She was handed the position after punching the emperor when most would've been executed on the spot because the latter was an asshole to Maximo. Even if there is a reason she still got handed a top position for minimum effort, and is shown to be good at it despite being a literal noob like Orion. Why are you giving her a free pass when you want Orion to work for his powers? Biased much?
Her best skill is her socials, as she could gain Maximo's favor and the latter members of WRE, and that's not Orion's thing, as Nancy's particularly isn't exactly what her offspring consider fun.
Considering that this is set in a universe where literal demons, a walking corpse, a spray that changes one's personality in seconds, a guy who went from fat to buff in just a day, and an ex-convict with a heart of gold who somehow managed to end up becoming President of the US of A exist...no, I doubt it's just as simple as that.
Overthinking, the better explanation will tend to be most simple, try to explain all as "magic" just rest any work from their part for start, lowering any value of them.
DPS? You get LI points from her if you give her a book that teaches her healing magic and she has expressed a desire to learn healing prior to that. How exactly is she hinted to become the very same definition of DPS??
Perhaps i just wrote a hell to much, i'll try to make it clearer:
... she was working with Dalia and together is hinted that becomes in the very same definition of DPS.
So, as Dalia is a warrior class with high damage but low hp, having Penny as magician healer class both works and compensate well against treats.
Correction: She owned an ogre whose attention was on Orion, therefore managed to take it down without so much as a struggle. Prior to that she had a tough time trying to take down one of the gem holders, and later gets her ass saved by a noob who thought it was a good idea to stand up against Mr. I-nolife-playing-Eternum-even-after-death while wearing nothing but a loincloth. If that's not being eclipsed then I don't know what is.
Because in part of that plan Jerry wasn't useful for start and as i mentioned before she's not untouchable, the act of bravery of Orion would be the less he could do for her, even if it was stupid as hell.
First of all, just because she hasn't seen any magic similar to Orion doesn't mean she can't judge him based on how he's using it (which is enhancing his strength and speed). Given that she has lived a long life and she is part of a race that has experience in magic and war (if her words are to be believed anyway), she is likely basing her assessment on the people of her world, who compared to Orion are likely literal titans of their respective world and are much more well-versed in their fields.
Compare that to Orion, who despite his powers couldn't even go toe-to-toe against a literal no-lifer, and it just comes across as pitiful if you think about it.
And that's how you respond your question in the first place without my help!, congratulations!, as if she could do a contrast to what she knows, Orion's can too (and moreover can have assistance of magic users as Calypso, Penny, Luna and Annie as he got from a warrior as Dalia is)... It wouldn't be so hard to elaborate.
Second, it doesn't matter what becomes of his powers later so long as it fits with what the plot requires it to be and the parameters as to how it actually works when its nature gets revealed later on. You don't need a fucking training montage for him to test all that shit because 0.5 has shown that parts of the power reveal itself eventually, so testing it out to know how it works and what its limits are is pointless if the next day something about it reveals itself that wasn't there the day before.
What parameters? it appears from nowhere than just help him to survive to then need focus and react at the right moment to now can be active by will without being shown how. That's precisely how much will progress without knowing it's very same nature and if this will come on screen or outside of it. Because as the first take time on development release, the second just makes jump the narrative.
You speak as if Orion is the kind of jackass who would test shit for science, like the protagonist of OIAL.
Orion is not that kind of character. He's a horndog who is intelligent enough to have a good GPA and get an offer in the exchange student program in Kredon, but dumb enough to not ask the proper questions to Idriel or realize that one of the NPCs in the Ulysses party looked like Benjie. He acts without absolutely thinking things through, as reflected by his YOLO attitude in his thoughts whenever he does something that he thinks is stupid.
He doesn't ask because he can't trust Idriel in the first place. Even if he would realize that the NPC of the party looked like Benjie, what he could just have been done with that? Did you ever known of Dopplegängers or what science have found about ppl without having any family relationship they look likely the same?. For whatever reason, Orion could have thought that Ulysses get inspiration from real faces taking it from users registered to create NPC's.
So with that said, why would you expect someone like that to do anything different in his training (that is, push things to the limit for science) other than improving what he already has (and not being good at it, as Caly had put it in her assessment of Orion's training)?
Because it leave into the air how powerful is and the extension of that power now that he's more in control and as Calypso said, not a refined one. It can appear as ease to solve any situation when it's required, not even Luna can do that, the same for Nova as she was very explicit explaining how Dione works (she's conscious of what she can and what not), same Annie and Dalia (who even being a powerful character, knows her limits so well that she had to invite a person like Jerry who was a magic caster to support her)... But there are limits for Orion? before v0.5 seems to be a bit difficult to use, now v0.6 is at will and resolves with ease situations without knowing how he surpass that or if had repercussions or if there are limits of how much per day, what will become next?.
ugh I just got to the end of this version and I feel empty inside.. in multiple ways
Anyways I feel like the next big twist is gonna be Orion using his weird super power in real life
And i wouldn't be surprise if it comes right after the end of v0.6 to the beginning of v0.7, more faster than a bullet with less a meter of distance and with some thugs in the very same room he'll make them look like lil boy playing with napkin paper.
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