Ascension: Strongest Fateless Mage

"City lord, connect your intent with that ethereal field around the whirlpool," Zevien said, "I will be initiating the summoning, but your intent will be merged with the summoning instead of mine because of that ethereal field. Think of your traits, ambitions, what you like, magic labyrinth's powers, and such things. That way, a fairy spirit that takes liking to those things and your strength will be summoned."

"Interesting, I haven't heard of this ethereal field before, but the way this magic spell was executed seems like it was added to the original fairy magic summoning spell," Cargil spoke while doing as Zevien told.

"Naturally," Tarto snorted before continuing, "not many can touch the realm of ethereal magic. But Zevien has a slight affinity with it due to his magic labyrinth, which has ethereal magic aspects. So after listening to his idea, I taught him this ethereal containment intent before he added it to this summoning magic spell."

"Yes... Yes... Tell them everything," Zevien rolled his eyes.

"Hahaha," Touma laughed, "this is an exciting concept of summoning. It also makes you important because you are the main carrier of this magic spell. I see what you mean by extending your VIP status now."

Blondina, Merax, and Raven also nodded with wry smiles.

"Alright, hold on, kids," Tarto said, "a big guy is coming."

The summoning whirlpool suddenly got ten meters bigger before a horn came out from the very top of the vortex, before the rest of the body followed right after.

"Gekk!"

A dark blue frog with dark green crystalline patterns appeared from the whirlpool. The horn on its head was also dark green with black spots.

Cargil looked at the frog in wonder, while the frog sized Cargil and Zevien up with a bit of confusion in its eyes.

"I took the summoning call, but…this is a bit strange, Gek!" The frog spoke while looking a bit confused.

"Hey, froggy, you are going to decide whether you want to make a contract with that white-haired old guy," Tarto spoke, attracting the frog fairy spirit's attention.

"My name is Ferol! You ar-" Ferol the frog spoke while looking at Tarto, but suddenly, its words stuck in its throat as the frog trembled and started sweating, "l-lord fairy?"

Tarto carefreely nodded while pointing its paw at Cargil, "that is your target."

"Gek! If you say so, I am willing to form the contract. Please, just let me join your fairy realm!" Ferol spoke with pitiful eyes. "I was kicked out of a fairy realm recently, so I don't have any support now. Because of the recent changes, that bastard kicked me out because of my core magic!"

Tarto rolled his eyes, "do what you are here to do. I am not accepting any fairies spirits in my fairy realm right now."

"Gek!" Ferol croaked in a sad tone before sighing and turning to Cargil, "I sensed your intents and heeded the call. If you want to form a contract with me, you will have to resist my Ray of Avarice for five seconds."

"Ray of Avarice?" Cargil muttered, 'seems like related to greed or something like that.'

"Ray of Avarice is one of my core magics. If you can't resist it for five seconds, I can't form the contract with you," Ferol spoke seriously, "this magic will test your will."

"I am ready," Cargil nodded with a firm expression. He could feel that this frog fairy spirit was slightly stronger than him, and he didn't want to miss this chance to contract with it.

Ferol nodded as its horn shone and released a light green laser with black sparks towards Cargil.

The laser directly hit Cargil's forehead but didn't damage him. Instead, Cargill's eyes became unfocused as a gleam of green and black passed through his eyes.

After five seconds, Ferol deactivated the laser as city lord Cargil swayed slightly, almost falling down, but he didn't fall in the end. Shaking his head a bit, Cargil muttered, "it felt like a long time had passed inside…."

After composing himself, city lord Cargil asked Ferol with a plain expression, "how was it?"

"Gek!! Impressive, human! 98 out of 100 points! Ferol spoke excitedly, "the passing mark was 80, but you did very impressively in the illusion! Alright, so would you like to form a permanent contract with me? This contract will only end unless one of us dies."

Cargil nodded with a faint smile, "let's form it."

"Ahem…so city lord Cargil, I leave the matter of the Gio family in your hands now," Zevien smiled cheekily, "with Ferol, you are possibly one of the strongest 1st class magicians in the Gaia continent."

"Leave it to me," Cargil nodded with a small smile.

Afterward, Cargil and Ferol formed a contract.

"How much magic power do you have?" Cargil asked Ferol.

"Gek! My current magic power is 38,579," Ferol said before its ten meters big body shrunk to the size of a palm. After that, It jumped on Cargil's shoulder.

Cargil nodded, "I am stuck at the 35,000 mark. I can't go past it without evolving my magic eidos body and magic core to the next stage."

"Oh, sir Cargil reached the peak of 1st class magician? When?" Merax and the others were surprised.

"I reached the limit just a week ago," Cargil said with a nod, "so I was planning to go the Astral Land."

"Ahem, anyway, it's our turn now, right?" Raven said with a grin as she looked at Zevien, "what's the price?"

"The price is the favors that I might ask in the future," Zevien smiled, "after all, the fairies will double your overall strength in a way; the example is in front of you."

Touma, Raven, Merax, and Blondina were visibly excited at the prospect of having their own contracted fairy spirits.

"Let's start after I recover my mana," Zevien said, "it takes 1000 mana to use the spell."

"Here, take the mana stone and recover," Merax threw a mana stone at Zevien.

After Zevien recovered his mana, he once again used the fairy spirit summoning spell.

One by one, he let Raven Touma, Merax, and Blondina summon a fairy with the same method.