Mystic Calling：Stone of Glory-Chapter 985: The Overlord Fell

Ethan kept pushing forward.

In that moment, he looked like a real god of slaughter. He tore a massive gap straight through the enemy formation, and not a single person could stop him.

Very quickly, he reached the true center of the battlefield—

The heart of where Lily and The Nexaris Overlord Xarathos were fighting.

Both of them had practically gone all-out.

White thunder and blood-red energy slammed into each other again and again, and every collision made space tremble. Cracks were everywhere. No one dared get close to that zone.

Ethan stopped.

For the first time, he got a clear look at Xarathos’s condition.

Inside that gigantic monster body, it was packed with dense energy nodes. The system scan results flashed up immediately—

One hundred energy cores.

They were linked like a complex internal network, running nonstop. Each core fed power into the whole, letting Xarathos keep matching Lily head-on.

Lily still had the advantage.

But Xarathos’s reserves were simply too deep.

If they relied on a war of attrition, there was no way this ended quickly.

The instant Ethan stepped into the center, the whole situation shifted in a subtle, dangerous way.

The stalemated balance of power cracked.

White lightning churned around Ethan as Heavenly Demon Lightning expanded like a thunderstorm. And when his power brushed Xarathos’s energy field, something strange—almost wrong—happened.

A sudden resonance.

Then the unbelievable happened.

The energy that had been stably clinging to Xarathos’s outer body peeled away, like it had been caught by an invisible gravity well. It turned into streams—ribbons of power—flowing straight toward Ethan.

The air shuddered.

The pull wasn’t explosive. It was eerie. Like someone had changed the ownership of energy at the root.

Xarathos’s massive body jolted.

His elephant head snapped up. For the first time, real fear flashed in his eyes.

"What is this power?!"

The hundred cores inside him had been running smoothly, but now they started to slip into chaos. Portions of energy drifted off course, no longer under control, dragged toward Ethan’s thunder as if it had a claim on them.

It felt like his blood was being forcibly drained.

Xarathos retreated immediately.

His huge frame backed away through the air, trying to escape the thunderstorm’s reach. But the moment he moved, an even heavier presence pressed down from above.

Lily was already hovering over his head.

White thunder rotated slowly around her like a burning halo.

She looked down at him, and a faint, cool smile touched her lips.

"Hey. Elephant nose."

Her voice fell lightly, almost casual.

"Where do you think you’re running?"

Xarathos jerked his head up.

He didn’t even get time to react—

The sky was swallowed by white.

Lily’s power detonated completely.

Berserk white lightning poured down like a destruction storm, swallowing Xarathos whole. Thunder spiraled around his body, and arcs of electricity cut into his energy structure like blades.

And the worst part—

Ethan’s pull never stopped.

Their powers formed a terrifying double suppression, pressure from above and the drain from within.

Inside Xarathos, energy cores began to malfunction one after another.

Cracks spread fast.

In seconds, his entire surface was laced with fractures, blood-red energy spraying out of each tear. The strong, stable structure he’d relied on was collapsing piece by piece.

Xarathos let out a roar—furious, desperate.

But it was already too late.

White thunder completely devoured him.

A few seconds later—

BOOM!

A massive explosion bloomed in the sky.

The Nexaris Overlord Xarathos, who had once ruled Nexaris’s army, was shattered utterly in the lightning and collapsing power. His body broke into ash, scattering across the air.

The sky went quiet.

Everyone on the battlefield stopped moving.

Nexaris’s army hovered in the distance, their once-dense formation now completely broken. Soldier after soldier stared blankly at what they’d just seen, like their minds couldn’t process it.

Their commander.

Their Overlord.

Killed—just like that.

Fear spread through them like a stain.

Ethan drifted forward a little.

He didn’t press the attack.

He just raised a hand.

White lightning gathered slowly in his palm, forming a dazzling orb of thunderlight. It wasn’t violent, but the pressure rolling off it made people instinctively keep their distance.

His gaze swept over the entire formation.

"From this moment on."

His voice wasn’t loud, yet it carried cleanly across the battlefield.

"All of you—"

"Work for me now."

The lightning in his hand crackled softly.

"Swear loyalty."

His tone turned cold.

"If you ever betray me, I’ll make sure you don’t even get to leave a soul behind."

The moment the words landed, the army fell silent again.

A lot of Nexaris soldiers didn’t even react at first. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

They hadn’t expected Ethan to give them a way to live.

A few seconds later—

The first group went to their knees.

They were high-ranking commanders from the Nexaris force, people who’d clearly understood the situation had flipped completely. Once they knelt, more and more soldiers began lowering their weapons.

Knees hit the air and ground in waves.

The entire army surrendered like a tide.

Watching it, a rush of excitement rose in Ethan’s chest.

This didn’t just mean the war was over.

It meant—

The strength in his hands had expanded again.

Nexaris’s army was, by itself, a frighteningly powerful force. If he fully integrated them into Emerald Castle’s system, the faction’s overall power would practically double overnight.

But what Ethan was truly interested in wasn’t the army.

It was—

Nexaris itself.

A world that could nurture a civilization that large—and build fleets and mechanoid legions like that—wasn’t going to be some ordinary plane.

There were deeper secrets buried in it. There had to be.

Ethan made his decision quickly.

He gave simple orders for his people to stabilize the surrendered troops, then selected a few guides who actually understood Nexaris’s internal structure and brought along an elite unit.

It didn’t take long before a new fleet was assembled and ready to move.

They had only one destination—

Nexaris.

...

Meanwhile.

In a place unimaginably far away.

A region known as the "Dark Abyss."

There was almost no light.

Thick darkness smothered the space like something physical, and the air reeked of rot and death. At the bottom of the abyss, a gigantic monster lay motionless.

Its body resembled a massive cockroach.

Hard carapace covered it from end to end, every segment of its exoskeleton giving off an eerie dark-red glow. It didn’t move at all, as if it had been asleep for ages.

Suddenly—

Its body jerked.

A pair of scarlet eyes snapped open.

Rage burned inside that stare.

"Xarathos... is dead?"

The voice that echoed through the abyss was low and rasping.

The air began to vibrate.

The monster slowly rose, and a terrifying aura spread from its body in waves. It felt like an invisible storm, strong enough to make the abyss’s rock walls tremble.

A blood-red bead surfaced from its mouth.

It looked like a living heart, pulsing in the dark.

The next instant, it shot up into the air.

"Carry my order!"

Its voice exploded over the abyss.

"All Nexaris legions—"

"Rally!"

The command spread through heaven and earth like thunder.

"Take revenge for The Nexaris Overlord Xarathos!"