[{"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-956":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},1242500,1669,"Chapter 956: Don’t destroy her","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-956",956,"\u003Cp>Ethan’s breathing hitched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This thing’s defenses were already beyond common sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thalorien’s Worldheart Crystal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the spatial shockwaves—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>none of it had actually hurt it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t just \"hard.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was some deeper protective mechanism, something built into its existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan pulled up the system immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Re-scanning target...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The interface unfolded in a flash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monster’s structure appeared in his vision as layers of energy: bone, muscle, bloodline flow—everything laid bare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the next second—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the system flagged an anomaly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Location—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>its mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan’s pupils tightened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That wasn’t a normal wound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an extremely unstable energy fault line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like some force was pushing outward from inside, warping the body from within—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>making the spatial structure misalign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t \"cracked.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>connected to the inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Found you,\" Ethan muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He steadied his breathing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dropped his center of gravity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Power gathered inside him again—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then burst.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body turned into a bolt of lightning, shooting straight for the monster’s mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beast seemed to sense the danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It snapped its jaws shut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan slammed directly into that energy fault line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant he made contact—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>everything around him changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not swallowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Transferred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A heartbeat later, he was standing in a space he’d never seen before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No organs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Space stretching out endlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dark red energy drifted everywhere like slow-burning mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the space itself seemed to breathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan understood immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t the monster’s \"stomach.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was its core space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thalorien and the other Thalaryn warriors surged in through the rupture as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They froze too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is...\" Thalorien’s voice came out tight with shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A spatial container,\" he said softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This monster... is just a shell.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan didn’t answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he’d already seen it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the very center of the space—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a figure hovered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A little girl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked around ten years old at most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her long hair floated in the energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes were shut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Around her body, countless purple-red strands of energy coiled like threads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That power kept spreading outward—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>held the entire space together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan’s heart slammed once, hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soulforce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He recognized it instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was something more fundamental than ordinary energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t just strengthen the body—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it reached straight into reality and rewrote it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it went out of control—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the entire undersea world would collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the girl’s eyes slowly opened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That wasn’t a child’s gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the kind of look that felt like it had crossed endless ages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at Ethan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only pure instinct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>her power fully unleashed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Purple-red Soulforce erupted outward like a star going supernova.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind her, energy condensed at terrifying speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forming a gigantic phantom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A phoenix.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wings spread wide enough to blanket the entire space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flames burned between its feathers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not ordinary fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Undying flame—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a kind of existence that simply would not go out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan’s body took a step back on instinct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not because he wanted to retreat—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but because his soul was screaming at him to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was undying flame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Phoenix fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment that Soulforce-forged phoenix spread its wings, the temperature in the entire space spiked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flames weren’t burning the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were burning reality itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan’s breathing turned heavy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in his mind, an old image surfaced—distant, but sharp enough to hurt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Phoenix Queen Ignara.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first time she unleashed phoenix flame...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the whole sky burned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mountains melted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oceans boiled away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he’d been forced to stand far off, watching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unable to get close.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unable to resist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That wasn’t a gap in strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a gap in essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Phoenix flame was undying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It couldn’t be extinguished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Couldn’t be destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could only be—matched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan shoved the instinctive fear down by force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His hand slid into his storage space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he pulled out a gemstone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gold-blue, its surface laced with fine frost-like patterns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant it appeared—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the air congealed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not because it got colder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because it stopped moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thalorien’s pupils contracted hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could feel it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside that gem was an extreme, primal source of ice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan said quietly, \"I found this at the polar core of a Plane World.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Frozen World Core.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t explain further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There wasn’t time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Phoenix flame was already surging in to swallow him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan slammed the gemstone against his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it sank into his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An unimaginable cold detonated inside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His blood began to freeze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frost crawled over his bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His breath came out in white fog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Agony tore through him in a single wave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Ethan didn’t stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he knew—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>only if he became ice itself...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>could he touch phoenix flame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cold spread fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Covering his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His shoulders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His arms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until a full suit of crystalline ice armor formed over him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Phoenix fire lunged again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it didn’t devour him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant it touched the ice crystals—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little girl’s pupils snapped tight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s impossible...\" she whispered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Phoenix flame... can’t be frozen...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan didn’t answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because his body was right on the edge of collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he kept this up—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he and that gem would end up as a real ice statue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only gamble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gamble that this one strike—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>would end everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan burst forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Phoenix fire raged around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ice and flame clashed violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Space cracked, then iced over, again and again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And finally—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he broke through the fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He appeared right in front of the girl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reached out—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and grabbed her shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cold spread instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The girl’s body began to freeze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time, fear flickered in her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you, exactly?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t understand it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could an ordinary lifeform control ice at this level?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A slow curve touched Ethan’s mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t a victor’s smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the kind you wore when you’d just won a coin-flip with your life on the line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He released every last shred of ice power in his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cold erupted completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The girl was sealed in solid frost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind her, the phoenix phantom let out a silent, wordless wail—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire core space fell into dead silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan’s breathing was heavy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ice still coated his arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the little girl was frozen through and through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The phoenix phantom had solidified behind her, like an ancient statue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked like it was over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan stepped forward, slow and deliberate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was ready to finish it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a voice sounded from inside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not through his ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It appeared directly in the depths of his consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t destroy her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The voice was low, steady, and unmistakably clear.\u003C\u002Fp>",1116,"2026-06-05T15:15:58.682Z",1,"novelbin.me","5e569374bf2a375c908a820736ca4279e7f8c5ac362703214836fdfc2999aca2","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-957","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-955",1138,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmystic-calling-stone-of-glory-cover.jpg"]