Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 512: Nothing’s Changed

Nom looked around awkwardly at Zach's odd way of rejecting the food, but he quickly moved on and told Zach what he had been ordered to tell him.

The Hydra was sealed on the thirtieth floor. Isuls had used the floor's environment to restrict the Hydra's powers and limit its activity as much as possible. That was why the thirtieth floor diverged from the rest of the section of the Labyrinth.

Up the twenty-ninth floor, the temperature only continued to drop, and the blizzard grew worse. But on the thirtieth, it was like stepping into spring. All the cold had been used to seal the Hydra.

That meant all of it would be re-released alongside the Hydra.

Anyone there to see it happen but not prepared for it would turn into an ice cube before they knew what was happening to them.

Zach didn't have any plans on ever dropping his barriers, but he appreciated the heads-up.

So far, the pattern had been pretty consistent in making the 'safe' floors safe only in terms of monsters. The environment, however, was a condensation of everything on the previous floors of the same section of the Labyrinth.

So, the thirtieth floor should be relatively free from hostile monsters, the Hydra aside, but it would be a manifestation of a winter hellscape with temperatures that made even ice shiver. The Hydra's seal had borrowed that environment, but as soon as the Seal broke, the temperatures would return to their original levels.

A drastic change in environment and a Hydra on the loose.

The only good thing would be that the Hydra wouldn't be able to display its full power in the frozen hellscape. That should make it easier to kill.

Nom also told Zach that the Evandiels, if they were in the Labyrinth, should be on the twenty-ninth floor. It was a floor that most Labyrinth entrants would never see in their lives, but it was easy for the Evandiel family to get there in record time and prepare for a battle with the Hydra and possibly against the Children and the Sesha.

If the Evandiels weren't anywhere else, they would be there.

Zach was lost in thought, and Nom returned to the cave, only to be replaced by Visla a few moments later.

"...What do we do now, Zach?" She asked after a while of him looking at the sky.

"What do you mean? What we have to do hasn't changed. The only thing that's changed is how we need to do it." Zach shrugged. Before Maura's revelations, they needed to talk to the chiefs and get them to agree to the peace.

Now, the peace hinged on the Hydra's death. When it was dead, they could stop the war.

They just had to make sure the Hydra ended up dead.

Visla's eyes widened as she understood what Zach meant. Then, worry and hesitation covered her face.

She had pulled her own weight in the beginning of their dive into the Labyrinth, but it had been a while since she was entirely reliant on Zach's familiars. It would have been different if she could complete her transformation. But she wasn't an experienced veteran, and she wasn't a disgusting genius like her mother, who did it in her early teens.

Visla was rightfully worried that she wouldn't be able to contribute to what Zach was going to do the following days.

"You don't have to come if you don't want to," Zach said suddenly, sensing Visla's hesitation.

That was all she needed to hear.

"Don't think you'll get rid of me that easily," She retorted with a humph as she crossed her arms and leaned against the mountain wall next to Zach.

"...I heard your family might be on the next floor," She said cautiously. She had a feeling it was a slightly sensitive subject for Zach.

They had left him behind in the Empire. As if that wasn't enough, they had all agreed to sacrifice their people for the sake of breaking the Hydra's seal.

In that aspect, they were right to keep him out of it. Zach would have done everything in his power to go against them if he knew about their plan.

"Yeah. Since I've met yours, I guess it's only right for you to meet mine. Let's go."

Now that he was about to reunite with his parents and siblings for the first time since they abandoned him, Zach was a little hesitant. Would he be able to retain his disappointment, sadness, and anger when he looked at them? Would he even be able to look them in the eye?

He had lost Nora, and they had sacrificed thousands of their own people.

Regardless of what happened with the Hydra, things would never be the same again.

This encounter with them would be deciding how different things would end up.

It was only natural that Zach was hesitant.

But he shouldn't waste time, and there was no use in stalling. He also had to find out what Mauara had hinted about. His family was hiding another secret from him. At least one secret.

Zach didn't like it.

At first, he had been limited by the restrictions on everything, which made it almost impossible to find out what he wanted. Now, he knew the basics of most things, and he had the authority to keep looking for more information. But now, he wasn't limited by what he couldn't know. He was limited by what others weren't telling him.

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It was irritating being left in the dark.

He wanted to know the truth.

Mandra suddenly glanced at Zach. She could feel a sensation of a kindred spirit. Her eyes widened slightly as she looked at Zach closely.

She finally understood why he had received a skill similar to her innate talent when he summoned her.

He wasn't just a curious person or obsessed with finding out more about the mystic art of summoning.

He craved answers. He was the same as her. Mandra suddenly felt closer to Zach than before.

But that didn't stop her from intercepting the towering boulder of ice and sending it back at the hill-sized yeti that threw it.