Chapter 102: A Chance
Na: Ancestral To of the Blood Witch
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"What is it?" Amunet asked curiously. Despite this, she didn’t co over. It was either she was too tired, or maybe she thought it was too shaless to try and double check that Grey wouldn’t be lying about its type.
"This is a bit of a grey area," Grey said. "It’s a legacy. An Ancestral To. There’s probably so wiggle room on the type of Fra that can use it. Are you interested in becoming a Blood Witch?"
Grey wasn’t exactly the mage type, but Esralda’s words had seed to imply that he was an anomaly for having more than one Fra.
Usually, you shouldn’t be able to gain another Fra until you moved up in Class, and that was only by replacing the one you already had or upgrading it. aning, at no ti should you ever have more than one Fra at a single ti.
Grey, obviously... had two of them.
His head canon for this was that it was related to the fact he had more than one Neural Fra Type. Though he couldn’t confirm, he was fairly sure that ant he probably could have at least four Fras at the sa ti.
At that point, having four lee type Fras just seed reductive. The whole jack of all, master of none trope worked up until you actually had that much room to play with.
With too many lee Fras, he would just end up with a million different ways to do the sa thing. At that point, it would just be a waste.
The idea of being able to survive a deathly blow to his head and co back swinging sounded appealing to him, though. But he could also already co back from the dead, and there was no guarantee the next item would be sothing Amunet could use so he thought about just giving it to her.
"This is great." Amunet suddenly said, hopping to her feet.
"Hm?" Grey chuckled. "Excited all of a sudden? And here I thought you were too busy being a goody goody."
If Grey could see Amunet’s face right now, he was sure that she would probably be rolling her eyes.
"You don’t get it. It’s a to, one that’s passed down. I’ve found one before too, that’s how I have a lot of my abilities. It’s not an item that can only be used once. So long as we have enough energy, we can both use it."
"Oh..." Grey blinked, not having expected such a result.
But that much was true. He had downloaded the chanical Jaw Ancestral To. The problem was that he had only done it in part.
’Energy. Is that why I could only download part of it? The to didn’t have enough of it? Or maybe it needed to recharge...?’
Grey looked toward the pile of raw materials and grinned.
He didn’t have a spatial artifact so there was no way he could lug all of that out. But, if he could use so of them...
If he had had the Ancestral To of the chanical Jaw on him, he would have realized this much earlier. But better late than never.
"It seems we’re in luck, then."
At the back of Grey’s mind, though, he couldn’t help but wonder if Protheus could just swallow the to like it had the blueprints as well.
"Here." Grey gave the to over. "You can go first. I’ll check out the other item."
Amunet seed taken aback when Grey actually handed her the to. But after a mont, the shadowy lines of her face seed to smile.
"I guess we’re both idiots."
"Hey, I never said that out loud."
Amunet scoffed into a laugh. "Asshole."
Grey bent down and scooped up the witch eye as she turned around, rolling it in his palm.
Pulses of electricity coming from it made him feel almost like his hand was going to be burned through.
’So uncomfortable.’
He didn’t even have any pockets to put it in.
Grey found himself staring at the eye for a long while. He wasn’t sure if it was a trick of the light, but he could practically see the lines of Neural Fra coming out from it. Not every one, but instead the ones the eye used most frequently.
And that was when he had a thought.
’Why was it such an important matter for her to get another eye.’
Sure, no one would like the feeling of being half blind, but for Esralda it had been almost like a life and death matter, as though the only way she would be satisfied was to once again regain sight in her other eye.
For soone who had practically had the power of a god it almost felt so... petty.
Grey’s head tilted to one side, his thoughts becoming lost for a mont.
His eye flashed with a blue arc. He had sunk into such a state of lost ditation that the Neural Fra network around his own eye had flickered to life, following the pulsing pattern radiating from Esralda’s.
A spike of pain shook Grey awake and a wild idea took hold of his mind.
If he made the Ball Bearing Eye with Esralda’s as the central eye, could he use so of its strength?
A great amount of power was still radiating from Esralda’s eye, but Grey could also feel that it was slowly weakening over ti as well. It was slow, but it was definitely happening.
’This... might be how we defeat that vampire pimp.’
Grey’s eyes lit up with realization and he clenched the eye into his palm.
’Let’s do this.’
Grey reached forward and touched the second Loot Box. A similar animation played out and the box crumbled into space in jigsaw pieces.
An orb of energy radiating silvery black light hovered in its place.
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Na: Inventory Embryo
Rarity: Legendary
Accepted Type: ALL
Rejected Type: NONE
Description: Space is commanded by the gods, harboring a secret that hails back to the ti of chaos and the reaches of the beginning of all. You, however, have managed to gain a small kernel of this power for yourself, one that even a God cannot take away. However, be wary, young one. The Fog of Chaos cos for all who command a piece of what should be its own.
Abilities: In exchange for energy, store items up to the Legendary Grade.
1 unit for Proving Class items.
10 units for the Established Class
100 units for the Vector Class
10,000 units for the Vanguard Class
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