Picked up a Ring

Chapter 1: Picked up a Ring

The universe is vast and there's no telling what we would find. It may be another planet with civilization as advance or even more than us. A primitive planet where creatures similar to dinosaurs roam the lands. Or a completely advanced planet with technology similar to the one we've seen in science fiction movies or read from novels.

Who knows, maybe there will be other universes like ours. Where there could be beings with supernatural strength, speed, and etc. A civilization that lives on a planet with only waters. A frozen world, a blazing world, any world could exist in these other universes and we are just not advanced enough to discover them.

In space, asteroids orbiting around a sun can be seen. A small piece of the asteroid that will be then called a meteoroid will then travel until it ends up entering a planet's atmosphere which will be then called a meteor. These are the scientific terms used by humans living on Earth. A beautiful and vast blue planet that looks like a blue marble with white swirls.

Currently, around band can be seen floating in space heading towards Earth. Its origin is unknown nor the reason why it remained unaffected even with the fact that it just passes by the Sun. Mercury which was just about 60 million kilometers from the sun was already affected by it, what more of a ring which was only a few millions of kilometers away from it. And it also did not have the protection that Mercury has.

Nevertheless, the ring 'did' survive and continued on its trajectory towards Earth at the speed of light. A few minutes later, the ring has now entered the Earth's atmosphere but what was strange is that it did not encounter resistance. It entered silently, like the gases in the mesosphere didn't even exist.

The ring did not smash on the ground, it continued to float in the air, looking like someone is controlling it. The ring reached a city bustling with activities but it did not attract any attention. It slowly approached an area populated with a small number of trees. It landed on a tree near a pathway, and then it stopped moving seemingly waiting for something or someone.

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Orion sat cross-legged, his eyes were closed and his breathing was calm and unhurried. But if it was someone else in his situation, they would be agitated, nervous, excited or in short, filled with complex emotions.

It was not that Orion was indifferent to his situation, he very much wants to get out of the «Ring of Origin» where he was sealed but he can't without external help. He had already spent millions upon millions of years inside the ring, the enemies who had sealed him inside were already long gone and the new generation has already forgotten his name.

Over the years, Orion was able to gain some control over the ring, though it had already recognized him as its master he was still unable to fully control it. Refining an artifact that was created along with everything was something not easy to do. Just the fact that he was recognized as its master was already a great achievement. Orion is not greedy because no matter how amazing the ring as if he was inside of it, what is the use?

Luckily for him, in his travel in the void, he was able to sense human presence from afar. Orion did not waste any time as he controlled the ring to charge towards the place where he senses the humans, destroying a few stars on his way, swallowing remnants, and some black holes. It only took him a few hundred years to reach the place, to Orion, a few hundred years is not long considering the time he had spent inside the ring.

He hoped to find someone who was compatible enough with the ring and he just found a person who has the compatibility of about 1.4% with the ring. This was already the highest one on the whole planet, Orion was not disappointed by this but was instead happy. It was only natural that these humans will have low compatibility with the ring as it was something out of their league.

Orion controlled the ring to land on a tree near what he thinks to be a pathway. The person he had chosen was going to pass-by this tree, Orion had already changed the appearance of the ring so that it looks more like a female's ring. He did this in order to attract the girl's attention, he was also prepared to cast a simple charming spell hoping that it would be enough. Because any spell cast outside of the ring will cost a million times of energy.

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Estella was in a bad mood today. Her training earlier did not bear any results, she was still stuck in the first level of «Dancing Angel Sword Art», «Holy Strike». Even though she was working hard, she still can't make a breakthrough towards the second level, «Judgment Blade». If she could reach the second level, then she would not have any problem in getting accepted in a school of her choice.

"Guuhhhh! This is so frustrating!" Estella kicked the pebble in front of her, the pebble flew and hit a tree, it then bounced and landed on the ground with a sound.

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Estella stopped in her tracks as she heard the sound of it hitting something, possibly a metal. That was based on what she heard. She head towards the tree to look at where the pebble landed, Estella did not even know why she even bothers to check on it.

She was surprised to see a beautiful ring, such an exquisitely-designed ring cannot be something that can be found anywhere. Someone must have lost the ring. But looking at it again, Estella could not resist the thought of picking it up and trying it on.

"It fits so perfectly!" Estella exclaims excitedly as she fondly looked at the ring. It was really beautiful, she couldn't resist rubbing it against her cheeks. "You're so beautiful, I don't want to give you away."

As soon as that thought crosses her mind, she can't shake it off her mind. It repeatedly echoed in her head, 'keep it' 'keep it' 'keep it' 'keep it' 'keep it'. Her inner self was repeatedly telling her to keep it but a part of her says that it was wrong to do so. But the repeatedly repeating words 'keep it' was ringing in her head, she was losing her mind.

"Ahhhh! Whatever! I'm going to keep it, whoever owns it can just look for me, if not, then it's mine." Estella decided to 'compromise' as she took the ring with her. What she had no idea is that inside the ring she just picked up, houses a man who came from a very far away place.