Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 476: Third To Eighth Floors

Once they teleported to the next floor of the Labyrinth of the Jira, Zach stretched and took a deep breath. He didn’t know if it was the air or what, but the tightness in his chest that had lingered like glue since his fight with Ugor eased up a little. He could breathe more deeply now.

It was the kind of feeling he didn’t know he had missed.

He, Nora, and Alzara glanced around. They didn’t find any rewards or treasures in the grass and bushes around them. They weren’t hiding in the trees, either. It was strange since the bird-like monsters hadn’t used weapons. They had used their talons and nothing else.

But Zach didn’t let it get to him as he looked at Nora.

The things they needed to collect for the fourth floor of the Labyrinth were the horns on top of the horned rabbits that hopped out of the underbrush to try and skewer Zach.

Zach noticed a pattern. He hoped it would change soon. Collecting body parts was boring to do and even more boring to watch. It also didn’t live up to the fantasy of the Labyrinth of Jira. Where were the trials, tests, mysteries, and treasures?

Did he have to scour the entire floor to find anything better than a rusty arrow stuck in the back of a big rabbit with two horns?

If not for his constitution that attracted all the monsters, he would have probably needed to do just that to find one hundred rabbits. But since the rabbits came to him, they didn’t even get the chance to explore.

They soon found themselves on the fifth floor.

Nora and Alzara couldn’t help but wonder if they weren’t leaving the others far behind at this pace. Wouldn’t that make it even more difficult to regroup? How were they supposed to find each other across different floors wider than the Academy’s forest?

But neither Zach nor his monster-attracting constitution gave them much time to rest.

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The monsters on the fifth floor were wolf-like monsters that walked on two legs with hunched backs. Some of them even had opposable thumbs capable of holding weapons like daggers and swords.

The body part Nora and Alzara took from them was their heart.

Interestingly enough, the sixth floor was similar since they needed to take the hearts of monsters that looked and walked like the monsters on the sixth floor. But instead of fur, they had scales. It reminded the three of the Child of the Hydra’s combat state when scales covered most of his body.

But the Child’s scales had been smaller and finer. More like those of a snake than a big lizard.

The seventh floor introduced a monster similar to the ones on the second floor. At first, Zach thought it was the big version of the green-skinned ones on the second floor, but they were different. The monsters on the second floor, while green-skinned and humanoid, were fatter, had tusks jutting out of their mouths, and squished faces. They were noticeably stronger as well.

They still weren’t enough to put a halt to the trio’s speedy advance, though.

After severing one hundred of their heads, the trio moved on to the eighth floor, where humanoid monsters almost three times as tall as Alzara gathered with large clubs of wood and stone to clobber the intruders. They had long tusks but pointing down, compared to the green monsters’ ones. They had long unruly hair that seemed to grow out of their backs. Their skin was discolored, warty, and dirty.

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They were the strongest and most annoying monsters they had faced so far. If it hadn’t been for Alzara’s curses, it would have been difficult for Zach and Nora to take them down. No matter how badly they were injured, they just healed in a matter of seconds.

Unless their heads were cut off in one stroke or their hearts—the hearts they needed to collect—were pierced and destroyed, the monsters wouldn’t die. Fortunately, Alzara’s curses of decay and weakness could negate that healing.

While piling up the hearts to prepare for another transport, Zach and Alzara suddenly turned to the side.

A lone monster was sprinting through the forest toward them. It was running to them and away from something else. It was probably running from the thing that had burned most of its skin and flesh away while also seeking the enticing meal that was Zach.

Zach wasn’t used to monsters running away since they only saw red when in his vicinity, but he figured that was another part of the Labyrinth’s trials. An unkillable monster that also knew how to run away.

Gathering one hundred of their hearts would be pretty difficult. Fortunately, he didn’t have that struggle. He just had to wait for them to come running.

He did not envy the poor sucker forced to chase the monster.

Zach narrowed his eyes as he looked behind the monster.

Someone had burned the monster. That meant they used fire.

Could it be a coincidence? Possible.

Was it likely to be a coincidence? Nope.

Alzara and Nora also realized it. They grabbed their weapons again.

"There you are, you fast fucker…!"

The Child’s voice trailed off as the monster he was chasing collapsed, black smoke pouring out of its melting corpse. He looked ahead.

He saw a couple of familiar faces. Instantly, he considered turning around.

He had wasted a lot of energy flying when he fled from Yanael and then trying to rush through the Labyrinth. He was not in condition to fight that sword-wielding Archangel again.

But then he paused.

"Alzara, grab that heart. Let’s go."

There were only a few faces he recognized. He glanced around the bloody and corpse-ridden clearing.

He did not sense that Archangel’s presence anywhere. He did not sense the presence of the mage, either.

Slowly, the Child’s face broke into a grin. An opportunity to get rid of a few pesky flies had been delivered to him on a silver platter.

The Child leaned forward in the air, the soft red fire beneath his feet pushing him forward.

He wasn’t letting them go anywhere.