Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 757

Chapter 757: Stream Start

The mountain air hit them the moment they stepped outside.

Kaiden led. His girls fell in around him without discussion, the way they always did, six bodies finding their positions. Calypso on his right, Luna on his left, Nyx and the devastation duo flanking her. Alice on top of his head.

A ping chimed through his awakened interface.

Kira: The stream announcement went out thirty minutes ago. Fifty thousand in the waiting room already and climbing. Title’s set, overlay’s set, everything’s ready. Go live whenever you want, boss.

Kaiden started the stream.

The viewer count began exploding immediately. Hundred thousand in the first three seconds. Hundred thousand more by the time they cleared the guild hall’s outer perimeter.

Aria just so happened to fast walk to the front, for ’some’ reason, looking at him with a proud, beaming smile.

He’d seen her an hour ago in the staging area, Rika circling her with a brush and palette. He’d seen the focus on Rika’s face and the patience on Aria’s and thought nothing of it, because Aria was always beautiful and makeup was makeup.

He was wrong. Makeup was not just makeup. Whatever Rika had done turned Aria’s face into a problem. Her silver eyes looked larger, the unique color of her hair sharper against her skin, and the morning sunlight hit the angles of her cheekbones like it had been personally directed there by a woman with a blending sponge and a vendetta.

Aria caught him staring, of course.

Her chin lifted a fraction and her lips curved further. She let her gaze linger on his for exactly long enough to make sure he understood, and she was extremely pleased about it.

’She’s showing off,’ Kaiden thought.

"You’re out of this world, my beautiful moon."

Aria’s lips trembled and her heart skipped a beat. She stopped in her tracks, unable to continue moving, needing a pause. Bastet patted her head and the Moon Valkyrie fell into step next to the felinid with a big pout, accompanied by rosy cheeks.

Luna was in a good mood. He could tell because she was still muttering trash talk under her breath, thumbs twitching at her sides like phantom controller inputs, riding the high of whatever lobby she’d demolished mere minutes before deployment. She hadn’t needed to help carry supplies or run through the pre-stream checklist. She’d spent the last hour gaming, which for Luna was the same thing as warming up.

"What’s new. Chat’s already simping for Aria," she announced, eyes flicking through her interface. "Thirty seconds in and they’re calling her the face of Eclipse."

"She is a very pretty girl indeed," Nyx mused.

"..." Fiery competition lit up in the Storm Valkyrie’s eyes.

As the girls conducted their everyday bickering session, Kaiden remained silent. This was the part the audience never got tired of, the banter, the warmth. The chat was already flooding with messages supporting their favorite female member of the gang, fans quoting and emote spamming their favorite creators’ every line.

Another message came from the twins, though it was not a ping this time, not wanting to disturb his focus. It was just there, waiting for him to read whenever he felt comfortable.

Rika: Clipping the Aria-Luna exchange for highlight reel. Also, Leia just dropped her first unhinged comment of the day and the chat literally lit on fire. The mod team is scary.

He almost smiled at that. Five fangirls running the machine from opposite ends of the country, and it worked.

The banter faded as terrain changed. The shift happened the way it always did. The playfulness compressed into focus, and people who had been laughing a minute ago were scanning the environment with quiet patience.

Kaiden pulled up the tactical overlay on his wrist artifact. The holographic map flickered above his forearm, topographical lines and colored markers spreading across the northern range.

He studied the spread. Two solo targets above level seventy in the northeast corridor. One cluster of four near the ridge, probably a pack.

Alone. Beatable. A monster whose strengths didn’t perfectly counter his team. The usual criteria.

"Northeast," Kaiden smiled. "Let’s move."

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