@unime what comes to my mind is our current period. Think about this, a couple who love one another too much and cherish their love but procreation is risky. They go to many doctors and continue receiving the same reply. The wife can't have a normal and "secure" pregnancy [obviously it is always a risk but it is low compared to some women]. The wife still insists on wanting the child. Some husbands just won't accept it and will argue trying to convince their wives about adoption. The problem is that adoption will never provide the maternal instincts, problems, love, and nourishment that a pregnant woman feels when carrying the child for 9 months.
There is no technology that could help a woman experience it. Yes, you can experience much more when the child is born already but is it not the same? I think. for more details go as a mother. The woman decided to go to the doctor and talk about it and just say that she agrees with a high-risk pregnancy and get pregnant. Sometimes, some women just die in the OP or survive but have to be in the hospital for weeks to get better.
Now, bring this problem to this story. No one considered the creation of a new life born from a spirit/god and a mortal to be possible. It is 99.9% impossible so when the spirit was asked for some of his mana he thought his lover wanted it for her to increase her magic and become a magician of a higher level. She got other plans. He was going to be against this idea and probably stop her pregnancy to save her life. That would have killed her because she wouldn't want her baby to die. That is why she calls herself greedy or selfish. She wants to have a token/proof that says how much she loved the spirit. I
The idea of "giving up her life to creating a new life" looks plausible. Maybe she is not dead but is under a spell. we don't know yet?
I hate how most guys just don't understand that the women they loved want to have a new life that would have a part of her and his. They just go for, let me kill that abomination !!! all the hard work and sacrifice of the other party just became a waste lol.
I am pretty much many will hate me saying this but hope he never gets to love her until the very end so he would regret it. I don't mind her forgiving him and treat him like normal but would want her to see her father as a stranger so that way he could regret it lol. I want the mother to show up and be the bridge to let those two connect and love each other :< only them I will be fine loving one another father and daughter.