All Chapters of The Return of The Phantom General : Chapter 101
- Chapter 110
175 chapters
A Bill from the Grave
"Your time of payment has arrived, Emperor."The voice sounded extremely hoarse, wet, and heavy. The words seemed to be forced out of a throat that had long been clogged by dirty fluids and thick mud.Caleb Thorne sat silently in his chair. He stared at the shattered glass on his desk. A sticky black liquid with a very pungent smell of crude oil continued to drip onto the stone floor. The puddle of toxic oil merged with the shadow beneath his leather shoes.The temperature inside the highest tower of the Black Castle did not turn cold; instead, it became incredibly humid and stuffy. The air felt like being at the bottom of a dead ocean.From within that puddle of black mud, dozens of horrifying figures crawled up into the physical world. They were Mud Ghosts. Their forms lacked a clear skeletal structure. Their bodies were formed entirely of toxic waste, boiling asphalt, and rusted ship chains. Their faces were melted, leaving empty eye sockets that emitted a green sewage light. They
Atmospheric Pressure.
"That Deep-Sea Apex facility is not just an ordinary offshore oil rig, Mr. Thorne. It is a fortress of pure science."Dr. Hans Gruber's voice crackled with static from the communication screen inside the cabin of the stealth jet speeding through the North Sea storm. Caleb Thorne sat silently, expressionless. He didn't respond, only staring at the screen with his one brown eye, empty and incredibly hollow."Kaelen Cross is not a stupid mafia boss you can intimidate by pointing a gun. He is a sociopathic marine engineer who is very genius," continued Hans, his fingers typing quickly to bring up the blueprint of the giant facility on the screen. "He knows exactly that you just brought down the Aegis Syndicate and destroyed Panopticon. He knows you control shadow energy anomalies. Therefore, his drilling facility is not guarded by mercenaries with firearms. He surrounded the place with high-level Military Sonar technology.""Sound waves," said Caleb very flatl
Sinking with the Iron
"We are free-falling very fast, My King! This piece of junk iron is sinking straight to the bottom of the sea!"Viktor Krum's baritone voice boomed in panic, breaking through the shrill emergency alarm echoing throughout the control room. The steel-masked Russian giant lost his balance. His massive body was thrown crashing into the rows of computer servers as the giant observation capsule plummeted at deadly speed toward the North Sea Trench."Caleb, stop this thing's fall right now! Use your shadow to tie this facility to the coral cliff out there!" shrieked Isabella Vane hysterically. The woman tightly gripped a metal pillar in the middle of the room so as not to be thrown off. Her face was deathly pale seeing the eternal darkness of the ocean beginning to swallow them from beyond the glass walls.Caleb Thorne stood firmly amidst the brutal shaking. His left hand held onto the navigation console desk. His flawed face remained as cold as a tombstone. Ther
Three Thousand Meters Beneath the Light
"Enjoy drowning in your own stupidity, Shadow Emperor."Kaelen Cross's mechanical voice echoed deafeningly from the emergency loudspeakers right before the titanium glass shattered completely.Pitch-black seawater burst in with the force of tens of thousands of tons. Caleb Thorne had no time to react. His body was instantly swept away by the incredibly brutal pressurized water wave like a light ragdoll. The giant observation capsule, broken from its foundation, plummeted deeper into the eternal darkness of the Atlantic Ocean.Caleb was thrown hard against an iron pillar inside the room now filled with freezing seawater. Absolute darkness instantly swallowed his vision."Current depth exceeds two thousand meters," Caleb said to himself in his freezing mind. "Buoyancy is zero. This facility is free-falling toward the Ocean Trench.""Dominus! Let us out right now! We will hold back this water pressure for you!" shrieked the Centurion General
The Price of an Adaptation
"Ten seconds left, Thorne. Your brain will explode out of your ears from the pressure."Kaelen Cross's voice echoed cynically through the speaker of the submersible drone hovering right in front of Caleb's face. The sociopathic scientist chuckled softly. His laughter sounded crystal clear, cutting through the silence of the ocean floor.Caleb Thorne could not reply to those words at all. Thick red blood mixed with necrotic black fluid began to spurt from his nose and both of his ears. The hydrostatic pressure at a depth of three thousand meters truly knew no mercy. Caleb's eardrums had completely ruptured within the first ten seconds. The freezing seawater pierced in brutally, tearing at the remaining organs inside his cranial cavity."Do it now, Dominus! Or we will all be obliterated into foam in this filthy place!" shrieked the Centurion General. The ancient ghost commander's voice echoed in panic inside Caleb's skull."Silence," Caleb replied v
The Silent Predator
"Pour that wine into my glass. We toast to the victory of science over dirty myths tonight," ordered Kaelen Cross with a light laugh that echoed inside the wheelhouse.The military-class research submarine glided calmly, cutting through the darkness of the North Sea Trench. Kaelen sat leaning back in the luxurious leather captain's chair. He swirled the crystal glass containing bright red wine, staring satisfied at the radar screen which no longer displayed a signal from his destroyed drilling facility."The Deep-Sea Apex facility has completely sunk past the three thousand meter depth limit, Mr. Cross," reported the submarine's copilot with a relieved tone. "There are absolutely no signs of life detected around the wreckage. That monster must have been crushed to bone dust.""Of course he is destroyed," answered Kaelen, sipping his wine slowly. "Superhuman, shadow emperor, or even a god of death, no carbon-based flesh can withstand the pressure of hundred
Floating to the Surface
"Turn that sonar to maximum power, Viktor. I don't care if the machine burns out today, find him right now!"Isabella Vane screamed, her hoarse voice cutting through the howling wind. Her eyes were red and severely swollen, holding back the tears that continued to stream down her dirty cheeks. The North Sea storm battered the deck of the emergency yacht they had managed to hijack from the remnants of the Aegis port facility."Woof. The radar detects a large biological mass at a depth of two thousand meters, Queen," roared Viktor Krum from the wheelhouse. The steel-masked giant pressed the hydraulic winch lever with his massive, trembling hands. "The blip keeps going down. He is not swimming upward."Three thousand meters beneath the ship's hull, absolute darkness reigned once more. Kaelen Cross's submarine had been crushed and had sunk to the bottom of the Ocean Trench. The mud ghosts that had just devoured the sociopath's soul let out a long belch, spewin
The Remaining Calculated Time
"Your blood molecular structure is completely shattered to pieces, Sir."Dr. Hans Gruber's voice broke the freezing silence inside the Black Castle's underground medical room. The mad doctor stood in front of a blood centrifuge machine that had just stopped spinning. His hand, encased in a latex glove, pinched a test tube containing silvery-black liquid. Hans' face did not sport his usual psychopathic smile. His skin was deathly pale.The flight from the North Sea back to the Swiss mountains felt incredibly long and agonizing. A snowstorm welcomed their return, but the real storm was inside this operating room.Caleb Thorne sat bare-chested on the stainless steel bed. His body was still wet from the remnants of saltwater and dried blood. His skin looked incredibly pale, almost as transparent as a corpse preserved in ice. The ancient bone vest on his chest had been shattered and removed, leaving dark red bruise marks around his long-dead right lung.
Last Updated : 2026-05-13Read more
Rejection from Home
"You are sleeping very peacefully down here, Mother."Caleb Thorne's baritone voice broke the soft hum of the life support machines inside the level-four bunker of the Black Castle. The Shadow Emperor sat on an iron chair right beside the medical bed. His long black coat wrapped his body, which was as cold as marble. His snow-white hair fell covering his shirt collar, a sight starkly contrasting the darkness of the room.Caleb raised his right hand, still wrapped in white bandages. He extended his stiff fingers, then stroked Martha Thorne's wrinkled forehead with very slow movements.Caleb's brown eye intently watched the physical interaction. His brain saw his mother's skin sink slightly from the pressure of his fingers. He saw the strands of his mother's gray hair shift responding to his stroke.However, not a single sensory signal returned to his central nervous system.His hand was absolutely numb. He could not feel the warmth of the
The Bone Dragon Rises
"Stop shaking the floor of my kingdom."Caleb Thorne's voice came out very softly, echoing and breaking the silence inside the dark corridor leading deep into the bowels of the Black Castle. He stepped down the stone stairs that continued to shake violently. His snow-white hair fell, covering part of his face. The black silk shirt he wore rubbed against the thick bandages on his chest, creating a creaking sound every time he forced his left lung to draw a breath.The tremors from the depths of the earth grew wilder. Stone dust rained down from the corridor's ceiling. Caleb arrived in front of a titanium-lined steel door on the lowest floor. It was the access point to a secret storage room, the place where he kept the remnant materials of past battles. Caleb pressed his numb palm against the scanner panel. The steel door slid open with a screeching hydraulic hiss.An incredibly dense, foul stench immediately assaulted his face. It was not the scen