A strange feeling suddenly came over him. Matt felt that someone was talking to him.
He could not hear any voice, but he opened his eyes abruptly because he felt that someone was calling and talking to him from somewhere.
That beautiful hot spring was no longer in front of him, but he had not moved. He could feel the heat that the hot spring gave off in his body, so he was still there. But in front of him, there was a curtain of energy that seemed to have color but, at the same time, did not seem to have color.
And it was precisely that which seemed to be speaking to him.
He set about the task of understanding what was going on.
Every time this strange energy hit him, he felt it was trying to tell him something, so he tried to understand the words it was transmitting.
After much thought about what it might mean, he understood a little. "Do you want to sign a contract with me? This is... You're a Spirit Essence?"
Matt felt confused when he managed to decipher a few things. "What kind of spirit are you? Do you belong to the Fifth Type?"
At his question, the energy in front of him seemed to flutter slightly, and a number formed in the air.
'6?' But before Matt could ask anything, the number '6' became a '7'.
'7? What does that mean?' He thought, but suddenly, the number 7 changed again.
This time, it hadn't increased. The change didn't even seem to make sense, for from 7, it changed to a 0.
That didn't seem to keep up with something, for in case there was still one more Spirit Type, it should be 6 or even 7, but always in ascending order. Or at least that's what he thought. But a strange feeling hit his body, coming from the energy in front of him, and this feeling conveyed information to him.
Matt frowned. 'Wow, this seems to get either more complicated or a lot simpler.' Matt thought and nodded.
"Right. If you're only compatible with me, that means you must be pretty special. So okay, let's sign a contract."
Once he said this, before the sight of him, a contract began to be written, using the Essence energy in front of him.
There was nothing wrong with the contract, so Matt signed it without question.
Suddenly, the energy around him swayed back and forth and entered his body through his head.
Matt felt an enormous amount of strange energy enter his body. This energy was not harmful; on the contrary, it was so pure and so good that it amazed him.
It was much purer than the energy in this world's surroundings. The purity level was so incredible that Matt never thought such a thing could exist.
Yet, with the entry of this Essence into his body also came an immense amount of knowledge and wisdom regarding spirits.
From their birth to why they exist and how they die.
The information was so astounding yet so hard to believe that Matt didn't even have time to enjoy the environment around him.
'The Spirit Body is created to be a vessel for a spirit that already exists... Do you mean that when a spirit has a child, his child actually already existed in the world and simply entered a body to have physical life?'
If such a thing were the case, do spirits have lifespans or can they live infinitely? In case one of them dies, can the same spirit be reborn? In fact, just that bit of knowledge passed down to him could overturn many beliefs and some research that humans had done on spirits.
When Matt tried to get a response from that 'Essence', it sent him on a journey into all the information it had bestowed upon him.
'Spirits do not die; they simply reset and return to the World to be distributed, as spirits are born.'
As Matt rummaged through the information, he noticed something else and frowned.