Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem

Chapter 238: Old Woman



Zach quickly made an air-tight barrier around them after they started floating into the air so that they wouldn't get wet when plunged into the ocean. It would also make them float to the surface without them needing to swim.

The journey to the surface was a lot more comfortable and less shocking than the entry to the Labyrinth had been. Zach glanced at Soara. He was responsible for the part they spent in the water. But she was probably responsible for the gentleness to the border between the Labyrinth and the ocean.

He turned his gaze upward again as they approached the surface. He could already see the silhouette of a boat waiting for them up there.

Since he had chosen to enter the twelfth Trial, there was a possibility Violina's uncles hadn't waited for them. He had hoped Violina and Nessa would speak up for him. Regardless of if they had done so or not, it seemed Zach's worries had not come true.

He smiled as he broke through the surface and lowered the barrier so that he and his familiars could be picked up.

"Hello—...Who are you?" Zach frowned as he looked at the one-eyed man with a triangular, bulky hat with a feather in it.

The man revealed a grisly smile as he stood with one foot on the railing and his arm on his knee.

"Kid, I am the man who's going to change your life! For the worse! I am Captain—"

Yanael interrupted the pirate captain by jumping up from Zach's floating floor of a barrier and kneeing him in the face. She knocked him back into the boat and took his place on the railing. She pointed at the rest of the dozen pirates with her sword.

Some of the pirates took a step back. Others grabbed their weapons and charged at Yanael.

It was a small boat, so they only needed a few sailors in working condition.

Zach hadn't killed anyone yet, so Yanael just beat the rest up until they couldn't move. It didn't take much more than that to convince the pirates to bring them to land. However, the pirates didn't know about the bay that Violina's uncles had used, so they just brought them to the coast and dropped them off.

It was Systine land. But all coast was Systine land.

Zach looked from either end of the beach before turning his gaze deeper inland.

"...Well, shit."

It was a grassland. He was pretty sure that he saw fields beyond it, but he couldn't be sure at this distance.

Zach didn't even bother looking at Yanael. She was as hopeless as him when it came to finding themselves where they were supposed to be. He turned to Alzara.

She shrugged.

"I can try. But it seems we are a fair distance away from where we first set sail." It wasn't a desert, but it was flat land, and there was an open sky. The odds were in their favor. Sooner or later, Alzara would find their way back to society of some kind.

Hopefully.

She might lead them away from it since that's what her instincts told her to do.

Finally, Zach turned to Soara.

He couldn't even ask her.

She was staring at the land in front of them with wide, shiny eyes. Her entire face was glowing with joy. It was similar to the expression she had worn during the boat ride, which she had spent leaning over the railing and looking down into the ocean.

Zach had a feeling, or more like a realization.

Soara had stayed inside the Labyrinth for a long while. He didn't know if she could have left on her own or not, but by the looks of it, it didn't seem like it. If she had, she wouldn't have been so amazed by a field of grass and the insects and birds in it.
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Assuming she had never left the Labyrinth, that meant she had been inside it since it was created.

Zach already knew she was old. She was an ancient deity, after all. But connecting the lively, black-haired woman to the robed deity of walking death he had seen in the statue was difficult. He could, however, mentally connect her to the Labyrinth. He had an easier time imagining the Labyrinth's age than a deity he didn't know about.

After all, the Labyrinths were older than the Empire, and the Empire was around thousand years old. That was how old his family was. A thousand years is about forty generations, give or take.

His ancestors had given birth to the next generation forty times. It was like his kid had a kid, who then had a kid, who then had a kid, and so on, forty times.

Soara was older than that.

In all that time, she had never seen the outside world. And before that, she had most likely seen the world come to ruin at the misshaped hands of those aberrant monsters. Zach could only imagine what it had been like.

He didn't interrupt her as she watched the lively world for the first time in half an eternity. He couldn't.

It seemed Alzara and Yanael also understood what Soara was feeling and what she had endured since they didn't bother her, despite their hostility toward the newcomer who was trying to get a share of the Zach pie. That was that. Soara's suffering and the feelings she must feel at the sight in front of her were a separate matter.

Soara watched the world for the first time in forever and took in everything she could. She spent hours silently looking at everything.

It had been the right decision to pledge herself to Zach, even if only for this sight.

But she was still a deity. She calmed down after a while. She blinked and slowly turned to Zach, who had taken the opportunity to admire her face.

"How can I help, Master?" Her tone was much more sincere than before.

"I guess I should find my comrades first. If not that, maybe I should just return to the Academy. Please lead the way, Soara." Zach put his hopes on Soara. As a deity, finding the way should be well within her capabilities.

Soara blinked and tilted her head to the side.

"How am I supposed to do that?"


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