Finding myself in what seemed to be an alleyway was both surprising and not at the same time.
It wasn't my first time finding myself in weird places after a wild night with my cousin's.
No, what was truly surprising and borderline scary was the fact that I couldn't move my body at all.
No twitch of muscle, no flatter of my eyelids and no indicator that I was even breathing.
It felt peaceful to be honest, but I didn't like this.
' Am I paralysed?' I thought to myself with a sigh but that idea was immediately squashed as the next thing or things I saw made me rethink this entire situation.
The trash can littered with trash was bigger then what I felt my physical body should be.
And I even saw people walk by me without even batting an eye at my direction.
Fuck, a guy literally walked over me.
So safe to say that whatever I seemed to have turned out to be wasn't human.
' Well...this is weird....did I get Reincarnated and turned into an ant or something like those fanfictions I read?' I mused to myself not really understanding my situation.
[Loading interface....]
'.....oh no.' I thought already knowing what the fuck was happening, a holographic screen appearing before my eyes.
I had been R.O.Bed of my previous life because I know damn well I didn't die naturally as the last thing I remember, even if I was piss drunk was me being balls deep inside my cousin's tight cunt.
Now I know there is so much wrong with that statement but I was never one for normalcy or morals in the first place.
But enough about that...I now come to realise that I am now probably never gonna get back home unless I achieved a status of power the same as the thing that had brought me here.
[Interface Loaded! You have gained the Following!
—Status View
—Skill View
—Ability View
—Inventory]
Already figuring what each function did almost instinctively, I thought of opening my status and just like that it happened.
[—Name: Luciel O'Riordan.
—Item Name: The Ring Of Viru.
—Object: Iron Ring.
—Level: 1
—Arcana: 1,000/1,000.
—[Stats]—
—Bond: 1
—Control: 1
—Soul: 1
—Mind: 1
—[Free Points: 30]—
And just like I thought.
I was an object.
" [Fuck!]" And for the first time since this entire situation I let my frustrations out which caused my surroundings to be blown away by a strong gust of wind which also took me in its embrace and threw me a couple metres away right infront of a man who seemed all the ready to end his life from his lifeless eyes, apathetic and borderline gone expression.
" Oh a ring?" The man said as he crouched down and grabbed me before inspecting me.
" An iron ring?... worthless." He said seemingly disappointed in my form.
' Bitch I do with what I was dealt with from birth! But this time it ain't because of my dick!' I wanted to shout out to see if I could recreate an effect such as the one I had just created before being blown by a gust of wind.
But I refrained, I needed this guy to put me on and not throw me away for being weird.
And this was for the simple fact that since I've opened my status I have gained an almost instinctual understanding of everything.
For starters, I wasn't a normal ring.
I was what people could deem a power ring, like those green lantern rings from DC that gave their wearers powers.
I was no different in that department as I too could also grant my users powers....but sadly at the moment I couldn't give much.
And that was due to the simple fact of how I worked.
You see, i needed for people to put me on and everytime they did I could gain the opportunity to copy either their talent's, abilities or rarely their skills.
I could then when and if my host died find a new host and grant said abilities and talents while copying any they had and from there it would be like a snowball effect.
I had multiple ways of achieving these and that all depended on my 4 stats, but mostly the first two.
You see I could either play my part by being a symbiotic creature that would give and take from my hosts by [Bonding] with them and helping them as much as I could and at the end when our Bonding Rate achieved 100% I could then copy everything they had of worth.
And then the Control Stat which just as it seemed allowed me to gain a control over my hosts and even influence their minds and thoughts at a minimum, this worked by me having my control stat high enough that I could simply break through their mental defences and takeover their bodies but the Bonding Rate would slow to a crawl by doing this.
And of the two I immediately chose control just for the simple fact that I would be able to gain a body.
As for who's body I would have to steal, well....the numbskull that at this point had already entered his apartment and grabbed their laptop before they started masturbating was the only candidate.
'....I should be appalled but I simply can't feel it.' I thought with a sigh.
Now for a more straightforward description of my stats I brought up my status and then opened the stats descriptions.
[—Bond: Increased the rate of which the assimilation rate making it so that the stronger ring wearers bond faster with it until reaching 100%.
—Control: Increased the control and influence the ring on the ring wearer making it so the user could even fully takeover the bodies of the ring wearer if they reach a 100% Control Percentage.
—Soul: Increased the rings affinity for energies and different types of ring wearers and made it so that the ring would amplify ones natural affinity and abilities.
—Mind: Increased the rings mental capabilities which could be used to keep up multiple thought processes and even be used to enhance the ring wearers intellect.]
Soul could and would make it so that the natural talents, skills and abilities of the ring wearer could be enhanced and amplified for as much as the ring could keep the enhancement going, the ring(me) would use the [Arcana] which was the energy that I used to power up some of my natural abilities to use would be used for this.
And then Mind, which would make me much more intelligent the more I had on them and allow me to increase the intellects of my wearer's.
Now me being me, I prioritised control and mind with soul being the third and bond being dead last.
Control would give me a more front seat stage to the users body and actions, mind would grant me intellect that I could also use when I took over my wearer's body and then soul for when I had the body and wanted to enhance it.
We don't talk about bonding as much of an overpowered option it was, I wasn't interested in being someone's pet.
So with that monologue settled down I distributed the free stats I had.
[—Name: Luciel O'Riordan.
—Item Name: The Ring Of Viru.
—Object: Iron Ring.
—Level: 1
—Arcana: 8,000/8,000.
—[Stats]—
—Bond: 1
—Control: 20
—Soul: 8
—Mind: 5
—[Free Points: 0]—