Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem

The underworlder with grey skin whose arms were covered in jagged scale-like rocks met Zach's eyes as he and his familiars approached. But he didn't move even as they stepped onto the edge of the crater.

Zach stopped. He looked the underworlder in the eyes.

"You have a Name, right?" He asked.

"Monolith." Monolith's voice was smooth like marble when he answered.

"Fitting. You're here to stop us from entering the Underworld."

"Yes." A simple answer to a simple non-question.

"Why?"

"..." A simple non-answer to a simple question.

Zach had tried to fish for some kind of information from Monolith with a few questions. But the underworlder's lips had barely moved when he talked. His stony face didn't reveal anything about the Underworld's plans. It was like prying information out of a stone.

It would be easier to beat him up and get him out of the way.

Zach raised his fists as a barrier enveloped him. He already had one, but based on how hard Anerias had flown, it wouldn't hurt with some extra defense. Yanael unsheathed her sword and shield, Alzara whipped out both her daggers and coated them in curses, and Soara stood still at the edge of the crater looking down on Monolith like she was the sky and he was the ground.

It was an apt comparison.

Monolith was part stone, and Soara was a deity.

The difference between them was like that between heaven and earth. If Soara had been at her peak, Monolith wouldn't have even earned a single look from her.

Soara grieved.

She had endured so much to become that strong. She could do it again, but it was such a disgrace that something so tiny and irrelevant like Monolith and the Underworld would pose such a big hurdle to her and her Master.

Zach did all he could to level up and help her fill out the strength she could bring out, but there hadn't been many opportunities to slaughter enemies as of late. But she wasn't supposed to rely on her Master. He should be relying on her.

Soara sighed and raised her hand as the other three slid down the crater's slope.

This was a good opportunity to air out her grievances and show Zach that she wasn't good at just removing weaklings.

Invisible tendrils emerged from the ground around Soara's feet and surged toward Monolith. It was but a fraction of her true strength, and it broke her heart that she had to exert such effort to bring it out, but it was a power that could kill anything and everything.

It did not belong in the hands of a child who had just started on his path to ascension. Still, it had somehow ended up there.

Soara's tendrils snaked across the ground and wrapped around the legs of her allies and her master. Yanael and Alzara were unnerved by the tendrils, even if they knew they wouldn't hurt them.

Zach, on the other hand, was comforted. The tendrils felt like Soara. It was like she was hugging him when they passed by on their way to Monolith.

Unwilling to let Soara shine alone, Yanael and Alzara attacked, creating a triangular formation with Zach.

Zach was right in front of Monolith. Yanael was to one side and slightly behind, and Alzara was on the other side.

Fully prepared to take one of Monolith's boulder-like fists to the face, Zach threw a punch with everything he had straight at the underworlder's stomach. He didn't reach Monoliths' chest, much less his face.

At the same time, Yanael lunged and thrust forward, putting her entire weight into her sword, which glowed with barely contained sacred energy. Alzara, the only one tall enough to, aimed for Monolith's neck with her daggers in a reverse grip.

A three-pronged attack that was supported by Soara's tendrils of death. Unless Monolith was ridiculously strong, he would at least bleed.

Unfortunately for Zach and his familiars, Monolith was ridiculously strong. He was like a short mountain. He didn't carry around an overwhelming and imposing air, nor did he seem that powerful, even if his gaze alone made the hair on their arms stand.

But he was wide and stretched deep into the ground to pull out endless strength and durability.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Zach's fist hit Monolith square in the abs. It was like hitting a brick wall with a pillow. It didn't even make Monolith flinch.

Yanael's sword and Alzara's daggers, on the other hand, prompted a reaction. He raised his hands and blocked both attacks with ease.

He pinched Yanael's sword between his fingers, and he clumped together Alzara's daggers, holding them tightly with one hand. Both the weapon and the daggers were unable to cut through the skin of his hands.

Monolith had defended against the weapons, but the thing that made him react and turn his head were the tendrils of death. They crawled onto his body and started trying to enter him since mere touch wasn't enough to extinguish his life force.

One even made it past his thick skin.

Underworld energy like burning tar flared out for an instant, erasing all of the tendrils.

Monolith glanced at Soara.

If he hadn't defended, that attack could have been a little dangerous.

But that was it. Monolith didn't feel threatened.

He let go of Yanael's and Alzara's weapons before his fists flew out in a flurry and sent Zach, Yanael, and Alzara flying.

They had totally lost and gotten their asses handed to them.

But the fight wasn't over yet.

As soon as Zach's feet were off the ground, Violina swooped in under him and slashed upward with her sword covered in ice. The Frost Imp flew in from behind and tried to latch onto Monolith's neck.

Ice Spirit and Frost Wraith shot hail and ice from up in the air.

Monolith grabbed Violina's sword with one hand. He grabbed Frost Imp with the other. He then proceeded to throw Frost Imp like a dart at Ice Spirit. Frost Imp ricocheted off of Ice Spirit and into Frost Wraith.

All three were sent flying and down for the count.

Monolith looked at Violina.

"Fuck…!"