Legacy of Maji

Legacy of Maji is the fifth book of the Maji Chronicles that follows the children of Alvaro, now under the form of the King Atheus of Avalonia. The book is centered around his children who will take up the mantle of protecting the world.

## Plot

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Atheus takes his yearly visit to his serect chamber. Silas and Mau are returning to the palace for the Sunset Protocol when their guards are attacked suddenly. All of them collapse on the floor strangely and behind them a dark hooded figure turns the corner to reveal itself. Mau immedtially takes action by blasting the alleyway with mana energy. When the dust settles, the figure has left and an explosion goes. Afterwards it is revealed that their father, Atheus is missing. Ophelia eventually goes back to the site of the chamber, breaking Sunset Protocol, which is empty besides a small reclining chair. She starts to question what her dad really does here but gets interuppted when she sees a random person seemingly trying to get something from the crime scene. She questions him only for him to attack her and they enter a fight which she wins. He is arrested and sent in for question which is now allowed to be a part of. All the siblings are forced to go back to the Sanctum under the protection of General Alaster.

June propes that that Eno, casts an illusion to make it seem like his husband is still doing good to make sure the masses remain calm while the search contuines. However when Eno does so, a broadcast is sent out by someone name the John Jameson who delcares that they have Atheus captured and that they will come for every magic user. June immediately depatches Eno for a serect purpose. Luca stays up late watching as people surrounding the Sanctum demanding information. This is where he catches Ophelia sneaking out to look for their father which Luca tries to go with her causing Silas to wake up. The three end up breaking Sunset Protocol, believing that there was good evidence that some of the people in the goverment were not to be trusted.

They head to the Prison Quaters and break in to find the man Ophelia had found at the crime scene. Only when they get to him, he has been killed. They get their hands on the tapes and see that General Alaster had killed him. So they decide to head to the Military Quaters. Back in the palace, Silas wakes up from a nightmare, dreaming of the man from the alley, believing him to be the Man in the Black Coat from his father's stories. When he walks out of the room someone kidnappes him.

At the military quaters the siblings confront the General who attempts to kill them but fails. Before they can get anwseres, he rings an alarm not alike the warning sirens for typical police busssines but one that alerts a special squad of soilders with green visors. They enter a fight with the kids only to flee with Alaster into the duegons. They follow down there to find a network of repurpose sewage tunnels for transportation of weapons and other supplies. They follow the trail of carts of supply.

Silas wakes up in ....

In the end Atheus decides to step down as King, seeing that the people had been turned against him. Roma believes he has done what would have inevitably happened and holds to those beliefs but in the progress alients his siblings who only see that his actions almost got them killed, especially Silas who they are all protective over. Atheus and June allowed Roma to escape the city and they decide they won't tell about his actions of controling the Cursaders but that he was no longer welcomed to a part of their family and to stay away from his siblings.

Atheus makes a speech coming clean about his second form and his true idenity as Alvaro Mejia. Then decides that he will be stepping down and allowing for the country to heal and find a leader that people pick themselves. In the end Alvaro talks to Ophelia, Luca, and Silas explaining that he can longer protetc them like they he wanted to and that he believes this was always going to happen. He tells them their fate is out there for them to find and that they will face challenges but that they were strong enough to covercome them. All three begin to start looking into what they would like to go with Silas being the one not allowed to leave yet. Ophelia expresses that she understands her parents decision to let Roma go out of fatherly love but that her moral compass compels her to bring to justice and will go after him to make sure he pays for his crimes. Luca decides to follow his father's footsteps and train to be a Dipolmat. While Silas still contemplates on what he would do. The story ends with them all having a family day as they watch a movie in Summerdale.

In the epilogue, three figures look down upon a pool of water which relfects Roma. They all state that the Merlin Supreme of Avalonia was finally out of the way thanks to their manipulation of Roma. One asks what they will use Rome for next, with the last one stated they have a few ideas. The epilogue ends with Roma holding a picture of their family, sheding a single tear.