Sure Shot 6 Raina

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Sure Shot 6 Raina
Age	Unknown
Sex	Female
Race	Human
Affiliation	Grim Seekers
Occupation	Female Ranger Grim Seeker - Hardliner
Alias	N/A Foreign Names: 마탄 6 레이나 魔弹持有者蕾娜 魔弾6 レイナ
Location	Tower of Despair Abysmal Sky Tower
Foreign Name(s)	N/A
Likeability	N/A

“

All my friends left me... Because of this. This bullet will kill both of us. Run while you can.

”

Sure Shot 6 Raina is a Female Ranger and a member of the Grim Seeker Hardliners who are faithful to Soldoros. She initially appears as an opponent within Tower of Despair's Floor 73, assisting the Adventurers in becoming Azalea Lott's prophesized 'Refined Blade'. After the Tower departs from Arad, Raina and a few others depart with Soldoros and volunteer to stay behind as roadblocks within the Abysmal Sky Tower to buy Soldoros and Yang-Ull time for the Adventurers to unlock their true potential.

Lore

Lore Excerpt:

The path he treads is one of law and the truth.
He was the only guiding light in the despair. He's our long-cherished wish.
If I can help make it come true, I'll become his bullet and die happily.
I live for my faith. I'll throw myself into the Abyss without hesitation.
Sometimes, the sweet whispers of the snake in the Abyss stir up turmoil in me,
but that's fine. So long as I can stall even a fraction of a second,
I'll let the snake toy with me. I'll endure the claws of beasts to protect him along his path.

My bullets imbued with the Abyss cleave the darkness and pierce the wanderers through their hearts.
I ignore my sense of guilt as it only holds me back from following him to the truth.
I don't hesitate to pull the trigger at anyone who tries to get in the way.
My bullets are his sword, his battle cry that echoes through the world.
I hope every bullet I fire will illuminate the path that Soldoros is on.

History

피하기 힘든 저주 받은 총알인 '마탄'은 적의 숨통을 끊음과 동시에 주인의 목숨도 앗아간다. The 'Demon Bullet', a cursed bullet that is difficult to avoid; even as it severs the life of the enemy, it claims the life of its master. —— Quote from Item: Sure Shot 6

Like many of the Grim Seekers, Raina's true origins remain a mystery. All that is known is that she is one of the hundred main combatants of the Tower of Despair; that alone is a testament of her reputation and ability. Raina specializes in the use of six accursed 'Demon Bullets', which can guarantee death to her foes with a single shot, but at the expense of the user's life. Due to the unreliability of this ability, she is deemed lesser in strength when compared to the other inhabitants in floors above her. Despite this, she is adept in melee combat, and she is able to circumvent her bullets' deadly side effects due to the Tower's unique ability to resurrect its inhabitants.

During the Arad Adventure Era, Raina bides her time training herself and adventurers who enter the Tower to prepare for the inevitable confrontation with the Apostles. But after Azalea's untimely demise, she decides to join Soldoros on his quest to carry on Azalea's will and leaves the Tower of Despair. As the Grim Seekers prepare to go to Pandemonium, she and a few other Grim Seekers are tasked with capturing the malicious rogue inhabitants of the Tower who refused to join Soldoros. Raina uses this opportunity to further train the Adventurers against the rogues and other Grim Seeker members who decided to remain behind in a place called the Pit of Incarceration.

After Sirocco's resurrection, she and the other Grim Seeker Hardliners realize that the Adventurers are not yet ready for their final confrontation with Cain and Hilder. To this end, all the Hardliners except Soldoros and Yang-Ull volunteer to sacrifice themselves for the cause and remain in Arad to buy them enough time for the Adventurers to unlock their true potential. Raina, Beastmaster Marcelo, and Hwarang Bihwarang enter the Abysmal Sky Tower, and create pentacles to absorb some of Sirocco's energy. With this power, they hoped to further strengthen themselves to serve as worthy stepping stones for the Adventurers' success. In the end, Raina, Marcelo, and Hwarang were all defeated by the Adventurers. But although they were able to escape, Sirocco's energy proved too detrimental to their bodies, leaving their fate to remain unknown.

As an Enemy (Tower of Despair)

Floor 73: Sure Shot 6 Raina

Before it's removal, Raina once appeared in the former Tower of Despair on Floor 73. Defeating her earns the player a Sure Shot 6 title.

As an Enemy (Sirocco Raid)

Sure Shot 6 Raina

Type

She made her return as a boss for the Night of Terrors dungeon inside Sirocco Raid during Phase 1's Area 2: Gateway of Intelligence.

Unlike Marcelo, Yellow Parties are required to seek out Raina in one of the rooms in her subdungeon first. She'll fight using various Ranger skills at her disposal, including six different bullets to attack, and is able to interfere with Orange Parties during Border of Phantasm by inflicting a blind status, plus Hanielle of Seduction's damage output gains a boost by 10-50% in Dawn of Dreams as penalties for not clearing.

Move Set

• Waving Magic Bullet: Raina's first bullet has her shoot upwards that'll create numerous red circles on the floor showing where those bullets will land at and will explode upon contact.

• Lightning Magic Bullet: The second bullet targets in on players that launches down lightning strikes.

• Aesthetic Magic Bullet: The third bullet has Raina use  Kill Point at a randomly targeted player, then dashes over to perform Male Ranger's  Wild Shot to fire her weapons rapidly in all directions.

• Guided Magic Bullet: Functioning similarly to that of Secret Agent's  Target Shooting, Raina's fourth bullet has her mark a purple target indicator on a party member and fires out an explosive shot at them.

• Rupturing Magic Bullet: For her fifth bullet, Raina fires out four shots going to either a left or right motion, then they'll split and explode into different directions.

• Grinding Magic Bullet: On the sixth bullet, Raina fires out three  Headshots in a single line, those bullets can bounce back and damage party members upon contact.

• Berserk
  • Sirocco's Dance: For the seventh bullet, Raina will do her own variation of  Seventh Flow by creating multiple clones of herself as she maneuvers around and fires out volleys of bullets at party members, then causes a roomwide explosion at the end. To avoid this, players will need to  Quick Rebound if they go near one of the clones that can knock them down. - Otherwise, failing this pattern can result in a potential party wipe.

Strategy

• While Raina isn't as difficult to fight compared to Marcelo, her patterns do deal a respectable amount of damage and can be quite annoying when she's dashing across the room.
• Use Bullet Time along with  Leap to avoid getting hit by the splitting portion of Rupturing Magic Bullet.
• Clearing Night of Terrors will nullify its penalties and provides a 20% damage increase against Hanielle.
• Each time Raina uses a Bullet pattern, she'll go into a short groggy state as a way of gathering power for her next attack, leaving her vulnerable. Yellow Parties can easily take advantage of this and burst her down upon entry, so have the Crusader/Enchantress to deploy their  Apocalypse /  Final Judgment,  Crux of Victoria /  Laus di Angelus,  Marionette /  Curtain Call and use your strongest skills.

Appearances

• Night of Terrors (Boss)

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Trivia

• Raina's name, that could either be spelled with an A or E, is Spanish for Queen.
• Raina's attire in both her Tower of Despair & Sirocco Raid art is inspired by a mixture of Cowgirls & Spanish Conquistadors.
• Her usage of Demon Bullets could be based on Freischütz, a marksman of German folklore who made a deal with the devil to obtain a certain number of bullets destined to hit without fail whatever object he wishes.
• The Revolver she wields in her Sirocco Raid artwork is from a discontinued Level 55 Epic named "Twin Blade Inazuma" which closely resembles an Essence Terranite Revolver due to being encroached by the Apostle's powers.
• She was given out as a SD Creature during an event.
• In the CDnF version, her encounter quote in the Tower of Despair is a bit different compared to the other versions:
  • “我曾经以为可以驾驭‘魔弹’，却还是被它控制……我的朋友们一个个都离开我了……我劝你最好也赶快离开，否则它同样会夺取你的生命……”
  • “I used to believe I could control the 'Demon Bullet,' but I'm still under its control... All my friends left me one by one... I advise you best leave now, otherwise it will claim your life as well...”

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