Inheritor Of Magic: The Magi King

It was a tense ride back to the Fae Forest along the river, and Wolfe hoped that the soldiers from the other continent really were tracking him directly and wouldn't try to return to the outpost in the mountains now that he was gone from there.

"Are you really going to cleanse the Bloodline Curse from every Witch in the village?" Priya finally asked once they had entered the forest.

"I intend to, yes. If I have to, I will even go to Myrrh and down into the swamps and start doing it there to get more of their young Witches a headstart on life and show those foreigners that we're not the cursed ones anymore." Wolfe agreed.

Cassie and Priya smiled at the thought while Ella's mind wandered to the practical matters of defending the entire Frozen Wastes if the other continents really did attack. They hadn't given much of a clue as to what they might do as an offensive gesture, but she could be sure that it would have to be on a higher level than the current situation there, which was bad enough.

The entire population of Forest Grove was on edge when they returned, as they had received the message as well as anyone, and they knew that it was most likely aimed at them, as they had been altering and openly living in the Frozen Wastes, not hidden underground.

They had never thought that an above-ground village would attract attention from some World Government, but now the thought of being out in the open was starting to make them nervous about being targeted by Witches and soldiers.

With that in mind, Wolfe made his address to the entire village at once.

[Attention everyone. I understand that you are nervous about the message that we received from the other continent today. We had a visit from a group of their soldiers at the airstrip today, where they informed us that they consider our entire Continent to be quarantined to contain the bloodline curses, while the Frozen Wastes and the mountains are a War Memorial, in their opinion.

They also informed us that the Witches were instructed not to have any children if they bore the curse, and the rest of the population was ordered to be executed.

What they consider to be illegitimately living is not only the fact that we are in the Frozen Wastes but the fact that we are alive at all. Not just me, as a Magi, but everyone here, both Witches and mutated humans.

What I intend to do is to gather all of the Witches here and purge the Bloodline Curse from them, as well as help them toward an advancement in Rank. If they do follow through on their threats, we will need all the power that we can obtain.

Once that is done, I will do the same for our Allies near the Myrrh border and possibly in the Morgana Coven territory as well.

Beyond that, every single citizen will be getting an armour amulet made to the highest standards. Keep a mana crystal on you to activate it in the case of an emergency. We will also be increasing our weapon production so that every citizen of the Wastes is armed and capable of protecting themselves and their neighbours.

If some Witches from another continent, using the name from the Great War, think that they can chase us out of our home and order us killed, they are going to learn a very harsh lesson.]

When the cheering subsided, Wolfe continued.

[With that in mind, I would like all Witches and those with the potential to become Witches to gather in the garden space. I will spend the evening going through every single one of you to give as much improvement as I can. Over the next few days, I will be working out a system to improve our growth rate as a group.]

The most obvious way to do it was to have everyone join in a Servant Bond with him so that he could more easily link them, but first, Wolfe was going to go through every bit of knowledge that he had gathered and see what he could come up with.

There was a lot in the Inheritance as well as the Memory Crystal that he hadn't had proper time to explore yet, and now the matter was much more urgent.

All of the witches began to make their way to the garden square, the walking path with stone benches that sat among the carefully crafted streams near the cliff where the original entrance to the underground Den was.

The walking paths would give them a proper route to follow to line up so that it wasn't just a crowd around Wolfe, as well as an exit path when they were finished.

This process wasn't going to be easy on them, as Wolfe fully intended to try to push a number of them into advancing on the spot. The more Rank Two Witches they had, the better, and there was a chance that Wolfe could push the ten from his Pentacles, who were all balanced by the spell, into advancing to Rank Three today.

They were not going to be happy with him afterward, as the amount of mana it was going to take would cause a great deal of embarrassment, but if it worked, it would all be worth it.

The more powerful witches were working to get everyone arranged, and Wolfe noticed that they had deliberately moved all of the children to the front. Every underage Witch in the village would be done and out of the square before anyone else was beginning the process, and they had even called over a number of the vendors to help out in case the girls were too worn out from the process to walk to their rooms.

That was good. It meant that everyone was on the same page and at least mostly understood his intentions here, as well as the likely side effects.

"First up, Miss Katerina and her Faerie Familiar by the same name. Are you both ready? You might need to be carried up to your room." Wolfe informed the little fluffy-eared Witch.

"We're ready. Bella from maintenance agreed to help out." She agreed, gesturing to a werewolf in coveralls and steel-toed boots.

"Perfect. Here we go."