Ashen God

Chapter 788: Divination Tarot Card·Judgement[Low] (Gate of Truth)


"Besides Limitless Universe Skill and Supreme Will, I have nine other skills in need of promotion," Zhang Yanhang thought. "Setting Soul points aside, if we only consider the Ash Source and calculate it at two points of Ash Source per skill, that would be eighteen points of Ash Source…"

Moreover, Zhang Yanhang was only at the Third Tier, and the requirement for Ash Source to promote to the next level had already risen to seven points. The requirements for promotion from the Fourth Tier to the Fifth Tier Ash Source might well reach double digits, so the total Ash Source demand for his Fourth Tier might end up soaring to thirty points—a massive number.

"Who would have thought that I'd start worrying about the Ash Source needed for the promotion to the Fifth Tier before I even reached the Fourth Tier?" Zhang Yanhang decided to stop pondering this. He felt that considering such things was meaningless to him now, as the situation at the Fourth Tier might be completely different from the present. Worrying in advance really served no purpose.

Item Two

Option One: Divination Tarot Card·Judgement[Low] (Gate of Truth), Purple Quality, Equipment

Option Two: Tetlite Source Metal - Magic Energy Type 1 (Hyper-Crystal Structure), Dark Gold Quality, Material

Option Three: Tetlite Source Metal - Variant Type 3 (High-Catalyst), Orange Quality, Material

"Multiple Choice always seems more generous. Right off the bat, it has given me an option about a Divination Tarot Card, and sure enough, it's a low-quality Divination Tarot Card of Purple Quality. But, to tell the truth, the Ashen Treasure Box of the Fourth Tier Region is really impressive, even casually offering an option for a special alloy of Orange quality."

In normal circumstances, such an Orange quality option would definitely be Zhang Yanhang's choice, usable for crafting Orange quality consumable weapons for upgrading All Four Elements are Void Pure World Fist.

But things were different now. Compared to the Orange quality materials, a mere Purple Quality Divination Tarot Card held more value, and another important reason was that he could now use same-quality equipment to transform into weapons, so his need for high-quality materials had reduced significantly.

Of course, as much as he says this, if he really had the choice, he certainly wouldn't give up on it.

"Really wish I had the real Multiple Choice function… With Multiple Choice, I wouldn't need to wrestle with such decisions in the first place." Okay, perhaps Zhang Yanhang wasn't too conflicted after all.

"Looking at this Tetlite Source Metal, the key word associated with this option seems to be 'metal.' It's impressive how Multiple Choice can forcefully include the irrelevant Divination Tarot Card·Judgement into the mix."

Zhang Yanhang mused silently for a moment, then immediately opened the attribute list of Divination Tarot Card·Judgement to start inspecting it.

Divination Tarot Card·Judgement[Low] (Gate of Truth)

Quality: Purple

Type: Equipment

Origin: Ashen World, Heavenly God Continent, Sizitak Empire, underground black workshop in Akbar Village.

Durability: 42/42

Defensive Power: 29

Additional Attributes: Maximum Life Value Conversion Coefficient +2.

Upgradeable, Upgrade Conditions 1: Possess 'Divination Tarot Card·Star[Low] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), Possess 'Divination Tarot Card·Moon[Low] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), Possess 'Divination Tarot Card·Sun[Low] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1).

Upgrade Conditions 2: Possess 'Divination Tarot Card·Hermit[Low] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), Possess 'Divination Tarot Card·Death[Low] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), Possess 'Divination Tarot Card·Demon[Low] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1).

Usage requirements: Possess Alchemy skills or other related alchemy skills.

Score: 150 (Purple Items score between 71 to 150.)

Set Effect One: Mother of All Things (Two-piece set unlock attribute)

Set Effect Two: Abyssal Purgatory (Three-piece set unlock attribute)

Introduction: Judgement is one of the 78 cards of the Tarot, ranked 20th among the 22 cards of the Major Arcana. The angel blows the horn to signal the Day of Judgement that will destroy the old world and herald the new, spreading the good news from heaven.

The Archangel Michael blows the Doomsday Horn, declaring the moment of the ultimate judgement has arrived. Even those who have perished and decayed crawl out of their coffins, eagerly awaiting the end of this judgement for their resurrection.

It is time to recover lost souls and offer redemption to the deceased so they may embark on a new journey of life.

The angel's horn can awaken everyone's emotions, and even sinners who repent may hope to reach heaven.

The sound of the angel's horn signifies the death of old beliefs, and people embrace the new world called upon by the gospel.

However, all of the above has nothing to do with this counterfeit and inferior product produced by a small workshop and plagued by print errors.

"Can it even boost the Maximum Life Value Conversion Coefficient?" Zhang Yanhang had thought that Divination Tarot Cards like these would only add bonuses to Attack Power, Strength Effect, and the like. Surprisingly, it could also enhance the Maximum Life Value Conversion Coefficient.

"To think that just Purple Quality can add two points already feels incredibly high."

After all, it already added two points without activating the Set Effect; With the Set Effect activated, it would surely add even more. Zhang Yanhang felt that his Life Value Limit was definitely going to experience a significant boost.

It should be mentioned that just last night, he had already increased his Maximum Life Value by elevating the Indestructible Golden Body to Original LV.MAX. Nevertheless, Zhang Yanhang somehow felt that it had been a long time since he saw an increase in his Life Value Limit.

Or perhaps, since advancing to the Third Tier, the Life Value Limit had indeed risen quite slowly due to the lack of related items in the Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano that could boost it. It had remained fixed at 8,690 points.

But this time, his Life Value could finally rise a bit, at least he had to meet the small goal of reaching four times the Life Value Limit of Same Tier Awakeners.

"However, is the ranking of this Judgment really so far back? The twentieth card? Or rather, the second to last?"

Because the Divination Tarot Card - Fool that Zhang Yanhang had obtained before had a card number of zero, the twenty-first tarot card was actually already the last one, with no twenty-second. Hence, the Divination Tarot Card·Judgement naturally became the penultimate.

"What's more important is why an angel blowing the Doomsday Horn to destroy the world would bizarrely resurrect corpses? Normally, shouldn't the focus be on the living? Oh, no, the angel is about destroying the world, and since it's a world she personally destroyed, there would be no living people left, only corpses.

So, after destroying the world, does the angel also hold the authority to reboot the new world and review the resurrection of relevant people? Or perhaps, she spreads the gospel to the righteous..."

Zhang Yanhang has always been unable to understand these mysterious stories recorded in the Bible; he felt that the angel's series of actions were just strong-arming under the guise of spreading the gospel, and it was targeting the whole world...

After all, this situation translates to 'I kill you, and then you must feel grateful for being killed to receive the so-called salvation before getting a chance at resurrection.' Isn't that purely insane?

"The Bible is indeed something concocted by Jews; it definitely is preposterous."

To this, Zhang Yanhang could only say, the Jews would never have been sent to concentration camps if they were even one-tenth as 'innocent' as the childhood public fables suggest. To this day, he cannot understand why someone would make up such ludicrous articles about coating books with honey to encourage Jewish children to read. He feels that the level of preposterousness in the Bible is about the same as these public fables.

It must be said, if the honey-coated story were true, then the tooth decay rate among Jewish children must be quite high. After all, it is said that Jews have the highest book-reading rate in the world, sixty-four books a year, five books a month on average, which would definitely lead to cavities from all the honey.

After reviewing the Attribute list of the Divination Tarot Card·Judgement, Zhang Yanhang quickly clicked to open the third item slot.

[Item Three]

[Option One: Forging Hammer of the Fire and Craftsman God Hephaestus (Conceptual Remains), Quality: Dark Gold, Artifact]

[Option Two: Forging Hammer of the Fire and Craftsman God Hephaestus (Conceptual Projection), Quality: Orange, Artifact]

[Option Three: Forging Hammer of the Fire and Craftsman God Hephaestus (Divine Projection), Quality: Red, Artifact]

"Never thought that one day I could open three items with the same name... although the words in the parentheses after the names differ resulting in different Quality levels."

Of course, the sameness of names wasn't too important; what Zhang Yanhang truly focused on was that the highest quality, the Divine Projection level 'Forging Hammer of the Fire and Craftsman God Hephaestus', was a Red Quality Artifact?

"Red Quality, this is the Quality above Orange? It's already red now, so what color will come next? Multicolored? Possibly, but not necessarily."

Although a new Red Quality had now appeared, Zhang Yanhang felt it was still quite a distance away from Multicolored.

Zhang Yanhang immediately clicked to open the red quality "Forging Hammer of Hephaestus, the God of Fire and Craftsmanship (Divine Projection)" attribute list and began to check it.

[Forging Hammer of Hephaestus, the God of Fire and Craftsmanship (Divine Projection)]

[Quality: Red]

[Type: Artifact]

[Origin: Ashen World, Mount Olympus, Twelve Main Gods Temple Group, Fire God Temple, Hephaestus.]

[Usage Effect: Can enhance any equipment or weapon of white quality and above to orange quality.]

[Usage Requirements: 100 points of Strength.]

[Score: 720 (Orange items score between 681 and 830.)]

[Introduction: After becoming an Olympian Main God and marrying the Love Goddess Aphrodite, reaching the peak of his divine life, Hephaestus built a splendid palace for the gods. He also constructed a forge on the mountain to craft weapons and tools for the Olympian gods.

He made the indestructible Aegis for King of the Gods, Zeus, crafted the wine god's staff for Dionysus, built the Sun Chariot for Sun God Helios, created golden and silver arrows for Eros, and forged impenetrable armor for Achilles, the son of Ocean Goddess Thetis.

He also shaped Pandora from clay, created the metal giant Talos, and the chains that bound Prometheus—though this made him deeply saddened.

But unfortunately, as the embodiment of desire, Love Goddess Aphrodite was in love with Ares, the God of War and Hephaestus's brother, and often secretly met with him when Hephaestus was not at home. Seizing an opportunity, Hephaestus crafted a delicate golden net and caught them in the act, trapping the Love Goddess Aphrodite and War God Ares so they could not move, humiliating them in front of the other gods.

Since that day, Love Goddess Aphrodite hid in her temple (provided by Hephaestus without charge) and refused to come out, not wanting to see Hephaestus again. She felt ashamed of her actions and was also worried about Hephaestus taking revenge on her with the Divine Axe that had once split open the head of King of Gods, Zeus.

Later, the plain-looking and lame Hephaestus ultimately chose to forgive.

Hephaestus crafted an exquisitely beautiful ring from the stones of the holy mountain and the holy fire of Olympus and named it "Rose's Loyalty."

Hephaestus carved the rose, a symbol of beauty and love, onto the ring and then adorned it with thorny brambles, signifying that love requires sacrifice and responsibility, barely salvaging a marriage that was not to last and soon ended after Aphrodite's subsequent infidelity.]

"Seriously, this fire god is too outrageous. Although he's a bit ugly, neglected by his grandmother (Earth Goddess Gaia) and unloved by his uncle (Zeus), and even has a lame leg, but he still should respect and strengthen himself," Zhang Yanhang mused.

Of course, it must be mentioned that Hephaestus's biological father, Zeus, is also his uncle because Hephaestus's mother, Hera, is Zeus's sister.

Their mother was Rhea, the queen of the second generation of gods in Greek mythology, daughter of Earth Goddess Gaia and Sky God Uranos, the wife of Titan King Cronus, originally one of the twelve Titan deities wielding power over time's passage. She was eventually deprived of time and turned into a statue, dying alongside Cronus.

In ancient Greek mythology, Rhea was the second-generation queen of heaven, daughter of Earth Goddess Gaia and Sky God Uranos, wife of her brother Cronus, originally one of the twelve Titan gods and, like her mother, a mother earth goddess. Rhea was the only deity, apart from her eldest daughter Hestia, on Mount Olympus who was most sacred and ancient.

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