Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 331

Chapter 331: Underground Facility

Steel boots clanked against steel floors.

Kaiden walked in silence, letting his steps echo against the sterile walls of the underground facility he was escorted to. Harsh white lights buzzed overhead, strip-lining the corridors in an endless procession of illumination that gave no warmth. The air was unnervingly cold, scrubbed clean of even the faintest scent of life.

On either side, armed guards marched in perfect rhythm with helmets hiding their faces and weapons at the ready. A serious lack of firearms could mean only one thing: these were not soldiers of old age, but awakened combatants. However, they were an extremely disciplined bunch, not the chaotic ones often found in guilds.

No, these ones have been serving their countries even before the mana apocalypse hit Earth. Every move of theirs spoke of rigid protocol, the kind that left no room for jokes, comfort, or humanity.

Guards are trusted with the protection of something very important.

Normally, Kaiden would have been looking around curiously, eager to analyze the technology and other curiosities present. And there was plenty to marvel at. Seamless alloy plating in the walls, flickering holographic interfaces that updated in real time, cameras swiveling to track him at every turn. Transparent panels revealed hidden rooms: mechanical limbs suspended in fluid tanks, arcane batteries, holograms snapping through simulations of battlefields he didn’t recognize. It was the kind of cutting-edge place he would have admired on any other day.

But not today.

Not with the weight of why he was here pressing down on his chest.

Kaiden’s expression stayed hard, his eyes never straying. The light in them was restrained, his usual spark of curiosity muted into coldness.

The only one walking with him was Rae.

The tanned bodyguard walked at his side like a shadow of tempered muscle. She hadn’t spoken a word since they descended, which was entirely uncharacteristic for the girl. Rae was the one who brought him his ringing phone in the hot spring, and when she understood the severity of what had happened, even she didn’t feel like cracking jokes.

As for the Valkyries, they weren’t allowed past the gates. Riven, Rae’s twin sister, stayed with them.

The deeper they went, the heavier the air became.

The number of guards doubled, then tripled. Armored figures lined every hallway, standing shoulder to shoulder. Defensive artifacts embedded in the walls pulsed. Glyphs etched into runes of power, barrier nodes humming like generators, mana-reactive turrets concealed in ceiling hatches. Every ten paces, Kaiden could sense a layered spell formation overlapping another, suffocating in its redundancy.

This place was a fortress.

Finally, the escorting squad came to a halt. One of the faceless helmets turned toward him and spoke, voice distorted by a comm modulator.

"You go in. She stays."

Rae didn’t offer resistance, knowing full well how the procedures in this place were. After all, she’d spent a lot of time here herself.

The heavy door slid open with a low hiss.

Inside, the room was... wrong. The walls, the floor, even the ceiling were forged from the same unyielding dungeon alloy, shimmering with a blue hue that screamed of enchantments. Nothing in here was fragile. Nothing could be broken by chance.

At the end of the room stood a single table, fashioned from the same material. It was thick, blocky, and positioned oddly; pushed against the far wall, instead of in the middle where it would normally belong. The room was far too empty not to place it somewhere in the middle for more usability.

Kaiden sat down without a word, already understanding why the table was positioned so inefficiently.

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