Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 239

Chapter 239: Tragedy

The moment Kaiden turned, his heart twisted into a knot.

The battlefield before him looked like a massacre mid-breath.

Blood slicked the stone floor in wild, uneven strokes. The air pulsed with residual magic and copper tang. His Valkyries—his girls—were barely standing. If at all.

Nyx was collapsed on the ground.

Still.

Unmoving.

A javelin—barbed, cruel, and vampiric—was buried straight through her chest. Her armor had cracked, pierced as if it were butter. She didn’t twitch. Didn’t even tremble.

Luna stood above her with thunder crackling on the edge of her Stormblade.

Her lightning-infused eyes brimmed with tears she didn’t let fall.

Fury was etched across her features... but so did a deep, gut-wrenching worry. She slashed wildly at the vampire wife before her, keeping her away from Nyx like a lioness protecting a cub. Her body bled from several wounds, and her thigh barely supported her, but she refused to back away.

Across the room, Bastet, the Solar Empress, a blessed descendant of Ra, let out a scream of pure divine wrath.

Her glowing fangs bared as golden radiance flared around her violently. Her claws sliced through the third vampire wife with solar might so hot, her target barely even screamed.

A smoking corpse crumbled behind her, incinerated.

Lastly...

Aria.

Kaiden’s eyes finally found her. The Moon Valkyrie stood near the back line, clutching her staff with one arm only because the other was gone, severed just below the shoulder. Several of her fingers on the remaining hand were missing too, making it nearly impossible to grip anything at all. Blood poured freely down her side, soaking into the tattered remains of her robes. Even so, her glowing eye remained fixed on the enemy, still trying to cast with what little she had left.

Her lips moved in prayer-like whispers. A spell’s final lines, spoken with trembling defiance.

And then...

The last vampire wife faltered.

She had Luna in a bind where the duel could’ve gone either way.

But then, her eyes widened. She looked over Luna’s shoulder. She felt it.

The death of her husband.

The bond between them severed.

And that hesitation was all Luna needed.

With a wordless scream, she lunged forward. Her Stormblade roared with a final crackling burst of storm energy as she cleaved through the vampire wife’s midsection, letting lightning devour her form before she even hit the ground.

Ash and dust joined the blood-soaked floor.

Just like that... the battle was over.

Kaiden dropped everything.

The victory. The system messages. The many [Ding!]s. The world.

None of it mattered.

He ran.

Luna had collapsed to her knees beside Nyx, pressing a hand against the javelin embedded in her. "Why...? Why did you shield me, you idiot...?!" she choked with her fingers trembling as she gripped Nyx’s motionless arm. "Say something...!"

No answer came.

Just blood.

So much of it.

Bastet reached Aria just in time to catch her falling. Her staff clattered to the ground as she collapsed into her arms.

"You won... Kai..." she whispered.

Then her eyes closed shut.

Bastet didn’t hesitate. She ripped a potion free and uncorked it with her teeth. Next, the felinid forced the contents down Aria’s throat, then poured another onto the mangled stump of her arm.

Luna did the same with Nyx. But the javelin... it was too much. Some sort of residual spell lingered in it, one with vampiric anti-healing qualities. The potions proved to be worthless.

"We must hurry!" Kaiden roared, cradling Nyx into his arms. Her blood spilled onto him freely, staining him deeper than any enemy’s ever had. "Bastet! Grab Aria! We’re leaving!"

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