Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 595: Recovery

Yanael hadn't slept. As a familar and Archangel, sleep wasn't a requirement. She had spent every moment she wasn't by Zach's side swinging her sword. It was nonstop practice for at least a week straight.

But at the same time, if swinging a sword nonstop for a week was enough to reach her current level of mastery, Zach had a feeling that more people would be master swordsmen. It was only because it was Yanael that she had reached such a level in such a short time.

Eventually, Yanael concluded her demonstration, earning a heartfelt round of applause from Zach.

Yanael smiled bashfully. She could tell Zach earnestly appreciated the demonstration and the skill she had displayed.

"I cut it a little short since I felt it would take some time if I included multiple-step variations and defensive maneuvers, Master. I hope you don't mind."

"I'm more than satisfied if you're satisfied, Yanael. That was an excellent demonstration, and I'm happy I asked for it."

Zach glanced at the wall, listening to the sounds of someone attacking it on the other side.

He could probably break down the wall and free Violina right now. But the Underworld wasn't ready. He wasn't ready.

"I am going to focus on recovery for a while. Do any of you need something from Haven?"

"I would like to check on my plants, Master." Zach nodded and brought Alzara to Haven. He said hello to Ra and checked on Nora. He was not going to repeat his mistakes.

Alzara returned to his side after a little while, seemingly satisfied with the growth and recovery of the plants from the vault that she had planted in a corner of Haven. She had even harvested a little of it to make a potion for Zach to aid his recovery.

Ra was not bored to the point of needing entertainment just from a few weeks of solitude, so Zach and Alzara returned to the Underworld.

Zach sat down cross-legged and closed his eyes. He relaxed his body and gradually tuned out the sounds from around him. The thumping from the ice wall faded. The sound Alzara fiddling with her tools lingered for a few moments before turning into silence.

He sank his consciousness into his body. It was something he couldn't even imagine doing before he became a summoner. But being a summoner and having the world essence energy and contract skills made him acutely aware of his vessel. His essence was still just outside his grasp.

The visit to the Empress Dowager when she tapped him in the chest and pushed his essence outside his body to let him inspect his vessel with the eyes of his mind also helped.

Now, he could inspect it at will as long as he was calm and focused. It needed total concentration. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm

Surprisingly, he only found that when sitting in front of the ice wall, holding off a potentially disastrous invasion. Danger and death were one thick wall away.

Yet now was the moment Zach was the calmest.

He could see the backlash from Surge like red lines all over his insides. Inflamed scars. In the center of his chest, he saw a swirling lump.

It was different from last time.

It wasn't just world essence energy hiding away from the red lines so as not to worsen them. It was the tight ball of grey as well. It was the sealed power of Chaos.

Zach was curious. What would happen if he poked it with his world essence energy? Would that be enough to break the seal? Would he need to use the world essence energy in full to break it? What would happen if he managed to break it? Would he go crazy? Would it escape and try to find its way back to the Hydra or its original owner?

But now wasn't the time for thoughts or experiments like that. Zach had entered his body for one reason. It was to figure out how to fix it.

World essence energy could fix most of his injuries. He hadn't lost a limb or anything since he got it, so Zach wasn't sure how far it would go to fix him.

But it fixed up scrapes, breaks, and internal injuries with relative ease.

His world essence energy, however, was useless when it came to the injuries that come from his body rupturing at the seams when using it at more of its potential. His body could not handle the full power of the world essence energy. The world essence energy led to his body breaking down.

Zach kind of understood why the world essence energy couldn't fix him. If it could fix him, why would it break him in the first place?

However, at the same time, he also wondered about something else.

Why couldn't the world essence energy fix the injuries it caused?

The injuries were sometimes more extreme than the ones he got from external sources. But even when the backlash was lighter than a bruise, the world essence energy still couldn't do anything about it. Why did he have to wait for his body's natural, unaugmented regeneration to fix the backlash?

If he could solve that question, he could solve his problem of always becoming weaker than a boiled cucumber after using Surge. He wasn't sure if he could completely overcome momentary weakness after using it. But as long as he could reduce the time he spent a weak, two-hundred-year-old man, he would be satisfied.

So, without wasting any more time, he gently coaxed the world essence energy into following his bidding.

After all the time they had spent together, it seemed like the world essence energy didn't mind cooperating with him.

A thin tendril followed his will and gently bumped against one of the red lines, immediately shooting a burst of pain through Zach's body.

Zach sighed internally.

That hadn't been enough for him to determine what was wrong. He could only try again and do his best to get used to the pain. He had a feeling he would be feeling it a lot before he made any progress.