Mystic Calling：Stone of Glory-Chapter 1035: The Net Closed In

Khar’vathis spoke almost immediately.

"Rohanix—these are the ones from Emerald Castle. Kill them, now!"

The middle-aged man lifted his head.

His gaze swept across the entire battlefield before settling on Ethan. The next second, he raised a hand and lightly tapped one ice-blue gemstone floating beside him.

Just that single tap.

The power compressed inside the gem was triggered instantly. Violent energy surged out and expanded rapidly in midair, forming a massive monster phantom.

The shadow loomed behind him—huge, oppressive. The moment it took shape, the surrounding air sank with it.

At the same time, his aura locked onto Ethan completely.

"Elysion—First Warfront. Commander of the Central Legion... Rohanix!"

With that shout, the battlefield’s atmosphere shifted again, dropping another notch.

Ethan didn’t respond.

He couldn’t be bothered with any pointless ceremony. He only lifted both arms as energy raced across the surface of his body, the lines on the Powered Combat Armor lighting up one by one.

Then, high in the sky, vast amounts of transparent lightning condensed into shape. It spread from above Ethan’s head, from his flanks, from straight ahead—pouring down like a flood as it blanketed toward Rohanix.

The pressure of that sight was overwhelming.

Transparent lightning was hard to track to begin with. With so much of it layered together, it was like the entire sky had split into countless fine cracks.

Each bolt carved a clear trail through the air, crossing and interlacing until it became a gigantic net of thunder—crushing straight down at Rohanix.

Rohanix’s eyes narrowed slightly.

A clear flash of anger rose on his face.

"Filthy crawlers from a low-grade Plane World really have no manners."

As the words fell, energy had already condensed in front of his palm into a sphere.

The sphere was cold-toned. Ice-blue light patterns flowed along its outer layer. At the same time, the gemstones orbiting him all lit up together, and layers of strange fluctuations streamed along those beams into the sphere—making it swell, compress, then swell again in a heartbeat, its presence growing heavier and heavier.

Then Rohanix hurled the sphere down with force.

The two powers collided head-on in the high sky.

First came an instant of unnatural stillness.

Then the impact—like a flood pressed to the breaking point and suddenly released—detonated outward in savage waves.

Transparent lightning and ice-blue energy tore at each other madly at the collision’s center. Light flickered violently. Space couldn’t withstand a clash at this density—cracks burst across its surface at once.

Not a few scattered fractures, but a dense spread that carpeted the entire collision zone. Even the air above the ruins below shook in continuous tremors.

But what truly made Ethan frown wasn’t the clash itself.

It was the structure of Rohanix’s power.

Those ice-blue gemstones floating around him were too abnormal.

Every time a gem’s surface flared, a web-like energy body rose from it. It wasn’t fast, but it was eerie—spreading open around Rohanix first, then inch by inch sinking into the void until it vanished cleanly.

But it wasn’t truly gone.

Ethan could see it—those web-shaped energy bodies were entering space itself.

And the aura flowing through them—

Was extremely similar to this world’s Primordial Force.

Ethan’s attention snapped fully to the gemstones’ movement.

At first, he only felt something off about the surrounding space. Those web energies that had "disappeared" into the void hadn’t vanished at all.

They were like something submerged beneath the surface of water—nothing visible above, but below, it kept spreading, silently extending farther and farther.

The moment that thought surfaced, Ethan’s alertness spiked to the limit.

In the next instant, space twisted violently.

Not in one place—every direction tightened at once. The web energies that had sunk into the void surfaced together, pulling open from above, from both sides, from the front, crossing and interlocking into a colossal energy mesh that covered the entire region—crashing straight down on Ethan.

It came too fast.

Too complete.

Ethan’s heart clenched. He immediately took a step back, trying to slip out of this locked-down space first.

But the moment he actually moved, he realized it was already too late.

That webbed energy wasn’t dropping from a single direction. It had wrapped the entire world around him long ago—front and back, left and right, even the higher reaches were sealed off, like a cage that was rapidly shrinking.

High above, the smile on Rohanix’s face slowly changed flavor.

It was no longer simple contempt, but a pleasure that grew stranger by the second—more twisted, more warped.

As his expression shifted, the power he was releasing turned even more uncanny. The ice-blue gemstones floating around him lit one after another, their abnormal waves spreading outward, pressing the already-formed energy mesh until it grew denser and denser.

"Thought you, an outsider, had some real ability," Rohanix looked down at him, voice heavy and cold. "Turns out you’re nothing special. Since you had the nerve to break in here... then accept my judgment."

The moment the words fell, boundless energy swept downward.

It wasn’t a single strike. It was the net itself collapsing inward. Every strand fed power toward the center. Space was squeezed tighter and tighter, and even the surrounding "air" and energy currents were dragged along, crushing in on Ethan from every side.

At that intensity, if it landed fully on him, forget continuing to fight—Ethan might not die, but he’d be smashed into a serious injury without question.

Ethan’s breathing sank.

His mind flashed through response after response, but none of them were truly safe. The net was already formed, space was sealed; taking it head-on was too risky, and forcing a breakout might not be fast enough.

Just as he calculated how to block it—

A figure suddenly appeared in front of him.

Queen Seraphine.

She arrived at terrifying speed, yet there wasn’t the slightest extra panic in her. By the time Ethan registered it, she was already there, suspended ahead like rising light—brightening the sky that Rohanix’s power had pressed into heaviness.

In the next instant, Queen Seraphine’s energy detonated in full.

Pure, vast Light Force surged out of her and spread rapidly in every direction. It wasn’t scattered brightness, but a whole tide of light that pressed down across the heavens.

Rohanix’s descending energy mesh had only just closed in when that luminous power forced it to a stop. The two forces crashed against each other in midair. Contact points kept bursting into blinding flares, and the entire net began to tremble violently.

Queen Seraphine didn’t look back. She spoke anyway, her voice cutting cleanly into Ethan’s ears.

"My power can restrain him. Go—leave this to me."

As the last word fell, she raised a hand.

A massive energy sphere condensed in her palm in an instant.

The light was first crushed into a brilliant core, then expanded outward in layered rings—growing larger and larger, brighter and brighter.

When it hit its peak, Queen Seraphine thrust her hand forward, and the sphere slammed viciously into the energy mesh beside them.

A thunderous boom shook the sky. A gap was blasted open at the top of the net.

Light, shattered energy, and a splashing shockwave all surged outward together. The opening lasted only the briefest instant—

But it was enough.

With that single blow, Queen Seraphine forced a path open and sent Ethan out.