Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 428: Blizzard

Yanael sailed through the air for a moment before flapping her wings and stabilizing herself mid-air. Another flap pushed her forward in pursuit of Patient Zero, who was being slowed down by Mandra.

However, Mandra had trouble facing off against Patient Zero. Her spells just bounced off of Patient Zero’s skin like it was impervious to magic. The best she could do was raise obstacles and turn the ground beneath her into a swamp.

But Patient Zero just powered through it like a bull.

Mandra frowned deeply as she concentrated on Patient Zero. It was the first time she had encountered something as befuddling and downright rude as someone immune to magic.

Yanael had managed to injure Patient Zero, so Mandra knew it wasn’t because Patient Zero was indestructible or resistant to energy. It was magic specifically.

However, this wasn’t the place to sit down and ask or start trying to figure out countermeasures. Mandra wasn’t the one in charge of holding back Patient Zero anyway. That was Yanael’s job.

However, Patient Zero had managed to take twenty steps forward in the time Yanael was in the air. And Yanael couldn’t push her back anymore.

Fortunately, Zach was getting close to Violina. Yanael had seen them being almost within reach of each other, separated only by a conflicted wall of monsters, one side trying to block and the other trying to open a path.

"Violina!" Zach called out since he could clearly feel the cold and his friends’ presences in front of him.

Nessa, Violina, and Anerias stopped dead in their tracks as the last couple of monsters fell or moved out of the way.

"’...ZACH?!"’ The three shouted in shock.

"That’s me. What are you three doing here, and what is that?" He asked, pointing at the ball of ice the size of three heads in Violina’s arms.

"That’s what we should be asking!" Nessa shouted.

"Why are you here?! Where is Dukiel?! And what is going on over there?!" Anerias followed up.

"Uh…A couple of things happened, and I ended up finding the one controlling all the monsters. But she’s pretty strong and it seems like she’s getting stronger with each passing minute. She also wanted that." Zach pointed at the ice ball again.

Violina looked at him for a second. Just like the other two, she wanted to question his presence here. But now wasn’t the time for that. They could judge his decisions when they made it out of here.

"Oh, before I forget. If that bald, four-armed woman kills you, you’re dead for real."

"..."

"This thing is the source of the Labyrinth, we’re pretty sure," Violina said, answering Zach’s question.

"...Why are you carrying it toward the enemy?" Zach asked with a frown.

"It wanted us to," Violina shrugged.

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"To my familiars, and my familiars can talk to me. It’s a being of pure ice by the looks of it. I’m pretty sure this is the one managing or taking care of this Labyrinth or whatever."

Zach nodded slowly. That ice ball was probably the Blizzard Patient Zero mentioned. It was the one who had saved what remained of Patient Zero’s world by putting it and the Blight in this Labyrinth, forcing them to fight forever in a battle that never ended and restarted each time outsiders entered.

Rather than saving what remained of the world, it would be more accurate to say that Blizzard had indefinitely delayed its destruction.

"...Did it say why it wanted to go to Patient Zero?"

"Patient Zero?"

"The enemy."

Violina shook her head.

"It kind of just agitatedly pointed in this direction. But since it cleared a path in the monsters for us, we figured we could use it to kill all the monsters, including their source."

Zach shook his head.

"That one wasn’t the one moving the monsters."

"You mean…?"

"Yeah. Patient Zero wants that. She cleared the monsters. Maybe it pointed in this direction to warn you?"

"..." Violina was silent.

"..." Zach wasn’t sure what to say.

"Fuck," Nessa cursed.

Anerias glanced back.

The monsters had closed up behind and around them. They would have to fight if they wanted to get out. Even after getting out of the encirclement, they would have to climb the mountain while the monsters pursued them if they wanted to get to safety.

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Even then, safety would only be temporary.

Violina frowned as she looked at her familiars and then at the ball of opaque ice. After a couple of seconds, she turned to Zach with a confused face.

"Now it’s saying…it wants you," she said with an odd look.

Zach’s eyebrows rose.

"Ah," he answered in realization.

The Blizzard was something like the child of the world, similar to how Zoe was the Daughter of the Underworld. But it was incomplete and weak, probably due to putting everyone in the Labyrinth or creating it.

It needed strength.

Zach sighed. He wasn’t sure if he could do it. He hadn’t dared touch his world essence energy after the fight against Ugor. But now, it seemed like he didn’t have much of a choice.

Patient Zero wanted the Blizzard to most likely end the Labyrinth’s imprisonment and break free. Or rather, the Blight wanted that. It wasn’t satisfied.

Zach wasn’t sure if it was just his paranoia talking, but if Patient Zero regained her strength and unleashed the Blight on the Empire, he wasn’t sure if even the principal could stop her.

He didn’t even know if Patient Zero and the Blight could get out of the Labyrinth. But she wanted the Blizzard for a reason, whatever it was.

He couldn’t let that happen.

However, while Patient Zero could take down the Blizzard, Blizzard might be the only thing that could handle Patient Zero as long as it also regained some of its strength, considering it was the one that trapped Patient Zero in the Labyrinth in the first place.

Zach nodded.

’Come on now,’ he thought to himself and the world essence energy hiding deep within him.

"You too, Violina. Pump your ice energy into this thing. It needs a little help waking up," he said, putting his hand on the ice ball.