Mistress meet Moana, the original host spirit. Moana meet Mistress Mina.
*Ding*
Mistress has achieved today's daily mission: [MEET THE HOST SPIRIT].
+1 Daily Mission Point
+1 Daily Pack
"Wait, what is happening? I have daily missions? Did I fall into a novel or a game? I must be sleeping. Wake up Mina! This isn't real." Mina shook her head and reached down to pinch her leg to wake herself up.
"Ouch!"
"Ouch!"
"We both share this body now you mean girl, don't pinch me to make sure you aren't dreaming. System what are these points and package about?" The voice, Moana, asked the system. Mina felt bad that she was left behind not asking about the system and the voice inside did instead.
The daily points can be used to increase the host body's attributes. They can be saved up to play the lucky lottery for a chance at bigger prizes or a chance at a new mystical contract.
This Supreme System will now merge memories and knowledge of the two spirits for better habitation.
Mina let out a small shout as a sharp pain hit her head and she was flooded with Moana's memories and knowledge of this new world she found herself in.
"Oh. My. Gods! You died because you tripped over air?! Hahahahahaha!!!!!" Moana was already searching through Mina's memories and found every secret that she had locked away in her mind. Including how she died in her last lifetime.
"How did I get stuck with one such as you? You work your whole life in such an interesting subject and never stand up for yourself to go for what you really want. Even as young as I am I still tried to make my own dream come true before I was....."
Moana trailed off as she lost herself in thought. She was remembering how she came to lose her own life in this world. She had been meditating and cultivating the energy from the air around her when her Second Uncle came in with some of his servants and began to beat her.
She died on the floor of her room in the middle of the beating. They left her there for her own maids to find. Mina had transmigrated into her battered body before the maids could find her.
As they both looked through Moana's memeories of how she died, they took stock of the body they now both inhabited. The bruises and cuts were slowly closing as they wated. Mina was amazed that such healing was possible. Moana just sighed and wondered why it was taking so long to heal.
As they waited, Mina went through Moana's memories to learn all she could about the new world she found herself in now. Apparently, in this world everyone was born as a cultivator and mystic of some kind. There were 5 types of cultivation energy to collect: earth, air, fire, water, and spirit or soul energy.
Most cultivators had an affinity for only one type of energy. The rare cultivators had a twin affinity, only a select few in each generation had an affinity for 3 types of energy. A once in a generational genius was born with an affinity for 4 types of energy, and someone born with an affinity for all 5 has yet to be born in this world.
Each person meditates in order to cultivate their affinity energy from the air around them. Different places around the world hold more concentrations of each type of energy specific to those spots. The higher peaks of mountains hold more affinity with air. Deep forests held concentrated amouts of earth energy, rivers and oceans held water energy, fire crystal caves held the fire energy, and temples and divine spaces held spiritual energy.
As their cultivations succeeded each person was able to use their energy to strengthen their bodies and then use their innate skills associated with their concentrated energy. Those who cultivate air energy could manipulate the winds around them. Water cultivators controlled the water around them, fire cultivators controlled fire and so on. Spirit cultivators were a little different, they were the seers and forecastors of their world. They were also the healers of all illnesses that existed in both humans and animals.
Moana was one of the rare few born with an affinity for 3 types of energy: earth, fire, and spirit. Her Second Uncle and First Cousin were her only surviving family members. Her entire family was wiped out by a rare disease that struck them down before the Spiritual Healers could discover the cure. Her Uncle and his Son were out on a cultivation retreat in the high mountains so the illness missed them, while Moana seemed to have a natural immunity to the disease due to her affinity for 3 out of the 5 elements.
Second Uncle Liam and First Cousin Adrian were jealous of Moana's abilities and sought to control her and use her for their own gain, but she was stronger in will than they thought. She was able to resist them and their plans for her. They didn't like that and so decided the best way to use her was to use her death to elevate their own status. They tried to make it look like bandits had broken into her estate and then killed her.
The plan was to show public outrage at the bandits, find some helpless vagabonds to blame the murder on, and publicly punish them. They would use public opinion to garner empathy and then showcase First Cousin Adrian's twin affinity for air and earth to gather more wealth.
Moana living through their attempted murder would definitely make her a larger target in their eyes.
Mina digest all this information in less than a minute. She surfaced from her own thoughts just in time to see the final cuts close up and dissapear from their small body. She decided to take a good look at what she looked like now.
She spotted a mirror in the corner of the room and stood up, or rather, she tried to stand up. She managed to get halfway up when her body suddenly jerked and she fell back down.
"Hey! I don't want to stand up yet. Why would you try to do that?" Moana sounded outraged that Mina was trying to simply stand up. Mina was confused for all of two seconds before she decided to confront the situation.
"System! Why can't I move my own body?"
Mistress is not the only soul in the body. Therefore, both Mistress and Moana are able to control the body they inhabit.
"Wait.....what?! I not only have to share thoughts with this soul, I have to share the control of this thing too?!" Mina was trying to stay calm but the new information and the odd situation was making everything more than a little stressful.
"So this means I still have full control over everything I was able to do previously. Perfect." Moana was happy she didn't have to give up everything about her old life. She was upset already about having to share thoughts with this interloper. "Besides, I need to get my revenge on Second Uncle and First Cousin. I cannot do that if I cannot control my own body."
Mina thought about things and realized that if she was going to be successful in this life, she needed to work with Moana and not against her. She searched through the memories in both her and Moana's minds trying to figure out how to be the best in both this life and in this world. While Moana's family held prestige since her father was the First Son of the main family, they had long since run out of the wealth that was a part of their family.
Moana had inherited what little money was left from her father when her parents had died. Her Uncle and Cousin wanted the 100 taels of Silver and the land that was left to her. That was part of the reason they decided to just kill her and be done with it. Inheriting from a corpse was easier than continuing to try and trick it out of her.
"Moana, I don't want to waste this life. I want to be successful so let's make a deal. I will help you get revenge on your Uncle and Cousin. In return, we learn to work together and become the best cultivator this world has ever seen. Is that a deal?"
Moana thought about it for a moment. She truly wanted revenge on her Uncle and Cousin for trying to kill her and scheme to take away what little she had left from her parents. She decided that the promise of getting her revenge was worth working with Mina.
"I accept your deal, Mina. Promise me the harshest revenge on Second Uncle and First Cousin and we can work together."
Mina was delighted to hear that her deal was taken. She was ready to get revenge for Moana. More than that, she was ready to really live. "Okay Moana, let's work together and figure out how to live in the same body. Let's start with just standing up. I want to see what I look like now."