Chapter 111

It took the girls an hour to wake up, which gave Kaiden some time to check out the other creators on the media platform.

He had to wince when he saw ChronosX, which had uploaded a video 20 minutes ago, yet it already had 13 million views. The reach of the system was a mighty one. Illiterate tribesmen who had no clue what even electricity was, let alone the internet, were among the members of the possible audience, which put into perspective just how much room for growth Valhalla's Sinners had. They were pulling in great numbers when one considered the internet as a basis for comparison, but the media platform was different.

Kaiden checked the page of ChronosX and saw their total view count to be already higher than Earth's populace, more than three times at that. They had a little over 20 billion combined views spread across 80 videos. Yes, their videos were averaging 250 million views, and they were only a couple of days old at most.

He checked some videos out and they were the same generic slop porn as all others. A boring intro with cringeworthy prewritten dialogues followed by obvious fake moaning and orgasming. The actors and actresses had no personalities, they were just pieces of meat who were most certainly instructed by the director to moan like pigs.

Kaiden also noticed that their newest videos were shot exclusively by their high-quality third-person cameras. ChronosX seemingly returned the first-person camera to the labs for further improvements. It was a smart move on their part, Kaiden thought. If they kept trying to compete with him in the first-person footage, they would just get humiliated each time a viewer compared the content.

Focusing on their strength and choosing to ignore a small channel like theirs was the best move they could have made. They could then turn their staggering amount of profits into more R&D and then begin pushing him out of the market completely once they had a similarly well-functioning first-person camera.

Kaiden also had to grit his teeth when he saw just how many other channels popped up after purchasing the $300,000 cameras, showcasing the incredible bank ChronosX was currently making. They were almost certainly the most profitable company right now. Only a few other giants could take them on, mostly ones focusing on crafting awakened gear. A high-tier blacksmith-type classed person was a straight-up goldmine; their creations would be sold like hotcakes with easily a 1000% return on investment.

The issue blacksmiths faced was the time required to create good gear, but ChronosX could shit out their videos at an incredible rate. They already released 80 in less than three days, after all.

Naturally, high-tier guilds like New Dawn were still having higher incomes than ChronosX, but it was not fair to compare a top guild with a company. A guild like New Dawn had numerous revenue streams and also had many high-tier awakened rampaging in newly formed dungeons, bringing out insane treasures.

Just when Kaiden was done with his musings, the ladies woke up. They did so one after the other in rapid succession as if they were part of a hivemind—which they might've been, considering yesterday's coordinated attack on his person, mainly on his little brother.

"Hmm… *Yawn*" Nyx moaned rather sensually. "Oh, so this is why I couldn't turn… How was your Valkyrie pillow for the night, master?" the plump beauty asked once she realized his head was resting on her behind.

"Simply the best."

"Hehe!"

"Oh, Kai, I'm so sorry! Are your legs okay? Are they not numb?" Aria awoke with a yelp once she realized she had spent the night sprawled over his legs.

"I'm perfectly fine."

"My body hurts like hell…" Luna grumbled while massaging her thighs.

"Kai certainly did a number on us!" Aria giggled cheerily before planting a loving kiss on the tip of his limp shaft.

Kaiden could go to war once again if he wanted to, but he had other plans, so he stroked Aria's hair lovingly before giving her head a gentle nudge. "Well, ladies. I'm going to have a chat with Mommy Aria, and do you know what you three will be doing?"

"Cooking pancakes," Nyx replied.

"Reaching Challenger rank," Luna added.

"Probably doing my makeup and then reading my favorite BL mangas' newest chapters…" Aria murmured dreamily. It seemed she was still a sucker for that genre even after getting into a proper relationship. Kaiden didn't mind; she could read her gay stories as much as she liked.

However, not now.

"Beep! Wrong answers!" he decreed while crossing his arms into an X shape. "You three will shower, eat some filling, healthy breakfast, and hit the gym under Miss Aria's careful guidance."

His announcement sent a ripple of effects across his audience.

Nyx painfully groaned from behind him. "I know this was exactly what I asked for in the dungeon, but now that it's actually time to fulfill my promise of taking good care of my body, I just want to crash and burn. Warm waffles with jam and steaming hot chocolate to drink, please!"

"Bruh, I'll die. I can barely move," Luna decreed while glaring at him with eyes full of protest.

"I'm in!" Aria squealed excitedly.

"The best time to start was yesterday, but the second best time is right now!" Kaiden shouted his motivational quote.

"I feel like kicking you in the balls all of a sudden…" Luna growled rather cutely, or so it appeared to Kaiden.

"Luna, you fight with a sword… You need physical stats the most out of us girls," Aria informed the protesting Valkyrie.

"Ugh…"

"Well, I'm getting a shower first, and then I'm off. Aria, please send me a message with your mother's home and work addresses," Kaiden said before rushing off into the bathroom. He didn't want to tell his girls that his system ranked up, and thus they had new spells to them if their theory was correct. He wanted to see how long it would take for them to realize it on their own.

It took Kaiden a good few minutes to navigate the slums until he reached the address. Go*gle Maps didn't even know the location existed.

Kaiden then spent five minutes or so knocking on the door until he gave up and decided to visit her place of employment—namely, her abusive boyfriend's brothel.

Once he finally found it, he had to frown. This was one ugly, decaying building.

The walls, which might have been white a long time ago, were now filthy and stained with chunks of it outright missing, exposing the bricks beneath.

The windows were either cracked, completely broken, or boarded up with planks. The roof was also a mess, with missing tiles and randomly placed tarps held down by bricks. Above the doorway, a sign stated "Paradise Den," though some of the letters were gone, forcing Kaiden to spend a few seconds trying to understand what it was meant to say.

"Yikes." Kaiden couldn't help exclaim. That word perfectly summed up his whirlwind of thoughts into a single phrase. He rather reluctantly stepped in, and the disgusting stench, which most likely resulted from horrible plumbing work, welcomed him. A man with crooked teeth and an ugly smile welcomed him.