Once the shield was cleansed of all the Reduction aura, Alex handed Ray the feathers and asked him to use the first bracer on them again. Meanwhile, he took the shield outside and looked at it more closely.
"I imagined a strong shield to protect everything, but this can't do that, can it?" Alex asked.
"Hmm? Oh, yes," the Artifact God nodded. "Even if it can defend against part of the attack, the force still has to go somewhere, and some of it flows right onto you. No defense is 100%."
Alex nodded. "But this one helps mitigate even that when active since it spreads the force away from the person using it."
It was a well-thought-out artifact that perfectly played into its own advantages.
The Artifact God was slightly distracted, working on the single feather bead she had gotten from the start as she tried to imagine what it was that she wanted to do with it. The robe she made couldn't just be a normal robe but rather an artifact, so it needed to do something good.
