Mystic Calling：Stone of Glory-Chapter 897: Power That Shouldn’t Exist

Ethan gritted his teeth, energy surging wildly through his body. In his palm, a dense energy sphere condensed in an instant—he didn't hesitate.

He launched it straight at the mechanoid.

The sphere struck the mech's chest plate dead-on.

A blinding shockwave exploded outward.

But when the light faded—

The mechanoid's armor showed only a faint white scorch mark. Its structural integrity hadn't been compromised in the slightest.

"Useless,"

Phoenix Queen Ignara stepped out of the hall, her eyes locked on the massive silhouette hanging in the sky.

"The energy at its core isn't ordinary. It's a highly compressed void-type energy. If it loses containment and spreads, it could erase an entire spatial structure."

"If it fully enters attack mode, Emerald Castle won't last long."

Ethan's pupils narrowed.

"Then how do we destroy it?"

Ignara raised her hand. Blood-red flames surged in her palm, the air around her heating instantly. The edges of space began to ripple.

The fire radiated a pure, ancient aura—destruction and purification in one.

"Only Undying Flame at the highest tier can unravel its core."

But her voice was tight, strained.

"And in my current state, I can't summon the full form of that flame."

Ethan could feel it clearly. The fire she was releasing now was only on par with Solara's—not nearly enough to threaten the mechanoid's core.

Even so, he didn't hesitate.

He immediately mobilized Emerald Castle's forces.

Dozens of elite powerhouses launched simultaneous attacks. Energy torrents shot into the sky like a storm, hammering down on the mechanoid from every angle.

Explosions. Light. Shockwaves layered over one another.

But when the smoke cleared—

The mechanoid was still there, hovering in place, untouched.

It was as if every attack had been absorbed, neutralized by some kind of stabilized spatial field.

Ethan's frown deepened.

If this kept up, their defenses would eventually collapse.

Then—

A cold, bone-white force suddenly stirred from deep within him.

It wasn't an external invasion. It felt like something that had always been there, dormant at the edge of his consciousness—now awakened by the dense energy environment around him.

Ethan's body jolted.

A biting chill raced down his spine. His breathing shifted involuntarily. His eyes began to glow with a strange, calm light.

Then a voice—low, unfamiliar—echoed in his mind.

"Emerald Castle's energy density… is impressive."

"To think I could recover this much in such a short time."

A pause. Then the voice turned amused, almost analytical.

"Still, this body of yours… far too fragile."

"Unworthy of my true power."

Ethan's mind remained crystal clear.

He could sense everything—the tremble in the air, the low-frequency hum of the mechanoid's systems, the energy pulses rippling from the city walls.

But his body was no longer his.

He couldn't lift a hand. Couldn't turn his head. Couldn't even control his breathing.

There was only one thing he knew for sure—

The one in control now was Lily.

And despite the discomfort of being locked out of his own body, Ethan forced himself to stay calm.

At least for now, Lily wasn't showing any hostility. In fact, she seemed to be fighting for Emerald Castle.

Meanwhile, that bone-white energy had fully spread.

It wasn't fiery. It wasn't violent like lightning. It was something else—extremely stable, extremely pure. Within its radius, the air thickened, and space itself seemed to shift, as if being rewritten.

The mechanoid caught in its field began to falter.

Its core energy destabilized. The once-stable void-type structure started to unravel—breaking down, fragmenting, collapsing like a sandcastle stripped of its foundation.

And then—

The massive mechanical body disintegrated without a sound.

It crumbled into fine metallic dust, scattering slowly into the sky.

Ethan's heart nearly skipped a beat.

He knew exactly how terrifying that mechanoid's defenses were—and yet Lily had dismantled it completely, just by extending her aura.

This wasn't power in any conventional sense.

If he still had control of his body, he might've blurted something out right then and there.

Phoenix Queen Ignara, however, had no idea what was really happening.

From her perspective, everything she'd just witnessed was Ethan's doing.

For the first time, her eyes showed something she couldn't hide—shock.

Until now, she'd believed only Undying Flame could counter void-type structures. But what she'd just seen shattered that belief completely.

And before anyone could even process what had happened—

The sky trembled again.

The clouds were torn apart by an even larger energy surge. A dense swarm of shadows emerged overhead.

An entire mechanoid army.

So many that they blotted out the sky, spreading into formation across the upper atmosphere. Their propulsion arrays activated in perfect sync, creating a crushing wall of steel that loomed like a mechanical storm front.

Several of the core units radiated energy signatures even stronger than the one that had just been destroyed.

This wasn't a probe.

This was a full-scale annihilation strike.

Lily's power hadn't faded yet.

Still in control of Ethan's body, she rose into the air. That bone-white energy spread again, expanding outward like an invisible, absolute domain that swallowed the entire sky above Emerald Castle.

The mechanoids had just begun to execute their attack protocols—but the moment the domain touched them—

Their cores destabilized instantly.

Targeting systems, comms, weapon modules—everything failed in rapid succession.

Before they could react, multiple units disintegrated midair, turning to ash and debris that rained down like metallic snow.

In seconds, entire swaths of sky were cleared.

From a distance, Drake watched—and completely lost his composure.

His pupils shrank. His face went pale.

"No… impossible…" he muttered. "A mere Plane World… how could it possess power on this level…"

At that moment, Ethan's body tilted slightly in the air—graceful, unfamiliar. The movement carried a presence that clearly wasn't his.

He raised a hand, fingers brushing through the air as if feeling the lingering flow of energy.

"This flavor of power…" The voice that came from his throat was layered—both male and female, overlapping in eerie harmony. "It's been a long time."

"But it's not enough."

"I need more."

That inhuman calm—and the hunger beneath it—sent a chill straight down Drake's spine.

He jerked back, putting distance between himself and the battlefield, while channeling every ounce of power into his palm.

A massive energy sphere formed instantly, thunder crackling inside it, space warping faintly at the edges.

No hesitation.

Drake hurled it with everything he had.

BOOM—!!!

A blinding explosion swallowed the entire sky.