Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem

Between Zach and the Child of the Hydra, Zach's only advantage was the power of the world essence energy in his blows. Usually, he would have also had the restorative effect of the world essence energy on his side. But the scars from last time were still hampering that, putting him just a margin above the Child.

In terms of sheer strength, raw firepower, sturdiness, and speed, the Child surpassed Zach.

The injury to his knee lowered his speed to just above Zach's, and Zach's barriers made up for his lacking durability. But there wasn't much he could do in the other areas other than try to explode the Child with his energy, which wasn't going very well since he was far from skilled enough at handling it.

However, the skull was one of the hardest pieces of bone in the human body. Although what was inside it wasn't very durable, as long as the skull itself held up, it would be mostly fine. That's what Zach hoped at least.

He was trading blows to his head for blows to the Child's torso, after all. The scales covering the Child's side and ribs were hard and tough, but they weren't indestructible, and neither were the Child's ribs.

Zach's face was burned and most of his hair was gone. He might end up with permanent scars due to this. He might never get his hair back due to those scars.

But Zach didn't care about being ugly. He didn't care about being stared at wherever he went, at least not anymore. Sure, it would suck, but he didn't need his hair or his beauty. His familiars didn't follow him because of his face. His friends…If they could stand his personality, they could stand his appearance.

He willingly let the Child burn him. The pain and disfigurement were more than worth it if he could use the Child's cracked ribs to pierce the latter's lungs and heart.

The Child felt its injuries in a distant sense. Zach wasn't the only one running on an adrenaline high, unable to properly feel pain. The only thing on their minds was to kill the other one. That was the only way this fight would end. This was the only way for them to survive.

And that was the deciding difference between them.

The Child was alone. He had to win to survive for himself. He fought to live.

Zach, on the other hand, wasn't alone. If he lost, he would be taking Nora, Alzara, Yanael, Soara, and Mandra with him. He would be betraying their trust and so on.

Zach wasn't fighting to live. He was fighting to win. He was fighting to kill the Child.

Since that was the case, what did it matter if the Child enveloped his entire body in fire?

What did it matter if his world essence energy ruined his body even further in exchange for the slightest increase in strength?

The more they fought, the more desperate the two became.

The Child's desperation was to flee. He did not want to die here. It would be an awful inconvenience.

Zach's desperation was to win before it was too late.

The Children, as Yanael had noticed, didn't improve during battle. It could have just been the one she fought, but it seemed to be true for this one as well. His use of fire energy didn't improve. The only thing that changed was the output, but after that was already at the maximum, there was nothing more he could do other than stare in amazement as Zach bore the flames, his skin bubbling and melting due to the heat.

Zach, on the other hand, had well of world essence energy in him. He could barely make it move on an ordinary day, but with him on the brink of death, the world essence energy finally surged.

His condition, which had only recently seen some improvement would worsen again. But if he died, he would never get better again.

The world essence energy swirling around Zach's body made the flames shy away. Slowly and gradually, Zach's skin stopped falling off his flesh. Char dropped to the ground, and he started recovering.

At the same time, his punches became even heavier. Each one drew out a crack from the Child's body. Broken scales, broken ribs.

Eventually, the Child tried to flee.

It was too late.

Zach was close to as strong as he was when fighting Ugor.

He could already feel the aftermath and backlash deep in his bones. He didn't stop.

He held the Child by the shoulder as he punched one last time, pushing his fist into the Child's chest. He destroyed a lung in the process before grabbing the Child's heart and squeezing it.

The Child continued struggling for a few moments. Zach looking into his eyes as the light faded before letting the Child's corpse drop to the ground. He shook his hand free of blood.

Zach took an unsteady step away, almost falling to the ground. Your next read is at My Virtual Library Empire

The fight had ended, and the world essence energy couldn't have been quicker to withdraw back into his core. A second longer and the damage to his body would have been even worse.

It hadn't even stayed long enough to heal his skin fully. He was still hairless and covered in wavy, irregular burn scars.

But he wasn't done yet. He wasn't the only one who risked their life to fight the Child. He had to check up on Nora.

Alzara was sitting next to her. From a distance, it looked like Nora was sleeping and Alzara was waiting for her to wake up.

Maybe the pile of potions next to Nora had done the work and now they just needed to wait for Nora to handle the fatiguing effects of the potions before waking up.

But as he walked closer, Zach got a sinking feeling in his gut. Alzara was turned away, so he couldn't see her expression. But her back and shoulders were tense.

With weak and unsteady steps, falling over twice, Zach hurried over to his maids.