Inheritor Of Magic: The Magi King



Wolfe and his Witches had just curled up to sleep when a surge of energy and a change in the bond brought them all back to full alertness.

Ella's contented and exhausted thoughts turned to pure joy for a second, and she wrapped her arms around Wolfe while Cassie snuggled into her from behind. Her Familiar Bond was advancing to a Consort's Bond, and the resonance between the three of them was making it transition even more quickly than it had with Cassie.

[Consort Gained. Ella Mariel has become the Second Consort of Wolfe Noxus.]

The Inheritance surged with power as the bond changed, and Ella's eyes shot open in shock.

"I can feel it. The Inheritance spell. There is so much knowledge in there just waiting for someone with the aptitude to actually use it. It's incredible." She gasped.

Cassie looked a bit confused, as she had never felt anything of the sort, but Wolfe felt a flow of power through their bond, and then a magical circle formed above them, floating in the air.

It was a lightning spell, one of the many in the Inheritance, that was intended to be used as a stun attack. Wolfe knew that he had never shown it to anyone before, and he was reasonably sure that he'd never even tried to cast it.

So, his question was, how did Ella gain Access to it?

[Congratulations on joining the Noxus Family.] Wolfe saw the words appear on Ella's arm, the same way that they appeared on his own when Wolfe's Inheritance had something to tell him.

"What is that? I can feel it, and I just saw it appear." She asked.

"That's how the Inheritance informs me of things when it has a notification, like an advancement or an increase in skills," Wolfe explained.

"Why does she get it when I don't?" Cassie pouted but didn't release her hugging position against Ella's body.

"My guess is that it's all due to bloodline. We know there are a lot of Witches in your direct line after it joined the Noxus Family, so there might not be any Magi blood in there, or very little. If there is more hidden in Ella's lineage, she might have gained access to my Magi Inheritance the moment she became my Consort." Wolfe suggested.

"This is so awesome. I've got a whole library right here for my use. There are Witch spells in it, too. It's not just elemental magic. Like the Familiar spell and its reversal." Ella noticed.

"That's a bit cruel, isn't it? Reversing the Familiar Spell?" Cassie asked.

"No, well, yes, but no. If you use it after the Familiar is dead, it will break the lingering link and let a Witch summon another Familiar right away without waiting to see if the old bond fades with time." Ella explained.

"That might be the most valuable ability that we have found from the Inheritance so far. Think of how many Witches have had their Familiars killed. Not just recently in combat, but also all the ones in the city who are waiting and hoping that one day they will be able to summon another." Wolfe agreed.

"The value of this ability is immeasurable, and it was just sitting in a Magi inheritance. How insane is that? Wolfe can't even use it, and I doubt that he could even explain it if he tried." Cassie sighed.

She was right. Wolfe couldn't even properly interpret the Witch Magic in the spell. It was just a blur to him. So, it must have been made for exactly this reason, as a gift to mixed-blood women, so that there was an inheritance for them as well.

He had no way of knowing what Family she might have come from or if the Mariel Family was actually a Magi Family on its own, but now that Ella was his consort, she had access to the Noxus Inheritance as a member of the Family.

"Should we tell someone about this or hold it as a gift for those who we are friendly with?" Wolfe asked, feeling a bit practical.

"I think that we should offer it to the Headmistress, with the requirement that she never show anyone else how to do it. That way, she can personally pick the ones to restore the ability to and get some more good people on the side of the Academy.

They are our allies now that you seem to have conned them into sending us Professors every year." Ella reminded him.

"Good thinking. There might be some older, retired Professors who would come back into service to help us out if they had a new Familiar and a chance to progress in the Fae Forest." Cassie agreed.

Wolfe could tell that she was hurt that she didn't get access to the Inheritance when she became a Consort, but there wasn't anything that he could do about it, and the Inheritance didn't have any answers for him on the subject.

"What else is in there?" Cassie asked, holding up Ella's left arm as if it would reveal some secret to her.

"There are all sorts of defensive spells, household charms and such. Oh, there is one in here to make the soup taste better. I knew you should be able to alter the flavour of things with Nature Magic." Ella laughed, then wondered how she was supposed to show Cassie without any soup present.

"You two have a long day ahead of you, so why don't we sleep for a while, and you can talk about it on the way home?" Wolfe asked.

"Are you still going home? Cassie got you for the whole day after she advanced. A girl has needs, you know." Ella complained.

Cassie smirked and licked Ella's ear, then moaned as she felt it through the link.

"Why don't you stay with him for the next part of his trip? I think I would die of jealousy knowing that you were with him and too busy to answer my questions if you were only a few metres away." Cassie suggested.

"Where all were you planning on going anyhow?" Ella asked Wolfe, who was sneaking a hand up her thigh to watch both Witches shudder at the sensation.

"First into the swamps. I heard rumours that the mundane army might be holding the captured Witches from Sylvan there. Then I am going to go further East and up the coastline to get in contact with some of the villages there.

If we can work out a deal, that would be perfect, and they would warn us of anything dangerous in the Wastes." Wolfe replied before having his hand swatted away.

"I can't think, much less speak when you do that," Ella complained.

"That's why it's so much fun, isn't it?" Wolfe teased back, as he enjoyed the way that the link fed the sensation to both Witches at the same time.

There were definite advantages to having two Consorts together, and this was going to be one of his favourites, assuming that they didn't start wanting to sleep separately in the future.

It was definitely going to be a long day tomorrow, and when they wore themselves out again, there were only five hours before breakfast started. They would have an awful lot of eager Witches waiting for their appearance, so their time to sleep was limited.