Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 78

Chapter 78: Major News

"Major news came in just now. There was an assassination attempt on the life of the president of the United States just minutes ago by a Russian terrorist, Dmitri ’Detonator’ Sokolov, a well-known B-tier awakened terrorist who self-detonated while lunging at the president. The resulting blast took out more than ten Secret Service members who used their bodies to take the brunt of the resulting explosion. The president is alive but in critical condition. Whether it was the act of a rogue individual or that of a whole country is yet to be known. Tensions have been high ever since the apocalypse arrived. As a result, there are reasonable fears of a direct confrontation erupting for the first time between major global powers since the end of World War II."

"Holy hell..." Kaiden murmured with disbelief.

"The timing is sus AF!" Luna squinted her eyes. She was bewildered.

"Yeah..." They were all in agreement.

Naturally, their story was covered by some news channels already, as the fight happened 24 hours ago. However, Global Awakened News was the news channel that emerged as the clear-cut most-viewed channel in the country after the arrival of the mana apocalypse. Global Awakened News was owned by the government and had a heavy presence both on the awakened platform, on the internet, and in the cable television scene as well.

...

In the conference room of a major corporation.

"Sir! We’re ready to make the announcement!"

"Do it," A man who was seated at the executive seat grunted. He was the CEO of ChronosX, a company specializing in the R&D of artifacts, specifically aimed at the adult sector of the media platform. Thus far, the scene had been underwhelming, to say the least. It was just a bunch of F-tier nobodies making amateur videos because they were too weak or cowardly to enter dungeons, where true wealth and fame awaited.

However, porn was a major industry, and everyone with a functioning brain understood that there was a lot of untapped potential in the awakened platform’s adult scene. The issue had always been the mana cameras being heavily behind a professional studio’s output. The footage captured by normal cameras couldn’t be uploaded to the awakened media platform. As a result, they had to resort to using the mana cameras, which were perfect for capturing high-octane combat situations but not sensual bed play.

ChronosX, therefore, invested an insane amount of money into R&D. They hired dozens of high-tier crafters from all over the world, giving them free rein to create better mana cameras by hand, as the mana cameras they had beforehand came exclusively from dungeon loot.

Although the products were a bit rough around the edges, they had to move now. Why?

Because of a pesky newbie whose videos felt very threatening to their potential profits. The higher-ups of ChronosX couldn’t grasp how an amateur group called Valhalla’s Sinners managed to get their hands on such a rare artifact... It’s a first-person recording, and at a super high clarity at that. It was completely unheard of; thus, the shareholders were terrified. Should they allow the group to keep uploading without competition, they would become the ’awakened porn channel’ that monopolized the entire awakened platform’s adult scene to themselves.