Chapter 21_Rehistory

London was tense. I sent my scientists to the local universities to recruit. I had found three men in my perfect recall spell that I hoped to recruit, Isaac Newton and, Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke. In the end all three signed on with 13 other scholars. I made sure to stay away from any religious philosophers. The crown never attempted any contact with me, probably because of the golems. I received various looks of fear and awe. I made an effort to cure disease in the city while the scientists did the recruiting. My curator was meeting some resistance. I had him switch to seeking original works in books. Unfortunately the crown outlawed trading of the light stones so we had to make deals with the gold and gems I brought with me. The Duke I had dealt with long ago came to visit me in secret on the ship. We talked for a while. He wanted me to help with a coup and put him on the throne. I said I would consider it but needed to stabilize the Avalon Kingdom first. He asked what I needed to stabilize the Kingdom. I said reach a million citizens and secure the borders. He was also suspicious in asking about how many mages I had and what powers they had but I gave him nothing. We left with an uneasy friendship. We were in port for two weeks and I noticed my ship was constantly watched.

In Ireland we only stayed two days and added two mathematicians. I also added one tailors family who had two daughters with slight magic. To file the remaining cabins a crammed in 23 unmarried stonemasons. Most had between 4 and 6 years experience. In terms of construction they were sorely needed. The curator did well in Ireland. He focused on material for a cultural exhibit. Fortunately light stones were accepted and he got a fair amount of artifacts and books. The return trip took 7 days as we had to change course to avoid a storm. I finally advanced my stone bullet spell to 10 and choose to have the bullet accelerate for 3 seconds after firing. It was much more deadly now. When we landed I was greeted with horrible news. Ella had died in a miscarriage.

I collapsed on the dock. I wasn’t heartless and felt tremendous loss, guilt, and grief. I flew immediately to Avalon and found Amelia, Renee, and Carina and started crying with them immediately. I was in a daze for the next few days. Ella had a miscarriage 8 days ago and the doctors couldn’t stop the bleeding. She died a day later. I blamed myself, I was constantly leaving and I had skipped learning the healing spell…I was making the wrong choices.

Weeks passed and I created a mural on the inside on my wall using white stone as a backing and gems for color. It had Ella sitting in a chair smiling in a blue dress. Below the artwork it said Ella May 5th 1650 – November 15th 1675, Forever Loved. I hardened the stone and gems and it should last for all time.

I went into seclusion for the next few months. I focused on working on the magi tower. Carina brought me food but she was my only contact with people. The tower grew in height and I was swallowed in my grief. On May 7th Carina gave birth to twin girls, Ella and Camila. It brought me out of my mad focus for a bit. The magi academy tower was over 600 feet in height and had 16 floors. I went and saw the babes and was able to focus on life. That night I returned to my room in tower for the first time in months. I had a very long hot shower before huddling in the sheets. Carina joined me and we embraced, falling asleep.

In the morning laying in half sleep and alone I summoned my info.

Magic Pool: 201, Magic Regen: 14.3 per hour

Spell Design Points: 5

* Ageless, Level 5 (Stone Magic Ability) – like all stone you are ageless, your body ages 1/14th as fast greatly increasing your life expectancy, each level increase slightly slows aging even further, Evolution: hibernate for up to 1000 years

* Shapeshift, Level 5 (Nature Magic Ability) – you can shape change into one beast form healing injuries, each level increase adds another beast form, forms: Black Panther, White Wolf, Bottlenose Dolphin, Eagle; Evolution: Can half or double mass

* Stalwart Immunity, Level 6 (Stone Magic Ability) – you have resistance to disease and infections, each level improves the speed at which you heal from injuries and poisons , Evolution: Rebirth, 7 day cooldown

* Magic Sense, Level 6 (Divination Magic Ability) – you can sense magic and estimate its power, each level improves the range, Evolution: greatly increases range

* Meditation, Level 1 (Mental Magic Ability) – increase magic recovery by 100%, each level increase slightly increases recovery rate

* Stone Affinity Mastery, Level 6 (Stone Magic Ability) – reduces the cost of stone spells by 20%, each level slightly reduces the cost further, Evolution: casting speed increased by 25% for stone spells

* Stone Golem, Level 13 (56/100) (Stone Spell – tier 9) – create a golem from 1 cubic yard of stone, each level increase adds density, strength and durability, COST: 5.0 Magic Pool, Evolutions: Reduced Golem Cost, Improved Intelligence

* Soften Stone, Level 13 (3/100) (Stone Spell – tier 3) – turns 2 cubic yard of stone to clay, each level increases affected volume by 1%, COST: .8 Magic per minute, Evolution: Purify Stone, TBD

* Strengthen Stone, Level 14 (42/100) (Stone Spell – tier 3) – improves 1 cubic yard stones resistance to damage, each level improves the volume and the stones strength, COST: 1.1 Magic, Evolution: lighten stone by 20%

* Stone Bullet, Level 10 (7/100) (Stone Spell – tier 0) – temporarily creates a small stone and fires it at a target, each level improves the density and speed of the stone, COST: 0.1 Magic, Evolutions: Control the shape of bullet, bullet accelerates for 3 seconds

* Nature’s Growth, Level 12 (91/100) (Nature Spell – tier 5) – complete 1 year of growth on a single plant in 60 minutes, each level increases the plant’s growth, COST: 1 Magic, Evolutions: Rejuvenate the soil around the roots of the plant, infuse magic to supply the plant for 1 year adds 12 magic cast

* Plant Snare, Level 2 (88/100) (Nature Spell – tier 0) – activate a square yard of plants to entangle an animal within 50 yards, each level increases the area and range, COST: 0.3

* Thermal Stone, Level 13 (53/100) (Stone Spell – tier 3) – raises the temperature of 1 cubic yard of stone 100 degrees for 138 minutes, each level increases the temperature and volume, COST: 0.9 per 109 degrees, Evolutions: Can stack the spell to extend the time of the enchantment, double the effective time

* Light Stone, Level 11 (70/100) (Stone Spell – tier 2) – creates a bright light source (2000 lumens) on 8.1 ounces of stone burning the stone over time 52 years, each level increases affected mass and time, COST: 10, Evolutions: the light can be white, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo or violet, brightness can be 50 lumens to 4000 lumens

* Cure Disease, Level 7 (25/100) (Healing Spell – tier 3) – cures one person of disease, each level reduces the casting time, COST: 3 Magic, Evolutions: Area of Effect 5 x 5 yards

* Perfect Recall, Level 4 (69/100) (Mental Spell – tier 1) – recall an image in perfect clarity, COST: 0.2 Magic per image

* Manipulate Stone, Level 10 (74/100) (Stone Spell – tier 7) – control 4 cubic yards of stone, each level increases affected volume by 1%, COST: 1 Magic per minute, Evolution: double affected volume, increases stone flow rate

My spell points still were short of the 7 I needed. I never wanted to lose someone I loved. But I felt much better. Over the next few months I spent time with the children and making the grounds in my property as beautiful as possible. A white road to the tower, gardens with trees, bushes and flowers. Many walking paths. The kids came when I worked and gave me suggestions. Every once in a while I would work on the tower but right now I was focused on life. It was in September of 1676 when I finally made love to Carina again. That was the breaking point and allowed me to see what had happened in the last 10 months.

Amelia came and gave me the updates. I looked over the populations.

Camelot 16900, Pendragon 1500, Avalon 8200, Lancelot 5200, Excalibur 3200, Galahad 800, Percival 500, Gawain 500, Lionel 500, Geharis 200, Bedivere 200, Gareth 100, Lamorak 100, Savannah 5400

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Holy crap! Apparently immigration was massive from everywhere in the world. We were a massive melting pot, Irish, English, Dutch, Spanish, French, Persian, Italian, Danish and Polish. The next thing I asked was about coins. Amelia had started minting copper and silver coins when she saw I was not up to it. I told her I would start making Avalon coins again.

Avalon had made massive construction progress. The university was humming with some 800 students and faculty. The sewers were done and they were connecting waste and water pipes to buildings in the city. Once we got pressurized water we should be good to go. The land for the railroad had been secured. Towns were stretching west along the road. Disease was a problem but they followed my sanitary and isolation policies and the spread was always limited. I would have to go to clinics in the cities and town and cure people soon. The museum had opened and it was a great success. We were starting to face possible food shortages as the people were growing faster than food production. The judicial branch of the government was set up and we had courthouses in Camelot, Avalon and Excalibur. Taxes were slightly exceeding expenses so far but if we moved to a war footing things could change. Collette was my next meeting. We now had six embassies in Avalon, the French, Ottoman, England, Dutch, Denmark and Poland. We had open trade and immigration from all these countries. Spain, Portugal and Italy were tentative enemies. The church was our biggest enemy. They were preaching the evils of magic and it was the start of a coming holy war Carina surmised.

Riona was next. She had 25 women casting spells now. It really helped that I had written out the possible spells. The schooling was going great and we had 107 girls who would be coming into their magic soon, not including my children. Some of my children were forming their abilities. Riona surmised that you needed puberty to access your magic but abilities could be formed before then. She was doing her best to document the developments. Hopefully in a hundred years we would be able to guide people. She showed me my list.

Mother

Born

Ability Pool

Magic Pool

Affinities

124

200

Stone, Nature

Riona

6/27/1654

Fire

Carina

9/1/1646

Gravity

Noelle

4/6/1653

Darkness

Daphne

Olivia

12/23/1666

Nature, Water

Caleb

Carina

3/28/1667

Darkness, Space

Dana

Carina

3/28/1667

Light, Fire

Liam

Ella

7/17/1667

Necromancy

Ava

Renee

8/5/1667

Prismic

Dahlia

Carina

10/16/1668

Metal, Ice

Orion

Ella

11/11/1668

Air

Violet

Renee

11/23/1668

Space

Able

Carina

7/27/1670

Healing, Nature, Water

Summer

Ella

8/20/1670

Lightning

Leo

Carina

8/7/1671

Gravity, Stone

Luke

Carina

8/7/1671

Gravity, Stone

Damien

Renee

8/16/1671

Earth

Gilli

Collette

10/7/1671

Divination

Erick

Carina

12/1/1672

Earth, Gravity, Time

Olivia

Ella

12/3/1672

Nature

Tyree

Arisa

8/11/1673

Earth

Lyon

8/11/1673

Healing

Fryia

Liana

8/19/1673

Sound

Iona

Mina

8/25/1673

Fire

Cecelia

Mina

8/25/1673

Fire

Ella

Carina

5/7/1676

Lightning, Sound

Camilla

Carina

5/7/1676

Water, Ice

Grace

Riona

4/12/1676

Fire

Haley

Noelle

4/14/1676

Mental

I did a double take. Ella and Camilla…were going to be strong. Riona and Noelle’s daughters were had also been born. Riona wanted to set up a formal specialty school for pre-puberty magic kids. I told her I didn’t like it. I didn’t want mages to see themselves as superior beings, going to school with norms would help that. Right now we worried about assassination so we had pulled them to my compound. Riona also talked about the Knights of the Magi. We had 56 knights, Maya had found a few getting corrupted by outside forces and she was worried about corrupting the recruits. Their equipment was seized and they were sent west with funds to start a new life. We had 58 teens in the program and they were doing well, some were very impressive. I had seen them training from a distance but I hadn’t interfered for months. I should stop by, maybe tomorrow.

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