Julia panicked and looked if anything was wrong with him but on finding everything was fine she sighed in relief. Then a symbol of a circlet of white roses appeared on his chest.
"Symbol of goddess of love... oh Lady Sara how did this happen..... even though I am witnessing this I still cannot believe it. " Hollis mutter to himself as he looked in awe with his eyes and mouth wide open.
"Father! What happened? Is he okay? " The relief Julia just left started to vanish again and replaced by panic.
"oh... It's a good thing. Don't worry. Actually it's too good. uhhh... First let him drink milk, he needs energy. " Hollis snapped out of shock and assured his daughter. Almost as if on queue the baby started crying.
Hollis and Alban turned around and Julia lifted her top and lowerd her nipple into her son's mouth and covering herself again and told her father he could turn. Everyone one looked at Hollis to asking what happened. He has lived longest among all of them so he was the most knowledgeable as well.
Hollis toke a deep breath "Where should I explain from..... Let's start from the basics. You all know that spirits are a cluster of natural enery which have gained intelligence over time. They are classified into two grades which are smaller grade and greater grade and each grade is divided into three levels, lowest, middle and highest levels. Above all of them is spirit kings, the strongest spirits."
"Spirits can be of any natural energy like, elements which is earth spirits, fire spirits, water spirits, wind spirits, etc or non-material things like life spirits, found near the world tree. Death spirits, found in place where a lot of deaths occurred like battle fields or graveyards. Rage spirits, sometimes mistaken for wraiths. Love spirits, a very rare sight, etc. But you might not know that there are two types of spirits, ones that live in mortal world, the mortal spirits, then others, the divine spirits which live in Divine World, the place where gods live."
"A smaller grade lowest level divine spirit is stronger than greater grade highest level mortal world's spirit. Then you can imagine what would be the strength of the Divine Spirit King. Right now the goddess of love, Rati, had given the child her blessing along with which she toke a Divine Spirit King of love, removed it's intelligence and turned it into pure energy and used it to modify the child's physical body to bring out its maximum potential and also increase the amount of natural energy around him that will help him form contracts easily with other spirits. Actually I am surprised that the spirits haven't started gathering here, it must have been arranged by the goddess as to not create a commotion."
"Not only that, like a spirit, he will be able to pass through a material things but only for a limited amount of time as he is still a being of blood and flesh not a spirit and he will be able to use most of Divine Spirit King's skills as well. And last but not least, you will like this one. " Hollis said while pointing at Alban. "He will have an amazing luck with the ladies. Not, just physical attraction but genuine love. Pure, innocent and loyal love. It will also make him look sexier as goddess of love is also goddess of beauty and is mother of goddess of lust. " Hollis concluded his explanation.
"So it's a good thing? " Julia asked for a smaller summary. "Yes" Hollis gave her the smallest possible summary. "Oh.. yes, he will sleep for a day or two to get used to the changes in the body. You have to feed him a lot during this time. "
"Make sure not to release this news. " Cleo warned everyone. "By the way, calling him, 'baby' and 'child' won't work you know? We are so busy with bloodlines and spirits that we forgot to name him."
Albion nodded his head in agreement "Right, Everyone think of a good name for him. Well we have already thought of a lot of names but the problem is that there are too many names. "
Beryl suggested a name " How about Cobalt or Brass. "
To which Albion dismissed immediately "Mother, I am not nameing my kids after metals and minerals. " Dwarf names sometime tend to be after metals and minerals. Beryl tried to name Eli, Nickel once but everyone talked her out of it. And Beryl is also a mineral.
"How about Albero? " Hollis's suggestion was well received. After Alban and Albion, Albero will sound quite nice.
Cleo looked at the fidgeting Eli and said "What is is Eli? Do you have a name for your brother? Don't worry. Say it, you have the right to name your younger brother. "
"umm... How about Arthur? " Eli said uncertainly.
"It's a good name but why did you decide that? " Julia asked curiously.
"Arthur means 'Son of Warrior King'. I want him to be great like father and grandfather." On hearing Eli's answer Hollis smiled "That's actually better than Albero. We already have enough A-L-B here. Ask your grandma Beryl and your mother how confusing their nickname must have been considering they both go with Al."
"That why I call Albion as Biontite. " Beryl said happily but Albion's majestic dragon wings and shoulders dropped.
"Which is a mineral...." He said extremely depressed by his mother's naming sense. "It's final. Arthur is final. The name is chosen by his sister so its the best. "
"Hehehe... " Eli was happy that name chosen by her was given to her brother but also, she couldn't help but find her father's depressed look funny.
"So what will be the nickname? " Beryl asked thinking which metal or mineral would suit her grandson.
"Arc! Nickname will be Arc. " Eli looked in horror as her grandma tried to name her brother after some mineral. She had to protect her brother as an older sister.
"Arc is final. His sister's choice. " Albion quickly finalised it before his mother could interject and quickly left under the pretext of doing Arthur's birth registration. Alban and Hollis followed him. With everyone gone and names finalized, Beryl was depressed but now she could only accept the names.
'Eight bloodlines and Divine Spirit King's powers. This guy is going to be a lot of hassle once he grows. ' Eli looked at her brother who was sucking at the treat under their mother's top and smiled.