Chapter 034Ancient LegacyMarcus sat in silence, bouncing the idea in his head. A human that hatched from an egg… an odd thing to be sure, but this world was full of odd things. There was a type of bird in the south that buried its eggs in the soil and the chicks hatched already able to fly from the day they drew their first breath. There was a type of sea slug that could chew its own head off from the rest of its body and continue living as a disembodied head until it could regrow the rest of its body. Neither involved magic in any way, as far as Marcus could tell. Once actual magical bloodlines and gods got involved, things could get downright mind-bending. He had once heard a story of dragon teeth being planted into the ground like seeds, only for fully-grown warrior adepts to grow out of the ground like plants. A couple that couldn’t conceive a child supposedly found a baby inside of a giant flower that had grown overnight on their field. There were also stories of some elves supposedly not going through traditional pregnancy at all, and instead simply conjuring a child through magic after enough time had passed… he was fairly certain they were nonsense, but Celer did claim some spirits reproduced like this, so maybe that was the inspiration for the stories.Marcus had never actually witnessed such a thing personally, however. There were a number of stories that had women lay eggs instead of giving birth to children, one involving a swan, one involving a snake, and a few involving dragons… but they were just that, stories. They were sparse on details and even after mulling over them for a while, Marcus did not find them particularly insightful.“I’m guessing Regulus’s father is unknown, then?” Marcus asked.“Yes. Honoria refused to tell us a single thing about him. She claimed it was for our own safety, rather than out of concern for him,” Cato said, gesturing in the air. (...)