Mystic Calling：Stone of Glory-Chapter 880: Then the Sky Opened Again
The result hit Ethan like a jolt of lightning.
No hesitation.
He immediately opened the battlefield comms and issued a direct order.
"All fire-element units—focus fire."
"Unload everything you’ve got."
The command dropped.
One after another, blazing torrents of flame lit up the sky, converging into a sea of fire that surged down like a tidal wave, slamming into the enemy formation.
Chaos erupted among the enemy ranks.
The general at the front—his face twisted in the glow of the flames—looked like he’d just swallowed a mouthful of ash.
He hadn’t seen this coming.
Not in a thousand years would he have guessed that a "low-tier" Plane World like this could unleash such devastating firepower.
And that fire—it wasn’t just hot.
It carried a terrifying, soul-searing force of destruction.
Before he could even regroup his forces—
A blinding light tore through the sky from the flank.
Andona had arrived, leading a full Angel legion straight into the heart of the battle.
In front of each Angel, almost in perfect sync, a massive Judgment Sword materialized—radiant, divine, and merciless.
BOOM—!
BOOM-BOOM—!
Golden flames erupted from their bodies, sweeping across the battlefield like divine retribution, piercing straight through the enemy lines.
"AAAHHH—!!"
Screams ripped through the air.
The once-arrogant invaders now wore only shock and fear on their faces.
They finally understood—
Their power had met its natural predator.
Originally, their mission was to strike the Phoenix Empire.
To kill the Phoenix Queen and eliminate the last being capable of suppressing their kind.
But they never expected—
That in this overlooked, backwater Plane World...
They’d find another force capable of burning their very essence to ash.
The battlefield turned into a storm of raw power.
Emerald Castle’s forces held nothing back—unleashing fire, light, and destruction in relentless waves, hammering the enemy without mercy.
The enemy formation began to collapse.
The general finally cracked.
They were deep in foreign territory, with limited supplies and no reinforcements. A prolonged fight here would only end one way—total annihilation.
"Retreat!"
He practically spat the word through clenched teeth.
HUMMM—!
A violent spatial tremor rippled through the sky.
Moments later, a massive spatial vortex opened above the battlefield.
The surviving enemy troops didn’t hesitate. They bolted for the portal, fleeing as fast as they could.
And just like that—
Silence returned to the battlefield.
Ethan let out a long breath.
If the fight had dragged on any longer, he didn’t know what price they would’ve paid.
Even with a clear countermeasure, that strange, corrosive energy had already done more damage than he liked to admit.
The battle was over.
But the tension hadn’t lifted.
Emerald Castle’s forces remained airborne, eyes locked on the slowly closing spatial rift. No one powered down. No one relaxed.
Because no one could guarantee—
Those bastards wouldn’t turn around and come right back.
Ethan’s brow furrowed hard.
For the first time, he felt it—clearly.
These enemies were absurdly strong.
In the past, maybe he could’ve sealed the surrounding space, trapped them here, and wiped them out completely.
But the moment that portal tore open—
He’d felt it.
A helplessness he hadn’t known in a long time.
Like that level of spatial manipulation...
Was already beyond his reach.
In other words—
If they chose to retreat?
There wasn’t a single person in Emerald Castle who could stop them.
Ethan had just managed to steady the chaotic energy inside his body, ready to issue the order for everyone to return to their posts.
The battle, it seemed, was finally over.
But—
The moment his command transmitted through the main control channel—
The sky darkened.
Not from clouds.
But from a force far heavier, far purer than anything that had come before. It descended without warning, pressing down like a mountain on the world itself.
Space tore open.
A stable, fully-formed dimensional gate materialized directly above Emerald Castle.
And the next second, a new army stepped through—its presence cold, oppressive, and unmistakably lethal.
Ethan’s heart dropped.
At the front stood a tall, broad-shouldered man in gleaming white armor. Embedded across the armor were countless gemstones, each pulsing with a different frequency of energy. Together, they resonated in perfect harmony, forming a terrifyingly complete energy amplification system.
This wasn’t decoration.
It was a high-tier, precision-engineered combat enhancement array.
Ethan recognized it instantly.
That power signature—he knew it too well.
—Vorgar Empire.
Alarms blared across the city.
Emerald Castle’s forces reacted on instinct, pushing their power to the limit.
In the sky, multiple Sky Fortresses snapped into full combat mode, every weapon system forced to maximum output.
HUMMMM—!
BOOM-BOOM—!
A deep, dangerous resonance echoed across the airspace.
But Ethan’s eyes never left the man in white.
And in that moment, a strange, bitter sense of relief crept into his chest.
If it hadn’t been for the earlier surprise attack—
Emerald Castle wouldn’t have had its defenses fully deployed this fast.
If they’d been caught off guard...
They might not have even made it to the battlefield.
The white-armored man took a single step forward.
Just one. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞
But the pressure that followed swept across the sky like a tidal wave, blanketing the entire airspace in overwhelming force.
Ethan’s pupils shrank.
His system interface exploded with data, refreshing faster than he could track.
Then—everything froze.
One cold, brutal result locked into place on his HUD.
Tier 31. Peak.
That wasn’t a gap you closed with numbers.
Ethan’s breathing quickened.
Even if they combined the full might of Emerald Castle—
There wasn’t a single person who could stand against this man.
Not even him.
Even with the combined power of Idra, Auri, and Lily flowing through him—
Even with the full amplification of the Powered Combat Armor—
He was nowhere near that level.
This wasn’t just a difference in strength.
It was a difference in tier. A wall.
"So this is Emerald Castle?"
The man’s gaze swept lazily across the sky, his tone dripping with casual disdain.
"I expected something impressive."
"Turns out it’s just a minor Plane World. Got lucky, stumbled onto some energy resources."
He smiled.
Not with malice.
But with the calm, effortless arrogance of someone looking down from a great height.
"If I really wanted to wipe you out..."
"It’d take minutes."
As the words left his mouth—
He raised his hand.
A surge of violent energy erupted from his palm. Countless high-density energy spheres formed in the sky, so many they blotted out the sun.
This wasn’t an attack.
It was a full-scale annihilation.
Ethan’s heart sank.
He knew better than anyone—
If those energy spheres dropped all at once, Emerald Castle would be erased.
No escape.
No time to hesitate.
"All Sky Fortresses—channel all energy!"
Ethan gritted his teeth and gave the order.
He forced open every system he had access to, unlocking full authority and redirecting the city’s entire firepower to a single convergence point.
Every weapon lit up at once.
BOOOOM—!!!
A torrent of raw energy blasted into the sky, slamming head-on into the falling storm of energy spheres.
