Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 560: Worst Nightmare

Zach continued looking at the light show until he suddenly noticed a pair of hands on his shoulders. He would have assumed they belonged to Yanael if not for one simple reason.

He didn't recognize them.

"I almost thought I was going to miss the action, but it seems like I'm right on time," An unfamiliar voice said from right behind Zach, immediately attracting Yanael's and Mandra's attention as well.

Zach shook off the two hands and whipped around on full alert.

Whoever it was, they had managed to sneak up on him and his two maids without any of them noticing a thing. If they had been out to take his life, they could very well have succeeded.

Zach reinforced his barriers and stirred his world essence energy again as he looked the woman up and down with a wary gaze. She was shorter than Zach, which wasn't strange after all the growing he had done the past few years.

She had unruly dark hair with notes of red that almost reached the middle of her ears. Her piercing bright yellow eyes stared right at Zach with an unnerving intensity.

"...Who are you?" Zach asked after a couple of seconds when it became clear that the woman wasn't going to attack them, at least not right this instant.

"The principal didn't tell you anything?" The woman tilted her head curiously.

"If you know the principal, you know there's nothing odd about that."

"That's true." The woman nodded with crossed arms. "OKay, I'll give you a hint. If I do this…" She held out her hand to the side.

It was first now that Zach realized there was a skeleton standing slightly behind her. It was a matte grey gold color with pale lights in its eye sockets. When the woman stretched out her hand, the skeleton's expression dropped slightly as it ambled its way forward and around the woman's arm until she held its neck.

Zach narrowed its eyes, waiting for the rest of the demonstration, but that was it. The woman just showed that she had a skeleton with an intriguing appearance completely under her control.

"You're a summoner," Zach stated. The woman nodded with a smile.

"Yes. So, who do you think I am?" She asked eagerly.

Zach's mind was blank. A slightly panicked look flashed across his face before he raised his arms with a shrug.

"I have no idea."

The woman frowned and kicked the ground.

"The old fucker!" The stone she hit pierced straight through the brick walls of the first ruin she hit. Zach didn't see where it went next.

After grumbling a little more, the woman sighed and smoothed her forehead out before holding out her hand.

"I'm the principal's first disciple, which makes me your direct senior. It's nice to finally meet you, Zach of the Maids."

Zach tentatively held out his hand even if he could feel Yanael's and Mandra's warning gazes.

"I'm not the principal's disciple or anything, but it's nice to meet you too," He said. It seemed like it was a better option to be on friendly terms with this woman than on bad terms. Besides, she was a summoner. How bad could she be?

"You're not?" The woman tilted her head. A scary look flashed across her face.

"Did he banish you too?"

That question made Zach frown. He did not like its implications.

"No…I just didn't want to be saddled with becoming the new principal."

"Ah…" She nodded in understanding.

"I understand. But there's no need to worry about that. That old bastard would rather see the world burn than see his precious Academy in the hands of another."

"I don't know. He seemed pretty insistent on making me his inheritor."

The smile on the woman's face stiffened at Zach's last word.

"He said he was going to make me his inheritor once too," She said.

As the atmosphere suddenly grew a little chilly, Zach realized that he did not like where this was going.

"So, uh, what's your name?" He suddenly asked, hoping to change the topic and maybe figure out who and what he was dealing with.

"Ozra. But if you want to call me by name instead of senior or big sis, you'll have to prove your worth—No, as a matter of fact. You will have to prove that you earned the principal's recognition."

Zach took a step back. He could feel Ozra's fighting spirit rise. He had a feeling that she wanted to pummel him.

"Right now?" He asked, glancing toward the Hydra.

"If you satisfy me, I'll help you deal with that."

"Deal."

Less than a second later, a fist came flying toward Zach's face. It collided with his barrier, sending cracks running through it. Zach reached up and grabbed it by the wrist. He spun around and yanked on the wrist. He raised the body up in the air and slammed it hard enough into the ground to make a starfish.

The skeleton stood up instantly without so much as a scratch on it.

"Hah! Good luck trying to break this one," Ozra laughed before kicking Zach in the back and sending him tumbling over the ground after almost folding his body in half.

Yanael and Mandra tried to return the favor.

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Ozra had spooked Zach and the two maids with her sudden appearance, and she had spoken to and looked at Zach with a worrying intensity. Some of her expressions and the way she said things also made it seem like she wasn't quite stable.

Naturally, Yanael and Mandra were worried.

That worry turned into anger as soon as Ozra attacked Zach with such a ruthless kick.

"Play with those two, Metaleton." However, Ozra was interested in Zach, not his two familiars.

The metallic skeleton intercepted Yanael's attack and caught her sword with its hand. When Mandra tried to bypass it, the skeleton spun half a turn and extended its leg, kicking her in the abdomen.

But the two would have continued to ignore the skeleton if they hadn't seen Zach raise his hand, telling them to stay back.

It was a familiar's worst nightmare.