To her answer, the Spirit Essence said nothing. Since she was here, she could explain the previous question to Matt more easily.
As Alessa and Alice moved over to sit on Matt's side, Alice noticed that Alessa wanted to sit on Matt's lap. It was just a thought that went through Alessa's mind that she could understand because they were connected.
That was why she gave her a threatening look that made Alessa stop and turn her head away.
Alessa then decided to get up and stood in front of Matt. She bowed politely to Matt to introduce herself. It was a partial bow. At the same time, she put a hand to her chest and smiled.
"Nice to meet you, Matt. I didn't get a chance to introduce myself properly earlier because I was in shock, but my name is Alessa. I am the Progenitor of the Spirits in Body.
I can see you have a lot of doubts about me; I'm just the new Progenitor of my race." Her soft-spoken manner, with a calm and truly complacent voice, was a tremendous contrast to what she had said, for her words were like stunned thunder.
As soon as she said that, she raised her hand to her chest, causing a spirit to appear there.
"I am not a summoner. All the spirits you see appear while I fight, and while Alice uses the power I taught her, they come from me."
Matt frowned. "You mean they are created? Those spirits weren't summonings, but more like... Creations?" he asked, and Alessa nodded.
"Hehe, maybe I can't match your blood and the purity of your body, but in power, I'm not too bad, am I?" she replied while smiling.
Although her answer was surrounded by smiles, and almost that didn't seem real, Matt could now understand why he felt that her power was not summoning, if not something else. And that left him stunned.
This would be the first time he had ever met a progenitor of a race. Progenitors are said to be the most absurd beings in existence, and every one of them is very powerful.
'Is this little girl that powerful?' He thought though he didn't plan to ask.
But he did get an answer.
She is powerful, Matthew. You shouldn't underestimate her by how she looks and how she's barely 16. Her mother inherited all the power from her, and she's been growing up under my teaching since she was 6.
It was the Spirit Essence that said this, and it was its voice that snapped Alice out of her daze, though she couldn't react yet.
Matt frowned and looked at the Essence behind Alessa.
Alessa frowned and looked at Matt once again.
'...I see. It's the whole connection.' She thought.
That's when it dawned on Matt.
Since he was doing it unconsciously, he didn't think too much about it. But if he thought about it, he wasn't even using mana to summon the Essence.
'I'm using purely spiritual power.' He thought and closed his eyes.
He immediately looked inside him to see why the Spiritual Essence had told him so.
And it did not take him long to open his eyes, to his great surprise.
Inside him now rested two white 'energies'. They were like dots, just like the ones in the Spirit Essence.
'Are they spirits?' he thought.
-That's right, you can use it for many things and use its abilities freely. But that is not the only way to use them.
As the Essence said this, Alessa stepped forward and stood before Matt, looking at him with intense adoration.
"You want us to mix our powers? I can't mix them with Essence because we're not compatible, but you and I are. That's why I said it: We're the perfect couple." she said.
Matt looked at her and frowned. Honestly, he doesn't understand what goes through this girl's head every time she says she wants to marry him, but being a little girl, he decided to ignore her in that aspect. But she had just said something interesting.
"If I understand correctly, you're saying that to create more spirits in body and Spirit... No? Can't you do it on your own that already?"
"I can do it and use spirits from my world to create them. But... Don't you want to create a spirit from scratch? It will suit your needs and mine." She replied, smiling.
Alice frowned when she heard this and stood up. "Alessa, can't you exert your power through my body? I don't think it requires such intimate contact between you, just for that," She said.
Alessa turned to look at her reproachfully, but this time, she could win, so she puffed out her chest in pride. "No, you can't. There's a difference between Matt and you right now. He can't break the contract with the Spirit Essence because he has transformed into the Spirit Essence himself, whereas you are not me. You can use my power through inscriptions, but you can't use it as freely as Matt."