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Ryun sat on the grass, his expression thoughtful. Tali looked at him with a conflicted grimace, on the verge of saying something. A spread of items was in front of him, his picks from Zenker’s hoard. He had spent the last month alone with Tali, training and creating a combat style for him. He had to change some things, to tweak his techniques and develop new ways of using them. And his combat style was a lot different now than it used to be before. The only thing that was left was to pick a gear set for himself. He had never relied on items before, but with Zenker’s inheritance there was no reason not to. One of the main reasons why he never relied on it that much was that his Qi didn’t synergize with it well. And if he was being honest, he never really needed it.

Now, there were some concerns with his choices. The nature of his new style meant that he had to be careful with his choices. Tali and he had spent the last day comparing items, but now he had stored away everything that he wasn’t picking.

He reached for the first item, which was of course his cloak. Black and made out of rough fabric, it had nothing special about it, no embroidery or flourishes, nothing to draw the eye. It made sneaking around easier than ever, even with the ways that he had learned to make himself stealthy, namely by destroying any Essence that gave away his position around his body.

Cloak of Grand Obfuscation

+400 to Dexterity

+300 to Wisdom

When worn the cloak makes your presence harder to detect, anyone looking at you will find you unimportant unless their attention is explicitly drawn. You will appear as an average and forgettable member of your race. The effects depend on the observers mental stats and state.

It wasn’t anything grand, but it did work wonders even against high tiered people. As long as he wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary. And he didn’t need it for any nefarious purposes like that, he needed it to simply walk around unnoticed. The range of his sense was large enough that he never really needed to get that close to listen in. He put it inside his Star Forge.

Next was one of his old rings. He had given his Grand Ring of Stamina Regeneration, Honzul’s Preparation, and Halting Barrier of Aegis to Anrosh for the Sect Vault as he no longer needed it. He couldn’t increase his stamina supply anymore through endurance, but he didn’t get tired when he was active either, his stamina regeneration was just insanely high. Grand Ring of Stamina Regeneration might still work for him, but his stamina regeneration scaled of his vitality which was high enough, the main part of his regeneration came from his Qi. And all of those rings used endurance in some way which no longer worked for him, they weren’t necessary.

The ring that he picked up was his reward from defeating Hastur, the Ring of Full Reflection. Despite finding Zenker’s hoard, that ring was still one of the most powerful items that he possessed. The effect on its own probably wasn’t that strong, not in the hands of other people at least, but for Ryun, a regenerator of his scope, it was the probably the greatest weapon in his arsenal. It stored damage that his body suffered, and allowed him to reflect it back. He had tested it out against monsters, though not against any really powerful ones. If he lost an arm, he could reflect that damage and injury back to his attacker, making them lose an arm too. If someone cut his head off… it wouldn’t kill him, but with his ring it would kill them. Unless they had perks that could counter that. But then that was the reality of the Infinite Realm, there were so many different powers that he had no doubt that something out there would be able to counter him. It was still extremely powerful.

He had chosen a few more rings from Zenker’s stash. Five rings on the ground in front of him were stat rings. Grand Rings of Strength, Dexterity, Vitality, Intelligence and Wisdom, all eternal items that gave 3500 to a stat, with the same ability to double their bonuses for a duration of five minutes at a cost of giving half the stats after for ten minutes. The last ring was a simple but powerful one.

Grand Ring of Health Regeneration

+400 to Vitality

+420 to Endurance

Increases your base physical regeneration by 350%.

He lost on the endurance stat as that no longer affected him, but it was incredible, for him at least. He put all the rings inside his storage, then moved to the next item, an amulet.

Will of the Wandering Drake

Reduces the quest requirements for skills by 20% when worn.

Wearing this increases the effectiveness of your tier 5 and bellow skills by 100%, tier 6 by 80%, tier 7 by 60%, tier 8 by 40%, and tier 9 by 20%.

You may evolve three skills without the need to create anchors, but the power of these skills will be capped at 70% of their potential maximum and can only be used while wearing this item.

It was the only item that Zenker wore that survived his battle with Hastur. Ryun had already tested it, and while he didn’t rely on quests to evolve his skills, the other bonuses were powerful. He wasn’t sure if he would ever use the anchor part of the item, but it was a good thing to have. He put it away too, and then moved to the armor.

They had discussed several different ways. Armor that boosted regeneration was notoriously hard to make as he learned in the Empire, but it was also hard to use for people like Ryun. He could survive attacks that would destroy most armors and he had no defensive perks to boost an armor’s effectiveness aside from one—Forged in Stars from Bright Star.

In the end they decided to go with something that would provide him pure defense and allow him the freedom of movement he needed. A full armor set that would protect him from attacks as long as possible before being damaged. Everything that it could tank for him saved him Qi, and besides, he would use copies, which meant that he could replace the armor if it ever got too damaged.

The armor had been in Zenker’s storage, and it had been damaged when he found it. It had a repair function, of course, but those only worked outside of storage places for some reason. Ryun assumed that items with that function they needed Essence from the world around them to repair themselves, and that wasn’t present in the storage spaces. The damage had been… extensive, it had a crack across the middle of its almost crystal like plates, though it was pristine now. Ryun wondered if Zenker had used it against Hastur, if perhaps it got damaged enough that he had to switch to something else. Or if it had been in his storage for longer, from some other fight. It didn’t matter in the end.

Ryun looked at the blue and white armor made out of interlocking plates that were glowing faintly. It was shaped for a drake’s body when he found it, but it had equip which meant that it shaped itself for his body when he wore it, it also had adaptive and durability—one meant that it could even change its shape in the extreme ranges, like for his evolved form, the other meant that the natural materials it was made out of had their durability increased beyond normal. The helmet had no visor, no gap for eyes but it was see-through from the inside.

Armor of the Last Star Plate (chest)

+2000 to Strength

+2000 to Endurance

When worn increase all of your natural resistances by 50% and reduces the physical damage taken from all sources by 50%. Adaptive, equip, repair, durability.