Prologue 5

Drake Shepherd went back to his wife after the meeting. "Drake, I'm sorry to inform you but your wife's gene potential has been crippled. Her genes Had been put under too much stress now they are unable to grow.

"Here is a list of places you can tell your wife to offer treatment, she might be able to grow her genes and get stronger" Pei handed over the brochures to drake who was too shocked to do anything other than freeze.

"N-nurse, you said you would've tried your best. I don't understand what you mean" Drake was lost. Nurse Pei's wasn't better, she looked disconsolate as she walked away. She delivered the baby but her methods were unorthodox.

She would lucky if he just got off with termination, they could take away her medical licence.

Drake sat beside that and a week slowly passed.

Today was the day that he was suppose to be meeting to see f his child was the one that was the child that the family had been waiting on for all these years.

Rosane woke up and she saw that Drake was holding her hand as he slept on the side of the bed. Her body felt weak, she struggled to move her hand and even then her whole body would shake. Drake felt her hands move and woke up "Rosane I-".

"Where is he?" Rosane never let him go through the trouble of explaining what had happened, she only wanted to know where her son was. The nurses made sure she was stable but she was only extremely weak.

They normally wouldn't give someone their child being this weak but this nurse was the same one Rosane knocked out. She went straight for the baby and brought him, she laid him on the skin of her chest.

Rosane's eyes were filled with water when she looked at her son."Why are you crying? Drake was worried something might be wrong with her.

"After being there so long, I-i thought he might be dead.....but he's ok" Rosane was truly happy her child was ok, it made her feel better about being crippled. As drake was looking at the scene, He found the time to explain to Mila what had happened and what the elders needed from Jacob, he told her about the meeting and that the old family saying was no old legend.

"Why do I have to let Jacob go when I just got to see him, Even if it's not an Old legend, Why Jacob?" Rosane asked perplexed.

Drake wanted to argue with her over the name but he secretly thought of her pulling the pregnancy card and forgot about it.

Drake rubbed his head, "It might not even be Jacob, It's better to go and find out, even if he is the child he will be treated properly. There is no losing side".

Rosane stayed quiet and thought about what he said "Fine you can go to the meeting, at least to make sure the Patriarch doesn't think you don't care."

After allowing his wife to exult over her child. When the time came he took Jacob almost an hour to convince his wife of letting, go to the meeting.

At the meeting, Drake brought his son Jacob. There were all the other parents and Elder Mo Zen was there too. He had a little boy that looked around the same age as Jacob

"C'mon, We know it's my kid already why don't we get this over and done with" Elder Mo Zen kept getting fewer and fewer laughs every time he said this. Patriarch Yun finally started placing his hands on the children.

The check was fast, it didn't require anything special. Elder Mo Zen was going second to last and drake was going after him. The Elder placed his hand on the child's stomach, his face changed a few times and the test took a few extra minutes.

"It's not your child, he has the same genes as the rest of them although he is better than the rest it is not something the family hasn't seen before" Patriarch Yun seemed reluctant to say.

"Patriarch surely you jest, this is nonsense his gene potential is 9!" Mo Zen shouted as he held and blue screen tablet. It showed stats and Mo Zen pointed to his gene potential which was 9.

"Mo Zen never question me, Although your boy has a lot of gene potential, I said it is not you boy" the Patriarch scoffed. Mo Zen shook wanting to say something he eventually swallowed.

Patriarch Yun looked at Drake and Jacob. Drake was hoping it wasn't his son. He gave his son to the patriarch and secretly hoped for there to be some sort of mistake.

The patriarch placed his hand on Jacob and Drake worst nightmare came. A green aura lifted from his son's body. The whole room was quite shocked the Patriarch instantly stopped what he was doing.

"Drake, did you check his potential?!" The Patriarch shouted out of fright.

"N-no Sir" Drake wife was crippled and in a coma so he did not think of this. "Get the GP scan!" One of the Elders disappeared the reappeared with a large machine. It was sat in a corner and booted up, scan rotated around his body.

On the machine, his stats started to pop up or by one.

Strength: 0

Agility:0

GP: 13

Intelligence: 0

GS: Unclassified

There was a brief moment of silence as they looked at the machine with gaped mouths.

"Impossible! This is broken" Elder Mo Zen shouted. The other Patriarchs were equally as shocked.

"Hahaha, Yes!" Patriarch Yun shouted "This stays within the family! Everyone here is forbidden from leaving the family grounds. Now give us some room" The patriarch was eager.

He sat down with Drake "Drake, this is proof more than anything else. The highest ever recorded gene potential is 11 and that is Kunaad Maynard from your wife's family. There is no doubt that this is the child the prophecy speaks of, please allow the family to take care of his cultivation and gene optimization."

"How can you be certain just because of the gene talent," Drake asked.

"This type of thing is once in a lifetime opportunity. This is a scroll that was left with us through our ancestors and it speaks of this said child. Our ancestors didn't want us taking over the planet with enough strength so they left us with these." He pulled out some scrolls and put them on the table. The texts were incomprehensible but you were able to follow the pictures.

It showed a story of rising to grace. "Are you saying this is my son?" Drake asked. "Yes," Patriarch Yun replied "He will be the one t lead the family to greatness and he will have access to all our resources.

He will be bound for greatness and we will be able to claim a seat as a segan family."

The dream sounded sound in Drake's head ad he was a little on the fence about it, Patriarch Yun realized this and said "Of he was a normal child the childbirth wouldn't have crippled your wife. She would be able to hopefully cultivate her genes again. She is a true genius like her son"

"I would even be willing to give you a position of Elder" The offer was too tempting for drake. If he had all of this it would be way better for him to provide for his wife than being a distant relative to the family. He struggled but with the bone, right in front of his face he agreed"

The details were worked out and he went back to tell his wife. She wasn't happy but Drake downplayed it drastically and only showed the benefits.

After 5 years passed, Jacob was able to start theory, He would be away with the family doing theory and training. Rosane would see her son less and less as well as her husband who was not decon. She started to become depressed.

She saw them flaunting her son as a trophy, on the TV and news. It pained her because he was only a child and he had yet to make one friend. Whenever she protested against it she was always dismissed saying "you're overreacting, the boy already has suitors at his young age" but this never made her feel any better.

Rosane didn't care if her son had horns and 6 arms.

She threatened to leave Drake at one of her confrontations.

This was the biggest one of all. Rosane was furious and gained the attention of most of the family at the Main Hall, she finally thought drake would break but he gave the same old excuse.

"This is for the family"

As a result, she filed for divorce and left him. She never waited for it to be finalized. Drake never heard anything more about his wife as she had not gone back to the Maynard family.

Drake's line of thinking was that he would do what was best for his wife and that was to find resources that would help her regain her strength.

Slowly years have passed, Jacob was now 14.

The Shepherd family continued their reign of supreme until they became one of the strongest families of Crenos. The resources they had stockpiled for Jacob was barely used on him thus it went to other warriors of the family thus making them a segan family.