Inheritor Of Magic: The Magi King

603 603 Relic Library

Wolfe considered the problem for a moment, trying to come up with an answer that wouldn't drive everyone insane and make it impossible for them to hear orders during an emergency.

"What about if I link the doors on a single array? Then you could have the alarm sound only at the most recent door they had passed through, and that would let the guards follow the noise through the castle. There is some potential for abuse of that system, but far less than having a small group of unauthorized entrants set off every single alarm at once and deafen your team so they couldn't hear alarms or anyone sneaking up on them." Wolfe suggested.

"That isn't a bad idea. Do you know the array?" Minister William asked. "Not yet, but I know the basic spell, and the essential components to the array, so it shouldn't take long to get it right, especially if you have some records that I can study." Wolfe hinted.

A bit of time in the Demon King's library might teach him all sorts of wonderful new things that weren't included in his inheritance spell.

"Alright. I will lead you to the library, and Rail can keep an eye on you while you study. If you can get the spell ready in the next few days, it would be best. The castle has had far too many incidents lately, and I intend to put a stop to them." Minister William declared.

They didn't say much as the Minister led them through the winding hallways, but Wolfe noticed immediately that the staff seemed much more friendly, and the lower their rank, the more pleased they seemed to be to see him.

The Demon Realms were very power oriented, and without anyone to stop them, the weak were bullied relentlessly when nobody in authority was watching. Wolfe's spell had brought them back to the days before the previous King had fallen, when the rules were enforced with an iron fist, and none would dare to step out of line and mistreat the King's personal servants.

There was no mercy and no forgiveness if they messed up their jobs, but they were untouchable. In the minds of the weakest demons, that was a much better status than under the new King, who didn't have the strength to make his words matter, while the kingdom was run by ministers who didn't care at all about anything but power.

Wolfe could hear their whispers with [Detect Hidden] and the body enhancement training amplifying his hearing, and it was quite obvious that the new King was not going to have an easy time getting to adulthood with everyone working against him.

Well, almost everyone. He had a few allies, but even they were mostly self-interested, and saw that it was better to keep him than the alternative.

"Here we are, the Royal Library. Enjoy your afternoon, I will be back to escort you to a formal lunch in three hours." Minister William informed them before leaving the room and locking the door behind him.

Wolfe took a short walk around the room and realized that there was no sort of easy organizational system, he was going to have to hunt through the titles to find something he needed.

"What are we looking for? I've never been in here unescorted, so I have no idea where anything is." Rail asked.

"I need a book on Wind Magic Arrays. That should have the missing details that will let me fix the alarm system. I don't know how they chose to organize things in here, and there doesn't seem to be a Librarian on duty, so we might need to just read titles as we go." Rail laughed. "So much for getting it done by lunch. I know you're in a hurry to finish, but this Library might be your downfall."

"How about we split up? I will take the left, you take the right, and we will check every shelf for anything relevant to wind or air magic. Even if it doesn't have anything to do with alarms, it might have what we need. I have most of the basic knowledge, so it's just a matter of filling in the gaps."

They started down the rows, and Wolfe realized that this might be easier than he thought. The shelves had a marking on them that would search for specific magical runes within their contents.

Wolfe activated the first one and searched for the basic air magic runes. Nothing lit up, and a cursory check of the titles told him that these were all history books.

The next shelf was the same, but for a different kingdom.

So, there was an organizational method, it just wasn't labelled anywhere.

When he got to the fifth set of shelves, there were a number of tomes detailing interactions with the Fae, and the runes for wind magic lit up on four different tomes. Wolfe carefully took each of them down one at a time and scanned the contents, but found that they were all about basic wind attack magic that the Fae had used against them during that era, and how to recognize it.

An hour later, Wolfe was up on the second level, and finally came across an entire shelf marked as donated by the Eternal Saint.

"You've got to be kidding me. There is a whole section dedicated to exactly what I need. It's like the man was psychic and left these here with the expectation that the copies at home would be destroyed." Wolfe muttered to himself as he read through the titles.

There was almost a complete copy of the basic inheritance magics, which might have been complete once upon a time. Some new spells were added after his time in the Demon Realms, and a few of the tomes had been damaged beyond recognition and put into sealed storage.

Wolfe refined his search to ones for Air Magic Arrays and then for arrays including the alarm spell until he found three tomes that all contained some version of what he needed.

He took the most sturdy looking one of them out of the shelf and carefully put it on the reading table. The shelves had a [Preservation] array on them, but after centuries of storage, the books were still brittle, and not everyone had handled them with as much care as they should.

"Raid, come on over here. I've found what I'm looking for." He called out as he read the cover of the tome.

[The Application And Use Of Air Magic For Daily Chores]