Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem

After doing what he had to, Zach returned to the Academy. It was too soon to check on the others, anyway. He helped Alzara get started with production by making a bunch of material worms with his skill on the resources they had.

Compared to his first few dozen worms, the ones he made now were exquisite. They were almost completely free from impurities. They were easy to use, and the potency of the original ingredients was even easier to extract. Even without them being easier to craft with, the potions Alzara made with the materials worms were more powerful than the ones she made with raw ingredients.

The potions made with material worms weren't just more potent. Since the material worms barely had any impurities, they were also safer to consume, even in greater amounts. So, Zach quickly started living on potions that enhanced his natural recovery even further and gave him energy.

He also helped Alzara test potions that weren't dangerous. Well, potions that shouldn't have been dangerous.

Alzara made a mistake with one potion.

It was a simple, non-lethal mistake. But it would still have put Zach in a moderate amount of discomfort. That was unless his world essence energy hadn't reacted and neutralized the poison-like potion.

The world essence energy didn't just keep him well-nourished and improve his natural recovery. It also protected him against poison.

Zach had been a little disappointed with the world essence energy. The only thing he had that told him it was great was Alzara. From what he had gathered, other energies could also increase recovery and decrease hunger, even in a passive state.

But other people with other energies could actually use those energies.

He, on the other hand, had been handed an energy that he couldn't use unless he tortured himself for a few years. And that wasn't even a guarantee. He first had to activate it somehow, and then he had to learn how to use an energy that was similar to but nothing like any of the other energies he could find in his surroundings.

To top it all off, he couldn't get a new or different energy now that he had world essence energy, either. He had to either get rid of it all and prevent his body from accumulating more or transforming other energies into world essence energy if it could even do that in the first place, or he had to find a superior energy to take the world essence energy's place.

Both options seemed impossible.

However, Zach considered stopping his search for either option when he found out about the poison-neutralizing ability of his energy. According to his familiars, it was difficult for most energies to neutralize identify and neutralize poison that easily. Usually, only the user could do something about poison in their body by actively controlling their energy to get rid of it. That meant they had to identify it themselves.

So, if it was a poison that didn't show itself or cause a fuss until the target was already on their deathbed, it would be too late to use energy to neutralize it. It worked even against things that weren't supposed to be poison.

That alone was enough to keep the world essence energy around. He had his barriers for external safety, the world essence energy for internal safety, and his familiars for offense. The only thing that lacked was personal offense, and that wasn't even a must-have. It was just his selfish desire to contribute and fight that made him pursue it. And it would be a problem of the past as soon as he activated his world essence energy and combined it with his punches.

Zach trained like a madman with all of his skills and his boxing. Yanael trained with him while Soara watched and occasionally gave pointers with her experience as a deity and a master of death. Alzara made potions, talismans, poisons, and recipes.

When Zach took his breaks to check on the others' progress, he brought those things with him. He gave everything but the recipes to Violina for her to distribute, store, or set up traps and defenses with. The recipes he gave to the alchemists.

Unfortunately, most of the recipes were only objects of theoretical study since the materials Dukiel and his gang of first-years could find only covered a small portion of what the recipes required. It didn't even scratch the surface on the list that the alchemists had produced.

Zach had told them to go all out, and they had not disappointed.

Zach hadn't even heard of many of the ingredients they wrote. And several of the ones he knew about, he expected might take years to find and acquire. He was impressed. He had made the right decision.

Only alchemists that ambitious deserved to work for him.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Unfortunately, the few name suggestions he had received weren't that great. They were things like Alchemist's Guild, which was true. They were a collective, a guild, of alchemists. But it was boring. Another suggestion was the same but with his name, either given name or surname in front of it. Once again, true. They were a guild of alchemists that belonged to him.

But Zach didn't like it. All of them were uncreative. He didn't mind the guild part or the alchemist part. It just had to be part of a good name.

However, he wasn't coming up with any good ones of his own. He considered naming it after Alzara, but she didn't want it, and it would be unfair to the others. Naming it after himself was ridiculous, and naming it after his family implied it was part of the Duchy.

It technically was since it was his guild. But it wasn't the Evandiel Duchy that had sponsored and established it, at least not directly, though it was thanks to his parents that Zach had enough money to do it.

Zach also didn't have much mental free time between training, preparing for the end of the deadline, planning for his guild, and classes.