from these materials have increased the power of the weapons on my body quite a bit."

Hearing the exclamation from their companion nearby, eu356 replied in a calm tone.

"c54g6, you must know that we spent quite a lot of effort capturing these materials; their value makes it worth our while."

The Elemental Race members in the storage tanks struggle continuously, attempting to break open these storage tanks and tear the Cyberks who are harming their kin to pieces!

"Damn it! There are Anti-Element Devices in these storage tanks too!"

After the conveyor belt swallows the transparent tanks into the mobile base, pale blue data streams float on the surface of each three-meter-tall cylindrical tank, with Elemental Race members in different forms curled up inside.

They are placed in a sealed space filled with transparent tanks.

"Xiunimida, are you alright?"

A half-elementalized Elemental person asks Xiunimida, who is curled up in a transparent tank nearby.

After hearing the companion's question, Xiunimida slowly lifts their forehead, pale red flames spray from their mouth, and they say in a weak tone.

"Not too good; I consumed too much Elemental power when fighting the Cyberks earlier."

"Now that the Cyberks have reached our home, even joining forces with the Zerg didn't stop the Cyberks' attack. Are we going to die?"

Hearing the companion's words, Xiunimida shakes their head slightly and says.

"I don't know. Cyberk Anti-Element Devices are everywhere; our hope of escaping is very slim."

Just then, the metal gate holding the transparent tanks slowly opens, and cold white light slowly shines in.

The chambers inside the base are stacked layer by layer along the three-hundred-meter-high dome, with Cyberk soldiers walking inside.

A Cyberk analyst wearing a white lab coat with "B-98FX" written on their forehead walks into the storage room. Looking at the storage tanks placed in front of them, streams of data drift through B-98FX's pale blue pupils.

"Anti-Element Devices operating normally."

B-98FX points their right hand at the data stream on one storage tank, then continuously points at eight more storage tanks.

The mechanical arms on both sides of the conveyor belt suddenly activate; octopus-like silver-gray mechanical arms grab 9 storage tanks and then carry them out of the storage room.

Seeing Xiunimida's storage tank being taken away, the half-elementalized Elemental person feels a chill in their heart and mutters to themselves.

"It's... it's over. Xiunimida will never come back."

The 9 storage tanks are brought to a laboratory filled with precision instruments and illuminated by bright white light, where several Cyberk analysts in white lab coats are standing.

"B-98FX has brought the materials; let's begin."

A Cyberk analyst codenamed B-16FX says upon seeing B-98FX return.

After the 9 storage tanks are positioned, Cyberk analyst B-73FX steps onto the support frame and opens the top cover of the tank.

"Go to hell!"

The Lightning Elemental person inside, who previously looked very weak, suddenly erupts, and a bolt of purple lightning flies toward B-73FX.

But before that purple lightning hits B-73FX, it is blocked by an Energy Barrier. Seeing this, B-73FX picks up an Energy Gun with their right hand, and a purple energy tentacle flies out, precisely piercing into the Elemental Race member's Energy Core.

"Ugh... ah..."

"Stupid, why resist? You didn't defeat us on the front line; can a sneak attack work?"

After B-73FX extracts the values from this Lightning Elemental person's Energy Core, they restart the Anti-Element Device in the storage tank.

"Serial number E-71, lightning element energy ratio is within the qualified range; cyclic extraction can be implemented."

After saving the data, B-73FX says to B-98FX below.

"B-98FX, this one can be sent to the Number 5 Cyclic Extraction Chamber to extract energy periodically and observe changes in the data."

"Understood."

Immediately after, B-73FX begins to extract Energy Cores from the storage tanks one by one and check their purity.

"Serial number E-80, fire element purity insufficient; transfer to Number 3 Extraction Chamber."

The storage tank deemed unqualified is suddenly grabbed and slides toward the right passage along silver chains hanging from the dome.

Watching the storage tank holding them being grabbed, Xiunimida can roughly guess their own ending, watching the storage tank holding them leave the chamber they were just in.