Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 794

Chapter 794: Counter Strategy

Around him, the girls had already caught it. Aria’s fingers tightened once in his before letting go. Luna’s grin came in wide. The rest of the line came in on the same frequency a breath later.

Scarlet’s lower lip pushed out.

"That’s the second time today! You know I’m not built for holding back!"

Her red-gold lance smoked at her palm in protest but then one more look from Vespera snuffed it out.

Across the Cavern’s span, the first scavenger had loped halfway to their line, four eyes tracking the distance as it closed and then screamed.

The sound broke from the hooked mouthpart, half screech and half bell-clang, and the whole gathered Safe Zone swarm answered at once.

A hundred throats opened in layered chorus across the stone. Wings snapped out from flanks and backs and spines where folded membrane had sat flat a breath earlier, thin sheets on the scavengers, ragged bat expanses on the striders, coiled feathered collars flaring open from the serpents’ hoods. Half of the swarm lifted off the ground on the first wingbeat.

The other half charged.

Kaiden’s Monolith rank shifted to meet them, Quakelords rolling their mauls up onto their shoulders. Further back, the Skyfiends pushed off their perches with wings wide, Gorefiends unfurling out of the ceiling and Nightshrouds already seeping darkness into the corridor’s upper air.

Kaiden raised a hand.

"Step back, guys. We got this. Take this chance to study the enemy." Indeed, his minions were not dumb. Abyssal creatures, especially his new and upgraded ones, had the intellect to observe and think for themselves.

The Monoliths arrested mid-step and the Quakelords let their mauls settle. Overhead, the Skyfiends folded back onto their perches while the Gorefiends recoiled into ceiling cover and the Nightshrouds pulled their darkness back in. His monster rank held where it stood, waiting on the next command.

Every head on the line turned toward the oncoming horde, and the studying began. Monolith horns lowered against the ground charge while Gorefiend jaws parted behind ceiling cover, recurved teeth reading angles on the fliers.

His line was committing the Claimant’s first wave to memory with the calm of predators who were here to extinguish anyone who dared move into their territory.

Kaiden stepped forward.

His women stepped with him.

Aria on his right, moonlight already shaping between her fingers.

Luna on his left, Stormblade live with red lightning.

Bastet half a pace behind his right shoulder, bare feet on abyssal stone, gold eyes fixed on the swarm with the sadistic grin still sitting on her face.

Calypso past her shoulder with her axe in both hands and orange heat running through red skin.

Nyx a step further back, coral-pink haze folding along her fingers.

Alice’s halo burned gold above his crown, brightening another notch.

Seven figures against the horde.

The Paragon of Sin stood at the center, his six Sin-fused champions arrayed around him, every one of them carrying a Sin Fusion the world had not yet seen.

The horde charged.

Nyx was folding space around the stragglers. Her coral haze closed on four fliers at once and compressed them, and the Spatial Drain fusion siphoned the mana out of each in the same motion, her own meters ticking back up as the four crumpled.

"Ahh... I can finally hurt monsters directly?" Her cheeks suddenly turned pink, breath coming out hot. "This is amazing!"

Bastet did not move an inch, standing where she had stepped. The Cavern’s floor cracked in a slow radial around her ankles, and every serpent that had crossed her perimeter found itself pinned under a weight the Divine Dominion fusion did not bother letting off once it had pressed them flat. The stone beneath them groaned under the load it was being asked to carry.

"Ahahah! After all the hours of painful waiting, the fun begins!"

Calypso laughed once and threw herself into the heaviest knot of the ground surge. The first strider cut her across the ribs before her axe had swung. The wound closed halfway and smoked, and the strider’s next blow slowed mid-arc. Carnage Feast had landed its first feed. She came down on the thing’s skull a heartbeat later, already the second kill she had taken the buff out of.

Kaiden’s greatsword came out of blood on his right forearm in one clean pull, and the weight of it hit his grip the way the stat window had promised.

The buffed numbers had abstracted into his bones, and the bones were doing what numbers like that were built to do. The first strider in his lane closed on him in a bipedal charge that would have forced his pre-fusion self to brace.

His greatsword came around in one arc, and the strider split from its left shoulder to its right hip without either the arc or the swing asking him for effort.

The two halves landed on either side of his boots as his momentum carried him into the next.

’Huh.’

The stat window’s math had understated it.

’Defending my home with my girls by my side, XP numbers piling, stream going nuts... If this isn’t living life, what is?’ he thought as he swung, a giant shockwave exploding out from the arc.