The stealing

It was like the whole of the Caren family mansion was about to come down as the woman screamed at her husband her voice rising in pitch every second as she spoke to her husband the Caren family's head.

"He is just a mistress' child!! don't tell me you prefer him to your own son!?..... My child is the true heir to this family don't tell me you want to leave him this useless forever!!! Do you want the family to decline only because of one mistress' child?!! "

"But he is my elder brother's child..." her husband said feebly and helplessly

"So what!? I am not asking that you kill the boy is the whole family not more important? Do you think the family will survive for long If it is divided against itself in the future?!! how would you feel if disaster came and you knew you could have stopped it If the whole family fell due to an internal power struggle?!! "

The family head was in a dilemma as he looked down at his wife from the family head's seat at the head of the large family hall

his mind trying to form a reasonable way an alternative way to make sure the only child of his dead elder brother who was meant to be the family head didn't have to go through what his wife was suggesting but he shot his head helplessly as no ideas came forth even the elders couldn't help him protect his elder brother's mistress' child.

The Caren family was one of the four great families in Eldorn one of the most powerful cities in the Maligan Empire west of the great dragon continent and as the family head, it was Caren bar's responsibility to make sure that nothing affected the growth of the family either in the present or in the future. It was his responsibility to make sure that the family never declined and this was especially so since his son who was also his heir was born with a very weak talent for martial Power a bad omen in a world where strength equals power. He knew that his son's spirit root was the lowest grade possible but there was a way to turn every thing around his late elder brother's mistress who just died two weeks before during child birth.

His brother's son had an incredibly rare top tier spirit root meaning he would become a very powerful expert in future with the proper guidance and resources he might even become one of those experts at the top of the continent a good development in any normal day for an orphan in such a large family clan. But unfortunately for the poor boy, this single chance of survival was taken away mere weeks after his was born his spirit root taken before he could establish a connection with it and given to his cousin through a very powerful but forbidden ancient technique deep underground in the Caren clan mansion. Someone's destiny was taken without refund and added to that of someone else's a sacrifice for the future of the clan.

The little dark haired child looked into the eyes of the person carrying him in innocence unaware of what he had just lost.