Unreliable Ring's Spirit Soul

Chapter 16 Unreliable Ring's Spirit Soul

'Spirit Soul!'

That's what his grandfather had said in his reminder.

"Cough...Hi madam. Nice to meet you. I'm Lin Ren," he said out loud.

[Giggle…no need to be tensed. From now on you are my master and my partner.]

[As Spirit Soul of the ring, I could also be regarded as your guardian for the time being as long as you need it.]

[And one more thing, you don't need to talk out loud to communicate with me.]

The gentle female voice responded to him.

"Cough. Is that so? But how do I communicate with you later?"

He was a bit embarrassed. Just now, he was introducing himself as if he had just transferred to a new class in school. It must be particularly funny when he was alone here, up on the mountain with nothing around except for eggs.

Ah, of course there's that guy.

Speaking of that guy, the image he had previously erase appeared again in his mind.

So wittily, he tried to change the subject, not only to divert the Spirit Soul attention but also his own attention.

[Why does your spirit keep fluctuating? Did you thought anything 'weird' when hearing my sweet voice?]

'Weird thoughts?'

He indeed thought of something weird but not in the way she meant. (He wondered whether he should puke first?)

'As a spirit soul, could she even understand what it meant?'

If she indeed understood, then he needs to make sure he never mentions about it or else she might tease him about it in the future.

So, the safest choice of answer in this situation was to deny it.

"No. Nothing. Why would I have any such thoughts?" he quickly denied it.

[Okay never mind. Anyway, my time is limited. So, you need to listen carefully.]

[First of all, the state I'm currently in now is my active state. In this state, I could sense outside world and communicate with you and others normally.]

[However, when I enter dormant state, we can communicate with each other using spirit and mental strength. So far so good?]

'Sounds simple enough,' He nodded.

[Unfortunately, right now my strength is limited, so after this I need to sleep to preserve and recover my strength]

[You on the other hand have not trained your spirit and mental strength.]

[Only when your spirit and mental strength had grown strong enough, that you can communicate with my dormant self later. Otherwise, we cannot communicate.]

[So, after this we would not be able to talk for a while]

"Wait. Why is your strength weak? And how..."

Before he could finish his question, Lin Ren was interrupted.

[Sorry. No time. I'll tell you the story later. I have a lot of other things to explain first]

[The next thing is the ring's function. Since you are unable to use spirit and mental strength, you can only use a limited function, only the ones that have been previous set up.]

[You can use the ring's function by calling to it. You don't need to talk out loud. Just a whisper would do]

[The ring is not almighty. Its various function could be described in one sentence: storage. From information to knowledge nodes to physical items.]

[Using the stored information function it can serve as guidebook, can perform any task related to information.]

[Unfortunately, you can only use analyzing functions through me. After all I'm the intelligent part of the ring, the processor so to speak]

[If you can directly communicate with me inside the ring, it won't consume me much energy to help you analyze. But to do this, as you already know, you need to have spirit and mental strength.]

[But if you were to ask me to manifest my presence and directly communicate with you out here, it would cost extra energy, which I don't currently have sufficiently.]

[If you in urgent need for it, you could use heaven and earth treasure to restore my spirit strength. But I don't recommend it. It's called heaven and earth 'treasure' for a reason, and you should use such treasure on yourself.]

[Other basic functions include scan and inform your body situation, scan anyone you touched, store information including taking notes, gain access to the inheritance's knowledge when you found one, scan and identify items under the premise there's related entry information within database...]

"Isn't that pretty much just what a smart watch can do these days?" Lin Ren couldn't help but interrupted.

[Really? Well maybe it is. I had not been out for several hundred years so I'm not sure this new smart whatever thing you mentioned. Anyway, the functions were that kind of thing.]

'Sound a bit unreliable.'

[Though if we can communicate, there's plenty of stuff we can do. As the intelligent unit, the core of the ring, I can even help you create new functions. Unfortunately, that have to wait.]

"Don't worry. I'll train hard," Lin Ren assured her.

Of course, he will train hard, He dreamt of cultivating. Why would he waste the chance?

[Anyway master, I've three good news and one bad news for you. Which one you want to know first?]

"Let's hear the bad news first."

Thinking about it, it's better for the heart to learn the bad one first.

[Alright. The bad news is that you can't learn local language immediately. The reason has two.]

[First, as you can see here is a ruin.]

[Originally all Lin Clan's children were supposed to be sent to an ally friendly force of the clan when they embark on their journey. Here, there's supposed to be someone to meet you.]

[And then they would provide me with local language knowledge node]

[Through their help even with the remaining energy I have, it should be possible to impart the language knowledge node directly to your consciousness. This way you can immediately know how to speak and write in local language.]

[But now that's impossible. There's no one here and I don't have the local language knowledge node.]

"You mean like language package? So, you can't update the language package?"

[Language package? Update? What's that? From the sound of it, it should be similar in meaning.]

[Back to the reason. If there's no one around to provide...cough update the language package.]

'Why do you have to correct your sentences? Staying up-to-date, are we?'

[So, in such situation, the ring and me, who were supposed to have sufficient energy, could still help you.]

[Whenever you went to a settlement later, either town or cities, I could help scan the local region recording everyone speech. Afterward I could analyze the information, compare it to Earth's language, create language package and impart it directly to your consciousness.]

[Later, when you read books, documents or any writings for that matter, I can scan each page directly, analyze and compared with existing language package. After updating the language package, I can again impart it directly to your consciousness.]

[Of course, each time I scan, analyze, compare, create language package, and impart it to you, it consumes corresponding amount of energy. I won't recommend using it frequently]

[But now since I'm going to fall into dormant state, sigh...I guess master you're out of luck]

'What's with that tone? Did you have a grudge against me? We had only known a few minutes!'

Holding himself back, he politely asked her, "So how do I want to communicate with others later on?"

[Well, the easiest way is to have someone impart the knowledge to you. Though to do this, that someone must have a strong spiritual and mental energy.]

[Another is for you to learn yourself like any normal person would do.]

[The ring could record what you see and hear. So, you could use this function to slowly learn other's language.]

[Though I know the process is hard and you might not be able to talk with others for a while]

[Or else, if you cannot do that, you can also wait for me to recover enough energy to scan the region and create the language package for you.]

'Did she just despise me?'