Heist 2: troubleshooting

Altering a room, from its current configuration to one I desired took almost everything I had, and in that case there was only one observer of its current state (myself) and quite small to boot.

Doing the same to an entire townhouse where an unknown amount of people were aware and convinced of its current configuration was a phenomenally tall order. Especially since at present I had no reason to believe that my magic could alter people's minds. I was able to see it when I made use of pregnostication to resolve a different configuration for cards and my room, if at a higher cost to my magic.

As far as I could tell the level of observation, of knowledge to the target of that magic the more taxing it became to cast, which had just the most fascinating implications but those were buried at the moment in a helpless sort of frustration.

I'd done some snooping the day before, hiding around a corner while a prospective buyer chatted with the real estate agent. The previous owner recently died, leaving the property to his son, who lived another state and was unwilling to move, so he instead was just selling the house.

This was somewhat promising actually, with only one definite recipient of the house who did not care enough about the property to even look at the thing. And he was male. That gave me a devious idea.

What if he hypothetically had a bastard in the city that he left the house to, too embarrassed to admit to his proper son in life but unwilling to completely shaft the child who shared none of his wealth otherwise.

Manipulating the house's deed itself was fraught, especially since a transfer of funds would still be required at some stage. But this way I would need only to change the will, the real estate company would likely not be thrilled that I decide not to sell after already trying to sell the house but that would be relatively manageable.

There were a few things that were critical to the plan, my magic being able to affect people's minds was a big one, seeing as nearly every plan so far relied very heavily on that. Some way of casting magic beyond my current limit was also very much called for as I was trying to affect a change to an event that happened months ago.

Not that I've tested but I was reasonably sure that that would be significantly more expensive than affecting something more recent.

I designed a rather simple test to see if I can alter my memories, grabbing a random card from my deck, noting it as the seven of clubs, then placing it facedown and tapping my head, picturing remembering drawing the seven of hearts.

An absolutely massive drain on my soul made me hunch forward over my insistent cock. Wait, why did I make myself remember drawing the exact card I did draw. I grabbed the note with my card draw, jack of spades. Oh, no it did work, that was freaky. It was also ridiculously expensive.

Another masturbation later I started reconsidering my heist idea.

How the hell would I get enough energy to attempt this? How much energy would it take.

Hang on, I prepared to cast another spell, a calculation/simulation, drawing from my current knowledge of my magic and extrapolating fro there. Similar to how I used it to help with coding, the possibilities flashing before my eyes but resolving quickly. Approximately ten thousand. fuck. My spell would take more than ten thousand times more energy than what I had available. Even of I found a way to store energy that was completely lossless how would I gather that much? Even if I did nothing but masturbate every day there was only two months until the auctions for the house closed.

A light bulb went off in my head, I could not generate that much arousal, but maybe I did not have to.

"Oh Blake you are a naught naughty boy."