Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 517: Many Factors

Zach’s world essence energy flared up like a wildfire, blasting everything and everyone around him back a step and sending the tent flying into the air.

There were a lot of factors involved in the chain of events that led to Nora’s death.

The Hydra’s existence. The Labyrinth of Jira’s existence. The God of Nature, Isuls, who chose to seal the Hydra in the Labyrinth. The two of them somehow finding the time to make children during that event.

One of the Children being born with a conscience. The Empire being established. Different people from before the Empire’s foundation coming together and establishing a new semi-united people on the Sesha Steppes.

The clashing of different personalities of leaders and followers of both the Empire’s people and the Sesha working to destabilize the relationship over the generations.

More recently, the prophecy of the Hydra’s seal coming undone had a great impact on the chain of events. In a way, that prophecy and the deadline of the Hydra’s seal were the major factors behind Nora’s death. They were what started the whole thing.

But they were too big for Zach to blame Nora’s death on them.

On a smaller scale, there was the Emperor giving Yan an opportunity for the first time to prove himself by heading to the front lines and making Zach prove he wasn’t a traitor to the Empire. That was directly related to Nora ending up in an unfavorable position.

There was no way he could have left her behind in the Empire or the capital when the country wanted his head. Nora wouldn’t be safe if she stayed behind.

But Nora was only an ordinary human. She was more talented than most. But not as talented as Zach. Her martial energy couldn’t compare to even a drop of his world essence energy.

She could keep up with him when he was injured as long as he didn’t use his skills. But as soon as he used his Blessed Defense, she would start to fall behind.

Naturally, she had no hope of ever keeping up with or catching up to the legendary creatures by Zach’s side.

An SS-rank Archangel. An SS-rank Desert Witch. An SS(SSS)-rank Death Deity. An SSS-rank Archon. All of them far surpassed the limits of even talented humans. Nora, an ordinary human, didn’t stand a chance.

Against foes that even the familiars struggled against, Nora could only hope and pray.

It was through no fault of her own. She did the best with what she had, but she just didn’t have as much as the others, so her best wasn’t enough.

Zach should have realized it sooner.

Keeping Nora by his side when it was that dangerous was foolish.

He knew Nora would refuse to leave him, especially after all the times they had been apart during his time at the Academy only for him to return on the brink of death.

He had promised that something like that wouldn’t happen again, and he had stuck to that promise. In return, Nora had been the one to suffer instead of him.

Another factor that led to Nora’s death was the war and how unnecessary it was. Zach had followed his heart to do his best to try and stop it.

He had followed the leads and arrows into the Labyrinth.

He had led the way to the sandy dunes on the nineteenth floor.

There were a million big and small things that had stacked on top of each other as an altar for Nora’s death.

Zach could have made one different decision in the past and torn that altar down to prevent Nora from dying.

Instead of doing that, he had helped build the altar. He had helped dig Nora’s grave.

Victoria was right.

If he had done a better job of protecting Nora, she would still be alive.

That was why his world essence energy disappeared after a split second.

Still, that split second was enough for his powerful family members to feel the unbridled rage within the world essence energy—within Zach.

What he had shown them so far when he screamed and shouted at them for what they had done to him and their people was only a fraction of the slumbering behemoth of rage and sorrow lurking deep in his heart, waiting to be released.

Victoria’s words were like stabbing a sleeping bear with a red hot branding iron.

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If it hadn’t already been covered in burns, it would have lashed out and ripped apart both the iron and the one wielding it.

If it hadn’t been for Zach’s subconscious screaming at him through a thick glass wall the very same words that Victoria had just uttered, he would have snapped. But since he knew better than anyone how true they were, he didn’t.

All emotion drained from his face, and the wind stopped blowing in the area. His clenched fists tightened for a moment before relaxing. He exhaled. He opened his eyes.

Zach glanced at Calserra, his mother, who was ready to defend Victoria should he decide to attack her. Domination aura swam around her hands as she stood in a defensive position in front of her maid.

Zach wasn’t surprised. But that didn’t mean he wasn’t disappointed.

Calserra should know how much those words would have hurt him.

They were at least as bad as Zach’s comments about Victoria being a bad and abusive mother.

But did Calserra do anything to Victoria? Did she tell her it was enough?

Did she stand up for her maid or her son?

It was no wonder that Victoria had been free to treat Nora as she did all those years.

Zach sighed and turned around.

There was no way he was going to stick around when this was how it went.

He had managed to hold back this time and for now, but he wasn’t sure how long he could keep his lid sealed.

More importantly, he didn’t want to see those faces on his family members.

The command tent sailed down and landed in the snow with a soft plumf a bit away.

They had looked at him with wary eyes.