Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 501 : Best Guess

While Borso was highly uncertain about Alzara's decision, Alzara didn't have to think about it.

The Arlecchs had come and attacked her while she was waiting. She wasn't just waiting, either. She was waiting for Zach. It was almost the same as if they had attacked Zach.

Death was the only thing they deserved.

Moreover, the Maura warriors had acted respectfully toward her and sympathised with her loss. Of course, she was going to help them out.

After giving Borso a nod of acknowledgement since his arrow had been helpful, Alzara turned toward the half-bears.

Getting Ulminer Go would be best, but the half-bears were already about to fall. They had already lost one comrade. They didn't need to lose more. Besides, the Arlecch warriors fighting the half-bears were incapable of resisting her in the slightest.

The blue-clothed warriors of the Arlecch tribe fell like dominoes. It didn't take long before the half-bears of the Maura tribe could stop fighting for their lives and start taking the lives of their enemies.

Goro and Ulminer noticed what was going on and the fight went from Ulminer keeping Goro in check to Goro trying to stop Ulminer from fleeing.

Unfortunately, he didn't succeed.

As soon as he realized that the fight was lost, Ulminer Go decisively retreated. He had made a miscalculation but, well, he was still alive. It wasn't over yet. And while he had revealed that they had killed some of the other Arlecchs, he hadn't told them why.

It was no big deal.

Ulminer Go flew away, gliding on the surface of the desert's sandy dunes. Goro considered chasing, but he wasn't going to catch up. Besides, checking on his fellow warriors was more important.

They gave the fallen warrior a warrior's burial by making a funeral pyre with whatever combustible they could find and lit it on fire, sending his ashes to the ancestors among the stars.

Afterward, Goro and the other warriors had to get moving. They had to inform the others of their tribe and the Ugri tribe of the Arlecch tribe's betrayal.

Goro wasn't sure what Ulminer's plan was. He alone would never be enough to do anything if he was working against both the Maura and Ugri tribes. That could only mean he wasn't alone.

But if the Maura chief took action personally…

Goro had trouble seeing anything work out in Ulminer's favor from now on.

Borso considered staying in place with Alzara for a moment but decided against it. He wouldn't get anything from it and would only be causing trouble for Alzara.

He joined the Maura warriors.

***

"Kid, I've been thinking about something," Patient Zero said, looking down at Zach, who was lying in the ground panting so hard his chest was moving like the wings of a bumblebee. The area around them was still barren, but it was no longer a flat plain. It was covered with the scars of their sparring.

Zach didn't bother answering. He knew Patient Zero would continue talking anyway.

"Your hair color. You said you didn't know why it changed from orange to red, right?"

"Mhm?"

"What if it happened because of the blood from your fight with the Child you mentioned?" She asked. She knew Zach didn't like talking about that event, but hair didn't change color for no reason. She was curious about why that had happened. What if it was an ill omen or a sign about Zach's health?

"Yeah, no." Zach rejected that possibility.

Patient Zero shrugged. It was just an idea. It was also partially to get Zach to talk about the incident, even just by dancing around it with a barely related topic.

Zach moved on.

"Any more progress on why or how I ended up here?" He asked. It was also vaguely related to the incident since that had made him want to go far away, but Patient Zero knew he specifically meant why the Labyrinth of Vidur still existed and why he could access what remained of it.

"My best guess, after going through all the treasures in the Fortress, is that your accomplishments were greater than what the Labyrinth could reward you. You defeated me and the Blight, after all. So, instead of not giving you what you deserved, the Labyrinth took advantage of your world essence energy and tied the remnants of the world to you."

"So, this is my world now?" Zach asked with a strange feeling. It was a weird thing to think about. He possessed an entire world. Well, not an entire world. But he had his very own world.

"It's not much of a world anymore, but yeah," Patient Zero said while looking around. A snowy mountain and a barren plain.

There was also a Fortress with a bunch of treasures from the world. Considering they had endured through time and lasted until now, they were either worn-out scraps or good items. But they didn't contribute much to the world itself.

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"Should I blame you for that?" Zach asked.

"..." Patient Zero avoided Zach's gaze and picked up a stone. She took aim and threw it into the sky. With a whistling sound, it disappeared into the distance.

Patient Zero's throw looked like it would have been enough for the stone to reach the stars.

Instead, the stone hit something like a barrier after a couple of seconds and dropped back to the ground.

"Do you want me to break it?" Patient Zero asked, pointing at the barrier.

"I have a feeling that would be very stupid. What happened last time you breached this world's protective barrier?"

Last time Patient Zero had done something like that, she had invited the Blight to her world. She lowered her hand and dropped stone Nr. 2.

"...Still, you need to get a sun and moon in here. Stars at the very least."

"And how am I supposed to do that?"

"Your world has plenty of stars. I'm sure you can borrow one or two."

"..." Zach didn't bother giving that any real thought.

"I think I'm ready," He said instead.