Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 570: A Moment Of Peace

Zach was dead tired. Most of his injuries had recovered. It was a life where he put his life on the line, but it wasn't a messy dogfight where he accumulated a bunch of broken bones. Either he lived or he didn't. Fortunately, the Hydra had been surprisingly easy to talk to.

If her personality had been worse, everyone would have died.

Most of Zach's fatigue and the poor condition of his body came from the world essence energy. He had already taxed his body until he felt the backlash during the first two rounds against the Hydra when she was still in her lizard form.

And then, when she shrank and transformed, he had been forced to overdo it. His body was practically useless.

He didn't even have anything to show for it.

Zach sighed as he re-entered the Labyrinth with Yanael and Mandra. Since Soara, Alzara, and Lexi weren't out yet, it probably meant they were staying on the thirtieth floor. Zach would have to go get them.

Fortunately, descending was a lot easier this time since they had already done it once. They didn't have to complete the obscure and repetitive objectives of each floor. They just had to take it easy when Zach had trouble withstanding the vertigo. There was one floor they couldn't take it easy on, though. The twentieth floor wasn't very welcoming to them for some reason, and they hurried away to the next.

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It didn't take long for them to return to the thirtieth floor, where the chill had started to set in and fill the air with icy crystals.

Zach was too weak to make a barrier that could withstand the chill, so Mandra handled that. She was also prepared to handle the search for the other three, but that wasn't necessary.

Something was telling them which direction to go in.

It wasn't the Labyrinth. It wasn't a spell. It wasn't any of the familiars.

It was an unsettling and bone-chilling feeling that trumped the Labyrinth's cold. It was a feeling that made her instincts tell them to go in the opposite direction.

Naturally, they followed that feeling to its source. If there was one good thing about the feeling, it was the fact that it was so unnerving that it couldn't be because Lexi or Alzara had died.

Whether that was truly a good thing remained to be seen, however.

After a little while, one trio spotted another. However, Soara, Alzara, and Lexi did not seem to notice them. They were huddled together with their backs toward Zach and the others.

Zach couldn't help but fear the worst, but when he got closer, he could tell that all three of them were alive and mostly well. They were gathered around something small and looking at it.

Zach narrowed his eyes for a moment before they widened in realization. He hobbled forward on unsteady legs as quickly as Yanael and Mandra let him.

"Is it the egg?!" He asked as soon as he was only a few steps away and close enough to answer his own question.

"Schh!" Lexi hushed him.

"Yes, Master," Soara answered him, earning a side-long glare from Lexi, who almost instantly returned to watching the egg with hawk-like sharpness.

Lexi remembered that the Hydra was a thing and glanced at Zach with worry.

He looked fine. That he was here now meant that the situation was probably over. They could talk details later.

Yanael and Mandra helped Zach sit down next to Soara. They joined the spectators and watched the black egg with curious and expectant eyes. After laying their eyes on it, they could confirm that it was the source of the unnerving feeling they got when they stepped foot on the thirtieth floor.

However, other than perhaps being a little glossier than before, it didn't appear much different. It still looked like a bottomless pit given physical form in the shape of an egg. It hadn't made any cracks or any moves. It did not look like an egg about to hatch.

Still, Zach was content just watching. They didn't need to stress about the egg's current condition and whether it was going to hatch or just entering another stage of its incubation phase.

A moment of silence with the awareness that the danger had passed and they were all fine was enough to warm Zach's heart and gently lower his mind into a soft slumber. He leaned his head against Soara's shoulder without even realizing he had fallen asleep.

Yanael helped him remain seated by standing behind him and offering her legs as a backrest, and Mandra kept him warm with her magic.

Zach deserved more rest than he was going to give himself. After everything he had gone through, the least they could do was make sure it was as comfortable as possible. After all, the more he did, the less they had to do.

He was taking their job. In other words, he was fighting so that they didn't have to waste their lives.

Yanael and Mandra, who had gotten the best look at how far Zach pushed himself this time, had mixed feelings.

On one hand, they were happy to have such an admirable and powerful Master who took care of them and fought because he didn't want them to risk their lives without him.

On the other hand, their inadequacy had led to Zach's current condition. If they were stronger, he wouldn't need to push himself so far. He also wouldn't have to worry about them.

But it wasn't like Zach was going to sit still and wait for them to surpass him until his meager strength was redundant. They would have to work hard.

The silence made for many thoughts, not just within Yanael's and Mandra's minds. But the foremost one that they all, except Zach, who dreamed of frogs, shared was a question.

They all wondered when the egg would hatch.

Fortunately, they didn't have to wait as long as it took for the egg to reach its current state.

A little while after Zach fell asleep, the egg cracked, and dark light emerged like sunlight through a broken roof.