Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 557

Chapter 557: You, But Better

The Ashen Knight didn’t bark insults. He didn’t snap at nobodies. He didn’t care what people thought of him, especially not enough to get visibly worked up over a man he had never met before failing to recognize him.

So why now?

Why did he care so much?

If Ash truly had no respect for him, then Kaiden’s ignorance shouldn’t have mattered at all. It should’ve been dismissed with indifference, not this thin-skinned flare-up that felt personal.

Kaiden’s gaze sharpened slightly as he studied the man again, no longer just looking at his aura or posture, but at the oddities in his behavior.

Something was wrong.

"Dude... bruh..." Luna spoke up at last, disbelief bleeding straight into her voice.

Heads turned toward the purple-haired Valkyrie. Unlike the others, she wasn’t squared up or bristling with mana. Her brows were knitted together, eyes flicking rapidly as she swiped through her interface with the frantic precision of someone who had just stumbled onto something cursed.

"He rebranded."

For a second, no one understood what she meant.

"What do you mean?" Nyx asked, still half-turned toward Ash’s team, her hostility very much alive.

Luna’s tone shifted as she began to read.

"Breaking news! The S-tier awakened, Ash—also known as the Ashen Knight—has just uploaded a new video, revealing his face for the first time ever. Alongside the reveal, he announced the launch of a brand-new awakened channel..."

She paused, eyes flicking up briefly as if to confirm reality hadn’t finally snapped, then continued.

"Together with his three female team members, Trisha, Stacy, and Brittany, he will be debuting the channel Ashen Ones, featuring awakened combat, variety content, slice-of-life segments, and..." Luna hesitated, then finished flatly, "... adult content with his three lovers."

Silence.

Pure, stunned silence.

"What the fuck?" Nyx blurted out, the words tearing free before she could stop them.

Her head snapped toward Ash and his entourage, eyes wide, jaw slack with disbelief. Then the shock twisted.

"Wait. Hold on. They copied us?"

Her gaze flicked from Ash to the three women at his side, then back again. "They saw that the stoic, silent badass thing wasn’t the meta anymore, so they rebranded and became Sinners 2.0?"

The reaction was immediate.

"We are not Sinners 2.0," the blonde woman, Stacy, snapped, stepping forward with a hiss in her voice. Her glare was venomous, pride clearly wounded. "We are the Ashen Ones."

That... did not help.

Kaiden closed his eyes for half a second.

That explained it.

The irritation. The ego. The way Ash bristled at being ignored instead of dismissing it. This wasn’t about respect between combatants. It wasn’t even about hierarchy.

It was about relevance.

Ash wasn’t just an S-tier juggernaut anymore. He was a creator now. A public figure chasing views, engagement, and momentum. And standing in front of him was the one man whose channel had proven - beyond any doubt - that raw power alone wasn’t enough anymore if he wanted to do more than kill monsters.

Kaiden’s gaze swept the edges of the gathering ground, the elevated rock outcroppings, the scaffolded watch platforms built into the mountainside. And there they were. Once he knew to look for them, they were hard to miss.

Mana cameras.

Several of them.

Not the association’s static surveillance lenses, but mobile rigs. These were floating drones that had glowing cores as they adjusted angles to keep the confrontation perfectly framed.

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