[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-mystic-calling-stone-of-glory":3,"chapter-mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-749":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Mystic Calling：Stone of Glory",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1242355,1669,"Chapter 749 749: That’s Mine!","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-749",749,"\u003Cp>Ethan collapsed to his knees, body convulsing violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The golden light pouring from the energy sphere seared his vision, blinding him with its intensity. Every breath felt like fire in his lungs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this was it…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The source of the High Lord's power?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was seconds from blacking out when—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A streak of green light shot past him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feylora.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No—!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reached out instinctively, but she was already gone, hurling herself toward the golden core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn't hesitate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She pressed her palm straight into the sphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>VMMMM—!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—something impossible happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That world-shredding, god-scorching energy—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Didn't explode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It responded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The power twisted inward, forming a vortex around her hand, as if recognizing her. As if obeying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It began to pour into her body like a spring bursting open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan's eyes went wide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could absorb it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kind of power?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the cost was immediate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feylora's voice cracked, trembling with agony. \"Master… I—I can't hold it…!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan surged forward, grabbing her shoulders before she collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM—!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he touched her, the energy she'd begun to filter—refined, condensed, no longer raw chaos—rushed into him like a flood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thump!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thump!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thump!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Power detonated through his limbs, his bones, his blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It burned. It tore. It rebuilt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time—he held.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The emptiness inside him was gone, replaced by a roaring tide of strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Auri and Idra, who had been on the brink of unconsciousness, were jolted awake by the surge. Their forms stabilized, their Tiers climbing visibly as golden energy flooded them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feylora's body trembled, but the vortex inside her began to settle, shifting into a steady, self-sustaining flow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her expression eased, the pain fading from her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had become a conduit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the power—limitless, divine—was now flowing straight into Ethan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could feel it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His entire body thrummed with energy, every cell lit up like a star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, a thought struck him—sharp, electric.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder the High Lord never ran dry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is it. This is the core of the Sky Citadel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened his system interface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scan confirmed it instantly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Golden Energy Sphere (Floor 99) = Primary Power Core of Sky Citadel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If destroyed, entire structure will collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan's heart pounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wilder idea took hold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the High Lord had bound himself to the Sky Citadel's power…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then what if I took control of the core?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if I stole it from him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't hesitate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He leapt forward and thrust his hand into the golden sphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>VMMMM—!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>VMMMM—!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>VMMMM—!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light surged into him like a tidal wave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan's entire body convulsed as the golden energy surged into him—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time, something changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The core didn't just pour power into him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It resonated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The energy didn't fight him. It responded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It recognized him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The golden current roared through his veins, not as a flood to drown him, but as a force to wield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn't just absorbing it anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was becoming—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The core's master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan steadied his breath, heart pounding like a war drum. He focused, forcing his will into the torrent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Open—!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a roar, he unleashed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The golden energy, now bound to his command, exploded outward like a sunburst.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that same moment—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battle on the 98th floor had reached its breaking point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Emerald Castle forces were barely holding on, their lines collapsing, their strength nearly spent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Defeat was seconds away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky tore open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens—no, hundreds—of golden energy strands rained down from above, weaving through the air like divine threads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They wrapped around the Emerald Castle warriors, one by one, like blessings from the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Power surged into them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wave after wave of pure, radiant energy flowed through the golden cords and into their bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What… what is this?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This aura—it's like the High Lord's!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No… it's purer. Stronger!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The soldiers stared at each other, stunned—then elated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time, the High Lord's expression cracked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His face went pale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No… impossible. That power—it's coming from the 99th floor?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And worse—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was stronger than his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Emerald Castle army's strength skyrocketed. Their Tiers surged. Their battle cries rose like thunder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They went from the edge of death—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To unstoppable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire 98th floor of the Sky Citadel began to tremble under the weight of their resurgence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sky Citadel soldiers froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just moments ago, the Emerald Castle warriors had been on the brink of annihilation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now they were blazing like falling stars reborn—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Power erupting, auras flaring, every one of them breaking through the chains of death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The High Lord finally understood something was very, very wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He snapped his head upward, staring at the golden light boiling across the ceiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And for the first time—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fear flickered in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No… without a conversion device, no one can absorb the 99th floor's energy. That boy—how is he doing it?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sky Citadel soldiers didn't understand what he meant by \"conversion device.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they understood one thing:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That power—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was supposed to be his alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before they could react—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The High Lord vanished in a streak of golden light, drawn by the pull of the core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could still access the 99th floor—briefly—thanks to his binding with the Citadel's power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the moment he crossed the threshold—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan stood beneath the golden core, bathed in its light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feylora knelt before it, her hand pressed to its surface, channeling the energy that once belonged to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"STOP!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The High Lord's roar shook the entire floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's mine! Do you hear me?! Get away from it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blinded by rage, he summoned his holy sword and hurled himself forward, slashing down at Ethan with all his might.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The golden core pulsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A shockwave burst outward, swatting the High Lord from the air like a fly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was hurled backward, flung out of the 99th floor entirely—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without even grazing Ethan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn't even touched the blade to the air around them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason was simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feylora's body was a natural energy converter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how wild or violent the golden energy was, once it passed through her, it was purified—refined into something Ethan could absorb without harm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the key.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The High Lord, by contrast, relied on a mechanical conversion device—complex, artificial, and ultimately flawed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could draw power, yes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it couldn't tame it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only survive brief exposure to the 99th floor's core before being forced to retreat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could never resonate with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Never command it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So when he tried to reclaim it—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The core rejected him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because now, it had a new master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>",1106,"2026-06-05T15:15:48.805Z",1,"novelbin.me","553fe6c9c825e6851acf68b69bef409a72bcef3de2b41c104eda5d72fe91ea54","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-750","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-748",1138,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmystic-calling-stone-of-glory-cover.jpg"]