[{"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-862":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},1242418,1669,"Chapter 862: The War Inside","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-862",862,"\u003Cp>Ethan didn’t have time to dodge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two forces collided head-on—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A devastating shockwave tore across the entire ship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt like a warhammer had slammed straight into his chest. Ethan was hurled backward, his body rattling inside the armor like a ragdoll in a steel cage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Agonizing pressure ripped through every seam in the suit, clawing at him from the inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If not for the Powered Combat Armor absorbing most of the impact, his body would’ve been shredded on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He forced himself upright mid-air, stabilizing with a grunt, and immediately triggered a system scan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Target: Aurelkar]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Combat Power Rating: Tier 30 · Peak]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan’s heart sank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with the combined power of Auri and Idra, plus the full boost from the Powered Combat Armor, his current limit barely scraped Tier 30 mid-level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A straight-up fight?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No chance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Insignificant insect.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aurelkar’s voice echoed through the air, thick with contempt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You got lucky. Picked up a few scraps of power.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And you think that puts you on my level?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the words left his mouth—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body began to unravel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not explode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deconstruct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flesh, energy, and structure all broke apart into countless black particles, like a storm of suspended ash drifting in midair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each speck pulsed with faint, yet terrifyingly unstable energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air thickened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Space itself seemed to be gnawed away by something unseen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan’s pupils shrank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A pure, suffocating aura of death radiated from the particles, spreading fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instinct kicked in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He compressed all his remaining power into his palm, forming a massive Energy Disc, and hurled it with everything he had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The energy storm tore through the air—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the particles didn’t break.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They scattered like sand in the wind, only to regroup a heartbeat later, continuing their slow, relentless advance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worse—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some of them had already reached him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They struck his armor like a swarm of icy needles, forcing their way through the gaps in his energy shielding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alarms blared inside the Powered Combat Armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Warning—Unknown Corrosion Detected]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Defensive Layer Breached]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Structural Integrity Declining]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pain flared through his limbs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it wasn’t normal pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt like his body was being taken apart—cell by cell, nerve by nerve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Such a perfect vessel...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aurelkar’s voice came from everywhere at once, laced with a sick, twisted excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No wonder you could contain power at this level.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"From now on—this body belongs to me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More and more black particles clung to the armor’s surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rate of corrosion was accelerating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan could feel it—his control slipping away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Muscle response slowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Energy flow stuttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His consciousness felt like it was being dragged underwater, inch by inch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A memory fragment surfaced from deep in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back during the scan, he’d seen a specific ability tag.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Genetic Devour · Restructure]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t understood it at the time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It clicked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t just an attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A possession-level ability that deconstructed the user’s body into invasive particles, infiltrated the target, and forcibly took over their physical form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan clenched his jaw so hard his teeth scraped together with a chilling grind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d never imagined a power this twisted could even exist—something so invasive, so cruel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this kept going—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body would be dismantled, devoured, and hijacked piece by piece.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And worse—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battlefield was slipping out of control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The initial assault had thrown the Narlost forces into chaos, yes. But as the minutes ticked by, the tide was stabilizing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the Doomsday Ark’s home turf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Narlost’s energy supply was endless. Their weapon systems showed no signs of slowing down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with every Emerald Castle soldier equipped with Powered Combat Armor, they couldn’t keep this up forever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The longer the fight dragged on, the closer they edged toward defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Ethan—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was on the verge of losing the right to even keep fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His consciousness was being crushed, slowly and relentlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His limbs had gone numb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Energy flow—completely unresponsive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt like his body had become an empty house, and someone else was moving in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t even twitch a finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as despair threatened to drown him—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A surge of unfamiliar, overwhelming power erupted from deep within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t a single-element force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not dragon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not elf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not machine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was something new—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A fusion, a resonance, a layered convergence of all three.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like three rivers, each from a different world, forced to merge into one roaring current.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment it formed, it snapped tight like a net of light—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wrapping around the black particles that made up Aurelkar’s deconstructed form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant they touched it, some of the particles began to unravel—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Evaporating, disintegrating, vanishing into nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan sucked in a sharp breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A long-lost sense of fullness rushed back into his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could feel his fingers again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His heartbeat steadied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d reclaimed part of his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the power was still rising.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"AAAHHHHHHH—!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aurelkar’s scream tore through the air, shrill and warped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gone was the commanding, imperial tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now it sounded like molten metal being ripped apart—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Distorted, agonized, and laced with fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan looked down at himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black particles still clung to his armor like a living shadow, refusing to let go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they were weakening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That new hybrid force was eating away at them—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suppressing, breaking down, dissolving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then something even stranger happened—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The new energy began to resonate with the fusion modules inside the Powered Combat Armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfamiliar light patterns lit up across the internal circuits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The armor’s devour protocol activated on its own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally designed to absorb rare metals and reinforce the suit’s structure, the system now misidentified the \"particle-based lifeform\" as compatible material.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So it began to absorb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To forcibly assimilate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan felt it immediately—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A heavy, chaotic presence swelling inside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just a presence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A living thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something struggling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body had already been home to Auri and Idra for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their three-way resonance had stabilized into a balanced, coexisting system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, Aurelkar was being dragged into that closed loop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And inside Ethan—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A silent war erupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No roars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just raw energy, clashing wills, and structural dominance tearing at each other from the inside out.\u003C\u002Fp>",1029,"2026-06-05T15:15:51.880Z",1,"novelbin.me","93abb88ae89d063728a970028991749278a3250dfa148649e1378969532ca0a6","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-863","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-861",1138,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmystic-calling-stone-of-glory-cover.jpg"]