The Mages Academy

I decided to make myself scarce and go check out the magic academy just for the sheer hell of it. It was actually in the city located in old town. Some old man at the door checked my ring waving it over my hand and the stone inside glowed red for a second. I entered the main courtyard where I saw a group of mages, or I would guess mages. In a court yard with an older looking man.

"Okay. Focus your mind, see your target with your eye, and channel your magic into your hands." The older man said. The student stepped up and went through a few paces and threw his hands forward.

"Fulgur egrediens amet." The young man said and threw his hands out in front of him. A bolt of lightening shot across the range and struck a wooden post, ripping into the wood and setting it on fire. The other mages clapped and cheered and I could see why. That would decimate anyone or anything. The caster fell to his knees and one of the students helped him up. Apparently it had taken a lot out of him meaning it was probably only a one time use spell.

I headed into the great library where I soon found out why it was called the great library. I could read a book everyday for the rest of my life and probably never read everyone. I looked around in a daze until someone bumped into me and dropped a ton of books. I turned to see a elven girl lying on the floor. The way her knees where up in the air I could almost see everything underneath her robes.

"Sorry about that. I should have been looking where I was going." She said as she closed her legs before I could get a good look. I bent down and helped collect the books she was carrying. "You don't have to help really."

"None sense. I shouldn't have been standing in your way. Where were you going?" I said picking up a stack.

"To the table over there. The pages are wearing so I have to copy them all." She pointed.

"Well that sucks." i said bringing the books over.

"It's okay. Its my job as an acolyte. Plus I remember spells easier this way." She shrugged. "Are you here about the succubus?"

"No, why?"

"Your ring. Several others have came here already to look up information on how to capture it." She said as she pointed.

"Not kill it?" I asked. That be the safest path.

"No. The academy wants it for study. They will pay more for it alive." She shrugged. "Its already killed several people who went to hunt it down. You can't get close to a Succubus, their pheromones will put you in a trance, even women."

"You mean it will have sex with girls."

"Yes, it doesn't really matter to the succubus though they prefer males. Once it starts having sex with you are as good as dead."

"One couldn't get away."

"No, you wouldn't want to. Its bodily fluids secret a chemical that heightens sexual arousal." Well there are worst pays to go then being fucked to death I thought. "This succubus is still pretty young. Generally older succubus can control their lust and will leave the victim alive with very happy memories.

"So how young are we talking."

"Maybe a older teenager. She is cleaver enough to keep from being caught and old enough to kill a full grown man but to young to control her hunger."

"Does she have a weakness? Besides and endless need for sex I mean."

"One. If she orgasms it can fill her appetite for a time. Their normal hunting cycle is seven days."

"You seem to know a lot about them."

"I have had to make several copies of the book."

"Why would the mages guild want her?"

"Her bodily fluids. There is a potion made from the juices of her..." She paused. "neither regions, that can cure cryonic pain when mixed into a potion just for starters. That's why they want her alive."

"Makes sense." I frowned. Sure she was a killer but they wanted her to keep her in a cage so they could milk her like a cow. From the sounds of it she was worth more then forty gold.

"Back to why I came in here. I am looking for a book on basic magic. Beginners stuff really."

"You want to talk to the head librarian." She smiled.

"Thanks." I nodded and headed off to the head librarian which wasn't hard to find. It was the biggest desk in the building.

"Hello." She smiled. "How may I help a member of the freelancers guild?"

"I am looking for a book on basic magic."

"We have several for sell depending on your field of interest though if you wish to take anything out you would need to have an archivist copy it for you which will run you a silver per book." She said. That could get pretty expensive if I wanted to come back for more books and I wasn't going to spend hours studying here.

"What do you do with the old worn out books that the archivist have all ready copied." I shrugged. I pictured them being used in the fire place during the winter.

"Generally we toss them out but I see what you are getting at. If only the students where so clever. It takes more then just brains to make a good magician. We always have the first years copy them and the second years check them to make sure nothing was missed before tossing them." She smiled looking under the desk. I can give you this one for a copper. Not saying that it will not be faded in places but its a good book for beginners." She handed me the book.

"Thank you." I smiled and handed her a copper and she handed me the book. I went upstairs to have a look around where I saw several freelancers gathered around a table. I could tell they where freelancers because of their attire well before I could even see the rings on their fingers.

A map was on the table with several x's marked in red ink. Their where at-least a dozen. Those where the victims of the succubus.

"You need something?" One looked at me. Then all of the others did the same.

"Just the new guy saying hi." I smiled and held up my ring.

"Welcome to the family dip shit." A woman said and everyone laughed. "She diffidently stuck out with her dark grey skin and white hair. A dark elf. I had never seen one before, not even in the city. Her attire was rather flattering considering she was decked out in form fitting black leather armor. "Now fuck off, this bitch is ours."

"She attacked here two weeks ago and rivers end this week. So she is heading west." The one that looked like the leader said. As I saw the lines on the map I saw a different pattern in my head. The kind animals used for hunting. The kind I had used before. The succubus wasn't attacking at random. It was attacking in a circle. It went out every seventh day and made a kill then went back to its lair or whatever it was staying. It wasn't attacking at random. It picked a new hunting spot every time. Small towns were there was less people making for easy targets of people who went off into the woods alone or a random traveler. Their could have been more kills then they actually knew about.

I quickly made my exit.

"Hey." A voice said behind me as I went down the steps. I turned to see the dark elf.

"Yes." I smiled

"I know that look, you know something." She said as she caught up. "And don't play dumb." She said already knowing I was about to do just that.

"It will only get you killed." I shook my head

"And it will keep killing people if we do nothing." She gave me a look as she crossed her arms.

"I am not sending you to your death. You get close to the succubus and your as good as dead."

"Maybe not. You and me have one advantage." She smiled and touched my chest. "Were mages. Succubus feed on the same energy that gives us our power. Yes I can tell your a mage." She gave me a look. "Maybe not all that powerful yet but you have alot of energy. A blessing of one of the elevn goddess from the feel of it."

"Their is more then one goddess?"

"Sisters. The Ljósálfar elves worship the goddess of light and earth, we Dökkálfar worship the goddess of the night and sea. Unlike our cousins we do not shy away from who we are." She smiled and ran her hand down to my crotch and gave it a squeeze. Yep. Nothing like regular elves. "I can make sure you are handsomely rewarded for your help in addition to the gold."

"I am sure you would." I said removing her hand. "You want my help then figure out a way that neither of us die for certain and that doesn't involve risking the lives of the die hard upstairs. Its hunger can only be quenched by orgasm?"

"Someone has done their homework. This just might be fun. We could spend all night researching the best ways to give a woman pleasure if you like. It could be grueling work having to orgasm over and over again but I am willing to give it my best." She smiled slyly and leaned up against my chest.

"Maybe after you don't want something out of me." I grinned.

"That is generally how sex works, it comes out of you and into me. Over and over again. But your lost. When you change your mind you can leave a message for me at the guildhall." She shrugged and walked away. I couldn't help but admire her figure.

"What makes you think I will change my mind?"

"Because your looking at my ass. The name is Raven." She glanced back and smiled. I headed back home, well the tavern. It was starting to feel like home since it was where I always found myself going back to. They had the new girl plucking the ducks and stuffing the feathers into a clothe sack to make a pillow out of. She looked better now that she had a bath and was actually wearing clothes. On the plus a room emptied up. Not that I minded sleeping with Rose and Helga.

I decided to do a little reading before dinner. When she said the spells where basic she wasn't lying. I learned how to light a candle. Stir a cup of water, create a gentle breeze, and shape sand. Well the sand one was a maybe since I would need to go outside and get sand. the first to could come in handy if I wanted to light a fire or stir a cup of tea, wind might be useful in the summer. Not sure how I could use shaping dirt in a useful way but I would try it out just to see if it worked.

"Knock, knock." A voice came at the door.

"Come in." I said sitting up and Hannah came in. "Hey. Mom asked me to invite you to dinner since you shot the duck, and no you can't actually say no."

"So I guess that only leaves yes I would love to have dinner with your family."

"Great, we are eating in an hour. You will get to meet the whole clan." She smiled.