Arthur considered the professor's words for a bit, allowing Darius to read the runes for him. This soon proved problematic when Darius read words like 'Immolating Projectile' and others like 'Timely Meltdown.'
The Warlock did his best to decipher the runes but there were only so many ways he could translate the weapon's properties without changing the meaning of the runes that had been used to craft them.
Many times, as he tried to explain, his mind concocted simpler ways his oversimplification could have been written, rendering it mute.
There were even times when the Arcanium's son simply told Arthur to put a lance down without explaining what the runes said. Trusting his friend, Arthur left those kinds of lances alone.
In the end, Arthur resorted to testing out those that sounded interesting to him or those that made no sense to him at all, which was… a lot of them.