60 Le Chant de Roma

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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"Also... here's a little parting gift."

Then out of nowhere, appeared a dagger with black encrusts and crimson-colored blade, with both rain and knuckle guards alike of a fiery snake's steel scales. A rare weapon from the start? Not bad, but cliched...

"A dagger? You deities really have the fetish to serve the usuals huh..."

"My, my! what insolent and ungrateful words! Fetish, you say? Are you perhaps expecting that you're the main character here and that you should have more than a dagger for a starting weapon like the sword of that high-class Classmate of yours?"

"Hmmm, that's a mere assumption at its best... but it's not weak isn't it?"

"Certainly not..."

"Then I guess this should do it."

"Besides its not just any dagger though. It's a chakram actually."

"Huh? What is that supposed to be?"

"You don't know what a Chakram is? For an eastern fantasy enthusiast like you, I could have never predicted your ignorance."

"And what good might it bring to both me and my neurons, memorizing weapons from eons ago?"

"Ara-ara! Kawaikoto!" (English: What a cute thing!)

"Yametekudasai... So, back on point, this dagger is only an outward appearance? And it has the capacity to metamorphose itself in some chakram or something when wanted?"

"Yes... It was a gift from Hades when I was promoted to the ranks and he somewhat showed me what it's capable of with a proud look in his face, which I think is just another... puny trick. Never used it once though and I probably don't need it..."

"So what's a chakram anyway?"

"Guess, there's no helping it, let me show you what it looks like in personal...Try holding to the callous-looking dagger once and say 'Le Chant de Roma'."

"Here we are again, with the weird algorithm of foreign chanting spells."

"Can't help it. It's not like I was the one who designed the system."

"Hayst... Can't hurt."

Then, as I was about to grab hold of the weapon's handle I can't help but think of what Amadea said to us earlier. If I remember correctly, the moment an individual obtains his first weapon, they will then be illegible for peril and I'm no different.

But, I think there's no use delaying it now. As much as Lacrimosa here has implicitly thought, it's better for us to start venturing to the pangs of danger, rather than to delay it even more, while those that are in the Mirage Armada are only getting more acquainted with actual combat. And I don't think that I'm the only one with this idea. Everyone in that 690 should already be feeling the need to get a hold of a weapon they can call their own... No matter the rarity.

I then took my first hold of the weapon. It was light and has quite the cool and legendary feel to it that I think even a kid could wield it without errors... and then, appeared in front of my field of vision its basic description with a three-dimensional representation of what the weapon looks like all inlaid in a futuristic platform of neon-green.

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Weapon Description

Name: Grendel

Rarity: Mythical

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"There's also a rarity tier for weapons huh?" I asked.

"Per se, yes. There are 6 relic and item tiers; 1) Prevalent, 2) Rare, 3) Prototype, 4) Mythical, 5) Sacred, 6) Arcana, but if I were you, I would choose to ignore such minor details. It's only there to show the reputation of the weapon, they don't actually prove anything, unlike in your ARPG's and MMO's. There's this one time that I saw a prevalent relic holder defeated a Scared. Simply put, I think it's just there to show merchants the value of the relic...nothing more and nothing less." Lacrimosa exclaimed.

So, as she said, it's very unlike video games. It does not show the damage or any of the attributes it incorporates. All it displays is a weapon's name and guess what? It even has rarity. Everything else from that, I think would be 'User-Dependent' meaning that no matter how cool it looks like, it depends on the dexterity of the user and the capacity of utilization to use it effectively and efficiently. And then, heeding the chanting instruction I proceeded...

"Le chant de Roma" I chanted, the same tone how Lacrimosa stated it before, and then in my hand, the dagger 'Grendel' became something else entirely. A 'Chakram' so to say... but, in their little monkey dreams. I would like to describe it more vividly... It's like the 'Mirror Wheel Eye' actually, also known as the 'Sharingan', but a large weapon which I think is long-ranged.

From its dagger, It suddenly became a circular blade, almost like the shuriken of old but relatively larger with three surrounding larger blades that took the form of number nines encrusted in a circle perfectly distanced from each other. I think the size is half of Shiro but it was light as ever. It maintained its colors of both black and crimson and at the diameter of the round weapon, the handle came to be.

"Nice isn't it? Hades did have a legendary blacksmith to do it from its interior."

"Can't argue about that, but... Shiro, would you come down here for a moment?"

"Yes! Oni chama!" Shiro then signaled the Pegasus to let her down and it was so. I think Shiro has the innate capability to befriend mythical creatures at this point.

"Hmmm??? What are you planning now?" the goddess with an evil smirk on her face and cold eyes asked as if she knows what's running on my mind...

Then as the flying horse's heel touched the ground, so did Shiro, jumping out from the back of the befriended creature facing me with all curiosity of why I called her while her face expressed the unequivocal joy of her most recent joy ride around the nominal place.

"What is it oni-chama?" The little girl asks while being playfully cheerful around the Pegasus who she befriended.