[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-dungeon-of-lust-managing-otherworldly-beauties":3,"chapter-dungeon-of-lust-managing-otherworldly-beauties-dungeon-of-lust-managing-otherworldly-beauties-chapter-207":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Dungeon of Lust: Managing Otherworldly Beauties",{"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},1445704,1897,"Chapter 207: Power Scaling","dungeon-of-lust-managing-otherworldly-beauties-chapter-207",207,"\u003Cp>Vale had already cleared the training room of the warriors and picked a time when Greed was on an excursion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not that he intended to actually do anything sexual...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to spare Greed from having to hear Awilix try in that regard. Something that the cat would most definitely do during or after their spar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I win, you owe me two hours!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or before...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sivian watched silently from the side. Vale had asked to spar with her after his bout with Awilix.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the fight started, Vale slipped into an odd reminiscence about the dungeon’s power hierarchy...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Excluding all but his Champions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It’s been volatile as hell, hasn’t it?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nor was it straightforward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the beginning, Toy was the weakest, with Vale a little ahead of her and Salome leaps and bounds ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ximena, when she appeared, was stronger than Vale, yet her strength only lay in her ability. She could face a multitude of foes and win easier than Salome could, but was by no means stronger...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came Awilix, who’d slotted inbetween Vale and Toy, closer to Vale. Perhaps even eclipsing Vale for a bit when she’d learned how to use her ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mias was the next addition and took the overall ’strongest’ from Salome. Although Salome could beat him in a one-on-one fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A feat only due to her ability, which countered his.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, the most recent addition, Sivian, who was now arguably the strongest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed a little odd to claim such a thing when Salome took on her and many other Emergents and won, but now that she had her rationality, she was multiple times more fearsome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vale mulled over the current standing of strength in the Dungeon of Lust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Excluding Ximena because of her situation...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Wait...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vale looked up at the cat and laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Awilix sneered as she extended her claws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s so funny, dumbass?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Awilix...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Awilix.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Oh, how the mighty have fallen.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once Toy became Emergent, her overall power surpassed Vale’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rank seemed much more important than class, though Class still played a significant factor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A prime example of that was Vale, whose instincts were worse than Awilix, and she was more lithe, yet his raw power as a Vice allowed him to make up for that gap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He possessed not only a little more than two times Awilix’s reserves, but also could proportionally exert that much Aether to empower himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as much as Vale was laughing...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I’m the second weakest, right now... aren’t I?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Mias was currently the weakest overall at the moment — even weaker than Awilix — his ability was kind of unfair in the sense that nobody other than Awilix or Ximena could even touch him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only way for Awilix, Vale, Toy, or Sivian to win would be to defend and stall for his Aether to run out. Something that would result in his death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the scholar, much too smart to kill himself accidentally... such a power gap didn’t entirely matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vale could somewhat humbly admit he’d lose to the Reaper, even if it were just a fourth of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That wasn’t to say he’d go down easy, of course...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’As for who’d be ahead of me...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would have to be the aforementioned Mias. Well, the twenty-five percent of Mias that was still his.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only reason he lost to Toy was her Trait combined with her Aspect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Sixth Sense] could help her defend against Mias’s [Nevermore]. It wasn’t a perfect counter, but it would help quite a bit to not get ambushed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, Toy was simply too nimble for the Reaper to do meaningful damage to without exhausting himself. He could still win, but it would only be by Toy’s mistake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And, if a mistake is what it takes to win...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’They’re stronger.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the top two spots were Sivian and Salome...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In terms of Aether quantity and destructive capability, Sivian, the Emergent Mutant, had the edge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, maybe it was Vale’s bias...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I think Salome is stronger.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sivian, with her rationality, could definitely make better use of her ability and strength than she could as a mindless invader, but Salome was simply too seasoned for how slight that gap was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vale would say the same about Mias, if not more, had he been assessing Mias at full power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vale sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Awilix, still with a confused look on her face, growled:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Seriously, what is going on! First, you laugh like a dumbass, and now you sigh like an idiot! What’s going on?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vale shrugged with a flippant smile on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his smile soon vanished when he spotted Sivian’s expression out of the corner of his eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Oh lord...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was staring daggers at the cat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes had narrowed and hardened into cold slits, her vertical pupils dilating with barely restrained malice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dribble of blood and Venom dripped from her mouth as she bit her lip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One hand twitched at her side, fingers curling and uncurling like talons testing their grip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her jaw clenched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vale glanced at the Naga, but he dare not stare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why was Sivian reacting like that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’For what reason?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was it for calling Vale a dumbass?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Are you like Ximena?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps it wasn’t jealousy, but devotion to Vale that caused her to dislike the cat who treated him callously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’No, it’s not that.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More like...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Both?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sivian was both jealous of the others and unequivocally devoted to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But doesn’t take action on her internal whims, bottling them up. Is that it?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vale knew how that ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Never well...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bottled-up emotions would break forth at one point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Looking at that face... perhaps they already have.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe Sivian was waiting for a moment to gut the cat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Either way...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’If her devotion was that high, why is her Loyalty still low?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sivians’ Loyalty had risen to 30, but was that enough to cause this kind of reaction?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’No...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vale’s eyes lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I’m hers.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thinks he’d figured it out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The snake saw him as hers, not her as his, nor them as each other’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was angry that someone was messing with and trying to take what was hers.\u003C\u002Fp>",1026,"2026-06-06T01:43:37.938Z",1,"novelbin.me","d238c7b98c027e2447a154694c30c557509526f07674e8c0c48920e14c9e6ad0","dungeon-of-lust-managing-otherworldly-beauties-chapter-68","dungeon-of-lust-managing-otherworldly-beauties-chapter-67",306,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdungeon-of-lust-managing-otherworldly-beauties-cover.jpg"]