It had been two days since the God of Merchants and I struck our deal. I still wanted to buy more, but V told me there was a limit on how many contracts his liege could form with a deity who had yet to enter the Pantheon. Three per month, no exceptions.
I insisted that I didn’t need contracts for things I wanted to obtain, but V explained that the God of Merchants was incapable of trading without forming one. For him, the contract seemed to be like the mechanism that allowed the transaction to exist at all.
In the end, V left. And even though I was disappointed that I couldn’t acquire more, what I had obtained was already far beyond anything I would have expected before his visit.
The Elven Core aside, which, at this point, was nothing more than a container for an impossibly powerful being I had no way of accessing, I now had two eggs of beasts who were immune to divine power, the arts of Fleshforging, Nullcraft, and Mortisophy, the knowledge of carving runes, and a book on magical engineering.
None of these gains would increase my own strength directly, but I hoped they would eventually turn my undeveloped Velmoryns into a race that excelled at magic.
Naturally, I was most interested in the eggs, but the problem was that I couldn’t use Guidance on them. My divine power couldn’t affect them in any way. Even moving them into the mortal world required me to purchase two separate artifacts from V, each costing a hundred Divinity Points. The bastard hadn’t included them in our agreement.
Still, I decided to use Guidance anyway, hoping at least for the basic information on how to hatch eggs in this world, and perhaps even something about their species based on what little I already knew.
[Guidance Advanced Feature – 10 Divinity Points]
To hatch beast eggs through unnatural means, energy must be supplied to nurture them. The amount required depends on the species. The type of energy is equally important - if it differs too greatly from the creature’s natural affinity, the developing beast may be harmed or undergo unwanted transformation.
Due to insufficient information, the species within the eggs you acquired cannot be identified with certainty. It is strongly recommended to use neutral energy for nurturing. This increases the hatching time but guarantees safety.
Alternatively, the eggs may be nurtured using the life force of another organism.