Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 504 : Are You Zach?

With the two of them working silently and tirelessly, Zach and Alzara made quick work of the sand worms of the nineteenth floor. It was the productivity of those escaping reality by throwing themselves at the task at hand.

Alzara noticed that Zach was doing well. He was fighting and using his strength without any visible signs of injury or pain.

He had recovered well wherever he was. At least something to find joy in.

With all the stony cores of the sand worms gathered, Zach and Alzara moved to the twentieth floor. They had been warned that it would be dangerous, but not for the same reason as the nineteenth. If anything, it was because it was similar to the tenth floor.

It was a 'safe' floor with the residents of the Labyrinth receiving those who visited.

It was just that the sentient residents on the twentieth floor weren't as hospitable as the elves on the tenth floor.

Zach and Alzara appeared in the middle of an underground town. Stone and sand buildings littered their surroundings, much like the wooden houses had done in the village on the tenth floor.

But they weren't greeted by an arrow at their feet.

Zach's eyes narrowed as he scanned their surroundings. He could sense several life forms around them, hiding in the shadows of the stable lanterns in the ceiling and on the house corners.

He felt that the residents of the twentieth floor were more wary than hostile.

He wondered if he needed to use force to have someone guide him to the portal to the twenty-first floor. But before he could make a decision, a person with skin like charcoal stepped out from the shadows. Their hair was dark grey, and their eyes were entirely black. Even their teeth looked like they were made of darkness.

If they didn't want to be seen while standing in shadows, they wouldn't be.

And their ears were long.

Dark elves. Very distant relatives to the elves on the tenth floor.

The dark elf looked at Alzara and then at Zach.

"...Are you Zach?" They asked warily.

Zach frowned.

"Who's asking?" He asked in return.

"Please, tell me! Are you Zach?" They repeated, desperation souring their voice.

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Zach hadn't noticed it before since he assumed their glassy black eyes were just shiny, but the dark elf was on the verge of crying.

"Fine. Yes. I'm Zach. What do you want?"

The dark elf heaved a sigh of relief.

"Please take your followers with you and leave!" The dark elf pleaded.

Zach shot Alzara a confused and nervous glance. She just shook her head slightly. She also had no idea what was going on.

"Please follow me," the dark elf said, turning around.

After exchanging another look, Zach and Alzara followed the dark elf out of the town, up to the surface of the desert, and across it to another underground town. Along the way, Zach and Alzara tried to ask the dark elf what was going on, but they only gave vague answers and said that they would find out when they arrived.

It looked like the dark elf was scared of them, especially Alzara, but they still didn't want to answer for whatever reason. Left without a choice, Zach and Alzara could only wait and see.

They couldn't help but understand the dark elf once they arrived. It was another underground town where the dark elves lived. But it wasn't in the dark elves' control.

Three maids and a barbarian had taken it hostage, threatening the lives of all the dark elves living in it.

Not all of the other towns and dark elves cared about it, but the dark elves weren't a prosperous race. They cherished each of their members. Naturally, they didn't want to see an entire town of theirs disappear off the map.

So, they complied. In exchange for the lives of all those in the town, the dark elves just had to bring them any information about a young man who should be accompanied by at least one maid.

Yanael and the others didn't want to expose Zach's origins as the Evandiel family, so all they said was that he was from the Empire. That should be enough.

But they had waited for more than a week without so much as a hint toward Zach's location. The dark elves knew nothing about a young man from the Empire passing through their floor. That probably meant he hadn't arrived yet.

That meant he was coming sooner or later.

It also meant that whatever had sent ripples through their connection to each other had happened on the higher floors. But until they reunited with Zach and the others, Yanael, Soara, and Mandra could only speculate on what happened to Zach for his emotions to fluctuate so greatly that they felt it.

But they were desperate to reunite with Zach by now. Since it hadn't happened naturally on the previous floors, they would have to take it upon themselves to force their reunion. It was also especially important now since the difficulty of each floor would only continue to rise with each floor.

Yanael and the others were worried that Zach, Alzara, and Nora would struggle and fall behind even further if they tried to brave the deeper floors on their own.

So, they took a town hostage and forced the dark elves to look for Zach. Finally, they had brought him to the town they took hostage.

The dark elf army waiting outside let Zach enter.

Yanael and the others wanted to celebrate the reunion, but the dark elf army didn't look like it was waiting much longer.

As soon as Zach and Alzara entered the town, Yanael, Soara, Mandra, and Visla grabbed them and threw them into the gate to the twenty-first floor without thinking much about it. First, they had to leave the town and get safe.

Although they hadn't killed any of the dark elves, the dark elves wouldn't just let it go that easily.

It was only when they were all on the other side of the portal that Yanael and the others realized something was missing.

"Where's Nora?"