143 Chapter 140 Mage Trances For Everyone. (2/2)

”They've loved it.”

”When do you plan to sleep?”

”I'm their king. I can't back down. I'm so proud of all the effort they are putting into this. I've seen what we are up against, and have lost nine years to make sure I was strong enough to deal with them. I can't allow my people to be weak. They need to be able to fight back if there is an attack. Especially if the attack comes when I'm not here. I know that the elven forest needs me, but they've been like that for thousands of years.”

”You miss people,” she said with a small smile.

He chuckled. ”I do. I want to take a little time and spend it with everyone before I start back. My first priority, though, must always be my people.”

x.x.xxX

Finally, the fourth day after they started, enough people had awoken that he was able to sleep.

The newest to magic were the ones who ended their trances first. They needed practice, to put what they had learned firmly into their minds. The few who woke first, had progressed from basic, to high intermediate, and one of them had already practiced enough in the past few days, to reach advanced.

All of this had been hard on Joseph, but it had definitely been fruitful for the mages selected.

Most of the spirit mages had been making huge amounts of progress just from being near the forest he kept remaking over and over. Tekaun reached the equivalent of advanced. After the first half woke up, he borrowed her skill in spirit magic, and added it to his mastery of thaumatology, then gave it to another ten spirit mages. They started their own trances. It was interesting to watch them either acquire more spirits, or to watch the spirits they already had ascend into higher forms. Tekaun's former wolf changed into a six-foot tall great wolf and then acquired more magical abilities. The spirit mages that had the magical crocodiles, showed their spirits exhibit the biggest changes in size, amount of crystal on their hide, or color. One even grew longer legs and short wings. He was looking forward to its progression.

It took a full week before Derek woke up. Stephan woke up right before midnight of the fourth day. Sixty-eight reached advanced in the rune he had them training, according to what they needed per a.n.a.lYZE CREATURE. Due to how long he maintained the MEMORY spell, four mages gained the lowest level of photographic memory, that the system had granted him, but they apparently already had good memories before then.

Becky and the other nurses were so grateful they didn't have to clean and care for all of them for the duration, but just had to help them up at the end, that they thanked him with teary eyes.

(YOU HAVE CONDUCTED INTENSIVE MAGIC TRAINING UNPARALLELED IN THIS REALM AMONG YOUR SUBJECTS.)

(YOU HAVE GAINED THE t.i.tLE SAGE.)

(YOUR TEACHING SKILL HAS PROGRESSED TO ADVANCED.)

Now all his mages needed, was time and practice.

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