[{"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-963":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},1242507,1669,"Chapter 963 963: Heavenly Demon Lightning","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-963",963,"\u003Cp>Right as the arguing hit its peak—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Vmmm.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A low, heavy hum rolled out from the center of the fleet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn't sound like machinery. It sounded like space itself groaning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second, the air twisted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fleet's center looked like it got wrung by an invisible hand. The atmosphere creased with visible folds, and a tear slowly opened. A towering, middle-aged man stepped out of the rift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No flashy entrance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just one step after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as he emerged, that unnatural force spread like a shadow. Cracks bloomed through the surrounding space—dense and spiderweb-fine—as if the world's \"skin\" would split open the moment he brushed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every Nexaris commander's voice dropped instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because that wasn't a weapon. It wasn't an energy cannon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was something higher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A presence that made the rules around him feel… brittle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stopped and looked down over the sea. His voice wasn't loud, yet it carried an undeniable pressure, crisp enough to ring across the entire battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Which one of you is in charge here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lifted his chin slightly, tone as casual as if he were asking for directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Step out. Now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air went dead silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan's pupils tightened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn't expected the thing that walked out of that spatial tear to be this domineering—no questions, no probing, not even a glance at the situation. One sentence, and it was like he'd already decided he owned this place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like the world was supposed to kneel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The atmosphere grew heavy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The power rolling off him wasn't like lightning—wild and violent—or like flame—blazing and bright. It was something more unsettling: pure oppression. The instinctive pressure of a higher life-form bearing down on something \"lesser.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan's power reacted on its own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not by retreating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By pushing back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his figure vanished from where he stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An air-splitting sonic crack tore open the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan shot upward, hovering between the fleet and the ocean, planting himself in front of everyone like a wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His Powered Combat Armor fully unfolded. The energy lines on the black plating lit up one by one, the core reactor giving off a deep, resonant thrum. An invisible field expanded, wrapping him head to toe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Violent force pulsed from him like a storm, wave after wave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stared straight at the middle-aged man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No flinching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm the lord of Emerald Castle.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan's voice wasn't loud, but it cut clean through the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tilted his head slightly, eyes flicking over the man's warped biology—bones shaped into a bull-like skull, an irregular crystal embedded in his forehead, and a tail extending from the base of his spine with an unmistakably nonhuman curve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But I'm curious,\" Ethan went on, coldness sharp and unapologetic. \"How does a guy with a cow's head and a monkey tail evolve into… whatever the hell this is?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"ROAR—!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man unleashed a thunderous bellow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not ordinary anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The kind of fury that came from being insulted by something he considered beneath him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His hand snapped up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood-red energy condensed in his palm. Particles in the air were violently ripped toward it, forced together into a highly compressed sphere in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surface of the orb warped and churned, like it was holding some struggling, caged destruction inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tiny fissures began to appear in the space around it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn't a normal attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a compression core that could erase a city-level target in a heartbeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he was one step too slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan was already moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No warning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No charging sequence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He flashed in like a bolt of lightning, appearing right in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, the Powered Combat Armor's core hit full output. Every element inside Ethan—lightning, Infernal Essence, Primordial fragments—collapsed into his right fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air screamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he punched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant his fist met the blood-red orb, space itself seemed to stall for a split second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the orb collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not an explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A shatter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like glass, cracking from the inside until it came apart in pieces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan's punch didn't stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It drove straight into the man's chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BAM!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A heavy impact rang through the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man's body jerked backward. The space beneath him fractured in layers, and clear cracks spread across his armor plating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time, shock flashed in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's impossible…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice came out low and warped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You're just a life-form from a low-tier Plane World…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How could you possess energy on this level?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan didn't answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because right then… he was stunned too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could feel it clearly—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the power behind that punch\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was way beyond his normal output.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>in the instant he struck,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>something inside him\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>woke up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A strand of white lightning surfaced from inside his arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't normal lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No elemental fluctuations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No energy spillover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was more like—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>lightning in its origin form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That white lightning raced along his nervous system, spreading fast, touching every power source inside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it fused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not devouring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not overwriting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fusing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Infernal Essence, Primordial fragments, elemental energy—everything that had existed as separate, independent forces just got linked by that white lightning, forming a complete, circulating loop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan's breath caught.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On instinct, he threw another punch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the white lightning erupted completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lightning speared straight through the man's body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the middle-aged man convulsed violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The white lightning burrowed into him like something alive, tearing apart his energy structure in a frenzy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Leader!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Nexaris soldiers around him panicked instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They'd never seen anything like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several of them rushed in and forcibly dragged him back toward the fleet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment they touched him—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"AAAGH—!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The white lightning spread along the contact points in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Screams rang out one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had to let go immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan didn't pursue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He backed away slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he could feel it—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the change wasn't done.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The white lightning was reconstructing everything inside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Idra and Auri within him—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>their energy was starting to merge with that white lightning too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like this power…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was the real core all along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan immediately pulled up his system interface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The numbers refreshed like they'd gone insane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And finally—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a brand-new energy designation appeared:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heavenly Demon Lightning\u003C\u002Fp>",1046,"2026-06-05T15:15:58.682Z",1,"novelbin.me","093101177379177c3b96298a784ec79a10d9024ab0f10fef4356fddf82107213","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-964","mystic-calling-stone-of-glory-chapter-962",1138,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmystic-calling-stone-of-glory-cover.jpg"]