Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem

Zach, Lexi, Visla, Yanael, Alzara, Soara, and Mandra looked at the egg with growing anticipation.

It wasn't enough. The egg didn't hatch even after several minutes.

"You know what this means?" Zach asked Lexi.

"No…?"

"Isn't it obvious?"

"No…?"

"It wants more."

"By more, do you mean…?"

"What else could I mean? Let's go kill that stupid snake now." Zach said decisively.

It was the best way to ruin the Evandiels' and the Seshas' plan to wait for people to die to kill the Hydra. If he killed it first, their efforts would be for naught. It would be a hefty slap in their faces.

Lexi was stunned for a moment as she looked at Zach. She sighed. It was what she had guessed. Zach, the madman, was going to challenge a monster that their family had prepared their entire lives for. The Evandiels had put together an army of elites and trained until they bled to prepare for it.

They had also entered a tacit agreement with the Sesha that the Hydra needed to be killed before anything else.

The Evandiels, the Maura, the Arlecchs, and the Ugris were all of one mind to work together to a certain degree and kill the Hydra. Their forces were many times that of Zach's.

"Are you sure about this, Zach?" She asked.

Her family was not convinced they could take the Hydra even with all of their preparations. She knew Zach was stronger than when she last saw him. His familiars were also incredibly powerful.

But the Hydra was the Hydra.

"You can stay here if you want." Zach shrugged. "Though, if I die, I have no idea what will happen, so maybe I should take you out first."

"Weren't you planning on giving the Hydra's blood to my egg? Of course, I am coming."

"Perfect." He looked at Visla. "No objections or doubts?"

"...I have nothing but doubts, but if you think I can help…"

"You're your mother's daughter, Visla. This is an opportunity. See it as such." Zach nodded and patted her shoulder reassuringly. He then turned to his familiars.

"All of you are ready?"

"Yes, Master."

"Of course, Master."

"I'll show that snake what death really means, Master."

"I have a new spell I've been waiting to test out, Master."

Zach nodded. He went over to Ra and said goodbye, tapping her shoulder gently and giving her some world essence energy. He had figured out that it would help her condition.

But there was no way she could ask for it when she was already relying on Zach's Haven to remain alive. The fact that she tried to take it from him when she was affected by the Blight also hung over her. If she asked for it, she might sow doubts that she was still greedy for power.

Since everyone was as ready as they were going to get once Visla and Lexi dropped most of the treasures they tried to bring, Zach swept them all up and returned to the Labyrinth. This time, the Labyrinth seemed like it was ready for him. They didn't end up in a white space with an error message. They returned to the spot they had been in before entering Haven.

"Oh, right. In preparation for this, we cleared the twenty-ninth floor of monsters, so—" Lexi started explaining.

"I know. We just need to express our desire to move to the next floor."

"Huh? How did you know that?"

"The thirteenth floor didn't have any monsters."

"What?"

"I don't know if it was the entire thing or not, but the desert was turned into glass."

Lexi's surprised expression darkened.

"That happened after we passed through."

"I guessed as much. We also found traces of someone fighting the one who did that. I think one of the more powerful Children fought the Maura chief or something. We should have asked her about that," Zach said regretfully.

But Lexi shook her head.

"No, the Maura chief and her group were one step behind us. The other two chiefs should have only been a step or two behind her. I don't think that was one of the chiefs," she said slowly.

"Hmm." That meant there was someone else on equal footing with a Child powerful enough to incinerate and melt an entire floor of the Labyrinth. It seemed like they were against the Children, but that didn't mean they were an ally.

"Well, what can you do about it?" Zach shrugged.

"Let's go!" He said, pointing forward. He took a step in that direction and the entire group disappeared from the twenty-ninth floor, reappearing on the thirtieth.

Zach felt the teleportation wrap him and the others up before moving them. It was an interesting feeling. But he didn't pay it any further mind and instead focused on more important matters, such as the enormous ice cube in front of them.

It was somewhere between the size of a hill and a mountain. It was covered in frost, and fog and mist surrounded it, giving the mountainous silhouette within a mystical air.

It was hard to breathe.

Even inside the seal, there was no denying the Hydra's overwhelming power. It was also clear that the seal was about to break as the Hydra's power fluctuated and seeped out of the ice cube.

Still, the Hydra was deep enough in the seal that they could only see a vague shadow with a blurry outline.

It was enough to make Zach wonder if maybe he had been a little rash. He shouldn't have brought along Lexi and Visla. He might have made another mistake no amount of regret could undo.

He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth. He was not going to let the failure of Nora's death swallow him before this fight had even started.

Fortunately, he didn't have to wait long before a soft thud rang out from behind.

After all, the Hydra wasn't their only opponent. Zach and the others turned around as the Hydra's Children surrounded them.