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Ray

Sniper — Hunter

Attacks consume Ammo to increase ATK to 120%; While not attacking, Ammo will be slowly reloaded (max capacity 8).

RB15
Ranged
DPS

Lv.

/ 90

Bonuses

[Code Name] Ray
[Gender] Female
[Combat Experience] None
[Place of Birth] Rim Billiton
[Date of Birth] Jul 14
[Race] Cautus
[Height] 170cm
[Infection Status]
Confirmed Infected by medical examination.

[Physical Strength] Standard
[Mobility] Excellent
[Physical Resilience] Excellent
[Tactical Acumen] Normal
[Combat Skill] Standard
[Originium Arts Assimilation] Standard

Ray, a Rim Billitonian without stable employment who often works in mine safety and security, or as a 'pitsinker' in the local parlance. After running into Amiya, the Doctor, and Savage while they were revisiting old memories, she took the initiative to apply to Rhodes Island. As an operator aboard the landship, she participates in a variety of security, combat, and exploration missions.

Imaging tests show the indistinct outlines of internal organs, obscured by abnormal shadows. Originium granules detected in the circulatory system. The subject is confirmed to be infected with Oripathy.

[Cell-Originium Assimilation] 4%
Operator Ray has no obvious crystals on the surface of her body.

[Blood Originium-Crystal Density] 0.25u/L
Operator Ray frequently enters dangerous environments, and her condition is much graver than she reports.
In other words, Miss Ray has incredibly high pain tolerance. Being able to endure such pain means that it is very easy for the patient to neglect their condition. We will need to monitor her closely.

In the well-developed mining industry of Rim Billiton, 'pitsinker' was once a common occupation. Traditionally, every day before a mine opens for work, a lone pitsinker is dispatched down the shaft to inspect for hazardous conditions: water seepage, leaks both gaseous and liquid, areas at risk of cave-in, etc, all alongside suppressing any Infected creatures that thrive in mines. To ensure smooth operation, pitsinkers would also need to constantly patrol the tunnels and protect the miners from surprise attacks from said creatures. On paper, they are similar to modern security staff—with a greater focus on specialized knowledge and combat skills—but in practice there are practically zero requirements to become one. For the many vagrant children who lack the strength for long hours of mining work, it is the perfect job to make their way up in the world. At its core, pitsinking really is just going down a mine to check it for poison gas and cave-ins. At times, they will risk their bodies, even their very lives, to seek these answers.
That said, Rim Billiton's mining industry has long since moved on, with much of the work now being performed by machines. The technologies used to monitor and decontaminate the mineshafts are constantly being refined, with the safety of the workers increasing day by day. However, small-scale private mines can still be found all over the country, and some mine owners continue to use the old ways passed down for generations. Operator Ray seems to be of like mind. She doesn't think too much about it or herself, and hasn't given her future much thought either. Once, long ago, someone told her that she could make a living as a pitsinker, and she's been doing it ever since. As a fellow Rim Billitonian who's worked in mine security, Savage has given Ray a number of tests, confirming that she has qualifications to hold a security post at a modern large-scale mine. Ray had simply never considered the possibility.
Thankfully, she seems to have luck on her side, having managed to make it through life without major injury. However, perhaps she will be stuck with a pitsinker's mindset for a while yet: isolated, always on high alert, always raising her head to gaze up from the bottom of the shaft at the light from the entrance, not knowing whether she's alive or dead until she's hauled back to the surface and leaves the dark behind her.

[A note jotted down after a test report]
Her reflexes are ridiculous! Maybe even too good! She managed to completely avoid my hammer and the following lightning strikes, then evaded every last fragment of shattered roadblocks too! She even dodged my pat on the shoulder after the test was over! While she may not have any real experience, I think she's perfectly capable of participating in milder combat as she is.
By the way, don't leave this note in the copy of the report she gets. I praised her for her talent in combat, and how it took a lot more than luck to make it as far as she has, but she seemed... a little melancholy hearing that, crouching down to give her sandbeast a quick pat.

For quite a while after joining Rhodes Island, nobody paid much attention to Ray. There's no shortage of operators who are very welcoming to newcomers, but neither the movie club, the tea club, nor the culinary club ever sent her an invitation. After all, she's never asked for directions, or even stopped to get her bearings on the landship. This made it very hard for anyone to tell that she was indeed a newcomer, even as she was calmly making her fifth loop on the same route.
They might also not draw the connection between her and that one sandbeast that showed up recently. Sandbeasts are notoriously hard to tame, with many preferring to starve to death than eat in captivity. Thus, most believed that the sandbeast popping up in the corridors had merely crawled in via a ventilation duct, and that in a day or two it would find its way back to the great outdoors. In time, everyone simply got used to it hiding away in comfy corners. It might occasionally chew through a cable beneath a pre-fab board, but they were always fixed in a jiffy, with no one the wiser as to its owner.
One day, thanks to a particular dish on the menu, several operators were discussing the migratory fowlbeasts of Terra in the cafeteria, and eventually reached a confusion as to whether the fowlbeasts that arrived in two different locations were the same species or not. At that point, Ray—who had never spoken a single word to them—slipped into their conversation as though she had known them their whole life and started asking each of the operators where they were from. Upon learning their hometowns, she would explain which species were typical of each region in easy-to-understand terms. This was how they got to know her, with many amazed at her knowledge in this area, as well as her incredible curiosity that she never showed at any other topic. She was the type of child who would flip through a picture book again and again, repeatedly devouring all the animal almanacs in her local library and unintentionally memorizing every last page.
Naturally, everyone quickly realized that the mystery sandbeast was simply hanging out near Ray, and that she was the one fixing the wires it chewed through. Also, half of her single-occupancy dorm room was occupied by a giant sandbox. Not only did she make it herself, but when the landship made a stop in the wastelands, she took the chance to gather sack after sack of sandy soil to fill it.
Nobody knows how long she spent on the task, and she never mentioned it in the room renovation application form she handed in after-the-fact, but at least everyone is now aware that, of the many jobs she claims to have done, she wasn't lying about the heavy labor.
We should be glad that Ray is the only one aboard raising a sandbeast, because she never gave it a name. Most who raise a pet will try to condition them to respond to a specific word or phrase, but Ray simply whistles like a sandbeast to call hers. Perhaps she is simply not great at naming things. After all, the only reason her name was shortened to Ray—from Rayella—was because of a lazily-made temporary ID tag given to her by a worker who couldn't spell. Or perhaps she just thinks that 'sandbeast' has a nice ring to it. A special name, just like the 'Ray' she is so fond of.

When other operators went to support Ray on her first solo field mission as scheduled, they found a small shed out in the wastes. It was built into a natural cave in the cliffside, made from lightweight discarded construction materials efficiently fitted together with simple joints, and lit night and day by a portable Originium generator. The Rhodes Island-issued tent she was provided with laid in the corner, still in its packaging.
Ray's way of doing things is pretty much the stereotype of a Rim Billitonian Cautus, but those traditions are as old as the first explorers from the nations of the centrum, who began showing an interest in Rim Billiton's Originium deposits decades ago. Before Rim Billitonians started building nomadic cities, they would combine easy-to-take-down buildings with solidly-constructed pits, using them to hide from the Catastrophes that plague the region especially frequently. After nearly a century though, the old ways have begun to fade. Cautuses these days still love their makeshift sheds, but will choose to build them away from the vicious wilds. Those who still make them out in the countryside like Ray are a dying breed.
Her way of life stems from her childhood. She was born into a family of hunters, in particular a group that stayed away from civilized cities for years on end, wandering about the country and staying self-sufficient. She does not clearly remember what she learnt of hunting back then. The only clear memory she has is of a time when the group took heavy losses from a bout of severe weather. Several of her family members went missing in that sandstorm. After surviving that, she decided to follow a distant relative to seek a living in a nomadic city, engrossed in seeing just how far she could go on her own.
Inside the shed, which felt rather cramped with four people, the operators considerately asked her if she had built a traditional Cautus shed like from her youth because she was homesick.
Ray first shook her head, saying that she wasn't sure what that even meant. 'The comforts of home?' But after a while, when they were finishing up their check of the supplies and getting ready to tear down the shed and leave, she looked about at the operators all squeezed together and suddenly blurted out: 'Now isn't this nice and cozy?'

'Those old Rim Billiton hunter stories she told us that day, like the Rim Billy Gloompincer with claws longer than a man is tall and so on... I don't think her love for animals comes from her childhood environment. I can tell that those memories are very, very far from mind.
But I can also tell that she really does recall something. Do you remember? When were getting ready to shut down the generator and turn off the lights, she looked so reluctant. Afterwards she said that she was saved by 'a ray of light'.'
'Eh? Was she the sort of person to use metaphors like that?'
——An excerpt from the post-mission chatter of two participating operators

[Ray's accounts]
Today's expenses:
Sandbeast feed
Sandbeast electrolyte supplement (mix with water)
Sandbeast fur cream (Spare. Blended by Dr. Honeyberry. She's not 100% sure if it works, so remember to give feedback after using)
Meal card recharge (Need more protein, doctor's orders)
Compensation for Lanns's truck (Still got eleven months to pay her back in full)
Oripathy suppressants (Gray-ears has been eating hers on time every day this week, so I'd better too)
Today's income:
A bag of snacks
One notebook, two ballpoint pens (girl from HR said that if I needed new ones, I could find her and she'll give me more. Nice lady. Thanks)
'True Accounts of Supernatural Phenomena' cassettes 17-20 (Rented, need to be returned. The librarian suggested that I swap it out for a more credible documentary series next time)

'Look, I was just worried if you could keep your schedule straight, not if you could afford stuff—I've said it before, this payment deadline was your idea, and as close as we are, I wouldn't mind even if you delayed it indefinitely. Basically, no need to show me your tidy little accounts book. If anyone else ever asks you about this kind of thing, don't give them this little book, and definitely don't make them read it the whole way through. Got it?'
'Mhm.'
'Hmph, I never would've expected that behind my back, you'd manage to tidy up your room all spick and span, learn to cook alright, and got even better at mending clothes than me! I also hear your field mission went smooth as butter. They were going on about how you had all these plans and were super-reliable... You sure they're talking about the same Ray? Really?'
'Mhm.'
'Alright, I guess I better change my tune then. Can't keep calling you 'Truckjacker.' After all, what you did back then is our little secret. Best to let the Rhodes Islanders keep their impression of you as a friendly, reliable, occasionally smiling young lady.'
'Mhm.'
'Oh, right, considering that you've been keeping your accounts so nice and tidy, what are you actually planning to do with the money you save up?'
'I'm thinking of looking for a type of big burdenbeast in the Columbian barrenlands, let them start to dance after the moon again.'
'...Eh? You still on about that kind of thing?'

[Classified Log]
Alright, Doctor. I won't mention what I know about Feranmuts to anyone else. Thanks for explaining more about what I experienced in that cave.
Memories? My story helped you recall more from the past? ...I'm glad I could help you out.
I know the feeling, having your past locked so very far away, and so indistinct, to the point where you can't even be sure it really happened to you or not. Maybe that's why I thought about seeing it one more time.
Regrets? No, not for now.
Fear? No way.
All I'm thinking of is... illuminating the present. On careful consideration, I don't think it really matters whether or not that light was the ray of light from my memories.
I'll cheer you on, Doctor, and I hope you'll be able to get your memories back without a hitch. Although I will say, being by you and Amiya is bright enough already.

1933

ATK

1192

DEF

228

RES

Cost

ATK Interval

1.6 sec

Block

Redeploy

70 sec

Talents

Patrol Partner
Can deploy a sandbeast within Attack Range to scout an area for 25s, extending Attack Range into that area. Prioritizes attacking targets within this area, and deals 15% more Physical damage to them
Extreme Focus
When attacking the same target, each attack increases ATK by 8%, stacking up to 3 times

Skills

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Parting Shot
Auto RecoveryManual Activation
Lv.
Initial SP
10
SP Cost
10
Fire a special bullet, dealing 450% of ATK as Physical damage and pushing the target back greatly. If target is defeated, the next reload loads 2 additional bullet(s)
Can store 2 charges
atk_scale
4.5
cnt
2
force
2
Sandbeast
Cannot be attacked, can only be deployed within the summoner's Attack Range
HP
100
ATK
100
DEF
0
RES
0
Cost
3
ATK Interval
1 sec
Block
0
Redeploy
30 sec
- Patrol Partner
  After deployment, scouts the surrounding area to extend Ray's Attack Range for 25s
Area Overwatch
Offensive RecoveryAuto Activation
Lv.
SP Cost
16
Passive: When the sandbeast retreats, recover all bullets that hit in the area
Automatic: Attack Range increases, ATK +120%, sandbeast redeployment time -40%
Unlimited duration
atk
1.2
respawn_time
-0.4
Sandbeast
Cannot be attacked, can only be deployed within the summoner's Attack Range
HP
100
ATK
100
DEF
0
RES
0
Cost
3
ATK Interval
1 sec
Block
0
Redeploy
30 sec
- Patrol Partner
  After deployment, scouts the surrounding area to extend Ray's Attack Range for 25s
Area Overwatch
Passive
When retreating, retrieves Ray's bullets that hit in the area
'See the Light'
Auto RecoveryManual Activation
Lv.
Initial SP
20
SP Cost
30
Duration
16 sec
Immediately stop attacking until fully loaded, reload interval greatly reduces, Attack Range increases, attacks deal 330% of ATK as Physical damage and bind the enemy for 2s
If an enemy is defeated while skill is active, gain 10 SP when skill ends
reload_interval
-1.2
attack@atk_scale
3.3
attack@unmove_duration
2
sp
10
Sandbeast
Cannot be attacked, can only be deployed within the summoner's Attack Range
HP
100
ATK
100
DEF
0
RES
0
Cost
3
ATK Interval
1 sec
Block
0
Redeploy
30 sec
- Patrol Partner
  After deployment, scouts the surrounding area to extend Ray's Attack Range for 25s

Modules

ORIGINAL
Ray's Badge
Module Selected
Operator Ray has demonstrated a remarkable aptitude for storing and unleashing capacitance-based firepower to penetrative ends when facing the enemy.
The Field Operations Department has thus passed the following resolution:
This operator shall be appointed a Sniper Operator during field operations to exercise Hunter responsibilities.
In witness whereof,
This badge is hereby conferred upon the above named.

HUN-X

Dancing Moonlight

Select Module

Stage	Stats	Upgrade Description
1	HP +150 ATK +50 DEF +15	Hunter Trait Attacks consume Ammo to increase ATK to 120%; While not attacking, Ammo will be slowly reloaded (max capacity 8). When Ammo count is empty, the next reload +1 Ammo additionally
2	HP +180 ATK +65 DEF +20	Patrol Partner Can deploy a sandbeast within Attack Range to scout an area for 25s, extending Attack Range into that area. Prioritizes attacking targets within this area, and deals 18% more Physical damage to them; Sandbeast has -5 seconds Redeployment Time
3	HP +200 ATK +70 DEF +25	Patrol Partner Can deploy a sandbeast within Attack Range to scout an area for 25s, extending Attack Range into that area. Prioritizes attacking targets within this area, and deals 20% more Physical damage to them; Sandbeast has -10 seconds Redeployment Time

Human Resources Record File RF-099-47
Day One
Operator Ray has been reported missing this morning without submitting any official application to leave the ship. Human Resources is currently collaborating with Field Operations to investigate.
Day Two
While the Field Operations team conducts searches, we have also reviewed Ray's recent activities. On the night before her disappearance, she attended a private dance, which we consider to be abnormal behavior. We interviewed Alanna, Ray's friend and an intern at the Workshop, for more details. Below is an excerpt from our interview:
'To think a weirdo like her went to a dance! I would never have believed it was her, but her cookie-shaped bangs were too iconic.'
'What did she do at the dance?'
'Umm... She just sat in a corner. Now that's more like something she'd do.'
'Did she get into contact with anyone during the dance?'
'Well, there was this old lady with a cane who sat in the corner with her.'
'Did they interact in any way?'
'That's the strange part! Neither of them spoke at all. It was as if they weren't at a dance, but sitting in a sauna house!'
Day Three
According to our investigation, the elderly woman whom Ray interacted with is a retired Operator from the Logistics Department currently on Rhodes Island for Oripathy treatment. She provided the following explanation for her attendance at the dance:
She used to be a dance teacher in her youth but had to end her career prematurely due to Oripathy. Now, severe crystallization of her left leg requires her to use a cane for walking.
Statement from Retired Operator: 'All I wanted was to see young people dance.'
Day Four
After another futile day of searching, the search party witnessed two 'blue ghosts' as they were about to return. The Field Operators quickly assumed battle formations but broke formation after carefully probing said 'ghosts' with Arts: One of them was Ray.
Next to Ray was a wasteland burdenbeast, its thick skin folds glistening with a blue hue as it heaved and twisted its massive body, as if dancing. Ray, also covered in a blue light, remained motionless. However, she was smiling like a child—a rare sight.
[Supplementary Information]
Ray later learned that the blue light came from the dust pheromone of the Fluorescent Originium Slug, which causes intolerable irritation upon contact with the skin. This explained why the burdenbeast appeared to be dancing; in reality, it was writhing in itchiness. As for why Ray could remain unaffected by the itch... her 'excellent' rating in physical resilience is well-deserved. Below is an excerpt from our interview with her:
'So, why did you suddenly leave the ship?'
'I wanted to find the big burdenbeasts on the Columbian wasteland and make them dance to the moon again.'
'Err... Did this have anything to do with the dance you attended? Was it because of the old lady who sat next to you?'
'Yes. Her eyes showed me that she wanted to dance. So I suddenly felt that it was time to let the burdenbeasts dance again.'
'... Huh?'
'Yup.'
'Well, umm, did you ever meet that old lady again? Maybe you'd like to tell her about your experience?'
'No... but you're right, that'd be nice. If it's not too much trouble, could you tell her for me?'

HUN-Y

证明什么？

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Stage	Stats	Upgrade Description
1	HP +100 ATK +60 ASPD +5	Hunter Trait 攻击时需要消耗子弹且攻击力提升至133%，不攻击时会缓慢地装填子弹（最多8发）
2	HP +160 ATK +65 ASPD +6	Extreme Focus 攻击相同目标时每次攻击提高自身攻击力8%，最多4层
3	HP +200 ATK +75 ASPD +7	Extreme Focus 攻击相同目标时每次攻击提高自身攻击力9%，最多4层

莱叶菈第一次见到沙地兽，是在一个困苦的长冬。间歇泉五个月没喷出半滴水，整片荒原上都没了动物的身影。无论如何都不愿去招惹巨磐蟹的猎人们，最终不情愿地将目光投向了沙地兽栖息的沙丘。
即便最老到的猎人，也很难分辨哪些沙丘是天然形成的，哪些是沙地兽的洞口。哪怕找到了洞口，能不能把沙地兽抓出来，通常也只与运气有关。猎人们都忙着把头埋进沙地里，远远地，在一棵枯干的瓶树之下，莱叶菈看见一只沙地兽轻轻摇晃着背扇。它不慌不忙地用舌头卷住试图从自己齿间逃走的鼷兽幼崽，满足地在树根上磨着蹄子，仿佛眼下的一切闹剧都与它无关。不论雷姆必拓荒原上的长冬对猎人们来说有多么恐怖，在沙地兽眼里，那就只是又一个稀松平常的季节。
年幼的莱叶菈并未意识到，这顿可以救急的沙地兽肉有多么重要。她只是在那个瞬间，不由得对那只她未曾见过的小生物感到了敬畏。那天，她没有开口告诉任何人她的所见。
莱叶菈第二次见到沙地兽，是在一间昏暗的棚屋。大大小小的铁笼挤满了走道之外的每一寸空间，刨抓金属的声音比荒原上的风更刺耳。曾经令她感到敬畏的那种动物，数以百计地被关在铁笼当中。莱叶菈忍不住好奇，它们是来帮忙抓鼷兽的，还是来帮忙松土的呢？都不是，当然。它们布满毛细血管的背扇，被用来分辨矿井下的气体是否有毒，像一张试纸。
这一次，莱叶菈开口了。她见过这种动物，她说，她知道它都能做到些什么，她可以作证。
“可它还是长着一顶背扇，不是吗？”老板轻描淡写地答道，好像这些沙地兽能做到什么，和它们能待在哪里，全然没有关系。莱叶菈忽然愣住了。那之后，父亲是怎样为了那个被埋葬在长冬的家人责骂她的，她都记不清了。
所以，很多年以后，当探井人莱伊从一个好心的矿区经理手中接过一张写着“能力证明”的铜版纸的时候，她并不知道对方是在试图救她。虽然艰难，但莱伊勉强能读懂上面的文字是在证明她有能力做到什么。她只是不明白，这张纸有什么用。正巧，回到家，她看到沙地兽又咬烂了自己的窝顶棚，她把那张纸一折为二，小心地用胶水固定在沙地兽的窝顶上。
那张纸原本有机会带她去到哪里，她永远也没机会知道了。但她知道，沙地兽的窝又有了个坚固的顶棚，小家伙晚上不会着凉了。至于小家伙下周的伙食，下个月的化毛膏，她会再想办法。
至少，还有明天早上挟着晨雾的风，能给她指路。

RIIC Base Skills

Pitsinker α
When this Operator is assigned to the Workshop to process elite material, the production rate of byproduct increases by 75%
Pitsinker β
When this Operator is assigned to the Workshop to process elite material, the production rate of byproduct increases by 80%
Boulder Anchoring
When this Operator is assigned to the Workshop to process Elite materials, any byproducts of T3 quality produced will be Orirock Clusters