Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem

Anerias ended up in a state of mental shock, and Zach and the others cut the meeting short so that Dukiel could help Anerias back to his dorm. But they had already discussed what needed to be discussed. Dukiel, Nessa, and Violina promised to keep Soara's identity a secret.

The odds of anyone knowing her name were low. But they weren't zero. It wasn't like they were the first ones to enter the Labyrinth of Syst. Derot was also working on mass-producing and distributing a board game inspired by the deities depicted in the Labyrinth.

So, if anyone asked, they were to answer with a random and new made-up name. It would make it obvious that they were hiding Soara's real name for whatever reason, which might catch interest in some. But it would make it more difficult for them to find out her real name.

And if they ever slipped up and used her real name, there was no way to tell if it was her real name or the name of one of the figures in a popular board game their friend was making.

Zach felt a little paranoid, even without the way his friends looked at him. But this wasn't just a matter of a talking familiar. It was an SSS-rank familiar who was a deity.

Deities existed as an idea. But there was no singular faith in the Empire with a lot of its citizens as followers.

It was for an obvious reason.

Deities, if they existed, didn't do anything. No matter how much people prayed and worshipped, they never received a response.

But what if one of those mythical deities roamed the lands and could freely converse with them? Even if only rumors about her identity spread, that would be enough for crazy people to show up.

And if her identity as a deity was somehow confirmed…?

Zach feared the worst.

What believer would want to see their deity serving a young, scummy, noble's son?

It could lead to endless trouble. And it wasn't the kind of trouble Zach wanted. It wasn't something he should shirk responsibility for or have someone else handle.

That was a worst-case scenario. But Zach's Title wasn't Troublemaker because he liked to make pastries called trouble.

So, while Yanael and Alzara got to spread their wings, Soara stayed by Zach's side.

Nessa and Dukiel helped spread the word that Zach's familiar would be holding lessons in combat for everyone who wanted to attend. Yanael had warned them that she wouldn't be going easy on anyone, so they made sure to emphasize that to their classmates.

But the offer was too attractive. Even if they didn't know that they could talk with Yanael, most of the students in their class joined the first lesson. Yanael's beauty aside, she was an expert combatant.

By now, most of the students had realized that relying on their familiars wasn't enough. They had their skills, and most of them had at least one skill that would increase their survivability. That wasn't for no reason.

A familiar wasn't useless if their summoner was injured. But they would be useless if their master was dead. They would also be heavily restricted in their activities if they constantly had to protect their master.

Summoners weren't known as one-man armies just because they had several powerful beings fighting for them. It was because they could also fight.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

However, the Academy didn't teach them anything about that. They taught them about summoning and general education subjects like calculus, geography, and history. It was up to the students to learn how to fight.

For some, like Violina, that was easy. She had experience since she had grown up as the daughter of a family who regularly fended off pirate attacks. If she hadn't learned how to fight, she would have been sharkmeat.

But others had lived peaceful lives or lives where they hadn't need to fight before they entered the Academy. They didn't even know where to begin. So, when the opportunity came to learn from not only one of the strongest familiars in the Academy, but the best swordswoman as well, the students weren't foolish enough not to take it.

Nessa, Violina, Dukiel, and Anerias didn't have a choice. Zach and Yanael forced them to learn from Yanael. But even if they hadn't done that, the four of them would have joined the lessons eagerly. Read exclusive chapters at empire

Violina was the only one who used a sword. The other three used their bodies to fight, much to Zach's belated surprise. He was the same, after all.

But Violina wasn't the only one who could learn from Yanael. Yanael taught more than just fencing. She taught the students how to train and move their bodies. She taught them how to get it, how to not get it, and how to get hit without getting injured.

In the process, she also taught the students how to move while injured and treat injuries.

The students weren't there yet, but Yanael was also ready to teach them about energies and energy manipulation. She hadn't been able to teach Zach about it since he had world essence energy. She was looking forward to putting all the theories in her book to use.

She had studied the Book of Sword Techniques religiously ever since she got it. She had learned a lot on her own. She had also taken some of what she learned, especially regarding energies and energy manipulation, and altered it to better suit her sacred energy. She had also tried to figure out how to help Zach with his dormant world essence energy by doing that, though she hadn't had any success.

However, her sacred energy didn't work the same as martial energy or magical energy. There was a limit to what she could do and find out without being able to experiment with multiple types of energy.

She couldn't wait to start using the students as guinea pigs.

What was even better was the fact that none of the students was her master. She couldn't kill, maim, cripple, or traumatize anyone. That was a given.

But she didn't need to hold back.

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Many of Zach's classmates who envied him for having such a beautiful and subservient woman as his maid and familiar instead started pitying him.