"Still a little short."
Starmie's troubled voice came from the ruby.
Compared to the distinctly synthesized, mechanical voice before his evolution, his voice now sounded far more natural.
If Mu Yun had not seen it with his own eyes, he might have thought a young boy was speaking.
"You can change your voice too?"
Mu Yun curiously touched the gleaming ruby on Starmie's chest.
It was smooth and hard, yet not uncomfortable to the touch. It felt somewhat like glass, but its texture carried a trace of softness.
Very strange.
"I can. I can imitate any voice I've heard. As for voices I haven't heard, I can simulate them based on their characteristics."
Starmie switched between male, female, elderly, and childish voices as he finished the sentence.
How should he put it? If Starmie were placed in a haunted house, even without anyone in sight, he would probably still be pretty scary.
"Not bad. By the way, what did you mean when you said you were still a little short?"
After satisfying his curiosity, Mu Yun asked again.
"It's the analysis of my core—namely, the gem on my chest. It is equivalent to a normal creature's brain, as well as a condensed repository of all information. It stores everything about me and all the inherited information of our species."
"But my current strength is limited. I can barely break through the information on the surface of the core. I still can't reach what lies inside."
Starmie explained.
Simply put, the ruby was a core information storage area protected by a firewall. With his current hardware, neither his processing power nor his technical level was sufficient to break through it.
"What do you need? An upgrade?"
Mu Yun thought of Super Brain's final effect, which had yet to appear in Starmie's