Mystic Calling：Stone of Glory-Chapter 862: The War Inside
Ethan didn’t have time to dodge.
The two forces collided head-on—
BOOM!!!
A devastating shockwave tore across the entire ship.
It felt like a warhammer had slammed straight into his chest. Ethan was hurled backward, his body rattling inside the armor like a ragdoll in a steel cage.
Agonizing pressure ripped through every seam in the suit, clawing at him from the inside.
If not for the Powered Combat Armor absorbing most of the impact, his body would’ve been shredded on the spot.
He forced himself upright mid-air, stabilizing with a grunt, and immediately triggered a system scan.
[Target: Aurelkar]
[Combat Power Rating: Tier 30 · Peak]
Ethan’s heart sank. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞
Even with the combined power of Auri and Idra, plus the full boost from the Powered Combat Armor, his current limit barely scraped Tier 30 mid-level.
A straight-up fight?
No chance.
"Insignificant insect."
Aurelkar’s voice echoed through the air, thick with contempt.
"You got lucky. Picked up a few scraps of power."
"And you think that puts you on my level?"
The moment the words left his mouth—
His body began to unravel.
Not explode.
Deconstruct.
Flesh, energy, and structure all broke apart into countless black particles, like a storm of suspended ash drifting in midair.
Each speck pulsed with faint, yet terrifyingly unstable energy.
The air thickened.
Space itself seemed to be gnawed away by something unseen.
Ethan’s pupils shrank.
A pure, suffocating aura of death radiated from the particles, spreading fast.
Instinct kicked in.
He compressed all his remaining power into his palm, forming a massive Energy Disc, and hurled it with everything he had.
The energy storm tore through the air—
But the particles didn’t break.
They scattered like sand in the wind, only to regroup a heartbeat later, continuing their slow, relentless advance.
Worse—
Some of them had already reached him.
They struck his armor like a swarm of icy needles, forcing their way through the gaps in his energy shielding.
Alarms blared inside the Powered Combat Armor.
[Warning—Unknown Corrosion Detected]
[Defensive Layer Breached]
[Structural Integrity Declining]
Pain flared through his limbs.
But it wasn’t normal pain.
It felt like his body was being taken apart—cell by cell, nerve by nerve.
"Such a perfect vessel..."
Aurelkar’s voice came from everywhere at once, laced with a sick, twisted excitement.
"No wonder you could contain power at this level."
"From now on—this body belongs to me."
More and more black particles clung to the armor’s surface.
The rate of corrosion was accelerating.
Ethan could feel it—his control slipping away.
Muscle response slowed.
Energy flow stuttered.
His consciousness felt like it was being dragged underwater, inch by inch.
Then—
A memory fragment surfaced from deep in his mind.
Back during the scan, he’d seen a specific ability tag.
[Genetic Devour · Restructure]
He hadn’t understood it at the time.
But now—
It clicked.
This wasn’t just an attack.
It was—
A possession-level ability that deconstructed the user’s body into invasive particles, infiltrated the target, and forcibly took over their physical form.
Ethan clenched his jaw so hard his teeth scraped together with a chilling grind.
He’d never imagined a power this twisted could even exist—something so invasive, so cruel.
If this kept going—
His body would be dismantled, devoured, and hijacked piece by piece.
And worse—
The battlefield was slipping out of control.
The initial assault had thrown the Narlost forces into chaos, yes. But as the minutes ticked by, the tide was stabilizing.
This was the Doomsday Ark’s home turf.
Narlost’s energy supply was endless. Their weapon systems showed no signs of slowing down.
Even with every Emerald Castle soldier equipped with Powered Combat Armor, they couldn’t keep this up forever.
The longer the fight dragged on, the closer they edged toward defeat.
And Ethan—
He was on the verge of losing the right to even keep fighting.
His consciousness was being crushed, slowly and relentlessly.
His limbs had gone numb.
Energy flow—completely unresponsive.
It felt like his body had become an empty house, and someone else was moving in.
He couldn’t even twitch a finger.
Just as despair threatened to drown him—
A surge of unfamiliar, overwhelming power erupted from deep within.
It wasn’t a single-element force.
Not dragon.
Not elf.
Not machine.
It was something new—
A fusion, a resonance, a layered convergence of all three.
Like three rivers, each from a different world, forced to merge into one roaring current.
The moment it formed, it snapped tight like a net of light—
Wrapping around the black particles that made up Aurelkar’s deconstructed form.
The instant they touched it, some of the particles began to unravel—
Evaporating, disintegrating, vanishing into nothing.
Ethan sucked in a sharp breath.
A long-lost sense of fullness rushed back into his body.
He could feel his fingers again.
His heartbeat steadied.
He’d reclaimed part of his body.
And the power was still rising.
"AAAHHHHHHH—!!!"
Aurelkar’s scream tore through the air, shrill and warped.
Gone was the commanding, imperial tone.
Now it sounded like molten metal being ripped apart—
Distorted, agonized, and laced with fear.
Ethan looked down at himself.
The black particles still clung to his armor like a living shadow, refusing to let go.
But they were weakening.
That new hybrid force was eating away at them—
Suppressing, breaking down, dissolving.
And then something even stranger happened—
The new energy began to resonate with the fusion modules inside the Powered Combat Armor.
Unfamiliar light patterns lit up across the internal circuits.
The armor’s devour protocol activated on its own.
Originally designed to absorb rare metals and reinforce the suit’s structure, the system now misidentified the "particle-based lifeform" as compatible material.
So it began to absorb.
To forcibly assimilate.
Ethan felt it immediately—
A heavy, chaotic presence swelling inside him.
No—
Not just a presence.
A living thing.
Something struggling.
His body had already been home to Auri and Idra for a long time.
Their three-way resonance had stabilized into a balanced, coexisting system.
Now, Aurelkar was being dragged into that closed loop.
And inside Ethan—
A silent war erupted.
No words.
No roars.
Just raw energy, clashing wills, and structural dominance tearing at each other from the inside out.
