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Funny thing, I actually calculated how strong Luzurial is. I wanted to have some kind of yardstick so I wasn’t making her too strong, so… In Whore of Heaven, Luzurial bites through a stone tentacle being used to gag her. Assuming the magic animating the tentacle didn’t make it any stronger than normal stone (unlikely, but this at least gives us a minimum value), and assuming physical properties similar to granite, then it would have a compressive strength of roughly 200 megapascals or 29,000 psi. Average human bite force is 162 psi, so assuming all of Luzurial’s strength scales to her bite force, that would make her (at full power) at least 180 times human strength. Even assuming she’s at like one third of that right now, that’s still 60 times human strength.

I’m not sure if it would have been Neutral Female only because Kevin and Abdul are clearly very out of their depths. However I think this also went to show how strong an Arch Angel can actually be.

Thank you for your review! Her big issue at the moment is that what happened to her (well, specific aspects of it) are what Luzurial considers her dark secret. Kevin’s not stupid, mind you, so he knows by this point that if Luzurial went through something horrible and sex-related involving a demon, then she was probably raped, but there are details that Luzurial considers to be her fault that she doesn’t want him to know about. Eventually getting to the point where she can talk to him about it is a big step in their relationship. And no, this first reunion with Eparlegna will not go well. He’s always had a very high level of self-confidence. We see inside his head quite a bit during Whore of Heaven and at no point is he even the slightest bit nervous, so I figured that would carry over here. To some extent, he’s justified; he can literally burn entire armies, but that kind of ability can go to one’s head. The speech of his is also me expanding somewhat on his motivation for coming to Earth during the first story. He simply doesn’t see the value in how Lucifer does things, and he can afford to shit-talk his boss because, hey, it’s not like he’s going to have to answer to him here on Earth. As for his strength, well, impregnating Luzurial gave him a power boost, and after he carved her wings off he absorbed them too, so that’s some more power. Finally, he’s got her sword, which as JayDee explained to me (and will come up in Part Seven) gives him yet more power due to what the sword is. He might not be quite at full power yet, but he’s way stronger than she is at this point. Well, yes and no. He is fairly high up, but his power does have limits. That’s definitely a fair criticism. I didn’t want Sabrina and Kenneth to be blank slates, so I gave each of them a little bit of “why he/she’s working for a demon” similar to Shondra and Molly in Whore of Heaven, and even used the same method to do so (Luzurial reading their minds). However, I did end up mentioning Sabrina earlier on, which probably made her out to be more important than she was. I mentioned this in the author’s note, but I did consider lengthening the action scene, but then I feared we would have had the Neutral Female problem, only with male characters this time. I could have had them pursue the characters inside the building, but there’s some other stuff waiting inside for them (Eparlegna’s “Craft Beings of Vice” power), and I didn’t want to get in the way of that. But yeah, it’s definitely kind of disappointing, and I’m sorry about that.