Demonic Po*nstar System

Chapter 127 127: Nova Circuit

- Tessa: Dear Kaiden, Iʼm Tessa, guild leader of Nova Circuit. A scout of ours saw the might your team displayed today, and I must say, it left quite an impression. Iʼd like to offer you a proposition. Would you be able to meet in person shortly?

Kaiden reread it just to make sure his eyes werenʼt deceiving him. Were they scouted already? While clearing a beginner dungeon? It made him feel good but also a bit strange. He thought this might be fishy, so he looked up the sender and her guild.

Tessa was a B-tier awakened with an estimated level of 55-70, with the class Arcane Archer. ʼArcaneʼ was a highly favored subtype of an archetype; it referred to their ability to fight with energy-based attacks, explosions, lasers, and the like.

David also had the Arcane subtype, though he was an Archmage and not an Archer, making his class superior—hence his A-tier assessment.

As for the guild she led, Nova Circuit, it was a low-tier one. Guilds could be categorized into three broad tiers: low, mid, and high.

What separated the tiers was the quality of their members and their ability to clear dungeons effectively. Funding, prestige, and leadership also played pivotal roles in determining a guildʼs tier.

Nova Circuit used to be mid-tier, but they fell back to low-tier. Kaiden didnʼt know what had happened as the info he found on them didnʼt go into specifics, but a lot of their strongest members decided to leave and join another guild. Perhaps internal conflict or mismanagement had caused the decline.

- Kaiden: Dear Tessa, thank you for reaching out, but weʼre not interested in joining any guild right now.

He decided to decline her gently, not because her guild was low-tier but because he didnʼt lie when he said he had no intention of joining any guild. Depending on the contract, a guild could even demand a portion of his earnings from his adult videos, making it harder for him to increase the income statistic of the system. That was assuming they donʼt outright forbid him from uploading adult content in the first place.

- Tessa: Iʼm sad to hear that, but I didnʼt reach out to you with the intention of recruitment.

- Kiaden: Then?

- Tessa: Iʼm sorry, but I would like to hold this conversation face-to-face. Since itʼs me who is being so difficult, Iʼll travel to your choice of meeting place, should you be willing to meet.

Kaiden quickly discussed the news with his girls, and together, they decided to entertain this woman. It wasnʼt every day that a guild leader came knocking unprompted, after all.

…

”A cappuccino for me, please,” Kaiden ordered from the cute waitress.

”Hot chocolate.”

”Iʼll take an espresso.”

”May I have a caramel oat milk latte, topped with a sprinkle of cinnamon sugar?”

”Most certainly!” the waitress cheered, after which she departed to deliver their orders.

Luna and Nyx, who ordered after Kaiden, eyed Aria curiously due to her choice of drink.

”Itʼs the first time in my life I can afford to get something fancy like this. Stop looking at me like Iʼm a soulless Inst*gram influencer!” Aria scoffed; she was very defensive.

”True, itʼs the fat bimbo who keeps posting pictures nonstop,” Luna agreed.

”Iʼm the social media manager of Valhallaʼs Sinners, so itʼs my job, but I digress. Instead, let me voice my surprise; you two managed to sit down at a table as if you were normal people instead of climbing all over Kai. The chaos gremlin didnʼt place her little butt on his lap while the Disn*y princess didnʼt start holding his hand as if they were glued together.”

As soon as the words left Nyxʼs tantalizing lips, Aria subconsciously reached her hand toward Kaidenʼs before she caught herself, and a rosy pink shade emerged on her cheeks, realizing just how right the Space Valkyrieʼs assessment of her tendencies ended up being. Luna, meanwhile, began glaring daggers at the woman, but before she could part her lips to most certainly deliver a very unladylike response, Kaiden successfully intervened, placating the ladies. It didnʼt take long for the waitress to deliver their requested drinks.

”Not a soulless Instagram influencer, huh.” Nyx giggled slyly as she saw Aria immediately begin taking pictures of her fancy coffee immediately.

”Iʼm sending it to Mom!” Aria defended herself. ”She must be so bored...”

Julia was still in the hospital, but she was making a quick recovery. The Levander mother no longer needed infusion because her condition had stabilized. She might be allowed to go home at any moment now. Until then, Julia busied herself by following her daughterʼs awakened journey and chatting with her younger daughter, Lux, who visited her a lot.

Naturally, what she watched of Ariaʼs awakened journey didnʼt include the adult parts, such as the one where she was pretending to be a slutty nurse and getting ravaged by Kaidenʼs throbbing 9 incher.

”Ah, youʼre here.”

A voice sounded from next to them, and when Kaiden turned his head in its direction, he was greeted by a black-haired woman who had big blue eyes. She wore a form-fitting white turtleneck that accentuated her generous, feminine figure.

Kaiden saw pictures of Tessa when he did a quick search on her, but she was always in her combat attire in those pictures. Here, she looked very fashionable—so much so that it took him a few seconds to realize that it was the same woman as the one in the pictures.

He stood to greet her properly. It was a business meeting, after all. The three Valkyries did the same.

Once the five of them were seated, it was time to begin.

”Miss Tessa, Iʼm truly curious about your reason for being so secretive during our chat on the awakened platform.”

She wryly smiled in response. ”Iʼm an old-fashioned woman who would rather spend two hours traveling to meet in person than to speak over the phone… or the awakened platform in this case. I must seem like a weird woman to you youngsters.”

”Arenʼt you like 28 or something?” Luna deadpanned.

”Donʼt even get me started…” Tessa sighed with exhaustion before continuing, ”However, thatʼs just my preference. For talks like this, speaking in person is the normal thing to do.”

”But for ʼtalks like this,ʼ it would not be the guild leader who comes personally to speak with four low-level, low-tier awakened,” Nyx countered.

”… Youʼre right,” Tessa admitted. ”Truth be told, I need your help. We need to clear a dungeon that has a very annoying restriction: those who are level 10 or above canʼt enter.”

A giant grin emerged on Kaidenʼs face for a moment before he suppressed it. His plan was already working.

As stated before, there were two ways he could gain access to uncharted dungeons. One, make a guild and pay insane sums, as even the registration itself costs an arm and a leg, or two, join a guild.

However, there was a third option, a crafty, high-risk, high-reward one: remain independent and low-level while broadcasting his competence, where a desperate guild might reach out to them in the exact case Nova Circuit seems to have found itself in.

”You canʼt clear it with your low-level members, so you need help from competent outsiders,” Nyx voiced her thoughts.