Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 790

Chapter 790: Skyward

A lower howl this time, rawer than the horizon call had been, aimed downward at the ground and the woman pinning its legs to it. The creature had felt the damage humanity had landed. It had understood, on the back of that, that the reason it could not move was a single woman’s will.

The six pupils closed, then opened.

The fissure-mouth cracked wider than it had been.

And the Kaiju jumped.

A scream left its fissure-mouth on the way up, aimed downward at the earth itself in a register the planet registered back, and the ground came with the creature. Chunks of continental bedrock the size of small islands tore free under its four feet and rode its vector skyward, soil and stone trailing the ascent in a cloud the size of a district. The trees around the perimeter blew flat a second time that day.

Vespera’s shadows had been wound through the Kaiju’s knees, anchored to the ground for their leverage.

The ground was not on the ground anymore.

Her cables whipped upward trailing the rising debris for a heartbeat before she pulled them back. Her red gaze flashed.

"This is cheating..." Luna whispered with wide, disbelieving eyes.

And the Kaiju rose.

It cleared the helicopters’ altitude in a second. It cleared the highest silhouette on the horizon in the next. By the third second, the creature was a shape against the bruised sky.

By the fourth, it was falling.

The four legs were folded beneath it. The crown was pointed down. The six pupils were aimed directly at the coordinate where Kaiden stood.

It was a dive. The Kaiju had launched vertical only to convert its kilometers of mass into a weapon, raw crushing weight aimed at the staging plain and everything gathered on it.

Every Awakened on the plain with eyes on the sky had already begun firing upward.

Vespera’s shadows corrected mid-sweep and reoriented into vertical lances aiming for the descending crown. Aria’s fingers moved, and a grid of moonlight crescents carved into being above the open ground to catch the Kaiju’s trajectory and slow it. Alice’s halo doubled in brightness, and a column of concentrated gold light fired from above Kaiden’s head into the sky. Scarlet was already in motion, red-gold fire spiraling upward from her open palms in a column wide enough to burn a city.

The defense had prepared for this too.

Nobody on the ground was surprised that the Kaiju had elected to drop on them.

[Time Until Defense: 00:00:05]

The Kaiju fell.

The howl came with it. The fissure-mouth opened mid-fall and released the same cosmic-scale declaration it had made on the mountain range when it had launched away from its first challenge and climbed toward the heavens. The sound rolled down the column of its descent and hit the open ground a blink ahead of its body, and every artifact in the upper air buckled under it at once.

[Time Until Defense: 00:00:01]

Then the sky unwrote itself.

[Time Until Defense: 00:00:00]

The Kaiju fell into whiteness.

So did everything else.

Every face outside Kaiden’s immediate line vanished in the same half-blink. The Chairman, the Association cordon, Eclipse’s veterans, the independents, the helicopters overhead, the reporters along the treeline, the broadcast chatter in a dozen languages, the continental effort Earth had thrown at this coordinate - all of it peeled off the world together and dropped into an emptiness stripped of sky and horizon and heading.

The dungeon gate was still behind them. The staging plain the dungeon sat on was still beneath them.

Past the treeline... there was no treeline.

There was only Kaiden, his eight champions, his dungeon, and a falling kilometers-tall mountain coming down out of an emptiness that did not bother with color.

"...What the-"

"-fuck-"

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