Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 522: Let’s Just Say

The silence was painful, and Zach couldn't endure it for long. He also didn't want to put Visla through even more awkwardness.

"What about Minatio?" He asked. It was a sudden question, and Lexi had to blink a couple of times before catching up.

"He's…"

Zach's eyes narrowed.

"Don't tell me I stepped on a landmine," he said. He didn't want to open up another tough conversation. Lexi was of the same mind.

"...Let's just say that a lot has happened in the two years since you guys found him."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"...Let's just say that the Underworld didn't make him because they liked making babies."

"Lexi…"

"...Let's just say that some children grow quickly."

Zach sighed. He could somewhat tell that Lexi wasn't telling him what Minatio was up to because she knew it would invite even more displeasure from Zach. But in doing so, she indirectly revealed what the Evandiels had done with Minatio when preparing for this battle against the Hydra.

He clicked his tongue.

He knew better than most about Minatio's potential. Even as a newborn fresh into the world, he had strength to overwhelm even Named underworlders. He was potentially Ugor's greatest success and biggest failure. The baby was powerful and all. However, he didn't have a shred of malice in him.

He was an ordinary baby but with the strength of a hundred men. He couldn't control it at first, so he was still dangerous with the potential to become even more dangerous since he grew stronger by absorbing underworld energy.

He had grown by the day back when he was still in Zach and the others' custody. He could only imagine how strong he was now after a couple of years. And since Minatio wasn't an unlucky child, he would have received the family's attention and nurturing.

The best resources and training in the Empire combined with Minatio's strength, talent, and potential would have helped him flourish into a perfect fighting machine.

But that didn't mean it was okay to put a toddler in the fight against the Hydra.

"You—You'll understand when you see him," Lexi eventually said.

She agreed with Zach about everything else the family had done. But she did not agree with this point. It was not wrong of them to invite Minatio to join them in the fight against the Hydra.

However, she also knew that it was something Zach could only understand if he saw it himself. No matter how much she said that Minatio had grown well and that it's what he wanted, Zach wouldn't believe her, and not just because she had kept the family's plan and betrayal a secret from him.

It just didn't make sense.

The last Zach saw of Minatio was a little baby who would only harm a fly by accident.

Zach decided to categorize the circumstances and minutes after Minatio's birth as a tantrum by a newborn who didn't know what it was doing. It didn't count.

Lexi thought differently.

Zach and the other students had warned her about what Minatio was capable of when they handed him over to her. She knew what Zach was thinking right now.

That was why she also knew it wasn't worth trying to convince him that what Minatio had done when he was just born wasn't just a tantrum. It wasn't an accident or a coincidence.

It was in his nature.

"Not if I have a say in it," Zach said, crossing his arms.

Lexi got a bad feeling.

"You're not planning to stop our family from fighting the Hydra, right?" She asked worriedly. She knew that they hadn't gone about it in a way that satisfied Zach. But not fighting and killing the Hydra meant releasing it upon the world.

That was far worse than anything they had ever done to Zach.

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Zach frowned.

"Of course not."

His eyes narrowed.

"At least not in the way you think I am. I need to screw with our family's plan without releasing the Hydra into the world, right?"

"I wouldn't say you need—"

"When were you planning to attack? Or were you just waiting for it to break its seal?"

Lexi sighed.

"We were waiting, but we had an estimate of a week or two."

"And you wouldn't make a move before then?"

"As the time approached, we would have advanced to the thirtieth floor. But only a day or two before the estimate."

"Perfect." Zach's lips pulled up into a grin.

Lexi's bad feeling worsened.

"Zach…What are you planning?"

He shrugged.

"To prove that my idea would have worked. My words don't hold much weight until I do, after all."

"Zach…"

Zach wasn't going to tell her that easily. What was the fun in that?

He glanced around. He still felt a jarring sensation whenever he did and realized he couldn't find Nora, only to remember that he would never find Nora again.

He looked at Yanael, Alzara, Soara, Mandra, Visla, and Lexi.

"I'm not sure how this will go, but…don't resist and just let it happen," He said as he closed his eyes and focused on sensing the ones around him and only them. He took a deep breath and reached for something both within himself and far away.

He reached for Haven.

He found it. Like a doorway, he found the way to Haven.

Zach pulled himself and the ones he chose through it and into Haven. A familiar feeling wrapped around him.

The others felt something intangible surround them, at least the ones with good enough senses. A moment later, something tugged on them.

They recognized the feeling as being similar to when they moved through floors but weaker and gentler. They could have resisted it.

Mandra and Soara even realized that just moving an arm would have broken them free from Zach's invitation. Fortunately, even the ones who didn't realize that didn't move.

They were all swept up and moved into Haven.

Alzara was at ease knowing how Zach had disappeared back then.

Soara was surprised.

Mandra was curious about how Zach could perform such a seamless teleportation to another space.

Visla and Lexi were shocked, flabbergasted, and stunned.

Yanael had drawn her sword.