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Selheira spoke about her parents. It turned out that her mother actually wasn't a Crystal Dragon, but was rather a Fire Dragon, an odd union, to be sure.
Usually, it was Fire Dragon men taking hold of Crystal Dragon women. This was probably the most common union across the entire Dragon Clan.
Selheira didn't see her mom often. She was quite a proud and arrogant woman, as one might expect. Even so, she was quite gentle around Selheira and coddled her as much as her husband did.
So as one might expect, Selheira's childhood wasn't filled with much hardship at all.
"How did your parents meet, then?" Ryu asked, a bit confused.
The banishing of Crystal Dragons shouldn't have been a recent matter.
Selheira smiled, pressing her cheek against Ryu's.
"My father went to get her." Updated from novelbIn.(c)om
Ryu could hear the smile in her voice, and he understood the implication. It seems the old man wasn't so gentle after all. He could probably imagine the pushback.
However, they clearly didn't quite have a happily ever after. The old man was here while his wife was probably still on the Ninth Heaven. Though it seemed she came to visit from time to time, because Selheira was a Crystal Dragon, she couldn't be by her mother's side for extended periods of time.
It was also clear by the way that Selheira spoke about them, that she didn't hate her parents. She actually loved them quite deeply. She probably hated the fact she was born a Crystal Dragon and not a Fire Dragon.
"What about you, husband? How was your childhood?"
Ryu smiled. "Good..."
He talked about his parents, his grandparents. He had quite a unique experience as a man born to such a high-level Clan. He had practically the full support of four separate Clans and even now, he was considered their successor.
"Then do you want a lot of children, husband?" Selheira asked.
Ryu raised an eyebrow. He never really thought about it. But he would have to give his wives at least one child each, right? He couldn't leave them barren. So by definition, it seemed that he was already locked into such a path.
He smiled bitterly. It seemed that his father was more right than he knew. Honestly, he didn't think that far.
He put a lot of thought into his cultivation, but these were things that never crossed his mind because, once again, they weren't his top priority.
"I guess I will have to."
"Then how will you cherish them all?"
Ryu sighed, thinking about how much effort his parents put into just him alone. How his mother cooked his meals even well into his hundreds, how his father trained him and taught him the value of running a Clan from infancy to now...
Could he really put the equivalent amount of effort into all of his children? Was it even fair to try and do so?
"Not sure," Ryu finally responded.
Selheira giggled. "Maybe you can use your incarnations."
Ryu had heard that word a lot recently. It seemed to be an ability of Dao Lords to split themselves into perfect clones.
Though he knew Selheira was joking, it felt kind of gross to think about having to split his attention like that for his children.
'Well, it seems I just have to lie in the bed I made now.'
Ryu suddenly made it to the top of a mountain range, overlooking what seemed to be an endless rise and fall of many more.
He didn't know what this old man wanted out of them... But it seemed he wasn't done yet.
He took another step forward.