Upon seeing this, Xander couldn't help but be pumped up; this was truly testing the limits of what one can reach!
Although he already saw what Ryan was casting, he just smiled inwardly, since he could easily use his spell [Void Rejection] to cancel all spells being cast in the area. This was the weakness of large, forbidden magic spells; as long as you can identify what is being cast, you can plan ahead by removing or disturbing the essential elements of the spell.
Of course, it's a different story when one can cast a forbidden magic spell instantaneously.
Forbidden magic spells were also known as legendary magic spells, and at minimum, if one wanted to cast it at a lower class than Legendary, one needs to have a profound understanding of the elements involved in the spell, as well as the magic reservoir for casting the spell. The latter was why forbidden spells were cast by two or more magicians that has a primary element matching the spell.
Like all spells, If the forbidden spell did not receive enough magic energy to be completed, it can collapse, explode/implode, or utilize life force of the caster, with the latter being the least negative effect.
If it collapses, depending on the magnitude of the spell, it can cause space to turn fragile and form temporary rifts, rifts that can move about. If it explodes, the power magnitude is no less than 4 times the actual spell's magic energy requirement.
Given the runic signs he had seen, there were traces of Fire, Decay, and Death elements in the spell; a tri-elemental forbidden spell is quite potent... if there were other casters beside Ryan who was casting the spell, that is.
At most, Ryan would be able to showcase Legendary-1 strength of spell.
Xander took no more notice and began evading the attacks of the two in front of him, while casting spells that targeted weak points in their bodies.
During this fight, he realized a big problem: The only attacking spell he had was [5 Elements Foundation], which can only be considered as boosting the affinity of 5 elements in the user, and using this increased affinity, he could manipulate the elements in the configuration of elemental magic spells.
Meaning, he really has no attacking pseudo magic circles. However, this was one way for him to evade the limitation of having no 81st class magic circles in the Elite class; since he could make the spells from his control of the 5 elements and its derivatives, the spells he make were of 81st class, since his primary elements of Space and Time ensures perfect understanding of the elements under its control.
He decided to make the last three advanced magic spells he had to be purely offensive spells. Currently, he had 7 advanced spells:
[Instantaneous Regeneration (no limit)] falls in the domain of Life-Death, specifically the Life System
[Absolute Time] falls in the domain of time.
[Absolute Defense] falls in the domain of space.
[Elemental Dominance] falls in the domain of the 3 Ordered Elemental pairs.
[Lifeblood] falls in the domain of Life-Death, specifically the Life System.
[Heavenly Divination] falls in the domain of Life-Death, specifically the Fate System.
[Void Rejection] falls under the domain of Void. The spell, however, does not completely remove Chaos and Order elements.
Once he breaks through to Master class, he would instantly elevate to Master-7, and that's if he doesn't complete his advanced magic spells at Elite class. If he did, he would instantly jump to Master-9, and all he needed to do was breakthrough by creating a vessel from all his existing magic circles by then.
Wait... Xander seemed to realize something that made him confused yet excited at the same time. He decided to end the fight quickly.
Immediately, the aura Xander was exuding changed, causing Joseph, Bryan and Ryan's faces to change drastically. Even Faykes noticed the abnormality and visibly shivered.
If earlier, Xander had a carefree yet domineering presence, right now it was frenzied, like an Asura from the depths of hell wanting to seek destruction. Xander was rapidly utilizing his dominance over the elements below space-time, life-death, and yin-yang, producing elemental or power combinations of master-ranked spells he had mastered long before classes began.
Since he still can't completely utilize forbidden spells chantless or instantaneously, he decided to simply overwhelm the trio with a barrage of master-ranked spells. He didn't want to use his space-time powers as he felt they weren't worth it.
Ryan, who was 95% close to casting the spell, didn't hesitate to expend some of his life essence to complete the spell ahead of time upon seeing the numerous magical orbs and vortexes forming around Xander.
A guttural growl came from his mouth, signaling his two companions to leave the spell matrix. Immediately, Joseph and Bryan left the spell circle, making sure to cast spells at Xander to force him to stay in the area.
Immediately, Ryan closed his palms together, looking like he was praying, his face solemn.
"Burning Naraka: The Decay of Morality!" Ryan shouted, his face red and yet at the same time, had a pallid texture as if he was a corpse.
The are covered by the magic circle became strange. Within the span of seconds, the environment in it rapidly changed 8 times, and with every change, screams and wails changed as well, causing anyone to hear it shiver and some breakdown.
Xander, who was at the center of the spell circle, didn't bother casting [Void Rejection], since he already recognized the spell after Ryan shouted it.
This was one of the spells that proved to him that there were other transmigrators from his world in other periods of time: The existence of Buddhist spells.
How would such spells and visualization exist if there was no such thing as religion in this planet? Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, etc. all those beliefs didn't exist here in some form or another. Yet, these religions have their traces in the spells existing in various countries and databases.
Naraka, after all, was Buddhist hell. And as the spell progressed to its peak, he recognized that these were the 8 Hot Narakas described in the Abhidharma-kosa. The existence of this spell shows that the buddhist transmigrator was talented in the realm of Death, and Fire. However, this was only the first set, meaning this spell had a counterpart: the 8 Cold Narakas.
The scary thing is that the power of belief also works with these type of spell; as long as it is perceived, it can do harm. Even if one manages to completely reject its existence, it will still exist, but do no harm to you, but to the space around you.
The first level of Hot Naraka, Sanjiva. In that split second, multiple attacks attempted to land on his body, but couldn't pass through [Absolute Defense] that automatically activated. All these attacks were from illusory fiery weapons, containing molten metal and even the ground temporarily turned into burning iron.
The second level was Kalasutra, which focuses on cutting up the target through predetermined lines and experience Sanjiva stronger than before.
The third level, Samghata, focuses on crushing the body with flaming boulders into bloody jelly.
The 4th level, Raurava, the burning shelter, where one is trapped to looking for a shelter and is trapped in one, burned over and over again.
The 5th level, Maharaurava, is an upgraded level of Raurava, with the kravyada tormenting and eating their flesh.
The 6th level, Tapana, impales the targets with a fiery spear until the flames exit through their noses and mouths.
The 7th level, Pratapana, is experiencing Tapana again but this time, with a trident.
The 8th and last level, Avici, culminates every experience as you are continuously cooked, butchered, quartered, and impaled over and over again.
This spell, although it made you experience all 8 levels of suffering and torment, wasn't that refined. It didn't take advantage of space-time elements to force the targets to experience it over and over again over a long period of time. It only focused on death, fire, and decay elements. He barely noticed the decay, since the element appeared on the flames attempting to pass through his passive space spell.
Imagine, a subordinate element trying to 'decay' the superior's space…space will only decay if it wants to decay, disrupting stability by itself and destroying whatever is within.
After a while, everything returned to normal, with the field scorched to the point that the metallic sublayer was showing.
Xander came out unscathed, slowly clapping at the performance of the trio. He was truly impressed with the final spell, as it gave him inspiration once again.
"Great workout. Rest up. The next training is next week. I hope there are more diversity and firepower when we fight!"
After saying those words, what Faykes saw caused his eyes to bulge out of his sockets.
It was like watching a movie that was played in reverse; the soil in the field slowly restored itself to its previous self, and the physical and mental states of the trio returned to their peak respective states.
Their injuries, severe or minor, were rapidly healing and restoring to their previous states.
While he was reversing the time, It was Ryan who gave Xander a surprise; he could faintly detect that he was already beginning to merge the magic circles.
He turned to Ryan and smiled.
"Congratulations. I expect stronger attacks from you, especially." Ryan quickly nodded, and disappeared from his current location, right after Xander sent a small orb of light towards his body. He was excited since he was about to breakthrough to Legendary Level!
Joseph and Bryan benefited as well, with their understanding of the rules deepening, decreasing their distance from Legendary Class. They only needed an opportunity and they would breakthrough as well. Both of them bowed and disappeared as well.
All that was left in the area were Xander and Faykes, who had raised his finger at Xander, his mouth opening and closing without saying a word. IT seemed that he wanted to say something, but he just couldn't find a word for it.
Xander moved towards the villa, and as he passed by Faykes, he stopped for a moment and asked,
"So, did you enjoy the show?"
"I-" before Faykes answered, he was stopped by Xander, who shook his head.
"You can tell your elders that you already visited the villa where the magic circle phenomenon happened. To be honest, I never expected signing sprite contracts to be that much of a hassle." He then continued to move, and Faykes used this opportunity to follow him.
Faykes' eyes were twinkling before asking tentatively, "Can I see them?" before hurriedly gesturing his hands and saying after, "If it's convenient for you and the sprites, that is. If not, never mind." He hurried shook his hands as gesture, as if worried Xander would get mad at him and his nosiness. Xander was a bit puzzled and interested at Faykes.
How could he not be afraid of me? After all that action, he could still talk normally? Interesting.