“What you need to do now is elevate your soul’s essence.”

After agreeing to cooperate, Edel began explaining her plan to me.

“What’s essence?”

“It’s the authority to grasp higher power, the qualification to transcend natural law, the proof of existence… There are many ways to describe it, but even saying it like this, it probably doesn’t mean much to you, right?”

“So, it’s like a stage?”

“It’s not exactly the same. But if it’s hard to grasp, you could think of it that way. Essence and stages are closely related. Does that help you understand?”

“Not really… So why …