I sat thinking. I had given up control of Avalon, maybe I should form the country of Atlantis? Should it include Hawaii? I got out my maps. Yes…Fiji would be the west most island, Hawaii the northern most and Easter island would be the east marker, a triangle. Using perfect recall I made the maps out. The only issue was American Samoa was the penial island for Avalon but that was fine. I put down 9 port to build cities from on the map, two in Hawaii, two in Tahiti, one on the island we were invading, one in Fiji, one on Niue (small island), and two on Fiji islands. After the Olympics I would start my plans to colonize the islands and incorporate the Polynesians into the Atlantis Empire.

The rest of 1695 I bounced between projects directed by Maryanne. The road from Camelot to Avalon and further west was called the Highway. The 6 miles from the Olympic village to the Highway was now fairly well settled. There were even large fields on the roads and pastures behind the houses. The houses were the workers for the Olympic village, some 6000 were planned and we were going to hit that goal. Since this was going to be what most people were going to see going to the Olympic village I decided to spend 1696 improving the housing, adding a fantastic road and adding a golem powered trolley for the workers. There were already plans for trolleys in the Olympic village but we were not sure if they were going to be steam, electric, golem or magic powered. I returned to Avalon on December 20th. I spent the time before the festivities going to my underhill warehouse and planning to transport everything to Atlantis. There was enough stuff here to start another museum. I had walked the museum last year and I was socked how great the exhibits were. It was better than any modern museum I had been to. The Rembrandt exhibit was spectacular. It had 40 original works and 13 copies. It walked you through his life in paintings and had dozens of sketches. I asked the curator why so much effort for Rembrandt and he said it was because I made it clear he was my favorite painter. After the warehouse I went to my tower. It felt so empty.

I had 4 caretakers for the tower and I told them to take a week off. I had all the valuables in the basement moved to my library. It was lots of alcohol and purified gems. I was going to move everything to my Rockies retreat during the few weeks I was home. The spell testing was going to be done first this year for the magi academy. We had 29 new student magi after the testing, including Gwendolyn, my daughter who was 11. Her spell was invisibility which only lasted 30 seconds but was still impressive. At the dinner celebration following I saw Leo and Luke tossing a floating rock back and forth. The stone actually just floated there like in zero G until thrown. I got excited as I talked to them about the spell. They could make up to 100 lbs ignore a planets gravity. The spell lasted up to 10 years depending how much magic they invested. The problem was the spell only affected stone…but still…there was probably a way to make flying ships and maybe spaceships. I told them they were to level the spell up…well only Luke had it so he was to level it up. He had developed it to speed up building at Olympic village, moving boulders around. We went to the testing for the knight academy the next day and I watched 68 young kids pass, 19 women this year. I did physical enhancements…and my revitalize spell hit level 15. I evolved to add +10% to a persons muscles, ligaments and tendons. There was also now a genetic fuse upgrade option as well. That would make any enhancements genetic and able to pass onto their children…this was big. It would be a good investment especially if I wasn’t planning to always be around. I spent two weeks giving the genetic enhancement to the knights and members of my family.

After the events we had the new year celebration and I made Gwendolyn her golem, a unicorn. I then had a meeting with Maya. She had pulled in 764 so far for training. She needed my approval to build the expanded training facilities in Pendragon. The summary was 66% women, age range was 15 to 28, and a smattering of ethnicities. She suggested I build another FAV on the lake for training so as to not use the navy’s training FAV. She also suggested I visit the arms factory. Dahlia, one of my daughters, had takin over R&D and they had a new cannon. I went over there the next morning to the R&D floor and found Dahlia. She gave me a tour. The new hand guns were semi-auto and issued out to knights only but were making about 120 surplus a month and had 1300 in storage right now. The rifle version was a 24 shot semi rifle and they were just being stockpiled right now. 2700 were in the secure warehouse. The cannon she showed me was an artillery gun that could be mounted on a ship as well but was made of metal instead of stone. It was the same caliber as our existing cannons. It was using a smaller 23 pound shell but the shell was explosive on impact. She made it with a mix of her metal and ice magic. Each shell was only good for 12 years and the expiration date was stamped on them. She was only making about 60 a week right now. Impressive but not needed what did impress me was the heavy tri-pod machine gun. It was modeled after pictures from my copy artists when I had gotten a whole bunch of texts and images down on paper. They were still having trouble with the ammo feed. It jammed every 157 rounds on average. The good news is her ice magic had a heat sink on the gun so it could fire indefinitely. Also ammo production was slow, about 3 belts of 200 rounds each were being made each week and then used for testing. I asked for 600 of the handguns, 800 of the rifles, 30,000 rounds of pistol ammo, 100,000 rounds of rifle ammo, 24 of the machine guns and 200 belts of ammo to all go with the expedition after they were trained. Hopefully they would have the kinks worked out in 14 months.

Leo and Luke went back with the weddings approaching. I stayed till January 8th, 1696 transporting materials to my Rockies retreat. I teleported to Camelot and went to my Boatwright, Arden. I wanted an upgrade on the FAV. They must have learned something in the years it had been in operation. Arden had been building wooden merchant and fishing ships. He hadn’t really followed the FAV after we built the first one. So I gave him a large sum of money get me an updated design. More power…better handling…better crew standard of living… The ship should be roughly the same length. He needed to talk to captains and crews so I gave him 4 months to send me new plans. I stopped in Pendragon next and made the new training FAV and built the expanded training facilities over a few weeks for 800 people. I made sure to introduce myself to the men and women who would be going to Atlantis after training. I returned to the Olympic village February 6th. The wedding was two days later and I increased the teleport capacity to Atlantis so they could honeymoon there. It was a remote residence as Leo and Luke had probably had sex with more than 20 different women in town.

Finally back in the Olympic village I found Summer. She had completed her knight training, moved up in rank to be able to select her own deployment and had chosen me. She also brought with her two of her friends from the knights to be attached to me as well. I said fine she could help out in the Olympic village and told her to communicate with Maryanne and Anya who were my handlers. I was going to spend the rest of the year working on the strip on improving houses roads and getting a trolley line installed. Tons of granite had been delivered so I worked on the road first. I started with an 8’ sidewalk, curb and rain gutters. I then called in workers to excavate a ditch 10’ deep, we would hook up the sewer and rain drainage to the Olympic village. The stone was only ½ inch thick but was reinforced. So my morning started with building the water drainage tunnel for what had been excavated then going and continuing the sidewalk. It took 5 weeks to finish the 12 miles of sidewalk. We only dug and finished 1 mile of water/sewer. We had to call in an engineer to get the grade correct for the sewer and rain tunnels. We made a few turnoffs for water to head toward small ponds by the orchards and fields behind the houses. In the future we could make underground aquafers. After they buried the tunnel I started adding a 50’ wide road. 26’ of the road was for vehicles and horses. The other 24’ was for dual tracks built directly into the road. This would allow the trollies to do big ovals in booth directions. I stopped this project on May 1st. We had completed 9 miles of the water/sewer and the entire road and trolley loop. The other side of the train tracks still needed to be excavated for the water/sewer and that section was just an 10’ dirt road section. Maryanne had a list of 392 home upgrades to do. These went quick. The resident would meet me with the artist sketch of what he wanted and I would make it happen. All the sketches were done by the architects planning the village. I could do 7 to 9 a day. I finished the upgrades on June 24th. Then spent a week on finishing another mile of excavated water/sewer. There were now plans to get running water into the houses. So I spent another week adding the water line to the sewer but just put a valve into the walls and the pipe into the wall. They would have to dig under the sidewalk, find the outlet, connect to the house then open the valve. They were probably a year from getting the water pressurized and the treatment plant completed. So it was July 3rd and Maryanne was begging me to build hotels. Leo and Luke’s spells were getting more effective and the two of them could do about 25% of my work in a day. We only had 4 of 30 massive hotels done. Three of the other hotels needed the plumbing and details done. Summer had been working on inscribing on the stone. She had a plasma lighting that could mark my hardened stone. It didn’t damage it but left the stone with a high glossy black finish allowing her to write on white stone. She was marking buildings and setting up navigation signs.

Rather than work on the big hotels I worked on the smaller hotels and went around to the venues making the minor fixes here and there. It was more interesting and every night at dinner Leo, Luke, Summer and I all joked that the big hotels would never get built just to needle Maryanne who had three kids hanging off her at all times. Leo’s wife, Daisy, was a low powered Healing mage and she was working on the visitor clinic and getting an athlete hospital. Both buildings would be staffed with mages for the games but for now she was basically an interior decorator. Luke’s wife, June, was a moderate nature mage. She was doing some landscaping and making special positions in the forest around the Olympic village for the rangers who would be on duty during the games. These special positions were natural tree forts for groups of three. We had other mages rotate through and the Olympic committee had a long list of things needing to get done. October 11th I went to visit the training site in Pendragon. I had 849 people in training and was happy to hear I had enough to crew 8 FAVs. I had the plans for the new FAV and built the new boat. It was more streamlined, prettier, and much more comfortable. I planned to order the plantfoam mattresses for the crews. They would only be 4” thick but should help the sailors and marines. Maya had notes for me about the force being trained. It all looked good. She had 340 farmers for me as well who were preparing in Lancelot. She also had a list of 11 magi and 5 knights who were going as well. I couldn’t fathom why but would go along.

We took out the new boat and damn. It planed better on the water and had more horsepower getting up to almost 20 mph…which made a massive wake so we stopped. Having three FAVs on the lake was overkill but we could retire the old navy one. I went to Camelot and was able to build two of the new FAVs for the navy before December 20th. I then headed back to Avalon. The festivities were fun. We had 31 new mages in the magi academy and 46 new knights. I did my duty enhancing people that were due. I transported more things to my Rockies retreat before returning to the Olympic village. It was January 2nd and the FAVs crew were headed to Merlin on February 1st. I had two months. Much to Leo and Luke’s dismay I used my time to build the husks of two hotels leaving the plumbing and finishing to them. They had just finished the 5th and 6th hotel. I ported out to Merlin on March 17th, 1697. Everyone was there waiting. It took me 8 days to build a FAV now that I had practice. So on May 25th they left Merlin with 8 FAVs. I built one of the new FAVs for the navy in Merlin before porting to Atlantis. Unfortunately my boats had landed and seized the island. It was 10 miles northwest of the big island and they were to connect with Naid and Atlantis but just attacked. After talking with the Legion I found the three commanaders had been briefed by Maya that the inhabitants of the island had killed Atlantians and disrupted livestock. What? I told Maya they killed a few cows and twenty people had been injured but all had been healed. The damage my boats did was extreme. 380 dead warriors on the island, another 80 estimated killed in boats, and 300+ had fled west in there long sea catamarans. Shit. The island was 25 square miles or so and we had 1500 prisoners, mostly women. I berated the commanders and moved into the bay. I built 8 piers for 16 ships. Then I built housing, I started with 20 three story apartment buildings with 20 units. They were simple and could have septic and water easily added later. Next a built a five story cannon battery on both sides of the inlet. Last thing was building 6 fishing boats. The settlers were good with clearing land and planting fields. I took a ride to atlantis and we found the shallowness around the islands was an issue. We were going to need some PT boats. I made a note to develop a 70 foot shallow draft boat. It would have a small crew of 20 with one cannon and two heavy machine guns. Back in Atlantis I spent three days with Naid and made two docks for four of the FAVs. Naid had the job of bringing the 1500 prisoners into the fold and feeding everyone. Fryia was back in Olympia and I had to go get her to make mattresses here for the new population. She could make almost 44 king sized mattresses every day now. Lana had also more than doubled her production of sheets. She had a decent stockpile here and the bamboo near Avalon should be ready so she could continue production there. Her product was also improving, the sheets were extremely durable, silky smooth and easy to clean. She even got rid of the caramelized butter smell. I moved the stock of sheets to my dimensional space and got ready to return. Naid had a plan to build 6 small cities and the islands. Well city might be too grand a classification as the populations were going to be limited to 4500 people to account for sanitation and food production. She wanted a knight training academy as well. She had enough knights to run it so I said go ahead. I made sure Naid would keep environmental protections going. Naid tried to encourage me to bring my sons around again as they had 27 children. Damn. I also learned I had 69 children in Atlantis. Naid tried to get me to raise the number but I was just having sex with Naid. Quin, Heart and James, my triplets were 18 and might find all the women around the island appealing. It was a very sexual environment with women wearing no tops or just tube tops. Sex was considered natural and many had sex with others even after marriage.

I got back to Olympia on May 7th, 1697. I had dropped the triplets off in Atlantis and they could get back on their own through the teleporters. I had brought Lana and Fryia to Olympia with me and bamboo was being delivered. Leo and Luke had done a great job while I was gone. Together we worked on the big hotels for the rest of the year. We finished 12 of the 30 hotels now and had 2 others about 50% done. We were not going to be able to finish all 30 with all the other work that needed doing. Much of 1698 was going to be dedicated to finishing the competition venues. It was going to take about a year to equip the facilities so it was important to get them completed. I found three young boys racing box cars on the road I made last year. There was a two mile straight stretch was a slow decline. I helped them out but making six box cars out of stone with steering and hand brakes. After watching them race for a bit I made them helmets as well with Fryia’s help. Two days later the box cars were painted and dozens of children were out participating and cheering. I also made 6 trollies. The brakes, drive engine and seating would be added be the scientists at the university. They had developed an electric engine charged by lightning mages and a few electric cars were already in Avalon. Guess we were skipping steam and petroleum cars. Olympia was looking pretty awesome with the landscaping, flowering trees, manicured lawns, flowering bushes, vines. The buildings I had built were now textured and some painted. It was a great job. As we were getting ready to leave for New Years in Avalon, Leo had the idea of putting a dome over the central stadium. I could make the bubble out of clear stone then they could lighten it and raise it over the stadium, then we could anchor the corners. I liked it and we delayed two days to make the dome. It ended covered 70% of the stadium with dirty glass. I didn’t want clear glass acting as a magnifying glass. Leo and luke headed back and I stayed to make some gutters on the dome to funnel the rain to an underground cistern with overflow going to the rain drainage tunnels. The outlets had been expanded so I was confident even a hurricane would have trouble flooding Olympia. I teleported in the morning of the magi testing.

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We had 7 Indian mages this year,as well as 5 international and 44 locals. Six of the Indians were my children who were over 30. Apparently they hadn’t been able to get a strong handle on their magic and the two Indians on the council decided our school would be good for them. That was fine. I was planning to withdraw from interfering in daily operations. The knight tryouts were a little crazy 630 applicants had passed the written exams. The knight commander and Summer were both seated with me as I watched. They told me the reason was a knight was paid well, had high social station and had a chance to marry a magi. It was also a chance for women to excel and control her destiny. I looked at Anya seated nearby who was listening. I asked her what she thought on the topic. She was too reserved and just agreed. Maya was also close by as her team had already screened the applicants. I told her she could send me 30 applicants who failed but were close. I would teleport them to Atlantis to start a branch of knight academy there. In the end 60 were selected. But there were some 200 that were good enough but the cap for this years class was 60. So I could pull all 140 according to Maya. I thought about it for a while and decided to take the top 40 men and top 40 women under age 17. It would give me a chance to practice my teleport spell.

The next event was the physical upgrades and a welcome dinner for the new knights. Maya was busy talking to a group outside recruiting my 80. In the middle of dinner she had me come outside to talk to them. I told them where they would be going and they would be trained as knights. Unlike the other knights they would get the physical upgrades at age 18 no matter what year they were at the academy. They all agreed, 44 women and 45 men. Maya had hedged her bet some would decide not to go. I could transport two to three at a time so I decided to build a direct teleport to Atlantis from my tower rather than the intermediary jump to the Rockies retreat. I could jump 8 times a day so I needed 4 days to get them all to Atlantis. The next event on the schedule though was the magi assembly. It started with a review of the coming invasion which I supplied with 5 second action clips from my life. Then updates on the 4 branches of the magi. I then went back to the podium and talked about the Olympic games and opening and closing ceremonies. I played clips from my life. I charged the magi to put on a fantastic display, both ceremonies would be at night. Liam presented next asking for teachers to work at his new magic university. A lot of eyes looked to me as this was not expected. I just sat stoically, if he had asked me prior and didn’t surprise me I might have said it was fine. As the other people were presenting I noticed a curious absence. Quin, Heart and James. Shit…Damn Naid probably had them spelled with her Viagra spell. I zoned out and the magi council took two more hours to finish. I then went and set up my new transport to Atlantis and found Naid and the triplets. Yes they were under the spell and were reluctant to leave. I dragged them back to Avalon and found a healer that could dispel the magic. Even after the dispellment they asked when they could return to Atlantis… They had obviously had a good time. I began to think I should have Maya screen Naid again as she was obviously up to something. I had Maya bring the 89 recruits to my tower. My 4 caretakers did the best to make them feel comfortable. I started with the smallest bodies so I could teleport 3 at a time, the first teleport was actually 4. In between I had Maya start to put together another military colonization…same size and set for March of 1701. No wait make it a double. One group for Hawaii and one group for Fiji. She was doubtful she could get enough quality bodies so just committed to getting 1,500, which was 500 soldiers for each and 250 settlers for each. The navy had already taken over my facilities in Pendragon so Maya said she would have them moved out next year and start brining in her recruits. Well I finished transporting everyone and then went to the magi tower and transported the updated magic notes to my Rockies retreat that really needed a better name. How about Kahuna. I liked the ring to it.

January 3rd , 1698 and I was back in Olympia. Luke and Leo were there with some 60 other mages working with 1500 workers and 3500 employees. It felt great to see everyone helping. Collette was there and she had a list of 284 dignitaries that needed transport, housing and seating at events. Ugh. I looked at the list…well the 11 from France could be handled by Liam. She had 14 of the improved teleport sites that needed to be built…the dignitaries could all be ported from those. What was my teleport skill at...

Magic Pool: 244, Ability Points: 147/154 Magic Regen: 16.2 per hour (+63% from passive meditation)

Spell Design Points: 5

* Ageless, Level 6 (Stone Magic Ability [Cost 30]) – 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 7 (Nature Magic Ability [Cost 30]) – 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 7 (Stone Magic [Cost 25]) – 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 14 (Divination Magic Ability [Cost 1]) – you can sense magic and estimate its power, each level improves the range, Evolution: greatly increases range, can see affinity of persons and objects

* Meditation, Level 16 (Mental Magic Ability [Cost 1]) – increase magic recovery by 100%, each level increase slightly increases recovery rate, Evolution: 100% increase in recovery, passively active at 50% effectiveness

* Stone Affinity Mastery, Level 22 (Stone Magic Ability [Cost 20]) – 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 spells easier to learn, harmonize stone, infuse stone

* Magical Aegis, Level 7 (Mental-Space Magic Ability [Cost 30]) – a passive magical resistance to foreign magic and physical attacks, each level improves the shield’s strength, Evolution: identify where attacks originate

* Dimensional Pocket, Level 4 (Stone Magic [Cost 10]) – you have a 4 cubic yard dimensional space, it takes 15 seconds to put or retrieve items, leveling reduces transition

* Stone Golem, Level 23 (59/100) (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, 20% faster movement, networked

* Soften Stone, Level 16 (67/100) (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, Double Affected volume, Double time

* Strengthen Stone, Level 29 (77/100) (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%, selective hardening, double the area of effect, can control patterns in the stone when strengthened, transparent stone

* Stone Bullet, Level 10 (19/100) (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 22 (49/100) (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, infuse magic (adds 50 magic to casting cost), alter plant

* Plant Snare, Level 2 (89/100) (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 19 (62/100) (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: 0.5 per 109 degrees, Evolutions: Can stack the spell to extend the time of the enchantment, double the effective time, reduces casting cost

* Light Stone, Level 19 (98/100) (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, can double the mass to double the time of the enchantment

* Cure Disease, Level 16 (8/100) (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, Cured people have increased resistance to disease for 60 days, cure disease can repair minor damage caused by disease to the body

* Perfect Recall, Level 15 (62/100) (Mental Spell – tier 1) – recall an image in perfect clarity, COST: 0.2 Magic per image, Evolution: can recall 10 seconds of audio, can recall 10 seconds video with audio, extend audio/video recall to 30 seconds

* Manipulate Stone, Level 34 (2/100) (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, finer control, can stack the spell, harden stone at spells end, can remove impurities or add impurities

* Minor Illusion, Level 11 (68/100) (Stone Spell – tier 0) – creates a one cubic yard illusion that has no animation, COST: 1 Magic per hour at casting, leveling this spell improves the detail of the image, Evolution: animate on 5 second loop, can add sound on 5 second loop

* Revitalize, Level 17 (83/100) (Healing Spell – tier 9) – restores a persons tissues and bones, leveling decreases amount of time, COST: varies, Evolutions: Rewire +25% reaction speed, +15% speed, +10% strength of muscles, ligaments and tendons

* Heavy Gust of Wind, Level 4 (62/100) (Air Spell – tier 0) – create a heavy wind on a person 15 mph, each level increases the power of the wind, COST: 0.1 Magic per minute

* Fixed Teleport, Level 13 (70/100) (Space Spell – tier 9) – create a link between two objects, brings the mage and 100 lbs additional to the other location, leveling increases the amount of additional mass, COST: 100 magic at creation, 50 magic to activate, Evolution: double the base mass, double the base mass

Damn I was getting close to level 14….then one more and I could get an upgrade. I also had 5 spell points and though about getting invisibility but passed. I wanted big spells.

I told Collette I would take care of it a few months before they were needed and took the list from her. I went and reviewed my spells again. Revitalize…I needed to level it to 20. I had hundreds of workers who had worked on Olympia since we started…they dissevered a reward. Ok I would do the general spell for them. By April I reached level 20 and even better the competition venues were all built. They still needed a lot of interior magic work but it was now possible to do the finishing work inside…painting, furniture, signs, seats, supplies, kitchens…everything was coming together. There was a problem with tickets but I didn’t get involved. So the upgrade I choose for revitalize was vascular fitness. It improved the heart, lung and circulatory systems by 15%. I thought it would increase the lifespan of knights and was super excited to see one of the new upgrades that opened up. Longevitity, slows aging by 15%. This was incredible. There were dozens of knights who were aging and excellent people. Although I couldn’t reverse aging yet this upgrade could add 9-10 years of life to a knight. So I bailed on Olympia and focused on leveling my spell. I started with my family members…then moved onto knights in Avalon and Atlantis. We had 173 knights out on duty so I would get them later. Then I did all magi in Avalon and Atlantis and every employee in my walled compound in Avalon. It never got old seeing the faces of people lighting up when I cast the spell. A full upgrade usually cost about 15 magic. Just one ability was usually 2 magic. I then teleported to France and offered the king the upgrade at a cost he deemed suitable. After I did the full upgrade on him I had a chest with 300 lbs of gold and silver. So I started bouncing around to capitals in Europe and offering the service to rulers, good or bad. It was goodwill and a fair amount of money. A few turned me down and two even tried to attack me, Italy and Spain. That was fine and I didn’t hold it against them. A few rulers even paid for their wives and children. By November 11th my efforts had paid off...the spell hit level 20. Carina was 52 years old and the first person I cast the new spell on. It didn’t remove 7 years of aging but she was definitely thankful for the additional years. I cast it on myself which was probably a mistake as it compounded with my ageless ability…I didn’t really need to add a few decades to my life. I then went to Maya, Amelia, Renee, Collette, and Riona. They all accepted and I was happy. Next up were my children, past lovers, caretakers, top level knights, and a few select magi like Fryia and Lana. I also got a list of 62 magi from Riona that contributed to the study of magic that I used the spell on. I sent Summer to the Knight Commander to come up with guidelines for receiving the gift of few more years. This yielded 75 more knights receiving the gift. All this increased the spell to level 22. I now wanted to reach level 25 to make the enhancements genetic so they could pass them on to their children. It was getting close to the New Year celebration so I returned to Olympia and started raising the 13th large hotel. The other 12 hotels had been made 100% functional but the newer hotels required two elevators as just one elevator was found insufficient. I didn’t get too far before the new year.

The magi testing went well, 52 new magi, 11 of which were international. They had eight houses double that of Harry Potter and were starting to have their own magic games. No Quiddich yet though. The knight school had 480 applicants testing after having passed the written portion. The school had made admissions more difficult after last year. I watched interested with Anya by my side. Maryanne was inundated with 5 kids so didn’t travel this year. There was also a new rule going into place after this year…you only had 3 chances for admittance and you had to be under age 20. So this was the last chance for many of this group. It was very spirited and the top 60 were selected. I had Maya join me and told her Anya would select the ones going to Atlantis this year. I put no limit on the number. Two days later we had 36 women and 23 men. Much lower than expected from Anya but I just transported the group. Maya asked if the seconds of the testing were worthy of the knight training. I just said when you want something bad enough you work harder than anyone else to achieve it.