[{"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-59":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},1457679,1905,"Chapter 59: The Vampire in the Labyrinth","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-59",59,"\u003Cp>POV — Lira \u002F Sector 12 \u002F Level 1\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The eighteen creatures came in two groups.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first from the front — six of them. The second from above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira looked toward the ceiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twelve smaller creatures were descending the vertical walls of the corridor, their limbs ending in suction cups that adhered to the black fortress material with a wet sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were thin, elongated, their bodies the length of a human arm but without clearly differentiated parts — no head separate from the torso, no limbs other than the four they used to adhere. At the end where the head should be was a circular opening surrounded by small, inward-curving teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Parasites.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Designed to latch on and perforate.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The six in front were different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bipedal, roughly five-foot-eleven, their bodies covered in short, dense dark gray fur.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long arms that reached the ground when they walked upright, ending in hands with three fingers each — two opposable and one central, all with hardened flat nails.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The face was flat with eyes on the sides of the head, granting nearly complete three-hundred-sixty-degree vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No visible nose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mouth, when the first one opened it to emit the sound they used to coordinate, showed three rows of flat, wide teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The bipedals coordinate. The parasites execute.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’If I eliminate the bipedals first, the parasites lose direction.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[DraconicLegacy: LIRA ANALYZING THE SITUATION WITH A FACE OF TOTAL BOREDOM]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Wolf1179: parasites that adhere to surfaces and perforate. that’s specifically designed for vampires that move along walls.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Mist_Of_Death: the bipedals have 360-degree vision. can’t be attacked from the back.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[CTU1024: first stream. someone explain what’s happening.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Mana_of_Void: @CTU1024 SS vampire in a labyrinth created by the world administrators. the creatures were specifically designed for each participant.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[CTU1024: ...I’m going to need more context but this looks good]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira didn’t move from the spot where she had appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The twelve creatures on the walls descended the last three meters and lunged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira extended both hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twelve currents of blood magic shot out simultaneously — not the thin ones for precise combat, the wide ones, covering the area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each current met a creature in the air before it reached the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The currents coiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The twelve creatures fell wrapped in solidified blood magic, immobilized in the moment between leap and landing, their suction cups opening and closing without finding anything to adhere to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twelve parasites out of the equation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The six bipedals stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Without the parasites, they’re recalculating.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira lowered her hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Next,\" she said, in the tone someone uses to indicate they’re ready for the next item on a meeting agenda.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The six bipedals didn’t recalculate for long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one in the center emitted the coordination sound — a low, continuous frequency that the other five responded to by adjusting their position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They split into two groups of three, different flanks, the flanking tactic their bodies with three-hundred-sixty-degree vision made especially effective because they could execute it without losing sight of the target at any moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira let them surround her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first of the left group attacked with its long arm — the impact of the three flat nails aimed at Lira’s shoulder, the kind of strike that doesn’t seek to cut but to hit with mass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira dodged it by leaning her body back exactly enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The arm passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira closed the distance in the same movement — inside the creature’s guard, where the long arm was a geometry problem because it couldn’t bend enough to attack at that distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood current straight to the chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The creature went backward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second of the same group came from the flank while Lira was finishing with the first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Four fingers. Three fingers. Four fingers.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira blocked with her forearm, turned with the impact, and used the momentum to place herself behind the creature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Three-hundred-sixty-degree vision.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’No blind spot.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But there’s a slow spot.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The nape. The only angle where the visual information arrived from both eyes simultaneously but processed by the side that didn’t initiate the movement. Half a second of response delay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half a second was enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[DraconicLegacy: LIRA FOUND THE SLOW SPOT IN THE 360-DEGREE VISION IN THIRTY SECONDS]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Wolf1179: the bipedals have complete vision but there’s an angle where processing is slower. she identified it in two exchanges.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Mist_Of_Death: eight hundred years of combat. that’s what you see when she fights seriously.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[CTU1024: that vampire is incredible. and she has a face like everything is a minor inconvenience to her.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Mana_of_Void: @CTU1024 welcome to Lira.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The six bipedals took four minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not because they were difficult — but because blood magic in wide currents consumed more than the precise combat currents, and Lira had used twelve for the parasites before starting on the bipedals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the sector fell silent, Lira assessed the state of her available blood magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seventy percent. Enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The smell of the eighteen incapacitated creatures around her hit her then — when the combat ended and the vampire sense of smell stopped prioritizing the immediate threat and processed the full environment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira wrinkled her nose slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Horrible.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Absolutely horrible.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’What do they feed these things?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The opening to the next level was at the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[ACTIVE VOTE — VIEWERS FROM OTHER STREAMS]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Modification: Level 2]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Option A: Armored creatures — 52%]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Option B: Magic suppression — 31%]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Option C: Increased density — 17%]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Result: Option A]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[DraconicLegacy: armor. reasonable against blood magic.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Wolf1179: 52% chose the most logical thing against a vampire who uses magic. physical armor that magic can’t easily wrap around.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Mist_Of_Death: Lira doesn’t know what’s coming. that bored face is going to change.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[CTU1024: wait she can change her face?? I thought that was her fixed expression]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Mana_of_Void: @CTU1024 it changes. rarely. when it changes it’s important.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Level 2\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The creatures of level 2 were shorter than the bipedals of level 1.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Four-foot-seven, robust, their bodies covered in natural metallic plates — not bone, not scale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Real metal, the tone and texture of iron, that completely covered the back, the shoulders, and the arms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The underbelly and legs were still skin, but the legs were short and thick, designed for stability, not speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In compensation, the two arms were disproportionately long — five feet each — and ended in closed fists the size of a human head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had no separate fingers. The fists were solid masses of the same metallic plate as the rest of the body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira extended the first current of blood magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current struck the shoulder plate of the first creature and slid off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t penetrate. Didn’t wrap. Slid along the metallic surface like water on glass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira withdrew the current.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Ah.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Armor that doesn’t allow adhesion.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Blood magic needs something porous or flexible to wrap around. The plates are smooth and rigid.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at her own hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Wide currents won’t work.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Precise currents to the underbelly or legs will.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But they require an angle. And these creatures are short.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first creature raised its long arm and brought it down on Lira with the full weight of its metallic fist — not a fast strike, one that used gravity and the mass of the entire arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fist struck the corridor floor where she had been and the impact made the black material vibrate beneath her feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Slow but heavy.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’If one of those connects...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira didn’t finish the thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She activated blood magic in a mode she hadn’t used in level 1 — not currents, not spheres. Mist. Fine, distributed, the kind that slips into the spaces the armor doesn’t cover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The underbelly. The leg joints. The zone between plate and plate where the metal needed mobility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood mist solidified at those specific points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first creature tried to raise its arm for the second strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The arm moved three centimeters and stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shoulder joint blocked by the solidified mist in the space between plates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’There it is.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[DraconicLegacy: BLOOD MIST. NEW TECHNIQUE. LIRA ADAPTED IN ONE EXCHANGE.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Wolf1179: the armor doesn’t allow currents but it does have spaces between plates. Lira found them immediately.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Mist_Of_Death: \"if one of those connects\" — Lira acknowledged the danger. that doesn’t happen often.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[CTU1024: the blood mist slips into the joints and blocks them. that’s brilliant and horrible at the same time.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Mana_of_Void: @CTU1024 eight hundred years of combat has its advantages.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Level 2 took six minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Longer than the first — the mist consumed more blood magic than the currents because it required keeping it distributed across multiple points simultaneously while each creature moved and the spaces between plates changed position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood magic available: fifty-five percent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira calculated it while looking at the opening to level 3.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I dropped fifteen points in level 1.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I dropped fifteen in level 2.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’If the pattern continues...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t finish the calculation. She already knew the answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The labyrinth isn’t trying to overpower me.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It’s trying to wear me down.’\u003C\u002Fp>",1505,"2026-06-06T02:17:07.051Z",1,"novelbin.me","7dde34bccd0ad7acc1bb46295fedf7cc6cb09e845cb77b27aaee38d2cfa4efa5","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-60","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-58",110,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmy-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--cover.jpg"]