Mystic Calling：Stone of Glory-Chapter 968: Beyond the Broken Veil

Meanwhile—

Somewhere deep in a pocket of space far from the Nether Sea.

There was no sky. No ground.

Just endless void.

A tall, middle-aged man floated there. His head had the structure of an elephant's—heavy, alien, unmistakable. Across his skin ran ancient, intricate patterns. Each line pulsed with slow-releasing power, warping the space around him like heat haze made solid.

He didn't move.

Yet the entire expanse seemed to revolve around him.

"So," he said, voice low and unhurried, "you dispatched multiple armies, taking turns attacking."

He paused slightly.

"And you were driven back… by something from a low-tier Plane World?"

His gaze dropped forward.

Several Nexaris commanders lay kneeling there, pressed low.

Their bodies trembled.

No one dared lift their head.

"Master," one of them rasped, "that man controls the white lightning of the Infernal Abyss."

The words made space itself shiver.

"That kind of power…" another forced out, struggling to speak, "…is already beyond what we can contend with."

"We can't even get close to him."

"The moment that lightning appears, our energy cores lose stability."

Their voices sank lower and lower.

The fear was naked.

The middle-aged man didn't answer.

He slowly raised a hand.

An orb of energy formed in his palm.

It wasn't violent.

It was unnervingly stable.

Stable in a way that set your teeth on edge.

The next second—

The orb expanded, swallowing everyone who knelt before him.

Their bodies locked up.

They could feel something forcing its way into them.

Their energy cores were ripped out—yanked free by brute authority.

They couldn't resist.

They couldn't even make a sound.

The man carved runes into each core's surface.

The instant the last stroke completed—

The cores were shoved back into their bodies.

They shuddered violently.

Only then did the man speak, slow and even.

"I've installed self-destruction devices inside you."

His tone stayed calm.

"If this next assault fails…"

He looked at them.

"…there's no need for you to come back."

No one dared respond.

They understood.

This wasn't a threat.

It was an order.

They left in a rush.

The void settled back into silence.

And at the same time—

On a lonely island at the edge of the Nether Sea.

Ethan stood there, staring into the emptiness ahead.

There was nothing to see.

But his senses kept screaming that something was wrong.

Heavenly Demon Lightning flowed slowly through his body, resonating with some invisible structure, like a tuning fork answering a sound only it could hear.

"You're sure," he said at last, "there's an independent mini Plane World here?"

Thalorien stood beside him.

"We're sure."

His voice was unusually firm.

Ethan didn't answer.

He just lifted his hand.

Energy began to gather.

Heavenly Demon Lightning synchronized with the core of his Powered Combat Armor. White lightning condensed, little by little, into a stable energy construct.

He could feel it—

Space was resisting.

Like some hidden framework was actively trying not to be found.

He stopped waiting.

He thrust the orb forward.

BOOM—!!!

The shockwave tore outward.

The air split.

And on the surface of space itself, a hair-thin crack appeared.

It was tiny.

But it was real.

Ethan's pupils tightened.

He knew.

They'd found it.

He lifted his hand, slow and steady.

Heavenly Demon Lightning started to gather again.

"Everyone," he said under his breath, "fall back."

His gaze locked onto the rift.

"This time…"

White lightning condensed in his palm.

"I'm going to open it all the way."

The instant the spatial tear was ripped fully open, Ethan's heartbeat kicked up hard.

He could feel it—some kind of insanely dense energy surging from the other side. It wasn't the usual elemental energy you'd find in the normal world. This was something more primal, more complete, like a perfected structure.

Heavenly Demon Lightning reacted on instinct inside him. White arcs raced along the energy nodes of his Powered Combat Armor, flowing fast—like it was resonating with that unknown world.

System notifications rang out in rapid succession inside his head.

Detected unknown Plane World structure

Detected high-density mineral energy reaction

Detected over one thousand mineral resources

Detected hundreds of high-tier energy core structures

Ethan's breath caught.

This wasn't some minor Plane World.

This was a complete energy ecosystem.

He didn't hesitate anymore.

Heavenly Demon Lightning surged up his arm. He swung forward violently, and the white lightning turned into a razor-edged blade of energy that chopped straight into the rift's edge. The surface of space let out a shrieking, cracking sound. The structure that had been stable a moment ago was forced apart, and a massive opening—big enough to let an entire army through—formed in seconds.

On the other side of the opening, there was no longer nothingness.

There was a world.

Ethan's pupils tightened again.

He could see it clearly now: a vast wilderness. The ground was coated in an unknown crystalline structure. The air was filled with energy currents so thick they were visible to the naked eye, like the space itself was a living circulation system.

No hesitation.

He jumped in.

The rift behind him slowly sealed shut, while his body dropped swiftly into that unknown world.

The moment he hit the ground, his senses fully unfurled. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

The air was heavier than outside, but strangely pure. With every breath, he could feel energy actively pushing into his body, resonating with Heavenly Demon Lightning.

In the distance, the land stretched all the way to the edge of his vision. No buildings. No artificial structures. Just a clean, natural cycle of energy.

This didn't feel like some attached pocket space.

It felt like a complete main world.

Ethan straightened, slow, his eyes turning deep and focused.

He triggered a system scan.

An invisible stream of data spread outward, analyzing the energy structure of this world.

And then—

The air trembled.

A white figure began to emerge from far away.

At first, it looked like a giant.

But as it drew closer, Ethan realized it wasn't a living, physical creature at all—it was something made of pure energy.

Its body was half-transparent. Inside, a liquid-like energy structure flowed constantly, and every shift sent tiny ripples through the space around it.

It stopped in front of Ethan.

"Who are you?"

The voice didn't travel through the air.

It appeared directly inside Ethan's mind.

"And why did you break in here?"