Inheritor Of Magic: The Magi King

The others began to gather soon after Wolfe's message was sent out, and the Gormana Guardian prepared himself to head to the airport.

It was now connected to the city with a full-length tunnel, so they didn't have to ship down the river anymore, but it still took a significant amount of time to get there in a truck.

"No need to head to the tunnels, I will just fly us all over to the airport, and then we can fly over in one of the helicopters. There is no proper runway at the Fortress City yet, so it's better that we arrive in a helicopter, or by direct magical flight.

It would be faster for me to fly us all there directly, but it's a bit more dignified this way, and we can carry more goods with us." Wolfe explained.

This time, Wolfe formed an actual metal platform for everyone to stand on, and lifted them into the air once they were all in place.

It was a bit cramped, but it was easier to move everyone around when they were clustered together and not moving around too much inside the barrier. Wolfe used Gravity Magic as the basis for his high-speed flight, and a large shift in weight would force him to adjust or risk being thrown off course.

The staff was ready with the large helicopter loaded when they arrived. The big chopper saw regular use these days, going back and forth to Morgana Coven, so nobody would question its presence when they flew overhead.

The stop at the Academy wouldn't even alarm anyone, unless they paid enough attention to know that this wasn't the usual shipment day for them, and that it wasn't normal for them to take off that quickly after landing.

They were just picking up Priya and the Academy Headmistress, after all, and they didn't have a load of cargo to deliver today.

"Anything in particular you want us to add to the shipment., Mister Wolfe?" The cargo boss on duty asked as Wolfe landed them next to the helicopter and dismissed the platform.

Wolfe shook his head. "The usual assortment should be fine. If they really need something, I will make it on the spot and turn it over to them. Their Coven Leader is an old friend, so this shouldn't be a hostile situation."

Even Cassie and Ella looked skeptical at that bit of optimism.

But the team loaded everything into the helicopter, and with the handful of passengers on board, they were ready to head out to pick up their other guests.

Priya was waiting on top of Sylvan City with two attendants when they arrived, so the stop was only a few seconds. But when they flew over the Academy, there was nobody outside waiting for them.

The pilot let the rotors spin down, and they waited patiently for about thirty seconds before everyone realized that something wasn't right.

Wolfe looked at the other occupants of the helicopter. "Keep the barrier up, so the aircraft isn't damaged while I go see what is holding up the Headmistress."

He began to scan the mana in the area as he walked toward the building and found something very strange. The students were all gathered in one of the basements, but there were hundreds of other people in the academy, sitting in classrooms, walking the halls, but none of them using any sort of magic or showing more than a faint trace of magical ability.

If he had to guess, he would say that they were humans pretending to be the witches.

With an increase in the sensitivity of Detect Magic, Wolfe scanned through the walls of the Academy and found the closest occupied classroom. It was full of young adults in school uniforms, but there was a mix of men and women, when this was an Academy for Witches.

It appeared that whoever had taken this place over hadn't known that it was a girls' school, and they had just sent who they had.

But how did they take over the school? That part made no sense at all.

Wolfe checked the barrier, and found that Kind Intentions was active, but it had been tampered with in the past. Most likely there was an assault by a magician above Rank Five, as he had been when he cast the spell, and they had thought that the array was disabled, not realizing that it had a mana gathering function and would reactivate.

Now, the powerful one was gone, they couldn't directly hurt the students, and they were playing some sort of charade, pretending that things were normal if anyone from the outside looked in.

First, he would go rescue the students and see about any teachers who were left. Then he would go deal with the intruders. What they likely didn't understand about the spell was that it wouldn't stop him from ejecting trespassers in a nonviolent way. They would try to resist with force, which wouldn't work after he bolstered the Kind Intentions Array, and then he could take prisoners.

For a moment, he considered simply levelling the classroom areas of the Academy and everyone in them, but there probably wasn't a reason to kill all the humans until after he had talked to the students.

Strangely, though he was walking through the open courtyard, nobody was responding. The fake students were still pretending to go to class, the guards still patrolled the hallways, and went about their day as if nothing were wrong.

So, Wolfe played along with the act, and simply walked into the school. He went right past the human that was on door patrol as if he belonged there, giving him a polite nod, and then he walked down the stairs toward the Alchemy labs near where the actual students were being held.

That got a response.

Once he was in the lower level, there were armed guards with automatic rifles, his automatic rifles that had been delivered to the Academy for their defence, and angry glares on their faces.

"Halt. No unauthorized access to this area by order of the Emperor." The man announced.

Wolfe smiled gently, the same smile that one gave the mentally infirm and small children. "Which Emperor might that be? The Emperor of all he sees? Because I killed two of them just this week, and I would greatly like to know why you are keeping people of this world hostage."