Mystic Calling：Stone of Glory-Chapter 799: The Birth Behind the Barrier

Ethan didn't let up for a second.

He steadied his breath and summoned his strength again.

A fresh surge of energy rippled out from him like a tidal wave, crashing straight into the space barrier ahead—the one that blocked everything.

BOOOOMMMMMM—!

The air groaned like some ancient beast, the barrier spiderwebbing with cracks.

But just as the fractures began to spread, the surface of the barrier twitched—then knit itself back together, smooth as silk.

It healed. Instantly.

Ethan's brow furrowed deep.

"Self-repairing…"

Every tear he forced open was sealed shut the next second, the space itself rewriting the damage.

To break through completely, they'd need far more power than they were throwing at it now—and they'd have to keep that pressure constant. Relentless.

Anything less, and the barrier would swallow their efforts whole.

If they kept relying on the Emerald Castle legion to brute-force their way in, they'd burn out long before they made it a single step inside.

And worse—

No one knew what Dukara was doing in there.

If they were absorbing some ancient power, awakening a monster, or—hell—building a weapon that could wipe out half the continent…

Then what waited on the other side wasn't just danger.

It was annihilation.

Ethan drew a long breath and made his call.

He swept his hand through the air, summoning Auri and Idra.

Two streaks of light burst from within him—one pulsing with the calm rhythm of nature, the other crackling with raw draconic force.

Feylora arrived a heartbeat later, stepping up beside them.

The four powers began to converge, slow and steady.

The air trembled, rippling outward in concentric waves that kicked up dust and debris.

At the center, a massive sphere of energy began to form—woven together like strands of light, too bright to look at directly.

Ethan's voice rang out, low and commanding:

"—Drop it!"

BOOOOOOOOOOM—!!

The energy sphere slammed into the barrier like a falling sun.

The impact shook the world. The sky. The ground. Everything.

Cracks exploded across the barrier's surface, spreading like lightning—

And then—

CRACK!!!

A massive rupture burst open at the center.

Ethan didn't hesitate.

"GO!!"

He dove through the breach, Kaelira right behind him.

But—

They'd barely made it inside when the barrier began to heal again—fast.

The gap shrank before their eyes, as if some invisible hand were pulling it shut from within.

The light dimmed. The opening narrowed. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

"Move—!"

Ethan surged forward, pushing his power harder. Auri and Idra flowed back into him, merging with his body. Feylora followed close behind.

The barrier sealed behind them with a final snap.

Not even a sliver of space remained.

Only Ethan, Kaelira, and Feylora had made it through. The rest were cut off—trapped outside.

But there was no time to worry about that now.

Ethan locked onto the strange energy signature pulsing deeper inside and blinked forward, teleporting straight toward it.

He was almost there when—

WHUMMMM—

A force slammed into him—unseen, but dense and elastic, like a wall of rubberized steel. It hurled him backward through the air.

He twisted mid-flight, barely managing to land on his feet, but the impact left his chest tight and his brow knotted.

The area ahead was wrapped in something—like a cocoon of invisible threads.

The energy there was thick. Heavy.

And stranger still, the space around it was warped—subtly pulled and twisted, as if gravity itself had gone sideways. Even the light seemed to slow, dragged toward the center.

And from within that cocoon, something was stirring.

A pulse. Slow. Rhythmic.

Like a heart beating behind layers of silk and steel.

Each throb sent a ripple through the surrounding energy—and Ethan could feel it in his own chest, like his heart was syncing to the rhythm of something vast and alien.

Something was being born in there.

And it wasn't just alive.

It was powerful.

Even with just a rough scan, Ethan could tell—

Whatever it was, it was already brushing up against Tier 27.

"Well, now we're getting somewhere…"

He exhaled, forcing calm into his limbs, and pulled up his system interface.

A translucent blue screen flared to life in front of him, data streaming across it in rapid bursts as he scanned the cocoon.

But then—

The text on the screen glitched.

Every line turned to static.

??????????

Lifeform Structure: ???

Energy Signature: ???

Core Configuration: ???

Ethan froze.

"You can't even read its attributes?"

That wasn't just rare—it was unheard of. The system almost never threw up its hands, and now the entire panel was nothing but question marks.

He was about to shift angles and try another scan when—

BOOM!!!

A brutal surge of force erupted from directly beneath the energy cocoon.

It wasn't just a shockwave—it was a primal rejection. A raw, instinctive repulsion that hurled anything nearby straight out of its orbit.

Ethan felt it hit like a sledgehammer to the chest. His vision went black for a split second, and then he was airborne—slammed backward like a ragdoll and driven headfirst into a distant rock wall.

THUD!!

Stone shattered. Dust exploded. He skidded through the rubble, finally managing to brace himself upright.

And even at his level, even with his body reinforced beyond human limits, one terrifying thought flashed through his mind:

If I were even slightly weaker… I'd be pulp right now.

"What the hell kind of force is that…"

He looked up, eyes narrowing toward the cocoon in the distance.

But before he could process it further, a rapid-fire series of alerts exploded in his ears.

Ding—ding—ding—ding—!

The system's warning chimes came in a frenzy, red alert boxes popping up one after another like a system in full-blown panic:

[Extreme Threat Detected]

[Recommendation: Immediate Evacuation]

[Warning: Unknown High-Risk Lifeform Entering Rapid Awakening Phase]

[Warning: Environmental Stability Degrading]

Ethan went still.

The system never used language like "immediate evacuation." Not unless things were about to go catastrophically sideways.

And before he could even decide what to do, a sharp, icy pulse of data sliced through his mind like a blade.

A name carved itself into his consciousness—cold, precise, undeniable.

—Malakar.

His vision flickered. The system interface glitched, then refreshed violently.

The wall of question marks vanished.

In their place, the data began to load—fast, chaotic, like the system had finally recognized what it was dealing with and was scrambling to catch up.

Attributes. Tier. Energy composition. Core structure.

Line after line of dense information flooded the screen, almost too fast to track.

Ethan's breath caught.

At the top of the display, a bold header appeared:

[Name: Malakar]

[Former Identity: Emperor Helkaris]

[Current Form: Original fluid body fused with "Divine Avatar" vessel]

Ethan's stomach dropped.

Emperor Helkaris.

The name alone conjured memories of the battlefield—of that endless tide of black liquid sweeping across the land like a living plague.

But now the system was telling him something worse.

Helkaris had shed his old form.

He'd merged with a Divine Avatar—becoming something entirely new.

Something far more dangerous.

And the data wasn't done.

More lines scrolled across the screen, each one more alarming than the last:

[Energy Attributes: Sixfold Hybrid, Fully Coexistent]

[Detected Energy Types: Fluidic / Spatial / Death / Destruction / Chaos / Frenzy]

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