After a little celebrating for a few minutes, I eventually decided to actually find out what I had made. ‘Appraisal’ I think, activating the appraisal ability given by the system causing the bright blue screen to pop into existence reading the words “Scanning…” with the three fluctuating dots dancing for a few seconds that I spent confusedly looking at the screen. ‘What is it doing? It never had to do this before, is this because I made it and it is going to give me a more thorough analysis?’ I think to myself while watching the screen questioningly.
After a few seconds of the screen staying still saying “Scanning…” It finally changed and new words formed “Scanning complete.” which faded, replaced with some new boxes with information on the ring.
Name: Mythril Anti Spirit Aura Tracking Ring
Grade: Uncommon Low
Abilities:
- Creates an energy barrier that prevents the spirit aura of the wearer from leaking into the air while absorbing a portion of it to power itself in the process.
-Will prevent most tracking forms that rely on natural spirit aura emissions as the target.
“Wow, I really did it… But why is it only giving me a thorough analysis of what I make? That is annoying…” I brood on that for a bit before pulling myself back out of my thoughts. “Ok… First of all, that is a very long name. Oh, maybe it is an acronym… Masatr… Ok, that sounds cool if you pronounce it like Me-ce-tar… Masatr it is. Masatr, The ring of stealth.” I name the ring, like the dork I am and as soon as I say it out loud the screen blinks and the first box changes to say “Masatr, The ring of stealth.” instead of “Mythril Anti Spirit Aura Tracking Ring”
Huh, so I can change the name of my creations and it will update the system's classifications. Good to know.
I continue to look over Masatr’s evaluation once again and my eyes settle on “Grade: Uncommon Low” “Really?” I say out loud, surprised at the grade it shows, “Is the enchantment that bad, or perhaps the ring? A fully enchanted ring, made of pure mythril no less, that is only Low Uncommon grade? Am I that bad?” I wonder out loud, thinking what could cause it to be at such a low ranking, but not coming up with a reason. “Well, at least it says that it does what I meant it to… But I wonder, what methods of spirit aura tracking would the ring's effects not disrupt?”
I think over all the information on magical tracking in the books, but I don't recall anything. “Well, I suppose that there will be some things unmentioned in the books about this world… I should be cautious.” I conclude out loud.
I look around me and ask myself, “What am I supposed to do now?”
As if in response the blue screen suddenly shifts and reads “Passive ability: ‘Ring Maker lv2’ unlocked.” I read it quickly and then gasp at the implications ‘Does this mean that when I do specific things I can unlock and level up passive abilities that will make it easier to do that thing? That could be insanely useful!’ I think to myself. ‘Wait, it didn't tell me what the passive ability does.’ I realize with a panic, what if it just showed my proficiency at things, not helps me improve them?
Then the screen blinks and updates to show a new notification saying “From the successful completion of a low uncommon enchanted ring you have earned 25 Ring Gold.”
I can earn this much Ring Gold by making things!? If I make one more low uncommon grade item, I would be able to afford a gold bar! Which I could sell and buy something like a bar of orichalcum! The system store is going to bankrupt the world with these prices though, I could probably sell this ring, just based on aesthetics and material alone, for at least a thousand times the twenty five Ring Gold I got for it! “Ha, I won't ever be able to accuse the system for overcharging me!” Ok, well moving on…
“Status!” I say out loud, causing the blue screen to blink to my status menu that now has a change to it.
Statistics
Passive Abilities
Skills
Active Quests
Name: Ardika Ekia
Physical age: 11
Birthdate: August 12
Gender: Male
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Race: Human/God hybrid
Adaptation
Adaptive system
Perfect Recollection
Ring Maker Lv2
Appraisal (Object inclined)
Soul Forge Lv1
(No active quests)
Ok, so it shows up on the status menu, but still nothing to show what it does! ‘Maybe I should just ask the system to show what it does?’ I thought to myself and then directed my thoughts outward, trying to communicate with the spiritual symbiote ‘Hey, could you give me the descriptions of abilities on the status menu?’ After my attempt at communication, silence reigned for a long few seconds and I felt no response from the system. Not even the screen changed.
Just as I was about to give up on a response from the system, the bright screen suddenly flashed a notification saying “Do you want to enable heightened description mode Y/N” I read the message overjoyed ‘It responded! I can communicate with it!’ I thought, happy that my attempt at communication worked. ‘Yes! Please activate heightened description mode!’ I thought to the symbiote in relief.
The rectangle flashed once again, now saying “Confirmed, heightened description mode activating…” The three dots began to dance once again on the screen, making me wait with baited breath, watching the screen, waiting for what would happen next. After a few seconds of waiting, the screen updated once more saying “Heightened description mode activated. To disable this feature at any time, say or think ‘Disable heightened description mode.’ To return to the status menu, say or think ‘Status.’”
It's done, now let's find out what it did… ‘Status.’ I think, returning to the status menu that is now much bigger with a lot more information on it.
Statistics
Passive Abilities
Skills
Active Quests
Name: Ardika Ekia
Physical age: 11 years old
Birthdate: August 12
Gender: Male
Race: Human/God hybrid
Adaptation:
Allows the body to adapt, physically and mentally, to situations and recurring types of injuries faster than normal.
Adaptive system:
The system can change to desires and to events, also permits the system to monitor and observe events and actions.
Perfect Recollection: Increases memory recollection abilities to great extent.
Ring Maker Lv2:
Increases mental and physical abilities in the process of enchanting with the Ring Maker system.
Appraisal:
Allows the system to evaluate objects and show the results when the ability is directed to an object.
Soul Forge Lv1:
Connects a gateway to the soul to a personal realm that can be summoned at any time.
(No active quests)
This is… Wow, this changes a lot. The Adaptation passive ability and the Perfect recollection passive ability, along with Appraisal are pretty much exactly what I expected but the Adaptive system is really interesting, the system watches what I am doing along with different events? And it changes to my desires? Does this mean that the system symbiote isn't alive? Is it a sort of program that follows its code to do what I want? Or am I just reading too much into this?
Well, what the system is aside, this is really useful! Ring Maker is exactly what I hoped it was! It helps me get better at enchanting! Also apparently the Soul Forge is a personal realm that is connected to my soul. I mean I had already known that it is connected to my soul, but it's a realm? I thought it might be a pocket dimension, but this is much better! Probably.
I look around my realm, thinking about what I should do now. Should I do some more blacksmithing? Enchanting is off the table as my spirit energy production is very low now, enchanting is a very hard process, on body, mind and soul and my soul won't be back in shape enough to enchant for this month at the very least.
Wait, I forgot something that I had to do… Oh, I should put on Masatr, just in case. I look at my hands, realizing that I was still holding Masatr in my right hand and I carefully slide it onto the index finger of my left hand. As soon as it was securely on my finger, I felt a strange tingling on my arm and I felt reassured that the enchantment is working when it gradually becomes less and less noticeable until I wasn't sure if I was really feeling anything anymore. If only I could see my spirit aura…
Now, I suppose that now is as good a time to practice my blacksmithing skills as any. Who knows, maybe I will unlock the blacksmithing passive ability?
I stand up and almost immediately regret thinking about standing up. I was very, very, very sore, all over. I kneel down and start to wrap up the pile of blankets that was on the floor. I need to lie down, but it would be pushing my luck to try and sleep in the Soul Forge.
As soon as I wrapped up all the blankets, I stood up with the blankets in my arms and I stumbled to the doorway into my room, opened it and stepped into the comforting grasp of my bed with a moan of tiredness, only then closing the gate to the Soul Forge.
I don't even bother putting the blankets on my bed properly, or placing my pillow beneath my head, I just throw the big bundle over my body and immediately pass out.