Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 676

Chapter 676: Luna, Hunt

"Luna."

The Storm Valkyrie looked up at him, violet eyes crackling with barely contained fury. She’d been vibrating with it for the last hour, lightning arcing between her fingers in unstable loops.

"Hunt some monsters for me. If you can’t win, come back."

"Huh?"

Kaiden pulled up his overlay and angled the hologram so the girls could see.

Five hundred meters northeast. A migration column of Razorfang Slashers, level seventy-three to eighty-five. Fast, aggressive, pack hunters with serrated forelimbs designed for cutting through armored hide. The Association notes listed them as "high pursuit aggression, will chase fleeing prey until line of sight breaks or a larger threat is encountered."

There were at least forty of them.

Moving in a river of chitin and bladed limbs through a narrow canyon, following the same migration pattern every monster in the deep range had been following for days. Headed north. Toward the convergence.

Luna stared at the overlay.

Then she stared at the basin where fourteen New Dawn fighters were engaged in a brutal battle against the colossus.

Then she stared at Kaiden.

The fury drained from her face so fast it was almost comical. What replaced it was pure, uncut, gamer-girl euphoria. The expression of a woman who’d just been handed the most broken strategy in the game and told to speedrun it.

"Oh my god," she breathed. "Oh my GOD!"

She grabbed Kaiden’s face with both hands and kissed him. Hard. The kind of kiss that tasted like adrenaline and vindication. She pulled back, eyes electric, grinning so wide it looked like it hurt.

"I love you. I love you so much!"

Then she was gone. "Got it, I’ll be back after I kill those monsters!"

Storm erupted from her legs in a cascade of violet lightning, and Luna launched off the plateau like a bolt given human shape. She hit the ground running and the landscape blurred around her, the fastest among them, doing what she did best.

Bastet exhaled through her nose with feline satisfaction. "Magnificent."

Nyx’s lips twitched.

Calypso’s grin returned as the lightbulb in her head lit up. "Oh, I finally got it. Darling, this is simply amazing!"

"Kai..."

Aria’s voice was quiet. She’d moved closer, her silver hair catching the grey light. Her expression wasn’t euphoric like Luna’s or satisfied like Bastet’s. It was concerned.

"Are you sure this is okay?"

Kaiden didn’t answer immediately.

He looked down at the basin where the New Dawn squad was fighting for their lives.

He looked at his own team. Battered from the Borer Queen fight. Still recovering from mana sickness. Running on field rations and two hours of sleep.

He looked at the overlay, at the swarm of red markers moving through the canyon to the northeast, and calculated how long Luna would need.

"Kai, we only awakened a few months ago! Just a couple of months..."

But Kaiden was hearing none of it.

The Paragon of Sin looked at his beautiful moon and cut her off. "Yes, that’s true, Aria. And in those few months’ time, we’ve accomplished more than most teams do in years." His voice carried, calm and steady. The girls were all listening. "The successor of the Heavenly Demon. The man recognized by the Original Sin. That’s what I’m supposed to be."

He paused.

"And yet, here I am. Stuck in a competition, in the rookie track, being bullied by a man who couldn’t beat me, so he sent his dogs to make sure I couldn’t grow."

Aria’s lips parted.

"This isn’t about being slow to grow, Aria. Everyone starts slow. That’s fine. I would’ve been happy grinding our way up, fighting every monster in this range, earning our place. I was doing exactly that."

His eyes darkened. The red of Wrath flickered at the edges of his irises, there and gone, a pulse of power that he didn’t try to hide.

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