Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 804

Chapter 804: Disaster

[Phase Time Remaining: 01:42:18.]

[Dungeon Ground Held: 53%. Enemy Forces Eliminated: 3%.]

Kaiden read it twice.

Then a third time, slower, because something had to be wrong with the rendering.

"...Fuck."

’But how...?’

His line had not moved a meter. His Monoliths were holding the chokehold. The second wave’s casualties were piled in the Safe Zone at the gate, smoking.

He had not lost a single foot of ground that he could see from where he stood.

But the tracker said he was down to half.

His grin flattened, and his pulse exploded.

He swiped the map view down the kill route, past the chokehold, past the corridor, past the Sink, right into the magma channel.

The rendering came up in his peripheral and his stomach dropped for the first time since the gate had sealed.

The magma was dark.

The molten rivers that had been burning bright orange against the basalt walls when he had checked the channel ten minutes earlier rendered flat gray now, the ambient glow extinguished along the entire spiral. The slime-coated approach his Salamawyrms had been holding sat empty. They were further down the spiral now, engaging the column the Claimant had pushed through and dying as they fought it.

Whatever the Claimant had sent down the spiral was eating through his line and his magma both, and his evolved magma dwellers were trying to hold a channel that no longer played by the rules it had been built for.

The column had pushed Melty’s pod back across most of the kilometer the spiral covered. They were contesting the final bend now, almost at the bottom of the channel. The burrow tunnel exit, the one that fed into the Virulent Mire’s high wall, was meters from being in enemy hands.

Then he pulled the notification stack forward.

It had been climbing in his peripheral throughout the engagement at the gate, the routine cadence Path B was supposed to generate when it was working. Incursion at the slime-coated approach. Dreadwyrms engaging. Hostiles eliminated, sector 1. The standard back-and-forth of an ambush line doing its job at the entry sector against an enemy that was supposed to be dying in the medium it was wading into. He had registered each entry the way a Master registered confirmation. Glance, file, return to the line.

Then only a couple dozen seconds ago, when the fight was really heating up with the invading level 100+ monsters, the cadence had broken.

[Path B alert: anomalous magma volume loss detected.]

[Named unit critical injury: Melty (Dreadwyrm). Mandible fracture along fusion seam.]

[Path B alert: hostile column advancing past slime approach into sector 2.]

[Path B alert: Pyremother brood production at zero. Brood-pool drained.]

[Dreadwyrm casualty: Path B, sector 2.]

[Path B alert: magma volume loss accelerating across sectors 2 through 4.]

[Magmashaper alert: terrain abilities offline across upper spiral. Shaping medium below operational threshold.]

[Dreadwyrm casualty: Path B, sector 3.]

[Path B alert: magma volume below combat threshold along upper spiral.]

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