Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 662

Chapter 662: Pest Control

[Mirecrawler Alpha — Lv. 74]

[Venomfang Matriarch — Lv. 75]

These were lounging in a valley to the east, unbothered by the human teams that gave them a wide berth. The Matriarch’s paralytic aura was visible even from this distance, a shimmering distortion in the air around her that made Kaiden’s instincts itch.

[Ashwalker — Lv. 76]

[Shellback Gorger — Lv. 76]

[Glasswing Swarm — Lv. 77]

The monsters grew larger. Stranger. Species that had no business coexisting stood side by side on the slopes, their aggression directed only at things that crossed their path. Everything else, including each other, was ignored. The migration pattern was more obvious here.

<Big brother.> Alice’s voice was quieter now. <The mana currents are getting really strong. Everything is flowing in the same direction.>

"I know."

Aria moved closer to Kaiden as they ran. "The levels are outpacing what we’ve been grinding. If we engage anything above seventy-five, we need full focus and even then..."

"Agreed."

[Pyrawalker Titan — Lv. 78]

[Crevice Borer Queen — Lv. 79]

Luna had stopped ahead of them, perched on a ridge overlooking a wide basin. When the group caught up to her, she pointed north.

The basin stretched for half a kilometer before rising into a series of jagged peaks that disappeared into low-hanging clouds. Monsters dotted the landscape in numbers that made the rookie zones look like a petting zoo.

Dozens of species, all of them high-level, all of them moving in the same direction.

And in the center of the basin, half-buried in black stone that pulsed with veins of dim light, a creature Kaiden had never seen before raised its head, adorned with six burning eyes.

[Convergence Warden — Lv. 80]

’There it is.’

Kaiden looked at his girls. They looked back.

They were deep.

...

Kaiden didn’t engage.

He stood on the ridge overlooking the basin and studied it. The monster positions. The terrain. The spacing between clusters. The paths that connected one zone to another. Where the slopes narrowed. Where the sightlines opened up.

While the association did its best to showcase monster positions themselves, it was always best to observe with one’s own eyes.

Ash caught up with his girls in tow. He wasn’t breathing hard, and neither were they. Whatever Kaiden thought of Ashbound’s ethics, their physical conditioning was real.

"So?" Ash walked up beside him, camera drones framing the basin behind them. "Are we fighting or are we sightseeing?"

Kaiden didn’t answer. He was watching a Pyrawalker Titan shift its weight on a slope about four hundred meters northeast. The creature was massive, wreathed in heat distortion, its volcanic hide cracked with glowing fissures. Level seventy-eight. Sturdy. Aggressive. The kind of monster that demanded sustained commitment once engaged.

About two hundred meters past it, partially obscured by a rock formation, a second creature grazed. A Crevice Borer Queen, level seventy-nine. Alone. Unaware.

Two monsters. Close enough to scout together from this vantage point. Far enough apart that engaging one wouldn’t aggro the other.

Kaiden filed the positions away.

"Getting cold feet, Grey?" Ash grinned at his camera. "Because if you dragged us all the way up here just to stand around-"

Kaiden moved.

He dropped off the ridge and headed northeast toward the Pyrawalker Titan with his girls flowing into formation behind him.

Ash scrambled to follow.

The Pyrawalker saw them coming. It reared up, volcanic heat billowing outward in a wave that scorched the stone beneath it. The temperature spiked. The air shimmered.

Kaiden engaged.

He hit the creature with a Wrath-fueled opening strike that carved a line across its forelimb. The Titan roared and swung back, a molten fist the size of a car slamming into the ground where he’d been standing a half-second prior. Luna followed with a Storm barrage that cracked against the creature’s hide. Calypso dodged a sweeping tail, keeping her distance. At level fifty-one, a clean hit from a monster of this power wouldn’t feed Carnage. It would simply kill her.

The fight looked intense. From Ash’s vantage point on the ridge, it would have looked like Kaiden’s team was giving everything they had. Luna’s Storm barrages crackled across the Titan’s hide. Calypso weaved between strikes, snarling. Nyx compressed the space around the creature’s legs, slowing its pivots. Aria circled from above, moonlight beams probing for weak points. Bastet held center, Dominion field keeping the Titan from charging freely.

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