The Aftermath

"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 break through 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.

Also, we can 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 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 flint stone respectively.

Xander's smartwatch vibrated, alerting him of an incoming call. He looked to see 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 sugar candy, causing their bodies to reach hypoglycemic shock.

Xander was surprised, before calming himself down. In that short moment, the information transmitted through the global quantum servers were intercepted and summarized by the system, allowing him to have an overall knowledge of what just happened.

Fuck. Seems like I made a mess again.

"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. At the same time, his eyebrows raised, and with a bit of a frown, asked,

"Huh? What do you mean? Also, the two of you seem injured. Mom, Dad, please rest for a bit, and don't let your anger do the talking, ok?" Xander's acting was quite impeccable…no, it is more of his complete body control, with both his face and voice showing his confusion and concern.

"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 sprites? Contract signing? What happened?" Xander still asking them with a face full of confusion, as if he plans to deny anything related to sprites to his grave. Hearing and seeing Xander's face, however, caused his dad to roll his eyes.

"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 a 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 any 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 the next day. He also ensured that the room could not be opened by anyone outside, to prevent 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 kind of magic that Wordsmiths were known for.

At the same time, he probably healed the hidden injuries they had accumulated in the past, allowing their cultivation to be stronger and more stable compared to others.

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.