[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want-":3,"chapter-my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-56":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","My Streaming Life With SSS-Rank Girls With Want My Kids",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1457676,1905,"Chapter 56: The Labyrinth","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-56",56,"\u003Cp>The hallway to the left ended at a door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three stopped in front of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira withdrew her tracking threads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The signal is coming from in there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know,\" Serah said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can you sense what’s on the other side?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No.\" The silver markings pulsed faintly. \"Something is blocking the primordial aura in that direction. Like static.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai looked at the surface of the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The texture was the same as the walls — the material that wasn’t Aethon stone, that responded to Qi, that someone had processed from somewhere else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He extended his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi pulsed at the point of contact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The door opened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first thing they saw was the size.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no way to process it gradually — it was too much for the brain to absorb in parts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The space that opened on the other side of the door was a chamber the size of a small city, with a ceiling so high that the torches illuminating the upper walls were points of light from below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Six hundred meters long, perhaps. Width comparable.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in the center, filling practically all the available space from the floor to the first fifty meters of height: a labyrinth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walls of black stone of the same material as the fortress, of varying heights between three and twelve meters, organized in a pattern that from below seemed chaotic and that from no viewpoint available on the ground showed its complete structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then there was sound — the kind produced by many things moving in enclosed spaces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deep, continuous, distributed in all directions from inside the labyrinth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira looked at the labyrinth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah looked at the labyrinth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai said: \"That’s big.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Jack_Moore: SIX HUNDRED METERS OF LABYRINTH]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[RagingMutant: ∑(°口°) \"THAT’S BIG\" — KAI]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Dr_Snow: the sound coming from inside. there are things in there. many.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Wolf1179: Kai assessed the labyrinth and his first reaction was appreciative]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[DraconicLegacy: @Wolf1179 consistent with his personality. he’s been like this since his first stream.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The A_D_M panel was at the center of the chamber, right before the entrance to the labyrinth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t large — the size of a book, floating at eye level. It had a single line of active text.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[EVENT: LABYRINTH OF GRIMVAST]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Rules: each participant will be transported to a random sector of the labyrinth. Objective: reach the center. The center contains the exit]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Condition: the interference system will block communication between participants during the event]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Time limit: until the last participant reaches the center or is eliminated]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The labyrinth creatures are real. Elimination is permanent.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai read the panel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah read it over his shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira read it and then looked at the labyrinth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Labyrinth creatures,\" she repeated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What rank?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if answering the question, something inside the labyrinth emitted a sound that had no simple classification in the Aethon ranking system because the Aethon ranking system hadn’t been designed to classify what produced that sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira processed the sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Its blood,\" she said, \"probably tastes horrible.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai looked at Serah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah was looking at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’ll be fine,\" Kai said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know.\" The markings pulsed. \"You’ll be fine too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You know?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because if you’re not fine—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The panel flickered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Initiating transport in 5 seconds]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Jack_Moore: \"its blood probably tastes horrible\" — Lira’s priority in a life-or-death situation]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[RagingMutant: (╬ Ò﹏Ó) THE PANEL FLICKERED IN THE MIDDLE OF KAI AND SERAH]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Dr_Snow: \"you’ll be fine too \u002F you know? \u002F yes \u002F because if you’re not fine—\" — SERAH DIDN’T FINISH THE SENTENCE]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Wolf1179: four seconds of conversation before transport. Kai and Serah used every one.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[DraconicLegacy: @Wolf1179 and Lira was thinking about the blood. perfect dynamic.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[3]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[2]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[1]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chamber vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>POV — Kai:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The floor was the same black material.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The corridor where he appeared was four meters wide and had the kind of silence belonging to enclosed spaces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai looked in the two available directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Left: corridor that turned at twenty meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right: straight corridor ending in a fork.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he looked at the ceiling — five meters. Enough to move vertically if he needed to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Serah and Lira are somewhere in the labyrinth.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The interference system blocks communication.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I can’t know where they are.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Serah will be fine.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Serah has spent 2,300 years surviving without me.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I know.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He breathed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Though she won’t be focused.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew it because he wasn’t fully focused either — there was a fraction of his attention still calculating where Serah might have ended up in the labyrinth, what sector, what kind of creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’She’ll be fine.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Focus on your own thing.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi flowed — active, stable, at the level he’d reached in the training session.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai let it distribute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fortress responded to Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The labyrinth too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The walls around him vibrated faintly as the Qi expanded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Interesting.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the left corridor came the sound of something moving toward him at an accelerated pace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Big.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the kind of weight that made the floor vibrate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai set his stance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Good. Let’s see what’s here.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>POV — Lira:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sector where she appeared had its own light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not torches — the wall material emitted a faint blue luminescence that was enough to see clearly and that to human eyes would have seemed atmospheric and to vampire eyes seemed artificial and slightly irritating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira looked at the walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the ceiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the corridor in front of her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Separated.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Of course.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’A_D_M designed this to isolate the insects they brought to this world.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She extended the tracking threads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The interference system cut them off at three meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Well-prepared.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira retracted them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at the corridor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the depths came a smell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vampires have senses designed for a specific function — finding blood, classifying blood, evaluating blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Horrible.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Absolutely horrible.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’What does something eat for its blood to smell like this?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The creature appeared in the corridor — four meters tall, a structure that didn’t correspond to any Aethon classification Lira knew, with eyes that emitted their own light, the same irritating blue as the walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira assessed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rank: high. Not SS but close enough to be an inconvenience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speed: estimated high from the visible musculature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood: discarded as an option. It smelled like something Lira preferred not to name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’This,’ she thought, with the resignation of someone who is going to have a very long day, ’is a nuisance.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She activated blood magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’If I can’t track, I attack directly.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’At least the fight will be simple.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The creature charged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira dodged with an SS lateral step and launched a current at its flank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Simple.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Though annoying.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>POV — Serah:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah’s silver markings were at maximum from the moment of transport.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not because of the creatures — because of the absence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The primordial aura that normally monitored territory in a radius of kilometers had instinctively searched for Kai at the moment of separation and had found the interference system in its place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah looked at the corridor where she’d appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Kai is somewhere in this labyrinth.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I can’t feel him.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I can’t...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The markings pulsed irregularly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Focus.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She tried the primordial aura again — active search, maximum extension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The interference system cut it off at two meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’No.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah looked at the ceiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’This doesn’t make sense.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Kai said he’d be fine.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Kai always says he’ll be fine and always ends up in some situation that makes the viewer count shoot up to millions.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The markings oscillated between rapid pulsing and forced stillness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’He’s fine.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I know he’s fine.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It’s just...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the right corridor came a sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Multiple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coordinated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The kind of creatures that hunt in packs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah turned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Four creatures in formation — not the same as Lira’s sector, these were shorter, faster, with the specific structure of something designed for speed in enclosed spaces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Estimated rank: high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Number: four now, and the sound from the corridor suggested four was the visible number, not the total number.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah looked at them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Kai will be fine,’ she repeated internally, with the firmness of someone convincing themselves of something they know is true but instinct hasn’t fully accepted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’And when we get out of here I’m going to tell him exactly what I think about this labyrinth.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But first...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The claws appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’First this.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Jack_Moore: THREE POVS. ALL THREE SEPARATED. ALL THREE THINKING ABOUT THE SAME THING FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[RagingMutant: ᕦ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ᕤ Kai thinking about Serah \u002F Lira thinking about the horrible blood \u002F Serah thinking about Kai]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Dr_Snow: \"when we get out of here I’m going to tell him exactly what I think about this labyrinth\" — Serah accumulating things to say to Kai]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Wolf1179: Lira discarded the creatures’ blood as an option. that says everything about the creatures’ rank.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[DraconicLegacy: if something’s blood makes Lira frown, that something is problematic]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three corridors filled at the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not two or three creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Groups.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From Kai’s left corridor came eight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From Lira’s corridor emerged six more of the first creature plus twelve of a different type — smaller, in a swarm, with coordinated movement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From Serah’s corridor the four visible became nine when those at the back of the hall heard that the first four had found something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All with the same intention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No ambiguity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No assessment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Direct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Jack_Moore: EIGHT FOR KAI. EIGHTEEN FOR LIRA. NINE FOR SERAH.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[RagingMutant: ∑(°口°) AT THE SAME TIME]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Dr_Snow: A_D_M calibrated the numbers. not random.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Wolf1179: Kai has eight. Serah has nine. Lira has eighteen. the labyrinth knows who it’s dealing with.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Dragonic_Legacy: or it knows each one’s rank and sent proportional. that’s worse.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[System — notification]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Current viewers: 16,100,000]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The system notes that all three have groups of creatures approaching]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The system notes that Kai is smiling]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The system notes that Lira is annoyed by the smell]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The system notes that Serah is thinking about Kai]\u003C\u002Fp>",1667,"2026-06-06T02:17:07.051Z",1,"novelbin.me","3b805115445decfecd396a96d7c4e71d58e66ad9526dfa7152a47486409e1051","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-57","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-55",110,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmy-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--cover.jpg"]