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 Light and Darkness Element series.

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 made 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 were 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 on 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, Marie, 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, receiving minor to no injuries. 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 to Callows city, the denser 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.