Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 719

Chapter 719: Bait

Kaiden looked at Selena on the ridge. Then at the twins flanking her, casual and unhurried, two young men who’d grown up tugging on his sleeve and now stood above him like executioners waiting for gravity to do its work.

The stampede hit the blocked cut behind them and broke around it like water around a dam, monsters piling into the stone, clawing over each other, some of them already turning toward the only living things in the corridor that weren’t running.

Luna grabbed his arm. "Move!"

They moved.

Laterally, cutting across the mountainside through a gap between two rock formations that opened onto a steep traverse. The footing was loose stone and scrub, bad terrain for running, worse terrain for fighting, but the only direction that wasn’t blocked or full of monsters.

Calypso and Bastet fell to the rear because the rear was where the teeth were. A massive lizard-like creature broke from the stampede and lunged at Bastet, and she sidestepped it and stamped one foot against the stone and a pillar of rock erupted beneath it, snapping its jaw shut and launching it sideways off the traverse. Calypso’s axe took the next one in the skull before the creature cleared the rocks.

Aria was airborne, moonlight gathering at her fingertips, picking off the creatures that outpaced the herd and threatened to cut them off. Her bolts punched through scales and chitin, each one placed, but there were too many, and each kill bought seconds instead of safety.

The dark halo above Kaiden’s head blazed to life.

<I see them.> Alice’s voice was a blade in his mind. <I see those fucking cowards up there throwing rocks at us while they hide on their little perch. I can hit them from here, Kaiden. Let me hit them.>

<No. Focus on the monsters.>

<But ->

<Alice.>

The halo pulsed, furious and golden, and a beam of light lanced down from above Kaiden’s head, vaporizing a charging predator forty meters out. Then another. Then a cluster of three that had been circling toward Nyx’s flank. Alice was angry and her anger made her accurate, and the creatures died in flashes of gold that left afterimages burned into the mountainside.

The first attack from the ridge came while they were mid-traverse.

A concussive blast of mana screamed down from Selena’s position and slammed into a cluster of creatures that had been gaining on them from behind, close enough that the shockwave threw Nyx sideways and sent a cascade of debris across their path. The monsters were dead. The path they’d been running toward was buried under shattered stone.

"You’re welcome!" Selena’s voice carried down from the ridge, casual and performative.

— [MOD] Lady Leia: Oh so NOW New Dawn sends their Golden Spoon Kids to "help"?? I know that bitch. She is the heir apparent to the whole Empire.

— [MOD] Kaiden’s Wife: She just buried their escape route and said "you’re welcome." this is retaliation!! They can’t beat Kai on the scoreboard so they’re trying to kill him instead!!

— [MOD] PrincelessPrincess: Three veteran-track fighters just happen to show up right when a stampede hits? Yeah, this is BS!

— xStormborn: Nyx got thrown off her feet by the shockwave. That was way too close to be an accident.

— GigaAsh: "you’re welcome" she says after burying their only path out lmao. time to grab popcorn guys!

— [MOD] PrincelessPrincess: I’m calling the association.

Nyx was already on her feet. She found Kaiden’s eyes and shook her head once, sharp and certain.

"They want you to attack them." Her voice was low and fast. "That’s the whole play. We attack New Dawn veterans, we’re disqualified and jailed just like Ash. They keep shooting at the monsters near us, and if we die, it’s collateral. If we retaliate, it’s assault. Either way they win."

"The association is a joke!" Aria spat. "How are they allowing this?!"

"What do you mean? We’re returning the favor. You helped our rookies, we help you. Fair is fair." Cassian shouted.

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