[{"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-237":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},1445788,1897,"Chapter 237: Peculiar Abilities","dungeon-of-lust-managing-otherworldly-beauties-chapter-237",237,"\u003Cp>They were on a tight schedule, so they didn’t have long to rest. In fact, Vale allotted only a single day for recuperation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing as it was only one enemy, it would be much more efficient to face them with only his strongest force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before that, the first thing he had to decide was the battlefield location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The Thunderdome would work quite well and allow for coordination.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it would limit their biggest strength of kicking off the dungeon’s walls. Plus, if the invader had an area attack ability like Ximena, they’d be putting themselves at a disadvantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second turn of the maze. It was a tight area where they could force many close confrontations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third choice was the Grand Hub. That would only be employed if the foe was some sort of giant where many attackers could participate...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the elite squad...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It’s volatile.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Depending on the foe and their ability, it would change who’d be fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Vale could at least list the definite: Salome, Sivian, Diana, Toy, Alpha, Sapphire, Diable, and himself...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the smart thing to do would be to hide from this battle, Vale wasn’t going to do such a thing. Especially in the fight for him to become Emergent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention any Trait he’d awaken would be based on him: his values and actions. He didn’t want to manifest another passive Trait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Ximena’s exclusion from the list,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’She’s simply too hard to fight with.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plus, she deserved some much-needed rest, having taken on an Emergent Wretch mere days after escaping from constant suffering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Mias’ exclusion was due to his condition; though he’d be a must-have if he was able.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Diable, the second mage Vale had summoned...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It’s highly likely they could be the crux of this battle.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Assuming he’d deciphered her power correctly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>♥︎♥︎♥︎\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Name: [Diable]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Title: —\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mage Level: [0]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mage Ability: [0]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Loyalty: [100\u002F100]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Traits: [Quantum Entanglement] [Decoherence]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>♥︎♥︎♥︎\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diable was a confusing son of a bitch...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Quantum Entanglement] - [Two distant points become inseparably bound, their states intertwined as they dance within the invisible threads of reality. What changes in one echoes instantly within the other.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first step toward understanding the ability was understanding the words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Greed had said something about it relating to quantum mechanics, whatever that is.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was probably something Vale had little chance of understanding, seeing as Greed even admitted that even she did not know what it meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, he had only the description to go off, as well as Diable’s own understanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From those factors, Vale was able to draw a flimsy conclusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It can link two facets of things together.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While that was very vague, that was because of Vale’s lack of understanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Why is a Mage’s Trait harder to learn than my own?!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, to break it down in a simpler, more comprehensible way...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If two things shared a property, Diable could link those properties together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, she could make herself and a target share damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there was also another function that was much more confusing. Say that she linked two things that had an opposite connection to themselves; then the inverted would happen between the linked two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one represented heat and the other cold, strengthening one could weaken the other. In that way, [Quantum Entanglement] did not merely connect things — it forced reality to acknowledge that connection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’See... confusing.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at least it was simpler than the next ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Decoherence] - [Superposition cannot endure. The qubits fracture. The possibilities separate. Of the three states that were, two are discarded. You exist as one.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’This one’s a doozy.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made absolutely no sense! Well, it didn’t at all until Vale spent several hours with Diable trying to understand it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually, from what little Diable understood, Vale managed to piece together a rough interpretation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All actions and causes could exist in several potential outcomes at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A strike might hit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It might miss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or it might strike somewhere in between.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a brief moment, all of those possibilities could exist simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But [Decoherence] ended that uncertainty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In theory, when Diable invoked it, the overlapping possibilities collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three potential outcomes became one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two realities were discarded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining outcome became absolute, as if it had always been the only thing that could ever happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meaning if several potential results existed...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diable could force reality to choose one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’So...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vale rubbed his temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’First she links things that shouldn’t be connected...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Then she decides which outcome becomes real?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...Yeah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only question that remained was how absolute her power was, because being able to bend reality didn’t seem typical of what he’s seen up to this point in Pandora.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Even the senseless operate under strict laws.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diable most definitely didn’t exist outside those laws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were probably many catches with the ability; catches that Vale didn’t know if they’d ever find out. Or at least find out before it would be too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, if there was no limit on her ability, how would anyone fight her?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was simply unfair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Not that the world has ever been that fair to me... ever.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that was enough about the confusing stuff. Vale’s rumination moved onto something much easier to understand: statistics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Well...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe that thought was misguided, as the statistic he was trying to figure out was qualitative, not quantitative. Mainly, he was trying to power-scale how strong a Bloomed Monster (Prime) would be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He attempted to do so by drawing all lines of comparison between the strength of all beings he’d met with their known Class and Rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Firstly, Vale compared himself to an Emergent Mutant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I’m weaker.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There wasn’t much to argue about in that sense. While he did possess the ability to win a fight, handily even, he could only do so by utilizing every tool at his disposal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The problem came when he compared himself to Greed...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’She’s Bloomed.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only one Rank above Emergent, yet Vale was positive that Greed could flick him to death if she willed; however, Greed never revealed it, but she was most certainly capped out on Aether.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whatever beast they summoned would not only be five Classes lower in tier but most likely have no Aether stocked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To make that comparison, Vale compared his current state to his past self — his 0\u002F700 strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the metric he used:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I used to only be able to stay outside for a couple hours, but now I can for about five weeks.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That jump in strength was not insignificant. If such a jump could happen at every Rank, and at every Rank that effect would be enhanced, it was clear Vale wouldn’t be facing anywhere near a Greed-level threat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He breathed a slight sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though ’slight’ was all that relief would ever amount to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that mulled over, he’d gone over the basic framework he’d need to set up for his Level 11 battle plan.\u003C\u002Fp>",1170,"2026-06-06T01:43:37.938Z",1,"novelbin.me","8f54fc3417d714fe9b0080f5e0d97676b7aea1659e429c341bf04a01583e9dda","dungeon-of-lust-managing-otherworldly-beauties-chapter-238","dungeon-of-lust-managing-otherworldly-beauties-chapter-236",306,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdungeon-of-lust-managing-otherworldly-beauties-cover.jpg"]