Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 716

Chapter 716: Accelerating Curve

"Are we clear?"

The three projections were quiet.

"Understood, Guild Leader," Hale said.

Osei nodded once. Fenn held Magnus’s gaze for a beat longer than the others, then inclined her head.

The projection flickered off. The blue light died.

Magnus stood alone in the guild hall. The mountain was quiet around him, and the communication artifact hummed softly on the table, and the standings still glowed on the secondary display he hadn’t dismissed.

5th — New Dawn: 68,180

He stared at the number.

His hand closed into a fist at his side, slow and controlled, the knuckles whitening as the grip tightened. The mana that had pulsed as a warning moments ago stirred again, deeper now, coiling through his chest and down his arms with the restless energy of a predator looking for a target.

He turned from the table and walked to the window.

The mountain range spread out below him, vast, dark, crawling with monsters and ambition. Somewhere out there, his remaining rookies were grinding for points they would never earn fast enough. Somewhere out there, Kaiden Grey was climbing toward first place.

Magnus’s jaw set. His gaze hardened against the glass, and the reflection that stared back at him was a man who had stopped considering the polite options.

...

The Fissure Render’s corpse was still smoking.

Its body lay crumpled against the base of a rock formation, limbs twisted at angles that said ’I lost’ in every language monsters understood. The crack in its torso where Kaiden’s greatsword had punched through was wide enough to see daylight through, and the ichor pooling beneath it was already soaking into the mountain stone.

[You’ve slain Fissure Render (Level 76)] [You’ve gained 1,140,000 XP] [You’ve gained 28 DMP] [Level Up! Level 55 ➣ 56] [You have 30 unspent stat points.]

Kaiden pulled his blade free and exhaled.

[Name: Kaiden Grey] [Rank: 3 — Star] [Class: Paragon of Sin] [Level: 56 | XP: 930,000 / 57,000,000] [Stats] Vitality: 166 Strength: 193 Agility: 191 Endurance: 179 Mana: 157 Magic: 155 [Unallocated: 30]

Thirty stat points from a single level. Again.

He stared at the number and let the true meaning of it settle in.

The average awakened fighter gained ten stat points per level. That was the baseline, the number the Association used in their projections and training models and tier assessments.

Most people got exactly that because most people leveled by fighting monsters at or slightly below their own level, the safe and sensible approach that almost every guild training manual in the country recommended.

After passing the bottleneck and reaching level 50, Kaiden had been averaging thirty stat points per level.

The math was simple and the implications were enormous.

The system rewarded stat points based on several factors, and Kaiden was hitting all of them. Difficulty of the kill was the biggest: the harder the fight, the more the system paid out. But the level gap mattered too. A level 56 fighter killing level 76 monsters earned more per kill than a level 70 fighter killing the same thing, because the system recognized the gulf between what you were and what you’d just brought down.

Whether the monster was an apex predator or a herd creature factored in as well. Solitary killers with unique abilities paid better than pack animals of the same level because the system weighted threat, not just numbers.

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