Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem

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As soon as Zach began moving backward, Violina and her familiars went all out with an icy torrent of what might as well be called unorthodox magic. It was the amalgamation of her familiars' innate ice abilities and her ice energy being released together.

Violina used her recently strengthened Cold Bestowal to bestow additional chill and ice to her familiars, strengthening them and their not-quite-magic magic.

The combined attack baptized Monolith in a thick layer of ice, temporarily turning him into an ice sculpture. They didn't let up their shower of flowing ice for a second as Violina approached.

She didn't even have her sword unsheathed.

Her current objective wasn't to cut Monolith. She couldn't cut him. Her sword wasn't sharp enough, and she wasn't strong enough.

No, her objective was to weaken Monolith and his magical defenses as much as possible.

Black underworld energy seeped out of Monolith's skin, melting and cracking the ice around him. It would only take him a couple of seconds at most to break out of the layer of as thick as the length of an arm.

But Violina put her hand on the oversized ice sculpture and applied Cold Bestowal to it directly. She healed, reinforced, strengthened, and expanded the ice with a significant portion of the ice energy she had stored in her body just for this moment. It hadn't come cheap, but she hadn't footed the bill, so she didn't care how many treasures she was using for this desperate attempt.

However, the ice wasn't the only thing that was growing. The cloud of darkness from within also grew. And no matter how many times Violina repaired them, the cracks also continued expanding.

She was fighting a losing battle. Sooner or later, Monolith would break free of the ice and punch Violina and her familiars before they could react.

So, while Violina's familiars backed off, Nessa approached.

Monolith's sight was already restricted. Hopefully, the ice distorted his other senses enough that he didn't notice what was going on outside.

Nessa stole the light in a dome around her and Monolith. Her skill, Robber of Light already gave her excellent night vision, especially when she was responsible for inducing the night. Her Exoskeleton also improved her sight. She didn't have any trouble seeing in the pitch-darkness of her making. She could even differentiate between the darkness in the absence of light and the darkness of the underworld energy.

Monolith, as an underworlder and inherent creature of the dark also had excellent night vision. But he had not expected night to fall while he was trapped in the ice. He was stunned.

He was stunned for less than a second. It wouldn't even be right to call it stunned. He was adjusting to the new circumstances and environment. But while he was taking in the changes in his surroundings, Nessa and her Midnight Butterfly snuck close to him under the cover of darkness.

Monolith noticed them before they reached him when they launched themselves toward his face.

Nessa was positioned to strike with her left arm, so Monolith reached out to grab it.

He grabbed air.

Nessa didn't have a left arm.

Monolith's instinct as a fighter and warrior won out over his knowledge of his opponents.

His other hand was already reaching for the Butterfly. Monolith decided the Butterfly, as a familiar, was a bigger threat to him than Nessa, regardless of its size or apparent weakness.

Monolith's fingers cracked the golden-hued barrier around the Butterfly as he braced for Nessa's punch.

She tapped him clean on the jaw with more than enough force to shatter stone. Unfortunately, while it looked like Monolith was made of stone, he was sturdier than the typical rock.

But Nessa hadn't been trying to break his jaw.

The purplish glittery dust from her second skill, Dust of Dreams, flew off Nessa's hand and straight into Monolith's mouth, nose, and eyes. He blinked in a daze.

For the first time in two years, he felt sleepy.

It wasn't enough to make him blink more than a few times or feel like he actually wanted to sleep. It was just enough for him to notice it since it had been so long since he felt anything like it.

It was enough to distract him.

Nessa snatched Midnight Butterfly out of his hand and retreated. Monolith didn't react.

A moment later, he raised his arms to shield his body an instant before a powerful beam of concentrated red light hit him with enough force to push him backward, his feet digging deep trenches in the ground.

The previously cooled stone skin of Monolith reached several hundred degrees in an instant, and the temperature kept rising.

An ordinary stone would have already cracked from the sudden temperature change. But Monolith wasn't an ordinary stone, which they had already confirmed.

That was why the Sentinel, the Transformation Cube transformed into the Sentinel, and the Symbiotic Slime on the Transformation Cube didn't stop at just hitting Monolith with the combined laser. They kept blasting him and upping the heat until they reached their limit.

Then, they stopped. This was just the first rotation, after all.

It was time for Anerias to take the stage.

His familiars and skills made him more related to hellfire than ordinary fire and heat. But he could still bear it the best out of everyone in their tiny group. Combined with Zach's barriers, Anerias could walk through the pit of molten rock and shimmering air without much trouble.

His first burned bright with black flames while the rest of his body merely glowed with flickers of the same flame. His Blackfire Hound was right by his side. Together, they charged at Monolith, whose arms were glowing red hot.

This was the first opportunity in the students' assault to inflict some pain and damage to Monolith. They had to grasp it.

The Hound threw itself at Monolith, taking up both of his arms. Anerias snuck in under his Hound's legs and threw a punch containing both the powers of his Ignite and his Malicious Touch.

It landed.