area51novel Chapter 155 Going Home
Chapter 155 Going Home
During his nighttime journey, Long You deeply appreciated the convenience brought by Bourne's upgrade from a combat-aid intelligence to an AI secretary.
Under Bourne's control, as long as Long You can trust Bourne and the effectiveness of the soul-detecting device, he can meditate and practice in the Pearl of Imagination.
At 11 p.m., snowstorm raged behind Long You, while only howling winds swept in front of him. This meant that Long You had completely left the far north.
Just to be on the safe side, Long You, having opened his eyes, did not stop the soul-guided power mech from moving, but continued southward.
The town is inaccessible tonight, but Longyou needs to find a more secluded place further north to spend the night.
Incidentally, after encountering the preemptively activated soul-guided mech today, Long You has already used his Insight Glasses to analyze the soul ring storage device and the soul rings stored within it in detail.
This spirit ring can remain in the storage spirit tool for a whole year without dissipating. Furthermore, it's unclear whether the storage spirit tool itself obscures the spirit ring's binding mechanism (only the person who ultimately kills the spirit beast can absorb the spirit ring it generates). The condition for a spirit master to absorb this spirit ring is no longer killing the spirit beast, but rather opening the storage spirit tool.
In short, with this spirit ring storage device, the business of buying and selling spirit rings becomes possible. For the scions of powerful families, acquiring spirit rings will become much easier and safer.
Of course, once this business of buying and selling spirit rings begins, the spirit beasts on the continent will likely face another massacre by human spirit masters, ultimately leading to the spirit beast king, who has reached his limit, launching a beast tide attack ahead of schedule.
Therefore, after this successful attempt, Long You was not very willing to popularize this special soul tool, the soul ring storage soul tool.
Fortunately, the current version of the Soul Ring Storage Soul Tool requires at least an eighth-level high-grade Soul Master to successfully manufacture. If it's to be mass-produced and widely adopted, it will definitely need to undergo an optimization and difficulty-reduction process.
If Long You doesn't use his martial soul to cheat, this process would normally take a year, two years, or even longer. In addition, Shrek Academy will definitely not ignore the things that Long You can think of, so at least within ten years (until the Sun Moon Empire also produces them), Long You doesn't need to worry about a large-scale proliferation of soul ring storage soul tools.
When the time comes, a more powerful and user-friendly artificial spirit technology, superior to spirit rings, will surely be developed (Long You himself can't wait to use it and definitely needs to develop it as soon as possible). Even the most desirable spirit rings stored in spirit guides are no match for artificial spirits that can transcend levels, fight multiple opponents, and possess intelligence.
With the value of spirit rings decreasing, the indiscriminate slaughter of spirit beasts becomes unnecessary. While this may not eliminate all the hatred spirit beasts harbor towards humans, it is enough to make some powerful spirit beasts more rational.
Alright, let's get back to the topic. The survival of soul beasts and humans, and the situation on the continent, are not things that Long You should be worrying about at this stage. What Long You needs to do now is find a suitable campsite.
Although most of the day was relatively uneventful, Long You was exhausted from the long journey and desperately needed to lie down and relax.
From the moment he lay down under the silvery moonlight until the sun was high in the sky, Long You reluctantly got up and left the comfortable nest he had built the night before. Long You first ate breakfast in the northern border city of the Heavenly Soul Empire, the closest city to him, before piloting his soul-guided power mecha directly towards Heavenly Dou City.
Shrek Academy's initial decision to build communication satellites was actually to counter the threat from the Sun Moon Empire. Therefore, during this semester, of the several communication satellites launched by Shrek Academy, except for one positioned directly above the academy, the rest were all deployed to the southern part of the continent.
In other words, the northern part of the continent is still a communication wasteland. If Long You wants to contact the academy as quickly as possible, he still needs to rely on the communication lines set up by the Long family. There's nothing more to say then; let's go straight back to our home in Tiandou City.
During the last holiday, Long You was almost never home for various reasons. This holiday, Long You plans to go home and enjoy a few days of emperor-like treatment, although this emperor-like treatment will turn into various forms of disdain after a few days.
Thinking that he would have his dad's soul power replenisher when he got home, Long You felt reassured and continued to lavishly use the soul power stored in the baby bottle.
However, Long You somewhat overestimated his energy reserves, or rather, underestimated the energy consumption of the soul-guided power mech. After the soul power stored in the level eight milk bottle was completely exhausted, he had to switch to the level five milk bottle soul tool he made himself as the driving force, and the overall speed dropped sharply.
The soul-guided power mecha is like a diesel engine, while the level-five milk bottle made by Long You, and the soul power stored in the level-five milk bottle soul tool, are like gasoline. It's not unusable, but firstly, the speed won't be high enough, and secondly, it won't withstand high heat.
After flying for a while, Long You discovered that, with the same amount of time and energy consumption, the speed of the Soul-guided Powered Mech could no longer keep up with its smaller sibling, the Soul-guided Powered Armor.
Even though Long You discovered the problem in time and managed to stop the damage, he only managed to return to Tian Dou City by sheer luck, just before the city gates closed at night.
He took out the soul ring storage device containing the black 26,000-year soul ring and explained to his mother why he hadn't brought Huo Yuhao back. He also had his mother, who was worried about her son, assign his father a task to recharge his soul ring. Then, as expected, Long You reliably began contacting the academy.
Long You had Qian Duoduo's contact number, but out of respect for the dean of the college, he first sent the contact request to his own teacher, Fan Yu's, mobile phone.
"What's wrong? Did you run into an opponent you couldn't handle while working on your spirit rings?"
The call was answered instantly, as always, and Fan Yu's deep voice came from the speaker.
If someone unaware of the situation heard such a serious voice, they would certainly become serious as well, if not afraid. However, Long You already knew Fan Yu's character very well and was quite open about it, as he was a kind-hearted person with a tough exterior.
"No, no, of course not. I've already taken care of the spirit ring issue; it's an Ice Jade Scorpion with an age of 26,000 years. Besides, our spirit tools are very useful. Apart from the fact that they only have a one-year shelf life and can't hold 100,000-year-old spirit rings, there are no other restrictions."