After a moment of silence, she still said with disbelief, "I never imagined you guys could actually reach Monarch Level, it's truly inconceivable. Just a short while ago, the Fischer family on the East Coast was but a minor family."
The forbidden rare artifact was a small circular shield, No. 8271, named the "Counterattack Shield," capable of releasing a hemispherical protective barrier that could block and reflect incoming attacks, lasting for a few seconds.
The "Counterattack Shield" flaw was that it could only be deployed three times a day, and using it came at the cost of a year of one's lifespan. Another downside was that the "Counterattack Shield" had a limit for the amount of force it could withstand.
At most, it could fully block an attack from a low-level Monarch Extraordinary Exponent, but against stronger extraordinary powers, it couldn't provide complete defense.
In the family meeting that followed, Byrne looked at everyone and said calmly,
