The pieces clicked together in my mind like puzzle fragments finding their places.
During our marathon session, when all three women had been unstable and desperate, when I'd been pouring vitality into them to save their cultivation bases... the system hadn't just been giving them what they needed.
It had been storing the overflow, the massive surplus generated by our combined essence exchange.
"That's why," I said softly, understanding dawning.
"That's why you only let me access 47,250 points during the realm collapse.
That's all my body could channel without my wives as conduits."
[Correct. Host's individual channeling limit: 47,382 vitality points maximum. All excess energy requires distributed network to prevent fatal overload.]
[Additional Note: Current vitality overflow is passively leaking through Host's aura at rate of 10 points per second. Environmental enhancement effects may be observable.]
I frowned, glancing around the pleasure palace chamber.
