37 Contract signing

The trials continued, and out of the remaining 11 groups, only 5 more groups passed because of their creative, powerful attacks. For example, a group of 2 magic beasts and a sprite teamed up, with the sprite acting as the vanguard and the two magic beasts acting as the damage dealers, casting a myriad of elemental spells and physical attacks that seemed to attack representations of the elements in the area, distorting them or even destroying them in the area for a moment. One of the domains produced by a magic beast had the representation of Devouring, which was a feature taken by a lot of elements, but is commonly known to originate from the Void Element.

After a while, a total of 12 mythic beings succeeded in the trial. 7 of them were magic beasts, and 5 were sprites. Out of the twelve that passed, 6 of the magic beasts decided to leave and explore on their own but making the same promise as the Wind sprite before. 3 of the sprites also decided to explore on their own, probably because 2 of them were wind elements and the other one was a lightning element. The latter had a characteristic of being headstrong and unyielding, so it kind of make sense.

The remaining magic beast was a type of species that closely resembled a Wasp and an ant, but its size was 20 times bigger, with its skin covered with multi-layered scales like a dragon. Xander decided to call this new species "Dragon Wasp Ant" because of these characteristics. They had a unique characteristic, making them blessed with the element of space: living pocket storage. The primary elements they commonly had was Air, Poison, and Earth/Metal elements, with an additional Wave element if they were a queen Dragon Wasp Ant.

The magic beast, named Fae, was a queen Dragon Wasp Ant, giving it the ability to fly 10x faster than others, at the same time, exerting control and pressure over other wasp and ant species of magic beasts. Fae could also produce Dragon Wasp Ant younglings, soldiers with a strength one class lower than the queen's strength, and farmers, and carry them in a portable hive space in their bodies, making it a portable army. She signed a contract with Xander because their slight space sensitivity was highly reacting to Xander. She also felt that Xander wouldn't restrict her that much at all as well based on his current attitude.

The 2 sprites who decided to stay with Xander were Marie and Mary, the Fire and water sprites. They felt that they would have more potential if they established a contract with Xander. At the same time, they had a greater sense of gratitude of belonging with him than with others outside.

Upon confirming the beasts and sprites going to leave, he made them sign the binding contracts that stops them from divulging any form of information from where they came from, and what they did to reach their current level, as well as information about Xander.

For the 3 newly contracted beings under Xander, he initiated the first part of the contract and planned to initiate the next part outside.

He told them to wait for him to return, and immediately went out of the garden and arrived at the basement where his laboratory was in. Using the time he had, he also modified the laboratory basement into an independent life pocket space with a 1 second: 10 days time-flow and still connected to the outside world through two openings: The one that headed straight to his room, and the basement door in the first floor. The basement was still there and surrounded by a modified metal alloy that he used to create the library in the garden space. This was the container for the pocket space of the laboratory.

The door was still booby-trapped as well, but this time, the time acceleration he placed initially changed to time-reversal of all extrinsic characteristics by a period of 1,000 years, and a reversal of intrinsic characteristics by 100,000 years. At the same time, they will be subjected to [Void Rejection] and a [Space crush] around the area of where the first spell activated, making it nearly impossible to escape. If they managed to proceed, space rifts will also be present, destabilizing the area to open a small hole in the void where they will be either sucked in or destroyed by the incoming Void energy.

The square space in the laboratory expanded from a measly 100 square meters to 15,000 square kilometers, stable enough to last for more than 10,000,000,000 years. He also created a small villa, an extensive herbal field where he placed some of the common, and uncommon plants, and a small mountain for starters and threw some of the metals he had into the mountain. He focused on enhancing the amount of Earth/metal, Wood, and Water elements in the area, making it 3 times more than the other elements besides the origin element.

After ensuring the setup was done, he headed to the field area of his villa, calling for his bodyguards and maids to prepare for another situation. They all nodded and began to place their setups in the area. In the past 10 days, none of them were slacking, with Joseph, Bryan, and Ryan reaching Legendary class, and Ryan even progressing smoothly to Legendary-2. The two maids, Esta and Rosa, were already at Master-9, half-step in creating their magic spheres to advance to Legendary Class.

He instructed them after they finished their setups,

"No matter what you hear, see, or feel later on, focus in your cultivation; if you think you are going to breakthrough, then break through. Do not waste this opportunity."

The guards and the maids nodded solemnly. Xander also called Faykes to come to his villa; however, he wasn't even in the city right now so he couldn't come. Xander shook his head; if he misses it, he misses it. Not his problem anymore.

"Ok, let's start" Xander murmured, and immediately, the space distorted around him, and 12 beings appeared, surprising the guards and the maids watching him. Xander also called for Sam and Pan to appear.

Xander eyed the 3 who were going to sign a contract. He simply said, "Are you ready?" All three of them looked at one another and nodded in response to Xander.

Xander immediately initiated the final part of the contract signing. Immediately, the phenomenon in which multiple concentric circles appeared above the villa and into the sky once again, and if one was observant, they would realize that there were 3 sets of concentric circles formed on top of one another, forming a stacked magic circle array.

"I, Xander, promise to protect my partners, to do the best of my ability to restore their lives, to ensure that they become stronger under my command."

"I, Maria, accept this promise. I vow my eternal service to Xander, my master and creator, to protect him to the best of my abilities, and to strive to become stronger alongside him."

"I, Mary, accept this promise. I vow my eternal service to Xander, my master and creator, to protect him to the best of my abilities, and to strive to become stronger alongside him."

"I, Fae, accept this promise. I vow my eternal service to Xander, my master and creator, to protect him to the best of my abilities, and to strive to become stronger alongside him."

"I, Xander, accept their promises. Let the universe be the witness of this bond, forever unbreakable unless both parties agree without force or pressure from anything or anyone."

Upon the echoing of his voice, the magic circles above began trembling and shining brightly, and the night in Callows' City was once again interrupted by the glow of heavenly lights.

Once again, the stacked, concentric circles constricted to one another, before disappearing, create a magical wave that emanated from Callows City to the whole continent of Ete, causing every country in it to raise their alarms, with Demigods becoming severely injured, and Divine magicians disturbed from their cultivations. Other magicians who were below Demigod class but were sensitive to these magical fluctuations rapidly felt that their head was about to burst, and their body filled with energy that seemingly came out of nowhere.

Once again, the bell chiming sounds appeared once again, ringing for a total of 108 times, causing anyone below the Demigod level to fall into a trance, subconsciously activating their cultivation skills, and others, awakening their magical talents and improving their elemental affinities.

The guards and the two maids of Xander, who was near the epicenter of the wave, couldn't even react, as the force once again caused them to fall unconscious, but their cultivation techniques were already running automatically without stop until the end of the 108th chime of the illusory bells.

Not only that, but there was also a physical phenomenon that occurred in the whole continent of Ete, affecting the 18 countries present. Elements began to surge towards the continent, shrouding areas full of elemental particles, even causing a visible "elemental haze" to occur in some cities. The closer they were from Callows city, the more dense the elemental haze was.

Xander, who just finished the contract signing, advanced to the peak Elite-9, and used the remaining energy to reinforce and compress his magic seeds once more. Although he was powerful, he believed in establishing a strong foundation. Since he removed [Body Manipulation] and [Blood Manipulation] as his magic seeds, he needed a total of 3 more pseudo-spells. With him deciding to change [Penumbral Chaos] to a different spell, he needed to browse the available pseudo spells.

Should he enter the Galactic Council and get their database of pseudo-spells? It's probably more complete than Eteria's, Xander pondered.

Meanwhile, in another place, there was chaos and unrest brewing.

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"Douglas, what's the current status?"

"General, the same phenomenon that occurred less than 2 weeks ago appeared again, this time, stronger than before. As you can see from our satellites, there were 3 stacks of concentric rings, and because of this stacked structure, we cannot estimate the strength of the magic circle array that was formed in the villa of X-001. Based on the initial magic wave fluctuation when the array disappeared, the spell's strength is greater than the recorded 78th-class magic circle released by the Heavenly Tree Sprite. The magic wave caused severe damage to demigods, causing them to be unable to attend the meeting, and could only request for their Divine-rank powerhouses, or anyone at Mythic rank."

"However damaging it is to these magicians, it gave a great boon to the country, no, to the entire Ete continent because of two reasons: The first one was the ringing of the bells, allowing anyone in the continent who heard it fall into an epiphany, with their cultivation skills running on their own, allowing them to breakthrough through increased comprehension of the elements, or their magical potentials in their body being unlocked, or appearing in the first place, and even the increase in elemental affinity, comprehension, and understanding of one's domains. it lasted a total of 108 breaths of time, or 108 seconds, allowing people to breakthrough more than 2 stages of their current cultivation.

The second reason is that this magic wave caused the elemental particles all over the world and even from space to concentrate in the continent of Ete, making it a hotbed for possible sprite formations and even magic beast generation, as well as magic cultivation. Not only that, but the plants have been observed to gain more spirituality and elemental concentration, with some of the common plants near Callows City reaching the status of Class 2 plant materials. Metals and stones, on the other hand, could visibly be detected to have increased in their purity content; it is possible that the abandoned mines we have that contained common, uncommon, and rare metal deposits would have a greater amount and concentration present."

"Mr. General, may I raise a suggestion to handle this?"

"Mr. Claus, what would you suggest?"

"Well, we can market it to the public as a once in a lifetime phenomenon that occurs in Eteria. We were simply "lucky" for our continent to experience this. At the same time, with the countries in Ete continent present in this meeting, they should impose declarations to make the next few days a holiday where the people can focus on stabilizing their cultivation and continue absorbing elemental particles all over. At the same time, use this opportunity to call the newly-awakened magicians to join technical schools after their primary elements have been determined by state-wide testing, where they can have a basic understanding of their abilities and use it for the good of the society's development. Investing in their people. After all, if the government won't take them in, a conglomerate or a clan might, strengthening their control over your respective countries, or create chaos if these are terrorist clans." Mr. Claus said, striking an image to the countries' representatives of the possible repercussions.

The Eta government decided first and foremost to do this, to alleviate the surprise and fear, as well as the confusion that its citizens might feel when they realize they have magic powers, or they can't control their abilities. The rest of the countries also did damage control to placate their citizens.

All of this happened within minutes of Xander's contract signing ending. After 30 minutes, the governments in Ete continent release a hologram video of their respective leaders, telling them about the situation, and placating their fears and confusion, while at the same time, using this opportunity to crack down on people who might cause dissent and terror.

At the same time, the Eta government along with other countries in the Ete continent hosted a global emergency meeting, involving the continent of the elves and the Ria continent.

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Xander, unaware of these events, for now asked the remaining mythic magic beasts about their plans. The other 3 sprites have bid farewell to him and left the vicinity of Callows city, merging with the elements, disappearing on the horizon.

The mythic magic beasts, on the other hand, were now placed in a precarious situation: Do they cultivate an anthropomorphic form, or remain as beasts? If they decided to change to become humanoid magic beasts, Xander could help them in the initial process of transformation. For them to cultivate to reach the Mythic class again, it would be up to them, their cultivation skill, and their resources.

After a while, the 6 beasts decided not to transform into humanoid beings. For one, they enjoyed their current forms. At the same time, their bodies, for them, were the best option for now. Why change when there's no problem, right?

Xander thought about it for a bit, before agreeing to that line of thinking. After all, if there's no problem, why make a fuss?

Xander had received the origin of the two sprites, Mary and Marie, in the form of crystallized dewdrop and an aged flintstone respectively.

Xander's smartwatch vibrated, alerting him of an incoming call. He looked who it was and saw it was his parents, who looked quite pale and haggard as if they were running a marathon and forgot to drink water and it sugar candy, causing their bodies to reach hypoglycemic shock.

Xander was surprised, before calming himself down.

"Hi mom, hi dad. What's up?"

"What's up, my ass! Do you know the trouble you have stirred up this time, mister?" Xander's father, Majes shouted, before coughing out blood, causing worry to blossom in Xander's eyes.

"Oh. You're injured. Dad, rest for a bit, and don't let your anger do the talking, ok?"

"Anger? Damn it, you are going to be in a lot of trouble-" Majes was cut off abruptly by his wife, Faria, Xander's mother.

"Xander, did you do another contract signing with a sprite or something? Such a magic wave was strong enough to cause severe injuries; we aren't able to go back home because we're in the military hospital right now." Faria sighed, a bit worried by the waves of turmoil Xander had caused once again.

"Huh? What happened?" Xander was confused. Wasn't it a simple contract signing? Why were people injured? In fact, shouldn't they breakthrough and have increased magic capability.

"Hmph! Every demigod in the whole continent of Ete is down, severely injured by the magic wave! Even though we- ow!"

*cough* *cough*

"Your father meant to say is that the magic wave had severely injured those who are demigod level magicians, as well as those with a high sensitivity to magic and the elements, like us, your parents, right, honey?" Faria said calmly, staring at Majes dangerously, causing the latter to look scared, and bobbed his head in agreement.

Xander immediately instructed the system to check for any relevant meetings and recordings that had happened in the past hour. Immediately, there were a total of 2 meetings: One involving the countries in Ete continent, and one that involved the other political leaders of countries outside the continent.

Upon hearing the contents of the news, Xander was surprised, and at the same time, worried for his parents. If they were injured, it's either because they are demigod class magicians or they're probably higher than master class magicians but has a high sensitivity to magic fluctuations, so instead of benefiting them, the wave injured them. Xander was now in a dilemma: he could just reverse their injuries remotely like it never happened, but knowing their elemental sensitivity, if they were the latter category, they would notice a different, unknown element acting on their bodies and my actually expel it out and might even question him about it.

Should he knock them out? Xander thought for a moment before removing such a thought. They were his parents, not servants, jeez. After a few seconds of accelerated thinking, he came up with a solution, which is to heal his parents by manipulating the Causality element under the Life-Death elements to increase the concentration of Life elements as well as the other elements in their room.

"Hmm, ok I have a solution for the two of you to heal up quick, but you can't tell others, okay mommy, daddy?" Xander said cutely. Seeing him act this way, Majes almost rolled his eyes, but Faria was already nodding in agreement with what Xander said. At the same time, she recorded the video of him acting cute, hehe.

"Ok, here it goes. By the powers of the universe, I call upon the truth, the path of the future revealed, my parents, shall be healed within a day of this incident without no worries. Propagate, the elements of the universe! Life, restore their bodies to the most optimum state! As I have said it, so shall it be done to my will."

The moment Xander's voice echoed, he manipulated both the elemental particles in the room where the two of them were staying, creating an increased concentration of life elements with the help of the Order Element and Causality Element. Immediately, on the hologram, both Majes and Faria's faces rapidly changed. They felt the sudden change of concentration of elemental particles in the room, and they could detect... life element particles in abundance!

Because of the concentration change, the life element particles and other elements headed towards the two, suffusing their bodies and healing their wound, injuries, and bodies. It was to the point that if one observed their bodies, it was as if a thinly veiled cocoon of white light was covering them, and both their eyes closed. When he saw them fall into a deep sleep, Xander nodded and closed the communicator, and also deleted any traces of it in both the devices his parents had and his, to make sure it wasn't traced back to him.

He knew that both his parents would be out for the day, probably only waking up at noon tomorrow. He also ensured that the room cannot be opened by anyone outside, to avoid them from being disturbed. In truth, he could just force the space around his parents to rapidly propagate the elements required for their healing without invoking that cringey line, but he wanted to try this kin of magic that Wordsmiths were known for.

He checked the time and saw it was nearing 7 pm in the evening, then looked at the guards and maids still unconsciously breaking through. He immediately transported them to the living room like last time, not bothering to transfer their setups and decided to cook his food. Life was back on track for him.