The Almighty Dominance novel Chapter 554

Alex stood inside a wooden house, the air thick with the smell of timber and dust.

He had seen this kind of place many times before. Xia architecture. Old, stubborn, rooted in tradition.

They refused to trade wood for steel, refused to raise glass towers into the sky like Prussia.

They believed living close to nature strengthened their cultivation, that wood and earth fed the body with natural power.

Alex slowly turned his head.

There was a massive hole torn through the roof.

Sunlight poured through it in a harsh beam, illuminating the wreckage beneath.

The VÖXEN Lucifer lay half-destroyed in the middle of the room, its once flawless frame split open like a wounded animal.

The vehicle was filled with nanobots. Given the right materials, they could rebuild it atom by atom, following the original blueprint stored in its core.

With enough time and resources, the VÖXEN could return to perfect form.

But that would take time.

Time he wasn’t sure he had.

With slow, painful movements, Alex activated his space-storage ring and stored the wrecked vehicle away.

Only then did he notice the body.

A man lay sprawled across the wooden floor.

Dismembered.

Blood soaked into the planks.

“Gaia,” Alex whispered, speaking to the nanobots embedded beneath his skin. “Where are we?”

A calm voice answered directly inside his mind.

“Sir. We are currently outside any communication coverage. Xia forbids all external transmissions. They hold deep hostility toward both Prussia and Estoria.”

“We are in enemy territory. If they find you, you will be executed without question. Especially because you have killed one of their people.”

Alex’s face drained of color.

“So what are we supposed to do?”

He was not in his normal condition.

His inner power was gone—completely destroyed. He couldn’t fly. Couldn’t fight. Couldn’t defend himself.

Right now, he was no different from an ordinary human.

And in Xia, an ordinary citizen was as strong as ten trained men from Prussia or Estoria.

They had trained in natural cultivation since childhood. Strength was simply part of daily life here.

“Sir,” Gaia continued, “place me on the corpse’s head. Within five minutes after death, I can still retrieve partial memory traces. After ten minutes, nothing remains. Approximately four minutes have passed. I can attempt extraction. The copying process will require ten minutes.”

Alex swallowed.

Time was running.

Alex pulled the nano strip from behind his ear and pressed it gently against the dead man’s bleeding head.

The nanobots slid inward, burrowing into the skull and threading into the brain, mapping and extracting what information they could before it faded.

He lifted his gaze and scanned the room.

It looked like the inside of a wrecked ship—splintered wood, shattered furniture, debris scattered everywhere. Then a sharp thought hit him.

He and his pursuers had crossed into Xia’s border during the crash.

Normally, Xia cultivators would have already been dispatched to investigate. There was a strong chance people were still tracking whatever had fallen from the sky.

Alex moved fast.

He took out ten repair drones from his storage ring and released them into the air.

“Repair everything. Restore this place exactly as it was.”

The small glide drones hummed to life. They scattered across the room and began working with terrifying precision.

Broken wood was lifted, aligned, and fused at the nano level. Cracks disappeared as if they had never existed.

Table legs reformed. Chairs reshaped themselves. Even the shattered vase rebuilt piece by piece.

Flawless.

This was Gaia’s newest technology.

And then Alex felt it.

A wave of force.

Heavy. Oppressive. Powerful enough to make the entire wooden house tremble.

“I felt something fall across the border after the explosion. It should be somewhere in this direction.”

A woman in a blue robe hovered roughly ten meters above the roof, suspended in the air with effortless control.

“But there is nothing unusual here,” said another voice—a woman in yellow robes.

“That’s what makes it strange,” the woman in blue replied. “I cannot be mistaken.”

“Let’s question the people nearby and find out what happened,” the yellow-robed woman said.

Hearing their voices from inside the room, Alex felt a cold sweat break across his skin.

They descended from the sky and stepped onto the ground.

Then they began walking toward the house.

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