Inheritor Of Magic: The Magi King

Chapter 1155: 1155 Two Kings Together

Petros accompanied Wolfe into a meeting room where they wouldn’t be disturbed, and a maid left coffee and snacks for them before retreating and locking the door behind her.

“I will get straight to business. We have found a new planet, ready to be colonized to meet the needs of our expanding population. Seven worlds in the Fallen Empire are reaching the point where the population is no longer sustainable with local agriculture.

Now, I know that will begin to change with more magic users, charms from the witches, and those fancy cargo trucks that are rapidly becoming the hottest new thing on my worlds, but until that can spread through the Empire, we would like to populate this new planet.

There is just one issue.

Like your world, there was a disastrous war there. Only they didn’t use technological weapons and magic, they used some sort of super virus, and it killed everything. Absolutely everything.

The collapse stopped the natural water cycles, and where it does still rain, the water is a toxic acid from the oceans, which are so polluted that they corrode away metal in a matter of minutes.

So, what I am hoping is that with your elemental ability, you will be able to repair the planet, and then we can have the settlers bring their plants and witch charms to bring life back to the world.

That should cost less than having the Witches entirely remake the world’s biome, and it will let settlers from different worlds remake it with their own plants and insects.”

Wolfe considered that for a bit. “Did you talk to the witches? They know a lot about what you need for life. Something about bugs and bacteria being needed to help things decompose and provide fertilizer, then pollinators, and stuff.”

King Petros nodded. “Yes. We have had botanists studying with the witches for quite some time now. They have learned many things about the ecosystem that they have taken for granted, but which wouldn’t exist on a barren world.”

“They will have to bring organic fertilizer with them, but it would be best if you had cleansing spells available at the start, so they didn’t bring any diseases or contagions with them to a new world. Get it started with no sickness and then close it off to let it grow as they do the initial settling.” Wolfe offered.

King Petros nodded. “That should be acceptable. I was thinking ten years to start to let the plants spread across the world so that they would have a more stable planet before we introduced random settlers who weren’t specialists.

We’re not in the most pressing stages now, it’s the next generation that is going to have population and food issues. But for people like us, twenty years isn’t such a long time.

It is better to plan now, and get everything in motion.”

Petros had already lived for centuries, so it made sense to Wolfe that he would have that longer-term frame of reference that Wolfe lacked. But rebuilding a world would be an interesting experience, and it would give him practical experience if he should ever need to repair something on this world.

“When can we start? I will rearrange my schedule.” Wolfe agreed.

“You’re not going to negotiate a price first?” Petros asked suspiciously.

“Oh, we can always settle it after the work is done, I trust you to pay.”

Petros laughed. “And once the work is done, I can’t back out if the price is too high. How about we negotiate the price in advance?”

“Alright, What did you have in mind?” Wolfe asked.

It would be easier to settle the price after the work was done, as he hadn’t even seen the planet yet to know how much work needed to be done on it. Without that knowledge, he was going to have to price his work higher than what he was expecting, and hope that it didn’t become a losing proposition.

But to cast a spell that would encompass the whole world would need outside assistance, just as it was when it was done to this world. King Petros might be enough, but it would be a long process.

So, he would have to use the Pentacles, or at least a little from each of them.

At least he didn’t need to completely reshape the continents, but remaking the oceans and the surface to eliminate all the acid was going to be a pain.

If the toxin was no longer living, he wouldn’t need a Witch with him, but he should bring one anyhow, just in case.

“I am willing to offer you a ten percent tax for the first generation in the new world.” Petros suggested.

The first generation would be the settlers that were mostly just rebuilding the plant life in the world. That was a terrible idea.

“Nothing on the first generation, they will need all they can get. But from the second century of the planet’s inhabitants I will take fifteen percent instead.” Wolfe offered.

Petros smirked. Fifteen percent tax for a hundred years to prepare the world for them? That was a bit exorbitant, considering that they would likely have it done in a day or two.

“Five percent for the second century.”

“Deal.” Wolfe agreed easily.

“You seem to have high hopes for them.” Petros noted once Wolfe had agreed to the plan.

“Oh. I think that my people can help them grow steadily for the next hundred years without endangering their health. I will need one of the Witches with me, so give me a moment to gather someone, and we can go see this devastated world of yours.”

[Stephanie, I need you to come to the meeting room. We’re going on an adventure to earn some pay from King Petros.]

[Oh, lots of pay?]

Stephanie was interested to know just how much Wolfe had managed to extort out of the other King.

[Five percent of a world’s income for a century, but starting a century from now.]

[Ooh, retirement money. Alright, I will be right over.]

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