The Lustful Villain: Every Milfs and Gilfs are Mine!-Chapter 142. They Saw a Boss Monster. I Saw a Performance Review.

Chapter 142: 142. They Saw a Boss Monster. I Saw a Performance Review.

Rex was not performing at capacity. He was acting like a very good reincarnator with a very useful skill.

He was visible enough to carry his weight in the formation but not so much that he had to explain anything later. He used telekinesis to change the direction of incoming attacks, clear away debris, and throw monsters at each other.

These are all things that a person with a strong telekinetic ability would naturally be able to do, and he didn’t want to show any full power because he didn’t want to risk anyone knowing the resemblance to Lustful Villain and Rex Rexilion, where both of them have the same ability.

But he knows that telekinesis isn’t a rare thing, and some of them just don’t know how to use it at its full potential.

Talyra shot over his shoulder twice, once with a split second’s notice and once with none. Both shots hit their mark perfectly, which meant she had to know exactly where Rex’s head was going to be, not where it was.

He said that in the first three minutes of combat, she had adjusted her firing solutions to his movement pattern. This could have been a very good instinct or something she did automatically with targets she trusted.

Aisella was behind and a little to the right. From her position, she could see everyone in the formation without being in direct contact.

She was doing healing passes on the fly, using the quick diagnosis she had described on the walk along with active restoration. The quality of her attention was amazing, just like truly excellent support work always is: completely visible in its effects and almost invisible in its execution.

Even while fighting, Rex already made a plan to raise their desire level just by saving them from some attack that they couldn’t predict. And of course, they’re being thankful for that.

[TALYRA SKYDANCER: DESIRE LEVEL — 10/100 → 18/100]

[AISELLA MOONBLOOM: DESIRE LEVEL — 12/100 → 21/100]

After clearing the first level in 11 minutes, they went to the second level, which was harder.

The passages got smaller, and the geometry got more confusing on purpose. There were passages that went back on themselves, chambers that opened into other chambers with no clear purpose, and the number of monsters confirmed Elizabeth’s mid-level classification.

The third passage had a twelve-member orc warband that was arranged in a wedge with ranged support behind it. This meant that the intelligence that was organizing the dungeon’s population had been doing it long enough to teach them how to use different types of weapons together.

Theo’s group fought in the front and held their ground while Apollo’s group moved to find a way around. Rex’s group was the reserve and relay, which meant they had to stay on the move and respond to where the pressure was building.

Rex had been following the shadow crawlers in the ceiling for three minutes before they fell. He shouted it out at the perfect time, and the warning gave everyone time to move into position before the ceiling dropped seventeen creatures that moved like dropped fabric, with no biological logic and all angles and speeds, onto a group that was ready for them instead of surprised by them.

He thought, "This is good data," as he casually threw two shadow crawlers into the wall.

He was carefully writing down Apollo’s tactical choices, Theo’s formation responses, and the combat profiles of each of the nine harem members, as if he were writing a manual that he planned to use a lot.

When it came to fighting, Apollo was more than just strong. He was more adaptable than most fighters, changing his strategy mid-fight based on reality rather than what should have been.

He did this without losing track of the bigger picture of the battle. Studying his fighting was challenging because it varied significantly each time.

Theo was not the same. Apollo’s style was flexible and responsive, while Theo’s was strict.

He figured out what needed to be done and did it without changing his mind. He was effective because he was right almost every time he made an assessment and did everything he said he would do.

Rex thought, "Two very different problems," as he used telekinesis to block a cave beast’s claw strike and send it into the ceiling.

"Different solutions need different approaches."

...

And now, the time has finally come for them to arrive at the third level. On this level, the dungeon underwent a complete transformation.

The passages led to a large underground room that none of the previous levels had prepared for. It had a high ceiling and was divided into uneven sections by natural stone formations.

There were also bioluminescent fungi here, but they were thicker, and the blue-green light they cast over the whole space made it hard to tell how deep it was.

In the middle of the room, where the three missing adventurers were huddled against the far wall, some of them were hurt and some were barely conscious.

This is the reason why they hadn’t been able to leave.

Rex didn’t know what to call it. He was unaware of it, and Elizabeth’s briefing hadn’t prepared him for it because no one had lived long enough on the lower level to report back.

The creature was in the center of the room, as if it belonged there.

It was about four meters tall at the shoulder, and its body shape suggested it had evolved from something biological.

There were many limbs, two of which were clearly the main ones and two of which had developed secondarily with different joint structures. A head with three pairs of eyes at different heights, each pair apparently following a different range of light.

It made a sound that echoed throughout the dungeon and was more like a standing wave that made the stone surfaces vibrate than a roar.

’Aberrant cave apex,’ Rex categorized, pulling what his combat instincts could extrapolate from the physical evidence. ’Extended environmental isolation, a sufficient prey base to reach this size, and an intelligence level above standard monster. Will respond to coordinated attacks by identifying and eliminating the coordination source.’ 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

"Everyone! Hold it," Theo said, and the group stopped.

The twelve seconds of shared assessment that followed before he gave the attack order were the most productive twelve seconds Rex had ever had in this dungeon.

The battle that started was three formations at once, which meant that the creature was tracking and responding to thirty people attacking from different directions at the same time. It did its job so well that Rex had to raise his estimate of its intelligence twice in the first ninety seconds.

The best part of the engagement was Apollo. The creature knew this almost right away.

Its focus on attacking Apollo while managing the other attackers showed Rex something important: it could identify the main threat in a situation with multiple attackers and adjust its tactical responses on the fly.

Theo was the one who held everything together. Theo positioned himself on the creature’s right side, maintaining such discipline that the creature had to split its focus between Apollo’s pressure and Theo’s constant engagement.

The two worked together so well that the creature was taking damage instead of giving it.

Kaelira’s Inferno Berserker class was operating at what Rex estimated to be seventy or eighty percent output. Her attacks were steady and in sync with Apollo’s movements, which showed that they had practiced their combination a lot.

Rex was doing his job as telekinetic support at the edges of the formation when he sent the signal.

It was a calm thing. He had only one thought in his head since they entered the dungeon: that the constructs Lilith had confirmed were positioned through the upper levels, held in the shadow phase the dungeon maids maintained.

"Now."