Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem

Zach was about to turn to his familiars and ask for help when he realized what the blood's destination was.

"The Egg!" He exclaimed while pointing at Lexi's pocket.

"What?" Lexi frowned. 'What fucking egg?' she was about to ask. She had just summoned it, after all, and she wasn't used to it. She had kind of put it in her pocket and then forgot about it since she was focused on her spar and little brother.

But when she looked down, she understood what Zach meant. The blood was flowing toward the egg. She frowned. If she Dominated the blood, she could stop it, but she had a feeling she shouldn't do that.

It was a strange feeling.

Lexi was used to her gut talking to her about what to do when fighting with swords, magic, or Domination. It was part of being a genius. She sometimes just

knew

what to do.

This was not that kind of feeling. It was more similar to empathy.

She couldn't talk to dogs or other animals. But when a puppy sat in front of her with eyes the size of saucers looking at the food in her hands, she knew what it wanted. It was similar to that kind of feeling.

And just like she had to fulfill the wishes of the puppy, she let the egg feed on her blood. She even helped it by bringing it out of the pocket and closer to her wound so that it didn't need to struggle to drag all the blood to it.

She eagerly looked at the blood slurp up the blood slowly leaving the bruise-like wound Zach had left her. It wasn't a serious wound, and not much blood left. But it still seemed to be enough for the egg, though it was almost impossible to tell.

The egg didn't show any reaction to the blood that seemingly disappeared straight into its shell without so much as a trace.

Eventually, Lexi stopped bleeding, and the egg didn't crave for more. It was satisfied with what it had received. That left Lexi staring at the egg.

Since it had eaten so much, maybe it would do something. She even glanced at the summoning interface. But even after several minutes, nothing changed, either with the egg or the interface.

Lexi sighed in disappointment.

But it wasn't strange.

Babies weren't born after the first time they received food from their mothers while still inside their stomachs. Since eggs didn't eat or drink in the first place, that was the only thing Lexi could compare it to.

"Well…You still lost." Lexi pocketed the egg and looked at Zach again.

Zach ignored her and, with a pensive expression, stuck his hand in her pocket and took out the egg again.

"...What are you doing, foolish younger brother of mine?" Lexi asked, more curiously than anything but still a little offended by how easily he had done that. Wasn't it her pocket? What was he doing rummaging around it like it was his sock drawer?

"Why do you think the egg wanted your blood?" He asked.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"I dunno. Maybe it was hungry. Maybe to recognize me as its parent or master." Lexi shrugged. She didn't put that much thought into it.

Zach shook his head.

"You were its master from the moment you summoned it. And hungry? Since when are eggs hungry?" Zach questioned.

"Since when do eggs steal blood from their masters?" Lexi countered.

In the Giupusta Locale, Dukiel's Sentinel and Yanael had shared a mountain essence. It was a valuable piece of super dirt that reinforced the Sentinel and Yanael's weapons. After absorbing it, Yanael's weapons hadn't broken once, and neither had the Sentinel so much as picked up a scrape.

It was partly because they had grown stronger from their masters leveling up, but it was also due to the mountain essence.

The two familiars had absorbed the mountain essence without leaving so much as a trace.

It was similar to how the egg had devoured Lexi's blood, even if only approximately.

"What if it doesn't just steal from its master?" Zach asked. He held out his hand. With a light sigh, Yanael obliged him and cut a tiny line on his pinky finger. It was just enough for him to squeeze a couple of drops out.

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As soon as he brought his bleeding finger close to the egg, the drops of blood floated through the air and into the egg.

Lexi's eyes widened.

"Y'see, Lexi," Zach said with an air of superiority and the seniority of a summoner with more experience, "Familiars tend to absorb things that are good for them, not necessarily eat or drink. Priceless treasures disappear straight into them without a trace."

"...I know our family has good genes, but calling our blood priceless treasure is going a little far."

"Not necessarily. Look how greedily it's devouring it. One man's trash is another's treasure and all that."

"Your point?"

"Your egg likes blood. In its current state, it should barely have anything other than the most base instincts. A creature like this probably knows what it needs for its potential to reach as high as possible."

"So, it's eating blood because it knows it will make it stronger?" Lexi asked to confirm. She wasn't sure where Zach was getting this from, but he was the expert.

"Something like that. There are creatures that feed on blood. Depending on the source of the blood, they can gain strength or even other abilities. Usually, it's just the stronger the blood the stronger they get."

"And the creature in this egg might be something like that?" Lexi grabbed the egg again and held it up to the light.

"Might be. It might also be that blood was just the first thing it came into contact with that fit its diet. Try feeding it other things. See what it wants. But before you do that, if I'm right, the better the blood you feed it, the stronger it's gonna be when it hatches."

Before Lexi could even ask a question, Zach had turned around and walked over to his familiars. She didn't even know when he had taken the egg.