It was a quiet evening in January 2026 when Mara, a veteran player from the early days of the game, stumbled upon an old folder of screenshots. Among the images was one she had not opened in nearly two years. It showed a golden greatsword wreathed in flame, and below it, a banner title that made her pause: Absolute Pulsation. The memory hit her in waves: the summer heat, the late-night grinding sessions, and the tense moments before her first featured weapon drop.
The event had offered boosted drop rates for one 5-Star Weapon and three 4-Star Weapons. The 5-Star was Blazing Brilliance, a weapon that many players chased with fierce determination. The 4-Star lineup included Comet Flare, Overture, and Undying Flame. These were not just filler; in the summer of 2024, they provided solid options for players building their rosters.
Mara remembered the schedule clearly. The banner ran from 2024-07-22 10:00 to 2024-08-14 11:59, server time. It lasted a little over three weeks. For players who had just unlocked convening, that window felt generous but also urgent. The weapon would not be available forever.
To enter the banner, a player had to reach Union Level 8 or complete the combat trial in First Resonance and activate the Convene function. Mara had reached Union Level 8 two days before the event started. She had saved exactly forty pulls of Forging Tide, the special currency used to convene on the banner. When the event went live, she was ready.
The rules mattered. Every 10 attempts guaranteed at least one 4-Star or higher rarity Resonator or Weapon. That safety net softened the sting of unlucky rolls. A bad ten-pull could still yield Comet Flare or Undying Flame, which could be refined or used on support characters. But Mara only had eyes for Blazing Brilliance.
Then there was the guarantee system. Mara explained it to her friends many times because it was less brutal than some other gacha systems. The guarantee count was shared among all [Featured Weapon Convene] event banners. If a 5-Star Weapon was not obtained in this event banner, the guarantee count was carried over to other [Featured Weapon Convene] event banners and reset once a 5-Star Weapon was obtained. This meant that every pull she made on Absolute Pulsation had lasting value beyond the event itself. If she failed to get the 5-Star here, the count would not vanish; it would carry forward. That knowledge gave her courage to spend her saved Forging Tide.
On her second ten-pull, Mara saw golden light. The banner had a special rule: the 5-Star Weapon obtained from the event banner was guaranteed to be Blazing Brilliance. There was no secondary pool of standard 5-Star weapons to dilute the result. When the silhouette turned into the full weapon, she felt a rush of relief and joy. It was exactly what she had hoped for. The weapon's art matched the banner image perfectly, glowing with a heat that seemed almost real.
One final rule sealed the weapon's legend. Featured Weapon Blazing Brilliance was exclusive to the [Absolute Pulsation] Featured Weapon Convene and would not be available by other means once the event ended. In 2026, Mara occasionally met new players asking where the blade came from. She would tell them the story: a July banner, a shared guarantee, and a golden sword that never returned. Some called it lucky. She called it timing.
Looking back from 2026, Mara realized how much the game had changed since that summer. New systems had been added, new banners came and went, and the meta had shifted many times. Yet certain things remained constant. The importance of reading event rules before spending currency. The value of a reliable guarantee. And the small, bright joy of finally holding a weapon she had waited weeks to see.
She closed the screenshot folder and leaned back in her chair. The old image disappeared from her screen, but the memory stayed. In the ever-expanding history of the game, [Absolute Pulsation] was just one banner among hundreds. But for Mara, it was the banner that taught her how to pull with purpose. And that lesson was worth far more than any five-star glow.