Demonic Pornstar System

Kaiden glanced out the window and saw the cityscape slowly fade behind them, replaced by the untamed wilderness. After thirty minutes, the convoy pulled off the road and onto a dirt path leading to a clearing. There, standing tall amid the open landscape, was the dungeon gate.

A perimeter had already been established around it, manned by men dressed in black combat suits. These were employees of the Awakened Association, the governing body responsible for regulating dungeon activity and ensuring that no unauthorized personnel entered restricted zones. They carried high-grade equipment on them to suppress both dungeon threats or rogue awakened if necessary.

One of the guards stepped forward as the minivans came to a stop. He scanned the group without uttering a single word before turning toward Tessa. She knew the procedures, so she walked up to him and handed over the papers that were required for her group to gain entry.

"Your team is clear to proceed," he stated after checking even the minutest details in the papers to ensure everything was in order. He then raised his arm and glanced at his watch. "You have 71 hours to clear the dungeon before we send our forces in."

Even if maximum capacity wasn’t specified by the dungeon gate, only a limited number of people could enter each dimension. The number depended on the dungeon’s rank, which for D-rank was 20, meaning Tessa had organized a full task force for this undertaking.

The only way more people could enter was if someone left or died inside, but there was one additional method: to wait until the final period before the dungeon break began, which in a D-rank dungeon’s case was the last 48 hours. During the final period, the capacity limitations would be doubled, allowing the Awakened Association to send in their own task force even if the original group was still alive inside.

"Understood," Tessa nodded.

With that, the group began unloading their supplies and checking their gear one last time as they prepared to step through the gate into the greatest challenge any of these youths had faced.

Kaiden could take a better look at his team now, and he saw what he’d expected. Most of them were young, not many were older than him. Vaelira was the same age as him at 22, Jack seemed to be around 20. Most of Nova Circuit’s low-level members were around the same age as the blonde musclebrain, with some outliers. A teenage girl caught his eye in particular because her tender features reminded him of Alice, his little sister.

However, unlike his sister, this girl lacked confidence. Her hands were trembling as she checked the contents of her bags one after the other. She was one of the four people in the group who carried multiple large backpacks on their persons without equipping any fancy protective armor or weapons. Instead, they had pickaxes and cooking pans attached to their belts. They were the non-combat units of the group.

Every expedition into uncharted dungeons required mules who did the odd jobs no one else wanted to. This included carrying everyone’s supplies, setting up camp, cooking meals, mining materials, collecting monster drops, etc. Almost all of these people tended to be F-tier awakened. They might as well have been normal citizens based on their power level, but thanks to their status as awakened, they were able to enter dungeons. Non-awakened were not permitted entrance; the dungeon gates simply did not permit them to pass through.