Mystic Calling：Stone of Glory-Chapter 908: Where the Homeless Go

Only then did Ethan fully understand.

They weren’t invaders—they were refugees, here to seek shelter.

He didn’t hesitate. He immediately ordered the gates opened and had the entire group brought inside for emergency resettlement.

And the moment they laid eyes on Phoenix Queen Ignara, the dam broke.

"Your Majesty... we finally found you!"

"There are still other vassal states trying to make it here, but... so many died on the way..."

Ignara looked at their gaunt, hollowed-out faces, and a flicker of pain crossed her eyes.

She gave the order at once—food, water, shelter. Everything they needed, no questions asked.

Ethan stayed just long enough to make sure the resettlement was running smoothly. Then he turned to head back to the main keep to resume work on the defense grid.

But before he could take a step—

A deep, grinding boom echoed from above.

Like bedrock being torn apart.

The air trembled violently. A crushing pressure slammed down from the sky, thick and suffocating.

Everyone instinctively looked up.

The sky had split open.

A massive figure was falling through the rift, descending slowly like a mountain dropped from the heavens.

A Stone Golem.

Its body was a walking fortress of ancient rock, etched with glowing runes. Every step it took sent tremors through the earth.

"I knew it," the giant rumbled, voice like thunder rolling across the plains.

"So that’s why the rats were all scurrying this way."

"They found a real shelter."

"Well then—"

"From this moment on, all of you belong to me."

A violent surge of energy erupted from the Stone Golem’s core. The air twisted. The sky darkened under the weight of his aura.

He raised one massive hand. A swirling energy sphere began to form in his palm, spinning faster and faster.

He was going to wipe the entire area clean in one shot.

But—

Just as the energy sphere reached critical mass—

A streak of light tore across the sky.

With a thunderous crack, a devastating punch slammed into the Stone Golem’s chest.

The impact sent the giant flying backward, flipping through the air before crashing into the distant hills with a ground-shaking boom.

Elira hovered in midair, steady and unshaken.

Behind her, a pair of massive, radiant Divine Sovereign Moth wings unfurled, shimmering with flowing light. Her eyes burned with fury.

"What the hell are you supposed to be?"

"You think you can throw your weight around in Emerald Castle?"

The Stone Golem staggered upright, glancing down at the cracked crater in his chest and the shattered chunks of stone falling from his body.

His pupils shrank.

For the first time, he realized—

This so-called low-tier Plane World wasn’t nearly as weak as he’d assumed.

"You... you’re the ruler here?" he asked, voice uncertain.

Elira shot the Stone Golem a cold, dismissive glance.

"Trash like you?"

"My master doesn’t waste time on insects."

"I’m more than enough to tear you apart."

Before the last word even left her lips, energy surged in her palm, condensing fast and sharp.

The next strike—she wasn’t holding back.

The Stone Golem’s pupils shrank in terror.

For the first time, fear drowned out his arrogance.

He could feel it—this seemingly delicate girl held a power far beyond his comprehension. It wasn’t just raw strength. It was control. Absolute dominion over space itself.

Acting on pure instinct, he unleashed a spatial ripple from deep within his core, trying to tear open a rift and escape.

The air trembled violently.

The edges of space began to twist and warp.

But before the rift could fully form—

Elira’s aura exploded outward.

A crushing, invisible force blanketed the sky like a dome of pressure. The spatial distortions were instantly flattened, compressed, sealed shut before they could stabilize.

The Stone Golem felt like he’d been shoved into a shrinking cage.

Even moving a single step became a struggle.

"You came all this way," Elira said coolly, her voice like frost, "so don’t even think about running."

"Let your power feed this land."

The moment the words fell—

Her energy detonated.

The air compressed like it was being hammered by an invisible titan. The Stone Golem’s massive body groaned under the pressure, cracks spiderwebbing across his stone armor.

A second later, he shattered.

Chunks of rock and scattered energy burst into the air, raining down like dust.

Silence fell over the battlefield.

But before the shockwave had even fully faded—

Another low rumble rolled in from the distance.

The sky trembled again.

One after another, massive figures emerged from fresh spatial rifts—dozens of them.

More Stone Golems.

Each one nearly identical in size and energy signature to the first.

A full hunting party.

Elira’s expression didn’t flicker.

If anything, her gaze turned colder.

She raised her hand—and the sky collapsed.

A tidal wave of energy surged down like a falling world, sealing the entire airspace in an instant.

The new arrivals didn’t even have time to process what was happening.

The pressure hit them like a divine hammer.

Cracks split across their stone bodies. Two of them were crushed into powder before they could even roar.

The rest broke.

Terror shattered their will.

They dropped to their knees midair, massive bodies trembling uncontrollably.

One of the larger Stone Golems—clearly the leader—crawled forward, dragging himself to Elira’s feet. His voice shook with panic and desperation.

"Please... have mercy..."

"We didn’t come to conquer..."

"Our world’s energy is gone—completely drained. If we stayed, we’d die..."

"We just wanted to find a place to survive..."

"Please... give us shelter..."

Elira’s eyes stayed cold. The killing intent hadn’t faded.

To her, anyone who dared trespass on Emerald Castle’s land had already crossed the line.

She was ready to end it.

But then—

A figure appeared beside her.

Ethan raised a hand, signaling her to hold.

"Easy," he said calmly.

His gaze swept over the trembling Stone Golems, steady and unreadable.

"They’ve already paid the price."

"If they really came here to survive—not to invade—then we can give them a chance."

"As long as they follow the rules from now on, we’ll let this go."

His words hit like a lifeline.

The Stone Golems dropped flat to the ground, slamming their foreheads into the dirt. The sound of stone striking stone echoed in waves, their fear giving way to raw gratitude.

One of them carefully reached into his chest and pulled out a stone tablet etched with coordinate runes. He offered it to Ethan with both hands, reverent.

"This is the location of our original world."

"There are still many of our kind there... on the brink of extinction."

"If it’s possible... could they come too?"