Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 816

Chapter 816: Retreating Enemies

He checked the bond. Five women at the chokehold, each one alive and standing and carrying the same XP windfall he was. The fusions had been running for over an hour of sustained combat.

...

Kaiden followed the retreating column’s path through the drained magma passage with Vespera’s shadow gliding beside him, the dry stone still warm under his boots where the river used to flow. The passage opened into the Safe Zone, and the girls were already coming through from the other side.

Seven women converged on the dungeon entrance from both directions, weapons lowered, blood drying. Luna stepped through the chokehold passage with a scowl, and when she saw Kaiden she gave him a dry look.

"So. They just... left?"

"They left." He stopped five meters from the gate and looked at it. The dimensional threshold sat in the Cavern’s mouth the same way it had since the duel began, a faint shimmer in the air with nothing coming through it. The silence on the other side was total.

Nyx spoke, wary of what her man might do in the next few seconds. "Don’t even think about walking through that, Kai. Outside your gate is its ground."

Then she looked wryly at her gremlin bestie, "You neither. I know you’re a very brash girl who’s high on adrenalin, but..." Luna offered her a middle finger, cutting the dialogue off.

"Wasn’t going to," Kaiden replied, looking at the gate, then at the group. "Anyone got a gadget for the job?"

"I knew it’d come in handy!" Scarlet sang happily and reached into the pouch at her hip and pulled out a compact artifact the size of a closed fist, a bronze sphere etched with surveillance runes and a lens set into its front face. A small handheld controller came out after it, its display flickering to life when she fed both pieces mana.

Nyx looked at the artifact and then at the Flame Monarch with genuine surprise. "You brought a recon drone? You?"

Scarlet beamed proudly, already syncing the controller to the sphere. "Doesn’t fit my image, right? True, normally I wouldn’t be caught dead with this nerdy stuff."

She tossed the drone from one hand to the other, testing its weight. "But when you get a call from Vespera Ashborn offering you a fortune to come fight for her children, you better believe you’re getting wrung for every penny’s worth. I came prepared for the worst."

"That makes a lot of sense, actually..." Nyx giggled softly, a sound that had no business being this light thirty seconds after a battlefield went silent.

Scarlet sent the drone through the threshold with a flick and held the controller out so everyone could see the display.

The feed hit white.

Flat, featureless expanse stretching in every direction under a sky that held no sun but carried light from nowhere, the same dimensionless void the battle dimension had opened when the seal first dropped. The drone’s camera panned in a slow circle, and then it found the Claimant.

The thing sat in the white country, the same body that had stood as a mountain range, four legs folded beneath a mass the camera had no hope of framing in a single shot, stone-slab flanks rippling in slow peristaltic waves that moved its hide like a living landscape. Its crown vanished past the camera’s upward range.

Six eyes, each one wrong in a way the lens couldn’t capture but every viewer who had seen the mountain broadcast recognized, sat half-lidded in the massive head and tracked the drone without urgency, each pupil moving independently of the others.

Around its base, an army.

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