Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 287

Chapter 287: Confrontation

"I... I can’t believe you’ve truly made it this far..."

Countess Veylin’s voice.

It came from deeper in the lair.

And it was quivering.

But then, she found strength somehow, stabilizing herself. Her shock turned to begrudging acceptance, then simply wrath, filled with the desire to end their lives.

"You’ve destroyed... innumerable years of work!" she hissed. Her voice started swelling with overwhelming fury; the venom in it was palpable. "Do you have any idea how long I spent creating those adorable children you butchered? Each one, a masterpiece of fang and silk... each one, perfect."

A pause came. And then, when she spoke again, a note of hunger slid into her tone. She started purring darkly.

"I do hope you won’t mind if I make good use of the corpses you leave behind. They’ll serve as such comfortable homes for my young. My little ones will eat your flesh from within... and when the time comes, they’ll burst free from your rotting husks to greet the world and serve me."

Diaz’s eyes narrowed. Without a word, he tapped the hilt of his dagger against his leg, a subtle signal. Then he slipped away from the group, letting the shadows swallow him as his rogue spell blurred his outline into nothingness.

Kaiden’s gaze moved to Jack and Leon. They both gave short, grim nods. The unspoken agreement was clear: push in while keeping the backliners safe.

The three men did just that, pushing forward through the throbbing corridor. They pushed through one last fleshy archway and entered... a different world.

No dangling egg sacs. No writhing silhouettes of unborn monsters.

Instead, the chamber spread wide, lit by a cold light.

And at the center, a throne which was massive, elegant, and hideous all at once stood, woven entirely from bones lacquered in spider silk.

Upon it sat Countess Veylin.

She was no longer the towering, grotesque monster they’d glimpsed before. Her monstrous bulk had condensed into a tall, willowy, humanoid form. The form they saw first, before she transformed.

One long leg crossed over the other with graceful poise. Her back reclined against the throne, her head tilted a bit to the side, as though their intrusion was little more than a mildly irritating formality.

Confident. Composed.

A predator who already knew where her prey would die.

Diaz was the first to move.

From the shadows above, he descended in silence with twin daggers glinting in the cold light, both aimed for the Countess’s throat.

At the same time, Sasha loosedt an arrow. Luna’s body crackled with lightning as she lunged, sword wreathed in white-blue arcs.

Nyx’s pointer finger made a small circle, sending her blades whistling through the air with invisible force.

They never reached her.

From the darkness beside the throne, it slid into view... The Heart.

Tendrils, thick and glistening, whipped out in a blur, catching steel, deflecting arrows, halting every strike mid-flight as if swatting away gnats.

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