Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem

A wave of pressure flowed out, waking Zach up and straightening everyone's backs. The light expanded while the eggshell disappeared. A lump of solid dark light floated into the air, shedding beams akin to tendrils of starlight into the far distance.

Zach and the others watched with awe as the dark light slowly took form and became a familiar with the appearance of a young child instead of an egg. It was not a human child, however.

Light purple skin with hues of grey, black eyes with specks of white light, tiny, leathery wings a few shades darker than her skin, eight horns around her head like a crown, and velvety violet hair that reached her shoulders.

Her eyes fluttered, and she looked at the crowd spectating her hatching. Zach and the other suddenly got a feeling of wanting to kneel before the little girl. They could easily ignore it, but it was surprising that a newly hatched familiar with the appearance of a little girl could give them such a feeling.

It was clear that she was no ordinary being.

The only one unaffected by that impression was Lexi, who quickly reached out and wrapped the girl in a hug.

"Ohmygosh! You're so cute!" Lexi squealed. The young girl let herself be hugged with a slightly confused look on her face. The young girl let out a shallow sigh and retracted her presence. She was no longer intimidating or making people want to get on their knees. Other than her non-human appearance, she just appeared to be an ordinary girl.

However, she was clearly extraordinary. Zach had let Lexi hug and squeeze the little girl for a little while, but he couldn't endure it any longer. He poked Lexi's shoulder. The little girl gazed at him while he did it. She seemed curious, which only made Zach even more excited to find out what kind of being she was.

"Hey, check your summoning interface."

Lexi's eyes widened. She immediately pulled it up. She did not let go of the girl, who resigned herself to her fate, though.

Her eyes lit up as she slowly read the letters that appeared. Excitement welled out of her like sunlight.

"'Primordian *Dark Star Variant'…" Her voice trembled with excitement, as she intentionally skipped over the most important part to raise Zach's anticipation through the roof. But it was for a good reason.

Zach couldn't even find it in himself to ask what rank. He didn't want to distract Lexi or make her waste more time before answering.

"S…" She said, dragging out the letter's tail like she was a snake.

She wasn't done yet.

"S…"

Zach's eyes widened. Was that it? Or was there more?

"S…rank," She finally finished with a wide smile. Her first familiar was SSS-rank.

Zach had expected it after feeling the sense of oppression coming from the little girl and after the second 'S,' but it was still a shock to have it confirmed. The shame of her first familiar being a G-rank egg was completely wiped away.

Zach had felt great about summoning an S-rank as his first and an SSS-rank as his fourth. According to the Empress Dowager, that was the limit.

Lexi's circumstances were a little different, but she had still summoned an SSS-rank as her first.

It seemed like she was always going to upstage everyone else.

Zach sighed lightly with a happy smile. He couldn't be jealous of his sister, who was great at everything. He could only be proud. He patted her shoulder.

To his surprise, Lexi grabbed his hand and looked at Zach with warm eyes.

"Thank you, Zach," She expressed her heartfelt gratitude. Zach almost got the creeps.

"W-what's wrong with you now?"

Lexi rolled her eyes.

"It's safe to say that your theory was correct. The blood she absorbed helped her grow stronger. Without your help, I would have never gotten such a high-ranking familiar."

Without Zach, she wouldn't even have summoned a familiar in the first place. But it was thanks to Zach that she got the blood from his powerful familiars, the familiars of everyone at the Academy, the blood of the principal's familiars, the blood of the Empress Dowager's familiars, Ra's blood, and the Hydra's blood. He had even given his blood filled with world essence energy.

Without Zach's help, Lexi did not think she could have nourished her familiar until it reached the SSS-rank.

Up til now, Zach had felt a little regretful that they had only been able to use the blood that the Hydra shed before it escaped to the surface and transformed. But that clearly didn't matter to Lexi. He doubted it would have mattered even if she knew about it.

It wasn't like that difference would have propelled the tiny girl to the next rank.

Zach shrugged with a smug grin.

"Well, it was nothing much, but since you feel so strongly about it, feel free to spend the lest of your life paying me back."

"Sure." Lexi nodded.

"Wait, no. You're supposed to—"

"You understand, don't you? If I had helped you summon an SSS-rank familiar as your first…" Lexi didn't need to finish. She knew Zach would understand as soon as she said that much. He was far more obsessed with summoning than she was. If he had gotten an SSS-rank familiar as his first, he would have probably exploded from the excitement.

Even now, she could see him twist and curl up on the inside from trying to control his thoughts. Eventually, he shook his head.

"No, that wouldn't have mattered. I wouldn't give up Yanael or anyone else even for a higher-ranking first familiar."

Yanael and the others appreciated the sentiment of his statement, but it was painfully obvious that he wasn't being truthful to himself or anyone else. Purely hypothetically, if it had been in the past, before he had summoned anyone, he would have jumped at the chance to get an SSS-ranking familiar as his first. He might have even done it without knowing how good it was.

However, Zach suddenly stopped moving like he had ants crawling through his veins. A look of clarity covered his face. He thumped his fist against his palm as a light appeared above his head.

"I just need to help everyone evolve to SSS-rank."