[{"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-955":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},1242499,1669,"Chapter 955 955: The Ocean Belongs to Me","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-955",955,"\u003Cp>Ethan frowned slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who the hell is that thing?\" he asked under his breath. \"In these waters, aren't you supposed to be the absolute rulers?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thalorien fell silent for a beat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he slowly shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We're the rulers of the deep sea.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But we're not the only ones down here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze locked onto the colossal beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the deep, there are many ancient races.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They have no civilization.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No order.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And no reason.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He paused, his voice dropping even lower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Abyssal Serpents.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan looked back at the monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now the name actually fit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its body was a fusion of two apex predators—built wrong in a way that still made perfect sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They carry the blood of both sea serpents and the deep-sea shark clans,\" Thalorien went on. \"Extremely primitive. Extremely dangerous.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our ancestors tried to guide them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But it failed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They reject all rule.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If anything, that kind of race interested him more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The less \"tamed\" a species was, the more likely it was to retain something raw and pure at its core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately opened a system scan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Scanning target…]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Species: Abyssal Serpents]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Energy Tier: High]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Bloodline composition detected…]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the interface jittered with an abnormal ripple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan's pupils tightened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides the sea serpent bloodline and the shark bloodline—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>there was a third force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A purple-red energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn't flow like water-element power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt more like smoldering embers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heavy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stifling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan instantly thought of someone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Desert Queen Kaelira.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That aura—almost identical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just more primal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More violent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A slow smile tugged at Ethan's mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Since this is my first time paying a visit,\" he said, \"I should bring a little gift.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the last word even landed—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his right hand clenched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air collapsed inward toward his palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Energy gathered fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Condensed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until it formed a massive battle-axe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blade gleamed a dark gold, and the space along its edge warped faintly, like reality couldn't quite sit still around it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next instant—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan vanished from where he stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The seawater detonated outward as he appeared right in front of the monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battle-axe came down with annihilating force!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beast didn't dodge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Didn't even defend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It simply lifted an arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the axe-blade met its scales—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>THUD!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A suffocating, heavy impact rolled through the entire deep sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A shockwave exploded outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the space around them began to crack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not cracks in the water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actual fractures in space itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black fissures spread through the sea like shattered glass, spidering out in jagged lines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something unfamiliar seeped out from deep within those rifts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ancient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Completely foreign to this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan felt the danger in his bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he didn't stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he'd realized something even more shocking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His strike—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>hadn't done any real damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That axe, strong enough to cleave through Titan-class defenses—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>had only left a faint white mark on the monster's scales.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan's teeth ground together with a sharp, audible click.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not from anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His arm was still locked in the follow-through of the swing, but he could feel it clearly—the recoil traveling back from the axe-blade, crawling up his bones and leaving his muscles buzzing and numb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He'd never run into this before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Titan-class defenses couldn't fully stop his attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this monster—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beast slowly dipped its head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those dark yellow pupils pinned Ethan in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just a raw, instinctive contempt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a top predator in the deep staring down prey that had wandered into the wrong territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan drew a slow breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The seawater was freezing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But inside him, something was turning molten-hot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If normal attacks won't work…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His fingers tightened, inch by inch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the power sleeping inside him was yanked fully awake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hummm—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the air began to vibrate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not from anything outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Light started bleeding off his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first it was only a faint gold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then it flared, harsh and blinding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The seawater began to pull away from him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not by currents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By evaporation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fine bubbles erupted and shot upward in a frenzy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The temperature around him was climbing—fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thalorien snapped his head around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His pupils shrank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could feel it—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan was calling up something enormous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not through a tool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not through some external artifact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Straight from his own core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His instincts screamed at him to stop it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was already too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan's power had fully broken loose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive pillar of light speared up from Ethan's body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It burned gold-white, more than a few dozen feet across, like a gigantic lance punching through sea and sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surrounding water boiled instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not metaphorically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually boiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Schools of fish scattered in blind panic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some smaller creatures didn't even get that far—just brushing the edge of the beam flash-vaporized them on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thalorien's breathing turned ragged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He'd never seen power like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn't the realm of ordinary life anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it kept going—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>all of Thalaryn's territory would be wiped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Ethan didn't stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he knew it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he pulled back now—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the one who died would be him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"End it,\" Ethan murmured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pillar of light abruptly compressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it slammed down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOM!!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire sea-region convulsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A shockwave ripped outward in every direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Space split again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time it was worse than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black rifts crawled wider, spreading like some unseen thing on the other side was trying to pry the world open—trying to peer through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thalorien's heart hammered like it was going to burst.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He finally understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he did nothing—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it wouldn't just be the monster that destroyed them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan's power would destroy everything here, too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He closed his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then snapped them open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No more hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised the snow-white gem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Worldheart Crystal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It began to glow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not a blinding radiance—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a gentle light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But inside that gentleness was a weight of power so immense it made his skin prickle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thalorien whispered in an ancient tongue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gem answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boiling stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The energy in the surrounding sea began to gather toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A huge sphere of power slowly formed in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't the force of destruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the force of dominion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thrust the sphere forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It tore through the water, streaking straight for the monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in that moment—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the monster suddenly opened its mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its voice was low and rough,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet perfectly clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tiny creatures.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whole sea seemed to resonate with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The ocean—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"belongs to me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan's pupils shrank hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which meant—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it had intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thalorien's face drained of color.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This shouldn't be possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Abyssal Serpents had never had language.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Never had civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it had evolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monster slowly lifted a hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The seawater around it began to gather.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not flowing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obeying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Energy compressed in its palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until it took shape—a massive weapon like a colossal fang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn't look like a weapon so much as a symbol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A symbol of deep-sea supremacy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It raised the fang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>brought it down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire sea seemed to be swallowed by 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