Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 423: The Answer

The mountain was taller than Zach first thought. It was like they had been on the top of the world. It also turned out to be a solitary mountain peak with nothing but the Urus Keep on it. Zach had a feeling that the last bastion of civilization wasn’t just an expression for the fortress as they descended in the tracks of the monsters.

As he glanced upward, the light from the fortress no longer visible through the darkness, Zach hoped this would lead to the end of the Labyrinth. He did not feel like making the climb back there to continue defending the Keep.

When light started making its way through the thick clouds and the breeze calmed down, signaling they had made it far down the mountain, an unexpected and dreadful view spread out in front of Zach.

At the base of the mountain were nothing but monsters, monsters, and more monsters. They covered a vast plain like ants swarming over a sweet. But unlike the ants, the monsters were completely motionless.

Even the monsters that seemed to be waiting for reanimation or repairs weren’t doing anything.

"I think killing all of those monsters is going to be pretty difficult, Young Master," Nora eventually pointed out. She couldn’t let the sight of more monsters than she could count daze her to the point where she couldn’t advise Zach on what to do.

She had watched Mandra and the others fight by Zach’s side. She knew how capable they were. She had a long way to go to catch up.

But the monsters they had slain the past two days and nights didn’t even amount to a fraction of all the monsters of various kinds on the vast plain. They also didn’t amount to even a portion of the different kinds.

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The ones who had attacked the Keep were mostly smaller ones like humanoid creatures, wolves, primates, weird green creatures, and beings of the same weight class.

However on the plains were not only smaller beings like insects and birds but also massive ones that, at a glance, resembled the principal’s familiars. There were also monsters towering above those dragons that resembled humans. Giants. There were other monsters that Nora couldn’t identify but that would certainly pose at least some danger to them if they were unleashed.

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"..." Zach was silent as he looked out over the vast plains. It only seemed like the monsters closest to the mountains had even a hint of power within them. The ones further away, such as the big ones, were no different from lifeless statues. But they would not remain that way forever.

Sooner or later, they too would be free and reanimated to bring ruin to the last bastion of civilization.

Zach shuddered. The world inside the Labyrinth of Vidur was grim. It was on the brink of annihilation.

Zach couldn’t help but glance at Soara. From what the statues had shown about the twelve deities’ pasts, the world had also been laid waste to at that time.

Zach frowned. Something didn’t add up. It was one thing if the world was ruined once, but twice…? And what if every Labyrinth was a retelling of the world’s destruction?

The Labyrinths’ contents were more than just a fake scenario meant to set the stage. Soara’s existence proved that the worlds inside the Labyrinths were real.

"...Is this another world?" Zach suddenly asked.

The heads of all his familiars quickly turned to him at that question. It was something obvious to them and anyone who had reached high enough, but the matter of other worlds was not easily breached.

"...It is as you say, Master," Yanael nodded.

But now that the matter had been breached by Zach himself, the restrictions on the related information were significantly eased, and the familiars could tell him more about it. There were a couple of things they still couldn’t say. Yet. But this was enough for now.

"Huh." Zach put his hand over his eyes and scanned their surroundings again.

"A pretty bleak world," he commented. A single mountain and a vast plain filled with monsters. It probably wasn’t the entire world, but so far, it didn’t give him the best impression.

The maids, excluding Nora, who was stunned, were a little surprised at Zach’s nonchalance. This wasn’t just an illusion or the past brought to life by the power of the Labyrinth.

"To be exact, it’s part of another world destroyed by the monsters you see before you, Master," Soara explained before asking,

"Are you not surprised that there are other worlds?"

Zach tilted his head slightly.

"Not really. It makes sense." He glanced at Yanael.

"Heaven is a special place, so I’m not sure how that works. But the four of you…I doubt all of you would have been lost to history. Of course, unless becoming a familiar means disappearing from history, either as a condition or as a requirement. Also. World essence energy.

"If you ask me, the existence of something like that means it’s standardized and common. If this world had been the only one…something like that wouldn’t have existed."

The familiars were silent for a moment, each with their own thoughts on Zach’s reasonings. He wasn’t wrong, and he had figured it out on his own, after all. It wasn’t like he had to be surprised at the existence of other worlds.

They glanced at Nora, who was still staring at nothing slackjawed.

But his reaction was a little too dull in comparison to hers.

"Would the answer to defeating this Labyrinth be to defeat these monsters, then?" Zach asked. "Something like putting an end to what ruined this world."

Yanael, Alzara, Soara, and Mandra looked at each other.

"That could be the answer, Master," Yanael eventually said.

"Which means it could also be something else." Zach sighed and looked toward the monsters that were still some distance below them.

He started walking. Whatever the answer was, it was down there. He just had to get it.

Mandra grabbed Nora, lest they forget her again.