Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem

Zach's hand slipped out of Nora's when he was transported to the next floor. Physical contact wasn't enough to ensure that they stayed together. Fortunately, the magic trap didn't disappear after he stepped on it, and Nora appeared next to him and Alzara only a moment later.

Zach glanced around as soon as Nora arrived.

They were in a forest. It looked like a young forest since the trees were young and tiny with fresh green leaves. The trees were twice or three times as tall as Alzara.

There was no sign of any of the others.

Yanael, Soara, Mandra, and Visla were someplace else. It was as Nora had said was possible. Using different magic traps could bring them to different places.

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"How do you get to the third floor?" Zach asked Nora. They had been separated from the others. That meant they didn't have the means to track the Child. They could only hope to reunite with the others as they made their way through the Labyrinth.@@novelbin@@

"Shouldn't we look for the others, Master?" Alzara asked. Mandra had their energies. She would be able to track them if she came upon their traces. There was also the connection between Zach and his familiars that could possibly guide them toward each other.

Although Zach had said to continue going deeper into the Labyrinth, wasn't it better and safer to regroup?

"My gut's telling me to go down." Zach tapped the ground with his foot. He couldn't explain it. He just felt that he should continue through the Labyrinth's floors.

"Understood, Master." Alzara nodded. Since Zach had said as much, she didn't object any further. They looked at Nora.

"We need to collect one hundred ears, Young Master."

"Ears?" He asked doubtfully.

Alzara's eyes widened and she raised her head, turning to the side. She pointed at something through the trees.

"I think she means the ears of those creatures, Master," she said, revealing a creature half the size of a man with green leathery skin, bald heads, and pointy ears sticking right out to the side.

"That's right," Nora nodded.

One by one, similar creatures appeared around them, popping out from bushes, behind trees, and dropping from branches. They crawled out of seemingly nowhere to swarm Zach and his two maids.

Right. Zach had that effect on monsters. Without Mandra's, Soara's, and Yanael's presence to deter the monsters, it was inevitable Zach and the other two would be swarmed.

"Feel free to get started whenever," Zach said with a shrug when Alzara and Nora were just standing on either side of him, watching the green-skinned creatures.

At his words, Alzara and Nora dashed out with their daggers in hand. They did not let the strange humanoid monsters get close to Zach. They killed them and chopped their ears off, gathering a pile in the middle of the carnage. Occasionally, the creatures had weapons or more than simple loincloths on them. Some even had what looked like proper weapons like iron-tipped spears and steel swords.

Some were bigger, had straighter backs, and were more muscular than others. They could have just been more well-trained or something.

But Zach had a feeling it was similar to what they had seen on the first floor the first time around. There were different versions of the green-skinned monsters—different evolutions. He confirmed that theory when a big one incomparable to the first ones approached. There was just no way it was the same as the first small ones when it was two heads taller than Zach instead of half his size.

But it was just a monster on the Labyrinth's second floor. It didn't matter how much better it was than the others.

Zach had struggled with the ratling king back during his first time on the first floor. The Alzara he summoned back then wouldn't have struggled at all. His current self was even stronger than the Alzara of back then. Needless to say, Alzara right now was incomparably stronger than the Zach of back then.

It didn't matter if the oversized and bulky green-skinned monster was stronger than the ratling king. It didn't stand a chance. A couple of slices and it was on the ground in pieces with the rest of its kin. And just like the rest of its kin, it was missing two ears.

While taking down all the monsters that came for Zach, Nora and Alzara amassed far more than a hundred ears. But it was only when they were done and gathered around the pile of ears that they moved to the next floor.

What greeted them this time was another forest. It was denser with more rugged trees this time. And there was no sign of the other maids or Visla.

"Aren't there supposed to be rewards when you move on to the next floor?" Zach asked Nora.

All three of them looked around and felt in their pockets without finding anything.

"Maybe the rewards were those good weapons those strange monsters were carrying, Master?" Alzara suggested.

Zach tilted his head.

"It's possible. Whatever. What's for this floor?" He asked Nora.

"Eyes, Young Master."

Zach didn't even need to ask what eyes or from what monster this time. A loud screech made them all look up. Among the dense treetops, the monsters had already started swarming. Eagle-like monsters with mostly bare human torsos and human-like faces but with beaks had started filling the trees around them.

They were a strategically more difficult opponent than the ratlings on the first floor and the greenskins on the second floor since they were airborne. Zach could have chased them into the sky if necessary.

But he didn't have to. They came to him all on their own like a pack of starved dogs with a piece of fresh meat. Nora and Alzara intercepted them, grabbed their ankles, and threw them into the ground hard enough to kill them.

This time, they only collected the eyes after all the bird-like monsters were dead, including the different evolutions.