Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem

Too many things were going on at once for Zach to tell what was happening, but the bloody air, the shrieking, the screaming, and the stench of battle told him it was a battlefield. Strangely enough, it felt like there were a lot of details missing from what he could see.

Everything looked like it was moving fast. It was a battlefield on a much larger scale than anything he had seen before, so that made sense. The beings fighting were numerous and powerful.

But at the same time, it was like everything had slowed down so that he could see what was happening.

Just then, a projectile flew straight through Zach's chest. It didn't leave a hole or even rustle his shirt.

He was a spectator to this battlefield and Zach just felt like it was from the past. He looked around.

Just like he hadn't seen what kind of projectile pierced because it was strangely blurry, he couldn't see the beings that were fighting. He saw things collide with other things. He didn't know if they were living beings, weapons, or something in between.

It was strange. He couldn't tell what he was seeing, either.

It was like what he was being seen was erased from his memory as he was seeing it.

Zach turned his head.

He had been worried at first when he ended up in the middle of a battlefield far above his level. But now that he knew he was a spectator and didn't have anything to fear, he knew why he had come here.

This was the clue he was looking for. Inside this scene from the past was a clue to the correct order of the deities.

Zach's eyes scanned the battlefield until he found something that finally stood out. Or rather, in a battlefield of endless things that irritated his mind, it was the one thing that wasn't frustrating to look at. And it wasn't right to call it a thing.

It was a person.

In the middle of a sea of beings and things attacking it, a lone, robed figure walked forward.

At first, Zach wasn't even sure which side it belonged to. The side with the slightly more humanoid or familiar shapes or the side with things that, even when distorted by whatever alteration the Trial had applied to this scene from the past, looked like creatures out of a horror story.

He hadn't even been able to tell that the figure was being attacked by the monstrous things. After all, they never reached within ten strides of the figure. From a distance, it had looked like they were running past it.

But when Zach looked closer, he saw it.

Everything that came close to the robed figure stopped moving. Combined with the robed appearance, Zach could easily guess who it was. It was Soara of Death and Transcendence.

Zach snapped back to reality and fell backward, his hand jerking away from the name plaque like he had touched hot coal. The others noticed his hasty movement, but they didn't think anything of it. He had been acting strange for a while now, after all.

Zach stood up and quickly gathered Nessa and Violina in one place while others played with the console. They could tell something was up, and when he told them what he had just gone through, they listened to the end without interrupting.

"...That's strange. Why hasn't anyone else seen what you saw?" Violina asked, more out of curiosity than to question the truth in Zach's words. Zach often wasn't as serious as he could be, but he wouldn't cook up a joke like this. Violina and Nessa believed him.

Zach shrugged.

Nessa looked around at the few other entrants still studying the statues. After a while, she frowned.

A couple of them were touching the statues of Wir, the cat, and Kirsher, the horse. But no one was touching any of the other statues, much less their name plaques.

Nessa turned to Violina.

"...Hey, have you touched any of the plaques?" She asked.

"What? Of course, I…" Violina trailed off when trying to recall which plaques she had touched. She had done a close inspection of all the statutes. She had to have touched one of the plaques, even if only in passing.

She frowned as she realized she had never done so. She had been close a few times, but she had never touched a plaque. Nessa and Violina looked at each other before quickly jogging over to two nearby statues, those of the minotaur and the old woman.

Simultaneously, they put their hands against the plaques, brushing over the names and titles. Hark of Flames and Rudrick of Deception. Only seconds later, they flinched and jerked backward just like Zach had done.

Their eyes were wide in shock and confusion. They had clearly seen and experienced something, but before Zach could ask them about it, both quickly brushed the plaques with the tips of their fingers again.

Neither left the place where they sat, but they returned to their bodies after a couple of seconds again. Both Nessa and Violina were frowning deeply in confusion, frustration, and slight pain.

Doing that had earned them a decent headache, even if they had seen the scene more clearly. They wanted to try again, but Zach stopped them.

"So? What did you see?"

Nessa and Violina glanced at each other, signaling for the other to go first.

"...Not much. It was a complete mess and a jumble of colors and things happening. But I got the feeling that it was some kind of fight." Nessa shared what she had seen first.

"Like some kind of battlefield?" Zach asked.

"...I don't know." Nessa started shaking her head but shrugged instead.

"It was the same for me. But it got better the second time, even if it made my head sting." Violina glared at the statue as if blaming it for her headache.

Zach glanced back at the statue of Soara.

"I should have brought some pain-relieving medicine with me, then."