'I see, so even grandpa still doesn't know of another possibility.. A contract with god! Until now the god is only watching and sponsoring some coins, but later they will start to make contracts with their favorite character from all over the universe. That's how some people's strength will rise faster and it's possible that some people have bodies as strong as an artifact. But in every business people still need to choose wisely or they will only get scammed and instead of gaining something, they will only lose it all.'
"Those items must be really rare and need a lot of coins to buy. Then I should really try to change to another main weapon, even though I understand that the shield is not good enough but it's the easiest to use as it has a wide area of coverage for self defense. I'm pretty sure I cannot use a sword and spear as it needs a lot of talent and precision to master. Is there any weapon that is easy to use like a shield and versatile at the same time?"
The pope is thinking about a good weapon that's good for Zeon. The pope as the church leader and the current head of Zahakkan family has a lot of treasure and artifacts, many of them comes from the family heritage, some of them from donation which have been given by those influential, rich, or strong people who want to make connection with the church, another comes from spoils of war with another race years ago. While eating some cookies and sipping some tea the pope finally found a weapon that he thought suitable with what Zeon needed.
"I've already found a suitable weapon with what you described little Zeon, it's a gauntlet! Gauntlets are used on both of your hands, they can be used for almost anything from defending into attacking at the same time. Their area of coverage for both defense and attack is quite wide. Their versatility is a lot as it was literally a stronger hand and their attack pattern is more unpredictable from other kinds of weapon like sword and spear."
"A gauntlet?" Zeon not quite sure of using this weapon because it was no different from using your own hand directly for attacking and defending, imagine if you are not strong enough and defending a sword with a gauntlet, maybe if you are strong enough then you can stop the sword, but if you are actually only a salted fish without any premium account for their character then the possibility that will happen is the gauntlet and the hand will get detached from your body, another better one is that you successfully defending the sword but the swinging inertia and momentum still hitting past that and broke your arm.
'It's definitely a difficult weapon to use, but grandpa also right that gauntlet matches with my description as it has quite a lot of use with wide coverage and I can use it even in everyday lives as it won't look dangerous like a sword, spear, or gun.'
"Well.. Later I'll go to the Arcadeus Weapon Shop to buy a gauntlet, maybe there will be some that are suitable for me."
"Actually you don't need to do that little Zeon, you should remember who you are, my grandson! Grandpa has a lot of good stuff here that you can use. Do you know about artifacts?"
"Artifacts should be stronger than normal weapons, as for my understanding about it I'm not quite sure grandpa, why don't you explain about it too. I've already seen the murloc artifact that can be used to store water."
"Artifacts are really superb equipment that can be used by every creature. They can match every power in this universe depending on how well they can control their power. The murloc gourd is a good example. It was a common artifact that every murloc usually carried on their body to store some water when invading the land. Actually humans can also use it too, they who have awakened the water runic crest can control those water to save some fuel for later use."
"So from your description the gourd is a common artifact, then how many rank to differentiate artifact power, grandpa?"
"There are six artifact ranks that our scientist knows, starting from the weakest to strongest which are common, uncommon, rare, epic, legendary, and mythical. Common and uncommon artifacts usually can be created by some blacksmith from our humanity, they are the lower rank artifact. From rare artifacts and above they are different and more complicated, they are usually created for personal use and need compatibility to use, in some special cases they can change shape. Grandpa's monocle is also one of them, it can change shape and become a weapon."
Grandpa Auguste released his monocle and he activated its power with his runic force. A hidden mechanism seems to be activated as it changed shape to a gun, a well decorated white desert eagle held by grandpa in his right hand.
"Actually grandpa has a lot more stronger artifacts but this one is different because it's given by someone special, there's a lot of old memory in it."
"That's really cool grandpa, then how can we get the rare and above rank artifact?"
"For rare artifacts maybe less than ten people in our human domain can create them, for epic only one person in our human domain can create them. As for legendary and mythical, humanity can only get it through the god panel with SC."
Grandpa Auguste changed the gun back into the monocle and checked his dimensional pocket, searching for a good artifact with gauntlet shape that can be used by Zeon. Not long after, he takes out three different artifacts with strange shapes that Zeon can see.
"Try those little Zeon, if they don't match your taste or not compatible enough, don't worry grandpa still has another that we can try. They are good stuff that can change shape into gauntlets, this black bracelet is a rare artifact, this blue bangle is an epic artifact, and this red watch is also an epic artifact."
As Zeon tried the artifact his grandpa continued his explanation about gauntlets with a serious look as he wanted Zeon to hear his important advice.
"As you know, a gauntlet can be versatile for defending and attacking but it doesn't mean that it's stronger than another weapon. For example the spear, when you fight against a spear user be careful of the tip and other sharp part of the spear, you need to be smart and try to avoid it, if you cannot, try to defend on the spear handle. Human strength is only so much so we need to be careful in every situation. Actually there's…"
Grandpa Auguste cannot help but have his eyes opened wide and cannot continue his words as he witnesses an unbelievable scene where Zeon can actually use all of those artifacts. Gulping a little, grandpa Auguste felt shocked because it's quite normal or even special if someone can use one artifact from three chances, but using all of them from three chances is like a 100% success rate of compatibility with those artifacts.
"You can actually use all of them?" Grandpa Auguste cannot help but ask a question with an obvious answer to his grandson.
"Well, maybe I'm lucky.. Hehe.."
'The heck, what happened, is it my time to shine and rise to become a legend?' Zeon thought in his mind.
Trying to change the topic, Zeon continued asking his main question.
"Grandpa, then what about the next application of runic force."
Lost in thought, Grandpa Auguste continued explaining about Zeon's question.
"The third and the last one is activating runic force outside the body and affecting those fragments of dark matter. You can create a weapon with those and this weapon can be controlled by you from afar, it needs a lot of focus, precision, and of course strong control of runic force. The first thing you need to do is gather those fragments of dark matter and create a ball of dark matter, as it is only a ball of fuel it won't do any damage at all. The next thing is imagining a good shape that you want to create with runic force, for example a bullet or shuriken, this part needs a lot of focus or those balls of fuel will explode. The last part is controlling them to hit your enemy, usually it either will cause a sharp damage or explode depending on what you created it for."
Grandpa Auguste waited a moment for Zeon to digest the information and write them on his little note.
"Those three is not the end of runic force application of use, as long as you master those three principles, maybe you can create something else. Grandpa doesn't know about it that much, but those are always what the wise people and those scientists from the old days said."