On a small path within Midtown High School, students were constantly coming and going to their classes, chatting and playing, full of youthful energy. Noah was also walking on this path, heading towards his classroom. Midtown High School was the name of the school he attended, which was Spider-Man's school in Marvel.
Today, Noah was wearing a long shirt to conceal his strengthened muscles, otherwise it would be difficult to explain why his physique had improved so much in just two days. He would wait a while before he could claim he had been working out. Just then, two voices called out to Noah from behind him.
"Hey, Noah, good morning."
"Noah, good morning!"
"Oh, Peter, Ned, good morning."
Noah turned his head and saw two people running towards him, one thin and one stout. It was Peter Parker and his friend Ned Leeds. Noah was also good friends with them, so he responded when he heard their greetings.
"Hey, did you two watch that live broadcast yesterday? Iron Man Tony Stark participated in a race and then battled the Electric Whip Monster! It was really cool."
After they walked up to Noah, Peter immediately started talking about Iron Man's events at the racetrack yesterday. He was a huge fan of Iron Man and was very excited about Iron Man's battle with Ivan Vanko at the racetrack.
"Electric Whip Monster? Did you come up with that name, Peter?" Noah asked.
"Yes, it's very cool, isn't it?" Peter said.
"Oh, right, right, right." Noah said, speechless.
Ned also joined the discussion about Iron Man. Although he wasn't a fanatic fan of Iron Man, he still liked Iron Man very much.
Seeing the two of them chattering, Noah quickened his pace.
"Noah, don't walk so fast, wait for us."
The two of them caught up, and the conversation finally moved away from Iron Man. They started talking about their plans for the holidays, as their sophomore year was coming to an end, with only a few days left until vacation.
"Noah, do you have any plans for the holidays? Ned and I are planning to visit the Stark World Expo hosted by Iron Man Tony Stark. Do you want to come along?" Peter asked Noah. He was a loyal fan of Iron Man, and he definitely wouldn't miss such a large-scale event hosted by Iron Man. Maybe he would even get to see Iron Man appear then. If that happened, it would be truly awesome!
"Sure, I'm also very interested." Noah was very interested in the mission. With such a big event, he definitely needed to trigger a B-level mission. However, that place would be a bit dangerous then. He couldn't remind his two companions now. He would just keep an eye on them then, Noah thought.
"OK! The three of us will go together then, maybe we'll even get a chance to see Iron Man Tony Stark!" Peter said excitedly.
They chatted as they walked into the classroom and began their day's lessons.
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Just like that, three peaceful days passed, and Noah welcomed his vacation. During these three days, Noah attended school during the day and went out to search for mission targets at night. After three nights of searching, he still hadn't found any crime scenes on the first two days. On the third day, he actually found two small groups engaging in illegal activities. Noah excitedly requested a designated mission from the system. He was very excited; after three days of running around so many places, he finally encountered these guys. However, the mission rating given by the system was only C-level, which immediately depressed Noah. The people at the scene became Noah's punching bags, as he was in a bad mood, and they were swept into the sky by Noah's full-rage use of Whirlwind. Noah didn't know where they were swept to, but that wasn't his concern.
However, after Noah completed the mission, he found that this C-level mission gave him one hundred more essence than the previous two C-level missions. The three C-level missions he completed in these three days were 100 essence for the first two C-levels and 200 essence for the last C-level. This made Noah realize that even C-level missions had differences. The total gain from these three days was 400 essence, and he only needed 500 more essence to do another ten consecutive draws.
On Thursday evening, Noah had just returned home and hadn't even had a chance to sit down when the system's prompt began to sound in his mind.
[Summoner, the mission system has detected a solvable B-level mission. Please check the mission panel.]
The system's prompt was something he had asked for after his mission last night, inquiring if the system could give him a reminder when there was a B-level mission nearby. He didn't expect it to actually be possible, nor did he expect a B-level mission reminder so soon, and even received it at home. Had something big happened near his home?
Noah thought, then opened the system mission panel and saw the information for the B-level mission.
[B-level Mission: Investigate Suspicious Personnel]
[Recently, a group of suspicious personnel has been monitoring the Summoner. Please find them and confirm their identities and objectives.]
"Monitoring? Is it S.H.I.E.L.D.? But this mission seems so simple, why is it B-level? Is it really as I thought before, that mission levels are linked to Marvel plot characters? For example, S.H.I.E.L.D. this time?"
Noah pondered, but he put these thoughts aside for now. He should focus on the mission first. He thought for a moment and felt that the people monitoring him might be S.H.I.E.L.D., after all, he had been running around every night these past few days, so it wasn't impossible for his tracks to be discovered.
Although he had deliberately avoided cameras and the like, there were bound to be oversights. Moreover, a figure similar to Daredevil had appeared near Hell's Kitchen, so S.H.I.E.L.D. must have noticed something. However, Noah didn't expect them to come knocking.
"S.H.I.E.L.D., at this time, it's still HYDRA-S.H.I.E.L.D., right? Let's see what they want to do first."
Noah's feelings towards S.H.I.E.L.D. were neutral; he neither liked them too much nor disliked them too much, of course, this was S.H.I.E.L.D. without HYDRA. After this contact with S.H.I.E.L.D., Noah felt that HYDRA within S.H.I.E.L.D. would definitely come to trouble him later, for example, wanting to capture him and interrogate him about the source of his power. However, Noah wasn't afraid of such trouble; in fact, he even looked forward to them coming to trouble him. Could Hydra Agents' missions reach B-level?
But he had to first think about how to explain the source of his power.
"Hmm... What should I make up? Alien technology? Mutation? Or did I obtain some treasure?" Noah's mind was racing, thinking about how to fabricate the source of his power to fool S.H.I.E.L.D. After all, S.H.I.E.L.D. was an official organization, and he should avoid being too confrontational with the authorities in the early stages. Although Noah felt he wasn't afraid of them because he had the system, and now with the Resolve Rune continuously strengthening his body, he felt that in a few years he would become a Superman of steel.
"Got it, that's it." Noah suddenly thought of something, directly accepted the mission, opened the door, and walked out.