Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 414: Forgetting Something?

Ursula stopped in her tracks and turned to the side, taking a closer look at the face of the medallion Zach held up to show her.

"A fist?" She asked.

Zach frowned and took a look at the medallion again.

"I mean, it could be a meatball as well with how faded the insignia is, but I think it looks like a fist," he said, not understanding why Ursula was making a fuss over what he thought it looked like.

"You’re saying you see something resembling a fist on here?" She asked again.

"Yes! How many times do I need to say it? What do you see then?" He asked exasperatedly.

Ursula shook her head.

Before Zach could ask her what that was supposed to mean, she said,

"I don’t see anything. It’s just a blank surface for me."

Zach’s eyebrows rose as he looked at the medallion again. He even brushed it with his thumb, feeling the grooves. He frowned and looked at Ursula with narrowed eyes.

"Are you joking?"

Ursula shook her head.

Zach’s eyes relaxed. It didn’t look like she was joking. He couldn’t claim to know her well enough to be able to tell when she was lying hundred percent of the time. But why would she lie about this?

He held out the medallion for her to feel the surface. She shook her head. She still couldn’t feel or see anything, much less a fist.

"I guess I was right, after all," she said after a moment. The necklace had found its rightful owner.

"..." Zach looked at his medallion without saying anything. If Ursula had been right, why was the only thing special about a necklace from someone as apparently incredible as Vidri showing him a fist that only he could see?

’Ah, whatever.’

Zach couldn’t be bothered to think about it anymore and ignored it for now. So what if he had chosen a dud item? It wasn’t like he needed help from a mystical artifact or anything. He didn’t need any weapons or money, and he doubted the Imperial Treasury had anything that could help his familiars evolve.

Based on what he had heard from the others about what happened after he passed out, Yanael’s evolution was only possible due to fulfilling a special condition in a set of very special circumstances.

She had sacrificed herself for Zach and the other familiars without backing down—something she had sought to achieve ever since she was first summoned as Zach’s familiar. She had accomplished that goal by not moving an inch even when faced with an insurmountable opponent who she couldn’t even fight back against. She had done it without fear or despair and fully aware of her fate.

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That was most likely a condition she needed to fulfill before evolving as an S-rank familiar devoted to protection. She protected Zach regardless of what happened to her.

Soara’s interference…

Zach honestly couldn’t even guess whether it had been of help or only worsened it, but he could tell that Soara felt guilty about it, even after Yanael evolved and was fine.

The world essence energy he gave her after breaking free from the petrification and helping her down to the floor had also played a part. It had satisfied the energy requirements of the evolution, much like how Nessa’s Millipede had needed to eat a lot of food before evolving and how Julius’ Mannequin had absorbed a lot of underworld energy before evolving.

Following the theory of evolution that Yanael taught him, beings evolved over time. Each generation brought a minor change which compounded over the years until the creature was categorically different from its predecessor.

Evolution in terms of familiars did something similar but skipped the whole time and generation thing by using a whole bunch of energy.

The Millipede and the Mannequin had required a noticeably accumulation of energy before being able to evolve.

For an S-rank to evolve, the base energy requirement would certainly be leagues above that of D, C, and even B-ranks. Yanael shouldn’t have been close to it. Even if she had fulfilled the conditions necessary for evolution, it wouldn’t have happened without the necessary amount of energy to facilitate the process.

If it hadn’t been for Zach subconsciously imbuing her with world essence energy to ease her pain and stabilize her injuries, she would have stayed dead instead of evolving.

The entire process of Yanael’s evolution was a lucky string of coincidences and incidents.

Nothing in the Imperial Treasury could help him replicate such a situation with any of his other familiars to help them evolve. After all, they wouldn’t be going from S-rank to SS-rank. They would be going from SS-rank to SSS-rank or SSS-rank to…whatever came next.

The conditions would be even trickier, and the energy requirement would be even greater.

That wasn’t to say that Zach wasn’t dissatisfied with his Vidri’s Medallion. If he knew it was famous but useless, he would have just gone with the cane. It at least looked cool.

Zach stuffed the medallion into his shirt, letting it touch his bare skin, with a sigh. He was silent until Ursula reunited him with his friends, Zoe, and the principal.

The atmosphere in the room was a little strange, and they all looked at Zach like he had just caught them doing something they weren’t supposed to, the principal included. But Zach was too tired to even care and just sat down, closing his eyes while Yanael poured him a cup of tea.

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He enjoyed the warmth in his hands as he listened to the others slowly start talking about the weather like that had been their conversation topic before he and Ursula entered the room.

He was about to fall asleep when he gradually realized something.

Where was…

"Nora!" Zach exclaimed as he sat upright with a start, spilling a little tea on his lap.

The others looked at him strangely for a moment before realizing.

They weren’t returning to the Academy after this and had made arrangements for their belongings to be delivered to their homes or whatever. And Zach had planned to take Nora along with them when they continued to the Labyrinth of Vidur. But the principal had showed up and kidnapped the students when they were chatting in the morning before Nora had a chance to join them.

That meant she was still at the Academy.

"..."