Inheritor Of Magic: The Magi King

After an intense discussion on the best way to structure the schedule, it was decided that they would ask Wolfe to give lectures in the mornings, starting with three days of the Runic Alphabet and language skills for advanced crafters, then moving on to esoteric spells.

In the afternoons he would attend the advanced Artificer classes, and the Magical Blacksmithing courses, which were only offered twice, once each week. That class was on advanced metallurgy for mana transfer, and it could prove incredibly useful to both him and his witches.

Everyone filed out of the restaurant bar at a fairly reasonable hour that night, in preparation for a long day of seminars coming up, but that didn't mean that it got much quieter in the hotel. Many of the out-of-town Nobles were staying here, and they were all excited about the next day's meetings, even if they were not planning to attend Wolfe's seminars.

There was just so much for them to learn other than refreshing on their basics, which were being refreshed now that Wolfe had given them the alterations to reduce mana cost on the flame barrage group spell.

It was still strange to see Stephanie in human form, especially as a small girl, but she was getting more comfortable with it, and she was sharing a bed with Molly and Lula, as both of them were from social species, and three was better than two, plus they were all small, and the bed was large.

The sight was honestly adorable, and Wolfe could tell that Cassie was doing her best to not complain about the lack of a camera to take a picture of it. It would be great blackmail for Stephanie when she was back in cat form and feeling grumpy.

Breakfast was similarly crowded, and everyone staying at the hotel travelled to the University together, getting ready for their seminars.

The others were going to the same class to master all the basics of Artificing, while Wolfe would go and teach the basics of Runology. It was going to be a great morning, he could tell it by the assortment of upper Nobles in the room.

They were all accomplished craftsmen, military officers and researchers who had convinced Petros or the University to sign them up for the course before all the seats filled.

There were nearly twice as many people here as there had been in the basic Artificer training, despite the advanced material, all eager to learn.

"Welcome everyone to Runology 101. Today we will go over the basic runic alphabet, which consists of the groups of basic sounds in the ancient magical language. Once we get into more advanced Runology, the symbols cease to be phonetic, but for these purposes, being able to understand basic words in the language will go a long way toward helping you understand the runes that go with them."

The class was staring at him in shock. They weren't sure what they had expected from this class, but it certainly hadn't been an instructor who actually spoke the ancient magical language. They hadn't even known that it could be spoken out loud, the operating theory was that the runes had a form of resonant effect when filled with mana, and that was why they created magical effects.

While true, that was only because they were designed that way so that the effects matched the spoken words.

"Can you give an example, Professor?" One of the Nobles asked.

[gabyeoun gong] Wolfe spoke, creating a floating ball of brightly glowing fire, focusing on light output instead of heat.

"Now, if you write that down, it looks like this. Four symbols, nice and simple, see? It just creates a ball of light." He explained.

"So, if you speak the words, you don't need to focus on the symbols, you just need to know the words?" The Noble asked.

"You also need the inflection, tone and intent, or you're just speaking. When the language was written in books for nonmagical purposes, some would write it in rows, a simplified version of the standard circular pattern.

Now, let's get started with page three, the basic symbols."

The attendees all opened their book and stared in confusion at the forty different symbols on the page, followed by an entire page of directions on how they were properly used.

"It's not as bad as you might think. Each of them is a sound, some are a combination of sounds, like ch, or qu in the common language. When you write them, you use syllable blocks, and then they are arranged in the circle based on spoken order, from the outside in.

Normally, if the spell was too large, it would be split into multiple layered circles with aligned symbols, so the reader knew where to continue from, and when you cast a spell like that, you start at the beginning and build the layers of the spell on top of it until you are finished.

So, when you have a complex spell, it forms an array, like so." Wolfe explained as he slowly activated visible circles for the Kind Intentions spell for the room to see.

"Now, certain spells require very complex mana manipulation even if you form all the layers, and some require an additional layer that isn't included in the aligned spell that binds it all together in a specific way. That is done like this, the final layer of the Kind Intentions spell."

Petros followed along, and frowned as his version of the Kind Intentions spell failed. He knew exactly how it should be created, but he was missing something about that final layer that was preventing it from activating.

He suspected that the trick might actually be exclusive to the Magi and their odd magic, which would make it impossible for others. But with the instruction and some time to alter the spell, he realized that Wolfe intended for him to find a way to learn the spell, and that was why he had been so clear about how it was created.

Fine, challenge accepted.