407 A Mysterious Event and Divine Energy? (1/2)
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”Uwah! K-Kireina! Kireina-san! Wake up!”
Huh? Is that Nephiana's voice?
”Nephi! What is going on?”
”T-The eggs! THE EGGS!” shouted Nephiana as if our children had suddenly died!
”W-What happened?!” I asked, hurriedly getting up from the bed as I inspected the room.
”They disappeared! There is only one egg now! My children! Where are they?! Uwaaaah!!!”
”What?! Where did they go?! I was sure that… Slime Clones!”
I instantly connected my mind with my Slime Clones, who are constantly watching over everything through the night, memories of what they saw quickly entered my mind.
As Nephiana was peacefully sleeping, the seven eggs began to shine brightly and, in a few seconds, they all moved at the speed of light, merging!
”Calm down, Nephi, they are alive… or it! I saw what my Slime Clones saw, they merged while we were sleeping”
”M-M-Merged?! W-Why would our children merge?! Chuuupiii!!! Chupii!!!”
Nephiana couldn't comprehend anything, and to be honest, me neither.
Why would they even merge? To what purpose? How can they even merge?
The seven-colored eggs combined into a slightly larger egg, that had rainbow-colored dots all over it. Inside, there was only one fetus…
They did not even merge their eggs but themselves as well…
I caressed Nephiana as I released a floral scent from my wings, her hysterical behavior dimmed down as she glanced at me as her eyes began to cry.
”Chupiii… My children… why did they fuse? I don't understand… I don't understand…”
”I don't either… But if they fused it does not mean that they died, they have only become one. From what we know, this could only be temporary… or…”
”F-Forever…? Chuupiiii…��
”Well, we'll have to adapt to that, Nephiana… I don't want to force them to separate, as it may end up damaging them, for now, let's wait for it to hatch. I've inspected it a dozen times already, it is perfectly healthy. It's exuding incredibly thick mana of ten different attributes… it is rather frightening”
”T-Ten different attributes?! Chuupiii…!!!”
”Y-Yes, I can sense Earth, Gemstone, Wind, Nature, Holy, Ice, Water, Poison, Darkness, and… there are more…”
The children between I and Nephiana seemed to be packed with an incredible talent for several attributes. And unlike Ailine, who was able to replicate attributes not because she had an affinity with them but because she was able to draw their powers through her Color Magic, this chick attributes were authentical affinities.
”Uwah…” said Nephiana, as she fell unconscious.
”Ah, my poor Nephi… Sigh… just what I will do with you all, fusing all together all out of a sudden, you know how frightened you made your mothers?”
Ah, I guess that reprimanding them won't work. I doubt they can listen to me.
It seems that even after merging, they were still in development, and there was nothing more than wait.
I decided to spend the rest of the day with Nephiana, as she slept over my lap and at the side of the warm rainbow egg.
”Guu… I can't believe they just fused… Will that happen if I have twins in the future?” asked Rimuru.
”I don't know… it may be an innate ability that the chicks had, which activated spontaneously,” I said, assuming this as my first theory.
”Mommy will my little siblings stay combined?” asked Ailine.
”I don't know… I really hope not, though I don't know if it's even dangerous for them, due to developing such an ability naturally, it seems” I said.
”Hmm… this is really quite troublesome, what if they stay combined forever? Would their personalities and minds merge or will some disappear? It's quite frightening to think too deeply” said Zehe.
”Z-Zehe-san don't say such things… Guu… poor Nephi-chan” muttered Rimuru.
We were currently having breakfast while discussing what had just happened. Nephiana's cries were so loud that she woke up everyone in the castle.
”Ah, sorry… it's just that… aside from my concern, my hidden researcher is awakening, and I can't stop but inspecting the egg!” said Zehe as she glanced at the large colorful egg.
Not only Zehe was inspecting it, but Charlotte, Izumi, Kusuri, Herbell, and Redgaria as well.
”This… in my hundreds of years of research in monsters and demi-human races, I've never seen such a development… multiple sibling eggs merging? This is unprecedented” said Herbell.
”I haven't even lived for more than ten years, so my experience in the subject is even dimmer… yet the amount of magic that this egg exudes is something completely out of this world. I have never seen so many attributes together… this is not even like Spirit Magic which calls upon the attributes of the world, these attributes are completely innate of the individual, all of them are affinities than come from its body!” said Kusuri, while writing down everything he had just said.
”Indeed, Kusuri-senpai! T-This is too much! This egg could be even used as an incredibly high-quality material, even a phantasmal weapon could be crafted… Not as we would ever do that; it is master's precious children! But still… it's as if there was something else aside from all these attributes of mana” analyzed Izumi, as her scorpion tail wrote what she said.
”You three have good eyes. Indeed, this is not just ordinary mana attributes, but something else is awakening within them… Could it be? Divine Energy!” shouted Redgaria.
Wait, Divine Energy?!
But they are just mortals! From where they got that Divine Energy…?!
Wait… my bloodline…
”I remember that my bloodline Skill was upgraded some days ago, and when it did, it upgraded that of all my children, although the already grown-up ones haven't changed much… perhaps its effects are greater when the child is still in development…” I muttered.
”Ailine-chan, are you capable of controlling Divine Energy?” asked Rimuru to our daughter.
”Huh? Divine Energy? What's that? This?” said Ailine, as she released a spark of condensed mana, which shined bright in different colors.
For a small split second, space itself seemed to have dilated.
”WHAT?! That's Divine Energy!” shouted Redgaria.
”Uwah! A-Ailine-chan, since when did you learn how to create it?” asked Rimuru.
”T-That's right… Not even I can produce Divine Energy like that, I can only use the one that my Soul had accumulated by eating Divinities…” I muttered.
”Huh? A few days ago, … Is it really that special? I thought it was just more magic” she said.
”Well… It could be said that Divine Energy is just magic… but very, very, very condensed, and on its purer form possible… that a child can just generate it without even being a God… Ailine, are you really a mortal?!” asked Redgaria.
”Um, Uncle Redgaria is acting scary…” muttered Ailine, running behind me.
”Redgaria, calm down your nerves!” shouted Zehe.