Chapter 435 - 13. Lion-man Species
"Phoenix?"
Fisher turned his head to glance at the face of the man sprouting feathers from his eyes, then took a quick look at Alagina and wondered aloud whether the man had called her a Phoenix because she was a descendant of the Phoenix Species or because she possessed the Ice Prince Sword?
Emhardt surveyed Alagina, then whispered into Fisher’s ear,
"It shouldn’t be, Fisher. The one who wields the Ice Prince’s Sword, the Phoenix’s Son, is not only a male Phoenix but also the most ill-tempered one among the three Phoenix’s Children. How could he have progeny with a Human... Moreover, even if there were offspring, according to maternal lineage, the Phoenix Blood within her should be nearly diluted."
"Could there be ancestral return?"
Fisher suddenly remembered a study he had conducted before when a rich man from Saint Nali had urgently sought him out, saying his daughter had turned into a Witch overnight, although this did not follow maternal inheritance patterns since the girl’s mother was a common Human.
He investigated at the rich man’s house and confirmed that the girl’s Magic Circuit was indeed that of a Witch’s, not a Human’s. The problem was, she was their own daughter, raised from infancy, with no chance of being switched at birth. If it weren’t for the day she manifested Witch traits and turned their stone statues into hopping frogs, her elderly father might never have noticed her uniqueness.
After cautiously researching their family history, Fisher discovered that their ancestors had fled from Kado and migrated here long ago, meaning there had indeed been a Witch among the man’s ancestors.
The reproductive patterns of Witches, a subspecies of demi-humans, were fascinating since all Witches were females and needed to intermarry with other races. The probability of reproduction was no different from Humans, but interestingly, among their children, only one would be a Witch.
If a Human mated with a Witch, no matter how many children they had, only one daughter would be a Witch, most likely the firstborn. All other children would belong to the father’s race and not exhibit any Witch traits.
In his past research, Fisher had concluded that the non-Witch children’s blood had diluted the Witch part, meaning they inherited none of the Witch traits.
But the rich man provided a counterexample since his ancestor was a non-Witch child born of a Witch, yet the Witch blood had never disappeared and continued to flow through generations until it manifested in his daughter, turning her into a real Witch...