Ethan lifted his arm and whipped the energy stone into the sky.
It streaked upward trailing transparent lightning, then slammed straight into the massive Stone Golem phantom.
Boom—!!
The two forces detonated in midair.
The gemstone power inside the rock was ignited by Ethan's lightning, crashing directly against the phantom's descending fist. The shockwave tore down the canyon like a blade. Both cliff walls shuddered, and the sky split into dense, crawling spatial cracks.
The phantom's fist was blasted back for an instant.
The energy stone itself shattered into powder.
The powers tangled for a brief moment—then, in the end, both dispersed at the same time.
The Stone Golem froze.
It hadn't expected Ethan to handle the canyon's energy stones with that kind of ease.
This was power born from inside Energy Canyon. Yet in Ethan's hands it was just ammo—something he could casually trigger, with a burst strong enough to cancel the golem's attack head-on.
Before it could reassess—
