13 Idea (2/2)

”Head east, I have an idea.” Said Hope with a lively smile.

”OK, but how are we going to find spiritual Beasts, we don't know the regions where they usually appear.” Said Koren as he started to sprint east.

”That's where I come in, don't worry as soon as we are far enough from the village, we'll find the spirit beasts.” Said Hope.

Koren kept running till he couldn't see the village anymore.

”This should be far enough big sis.” Said Koren as he came to a stop. ”Yep, now let me work my magic.” said Hope as she smiled.

Koren felt it, the feeling of losing control, liquid metal creeping out from his body. He started to get taller, the metal was all the way up to his neck now.

The metal started to solidify, and the Armor was finally complete. ”Koren, you look so handsome, I can see lots of pretty ladies chasing after you when you grow up.” Said Hope as she brought out a hologram of Koren in the Armor for him to see.

Koren was shocked, for a moment he thought he saw his father 'Ken'. However, the grown up version of him looked much taller than his father, he had his mother's dark eyes, and he kept his sharp brows.

Koren looked at Hope and smiled. ”Big sis we need to stop playing around, I can't be gone all night or someone will know I left” said Koren in a serious tone.

”OK, OK, fine. Geez, I'm supposed to be the elder sister in this situation.” said Hope.

”Koren, I need you to calm down, I'm going to use an ultrasonic radar to search for any underground cavities, we are going to find out where the sand beasts live. If we can find them, then there will probably be some Spiritual beasts among them, like their leaders.” Said Hope as metal started to creep up on Koren's face and solidified as his helmet.

The display turned on, and numbers started to pop up.

'…beep…loading core AI…Command accepted…HOPE…beep…'

'…power reserves sufficient… loading utilities menu…beep…'

Koren saw a menu pop up with a whole range of images, information kept being pumped into his head from the network and soon he knew what each one was and how they worked.

”Will the ultrasonic radar work, the Armor can activate it, but with its low reserves its range will be affected.” said Koren in an inquisitive tone.

”Don't worry, I made some modifications for efficiency, it'll work.” said Hope as she closed her eyes.

Koren raised his right arm at the same time as Hope raised hers, an instrument appeared. It looked like a glowing ring, to others it would look strange, but Koren was connected to the network, and he already knew what he had to do.

”Now Koren activate it, I'm done with the modifications, so the range should be around 20.7 kilometers, but just to be safe, keep the range to 20, we only need to find the caverns.” Said Hope.

Koren, looked at the display and willed the control sequence to appear, and it did. He set the range, and activated the device.

Koren heard a 'ting' sound, and the sand under his feat moved just a tiny bit, and then a second later he heard the sound again.

”Ahh, there's nothing here.” said Hope in a clearly disappointed tone.

”Keep activating it intermittently as you move, I'm sure we will find something.” Said Hope.

”OK Big sis.” said Koren as he started to run.

The rush he felt while running in the Armor was immense, he couldn't help but scream out. ”Woohoo.” yelled Koren as the scenery in front of him kept changing.

”Easy there Koren, use wind to run, we don't want the Armor to lose any more power.” Said Hope as she noticed the energy usage.

Koren stopped immediately and just as he was about to apologize to Hope, he paused. Koren turned to Hope and said ”Big sis I have an idea.”

”Oh, do tell. I like that my genius is beginning to rub off on you Koren.” Said Hope excitedly.

”Big sis what if I use my elemental sense, in conjunction with the ultrasonic radar.” said Koren with excitement.

”Koren, the Armor can't use your elemental power, it runs on electrical power, electrons flowing through a closed circuit.” Said Hope with obvious disappointment.

”But big sis, I'm not saying it has to use my elemental power, the ultrasonic radar uses sound to pierce through the ground and gives us an image of the condition down there using the echo. The sound needs to cross a layer of earth to reach down there, so if I use my power to reduce the friction it will face when going down, won't that increase its range even with the low power usage.” said Koren in a single breath, making sure he didn't miss anything.

”Whoa, that's genius, and it just might work. Actually if I'm right, with the talent you showed during that sparring session, we can triple the range.” Said Hope with obvious excitement.