Inheritor Of Magic: The Magi King

Chapter 1157: 1157 Lost Knowledge

While Stephanie tried to wrap her mind around all that was needed to rebuild a world’s life from the very basics, Wolfe worked on refilling his mana cores, which had been mostly depleted when they detoxified the world.

Even with what they were gathering from the planet’s star, and the various portals around the star system, it was not enough to match what Wolfe would need to refill his mana at the maximum rate. But the world needed that trickle of power, so Wolfe was drawing most of it from home through the Pentacle members, just a trickle at a time on top of what the portal to his suite had gathered.

If it weren’t for him and Stephanie, this world would have never supported life at all, even if it had been cleansed of the toxins that made up its atmosphere and waters.

It was so badly damaged by whatever had happened here that it would not have recovered.

Fortunately for him, the mana that was trapped in orbit was rapidly being pulled back to the planet, giving the world a jumpstart on sustainability, but even that was not yet enough to stop the pull that the trio could feel on their bodies as the imbalance tried to strip them of their mana.

Rebuilding everything, an entire ecosystem, was proving to be more challenging than Stephanie had expected. It wasn’t something that would normally be needed. A witch would repair the damage to a blighted area, and then either farmers or nature would restore it with time.

But here, there was nothing left to restore the world with.

She didn’t want to take directly from her own world, as the plants all needed a much higher level of mana to survive, and she had never seen a world this barren before. So, she started to make an entirely new symphony of life.

It was simple, and beautiful in its simplicity. It had to be to survive such an environment, but she had made sure that there were wild plants that would grow berries, ones with roots that were high in nutrition, algae that would balance its own population in the water regardless of whether there were natural predators there, as the world did not yet have any animals.

She would soon fix that issue, though the development of that sort of advanced life took far more than she had ever imagined.

She wasn’t going to make anything complex, that was too much to ask even of a witch at her power level. At least on a global scale.

However, she created earthworms for this world, simple flying insects that would pollinate but not sting because wasps were evil, and finally plankton for the ocean to balance the algae and produce a sustainable base of life for when larger life forms were introduced later.

Stephanie understood much more about plants than animals, but now, she had a much more detailed understanding of what it would take for animal life to survive and thrive.

The amount of mana needed to terraform an entire world would be even more ridiculous than what was needed to repair the damage that had been done to it. But with the flow from Wolfe, and his help to add her work to the core arrays that were supporting the world, Stephanie didn’t need to add everything at the same time, she could add all the information, and let the world slowly add the plant and core animal life on its own.

That might be annoying to the later generations that wanted to get rid of the native grasses, but it was a problem that could be easily dealt with by simply removing the activation portion of the spell.

Once the spell was finished, Stephanie paused to watch it begin to take effect.

It wasn’t much to look at. At least not at first.

But there were scattered blades of grass poking out of the ground, and a few sprouts that would later become trees.

Clouds were forming in the air as the atmosphere started to take on a proper climate cycle, and small bits of moss began to grow on the south face of a rock.

“There, it is started. The whole process will take weeks, but after that, you should be able to move people in. Stephanie didn’t accelerate the growth of the first batch by much. There isn’t enough mana. So the larger plant life, such as trees, won’t be fully grown for years. But the rest of the world will be ready for them to start building homes and growing crops soon.”

King Petros nodded in satisfaction. “Thank you, King Wolfe. Our deal is complete. Now, let’s get out of this creepy manaless world before I give in to the urge to just call it a lost cause. Who would have thought that a planet that looked so close to being able to sustain life could be so far from actually succeeding?”

Wolfe finished and locked the spells that they had placed on the planet, to keep the life – sustaining magic intact. Once the mana levels were high enough, the planet should remain habitable on its own, but the spells would help, and the slow growth of the mana rate would ensure that one day the world would be capable of sustaining spell casters of some sort.

But for Stephanie, the fate of the planet was of little concern. She would likely never go there again, but today she had learned how to rebuild an entire planet’s ecology from nothing.

That was the sort of skills that, even in Legends, a Witch couldn’t do alone. It was a clue to what it meant to be a Witch Queen, the first in millennia, and she knew that with just a few more decades of practice, she might actually understand everything she needed to advance.

She didn’t have any illusions about becoming the next King Wolfe and advancing in only a few years. Even if she wanted to, she would have to drag the rest of the Pentacle members with her. But if she could recover enough of the knowledge that had been lost to time, maybe they really could do it one day.

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