Mystic Calling：Stone of Glory-Chapter 982: War Fell from the Sky

Ethan drew a deep breath and looked around.

"All right." His voice came out a little hoarse. "We can’t stay here." 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

The back-to-back fighting and nonstop absorption had made this space dangerously unstable. If they lingered, it could trigger another collapse.

"We leave. Now."

No one argued.

Ethan quickly gathered what residual energy he could, then stowed the energy cores and some of the lightning power into his storage device. The only surprise was that the world itself couldn’t be packed away into an energy sphere.

The space structure here was... weird. It could only be left as-is.

He didn’t waste another second.

A few minutes later, the group exited the thunder world.

But the moment Ethan returned to Emerald Castle’s camp—right as he stepped out of the spatial rift—he stopped dead.

The sight in front of him made his pupils blow wide.

Up in the sky, the battle had already fully erupted.

Warships—so many they practically blotted out the heavens—hung in dense formations overhead. Massive metal hulls stacked in layered arrays, every energy cannon port open, flashes of blinding light strobing through the clouds.

It was—

Nexaris’s army.

There were so many ships you couldn’t even see the end of them.

Ethan stood there, silent for a heartbeat.

He hadn’t expected them to choose now to launch a surprise strike.

Above the camp, the fight was already at its most brutal. Energy barrages and thunder attacks crisscrossed nonstop, explosions merging into a continuous roar.

Ethan let out a slow breath.

Then he took a step back.

Power spun up inside him.

The lingering energy between heaven and earth was forcefully dragged in, surging toward his palm like a tide. Heavenly Demon Lightning erupted in full, white electricity exploding outward from his body and spreading across the sky in seconds.

The air started to vibrate.

Thunder raced through the cloud layers like living veins.

Ethan lifted his head, staring at the packed fleet.

Anger churned in his chest.

"You bastards..." His voice rolled through the thunder.

"I’ve never gone out of my way to pick a fight with you."

White lightning gathered around him in a frenzy, the density climbing fast.

"But you keep showing up on my land, again and again, just to cause trouble."

His gaze went cold.

And then the lightning truly broke loose.

"Since that’s how you want it—"

Ethan’s voice boomed like a thunderclap.

"Then today, none of you are leaving alive."

Ethan was just about to charge into the battlefield when another figure moved first.

Lily.

She launched from behind Emerald Castle’s defensive line like thunder unchained, vaulting straight into the sky. White lightning roared around her, like the space itself was answering the ancient, overwhelming power in her blood.

She hovered among the Nexaris warships.

For an instant, the battlefield seemed to go quiet.

Lily slowly lifted her head, her eyes sweeping across the dense fleet and the massed troops. There wasn’t a hint of tension on her face—if anything, she looked almost delighted, like she’d been waiting for this.

"Just woke up..." her voice echoed through the air, edged with contempt.

"And you idiots deliver yourselves right to my door so I can stretch my limbs."

She lightly clenched her fist.

The air around her shuddered.

White lightning poured in from every direction, gathering above her head and condensing fast. The power compressed and spun until it finally took shape—

A gigantic phantom phoenix made of thunder.

The phoenix spread its wings.

And the entire sky lit up in blazing white.

"Since that’s the case—"

Lily’s eyes turned icy in an instant.

"Then I won’t hold back."

She snapped her hand downward.

The thunder phoenix dove from the sky.

The next second—

BOOM!!!

The phantom phoenix smashed straight into Nexaris’s battle formation.

A terrifying explosion blossomed between the ships. White thunder swept outward like a tsunami. Warships were torn open on the spot, metal hulls ripping like paper. Soldiers didn’t even get a chance to react before the energy flood swallowed them whole.

The flash lit up the entire sky.

When the thunder finally dispersed, a massive hole had been punched clean through the Nexaris ranks.

Countless soldiers had been blown into fragments.

The sight made the enemy commander—who had been locked in combat with Elira and the others—freeze mid-motion.

He was a towering figure.

The alien traits were unmistakable: a massive elephant head, thick bone armor plating, and a trunk that swayed with every breath. Right now, his eyes were locked on Lily, filled with stunned disbelief.

He charged over immediately.

The air trembled under the pressure of his power.

"Who are you?!" His voice was low and furious. "How do you have power like this?!"

Lily didn’t even bother to answer.

She just glanced at him once.

Then she slowly lifted her palm.

White lightning gathered in her hand, and within seconds an incandescent energy sphere condensed. It looked almost quiet—yet the density inside it was terrifying, the kind that made the surrounding air feel thin.

The next instant—

She flicked her hand like she was tossing something casual.

The sphere flew.

Boom!

It struck the elephant-headed powerhouse right in the abdomen.

A massive impact erupted on contact, a visible ring-shaped shockwave blasting through the air. The elephant-headed commander was launched back dozens of meters, his abdominal armor cracking open instantly.

If his energy shield hadn’t been tough enough, that one hit would’ve ripped him apart.

Ethan stared from a distance, momentarily blank.

He’d never seen Lily go this hard.

Thunder kept spiraling around her, and the pressure rolling off her was so intense it made the air feel heavy.

He pulled up the system scan.

Data streamed across his vision.

A few seconds later, the system returned the target’s identity.

The Nexaris Overlord Xarathos

Tier: Mid-Stage 34th Tier

Ethan’s pupils tightened.

Normally, that Tier should’ve meant Xarathos was stronger than Lily. But against that pure white thunder, Xarathos’s power was clearly getting suppressed.

In the few seconds Ethan was thinking, the fight had already erupted again.

Xarathos roared and tried to counterattack.

But the white lightning descended once more.

Lily’s thunder poured down like a storm, detonating around his body again and again. After only a few exchanges, his abdomen had been blown open into a clear, ugly wound.

If this kept going—

He was dead.

Ethan couldn’t help the excited grin that tugged at his mouth.

At this rate, the war might end fast.

But just as he turned to deal with the other enemies—

The sky dimmed, just a little.

A new presence appeared.

It was crushingly heavy, like some colossal machine had started to wake up, slow and inevitable.