Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 847

Chapter 847: Playing It Smart

[Ranged enemy within join distance. Champion 6 (The Rampart) joins this clash.]

The arena wall exploded inward.

The Rampart came through the breach at full gallop, plating cracking the arena floor under its hooves, and the mass of the thing caught Vespera mid-strike before she could land the seventh hit on the Bone Weaver’s caving torso.

She braced with shadows coiling around her legs but the impact drove her sideways fifteen meters before she stopped the slide with one hand on the ground.

The Bone Weaver was still standing. Four arms broken, torso caved, the spinning bone fragments scattered dead across the floor, but the construct pulled itself upright on legs that hadn’t been touched and the shards began sliding back across the stone toward its torso, clicking into place one by one as the skeletal frame started reassembling itself.

Vespera straightened and looked at the three enemies now occupying the same space as her and Bastet, and her expression didn’t change at all, save for the small hint of annoyance in her eyes as she watched her almost dead enemy pick itself back up.

[2v3 Clash: Vespera + Bastet vs C2 (Bone Weaver) + C6 (Rampart) + C7 (Serpent).]

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On the viewing pane, Kaiden watched as the two back-row champions joined the frontliner that refused to die.

"Kai."

Nyx’s voice came, and the single word carried everything she wasn’t saying.

He knew. He’d known the moment the Rampart crashed in.

Two of the Kaiju’s four strongest pieces were locked in that arena now, and the arena wouldn’t end until one side was fully eliminated.

No tricks could change that. The one it pulled on Scarlet had worked because Ensnare removed her from combat status, which let the Ravager walk out of an active clash, because it was no longer deemed active.

But Vespera had Resolute cast on her, making her immune to such effects, and the Kaiju had already burned through most of its hand.

Unless it had another way to take both of them out of combat, those three champions were stuck in there for as long as Vespera and Bastet kept fighting.

Three pieces off the board. Almost half of what the Kaiju had left.

And Scarlet’s fist hit the crystalline band again on the viewing pane’s edge, the crack spreading wider than the last, holding a full second before it sealed.

’She’s getting closer every second.’

Even if the worst came to pass, which was both Vespera and Bastet being eliminated and the three monsters returning to the board, as long as Scarlet broke free beforehand, he could push every piece forward at once.

Scarlet, Luna, Aria, Calypso, Nyx, Alice - six against four on the open board while the Kaiju’s strongest were trapped in a cage with his mother and felinid lover.

A blitz. The kind of play you make once and either win or lose everything.

But for that to work, he couldn’t send backup. He had to leave them in there.

His hand hovered over the board. Vespera’s words from before the match echoed in his skull, the same ones she’d said when she volunteered for the front.

’Don’t use cards on us. Don’t send ranged support.’

He’d already ignored that once by committing Bastet. She’d called it a rebellious phase and fought alongside the catgirl without complaint, because Vespera understood something Kaiden was only now catching up to: she’d always planned to hold this line until it broke her, letting him bring home victory using her sacrifice.

"Mom. Bastet."

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