Chapter Sixteen: The Unknown Egg

  Looking at the space ring in Kano's hand, Mercedes VII on the golden chair couldn't help but smile!

  "It seems our Viscount isn't as boorish as he appears!" Marquis Mercedes VII clapped his hands, and the attendants standing beside him bowed in response.

  "Take Viscount Aston down and reward Earl Xie with 100,000 gold coins. Also, give him that new 'Unknown Egg'."

  Cano was led away by the chamberlain to receive his reward, muttering as he walked: "His Majesty really rewarded me! The Earl is truly divine!"

  He returned to Earl Saber's mansion with the reward, and Cano was still in a daze.

  In just a short period of time, Viscount Evil had already earned 200,000 gold coins!

  At this speed, who can keep up? Not to mention the space ring, and this "unknown egg"!

  "What is an unknown egg?"

  Mercedes' reward, Li Xie had expected it and didn't find it surprising. Even the reward of 100,000 gold coins made Li Xie secretly ridicule for a while, just this little bit, how stingy!

  However, this sky-blue egg, which was about the size of a basketball, made Li Xie extremely curious.

  Kano looked at the unknown egg with an envious gaze and gave Li Xie an explanation.

  The contracted magical creatures of the summoners on the mainland of gods are generally formed by signing a "contract" with the magical beasts that exist in the mainland of gods, reaching an alliance or master-slave agreement between the two parties, and following the terms of the contract to form an alliance or master-slave relationship.

  Generally powerful demons are difficult to tame and sign a master-slave contract, at most they can only form an alliance contract, with each other's relationship being mutually beneficial, making it difficult to truly increase combat effectiveness. Moreover, contracts can be broken and violated, despite this, contractual relationships remain the mainstream way for summoners on the continent of gods to possess magical pets.

  The third path, also a path yearned for by a truly powerful summoner - The Familiar!

  Getting a destined beast allows you to share life with the destined beast, and the life of a magical beast is often 500 to 1,000 years or even longer! This alone can make summoners flock to it! In addition, summoners and destined beasts can directly share skills, communicate spiritually, and once in battle, the destined beast is much easier to control than contract demons. Many techniques that need to be learned and practiced between contract demons are only needed for the destined beast to grow to a certain extent to possess!

  It can be said that the contracted beast is the strongest combat force of a summoner!

  How can I get my Benming Shou?

  This requires a Monster Egg!

  Having a demon beast egg and incubating it with fresh blood every day for 49 days, when the demon beast egg hatches, you can sign a soul contract with the hatched demon beast to make it your destined beast!

  In short, you need to have a Magic Beast Egg first!

  But demons are hard to catch, and demon eggs are even harder to get!

  After the demon beast lays eggs, there will definitely be a demon beast guarding it. During this period, the guarding demon beast will increase its strength by one level! For example, a three-level demon beast will advance to four levels when guarding the egg!

  It's incredibly difficult to get a Magic Beast Egg!

  The most important thing is that the summoner can have multiple magical pets based on their own strength, but they can only have one contract beast! And the promotion of magical beasts is not infinite, at most it can only be promoted to level 5!

  As a result, monster eggs below 5th tier are hardly used as main pets, while those at 5th tier and above are extremely difficult to obtain, making the usable monster eggs as valuable as a city!

  The value of a fifth-tier demon beast egg is over 500,000 gold! Even the lower-tier demon beast eggs that nobody wants can sell for around 100,000 gold coins! Not to mention the ones above fifth-tier, each one is priceless! Despite this, those that can be taken out and sold are extremely rare! Almost none exist!

  And in the Monster Eggs, the rarest one should be the "Unknown Egg"!

  The strongest profession in the mainland of gods is the summoner, and the study of magic beasts is naturally thorough. However, there are many types of magic beasts, and some are unknown to people. Among them, eggs that are not known to humans, with soul fluctuations above the fifth level, are called unknown eggs!

  To put it simply, an unknown egg is one that cannot be determined what kind of magical beast it is, and the magical beast that hatches from it must be fifth rank or higher!

  Being a fifth-tier or above means that the value of this unknown egg in front of Li Xie is over 500,000 gold coins! Moreover, being a fifth-tier or above is just a vague concept. The magician who appraises the monster egg can only determine that the monster egg is above the fifth tier, but it's difficult to accurately determine whether it's fifth, sixth, seventh, or eighth tier!

  So, the true value of an unknown egg is actually over 50 million gold coins! Almost no one can afford it! Of course, almost no one takes it out to sell either!

  "Sleep Master is above! Praise Mercedes VII!"

  Li Xie finally stopped scolding Mercedes VII for being stingy. Apparently, the emperor's generosity far surpasses that of the right prime minister!

  "Your Excellency, His Majesty has given you this thing, it can be seen how much His Majesty values you! Is Your Excellency going to use it as your contract beast?" In fact, Kano had been puzzled all along, why would Mercedes VII give Li Xie such a valuable gift! Even if Li Xie was an earl and the heir of the Lamborghini family, it's impossible for him to give away an unknown egg worth 50 million gold coins just like that! Such a gift, even the Duke of Rhein might not be worthy of receiving!

  Li Xie, however, understood Mercedes' intentions. This was just a move to buy Li Xie's loyalty and stability. In Mercedes' view, as long as Li Xie served the country, what did a mere unknown egg matter? The benefits that a divine descent master could bring were far beyond what an egg could compare to! Moreover, if Li Xie wholeheartedly devoted himself to the Tudor dynasty, this unknown egg would become Li Xie's destined beast. In the future, it would also be the Tudor dynasty's destined beast! Furthermore, having a destined beast as a divine descent master would make it even easier to upgrade!

  It's called a reward, but in fact, this investment by Mercedes-Benz is surprisingly profitable!

  What a pity! Mercedes-Benz made a slight mistake!

  "Heh heh, let's put it aside for now!" Li Xie thought of selling the unknown egg after learning its value! What was needed was to find a buyer who could afford it!

  This was something Mercedes-Benz Seventh didn't count on - Li Xie is a vampire!

  Life will not have a natural end for Li Xie! And Li Xie also believes that his vampire level will advance to high-level, and it will definitely not be worse than these summoners! He doesn't need the Primordial Beast to increase his life and enhance his strength! Therefore, the Unknown Egg is actually dispensable for Li Xie himself!

  So Mercedes VII would never have thought that Li Xie's plan was to sell the unknown egg! I estimate that if he knew, he would vomit a catty of blood!

  "Oh right, I haven't gone to thank my brother - Duke Rhein yet! Everyone go to sleep first, tomorrow we'll go find Duke Rhein!"

  Northern suburbs of the imperial capital.

  Kano said that Duke Rhein had already prepared to move to Rose City, and Li Xie hurriedly got up early in the morning to call Kano to come together to visit Duke Rhein.

  Duke Rhein is still the same, his 2.5-meter height gives people an overwhelming sense of oppression, and as soon as he meets Li Xie and Kano, he gives them a hug that can squeeze out their lung air. This move, regardless of identity, shows that Duke Rhein not only has a good mood but is also extremely pleased!

  Of course, the Duke of Wangchao, the Lord of Three Cities, and the Nine-Stage Demon Pet, all these mean that the Duke of Laine will play a role as a demigod in the Tudor Dynasty. How can he not be proud?

  As for his contracted beast Randolf, he had been keeping him in the Beast Space all along, seemingly intentionally hiding the news of Randolf's advancement.

  Actually, magical creatures are generally not stored in the creature space. That would be equivalent to putting them into a dormant state. Most contract creatures, except for slave contracts, are unwilling to enter the creature space. As for the true form beast, it is like a brother to its master and will also not be stored in the creature space.

  For example, in front of the three thousand troops, by each person's side, a magical pet crouched!

  The northern suburbs of the imperial capital were originally where the 3,000-strong retinue led by Duke Rhein was stationed. Now, these 3,000 troops are lined up in formation, and it seems they were already preparing to move out. If Li Xie had arrived an hour later, he probably wouldn't have seen Duke Rhein.

  Looking at these three thousand troops lined up in formation, Li Xie's eyes kept switching between infatuation and thirst!

  The infatuation is because of these three thousand troops, each with a small lion squatting beside them. The lions are of varying sizes, the larger ones being half a meter high, while the smaller ones are only twenty centimeters high, like a small cat. The smaller the lion's body, the more adorable it appears, mainly reflected in its eyes, which become bigger and more watery the smaller they get.

  For the cute little animals that Li Xie had no resistance to, he couldn't help but want to go over and hug one, fortunately before being bitten by Randolf, which suppressed Li Xie's impulse.

  As for the thirst, these three thousand people in Li Xie's eyes are undoubtedly a blood bank full of energy! As a low-ranking vampire, Li Xie had only drunk blood and hadn't sucked it directly, otherwise, he would have pounced on them directly.

  "Hmm, my brother, don't know if you've heard of a very effective treatment method?" Li Xie began to carry out his plan to bleed him.

  Duke Rhein smiled and said to the so-called brother in front of him, "My brother, what treatment method? Treating who? If it's you, brother, you must be extra careful. It's safer to report directly to His Majesty."

  Li Xie nodded and said: "There's no need to report to Your Majesty, but I've obtained a treatment method that uses blood to treat human weakness and replenish one's vital energy."

  "Dark Summoner!" Duke Rhein's gaze turned cold, and he said solemnly: "My brother, where did you come up with this idea? Dark Summoners are not to be trifled with. Once involved, it is extremely likely to be life-threatening! No, I will immediately dispatch someone to report to His Majesty!"

  "No, no, no, it's not a Dark Summoner." The so-called Dark Summoner, Lee Xie had only heard Kane mention briefly, saying that they were powerful summoners who had gone astray and cultivated cruel and bloodthirsty spells. He wasn't very clear about the specifics, because Dark Summoners had almost become extinct. However, every time a Dark Summoner appeared, it could bring about a storm of blood and gore, which was why Duke Laine was so concerned.

  And Li Ye didn't speak up directly because he was afraid of being misunderstood.

  "This method is a folk remedy from my hometown. I was frail and sickly since childhood, and no treatment seemed to work. I almost died, but then my parents prayed for divine intervention and received this method in a dream, which slowly improved my health. As you can see, I still don't have any magical aura, it's because my body is too weak. If I don't keep treating myself, I'm afraid the old illness will relapse!" Li Xie looked at Duke Lain with a helpless and desolate gaze, as if he had been tormented by illness for a long time.

  As for moving out "parents" and adding "gods", it's just to make Duke Rhein believe, a lie, so that Li Xie doesn't have to worry too much about sucking blood later.

  The Duke of Rhein nodded, he also found it strange that Li Xie's body did not have any magical or aura fluctuations. It turned out to be due to his illness. He said: "Since it is a divine sign, then it has nothing to do with the Dark Summoner. My brother, what do you need me to help you with?"