Ashen God

After reviewing the attribute list of this Divination Tarot Card·Death, Zhang Yanhang basically disagreed with its description, as his perspective was different. After all, different positions lead to different views.

If he belonged to the old era, he would instinctively resent the new era. Conversely, if he belonged to the new era, he would equally resent the old era, viewing them as decayed and dull, destined to be replaced. It's simply a matter of personal interests.

For instance, those who have already bought property and benefited from the market, seeing their worth soar due to their investment, would naturally not wish for property values to drop.

Meanwhile, those who have yet to buy property or lack the funds to do so naturally hope for prices to plummet to rock-bottom levels, so everyone could own two homes—one to live in and the other just for show.

At the same time, those who bought at high prices and took out loans to do so also do not want property values to drop, as banks wouldn't lower repayment sums, leading to stark losses.

Hence, when standing on different positions that relate closely to personal interests, most people are inclined to side with their camp. There's no inherent good or evil, it's simply about safeguarding personal interests from loss.

After all, buying a house might drain the savings of six people for a lifetime, so one naturally wants it to retain value, not plummet like cryptocurrencies, without the founders running away.

Regarding notions of old versus new eras, Zhang Yanhang also disagreed with the description concerning life, which claimed the essence of life to be a cyclicity of death and rebirth—or reproducing offspring.

If Zhang Yanhang were ordinary, he'd agree, but as an Awakener with a lifespan of several thousand years, destined for self-immortality without the need to reproduce, he saw it as absolute nonsense.

Thus, this was another issue of differing positions leading to differing perspectives that resulted in disagreement.

Certainly, if Death were willing to freely gift him some wives to personally experience—no, criticise—these outdated views on life, perhaps he might slightly agree with this perspective.

"But what I find even more intolerable is the additional attribute provided by the Divination Tarot Card·Death—what on earth is this? A Life Value Recovery Speed Bonus?"

Zhang Yanhang was quite disdainful of the Life Value Recovery Speed Bonus, as he had recently gained a whopping 2400% Life Value Recovery Speed Bonus by wearing the Life Ring. The mere 40% provided by the Tarot Card was of little use to him.

Regarding this Divination Tarot Card·Death, Zhang Yanhang could only say he's at a loss for words, but fortunately, each Tarot Card has different additional attributes, meaning the next one won't have the same problem.

[Item Four]

[Option One: Dawn (Glory Still Shines), Quality: Legendary, Equipment]

[Option Two: Breaking Dawn (Praise of Light), Quality: Epic, Equipment]

[Option Three: Divination Tarot Card·Demon [Missing] (Gate of Truth), Quality: Light Golden, Equipment]

"Dawn? Breaking Dawn? The third item from before seemed virus-related, but this is likely related to the Sun."

If Zhang Yanhang's knowledge structure is correct, Dawn and Breaking Dawn are generally used to symbolize the 'rising sun'. Since that sounded odd, it's better to depict as 'the newly risen sun'.

"Though the type is equipment, the names Dawn and Breaking Dawn make it hard to determine the specific equipment type."

Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but check the thumbnails; they appeared to be similar to badges, likely not conflicting with other equipment he wore.

"Although I haven't checked the specific attribute lists yet, under normal circumstances, whether it's the Legendary Dawn or the Epic Breaking Dawn, I'd choose both in a dual-choice option.

Unfortunately, what matters more to me now is the Divination Tarot Card, so I can only choose the higher-quality Epic Breaking Dawn."

But before checking the attribute list of Breaking Dawn, Zhang Yanhang thought he should first look at the attributes of the Divination Tarot Card·Demon to see if it would again be something with a useless additional attribute.

[Divination Tarot Card·Demon [Missing] (Gate of Truth)]

[Quality: Light Golden]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Ashen World, Heavenly God Continent, Sizitak Empire, Akbar Village Underground Black Workshop.]

[Durability: 48/48]

[Defense: 35]

[Additional Attributes: Physical Defense +20%.]

[Upgradable, Upgrade Condition 1: Possess 'Divination Tarot Card·Fool [Missing] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), Possess 'Divination Tarot Card·Chariot [Missing] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), Possess 'Divination Tarot Card·Emperor [Missing] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1).

Upgrade Condition 2: Possess 'Divination Tarot Card·Lovers [Missing] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), Possess 'Divination Tarot Card·Temperance [Missing] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), Possess 'Divination Tarot Card·Tower [Missing] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1).

[Usage Requirements: Possess Alchemy or other related alchemy skills.]

[Score: 350 (Light Golden item's score ranges from 261 to 350.)]

[Set Effect One: Blind Foolishness (Unlock attribute with two-piece set)]

[Set Effect Two: Soul Tower (Unlock attribute with three-piece set)]

[Description: Demon is one of the 78 Tarot cards, listed as the 15th among the 22 Major Arcana. It symbolizes desire among the 78 Tarot cards, representing negation of life's spiritual purpose and opening the doors to the pursuit of tangible things and selfish goals.

The demon has goat horns, goat legs, and crow feet, symbolizing the instincts and nature of animals. His donkey ears symbolize stubbornness, and the reversed pentagram on his head points toward the ground, representing a desire for the material world.

His right hand makes a unique devilish magic gesture, contrasting with the blessing gesture of the sect hierarch. The symbol in his palm represents Saturn, also known as the star of matter and descent.

In front of the devil, there is a pair of a man and woman controlled by chains. The shackles on them are not imposed by anyone but are bound by their own endless and constantly exposed desires, the painful cost of being unable to escape evil desires.

The pentagram above the devil's head is a symbol of evil power. He opens his mouth wide, emitting a deep laugh, seducing men and women in the world to cross the moral high walls and engage in acts of descent.

The devil's left hand holds a torch, also pointing toward the material world, openly inciting the flames of desire in Adam's heart, tempting him to descend into hell.

But all the aforementioned content has nothing to do with this counterfeit product made by a small workshop with printing errors. ]

This time, the Divination Tarot Card is indeed much better. At least the additional attributes are relatively normal, providing a 20% physical defense.

Regarding physical defense bonuses, Zhang Yanhang really needs them. After all, this physical defense is basically the same as the previous energy defense, which are additional attributes Zhang Yanhang completely lacks on his body. Therefore, even though it's only twenty percent, it's still very considerable and can help him significantly reduce physical damage.

Moreover, if he can activate the set effect later, the physical defense provided by the Divination Tarot Card - Death will surely be greatly enhanced. By then, the physical defense it can provide will be even more impressive, possibly cutting down his physical damage by half.

However, although the additional attributes are indeed quite good, Zhang Yanhang basically doesn't understand the description of this Divination Tarot Card - Death, only roughly understanding that it's a card representing desire, as its literal meaning suggests.

Although it represents desire, desires can be distinguished between good and bad. After all, survival instincts and greed cannot be equated, so even if the demon seems bad, it actually doesn't count as a completely bad card. At most, it only tends to the bad side, but if one can control their desires, then it's actually a good card.

"But either way, I finally managed to gather the entire Hermit three-piece set now. The Divination Tarot Card - Hermit, Divination Tarot Card - Death, and Divination Tarot Card - Demon have all been obtained by me, and after opening the treasure box later, I can directly activate the set effect and enhance the quality of the entire Divination Tarot Card Set."

Zhang Yanhang's current Divination Tarot Card twelve-piece set is merely of light golden quality, but if he can combine it into the Divination Tarot Card fifteen-piece set later, it could upgrade to golden quality, and surely the additional attributes will increase substantially.

After checking the attribute list of the Divination Tarot Card - Demon, Zhang Yanhang continued to click open the attribute list of the Epic-grade equipment Dawn.

[Dawn (Bright Praise)]

[Quality: Epic]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Ashen World, Fabman Continent, Dawn Temple.]

[Durability: 110/110]

[Defensive power: 90]

[Additional Attributes: Physical Recovery Speed +220%.]

[Usage Requirements: Constitution 150 points, Intelligence 140 points.]

[Score: 1130 (Epic-grade item score is between 981 to 1130.)]

[Description: Someone once asked me why I was able to rise all the way up to my current position, and I told them it was all because of loyalty! Loyalty that is not absolute is absolutely not loyalty. I am willing to offer everything I have for the great Dawn Goddess. — Dawn Temple Archbishop · Fanatic · Sanchester]

"At first, I thought this Dawn must be related to the Sun option, but now a Dawn Temple has emerged. So, the question arises: is this Dawn related to the Sun treasure box keyword item slot or the Divine treasure box keyword item slot?"

Of course, because the Dawn Goddess is somewhat considered to be the Sun Goddess, or one could say, a youthful version of the Sun Goddess, Zhang Yanhang feels that the more likely option is that this item slot combines both the Sun and Divine treasure box keywords.

"But another problem arises: If we exclude Sun, Divine, and Virus, only Technology and Energy keywords are left. Which keyword did Buddha Relics rely on to emerge from the treasure box? It can't be Technology, can it?"

But Zhang Yanhang thought a bit. Considering that the Land of the Buddha Country can even make things like the Rebirth in Pure Bliss Realm Prison Suppression Cannon and Six Roots Pure Soul Passage Spear, which respectively fire Thermo-baric Bomb and Cannon bullets, it might be that the entire Cyber merit machine or whatever perhaps isn't out of reach?

"Thinking about it this way, it seems the most unreliable Technology could actually be the closest answer to the truth? So, another question arises: Would a bionic Buddha knock on an electronic wooden fish?"

Zhang Yanhang feels his original impression of the Land of the Buddha Country might have undergone a radical change. The Land of the Buddha Country might not originally be what he imagined as having some enlightened monks, but might only have giant Buddha robots, perhaps even Vajra Gundam and Tathagata-class space battleships, or such things.

Thinking about the possibility that the Land of the Buddha Country might have no real Buddhas and only Cyber Buddha, Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but imagine a lot of bizarre things. But feeling his attention increasingly diverge, Zhang Yanhang still forcibly refocused his attention back on Dawn.

"Dawn, as an Epic-grade equipment, has scored 150 points higher than the previous Legendary-grade equipment, indicating that both Legendary-grade and Epic-grade equipment have a score range of 150 points.

And Dawn, as an equipment obtained from an EX-grade treasure box, along with the help of Multiple Choice, thus instantly achieving the 1130-score of the Epic-grade full-score equipment.

Consequently, the additional attributes are extraordinarily high. Merely one piece of equipment provides me with as much as a 220% increase in physical recovery speed."

An electromagnetic energy pump with an initial status of golden quality usually offers about a 70% bonus to physical recovery speed. Therefore, theoretically, this Epic-grade piece of equipment equals the effect of three golden quality electromagnetic energy pumps.

Even an electromagnetic energy pump that has been upgraded to orange quality at +5 can only provide a 110% bonus to physical recovery speed, so an Epic-grade piece of equipment is essentially equivalent to two pieces of orange quality equipment.

The difference between them is merely two grades: red and Legendary quality, yet the gap is so enormous.

It can only be said that after reaching the Legendary grade, the increased amplitude of additional attributes did indeed go up significantly, causing the current situation.