Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 429: Freezing
Zach closed his eyes, sank his consciousness into himself, and focused on his body. He felt the tightly wound bundle of world essence energy hide deep within his core, careful not to stimulate Zach’s scarred insides.
Zach could feel its reluctance. For his sake, he shouldn’t force it to move. But did he have a choice here?
Maybe.
If they focused everything on Patient Zero, maybe they could stop her dead in her tracks and kill her.
Was that guaranteed to end things? No. The monsters that they had cut down and killed returned sooner or later. Patient Zero, as the first to make contact with the Blight and the source of the spread, was undoubtedly carrying the strongest variant.
Killing her might only loosen her consciousness and strengthen the Blight’s hold on her body.
The Blizzard, on the other hand…
Zach wasn’t sure what it could do, but it had to have some special abilities if it truly was the one who created the Labyrinth. It just needed a little boost to get back on its feet after using all of its strength to imprison Patient Zero and the Blight with its monsters.
Zach urged the world essence energy to stir.
He winced in pain as a thin tendril finer than hair slipped out of his core and through his body and arm and out of his hand into the ice ball. It was highly uncomfortable despite all the painful things he had experienced and learned to endure.
Fortunately, the world essence energy and Violina’s ice energy was enough to stimulate the Blizzard to wake up from its slumber and stand tall.
The outer layer of the ice ball cracked, and gaps ran all over it. At first, Zach thought it was like an egg. The shape kind of fit, after all.
But the cracks were the outlines of icy feathers on a pair of icy wings that expended and unfolded.
Violina and Zach let go of the ice ball and stepped back as it transformed into a majestic bird of ice somewhere between the Hound and the Darkwing in size. A pair of deep blue eyes like marbles looked at Zach and the tired Violina.
’Foolish children, you have my thanks.’
Zach’s eyes rose in surprise as he heard a mellow voice in his head. Even without anything else, he could tell it came from Blizzard. He nodded. Blizzard turned its eyes toward patient Zero’s and Yanael’s fight.
It gently flapped its wings and flew forward. At the same time, the clouds high up on the mountain slid downward like an avalanche. They took wind, snow, and cold with them, which Blizzard dragged behind it as it headed toward Patient Zero.
Patient Zero and Yanael both stopped and looked up at the bird of ice as it carried a snowstorm on its back, covering the monsters around in heavy ice. The ones about to move crashed and turned into a thousand ice cubes when the ice swallowed them. Only the ones perfectly still maintained their forms.
But they were rendered useless nonetheless and it wasn’t long before only Blizzard and Patient Zero remained the only non-summoners or familiars on the battlefield.
Whirlwinds of ice and snow trailing behind it, Blizzard rose into the sky before turning like a dolphin and diving toward Patient Zero. Patient Zero pushed away Yanael and raised their four hands to brace against Blizzard’s sharp beak and the avalanche it preluded.
Zach, Nessa, Violina, Anerias, Nora, and the familiars were left nothing more than spectators in the clash between pure physical force and the supernatural manifestation of ice.
It wouldn’t have been a battle if Patient Zero had been at her peak. After all, she had been strong enough to leave the world behind and then conquer it when that failed. Blizzard, on the other hand, was a remnant and fragment of a broken world. It carried the only part of nature that remained, ice.
Blizzard had also been unable to move on its own until just now. It was only thanks to the power of Zach’s world essence energy and Violina’s ice energy from an intact world that gave it power.
However, Patient Zero was so far from her peak that she could not withstand the fully concentrated blow from Blizzard. Blizzard had put all of the strength it got from Zach and Violina into its strike, betting everything on it.
If it didn’t work, they would have been in trouble. But it worked.
A thick layer of ice covered Patient Zero’s body. Two of her arms had broken off at the elbow. Her body was scarred and cracked in several places.
However, Blizzard crashed into the ground next to her, no longer a mighty phoenix but a cute little pigeon instead.
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Zach and the others rushed over to secure Blizzard and check on it while making sure Patient Zero was defeated. Violina knelt next to Blizzard and scooped it up in her arms while Zach regrouped with his familiars in front of Patient Zero.
The ice was slowly thawing, but even if she managed to break free, her body was in no condition to fight.
Zach was unsure what to do. Should he just have Yanael decapitate her? But it felt strange. It was someone he had just had a decent conversation with. It might also not work since the Blight was still a thing, and she would just reanimate.
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Zach glanced at Blizzard while Yanael and his familiars stood in front of Patient Zero, ready to act in case she broke out.
Maybe the little bird had a plan beyond wasting all of its energy in one go. Hopefully, it could still talk, even after losing most of its strength again. It was still a bird and not an ice ball, at least.
Zach, still wary, glanced at the immobile Patient Zero before walking over to Blizzard in Violina’s hands. It was significantly weaker even than it had been before it received Zach and Violina’s help.
However, before he could try and talk with it, a crack rang out from behind.
