[{"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-928":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},1242384,1669,"Chapter 928: Which Makes This Easy","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-928",928,"\u003Cp>Ethan shifted his weight—one quick sidestep—and the staff strike whooshed past him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, energy surged within his core. It roared to his palm and condensed there, a growing, pulsing orb of light expanding between his fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes locked onto the blood-red gem set into the warrior’s chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he smiled—just a little.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The gemstones on your body...\" Ethan said, voice casual, almost impressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They’re beautiful.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He paused just long enough for the threat to land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good thing I plan on taking them with me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The warrior’s pupils blew wide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew exactly what those words meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gems weren’t just for show—theywerehis power, his life. If someone took that core...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body, his mind—they’d unravel. Instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dream on!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man roared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He charged, staff raised high. The runes carved into the wood lit up, glowing a sickly color that shimmered wrong in the eye—like parts of it belonged to a different reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan caught flashes of the structure—symbols linked in a tightly woven grid, not just decoration but a spelled lattice, deliberately plotted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A powerful artifact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he didn’t care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was already done analyzing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a flick of his wrist, Ethan hurled the energy orb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It whistled through the air in a tight spiral, straight and unrelenting—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And slammed dead-center into the warrior’s chest gem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRACK—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sharp snap echoed through the cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tiny fractures webbed across the gem’s surface instantly. Blinding red light spilled out like a bleeding wound, fierce and unstable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan blinked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That... was easier than expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d assumed the gem could take more punishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But one hit?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it was already coming apart?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uu... Ura... Ura-Ura...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The warrior stumbled backward. His staff trembled in both hands as he clutched it close to his chest, eyes wide enough to split.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He began chanting—fast, panicked, in some ancient tongue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Words poured out like a breakdown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The staff shuddered violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Runes peeled off the wood’s surface in writhing patterns, pulling free into midair like living things. Stretching. Warping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRAAK-K-BOOM—!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The staffburstapart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black scales erupted from the shattered core, growing at insane speed, coiling and twisting until—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive black serpent filled the cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its body was made of scales and sigils—runes embedded between armored plates like bones etched in scripture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heavy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coiled muscle wrapped in living magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air turned cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan instinctively took a step back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t seen that coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That staff hadn’tlookedlike some ancient beast-summoning relic. But here it was—some nightmare hybrid of spell and flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The serpent flicked its tongue just once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the cave trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stone cracked, chunks falling from the ceiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t just a warning display. The weight behind that one movement was enough to flatten a mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan forced himself to breathe. Forced calm through his limbs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then channeled power into his hand—quick, clean—shaping a spinning Energy Blade and sent it flying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It sliced through the air and slammed into the serpent’s side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Result?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barely a white scratch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not even deep enough to nick the scale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The serpentbared its fangs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its eyes flared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The power flowing through its runes turned molten black—like magma liquefied by void. It surged through the armor plates, building pressure in waves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan felt the heat hit his chest like a wave crashing down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This thing wasn’t just some summoned creature—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan realized it instantly—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The serpent was charging up for an attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, the black monstrosity opened its jaws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside its throat, a sphere of compressed energy began spinning fast, shrinking and pulsing with lethal force. Black as void, dense as collapsing star matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the serpent reared back to fire—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The snake froze on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its head twitched, jaw trembling around the unstable orb in its throat, searching for a target that no longer stood in front of it. The charge built and whined, dangerous and directionless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan reappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Across the cave. Behind the Gemward warrior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dead silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His energy blade was already pressed against the man’s throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well,\" Ethan murmured, just loud enough for the other to hear, \"that explains it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He finally understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That thing’s not independent.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The warrior stiffened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’recontrollingit,\" Ethan continued, voice even, almost calm. \"That serpent’s power isn’t a summon. It’s an extension ofyou.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And as long as you’re alive... it’ll keep fighting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A pause. The tension dropped like a knife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Which makes this easy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he finished speaking, the energy blade flared to life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flash of cold white light—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the man’s head dropped from his shoulders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No scream. No time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the exact same moment, every gem in the man’s body dimmed at once—like someone had yanked the power cord straight out of his soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The serpent shrieked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A raw, inhuman cry tore from its throat as its massive body convulsed, then slammed lifelessly to the stone floor of the cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its scales split open along their edges, and the glowing runes inside began leaking out like vapor—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until they pooled in the air above, swirling into a translucent black silhouette.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its face...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was identical to the headless man now crumpled on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan saw it clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That wasn’t just a phantom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was asoul imprint—the man’s essence embedded inside the beast, bound as a living anchor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan raised a hand and fired a searing bolt of energy straight through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The silhouette shattered, scattering into flickers of dark light before disintegrating completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The serpent’s body collapsed next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its massive form shrank rapidly, flesh twisting in reverse like someone rewound the summoning. It compressed, crushed inwards—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until only a wooden staff remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It hit the ground with a sharp clunk. Silence followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cave was still again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan stepped forward and picked the staff up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The runes on it hadn’t faded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, they were even clearer now—burning with a sharper luminescence, as if no longer resisting the world’s laws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A strange new energy leaked from the carvings, unfamiliar yet inviting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan’s eyes lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gripped the staff tighter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At once, the runes peeled off the wood like slivers of light, liquid and alive, flowing into his body. They raced along his skin, burrowing inward—and they didn’t resist him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They merged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Locked into place alongside the power he already wielded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The force erupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive pressure wave blasted outward from him, shaking the cave like an earthquake. The mountain groaned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that energy kept spreading—racing through the stone, surging outward, pulsing into the surrounding cave systems like veins pumping life into a corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost immediately—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Figures began to emerge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From every corner of the cliffs, from hidden tunnels, from steep crevices that lined the sheer rock wall like scars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gemward Tribe survivors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then hundreds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They strode across the vertical cliffs like it was flat ground, boots barely touching the stone, weightless yet precise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t simple movement.\u003C\u002Fp>",1145,"2026-06-05T15:15:54.167Z",1,"novelbin.me","eb3dbd0afc63a6ab49c28fba245a1b7d51e3ffb9e0a4866e2d8843a7f31f4439","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-929","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-927",1138,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmystic-calling-stone-of-glory-cover.jpg"]