Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 427: Footwork
Zach and his maids were lucky yet again, however. Patient Zero’s tent had been pretty deep into the horde of monsters, and many of them had yet to regain even a fraction of their power for whatever reason. Most of them could only slowly and stiffly move to help Patient Zero suppress Yanael.
"Soara, deal with the small fries. Mandra, help Yanael and Soara as you see fit. Alzara, Nora, clear a path for me. We need to get to Violina and the others." Zach quickly threw out a string of orders for his maids as he turned around and tried to peer through the horde of undead monsters for any signs of Violina.
He didn’t have much luck since the monsters in that direction lined up to block him, Nora, and Alzara. But the monsters just confirmed it was the right direction. Alzara and Nora grabbed their daggers and started cutting.
Alzara was stronger and did the heavy lifting while Nora focused more on keeping Zach out of harm’s way.
On the opposite side of the blockade, the monsters were opening a path for Violina, Nessa, and Anerias and their familiars. They ran as fast as their legs could carry them with Violina carrying a large ball of what looked like ice.
There was an anxious look on their faces.
Yanael had managed to extract herself from Patient Zero’s headlock and turned it into a battle where her sword repeatedly clashed against Patient Zero’s steel-like fists as the latter tried to go around her or close the distance.
Yanael was conflicted. For one, Zach had went in the opposite direction and entered a sea of monsters while she couldn’t protect him since she was busy.
But she was mostly worried about Patient Zero. Since it was clear Patient Zero wanted to avoid the fight and get to whatever Violina and the others were bringing, it should be in her best interests to stall the fight for as long as possible. But at the same time, Yanael had a feeling that she did not want this fight to go on for too long, even if it would be hard to defeat Patient Zero in a short battle.
When she thought about how Patient Zero was quickly getting faster and getting used to moving again after several thousand years, Yanael was reminded of how the monsters grew stronger with each passing minute. That couldn’t be because they were getting used to fighting again.
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There was something that made the monsters stronger as time passed.
What if the same applied to Patient Zero?
If her story was true, Yanael could understand why each attempt at the Labyrinth of Vidur had ended with the complete annihilation of all entrants. The longer they fought, the more time passed, and the more time that passed, the closer to regaining their former strength the monsters would get.
The monsters that had attacked the Keep so far weren’t that strong to begin with, so they could move and attack even with a fraction of their strength. However, the stronger monsters needed to recover more strength before even being able to move.
Patient Zero, while she could move with less than a fraction of her real strength, assuming this theory was true, would be invincible if she recovered to close to her peak.
Yanael had followed Zach for several years now and made full use of the Academy’s library to read up on what could be useful. Information on strong people was useful, so they had looked for that. They had found a lot. They had also encountered strong people on several occasions.
Yet, Yanael had never gotten the impression or even heard rumors about someone being strong enough to leave the world.
It was very likely that Patient Zero was the strongest being they had faced, even if she was currently in an extremely weakened state. That meant no one from outside the Labyrinth could defeat her if enough time passed for her to regain her strength.
The question was how she and the monsters gained strength just by time passing. Did it have something to do with the thing Violina was carrying?
But why was Patient Zero in a rush if she was getting stronger with each passing second?
Yanael blocked two of Patient Zero’s fists with the flat of her blade, trapped a third between her arm and leg, and headbutted the fourth one. The leg she raised to trap Patient Zero’s third arm shot down as soon as Patient Zero pulled out her fist and kicked the latter’s shin.
Yanael quickly shifted her weight to that foot and raised her other, spinning it into Patient Zero’s other knee. When Patient Zero was too slow to reach down and block it, Yanael sliced the skin on the arm reaching down with a quick thrust, finally drawing blood.
Patient Zero’s facial muscles didn’t move, but her eyes were dark with emotions Yanael couldn’t read.
Yanael had a feeling she was missing something—that they were all missing something. But she couldn’t afford to consider that right now, especially when she had figured out a weakness in Patient Zero’s combat technique.
With her four arms, Patient Zero was top-heavy and relied a lot on her fists when fighting. Her legs were stable and planted like mountains in the ground to support that. They hadn’t budged an inch from Yanael’s kicks. But she also hadn’t blocked with her legs. She had tried to use her fists to defend against a kick.
Yanael had the advantage in footwork and agility, even if she lagged a little behind in raw strength, speed, and fist techniques.
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Yanael quickly raised a foot and front kicked Patient Zero in the abdomen. Patient Zero easily caught her foot. That was what Yanael had counted on as she raised her other foot and kicked the side of Patient Zero’s head.
Patient Zero blocked it but didn’t manage to catch the foot.
Yanael whipped her foot up and down like a question mark and axed the top of Patient Zero’s head. Another block.
But Yanael put a lot of power into her kicks thanks to the stable grip Patient Zero had on her other foot.
Lastly, Yanael tried to kick Patient Zero straight in the face. But Patient Zero had given up on trying to catch both of Yanael’s feet and simply flung her away.
