"Why didn't you let me speak up? No one knows better than us just how powerful that Gu Nan is," the sun spirit whispered.
"If we have his help, the process of destroying the moon thralls will definitely go much smoother."
However, the little loli moon spirit shook her head slightly. "There was no such person in our ancestor's prophecy… Only our contractor can end the moon thrall calamity."
"Prophecies are never entirely accurate!" The sun spirit rebuked tit for tat.
Although he never talked much in front of other people, he didn't have that kind of bad habit when faced with the moon spirit, his twin. He even gave a harsh retort.
However, the moon spirit still shook her head slightly. "That guy… We don't know anything about him. It's better to keep our contractor away from him."
...
The trip into West City went smoother than expected. After just two hours, they arrived at the source of the abnormalities shown on the map.
This made everyone's spirit pick up slightly, and even Lin Duo, whose expression had been looking rather ugly, revealed some curiosity.
The cause of the moon thralls' abnormal behavior was soon revealed to them. To everyone's surprise, it turned out to be a towering blue tree.
It looked like a gem, too beautiful to be true.
"This is a moon thrall… No, to be more accurate, it's an existence entirely made from the power of the moon, just like the moon thralls," Gu Zhaoyue was knowledgeable and spoke up immediately.
Moon thralls, like many elementals, were creatures with only a single law. Their bodies were composed of the power of the moon, but because there was no moon element in the world, they weren't considered elementals.
And the reason why moon thralls were called moon thralls was because they often worshipped the moon on moonlit nights due to the nature of their powers.
The composition of the mutant moon thralls had been contaminated, so they wouldn't feel a special fondness for the moon anymore, but the giant tree in front of everyone recreated this scene.
Moon thralls covered the ground. Some glowed red while others glowed blue. They crawled quietly under the giant tree, kneeling.
The arrival of the line of people from the Star & Moon Camp seemed to have triggered these moon thralls. The sea of moon thralls all looked up towards the humans.
The continuously glowing light from the moon thralls made everyone's scalps tingle.
"Run!" Gu Zhaoyue commanded.
There was practically no hesitation. Almost immediately, everyone began running towards the rear, as if they'd be torn to pieces if they even slowed down a little.
Lin Duo was still in a daze and was dragged away by the sun and moon twin spirits.
Quantitative change will lead to qualitative change. The number of moon thralls gathered here was too terrifying; even an elite squad would be instantly submerged.
"No wonder we didn't feel too much pressure on our way here…" Gu Zhaoyue inwardly sighed. "I'm afraid all the nearby moon thralls have crowded into this single area."
"It's just… What the hell is that?"
A picture of the giant tree flashed through Gu Zhaoyue's mind, and he looked behind him again.
'That person should have a way to deal with this many moon thralls, right?'
...
Gu Nan naturally had a way.
Even if the amount of moon thralls in this area was so dense that it'd be inconvenient to sneak in even with Hidden Shadow, Gu Nan still had many other methods.
He could use Shadow Form to create clones and lure the monsters away, then kill the moon thralls little by little. He could also use Shadow Form to forcibly break through, then switch places with his true body… But he chose the simplest method.
Fly in.
That's right, moon thralls had a very embarrassing shortcoming—that is, because their overall strength was weak, even today, moon thralls with flight abilities had still yet to appear.
Heroic Spirit summoners in the Morningstar Plane didn't temper their own bodies too much, so very few people had the ability to fly. This was true even among Tier 3 experts.
Heroic Spirits capable of flight weren't uncommon, but they also had various shortcomings such as not being able to bring passengers, not being able to sustain their attacks for a long time, and only being able to fly at low altitudes.
Only Gu Nan, a visitor from another world, was familiar with flight.
Even in Star Realm, flight was almost an instinctual power among Prodigious cultivators.
Just like that, Gu Nan leisurely flew in from mid-air, and although the moon thralls on the ground started roaring, they couldn't do anything about him.
It wasn't like they were completely helpless. Many moon thralls were thrown up directly by their companions, trying to hit Gu Nan.
But Gu Nan wasn't like the army's fragile helicopters. So what if a few moon thralls could reach him?
Moments later, Gu Nan had stopped in front of the giant tree. "They're not so much worshipping this tree as they are waiting for the fruits on it…"
Gu Nan could see them clearly. On the branches of the giant tree were many blue fruits, which looked like sparkling crystals. However, they were the same color as the giant tree, so it was difficult to tell them apart from a distance.
This towering tree was so tall that the moon thralls couldn't reach these fruits, and they couldn't even get close to the giant tree, so they could only wait for the fruits to fall naturally.
Even without using his senses, he could still feel the incredible power coming from the fruits.
'Could a moon thrall's child be created through this kind of fruit? How did this tree grow?' Many questions flashed through Gu Nan's mind.
But Gu Nan's hand didn't stop. He stretched out his hand and picked a fruit from the tree, then threw it casually into the sea of moon thralls below.
The entire picture seemed to freeze for an instant, and in the next second, the moon thralls in this area—which numbered as high as 100,000—all rioted at once.
Screaming, roaring, and tearing sounds rang out everywhere, and countless moon thralls flocked to the place where the fruit fell.
The lucky moon thrall who was hit by the fruit directly swallowed it, but before it even had time to digest, it was instantly torn into pieces by its companions.
After all, those who relied entirely on luck wouldn't get far in life.
One of the characteristics of moon thralls was that they could devour and assimilate each other.
However, they normally didn't have the urge to devour their own kind. In ancient times, the number of moon thralls never reached such an absurd amount, so most people never realized they had this characteristic.
The only reason Gu Nan knew this was because Tian Yuan had used this method to forcibly implant the contaminated "infection" attribute into the moon thralls' bodies.
Now, too, the power of that fruit hadn't been digested yet; it was still contained in the lucky moon thrall's body, so its corpse was constantly swallowed up and assimilated by its companions.
And the moon thralls who "ate" him were in turn torn up and eaten by more moon thralls…
The fruit's nature as an energy source meant that no energy from the fruit was lost in this exchange—it was simply dispersed into countless moon thralls' bodies.
This power held a fatal allure to moon thralls. The moon thralls' attacks on each other continued. Over 100,000 moon thralls had become large chunks of mutilated flesh in just a few breaths.
The number of moon thralls was getting smaller and smaller, and the power of the fruit was becoming more and more concentrated. The final winner was about to be decided.
Gu Nan had been watching all this coldly. At this moment, he couldn't help but feel energized—could this fruit result in the birth of a child of the moon thrall?
With a thunderous roar, a huge moon thrall as tall as three or four people finally killed his opponent and enjoyed the power of the fruit by himself.
And the Evil God Temple in Gu Nan's brain also shook slightly, and a message arrived.
｢Side Quest: Level the moon thrall's king to Tier 3｣
Gu Nan's expression suddenly darkened. 'It was only one word off. This is the moon thrall's king!'