Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 649

Chapter 649: Not the Horn!

Kaiden walked toward it with calm, measured steps while the Matriarch thrashed against invisible chains. He raised the greatsword, aligned the edge with the gap between its neck plating, and brought the blade down with Wrath’s thermal charge packed into a single, precise point.

The detonation took the head clean off.

[You’ve slain Stoneclad Matriarch (Level 70).]

[You’ve gained 86,300 XP.]

[You’ve gained 11 DMP.]

Blood sprayed upward in a pressurized arc. Kaiden let Gluttony drink what landed on him, strength ticking up another notch as temporary boosts stacked.

<Big brother, if you do that again, you’ll never hear the end of it!!!> Alice chided strongly in his mind.

The little sister was fuming right now.

How dare he ignore his Conduit’s words to stare at a manic, demonic woman?!?!?!?!

Kaiden grinned.

The last Matriarch fell seconds later, Bastet pressing it into the earth with gravitational force so immense that its own armor crushed inward, the creature folding into itself until Aria’s moonlight pierced through the weakened plating and ended it.

The Ridgecrawlers scattered.

Without the Matriarchs anchoring the assault and the Stalkers providing flanking pressure, the remaining creatures lost cohesion. They bolted into fissures, over ridgelines, anywhere that wasn’t here.

Luna raised a hand.

Lightning chased the stragglers.

— StormWitch99: luna said "no you don’t" LMAO

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Silence settled over the pass.

Kaiden exhaled and let the greatsword dissolve, blood retracting into the gauntlet. His ribs ached. His forearm still stung where the Ridgecrawler had tagged him. He could feel Gluttony working beneath the surface, slow and steady, converting the siphoned reserves into repair.

He looked at his girls.

Aria descended from above, moonlight dimming to a soft glow as her feet touched stone. Luna cracked her knuckles, hair still sparking at the tips. Nyx rolled her shoulders, quiet and watchful. Bastet stood exactly where she’d been the entire fight, because Bastet didn’t move these days unless the enemy earned it. Calypso sat on the chest of a dead Matriarch, legs crossed, examining her cracked horn with mild curiosity.

"That’s going to grow back, right?" Luna asked.

"It grew back last time," Nyx offered.

Calypso puffed her chest out, full of pride. "Of course it will. The Infernal Matriarch doesn’t take permanent injury from these weaklings."

"Last time it was a chip. This is structural," Bastet chimed in happily.

"Well, it gives you lots of character!" Aria chirped, trying to be positive.

Calypso’s lips trembled. She did not like what she was hearing.

The bravado of the Manifestation of Carnage, the feral grin, the bloodlust, the woman who had just used a monster as a bat against another monster?

Gone.

Calypso turned toward Kaiden, and the look on her face could have made grown men weep. Her lower lip pushed forward. Her eyes, bright and wild mere seconds ago, went wide and glossy, trembling at the edges with the kind of distress usually reserved for kicked puppies and abandoned kittens.

The Infernal Matriarch did not want to lose her horns.

"Kaiden..." she whimpered.

His ribs were still aching from getting launched into a boulder. His forearm stung.

He winced as he walked over anyway.

Calypso looked up at him from her seat on the dead Matriarch, chin tilted, eyes brimming with hope so fragile it was almost criminal, given that this woman had been splitting torsos in half forty seconds ago.

Kaiden cupped the cracked horn gently and pressed his lips to it.

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