Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem

The little girl sighed and removed her foot. She bent down and raised Jigak's head. She caressed his cheeks. Find exclusive stories on My Virtual Library Empire

"You are not to blame. You didn't steal my power. You didn't experiment on me. You didn't torture me.

"Still, I forgive you, Jigak. Let go of this guilt you carry, ease the burden on your shoulders, and soar.

"Become my champion, Jigak." The little girl kissed Jigak's forehead.

Black tears dribbled down his cheeks, and he closed his eyes in relief as a strange sensation spread through his body like a wave. For the first time in years, he could relax his shoulders. All the guilt and tension he had carried after what he did to the daughter of the Underworld and from resisting the Great Ugor as much as he could, faded like snow in the spring.

He stretched out his wings fully and let himself feel the strength the little girl gave him.

She had eased the burden he carried. She had relieved some of the Great Ugor's pressure on him.

The little girl pursed her lips as she looked at Jigak.

It wasn't complete.

"I need to regain my strength to finish your transformation, my champion," she said. It wasn't an order. It didn't contain any secret messages.

Jigak knew what he had to do. The Great Ugor had to die. He got up from both to one knee and bowed to the little girl again. His eyes were full of determination. He would do everything he could to make up for his transgression and serve her to the best of his ability. He would fight the Great Ugor to his dying breath if necessary.

The Daughter of the Underworld nodded in recognition of his determination and loyalty.

The Daughter's gaze swept over the three maids before landing on Zach. She walked up to him and caressed his stony cheek. If greed had been an emotion she could still feel, she would have felt it when she sensed what swirled within Zach.

"I will accept your assistance," the Daughter said to the three maids after she removed her hand from Zach's face. It was her fight. Her revenge. But they could help.

Afterward, she returned to the bedroom without another word. She still had to recover as much of her strength as she could before the Great Ugor tracked them down. There was no turning back now.

It was only a matter of time before they clashed with the Great Ugor's forces.

Until then, the Daughter had to prepare as much as possible since she would be responsible for a significant portion of their strength both on her own and through covering Jigak from the Great Ugor's influence.

Jigak also had to strengthen his resolve and prepare for a mental battle against someone with the power to control him to his very core.

There wasn't much for the three familiars to do other than cheer on Zach and wait. They could try and reconvene with the others. But it was unclear how much help they would be in a battle against the Great Ugor. Soara would, of course, be of help. But the students? Maybe Dukiel.

But that wasn't the only reason for them to regroup with the others.

With Zach covered in stone, there was something the others were carrying that would be very helpful against the Great Ugor—against any underworlder, really. Alzara naturally carried a few as well, but it would be great if they could get what the other students had as well.

The Daughter wanted to regain more of her strength, but that wouldn't be possible in a short time.

"Let's go," she said after leaving the bedroom.

With the Great Ugor's cowardly tactics, he would track them down and then weaken them as much as possible by using waves of cannon fodder before sending the stronger underworlders that could compare to Jigak.

The little girl led the big and muscular underworlder and the three maids, one of whom was carrying a stone statue. It was an odd and mismatched group, but it was powerful and lethal.

There was no need to sit around and wait for the Great Ugor to show himself, something that would never happen. Instead, they might as well cut to the chase and go look for him first.

They were already at the fifth layer. The Great Ugor was on the sixth. While he had his troops running around to try and find Jigak and the Daughter, they would already be on their way to him. And they wouldn't be alone.

Killing or even knocking out and hiding the underworlders they encountered along the way would reveal to the Great Ugor where they were, so the group had to proceed with extreme caution.

Fortunately, they had the Daughter on their side. While most of her strength and abilities had been hijacked by the Great Ugor, she still had some left. She could extend her senses along the underworld energy and pick up the presence of underworlders. She guided them through the best path straight toward the sixth layer's entrance, and Mandra worked with her to make sure they were completely undetectable whenever they had to slip by close to any of the roaming guard-type underworlders.

It took them several painstaking hours to arrive at the tunnel of complete darkness that led to the sixth layer. Black fog trickled out of it, spreading underworld energy to the rest of the Underworld in a gentle, steady stream.

Over eras, that tiny trickle of fog had created the different layers and filled all of them with the varying densities of underworld energy. Combined, the five layers could not even compare to the sixth layer in density or amount.

The sixth layer was the source of all underworld energy. It was the Underworld.

It was where the Great Ugor resided with his most trusted and loyal subordinates.

Past this point, there would be no sneaking around.

The sixth layer was also the smallest one, after all, not to mention how the Great Ugor would notice them as soon as they set foot in the downwards sloping tunnel.

As soon as he did, he would call all of his troops to support him.

The Great Ugor would have been a fool not to realize what the Daughter's intentions were. As strong as he was, there would be no way he would face her alone. He wasn't the type to take unnecessary risks.

So, Mandra, Jigak, and the Daughter were going to erect a wall to prevent any underworlders from stabbing them in the back during their fight with the Great Ugor.

But they were too late.

"Hmm?"

"?"

"I wondered what Zach was up to."