Chapter 31 - 31: Are you immortal, master?
Time passed, and the day finally arrived when Erik and Ignis were supposed to meet. Eleonora and Sigrún were in the garden of the latter's mansion, sipping tea around a beautifully carved glass table, while Erik ate his cookies without a care in the world.
"Well, Erik, do you have everything ready?" Sigrún asked calmly, looking at her disciple who seemed completely relaxed, even though he was about to find out if he could secure a contract with a spirit or not.
"Yes, master."
"Fufufu, I never expected an ancestral spirit to want a leather bag," Eleonora commented with a cheerful smile, finding the situation incredibly amusing.
"Now that you mention it, master, I've been wondering lately, are there other types of spirits besides the ancestral ones?" Erik asked curiously, to which Eleonora responded with a smile.
"Yes, there are several types of spirits. In fact, spirits are entities that exist in a parallel dimension to ours. They are not only incredibly skilled in using magic and connecting with the Myst, but they also usually possess unique, strange abilities.
Their strength and status levels depend largely on their age. The most powerful and respected are known as ancestral spirits, like Sig's contracted spirit, but there are also newborn spirits, which are very young spirits just beginning to understand their existence and power.
Next are the juvenile spirits, who already understand their power a bit and can control it to some extent. After them are the mature spirits, who have gained a solid understanding of their abilities and have amassed considerable knowledge.
The next in line are the ancient spirits, which have lived for hundreds of thousands of years. They not only possess an impressive level of power but have also acquired a vast amount of knowledge, which they use to improve their own powers and affinities, refining and enhancing their special abilities.
Lastly, there are the ancestral spirits, which are incredibly ancient. No one knows exactly how long they've lived, but what sets them apart from all others is that they not only have an incomparable amount of power but have also taken their innate special abilities beyond comprehension.
For example, Sig's contracted spirit, the phoenix of mystical fire, Ignis Caelestis, has, as you might imagine, blue flames as her special ability. These flames are not only terribly destructive, but also make her practically immortal. There is no wound or curse that her blue flames cannot heal, something Sig, as her contractor, can also use."