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Hundreds of thousands more arrows followed the first. Cyra and her mother didn’t need to stare and watch in horror as a black and brown storm of needles hit the ground. As they continued to fly, her mother realized the futility of running. As she jumped into the way of incoming arrows that would’ve turned Cyra into a pincushion… only to explode into a burst of bubbles.
Cyra didn’t look back. Couldn’t look back. Otherwise, her mother’s sacrifice will be in vain. Instead, she noticed a cave in the side of a cliff wall and dipped into the cave… only to find its a pool of water. Because she is only four days old, she doesn’t know how to swim and slowly drowned, but death for her is not the end. Its FAR from it, actually.
Cyra once again finds herself in the same void she found herself in before her first moments of life on this planet. Once again, she finds three System Windows in front of her.
Each one reads the following:
[Item Name: Rusty Red Ring
Item Type: Ring/Accessory-Based Skill Capsule
Rarity: Common
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Functionality:
- Contains the Fireball Skill.
- Collect all nine colors to unlock a hidden class.]
[Item Name: Rusty Blue Ring
Item Type: Ring/Accessory-Based Skill Capsule
Rarity: Common
Functionality:
- Contains the Water Bomb Skill.
- Collect all nine colors to unlock a hidden class.]
[Item Name: Rusty Yellow Ring
Item Type: Ring/Accessory-Based Skill Capsule
Rarity: Common
Functionality:
- Contains the Lightning Bolt I Skill.
- Collect all nine colors to unlock a hidden class.
]
That brought Cyra back to her strategy mind. None of the options seems particularly good in the immediate moment. They are either evolutions of a Skill she already has, [Water Bomb] evolving from [Waterball], or they interact with her elements in uncomfortable ways. Like how Water counters Fire and Thunder counters Water.
However, Cyra then remembered that the Tiger path gave her the Thunder element, so [Lightning Bolt I] Skill seems like the best bet, and by extension, the Rusty Yellow Ring [Item]. She selected the ring she wanted and felt it materialize on her front left middle toe. When she looked down, however, she found that not only was the Rusty Yellow Ring in her possession, but so was a cheetah-patterned ring on the front right middle toe. She opened its stat, only to be shocked on what she found.
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Item Name: Ring of the Soul (Cheetah)
Item Type: Ring / Accessory-Based Soul Capsule
Rarity: Mythic
Functionality: Allows the host to contain two consciousnesses, effectively improving the host’s stats based on the entity inside the ring. That entity’s Skills are now shared with the host.
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