Roland's eyes widened with a curious expression.
Even though this was not his first time touching this Contract Spirit, the contrast between its name and its corresponding color still gave him an indescribably strange feeling.
Regardless of how powerful their abilities were, all Contract Spirits shared one conspicuous trait.
They shone with a strange, mysterious radiance.
Apart from the specific category of purple, other Contract Spirits ranged from white to red according to how low or high their costs were.
Yet the light flowing over this Contract Spirit named Evil Bai Wunan was the gentlest white, signifying no cost whatsoever.
"Although I know this color is most likely because its cost can't affect me, it still feels a little strange."
After collecting himself, Roland muttered softly.
His memory was excellent, and he had paid considerable attention to the story behind this name back then, which was why he had frozen.
Clearly, the Contract Spirit before him was a character from the world of Hai Hu and Warlord.
Evil Bai Wunan was a second personality born from the conflict between the original protagonist Bai Wunan's increasingly unleashed true nature and the pressures of his environment, a manifestation of his evil thoughts.
Such a premise was hardly uncommon, nor was it restricted by region. There were Ichigo Kurosaki and White Ichigo, for example, or Nangong Wentian and Shadow Wentian.
In another hot-blooded story, a relationship so steeped in destiny would soon turn such a character, both enemy and friend, into an ally.
Faced with one crisis after another, the two personalities, one good and one evil, would be forced to cooperate despite their utter incompatibility. Through their repeated interactions, they would instead reach an understanding and rediscover themselves and their true nature-a timeless staple of classic heroic storytelling.
Unfortunately, Bai Wunan never