Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 443: Protection
Zach looked through the open gates as the soldiers and fighters of Rittel poured out into the darkness to fight the barbarians. His gaze turned to the walls, which now had several strong-looking barbarians standing on them. One of them was right in front of Mandra, who had launched her spells from the wall.
"Lahso, you’re protecting His Highness, right?" Zach asked.
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Lahso nodded with a hand on the hilt of his sword as he stood in front of Yan.
Zach took a step back.
"I’m leaving them to you guys," he said to his maids.
Alzara and Soara moved, sprinting and soaring up onto the city walls. Yanael stayed put by Zach’s side. Nora waited and watched. She wasn’t confident she could fight those barbarians head-on, even if she had sparred and trained with Zach’s maids regularly lately.
Instead, she made the most of her training to be unnoticeable and sneaky as she went around, using the shadows and gaps in the barbarians’ vision to ascend the walls and lurk out of sight while waiting for opportunities.
The barbarians, male or female, had long braided hair of mostly light colors. They were blonde, grey-haired, or light brown. But their eyes were dark, and their skin was tan from a lifetime spent on the prairie living an active outdoorsy life. They were muscular and wielded different weapons.
The barbarian facing Mandra looked the strongest and used a thin, straight, and sharp single-edged sword, which he used to deflect or slice her magic when she attacked. Since the sword could do that without breaking, it was clear that it was a treasure and not an ordinary sword.
But a good sword alone wouldn’t be enough to defeat Mandra. She just had to hit him instead of the sword.
One of the barbarians trying to pin down Alzara used a pair of sickles attached to his wrists with chains. They flew out and curved in the air like swallows but were still unable to reach the hem of Alzara’s clothes. If anything, they were closer to hitting his companion, a barbarian using a pair of daggers.
Maybe the sickle-wielding barbarian was confused since both Alzara and the other barbarian were using two daggers, even if they or the daggers were nothing alike. Alzara was taller than both of them with more than a head, but it was dark, and she was moving fast.
On another part of the wall, Soara was glancing toward the other barbarians when she had the opportunity and could afford to do so without catching swords or arrows to the face. She tried to see if the other barbarians also had some kind of defense against her powers.
She wasn’t sure what it was, but the three barbarians trying to get close to her had something on their bodies that tried to shield them against her powers. It was like a barrier or film over them that prevented her from grabbing their life flames and snuffing them out or weakening them.
She narrowed her eyes and focused on her opponents. It didn’t matter if the others had the same protection or not, at least not right now. She could deal with that after dealing with the two trying to shoot her and the one trying to dice her up.
They were strong enough that she could only be distracted for moments at a time, but that still meant she had the advantage in a fight against three people. Without their protection, she would have long since won.
That meant she would win as soon as she got through it.
Soara focused her power and pushed more of it onto the barbarian closest to her. As she did so, she saw an amulet resting below his throat begin to light up. She couldn’t help but let out a chuckle that sent shivers down the spines of all those who heard it except Zach and his familiars.
It was the mocking laughter of Death, finding the struggle of the insignificant entertaining.
An item was protecting them.
That wouldn’t be enough.
Silly barbarians.
The fact that the amulet had lit up when she pushed it was proof that it wasn’t reliable.
Soara just pushed more of her power onto the barbarian with the sword. She had to be a little careful since she didn’t want to draw on her strength too much and put pressure on Zach’s body, but this much should be fine.
Maybe a little more.
Soon, with a cracking sound, the amulet broke. It cracked and shattered into a dozen tiny pieces that fell to the ground. He stopped moving and glanced down at the broken amulet. Slowly, he looked up at Soara with a pale face—a face of horror.
Soara returned his expression with a smile as she gently waved his hand in his direction.
The man felt a chilly breeze sweep past him, and that was the last thing he felt before the light faded from his eyes and he collapsed to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut.
Before he even finished falling, four arrows shot through where he had just been standing toward Soara’s head. The two barbarian archers tried to catch Soara by surprise when she let down her guard after killing one of them. However, Soara wouldn’t let down her guard that easily.
She hadn’t let it down once since Zach was arrested outside the Labyrinth of Vidur. She wouldn’t be caught lacking just like that by two barbarians who were still wet behind their ears.
She easily dodged under the arrows that embedded themselves in the stone wall behind her. Getting hit by an arrow like that wouldn’t be nice. But they were useless if they didn’t hit her. Read the latest on novelbuddy
Soara took a step toward the archers, concentrating her power on the one to the left until the amulet broke. As the cracking sound rang out, even the other glanced to the side to check what would happen to their friend and comrade.
But looking away wasn’t enough to make them miss.
Getting their throat slit by a short dagger, however, did make them unable to continue firing their bow.
Three barbarians down.
