after the breakfast Arowne was required to go attend to alasteir, he checked the time on the system

[7:32:56]

'the young master should be close to finishing his training by now'

and so he went to the private court yard after fetching his sword, and waited by the entrance for the master and young master to get out along side other servants, and at around 7:45 the doors were open and they went to the dining hall

see the family estate was huge and contained lots of houses and courtyards, if we use earths common sense, rather than calling it estate it would rather be a village

as they were heading to the hall the servants followed behind respectfully, and when they made it there, the master and young master headed to the highest table,

in the Falkirk family, it is strictly hierarchical, the patriarch of the family at the top then elders then the patriarchs family, then the elders family, followed by the ordinary members and then the personal guards, the guards and lastly the other servants

and so the dinning hall was made respecting that norm, there are tow raised platforms, the highest for the leader and his family, the second for the elders and their family, and the rest of the hall for the ordinary members

every member is allowed one personal servant, but only important members can have tow, one personal guard and a normal servant and the other servants are distributed along the estate as seen fit, i don't see the need to delve deeper as it is not relevant to the story

once the hall was full, the dishes were put forth by the servants of each member, they received a proper breakfast, it was the same but the quality differed,

the patriarch and his family got the best quality food, magical beast milk, sausages, and rare quality bread and cheese

then the elders got the same magical beast milk and sausage, and uncommon quality bread and cheese

while the other ordinary family got ordinary beast milk and sausage, and common quality bread and cheese,

now most of you would say, whats the difference, well let me educate you,

you see the grades of item and food are separated by different factors, for consumables mainly the energy quality present in the item, followed by the nutrition value of the food, medicinal efficacy for herbs, potions and pills

the grades goes like this from worst to best:

1.common-> 2.uncommon-> 3.rare -> 4.unique -> 5.legendary -> 6.mythical -> 7.earthly -> 8.heavenly

and then their are other higher grades that are not relevant to us now, it is like we would probably not come by any of them, even the top three grade we will not see them that much, they are like extremely super duper hard to find

and after they were done eating the patriarch made his leave with the elders and then followed by their families and then it was the ordinary members turn, and all that was left was the servants

now, it should be a normal thing if not for the tense atmosphere that was emanating from them, why so? you ask, cause there is an unwritten rule that everyone follow, the dog is entitled to his masters leftovers

the food that was presented to the family members was not something that simple, the servant were only having the lowest quality of food, so when presented with the opportunity to have even the crumbs that are left or even to lick the fat that was left on the plate, they will not let it pass by

cause even that has a great energy and nutrition to the body, especially so for the guards, this world is where the strong eat the weak, it may not be visible in the ordinary world of normal people, but in the martial world it is so apparent even a blind person could see it

so as soon as the masters left the hall, everyone jumped onto the masters plate and started eating the leftovers,of course our Arowne had to share his meal with the other servant but he got a bigger share, the energy was too much for the other servant,

another thing to add is that the only reason he got strong that fast and earned first place in the morning training was due to this high energy food, it was not all due to his talent alone

"aaaah!" Arowne exhaled in content 'really, no matter how much i taste it, it never gets boring, i look forward to the time that i will enjoy such food as much as i want to, or maybe something even more delicious' you could see him drool as he thought that

after cleaning up the plates, the normal servants tidied up the hall, and the personal guards went to do their duties, as for arowne he went to join the young master for his morning classes

as a personal guard, he was required to learn basic things like reading, writing, arithmetic, and even some advanced classes like etiquette and proper speech,

Arowne took every opportunity he could get to get close to the young master and show his loyalty, the cunning bastard hhhhhh

and so, time ticked in till lunchtime where they headed back to the dining hall, and things went as usual till the end, where an unexpected thing happened

after they were done eating, everyone waited for the patriarch to leave, and as he stood up, he did not leave but raised his voice and made an announcement

"everyone, today i have the joy to inform you that my wife is pregnant again,CHEERS!"he raised his wine glass

"""CHEERS!!!"""everyone replied

the patriarch had other children apart from alastaire, they just weren't from the main wife, they were either from concubines or bastards from female servants, he tried with the main wife many times with no results, so you could see how lecherous he is

and now that she is pregnant again he was very happy, he hoped to get a talented boy, unlike alastaire who was just average and even the lowest average he had seen, if not for the resources that was wasted on him he would have been surpassed long ago by his more talented peers

its not that he didn't have other talented children, like the boy with the 2nd concubine and other such examples, they just weren't from the main wife, so they couldn't inherit the seat of patriarch, and with the elders eyeing his position like wolves, her pregnancy was a gift from the ancestors

the patriarch thought 'it would be great if the child is very talented, and got to keep an eye on those wolves for any assassination attempt' as he finished that thought, he even eyed arowne from the corner of his eyes 'why couldn't he be mine' well it is understandable, he was intelligent, and very talented not to mention very handsome, well you could now get how devious this person is, really worthy of being the patriarch

and within all this no one noticed the crafty light that passed by the mc's eyes

'SO CLICHE!!!' Arowne screamed in his mind as plans started formulating in his mind