Lin Duo really was in trouble, and it was even a matter of life and death. A high school girl like her shouldn't have encountered trouble like this.
Lin Duo's face suddenly flashed with panic upon hearing Gu Nan's pointed words, and she repeatedly shook her head in denial.
The people in the classroom didn’t have suspicious expressions after hearing this. Perhaps Gu Nan, a "King Level Heroic Spirit", had attracted most of their attention.
……
Half an hour later, Lin Duo stood alone in the corner of the school’s sports field, while Gu Nan stood quietly behind her in a gray suit.
"Mr. Gu Nan, how did you know I was in trouble?" Lin Duo showed a serious expression.
"Something unclean is clinging to you," Gu Nan casually answered without batting an eye, studying his surroundings with great interest.
This was the capital’s No.4 High School, so most of the people on the sports field were high school students.
All of them had youthful faces, but they were all surrounded by spirits of different sizes and shapes: there were some human-looking ones, some with animal faces, and some that just looked like swords.
A lively girl skipped past them while a scimitar floated behind her. This strange scene had just played out right in front of Gu Nan, but no one around her looked surprised.
Heroic Spirits were the core of this continent. This world’s entire power system was practically built around Heroic Spirits.
In fact, the locals didn’t call their own world Morningstar, instead directly referring to it as the Heroic Spirit Continent.
From their own cultivation to battles, and even wars between various organizations and nations, hundreds of millions of Heroic Spirits played important roles in all of those.
Gu Nan's words made Lin Duo feel cold and seemed to remind her of certain horrible experiences.
"Wh… What is it?" The girl's lips were white and her voice trembled.
"Nothing more than some cheap tricks; they’re not worth mentioning." Gu Nan didn't attach much importance to this and instead asked, "Have you ever heard of moon thrall or moon thrall’s child?"
Gu Nan's mission was to kill the moon thrall’s child. This mission only needed to be divided into two steps—finding the target and killing the target.
Lin Duo looked bewildered, then shook her head.
Gu Nan didn't think she would lie either, so he could only sigh secretly and consider finding information from other places.
The flow of time here compared to Star Realm was approximately 15 to 1. Gu Nan gave himself one month in Star Realm’s time to complete this mission, which meant he could stay in this plane for a little over a year.
At that moment, two men in black quickly approached Lin Duo.
"Miss Lin, you’ve had some time to consider now. What’s your decision regarding that matter?" Of the two, a bald man with sunglasses asked emotionlessly.
Lin Duo was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. She suddenly exploded in anger. "That's a treasure my grandfather left me. I’ll never sell it to you guys!"
The bald man in black was was unconcerned. He merely smiled. "Then I’ll have to ask Miss Lin to consider this some more for a few more days."
He put a black cap on his head and added, "Our Heavenly King Corporation never coerces people to sell anything. Miss Lin can rest assured of this."
With that, he turned and left with his companion, as if he was only here to say these sentences.
Lin Duo watched the two leave and stood there with gritted teeth, but she didn't say anything in the end.
Gu Nan just watched all this. Since Lin Duo didn't speak, he wouldn't meddle in her business either. Although he was the Heroic Spirit summoned by Lin Duo, he wasn’t actually controlled by the latter.
However, there were no clues to his mission target at the moment, so Gu Nan chose to lurk in the shadows for the time being. He didn’t intend to show his hand too early.
……
In the quiet library, Gu Nan slowly flipped through an ancient text, a stack of books in front of him.
"Mr. Gu Nan, all the information you want to check is here!"
With a Bang, Lin Duo pursed her lips as she dropped another heavy stack of books onto the table, her face full of dissatisfaction.
‘Other people’s Heroic Spirits help their summoners grow and fight, but how come I have to help my Heroic Spirit instead…?’
However, Lin Duo was just an ordinary high school girl, and she didn’t have a tough personality. She could only sulk in her heart.
Gu Nan, however, didn't pay attention to her. He simply flipped through the texts. Compared with the last mission to find the Eye of Maes, this one went much smoother.
It was very easy to find clues pertaining to the phrase “moon thrall.” To put it another way, this topic was quite famous, so it could even be found in an ordinary high school library.
The moon thrall was one of the most famous Heroic Spirit kings in ancient times, but it hadn’t appeared for a long time, so not many people still remember it now.
However, it was still easy to find information on the moon thrall in the ancient texts.
"A spirit life form and a naturally formed Heroic Spirit. It’s most likely a creature unique to this plane." Gu Nan frowned slightly and concluded about the so-called moon thrall.
Heroic Spirits were existences unique to the Morningstar Plane. Of course most of them weren’t reincarnators. Instead, they were local or otherworldly powerhouses, or the projection of certain people’s strong wills.
For example, a swordsman grandmaster from another world couldn’t reach the peak of swordsmanship in his lifetime. A wisp of his obsession was chosen by the will of the Morningstar Plane and turned into a summoned Heroic Spirit.
This Heroic Spirit was based on that swordsman grandmaster—its original blueprint—but there was no mental connection between the two sides, and even their personalities differed.
The Heroic Spirit swordmaster merely inherited the actual grandmaster’s obsession and knowledge about swords. The rest of its mind wasn’t as complete, but in a way, its swordsmanship might even surpass the original.
Besides Heroic Spirits projected from someone’s obsession, there was another category of Heroic Spirits created naturally. Natural-born Heroic Spirits could already be considered living beings. Not only did they have a complete consciousness, but they were also capable of self-cultivation and self-growth, such as the moon thrall and reincarnated Heroic Spirits like Gu Nan.
Gu Nan put down the texts in his hand and slowly stood up.
In the end, this was just a high school library, so information on the moon thrall was limited to this. There was no more detailed information.
Lin Duo saw him stand up and showed a puzzled expression. "Have you finished reading?"
Gu Nan nodded slightly. "What's the matter?"
A blush appeared on the girl's face, and she said somewhat shyly, "The school is holding a Heroic Spirit Tournament the day after tomorrow. Um… Can you join me in the tournament?"
From the sound of it, the Heroic Spirit Tournament seemed like a competition in which summoners and Heroic Spirits participated together.
"Okay," Gu Nan replied casually. He wasn’t tight on time in this reincarnation, and he didn’t mind doing something irrelevant to the mission once in a while.
And as his summoner, Lin Duo might have a side quest on her.
He’d actually suffer quite a loss if he only cleared a single main mission, especially since he’d have to wait a long time to reincarnate again.
After agreeing to Lin Duo’s request, Gu Nan quickly left, leaving Lin Duo with only one sentence: "If anything bad happens, summon me."
It was common knowledge in the Morningstar Plane that a Heroic Spirit summoner could summon their Heroic Spirit back to their side.
"Ah? Where are you going…" Lin Duo hurriedly asked, but Gu Nan's figure had already completely disappeared.
Leaving the young girl alone wondering: ‘Didn’t the books say that all Heroic Spirits should follow their summoners around?’
