Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem

"Moving on…" Zach didn't feel like he would get any more worthwhile answers from his two familiars regarding how to get more world essence energy right now.

"Two things, then. Why does it matter that this is my first energy? And how do I use it?" He couldn't get any more of it, but he still had some inside him that he could put to use.

"Like all things, the first is the most important, Master." Yanael took the opportunity to affirm her place as Zach's first familiar. Yanael glared at Yanael for a moment before continuing the explanation.

"As a rule, it means that your body is most suitable for world essence energy. Compared to if you were to have learned martial energy first, you will have an easier time controlling it and accumulating more of it. On rare occasions, if there are foreign energies inside your body, they can be absorbed and transformed into world essence energy. Very rare occasions."

"It is more of a theoretical possibility than a rule, Master. In theory, as a superior form of energy, world essence energy can take in inferior forms. But in practice…"

"It's impossibly difficult."

Zach looked between the two maids, who were surprisingly in sync as they explained.

"I'm guessing you can't tell me how you know this."

"That is correct, Master."

"Mhm."

"Right. Then, the only thing that matters about world essence energy being my first energy is that it should be easier to control and my body has adapted to handle it better or something like that."

"That is correct, Master."

"Mhm."

"So, how do I control it?" Zach sat up and turned to look at Yanael and Alzara. This was the important part.

The two maids looked at Zach for a moment before turning to each other, blank expressions on their faces.

"'We don't know, Master,'" they said in unison.

"...Great." Zach sighed.

"..."

"Can't you move it?" Alzara asked.

"Like, with my mind?"

"Yeah."

Zach sighed again. He closed his eyes and sensed the thinly spread mist of world essence energy swimming around in his body like an airy eel. He tried to make it go the other way, speed it up, and slow it down.

Nothing happened.

He didn't know how he was supposed to do it, so he had just thought about how he wanted it to do those things. He wasn't surprised that nothing had happened.
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Zach opened his eyes and shrugged hopelessly.

Alzara furrowed her brow as she sat down in front of Zach and took a close look at his body. She was not taking advantage of the situation to admire it. She was multitasking.

Her eyes widened slightly as she noticed that the world essence energy was helping with Zach's connate issue.

"...Do you remember how your sister mentioned that you were 'glowing'?"

"Yeah?"

"The world essence energy is currently suppressing that glow slightly."

"So, if I learn how to control it, I can stop glowing entirely?"

"Maybe. But, more importantly, if you learn how to control it, you will most likely notice that glow yourself, which will let me—"

Alzara's jaw smacked shut.

"Sonofabitch." She massaged the side of her jaw. She had not expected the restriction to be that sharp.

Zach's eyes widened at the sudden interruption to what Alzara was saying. But it wasn't worth asking about it since she clearly couldn't tell him. He had to figure it out on his own until he knew enough for her to tell him.

There were a lot of things for him to do and think about all of a sudden.

What Alzara had just been about to say. How to get more world essence energy. How to control the world essence energy. How he was going to summon his third familiar. He hoped he could do it as part of his reward for getting so far in the Labyrinth of Syst. After all, he had managed to summon Alzara on the first floor of Jira.

But that brought him to one of his most pressing concerns.

He had to clear the Labyrinth first. To do that, he had to clear the twelfth Trial, which he had no idea how to do.

He looked at the empty throne, his mind a mile away.

It was a very empty throne.

But he shouldn't sit in it.

'If it's not for me, who is it for?' Zach asked himself. Thrones were rarely purely ornamental. Their purpose was usually more symbolic than functional since they weren't just a place to sit.

They were places for special people like kings and emperors to sit.

But how was he supposed to get his hands on a king or an emperor in the last Trial of the Syst Labyrinth? It was like looking for carrots in the sky.

There also weren't any other clues to indicate to whom the throne belonged. There weren't any decorations, emblems, weapons, or tables.

If it was a king or something, they had to be lonely. It was a king without a kingdom, without a castle, without a people, without servants, and without anything.

The throne room was completely bare aside from the throne.

It could be a coincidence. It wasn't. Nothing in the Trials so far had been coincidental. Zach didn't like how some of the Trials had played out, especially the first one. But that was bad luck, which he overcame with superior strength.

The second Trial had seemed coincidental, especially the unclear instructions and almost impossible-to-find way to access the statues' past.

But that was intentional. The entrants would sooner or later have brushed against the name plaques of the deities they resonated with. They would have then seen the scenes of the past and slowly pieced everything together. That would have happened even if Zach wasn't there.

The third Trial gave them more information about the monsters that brought the deities to ruin. It seemed like uninteresting information since the monsters didn't have anything to do with them.

But the monsters hadn't lost. They could still exist somewhere.

Then, there was the fourth Trial…