Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 421: Bad Feeling

"Nora, let’s take a walk." Instead of sitting in his chair and mulling over what could have caused the bad feeling in his gut other than old milk, Zach decided to get up and maybe calm his nerves with the cold air of the winter paradise of the Labyrinth of Vidur.

Nora walked a third of a step behind him and the other maids followed further behind. Zach had only asked Nora to take a walk with him, but there was no way the others would leave his side. But they gave him and Nora some distance.

Zach stopped for a moment as he opened the door and the freezing wind pierced his barrier and whipped his bare face. He strengthened the barrier around him and Nora slightly as she grabbed his arm, stabilizing him.

"I really feel like an old man in moments like this," Zach commented.

"...I am sure your recovery won’t take too long, Young master."

"I hope so. I don’t mind being pampered like this, though."

"..." Nora returned Zach’s chuckle with a conflicted expression. Zach’s recovery was so slow that it was hardly noticeable. She did not feel as comfortable as Zach joking about his current condition.

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Zach smiled gently and let Nora hold his arm as they walked. Despite Nora’s hesitation, Zach climbed up the stairs to the top of the walls, where the wind was even brisker and colder.

He looked out at the darkness. It was pitch black like they were in the middle of the ocean on a night with neither stars nor moonlight to illuminate their presence. It was like the fortress was the only thing that existed in the universe—the fortress and the wind.

"What do you think about this Labyrinth?" Zach eventually asked Nora.

"It’s lonely."

The darkness. The cold wind. The soldiers with empty eyes and no personalities. The lifeless monsters.

Despite the action, the movements of everything around them, and the warmth of the torches, it was a desolate and haunting place. It wouldn’t be strange to go crazy if one entered the Labyrinth alone and managed to stay for too long.

"It is?" Zach said with barely a hint of questioning at the end of his sentence. Nora wasn’t sure if he was doubting or confirming what she said. She got her answer when he continued after a moment.

"I think it’s beautiful," he said, his eyes wide and bright as they peered into the depths of the seemingly endless darkness.

It was an illusion of nothingness.

No cramped rooms he wasn’t allowed to leave since the maids were scared of him. No mansions he got lost in. No gardens filled with thorny bushes, ponds, and angry dogs. No cities with people looking at him like he was a freak. No school buildings with students and teachers talking behind his back, judging him for things out of his control. No restrictions on his movements.

It wasn’t paradise just because it didn’t have any of the things that bothered Zach. It wasn’t paradise because it didn’t even have pain. It wasn’t paradise at all.

But that was exactly why Zach found it so beautiful.

He sighed deeply.

Nora could not decipher that sigh nor the expression on his face. However, after a minute she noticed a slight frown appear as the center of his brow creased slightly. Zach sighed again. Enjoy exclusive adventures from novelbuddy

Mandra was also about to close the distance when Zach opened his mouth.

"Get ready. They’re coming tonight again," he said. Nora stayed by Zach’s side as the four familiars spread out and helped each other cover the fortress’ four sides.

Soara and Mandra had no trouble taking care of the swathes of monsters charging up the mountain. Yanael also didn’t have trouble since her sacred energy had increased in both quality and quantity after her evolution. She could fling blades of golden sacred energy that sliced through the hordes like guillotines, cutting everything in half.

Alzara was the one who struggled the most, but she refused any help from the others. She saw it as training to make up for her lacking combat ability, which had led to her being useless in the fight against Ugor. It was also a way for her to vent her emotions and guilt at failing Zach.

The others understood her and couldn’t disobey her request unless Zach told them to. But Zach also understood part of what was going through Alzara’s mind. He would need to talk with her to understand more and ease her emotions, but that relied on Alzara being open with her heart and accepting Zach’s words as they were.

That wouldn’t happen as easily as Zach would have liked. After all, despite her frivolous attitude, Alzara was the one who had shared the least about herself to Zach and the others. She had told him about Desert Witches in general and even joked about eating kids like the rest of her kind.

Yanael also hadn’t said much about herself or her past before becoming a familiar. But she had been restricted and physically couldn’t. Zach had a feeling there also wasn’t as much to her backstory as there was to the others. Telling Zach was a matter of him asking. She had already opened her heart.

Alzara was not the same.

Zach looked away from Alzara’s beautiful dance of daggers and curses and back into the darkness.

This wave of monsters was not the reason for his bad feeling. He wondered if something had happened to Violina, Nessa, and Anerias.

If they had been ambushed, there was a chance that not even Darkwing could have made it back. But if they had been ambushed and put out of commission, they would have been kicked out of the Labyrinth and sent back to the Vidur mountain range.

He hoped it didn’t have anything to do with them.

But then what could it be? What could be the cause of this worry that he had only felt during times before disaster?