Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 268

Chapter 268: Strange Room

A grand piano sat in the exact middle. Gleaming black. Untouched. It looked freshly polished, as though someone had been here maintaining it in secret. Its ivory keys shone in the ambient crimson glow of the dungeon torches.

Surrounding the piano stood seven tall mirrors. Each of them was gilded, warped, and glowing.

The group paused.

Because the mirrors were not mirrors.

They were windows.

Kaiden stepped forward first, drawn to them. As he approached, he saw what they reflected.

Versions of himself.

But wrong.

Twisted.

Warped by a cardinal sin.

In one, his Wrath-corrupted self stood shirtless, muscles swollen grotesquely and a wide grin on his face as he ground a crushed skull beneath his heel, reveling in the carnage.

In another, his Gluttony form lounged on a throne of bloated corpses, drinking thick blood from a golden chalice as women he didn’t recognize hand-fed him delicacies one after the other while dressed in skimpy clothes.

Pride showed him clothed in fine silks, surrounded by kneeling followers chanting his name. His eyes were aglow with divine arrogance, the image of a god among mortals.

Lust presented him in shadow and silk, limbs tangled with a dozen faceless lovers. His aura was both suffocating and addictive.

Envy revealed a hollow-eyed version staring at Kaiden with bitter loathing, clenching a broken mirror shard.

Greed had him armored in gold and diamonds, surrounded by piles of magical treasures, but still clawing at the shadows for more.

And Sloth? Sloth was the worst. A pale, ghostly version of Kaiden lay motionless in a collapsed bed, surrounded by faded friends and dusty memories, his eyes vacant, watching life pass him by.

Kaiden’s fists clenched.

It wasn’t his Paragon of Sin class and its Sin Stances that were being displayed.

It was what he could have become if he gave in to the seven cardinal sins. If he truly let those sins own him instead of wielding fragments of them for power.

Vaelira scoffed as she stared at her image in the Envy mirror. She didn’t like what she was seeing.

The Arcane Puppeteer snapped her fingers, wordlessly ordering her armored legionnaires to do her bidding. Two of them stepped forward and approached the piano. On her command, one raised its gauntlet and pressed down on a key.

*Thunk.*

No sound came from the instrument.

The key didn’t even go down. It was like trying to press a stone.

She tried again with the second summon. Same result.

"... What is this stone piano good for if you can’t even press the button?"

Nyx had a different opinion. "I highly doubt an obvious piece of the puzzle would malfunction... Our luck can’t be that bad. Instead, we should consider the piano not broken but in a sort of sealed state."

Aria agreed. "If this room is a puzzle, then those wings..." she pointed to the two symmetrical corridors leading deeper with her mage’s staff, "...must hold the clues."

The pathways were mirror twins of each other, vanishing into torchlight. The only way forward.

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