Chapter 768: Morning Afterglow
Chapter 768: Morning Afterglow
The room was quiet except for the slow, steady rhythm of breathing.
Kaiden lay in the center of the bed with five women draped across him in various states of satisfied collapse. Aria’s silver hair fanned across his chest, her face peaceful, her moonlight lingerie long since dismissed. Bastet’s tail curled around his ankle, her purr a low continuous rumble even in sleep. Nyx had claimed the space against his ribs, her pink hair stuck to her cheek, her spatial rope still coiled loosely around her forearms because nobody had bothered to untie her. Calypso’s red arm was thrown across his stomach, her horns brushing his shoulder, her breathing deep and content.
And Luna.
Luna was tucked against his other side in her cow-print set, the little bell at her throat still, her face buried against his bicep. Her petite body rose and fell with each breath, and her expression held none of the feral energy that usually lived there.
The new tools and attires had been a hit. Every single one of them had found something that made the night better. Calypso’s mana-null cuffs had finally let her feel what she wanted. Nyx’s rope had stripped away her spatial escape routes and left her wonderfully helpless. Bastet’s silks had made her feel like the queen she was. Aria’s moonlight lingerie had betrayed her arousal to the entire room in glowing pulses she couldn’t hide.
He chuckled softly, careful not to wake anyone, and let his hand drift toward Luna’s butt.
Then he paused.
’Maybe not for her.’
She’d been wrecked thoroughly. Multiple times. The rematch she’d demanded had turned into a third round, then a fourth, and by the end she’d stopped counting orgasms and started making sounds that weren’t words anymore.
He pinched her.
Luna growled in her sleep, a low warning sound that held no real threat. Her arms tightened around his bicep, pulling it against her chest, and she nestled closer without waking. The corner of her mouth twitched upward.
She’d had a blast. She’d never say it, never admit that being dressed up and dominated made her feel things... But the feelings were most certainly real.
Kaiden let his hand rest on the curve of her perky behind and turned his attention toward the ceiling.
Business mode was activated.
It had been a while since he’d checked the Demonic Pornstar System’s metrics. Ten days or so. He’d been busy with other things. Brutal things. Monsters that wanted to kill him, siblings that wanted to destroy him, a competition that demanded every ounce of focus he had.
And honestly? He hadn’t checked because he knew the Tier 4 requirements were insane.
He pulled up the rank window anyway.
[System Rank-Up Requirements — Tier 3 ➝ Tier 4]
[Views: 7,695,048,107]
[Income: 50,000,000]
[Fangirls: 10,000,000]
Nearly eight billion views. Fifty million in income. Ten million fangirls.
The gap between where he’d been and where he needed to go had felt like a canyon. Not impossible, but distant. A goal measured in years of steady grinding, not days.
So he’d filed it away and focused on what mattered in the moment. Fighting. Surviving. Winning the competition. Building Eclipse into something that could stand on its own.
But now, with the dust settling and his girls breathing softly around him, it was time to check.
His metrics looked as such back then:
[Views: 2.81 billion]
[Income: 198,400]
[Fangirls: 119,600]
Superstar numbers. The numbers of a successful celebrity who’d found his formula and was executing it well. Growth had been steady, compounding, accelerating with each new milestone.
But that was ten days ago.
Since then, a lot had happened.
The New Dawn saga had exploded across every platform. The Ashborn family reveal, broadcast live to millions who had tuned in expecting combat and instead watched the most famous secret in the awakened world get torn open in real time. Kaiden Grey wasn’t just some weird anomaly anymore. He was an Ashborn. Son of Magnus Morvane and Vespera Ashborn.
Then the moment that broke the internet: Kaiden hugging the Shadow Monarch on camera, and her leaning into it. Smiling. The woman the world knew as an ice-cold murder machine had looked like a happy mother, and the clip spread everywhere within hours. People who’d never watched an awakened broadcast in their lives suddenly wanted to know who this young man was.
The reveal of his dark halo as Alice Ashborn. His clash with the Ashbound guild. His public beef with Magnus. His massacre of New Dawn members in the basin. Vespera’s divorce and departure from New Dawn, and because she had no social media of her own, all those curious eyes flocking to her son’s channel instead. The formation of Eclipse, mother and son building something new together.
Each event fed the next. His name stayed in everyone’s mouth.
Kaiden had become a household name in America. The kind of name that people who didn’t follow awakened media still recognized, that showed up in mainstream news and dinner table conversations. Internationally, his reach had spread further than he’d projected. The Ashborn drama translated across cultures. Everyone understood family conflict. Everyone understood a son standing up to an all-powerful father.
He wasn’t at the peak of personal power yet. His level was still climbing, his stats still growing. But recognition didn’t wait for power to catch up.
The Demonic Pornstar System only tracked metrics from intimate footage. Combat broadcasts didn’t count. Variety material didn’t count. The system cared about one thing: how many people watched him and his girls together, how much money they gained doing it, and how many women devoted themselves as fangirls.
But when your mainstream recognition exploded, your old videos got pushed by the algorithm. Many new female viewers who found Kaiden through the Ashborn drama eventually learned that he also produced exclusive 18+ material for their gender. A significant percentage of those women got curious. The back catalog performed better than ever, carried by the wave of new attention.
Furthermore, it wasn’t like they’d gone celibate. In the past ten days, they did upload adult content, just less frequently.
But that was all before yesterday.
Yesterday had been the five-hour orgy broadcast.
All five of his girls. All of them plowed thoroughly, completely, in every position and configuration they could manage. The fangirls who’d been waiting, who’d subscribed and paid and hoped for exactly this, had finally gotten what they wanted. A real sex marathon. Hours of uninterrupted footage showing exactly how much of a beast Kaiden was in bed.
But more than the physical performance, the broadcast had shown them what it was like to be his partner. Aria trembling with love as he called her his beautiful moon. Luna’s defiance crumbling into desperate pleasure. All five of them, from five different perspectives, showing the audience exactly what kind of man Kaiden truly was.
Somewhere in the private wing, Kira and Rika had snoozed briefly for the first few hours of it, but as the extreme workaholics that they were, they woke up and started editing immediately, before the stream even ended.
They’d cut the footage into multiple videos, each one highlighting different moments, different girls, different dynamics. Optimized for the algorithm. Designed to maximize replay value.
The edited videos had been published practically as soon as the broadcast ended. The twins knew their craft.
Kaiden looked at the stat window hovering before him.
Ten days of accumulated chaos. A recognition explosion that had made him a household name. And a five-hour intimate broadcast that had finally delivered on every promise his material had ever made.
It was time to see the numbers.
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