Pointless
"Zero, scan this book and tell me its gist," Lucian spoke.
[Sigh, I miss my days of being unemployed, doing nothing all the time and just lazing around; that must have been the best part of my life.]
After that, Zero got to work and began to scan the pages. After a few minutes, Lucian had flipped through the entire book. Then, placing it to the side, he asked:
"Now tell me what it is all about. And what is this stone?"
[In short, it is research done by a famous weapon forger.
She first mentioned all of her great accomplishments and blah blah, telling how famous she was; the first part is just that.
Then, in the second part, she talked about weapons and how weapons could only be used for each phase of evolution, then become useless at the next phase.