Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 894

Chapter 894: Procedure Gone Wrong

"Ohh!! America has a new S-tier awakened!" people began clapping, celebrating the rare occasion.

Each S-tier was akin to a national treasure.

But the radiance kept climbing.

"Wait..." One of the technicians leaned toward his monitor, then jerked back like it had burned him. "It’s not stopping. Why is it not stopping?!"

The console shrieked.

Values spiked past the S-tier ceiling and kept going into territory the classification system had no names for, and the technician was hammering the recalibration key while her readout filled with numbers that no awakened in the history of the Association had ever produced.

"It’s past S-tier, it’s... what is this?!" She whipped toward her colleagues. "Is the artifact malfunctioning?!"

One of them ran a quick diagnostic while Nyx’s hand was still on it.

"No... It’s clean."

The artifact was functioning perfectly.

It was simply reading something its designers had never imagined it would need to measure.

And the reading was still climbing.

The celebration in the room had died.

The officials who’d been clapping moments ago now stood with their hands frozen mid-gesture, watching the orb pour radiance across the room while the technician’s readout ticked higher and higher into numbers that didn’t have classifications.

Then the air shimmered.

Space began warping.

Light bent and straight lines curved, radiating outward from the orb in slow, rolling waves.

A pen slid off the edge of a console and floated instead of falling. A tablet drifted upward from a technician’s hands and hung in the air beside her head.

"What... what’s happening?!" The lead technician grabbed the edge of her station as the floor beneath her tilted by half a degree. "Why is the room...?!"

"THE PEN IS FLOATING!" the younger technician shrieked, pointing at it as though saying it aloud would make it less insane. "Her reading is warping actual space! This isn’t... readings don’t DO this!"

One of the government officials staggered as his feet lifted from the floor, arms flailing for purchase on nothing, and Kaiden was at his side in two strides with his hand closing around the man’s shoulder before the spatial distortion could throw him.

Calypso snagged one of the technicians who’d been lifted clean from her chair, red fingers closing around the woman’s ankle. "Hold on. It’ll pass."

The spatial warping intensified.

Ripples passed through the room like waves through water, bending the walls, curving the ceiling, making the monitoring stations groan against their bolts.

The orb beneath Nyx’s palm burned so bright that the shadows had vanished entirely, and the reading on every console that was still functioning showed values climbing into territory that made the beyond-S numbers from ten seconds ago look modest.

Nyx’s eyes were amused.

She looked like she was listening to something only she could hear, her power flowing through the artifact and spilling into the room because the orb simply could not contain what it was measuring.

The stream chat was a wall of text moving so fast that individual messages were unreadable.

Millions of viewers watching the Space Valkyrie warp reality inside a government building while an examiner screamed at her instruments and two of them held confused officials so they weren’t thrown around the room.

Then Nyx lifted her hand, and the release hit the room like a concussive wave.

A pulse of white-gold radiance bloomed from the orb and struck every wall at once, and in the same instant, the spatial warping collapsed.

Everything that had been floating dropped. Everything that had been bending snapped straight. The pen clattered to the floor. The tablet landed in the technician’s lap. The official in Kaiden’s grip stumbled as his feet found solid ground.

Silence.

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