Mystic Calling：Stone of Glory-Chapter 980: The Rule of the Storm

Ethan's figure surfaced out of the thunder.

He hovered there in silence, the snow-white core clenched in his hand, his gaze calm and razor-sharp.

"Don't waste your time."

His voice wasn't loud, but it cut cleanly into the creature's awareness.

"You're looking for a replacement core, right?"

The firefly jerked to a stop.

Ethan slowly raised the bead in his hand.

"Too bad."

"I'm not giving you that chance." 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

The instant the words left his mouth, the Heavenly Demon Lightning inside him fully detonated.

White lightning spread like a stormfront, sealing off the space around the firefly completely. Violent arcs crawled through the air—each bolt like a sharpened chain, locking down every path it could take and binding it in place.

The firefly gave off a shrill buzzing vibration.

It wasn't sound so much as an angry pulse of consciousness.

"You've gone too far!"

Its mental fluctuations spiked.

"There's no grudge between us. You already stole my core—why are you still trying to wipe me out?!"

Ethan's expression didn't change.

He answered flatly, almost bored.

"No grudge?"

His eyes flicked toward the distance, where Nysera and Idra were still fighting.

"You attacked us first."

He didn't give it another second.

The lightning erupted.

Countless strands of white electricity poured out of him like a waterfall. They pierced straight through the firefly's body, ripping and shredding its already-unstable energy structure now that its core was gone.

The space lit up.

Energy collapsed in on itself.

In just a few seconds, the firefly's body was completely crushed, reduced to shattered fragments of energy that scattered and faded in the air.

Ethan lowered back into the air, steadying himself.

He let out a long breath.

But when he turned to look at the battlefield, his brow creased again.

The monsters the firefly had summoned—

Hadn't disappeared.

They still roamed through the air, bodies woven from messy, mixed energies, eyes flashing with an eerie light.

Clearly, they weren't simple summons. They were independent energy lifeforms.

Ethan lifted a hand.

Dozens of energy orbs condensed around him in a blink.

The next instant, they shot out together, detonating inside the monster swarm.

Explosions chained one after another, thunderous and overlapping.

But what happened next made Ethan's stomach sink.

The monsters didn't get destroyed.

They went wild—soaking up the energy from the blasts instead.

Lightning fragments, lingering shockwaves, stray power… they devoured it like food, and their bodies actually stabilized, becoming denser and more coherent.

Ethan's face hardened.

He immediately pulled up the system scan.

Data streamed across his vision.

A few seconds later, the system returned its verdict.

These monsters weren't normal living things.

They were composite lifeforms—driven by soul bodies, fused with multiple kinds of energy. In other words, their existence was literally maintained by energy.

And the white lightning Ethan had just unleashed—

Was exactly the kind of energy they needed most.

His jaw tightened until his teeth ached.

"This is bad."

As he searched for an answer, a new presence suddenly surged.

Nysera.

A flood of white thunder wrapped around her body, and her energy wave shot upward fast.

Her eyes shone a cold, pale white—like she was re-reading the rules of this world in real time.

Then she lifted her hand.

A brutally domineering pull spread out from her.

The closest monster's body violently trembled. The energy inside it started to flow as if it was being yanked out by force.

Just a few seconds.

Half the monster's energy had already been absorbed directly into Nysera.

The moment Nysera forcibly tore energy out of that creature, the entire battlefield's "feel" shifted in a subtle way.

Ethan caught it immediately—

This might be the opening.

Those monsters weren't normal life. Their forms existed only because their energy structures held.

So if you drained them completely, they wouldn't be able to keep a shape. They'd collapse on their own.

The thought crossed his mind—

And he was already moving.

Ethan's body snapped into a streak of white lightning, carving a dazzling line across the sky.

He shot straight to the nearest monster. Before it could fully react, he clamped a hand onto its shoulder.

The moment he made contact, the energy flow inside it became crystal clear.

Power ran through the creature like braided rivers, crossing and cycling in endless loops. And Ethan's Heavenly Demon Lightning—was like a whirlpool inlet that had just been ripped open.

Absorption began.

White lightning crawled down his arm and into the monster, spreading through its entire energy structure in a blink.

A heartbeat later, those steady circulation paths lost control. The monster's power surged toward Ethan in a frantic flood, like it had found a drain.

The creature shook violently.

It tried to break free, but its internal flow was already completely off-balance.

A few seconds later, the last thread of energy was ripped out.

The instant it lost its support, the monster's body collapsed like mist blown apart by wind, breaking into countless tiny points of light that vanished into the air.

Ethan hung there, stunned for a half second.

So it really worked.

Then a spark of excitement slipped onto his face.

He didn't waste time.

The energy inside him flared outward, forming a massive vortex around his body.

White lightning whipped along the vortex's edge at insane speed, like an engine screaming at full throttle.

A powerful pull spread out.

The monsters still fighting suddenly sensed something wrong. The energy inside them started moving on its own, slipping out of their control.

Countless thin strands of power were forcibly yanked from their bodies, as if tugged by invisible hands, all of it streaming toward Ethan.

The air began to tremble.

That surging flood of energy gathered in midair, condensing into a huge swirling sphere.

The monsters' bodies dulled fast.

As the energy bled out, their once-stable structures started to fail.

One. Two. Three…

The drained monsters dissolved one after another, disappearing between heaven and earth like ash scattered by the wind.

But right then, another part of the battlefield erupted with even more violent collisions.

Lily and that towering energy entity had reached a brutally intense stage of their fight.

Two forces of white thunder—so similar they were almost the same—kept crashing together in the air, flaring with blinding light.

Every impact ripped the air apart. Space itself quivered under the pressure of their power.

From a distance, Ethan paused, hand at his chin, watching for a moment.

And pretty quickly, a new thought formed.

That energy entity and the monsters from before were actually similar at the core—both were beings fused from pure energy.

If he could drain all the power out of it the same way, it would collapse naturally.

With that in mind, he didn't hesitate.

Ethan flickered again.

He dove straight into the center of the clash and grabbed the entity by the shoulder.

White lightning surged from his palm, spreading instantly as he tried to rip the power out of it by force.

But this time, everything was different.

The moment the energy started to move, a brutal recoil exploded from inside the entity.

Ethan's arm felt like it had been pinned under a mountain. The energy wouldn't budge—couldn't be pulled free at all.

And then—

An even more violent force erupted.

Lily's presence ballooned.

Her eyes turned ice-cold, and thunder around her burned like fire.

In the next instant, she snapped her hand through the air. A destructive shockwave detonated point-blank, blasting both the energy entity and Ethan away at the same time.