Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 775

Chapter 775: Size Issues

Kaiden stared at the three menu columns for a beat. His girls stood around the dais, concerned yet hopeful seeing his focus.

He left the menus untouched and spoke to the entity he had not consulted in some time.

The Demonic Pornstar System.

"System, please tell me what you know about this challenge."

The response unfurled in clean lines.

[The Claimant has been recognized as a Dungeon Master. It has issued a formal challenge against the Successor. A Dungeon Master Duel will take place upon the conclusion of the granted preparation period. The Successor must mount a defense utilizing all available resources. Should the Successor fail, the Successor’s domain, core, contracted creatures, and bonded subjects will be transferred to the victor.]

Kaiden’s mouth flattened.

"I see..." His thumb traced the rim of the armrest. "What about the Claimant itself? What can you tell me?"

The pause this time was longer.

[This phenomenon is not documented in the system’s archives. No equivalent occurred during the Heavenly Demon’s tenure. The best estimation: an irregular interaction between Earth’s mana saturation and the dungeon network it has cultivated has produced a self-organized entity. The Claimant is, in functional terms, a natural dungeon. One born from the assimilation of Earth’s mana and the converging dungeon monsters.]

Kaiden exhaled.

He turned in the throne to face his girls. He’d made the window visible to them, and they were all intently reading the responses from the system.

Nyx’s eyes had gone distant the moment he started talking. By the time he finished, she’d already worked it through.

"That tracks. A dungeon of Earth, with a Dungeon Master no one’s ever cataloged."

"Which would explain its unnatural strength." Aria’s hand was woven into his.

Luna pushed off the dais, arms crossed.

"Which means the bastard is a walking, portable dungeon that can keep respawning the same monsters we already killed. As many times as it wants, until its defeat." She tipped her head back and looked at the cathedral ceiling. "Fuck."

Then the halo above Kaiden’s head flickered once and dropped weight.

Alice materialized in his lap. Her hands clamped on the front of his shirt. Her face was set in the most serious expression she could mount, which was very serious indeed.

"I’m going to defend this place until my last drop of blood!!" she declared. "Mother gave away the manor, so we’re legally homeless now! That means this is our home too! I’m sure Mother feels exactly the same way!!"

Kaiden blinked.

His hand settled on the crown of her hair on autopilot.

"You and Mother are more than welcome here, Alice."

Alice beamed and nuzzled into his chest with a happy, contented hum, the existential terror of the Claimant and her newfound homelessness apparently both resolved by approximately three seconds of headpats and one sentence of welcome.

Kaiden’s gaze drifted past her, back to the menus.

[Available DMP: 30,000.]

[Time Until Defense: 10:41:42.]

Time to spend it wisely.

Kaiden’s gaze drifted past Alice back to the menus.

"Bastet."

She straightened beside the dais. "Master?"

"Please recall our dungeon-born. It’s time for them to defend their home."

She inclined her head and produced the communication artifact from her sash, the rune brightening in her palm as she opened the channel. Taigi answered on the second pulse. Bastet spoke briefly through the link. Return to the dungeon. Bring everyone. Now.

Kaiden’s attention returned to the interface. He selected the 3D Map.

The cathedral dimmed by a fraction as the projection bloomed above the dais, his entire dungeon rendered in shimmering light. Five square kilometers rotating slowly above their heads. The girls drifted in around it.

The Safe Zone sat at the dungeon’s mouth, a perfect hundred-meter circle of abyssal stone where no trap could be laid and no creature could spawn. System rule, non-negotiable. Past that ring, the two mandated pathways branched.

The first dropped south and steeply down. Magma spiral. Slime-coated stone leading into a hidden molten pool, with Melty and her two sisters cruising the molten rivers below.

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