After hearing the questions from my siblings, my parents went silent for a brief moment creating an awkward atmosphere until his father broke the silence
He sighed and turned towards me, he was staring directly at my eyes, there was clearly a look of disgust and disappointment in his eyes, after few seconds he turned toward his siblings and started explaining
"Special grade is... as the name suggests a bit special and unique, you all only know about the basic grade of gears, from normal which is the weakest to rare, epic, legendary until mythic which is the strongest, and then comes growth grade gear which will level up as the user level up which can even surpass mythic rank!", he paused for a bit and took a deep breath before continuing
"As for the special grade, it is the most mysterious grade, since no information about the special grade gear is shown in status, because of that you won't know the functions of the special gear. Also not only that, most special gear also have a specific requirements to contract with it and noone knows what the requirements is too since the requirements can be very bizarre."
"This was actually proven by experiments conducted by Sir Benjamin, he conducted various experiment on a special grade gear for 140 years and he still was able to find the requirement to contract it until one day when he was very angry he crushed the special gear to death by mistake, but to his surprise after it died, it automatically revived back and became his hand gear"
"So after this, the special grade gear was deemed 'not practical' but this is only the requirements then comes finding the functions of the gear ....."
'He is already in his talkative mode uh, look like he is going to spend the next 1 hour talking how bad the special grade gear is, or more specifically mock on how trash the gear I awakened is'
'Well system let's continue our conversation, what did you mean by I was the one at fault'
[Yes! this is all your fault! it is because you didn't meet the requirement to connect with me]
'Requirement? what requirement? and for what?'
[It is the requirement needed for you to connect with me, the requirement was that you have to lose all hope of your fantasy dream and accept the reality that you were really just a trash, but you didn't meet the requirement till your death, but if you really died without connecting with me, I will be removed from the DATABASE, because of that I had to use 'System Sacrifice' to fuse with you bast*rd]
[But 'System Sacrifice' comes with a cost, I had lost many of my functions and features and became a special grade gear from growth grade, but that wasn't all!, because you were at the end of the life so even after I fused you only had 1 hours left to live so I had to use my time law authority to reincarnate you back, Now my time law authority is 0 and all the functions which required time law is unavailable!!, this is why I am now a 'corrupted system']
'oh'
[...]
[YOU BAST*RD! YOU F*CKED MY LIFE AND ALL I GET IS JUST A 'OH'?!!!!]
'ok!, ok!, sorry!, I apologise ok?!, chill for a second dude'
5 seconds of peaceful silence later..
'so.. you mentioned something called DATABASE what is it?'
[F*CK OFF!, I WILL NEVER TELL YOU ANYTHING ABOUT IT EVER!, GO F*CK YOUR MOTHER A**HOLE *angry_face* *angry_face*]
'geez! looks like you are really angry, I will leave to alone for sometime to cool yourself down'
He immediately focused his attention on his dad who was still going on with how trash the special grade gear is while completely ignoring the 'holy words' shouted by the system
'umm.. dad's speech is boring and I can't talk to system right now what should I do... I guess I will think of my future plans'
While he was thinking of his future plans Mark suddenly interrupted his dad
"Dad if the special grade is soo bad, why didn't they name it 'trash' grade or 'useless' grade, why did they give the name 'special' grade?"
'Great question mark, as expected of the only person who has brains in this family, I will give you 10 points for this question'
Hearing mark's question his mom continued to explain him
"Well that is because when you contract special grade gear successful and found out how to use it, it can be extremely terrifying! most of the special grade can easily beat mythic grade gears!"
After hearing that siblings became astonished and even became a bit envious of Lark but before they could even complete their thought, their mother shattered it
"Don't be envious, special grade is still trash, it will only becomes terrifying after one finds out how to use it but finding how to use it is even harder than finding the requirements for contract, as you heard from your father, Sir Benjamin took 140 years to contract his gear but still even till the end of his life he couldn't find the use of the gear, that is how hard and impossible it is to use special grade gear"
Then his father continued to trash talk on special grade gear as everyone except mark had disgust in their eyes when they peeked at lark when talking
As lark got bored of it, he decided to check out the system features
'status'
________________
Name: Lark Ronlard
Age: 10/50 years
Level: 0
Main Element:dark
Sub Element:space
Processor rank:29
Processor level: 0
Core gear:Corrupted system;
->Grade:Special
->
Head gear: none
Chest gear: none
Arm gear: none
Leg gear: none
________________
This time when he checked his status he noticed that his processor rank was upgradable as in the last time he directly skipped it to check the core gear status
'Well having the system how can the protagonist stay in the trash rank, so it really isn't suprising that I can upgrade in processor rank'
Then he went to check on the features of the system as he concentrated on the core gear to show more info
But instantly his mind was flooded with vast ocean of information, he was soo shocked that he instantly closed the status screen and tried to calm his mind
'System wtf is this'
[You just got stunned by my GREATNESS!! muhahahaha..]
'-_-'
[*cough* *cough* just now you have seen the entire information about me in an instant, normally when I am supposed to be growth grade, host is supposed to access the features slowly one by one when I level up, but since I fused with you, you have access to every features and even the information which is not accessable by the host when I was growth grade is available to you]
'If this much info dumps on me everytime I check the status how am I able to know the functions of the system'
[Use 'system status' for it, don't use normal 'status']
'oh!, system status'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Host: Lark Ronlard (fused)
System level: max
System coins:0
->Stats
->Skills
->periodic missions
->hidden missions
->emergency missions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[Now think of what you want to see to check it out]
'stats'
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Strength (raw power):1
Speed (running speed in a line):1
Flexibility (nimbleness and swift movement):1
Vitality (health):1
Regeneration:1
Defense (how much damage you can negate):1
Intelligence (memorising speed, memory recollection, memory processing , quick thinking):
Negative effects resistance: ∅∆°}#'*
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
'What is with intelligence and negative effects resistance?!'
[Since you have fused with me, you got a part of my intelligence and I got a part of your human emotions, only because of how that high intelligence stat is you were able to close the status in an instant before your brain got fried by my greatness, if you were a normal person your mind would have already shattered due to information overload]
[and as for that negative effects resistance, it is probably one of the features which got lost during 'Systen Sacrifice' process]
'hmm.. looks like I got nerfed because I was too OP!'
'I may need to think of a proper future plan now..'