Chapter 568: Erdania

    Matters of Conception

    Erdania watched as the two fertility experts looked at her screens. The silence stretched out, but she kept her eyes on them looking for any reactions. Yuron was good at hiding his, his assistant not so much. Still, it didn’t take long for Yuron to stop what he was doing and speak.

    “Alannah,” he spoke to his security. “I’m going to need for you to step outside for this.”

    “Sir I—”

    “It’s fine Alannah. There isn’t much that you or I could do if the Eternal Masters wished us harm. And there is no need for you to take the oath contract as well.”

    The woman glanced at the three of them sitting across from her charge, her eyes searching, measuring. Erdania’s Aura Domain was spread through the floor, through the solid Essences of the room. It didn’t give her a lot of information about the woman, but she could still feel a bit. Though, Ryun had his aura spread as well, and his sense of the woman was much clearer.

    She was strong, close or perhaps even at the peak of Class. In any other room, with any other people, she would’ve been one of the strongest around. It wasn’t her fault that the three of them were monsters.

    The woman nodded and promptly left the room, leaving Yuron and his assistant alone with the three of them.

    He narrowed his eyes at them, he opened his eyes as if to say something, but then seemingly thought better of it. He cleared his throat, then spoke.

    “May I see the rest of your screens?” He asked, and both Ryun and Selia provided theirs.

    For the next hour he and his assistant went over their screens. Yuron kept his composure, while his assistant kept throwing glances at the three of them and trying to hide his trembling hands.

    Finally, they seemed to finish and Yuron turned his attention to them.

    “Well, the three of you are most certainly the most powerful people that have asked for my help in conceiving. I do have some questions before we start in truth.”

    “Of course, ask away,” Selia said.

    Yuron pulled out a jade tablet out of his storage, but kept it in his lap while his eyes looked over the three of them.

    “I see that none of you made your Bloodline perk yet, why?”

    That made all three of them pensive. They didn’t speak, but their emotions flowed freely over their bond.

    “Do you know how two Bloodlines would interact with each other?” Ryun asked.

    “Sadly, I do not. This is why I am here in the first place. A chance to see how such a joining would react is invaluable.”

    “So, any advice as to how we should make our Bloodlines?”

    “It is a choice that you must make on your own. I would not dare offer advice. Though, my experience would suggest that being clear in what you wish your offspring to benefit from would be preferable. But before all of that, perhaps we should discuss what it is that you want? So that I might offer better advice and tell you what the process will look like. Which one of you will carry the child? Will any? Which will be the parents?”

    Erdania exchanged looks with them, her hand playing with the hem of her dress nervously. They were so close. It was going to happen. It was almost too much for her, but then Selia’s and Ryun’s reassurance flowed through their bond and she managed to relax.

    Selia spoke out, helping to mask her inner turmoil. “I will carry the children. We had hoped that you would be able to help us have a child with each of us as a parent, or three with every combination. We’ve heard that different genders are not a requirement for you.”

    Yuron didn’t respond immediately. Instead, he seemed to be thinking. When he opened his mouth, his tone was certain. “I have attempted to make a child with Essence from more than two sources. The resulting pregnancies and offspring were not... there were issues. And those were with subjects that were far less powerful than you three are.”

    He took a deep breath, then continued. “What you wish is doable, though, there is an issue. I can help you conceive three children, but not in the manner that you wish. You, like humans, have two eggs that can be fertilized. I can take Essence from each of your partners,” he pointed at Ryun and Erdania. “Then fertilize one of them with each. For the third, I would need to extract an egg from your partner and implant in you, making you a surrogate. That child will be female, they always are in cases like these. Or that particular egg can be fertilized and brought to term outside of the body, I have the means, array devices that can simulate a woman’s body and provide a gestational environment.”

    Erdania blinked, she hadn’t heard about anything like that before.

    Selia glanced at Erdania, then back at Yuron. “No, I would like to carry them all.”

    The man nodded, one of his arms rose to scratch just below his right mandible. “Usually, I would worry if your body would be able to handle such a strain. But... something tells me that it won’t be much of an issue for you. Still, I cannot say for certain until you’ve made your Bloodlines, they will be an additional factor that I will have to take into consideration. We should adjourn until you have done so, though don’t rush on my account. I fully expect to be here for the foreseeable future and see my work through.”

    “Well then,” Ryun said as he stood up. “Thank you for coming, and for being so understanding with us.”

    “Of course,” Yuron’s mandibles twitched into a smile. “This is my life’s work. Here,” he offered them a small jade tablet, a recoding array. “This is a primer I give out to clients to give them a general idea of what they can expect and what I can do. It isn’t everything, and a lot of it won’t apply to your case, but you should read it nevertheless.”

    With that, they stood and bowed before leaving the room.