Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 1009

Chapter 1009: Investing Stats

Breakfast at the Moon-Thread estate the next morning was served at a civilized hour, and Kaiden Grey ate it like he had bled all over a valley less than two days ago.

Yunohana sat at the head of her own table in plain morning silk, hands folded, watching the third bowl of rice go the way of the first two.

"The kitchen has been told to expect this for the length of your stay, Lord Grey," she said. "They are delighted."

"Nobody’s ever fed me this well," Kaiden replied, meaning it.

"KMHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Alice suddenly seemed to have a seizure.

"Kai..." Alexandra muttered, dejected.

"I obviously meant nobody outside the family," Kaiden corrected his blunder rapidly.

"What a blunder," Luna shook her head sagely, gravely disappointed. "Now little sis will demand an hour of pampering or she’ll keep throwing a fit."

"An hour????????" Alice asked, bewildered by the insanely low number.

...

The status window had been waiting for him since the kill in the chamber under Kawanami. After breakfast Kaiden sat down with it on the veranda and looked at the number, letting Alice sit on his thigh and hum happily.

She was visibly regenerating the damage she sustained from the words spoken at the table.

[Unallocated: 50]

Fifty points. Some awakened fighters didn’t get this many after a year of active grinding.

He gained it in a day.

What Kaiden thought about, looking at them now, was the chamber.

A carcass that outmassed a truck had lain on him from collarbone to knee, and with the Blood Monarch’s Gauntlet set against it and everything he owned behind the push, he had moved it two centimeters.

That was one. All the speed in the world had not mattered, pinned on his back.

The second was the blood.

The spur had gone through the muscle above his hip, and a body with his numbers had still lain in a spreading pool of it. Every centimeter of leverage had cost him more, until the only weight between him and emptying out was a dead monster holding the hole shut.

And the third was the cold.

He had not had the breath to price it down there, but he had felt it on every breath he spent in Envy, a draw on his mana that kept drawing for as long as the room stayed cold.

Mana had never been the stat he prioritized. Lust burned it slowly and Pride spent it in glyphs, and he had always been able to pay both out of what he had.

The cold drank faster than either of them. If he ever wanted to hold a room cold for longer than a few breaths, and especially retain some mana afterward, the well needed to be deeper.

’Feed the new one, and fix the two things that nearly killed me.’

He spent the fifty patching the hull.

[Vitality: 340 ➣ 355]

[Strength: 458 ➣ 473]

[Mana: 320 ➣ 340]

[Unallocated: 0]

’Okay. Now let’s find out what you actually are.’

...

He told his girls on the veranda, with the pond throwing light on the ceiling and his family arranged around him in various stages of digestion, Alice still parked in his lap.

"Envy." Kaiden set his tea down. "That’s the fifth one. The system calls it the Dispossessor."

"Ooh," Calypso purred, delighted by the word.

"Perhaps it’s a question of control," Nyx mused. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

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