Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem

Zach was dizzy most of the time after they started looking for the other connections between the deities' pasts. His perception of time was a little unreliable. But after what he was sure was a couple of days, he and the other entrants had finally fished out enough details from the statues to lay down some kind of order.

Boa of Rain and Lightning's past had the highest number of other deities in their past.

After Boa, it was either Krisher of the Steppes or Rudrick of Deception. No one could find out for certain since Rudrick's past was, well, deceptive.

There were a few other deities that also shared the same amount of deities in their pasts.

Soara was alone. Ackspet was with Soara. Wir of Greed, the cat, shared a past with Soara and Ackspet.

Jeret of Dreams' past was also a little difficult to see the details in since their powers raged across the battlefield like a storm of illusions. Different from Rudrick's power, which seemed to twist reality, Jeret's powers brought the life within dreams to reality. It was similar but different, and, by the looks of it, Jeret was more powerful.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

After all, why would any of the deities have left the battlefield between the past in their statues and the past in the statues where they were nowhere to be seen?

It was a battlefield.

It was a hard thought to grasp and believe, but the deities had died. That was why they had left the scenes of the past.

The deities themselves were unimaginably strong and wielded incredible powers. For them to have died meant that they had fought and, more importantly, lost a battle against someone stronger than them.

Naturally, there were deities stronger than others. Otherwise, they wouldn't have died one at a time like they appeared to have done. Something stronger than a deity could, of course, be another deity.

But Soara who appeared to be the strongest of the deities depicted in the Labyrinth of Syst's second Trial, had also disappeared from the annals of time. Her fate in the battle the statues showed the Trial-takers was evident. She had also fallen.

The entrants had no idea what had happened afterward, why they had discovered something like this in the Labyrinth of Syst, or when it had happened. It had happened far in the past to a civilization they didn't know about.

The monsters that had slain the deities looked like the kind that would destroy anything they came across whether it be a field of sunflowers or a world. Maybe the scenes depicted in the statues had been so far in the past that the world had been destroyed in the wake of the battle and recovered.

It could have been an incredibly long time ago. It was unlikely but not impossible. After all, the Labyrinths had existed longer than there were records of them. They could be relics of an ancient time.

Why did they exist? Pass down the legacies of the ancients. Pass on treasures. Train the people of the past, present, and future. Tell the stories of those whose names have long since ceased to exist. It could be everything, nothing, and anything.

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If it weren't for the Labyrinth of Syst, no one would have heard of the names of Soara, Ackspet, Wir, Jeret, Tora, Arot, Yissna, Lyander, Hark, Krisher, Rudrick, and Boa. Twelve deities who fought to their deaths to protect what they deemed worth protecting. To fight what they thought worth fighting.

Even if they didn't know anything about the deities, their civilization, their past, or the details of the battle, they still deserved to be remembered.

And it seemed the Labyrinth of Syst wanted them to be remembered in the order in which they had fallen.

As the clues pointed them to, Boa was first. Rudrick was second. Then came Krisher. And so on.

A few of the entrants thought it would have been the opposite order since the one in the first spot should be honored. But that wasn't the case.

After a few tries with Boa first to sort out the deities they couldn't pin down, the statues all let out loud thunks as if clicking into the ground, finally at the right places.

[Trial (2/12) complete. Twenty-three survivors confirmed. Time taken: 5 days 3 hours 16 minutes 9 seconds. Result above estimation but within error parameters. Determining next Trial. Trial (3/12) set.

Preparing…]

The sweet blue message that popped up in front of everyone's eyes was a welcome sight since it meant they had completed the Trial, even if it had taken five days. But the message also inspired dread.

The second Trial had been difficult and taxing. If it hadn't been a shared Trial, many would have failed or gone crazy. They had been worried about food and starving to death initially, but no one grew hungry as if the Labyrinth was somehow preventing that or supplying them with nourishment somehow.

It had been a relief at first since no one had brought that many emergency rations. But then, they realized that there was no time limit. There was no hunger. They wouldn't fail the Trial.

It would take as long as it took to clear the Trial, whether it be a few days, weeks, months, or years.

If they didn't clear the Trial or didn't find the clues, the only way to escape the Labyrinth and the Trial would have been through the sweet release of insanity or the comforting embrace of death.

Many of the entrants had realized that possibility.

They were thankful to Zach, Nessa, and Violina who had discovered the first clues. They had figured out both the thing with the name plaques and the connections between the pasts in the statues.

It was impossible to tell how long time it would have taken to solve the Trial if not for them.

But at the same time, the other entrants were wary of the students of the Academy for Summoners.

What if the next Trial was one where they couldn't cooperate?