Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 776

Chapter 776: Ascending

The girls turned toward her.

"Two problems, one answer. If the Claimant has anything that can crack abyssal rock or drain magma, we need walls and hazards stronger than what our current tier offers us. And if its swarm outclasses our defenders individually, which is almost certain given those creatures are upgraded versions of monsters that were already dangerous, we need a higher ceiling on what we can field."

Her fingertips brushed the projection. "Mid-tier raises the level cap on our creatures. It unlocks Lava Turrets, which we currently cannot purchase. It restores Creation Mode access, which means Master regains editing rights on terrain that has already been laid down." She gestured at the Verdant Expanse, three kilometers of soft green between the corridor and the cathedral. "That open meadow becomes editable. Right now we cannot touch it. After ascension, we can shape it into whatever the defense needs."

Aria was quick to agree. "Yes, we must upgrade! And make use of every single resource available to us. Kai, we are not alone. Don’t forget that."

Her thumb moved along the pulse at his wrist where her hand had rested for some time now.

"Mother is at the perimeter."

"Mother?" Luna grumbled. "She went from ’future mother in law’ to ’mother in law’ and now she’s just ’mother’?"

The Storm Valkyrie was ignored as Aria continued, "The Eclipse veterans are with her. The Association is holding the outer ring. If the system permits them inside the dungeon during the duel, if they can fight beside us, the math changes. Mother on the cathedral steps is better than monster or turret we can buy. We do not have to solve this with DMP alone."

Kaiden had said nothing through his girls’ lengthy discussion, taking in all their opinions.

His thumb traced the rim of the armrest, eyes moving from the magma section to the corridor to the open meadow and back. Every problem raised shared the same shape underneath.

His current dungeon was built to murder humans, jealous thieves who wanted this dungeon for themselves.

The Claimant was not human, and would require a completely different strategy.

Alice was a warm weight in his lap, her hands still gripping his shirt, her cheek against his sternum, listening as quietly as he was. He let his palm settle on the back of her head.

"Alright."

His eyes lifted to the system window.

"Let’s start with the ascension."

He pulled up the Creatures menu.

[Creatures — Common Tab]

[Direwolf — Lvl 12, 1 DMP each]

[Goblin Raider — Lvl 9, 1 DMP each]

[Bone Serpent — Lvl 18, 2 DMP each]

[Venomfly — Lvl 6, 3 for 1 DMP]

[Slime — Lvl 1, 10 for 1 DMP]

...

The same low-cap garbage he had passed over during inheritance. He swiped to the Abyssal tab.

[Creatures — Abyssal Tab]

[Abyssal Salamawyrm — Lvl 1-99, 1-500 DMP]

[Abyssal Nightclaw — Lvl 1-99, 1-200 DMP]

[Abyssal Maulfiend — Lvl 1-99, 1-400 DMP]

His scroll stopped on the third entry. He tapped it.

A figure rendered above the menu. Bipedal, broad through the shoulders, plated in fused obsidian that ran in heavy slabs across its chest and arms. Two horns curving back from a sloped skull. In its right hand, a maul of welded basalt and bone, the head as wide as Kaiden’s torso.

The system attached a brief description: heavy ground combatant, exceptional durability, slow movement, devastating impact.

Good fuel to reach ascension, Kaiden thought.

The requirements to reach higher tier were vague at best, the dungeon itself had to become strong enough to evolve.

He believed that a bunch of shock troops such as this were a good starting point.

Kaiden adjusted the slider to 99, the cost per unit ticked up to 400. He set the quantity to one and tapped purchase.

[Purchase confirmed. 1 Abyssal Maulfiend, Lvl 99. -400 DMP.]

A new presence registered at the back of Kaiden’s awareness. He shifted the 3D map and a fresh red dot bloomed in one of the corridor’s wider ambush chambers.

Kaiden tapped purchase again.

[Purchase confirmed. 1 Abyssal Maulfiend, Lvl 99. -400 DMP.]

A second dot bloomed two chambers down.

He kept tapping. By the fifth Maulfiend, a soft chime cut through the cathedral.

[Ascension Achieved.]

[Dungeon #A23-6679 — Low Tier. Rank 1 ➝ Rank 2.]

Calypso whistled. "That was fast, Darling."

"Apparently the dungeon was already close to rank up."

He pulled up the Creatures menu first. The sliders on every Abyssal entry remained capped at 99. Common Creatures still showed their fixed levels. No Lava Turret had unlocked under Defenses.

A window pulsed at the bottom of his interface, one he had not noticed.

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