Jellykko Project

The gray jelly poop wriggled and spoke.

[ ……The essence, you mean…. ]

“Yes.”

Whether or not they possessed an essence was a fairly important question.

It was only natural that any beings targeting this world would be entities beyond our perception.

Wasn’t the very emergence of Gates strong evidence that those beings were responsible?

However, rather than simply fearing them, I needed to face their outlines more clearly.

Fear comes from ignorance, and to someone walking with their eyes covered, even a single flower petal blooming by the roadside can feel like the touch of a blade.

If the invader was an entity from which essence could be extracted through magic beast alchemy, then it was something I could understand—and something my abilities could reach.

Were the beings beyond the Gate an unavoidable disaster, or a threat that could be understood and opposed...