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Chapter 180: Chapter 177 Power In Numbers

There was a knock on the door, and Joseph glanced up with half a cookie hanging from his mouth. These things were addictive!

"Joseph?" called William. He was supposed to deliver the extra reports to him,

Joseph sighed, finishing his cookie, and picking up his glass of milk, before unlocking the door.

"I figured I would find you in here, hiding," said William with a grin. "I have those reports you wanted, but didn't leave them on your desk, so that they might be misplaced…"

The grin on his father's face, let Joseph know that he was only teasing, but the spike of immediate anger, almost made him crush the glass in his hand. Taking a moment to finish the milk, he was able to calm down enough to return the grin to his dad.

"Thanks. I should probably stop hiding and get to work. The Mother of Dragons probably won't like having to wait for too long."

Stella stepped forward, holding the plate of still warm cookies, and handed it to William, before laying her hand in Joseph's arm.

Joseph took the forms and teleported away with Stella to his office, as his father looked down greedily at the cookies. Joseph wasn't sure if his mom would get any, but after the feast she had the other day, she would probably be fine.

Stella went over to her bench and picked up her book to go back to reading it. She wasn't a very fast reader, but she didn't give up on it, either.

Reading through the reports, he started to pace, as he thought. Of all of the different types of creatures that now called his kingdom home, there is at least one culture or species that violated every one of his laws. Even among the dwarves, should he acquire any of them, they incorporated alcohol into their marriages, making his law against buying drinks for women mean dwarves could never get married in his kingdom.

So many laws resided in his head, but they all pertained to only one race at a time. Even if there were many cultures, the laws were still only for one race, and that was often human.

He could try and made addendums, to the existing laws, but he didn't want them to become so complicated, that the simpler folk couldn't understand them. Even if the educated norm in his kingdom rose, it would be several generations before that could be the case.

He wanted to blend the many cultures together, not segregate them, which is what the addendums would end up doing. Besides, if he had a law for one culture, and not another, what of the children that were mixed with both?

After pacing for several hours, his father showed back up.

"Do you have any decisions to make, yet?" he asked.

"I think so," said Joseph, moving to a chair and sitting down.

"Really? What is it?" asked Stella, putting her book down. Joseph was pretty sure she wasn't reading it, but he couldn't decide what she was doing, if not reading.

"I want a group formed to go to each group of people. I want a list drawn up of laws that they think are needed and brought to me. I will go over them all when I return and decide on the future laws."

"Wait, your solution is to let the people decide the laws?" asked William, incredulously.

"Absolutely not! I want to see what things they think are important, so I can take that into consideration. I have so many memories of women being abuse, and after Stella came from such a broken home, I wanted to make things better for women. This whole realm is so heavy handed with the men ruling everything, I thought it would help, but it only made things worse."

"That's true. If you hadn't incorporated a desire for the people to follow the law, you would have had rioting in the streets by now. The fear of not eating is driving a lot of them to work when I don't think they would have, but we still have those who fall within the loopholes of those who desire welfare help. They are still being fed and housed, while not working, because there is a shortage of work for them. We have too many people, Joseph. And the fact that most don't need to eat very often, only makes the problem worse."

Joseph sighed. There were going to be problems. He knew this when he chose to be the king, though he had to admit it was a rather naïve goal when he was seven.

"I also want to propose spiritual laws," he said, watching the confused look come over his father's eyes.

"What do you mean?"

"I want rules that explain how and why someone behaves, instead of just the results of the behavior. I'm going to keep the first law, not to cause physical harm to others of the kingdom unless in personal defense. I want a happy kingdom where everyone contributes to the success and growth of the kingdom because they want to. I could have just grabbed Stella and hidden somewhere, studying magic, until I had to travel to another realm when this one was lost to the demons, but I didn't."

"Why?" asked William, not really following along well.

"Because, no matter how nice the house is, and how wonderful it would be to only have Stella to myself, it would be a lonely existence without people around to live it with."

"I guess that makes sense," said William, slowly.

"You don't get it, okay, how about if I explain it like this; if I were a unit of power equal to a million, and the mages of my school were a unit of power equal to a hundred each, and then the normal people of my kingdom were a unit of power equal to one each, and we all were to spend time trying to better ourselves, I would be able to grow to two million in the same time the mages could become two hundred and the normal people could become two. But if I slowed myself down to one and a half million, in order to boost the growth of those beneath me, I would not be at my full potential. Instead, I would have three and a half million normal people, with three power each, which would equal more than my two million."

"Wow," said William after a moment of thought. "That's amazing."

"This only works if I can rule in such a way as to limit the chaos for my people to focus on advancement. I need to make everyone involved in progressing the kingdom. Besides, if we overpopulate this world, I have plans for both moons and for making new realms, or looking for dead realms to expand to."

(JOSEPH, YOU HAVE SEVERAL GODS ALARMED AT YOUR PLANS.)

'Why? It seems obvious, based on the way I designed my Wizar template, that we would eventually overrun this realm. I'm surprised they didn't put two and two together already.'

(NOW THEY ARE STARTING TO FEAR YOU. THIS IS AWESOME! I WILL BE AWESOME! EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!)


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
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Buying myself time to figure out the laws, unless I decide to just not go into detail on them...nah, I need to figure them out. We'll see. Thanks for reading!

Chapter 181: Chapter 178 Loot From A God

"Again!" said Stella, hardly breathing hard.

Joseph was gasping, trying hard not to use his magic to help him recover. Sweat was pouring down his face and into his eyes, making him wipe them repeatedly. Standing tall, he raised his arms and the fight resumed.

Those who were lucky enough to watch, were confused how the two of them could move so fast. Their arms and legs seemed to blur, from the speed of their punches and kicks, and when you throw in the teleports and shadow jumps, it was almost impossible to keep up.

It ended so quickly, those who were watching almost fled, as if watching something they shouldn't have.

"Good, you've gotten faster." Stella smirked as Joseph straightened, and with a thought was fresh and clean, no sign of his exertions at all.

"You're right, that did help. I can think more clearly now."

"You keep thinking yourself into a corner, then freeze. I figured this might help you burn off some of that stress."

Joseph nodded, going back to thinking about the laws. As he reached for Stella's hand to teleport them back to the castle, he paused. The people watching them were bowing to him, now that they realized it was him.

"Stella, I've been so stupid. I keep thinking that this world is similar to the ones in my past lives. I've had the solution to my problem, all along!"

"What do you mean?" she asked him, sliding her hand into his.

TELEPORT.

He turned to her, and placed his hand against her face, cupping it gently.

"My people are all Wizar, right?"

"Yes."

"I made all Wizards, incredibly lawful."

He turned to pace, a look of delight on his face as he worked through his thought for her.

"The first law for my kingdom is not to harm another Wizard. If I place judgement spots all over the place, with the LAW rune available, any problem that arises can immediately be dealt with by visiting one of the spots and letting the LAW rune determine the correct steps to remedy any situation. My people shouldn't do anything intentionally to harm someone else, because of my first law. All my worries about men trying to rape, or women trying to rape, or murder or suicide, or anything like that, are all unfounded. If they tried to do any of those things, they would be going against the first law of the kingdom. I just need to worry about the clash of cultures, and as we get all of the cultures documented, more of that can be dealt with in a way that would please everyone."

"It can't just be that easy!" exclaimed Stella.

"Well, no, there will be a lot of confusion as the cultures become known, like with the races that survive off of the fluids of other people, and we will have to deal with them. The ones that don't understand the concept of personal property will have to be taught or separated so they don't steal. Maybe that would be a good law, no stealing from other Wizar."

"Only other Wizar?" she asked, pulling out several daggers and inspecting them, before putting them back in her purse.

"Of course, I don't care about other kingdoms. If they attack us, I want to be able to retaliate."

"I guess you'll have to sit in more meetings to tell them your decision before we can leave?"

"Oh, no! I have wasted plenty of time. I've just got a few loose ends to tie up, and then we are getting on our way."

"A few loose ends? Like what?"

Joseph grinned, almost like his normal self.

TELEPORT.

"Why are we back here again?" she asked, looking at the destruction of the location of Nikmesh's death.

"I want the corpse."

(WHAT?)

"Alright," said Stella with a shrug.

Joseph pointed at the mountain of stone that he had dropped onto the dead god.

ALTER TERRAIN.

The earth and rock before them began to move, uncovering the unblemished body of the god Nikmesh.

He had the face and feet of a boar monster, and the hide and claws of a wolverine.

"What do you intend to do with it?" asked Stella, shoving it into her purse.

"I want to make you some armor with his hide, maybe have the pelt in the throne room, and a new staff from his bones. I haven't decided what to do with the rest of his body, yet."

(I LOVE THE FEAR YOU ARE CAUSING IN THE GODS. IT'S INTOXICATING. I HAVE TO GIVE YOU SOMETHING FOR THIS, BUT I DON'T THINK YOU ARE DOING IT TO INSTILL FEAR IN THEM.)

'I'm not.'

(NURKONG HATES YOU SO MUCH! HAHA!)

(I'M GIVING YOU THE ABILITY TO CRAFT WITH GOD LEVEL MATERIALS! OOOH! NURKONG DIDN'T LIKE THAT! HAHAHA!)

With a shake of his head at the drunken laughter from the system, Joseph took Stella's hand and teleported them back to the castle.

'Joseph, I finally finished some of the spells I was working on,' said Joe, in his head.

'That's great! Are you still mad at me?' Joseph asked, half expecting Joe to disappear again.

'Mad? Shavist! Why would I be mad at you? I've just been really busy. I figured you had enough going on in here, without me adding to your stress.'

'Wow, really?'

(YOU HAVE INVENTED THE SPELLS LIQUID NITROGEN JET, PLANESHIFT (ETERNAL NIGHT), PLANESHIFT (DEATH WORLD), SEQUENCE DNA, SPELL GRAFT, MANIPULATE DNA, SENSE DISEASE, TRANSFER PREGNANCY, DETECT NANOVIRUS, ALTER NANOVIRUS, CREATE NANOVIRUS, ANALYZE HEREDITY, CREATE CHIMERA, ORIGIN OF SPECIES, ENHANCED FERTILITY AT ADVANCED BECAUSE OF YOUR SKILL IN THE BASE RUNES AND THAUMATOLOGY.)

(YOUR PREVIOUS SPELLS THAT WERE NOT AT ADVANCED, HAVE REACHED ADVANCED UNDERSTANDING BECAUSE OF CONTINUED STUDY.)

(YOU HAVE LEARNED HOW TO POWER A SPELL BY DRAWING ENERGY DIRECTLY FROM THE SOUL.)

(YOU HAVE EARNED 16 LIFE POINTS. CURRENT TOTAL IS 746 LIFE POINTS.)

'Wow Joe! That's awesome!'

"We still can't use any of them to fix mom yet, but I'm working on it!'

Joseph grabbed Stella and twirled her around with a laugh. "I just learned a whole bunch of new spells, getting me a lot closer to fixing mom!"

She laughed, then pulled out of his arms. "I'm glad, but warn me the next time you're going to do that!"

"Do what?" he asked with a mischievous smile.

She laughed, jumping into his shadow as he teleported behind her, and he turned, grabbing her. He let her go immediately, but they both laughed at the fun.

"It's time to go see my dad, to tell him about the law changes, then we can go meet this Mother of Dragons!"


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
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Let me know if you ever have any questions about a scene, I can never tell if I tell it well enough to go from the imagery in my head to on paper.

Thanks Sisniar for the LAW rune idea!

Thanks for reading!

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