[{"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-927":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},1242383,1669,"Chapter 927: The Phoenix Didn’t Even Get to Scream","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-927",927,"\u003Cp>The Gemward Tribe exploded into chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Impossible!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s ancient magic—we haven’t seen it in centuries! How the hell could an outsider pull it off?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The crystal on his forehead... that’s aking’s mark!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t tell me... was he chosen by the land itself?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fear. Rage. Confusion. It spread through their ranks like wildfire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Enough!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A furious voice tore through the uproar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He killed our chief! I don’t care who or what he is—that’s a death sentence!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rational thought evaporated, buried under swelling hatred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The warriors moved almost in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each one reached inside their robes or armor and pulled out a jagged, golden crystal—not quite gemstone, not quite artifact. More like a chunk of energy itself, raw and dangerously unstable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surface shimmered with deep rips in space, like the crystal was distorting reality just by existing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t hesitate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They hurled them skyward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gold shards fused mid-air—magnetized by something unseen—pulling together until they became a single, massive, radiant core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All at once, every warrior poured their power into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The worldscreamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A burst of raw, devastating force detonated above them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And from the sky, a vast spectral form began to take shape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A bird.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Broad-winged, glowing in eerie shades of phantom blue, its body wreathed in cold flame. It opened its beak in silence as if crying out from worlds deeper than this one—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A phoenix born of void and vengeance descended upon the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan inhaled slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thick pressure pressed down from above, like the very air was being crushed by invisible hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His own energy no longer simply flowed—itsurged, flooding outward like an uncontainable tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above him, the crystal in his forehead pulsed once, then lifted gently from his skin to float into the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A breath later—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dark aura erupted from the core of the hovering gem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not shadow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something deeper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A kind of darkness that devoured light. A pit without a bottom. A truth the world itself seemed to flinch from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan stepped back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then launched forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in that instant, he ceased to be a man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body merged completely with the dark energy spilling from the mark. What moved wasn’t muscle—it was raw force given form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM—!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pressure that hit the battlefield was immense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Space cracked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Air ripped like torn fabric. Thin fissures laced through the sky itself, lines where reality had no strength to hold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Gemward warriors, weapons raised, barely had time to brace—let alone attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before they could even move again, Ethan was there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right in front of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lifted a hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just one finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And pointed up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No blast. No flare. Not even a sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the result—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spectral sky-phoenix shattered on contact like brittle glass, splintering into fragments of light, its death silent and instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The release of force that followed expanded outward like a storm out of control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in that tide wassomething worsethan destruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Erasure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Space didn’t just break—it disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Screams caught in throats and never made it out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some warriors were ripped limb from limb—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others? They didn’t leave a body behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not a drop of blood. Not a ripple of energy. They were justgone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the storm settled...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silence fell like a tomb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battlefield was a graveyard of ash, shattered earth, and stunned survivors locked in place, pale and shaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None dared move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None dared speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, slowly, one of the stronger warriors—a man taller and broader than the rest—stepped forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t lift his weapon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t puff up his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He dropped to his knees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In both hands, he held a faintly glowing gem—steady, but dim. He laid it at Ethan’s feet like an offering to a god.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"From this moment on,\" the man said, voice shaking with fear and surrender, \"I... I pledge myself to you. Please... spare my life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That shattered whatever pride the rest had left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A second person dropped to their knees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then a third.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A fourth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining Gemward warriors fell, heads bowed low, each placing their own crystal before Ethan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those weren’t trophies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They werelife cores—personal power sources bound to their very essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Giving them up wasn’t just surrender.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasabandoning everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their legacy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their right to fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their choice to kneel was the clearest message possible:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You win. We belong to you now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan watched the scene unfold in total silence, his expression unreadable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When no one else moved, he finally raised a hand—and with a subtle pulse of power, every gemstone at his feet flew toward him, spinning once in the air before vanishing into his storage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he turned, walking straight toward an old man with long, silver-white hair and a trembling frame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is this all that’s left of your tribe?\" Ethan asked calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elder froze as though struck. He didn’t dare lift his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With shaking hands, he drew a pitch-black stone from inside his robe and lightly tapped its surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flicker of light sparked from the stone, projecting a detailed topographic map into the air above them—contours of mountains outlined in glowing lines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our people have lived in these mountains for generations,\" the man said in a low, cautious voice. \"Many of them dwell in caves scattered across the range. They rarely come down... and have little contact with the core settlement.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan studied the glowing marks on the map, his eyes narrowing with interest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Judging by the distribution, the terrain between those cave clusters... likely housed an abundant spread of energy ore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he took it all—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would fuel a force the likes of which this world had never seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Take me there,\" Ethan said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, after a pause, his voice turned cold—just a thread of threat beneath the words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe if I’m in a generous mood... you’ll live to see tomorrow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one argued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining Gemward warriors moved immediately, leading Ethan in the direction of the nearby mountains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Stoneclaw Tribe followed in silence. None of them spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not after what they’d seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that display of power, Ethan was no longer just a man in their eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was something greater.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In their oldest myths,only godscould dissolve into particles... and consume another’s essence completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, before them, that myth breathed and walked and destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The march didn’t take long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before sunset, they arrived at the foot of a jagged cliffside that looked anything but natural.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire mountain face had been cleaved down the middle—clean and smooth, like a god’s axe had struck it from the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rock wall towered high and steep, slick as glass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Totally unscalable by ordinary means.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there—lining the sheer cliffside—dotting it from base to summit were dozens, maybe hundreds, of shadowed cave mouths, each varying in size and depth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People moved inside them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The true heart of the Gemward Tribe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their hidden nest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan took it all in at a glance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he stepped back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body began to dissolve again, breaking into fine light-particles, scattering like wind-swept dust—then shooting upward, hugging the cliff face as they flew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within moments, the particles reformed inside one of the larger caves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Ethan stood whole again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The interior was compact but dense with energy. It clung to the walls like mist. Thick. Oppressive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in the center stood a man—an enormous Gemward warrior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body was inlaid with so many golden gemstones they looked like theywerehis bones. Every single one was fused to him, embedded deep into muscle and skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the center of his chest pulsed a blood-red gem the size of a fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It beat—literally—slow and steady, like an exposed heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the lesser gemstones on his body streamed energy toward that single red core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was his center. His lifeline, his power source.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The warrior’s eyes shot up the moment Ethan materialized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His face froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then shifted—to rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who the hell are you?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He grabbed a massive staff from the wall beside him, baring his teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You dare invade my sacred grounds?! You begging to die?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swung.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The staff howled through the air, fast and brutal.\u003C\u002Fp>",1349,"2026-06-05T15:15:54.167Z",1,"novelbin.me","5bcc68ad45d8353caa231c3a602d6d1951a45e8ec3c66770a963771ad62dc6c8","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-928","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-926",1138,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmystic-calling-stone-of-glory-cover.jpg"]