Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 549: Two Seconds Too Long

The Hydra's strength was slightly suppressed by the lightning blanketing and coursing through its body. But a mammoth without fur is still an elephant. It's tail easily broke apart every piece of Mandra's array it touched.

However, Mandra's spell pulled away the lightning components in the specified area and set a target. Those components were already gone, and the Hydra had already become the target.

The rest, the lightning bolts falling from the sky like divine punishment, was all nature's doing. Just destroying the spell wouldn't stop the thunderstorm.

But it did weaken the concentration, and the lightning strikes spread out. Several of them missed the Hydra. That still meant many of them hit the overgrown lizard, though.

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It was hard for Zach and the others to tell since the lightning strikes were so overwhelmingly brilliant, but Mandra felt her array be destroyed. She knew it was only a matter of time before the Hydra was done enduring the rest of the attack.

She just hoped that it would focus on the lightning and not them.

Like cranes raising their heads to look at the sunrise, one by one, the Hydra's heads bore the lightning and returned to their towering position just below the sky.

The world grew silent for a moment.

It was the Hydra inhaling.

The lightning had properly awoken all of its remaining heads and helped its body warm up. The Hydra bled big and heavy drops, and six of its necks and heads were covered in char and jagged burn patterns.

It had felt the lightning. It had endured and weathered as much as it needed. Now, it was time to end it.

The Hydra was a monster that the God of Nature needed to step in to stop.

A mere natural phenomenon like the lightning hell Mandra had arranged for it was far from enough to stop it.

The Hydra filled its lungs with the intense air around it.

That was why the sound had stopped for a second.

The world was also holding its breath. It was waiting with horrified anticipation for what was to come once the Hydra exhaled.

Eventually, the Hydra's lungs tightened and pushed out the air inside them.

What left the Hydra's mouths through its necks wasn't just a breath. It wasn't just air.

It was an announcement.

The Hydra was telling the world that it had returned, and it was doing it with a volume that shattered air and Zach's barriers alike.

It drowned all other sounds like the Hydra was telling the sky to shut up.

Zach couldn't even tell if it was a roar, a screech, or a cry. It wasn't something that could be squeezed into any of those categories.

All he knew was that it left his vision pink and blurry and a ringing in his ears in its wake.

The shockwave of the powerful roar made the dresses of his maids flap and flutter in the wind like the sail of a ship caught in a storm at sea. If his clothes had been ordinary clothes and not the Taio from Ra's world, they would have been ripped clean off his body.

The most impressive part of the Hydra's screech, thorough, was that it succeeded in telling the sky to shut up.

The Hydra wasn't a force of nature, but it might as well have been.

A single shout was enough for it to clear away the murky thunderclouds that Mandra had managed to lure into existence.

The sky cleared, daylight returned, and the Hydra revealed its full form in all its glory. Its seven heads reached high into the sky with long necks on a wide, mountainous, powerful body.

The Hydra wasn't done.

Gradually, like it was getting rid of the final traps of rust, its back cracked open. Two leathery wings extended like the horizon and turned the Hydra from an overgrown, seven-headed lizard into an overgrown, seven-headed flying lizard.

Zach was stunned, even if that wasn't the only reason he was silent.

He had not expected the Hydra to have wings. He hadn't noticed that when he was running on its back, though it wasn't strange, considering he was being chased by two Basilisk-like heads who wanted to eat him.

With the Hydra's size, even two wings the size of a warehouse each wouldn't be enough to take it even higher into the sky.

But the Hydra was beyond the realm of caring about whether it was too heavy to fly or not.

It had wings. If it wanted to fly, it was going to fly. There was nothing in the world that could stop it.

With another breath, this time one that could be heard, the Hydra raised its wings into the air. With all seven heads breathing out at the same time, the two large wings pushed down like it was trying to flatten the ground beneath it.

Zach had been right.

It was heavy.

The Hydra had to jump into the air to make it easier for itself to take to the sky. It did just that.

When it pushed against the ground with its legs, the entire thirtieth floor shook once again.

It was lighter than the other times when it first woke up and during the lightning storm.

Enough time had passed since that happened. Enough time had passed since the twenty-ninth floor first felt the earthquakes for those on it to prepare themselves as best as they could.

So, once the floor shook again, the ones on the twenty-ninth and twenty-eighth floors had no choice but to hurry on down.

The Evandiels and their warriors appeared not far from Zach's group. The Sesha also appeared, one group at a time. The Maura were first, then the Ugris, and then finally the Arlecchs, including Ulminer Go.

But the Hydra did not spare the large groups so much as a glance as it rose. All of its seven heads were coordinated.

There was no way for the perceptive warriors and leaders of the other groups to miss the direction it looked in.

Worried, confused, shocked, surprised, filled with awe, or scared, the ones who noticed something was up turned to follow the Hydra's gaze.

At the end of it, they saw Zach.

Zach frowned as he met the Hydra's gaze himself.

The Hydra's gaze rose into the sky, and it flapped again, this time breaking through the thirtieth floor.

It had already spent the last several thousand years in this hellhole. A second more was two seconds too long.