Ashen God

As for Zhang Yanhang's attitude towards this, naturally he is delighted, because the stronger the equipment, the stronger his capability.

"Regarding the usage requirements, 'Dawn of Dawn' completely meets the standards of sixth-tier equipment, directly giving usage requirements of as high as 150 Constitution and 140 Intelligence. If I didn't have 'Hundred Taboos', I would really have to wait until the sixth-tier promotion unlocks new attribute limits before I can use it."

Although promoting to the fifth-tier might be easy and he might do it soon enough, Zhang Yanhang's intuition tells him that promoting to the sixth-tier certainly won't be so simple.

After all, the sixth-tier is the Divine Stage compared to the Legendary Stage of the fourth-tier, there is almost certainly a new qualitative change. At that time, it may require some new promotion conditions. As for what exactly, only when he has increased his Profession Level to LV.50 will he know.

It must be said that the more frequently he uses it, the more Zhang Yanhang feels that 'Hundred Taboos' is indeed genuinely useful. The only pity is that it cannot be upgraded, which makes Zhang Yanhang feel a bit regretful.

Thankfully, the problem is not significant. Even now, 'Hundred Taboos' is already quite sufficient, like 'Supreme Will', both are at peak right from the start, and indeed, for a purely auxiliary skill, one cannot ask for too much.

After checking the attribute list of 'Dawn of Dawn', Zhang Yanhang conveniently glanced at 'Dawn's' attribute list, and found that they are indeed similar, both boost physical recovery speed. However, 'Dawn's' additional attributes are slightly lower due to the quality.

[Item Five]

[Option One: Miserla's Core·Magic Web Era (Magic Link), Red Quality, Artifact]

[Option Two: Miserla's Core·Magic Goddess (Void Channel), Legendary Quality, Artifact]

[Option Three: Miserla's Core·Arcane Empire (Ghost Energy Absorption), Epic-grade, Artifact]

"Well, before I even mentioned creating a floating city, this immediately presents Miserla's Core... But, can this thing really be consumed? Eating it might just make me burst!"

If Zhang Yanhang were to give an example that may not be entirely appropriate, Miserla's Core is like the magic engine of a floating city, critically important for the whole floating city, responsible for providing the magic power source for the anti-gravity magic and floating magic imposed on the floating city, allowing the entire floating city to always remain suspended in the sky.

The reason the example is somewhat inappropriate is that Miserla's Core is actually like a magic version of a perpetual motion machine, which can directly extract energy from the void while operating without needing to input fuel like a regular engine. Additionally, it is incredibly durable; as long as it is not actively destroyed by someone, it can sustain itself indefinitely.

At least in recorded history, Miserla's Core has not broken down due to prolonged usage, only damaged under human interference, and that too requiring legendary spells above the tenth-tier, with ordinary nine-cylinder spells being ineffective against Miserla's Core.

Furthermore, due to the unlimited energy source, Miserla's Core can provide endless magic energy to the floating city and its controller, supporting the city's protection barriers and attack magic, effectively combining defense, support, and offense, making it the ultimate product coveted by all mages and arcane masters.

However, Miserla's Core isn't completely perfect; it does have drawbacks such as magic energy or arcane energy extraction not being truly infinite, existing limitations on extraction efficiency in short periods.

In principle, Miserla's Core is akin to a faucet tapped into the void, automatically using magic energy based on the faucet diameter as long as opened.

However, the faucet diameter varies with the material quality of Miserla's Core, making it more like a faucet that upon opening, requires no closing; over time, without control, it can easily flood the floor, akin to being infinite.

Yet, in short term use, magic energy faces a transmission rate issue, with continuous consumption of magical energy by the floating city's anti-gravity magic, floating magic, and protection barriers every moment, occupying a portion of transmission efficiency fixed within "net speed", only the remainder can be freely used.

Moreover, a significant portion of transmission efficiency must supply daily use by various magic towers on the floating city.

Therefore, while unlimited, it doesn't reach an invincible level for the owner, essentially just expanding one's magic capacity by several times.

Of course, as long as it doesn't exceed this transmission efficiency, one can use spells and arcane endlessly, which is the floating city's most powerful feature, allowing mages to become stationary cannons without worrying about protection, firing freely.

But these usage pathways also reveal that Miserla's Core is indeed the core of the floating city, as without Miserla's Core, there would be no floating city, and a floating city without Miserla's Core is just an ordinary hill, commonplace and worthless.

This further leads to Miserla's Core taking up most of the construction cost for the entire floating city, at least accounting for 60% or more.

"So, this powerful Miserla's Core is only Epic-grade?"

But Zhang Yanhang thought about it carefully and felt it probably makes sense, because the floating city's limit is essentially dealing with weak divine powers and lesser divine powers of deities, uncertain of winning, often only capable of certain resistance.

And these weak divinities are ranked at sixth-tier, just like the previous God of Flesh and Corruption, fundamentally of such level. Therefore, Epic-grade as the maximum is already quite excellent.

"Ah, I hadn't realized I've unwittingly reached such a strong level. Seemingly, the once unattainable floating city is now just that for me."

Quietly lamenting a bit, Zhang Yanhang opened the attribute list of the highest-grade epic Miserla's Core for a look.

[Miserla's Core·Arcane Empire (Ghost Energy Absorption)]

[Quality: Epic]

[Type: Artifact]

[Origin: Ashen World, Naisel, Arcane Empire, Master Ioulaum.]

[Usage effect: Increase Energy value limit by 1700 points, Maximum Energy Value Conversion Coefficient +5, Energy Value Recovery Speed +30.]

[Usage Requirements: Intelligence below 150 points.]

[Score: 1130 (Epic-grade item score ranges from 981 to 1130.)]

[Introduction: Created by Master Iolaum, one of the greatest Arcane Masters of the Naisel Magic Empire, the Miserla's Core can provide magic power to massive mountains, transforming them into Floating Cities. Countless Arcane Masters have since emulated this, thus heralding the glorious era of Floating Cities.]

"This time the introduction... is so damn serious."

To be honest, Zhang Yanhang hadn't seen such a serious introduction in a long time. This time, the introduction genuinely tried to convey what the Miserla's Core was to the user.

Because he hadn't encountered an introduction that actually introduced the item in a long time, Zhang Yanhang even felt inexplicably touched.

Although this introduction was indeed very brief, truly a 'brief' introduction, just being able to normally mention the name and state the origin and function was satisfying enough for Zhang Yanhang. After all, previous introductions often didn't even include the item's name.

"Judging by the origin and the mention of Iolaum in the introduction, this Miserla's Core is most likely the original version personally crafted by its creator, Master Iolaum, no wonder it's an epic-grade Miserla's Core."

Although logically speaking, as times progress, so should strength, however, in the magic world, generally speaking, the more one delves into the past, the stronger the magic, the so-called ancient magic. These ancient magics are far stronger than modern magic, and Miserla's Core unquestionably follows this setting.

Compared to other cores made by the Magic Goddess and during the Magic Web Era, the Miserla's Core crafted during the oldest Arcane Empire period is much stronger, as later improvements have mostly made it weaker, with the Magic Goddess being a significant factor.

As everyone knows, the first-generation Magic Goddess was taken down by the Arcane Masters. So after the Arcane Masters were destroyed, the new Magic Goddess naturally couldn't allow the powerful Miserla's Core to fall into the wrong hands, preventing the new-age mages from replicating the Arcane Masters' god-slaying process and taking her down too.

Yet, she coveted the power of the Miserla's Core, so she created a weakened version for use, and later an even more weakened version for the new-age mages.

The name itself indicates that the Magic Goddess's weakened version could still connect to the void, with ample energy supply, but the severely weakened version for ordinary mages could only connect to the Magic Net she controlled.

In other words, although they could still draw energy, they could no longer achieve infinite energy, and the master switch for the energy supply remained in the Magic Goddess's hand. If any mage dared to attempt to replicate the Arcane Masters' god-slaying methods, she would immediately cut off the supply.

One could say, this essentially solved the problem of collapsing the Magic Net as the first-generation Magic Goddess did, and thus ensured she survived safely ever since.

As for why the first-generation Magic Goddess was taken down by the Arcane Masters, it's because the Arcane Masters didn't want an inexplicit 'god' overseeing them all the time, so they thought why not just take down this old hag and assume the power themselves?

Everyone then collaborated to achieve the goal, preparing to drink God's blood, devour divine meat, and split the Magic Net with massive scales once the task was completed.

Although they ultimately succeeded in taking down the Magic Goddess, the Arcane Masters, due to the Magic Net collapsing after her death and no one being able to inherit it, caused the Magic Net to become ineffective. All Arcane Masters were rendered unable to cast Arcane Magic, turning into ordinary people overnight, while the Floating Cities fell immediately due to Arcane Magic malfunctions and Magic Net chaos.

From then on, the once-magnificent Arcane Empire collapsed instantly, perishing along with it.

The new-age mages maintained the same trait as the Arcane Masters in not believing in gods; their strength grew more, their faith diminished. Always thinking of 'replacing them', wanting to follow the pattern of drawing gourds like the Arcane Masters to take down the new Magic Goddess too and assume power. This is why the Magic Goddess was always on guard against them, only giving them a super-weakened version of Miserla's Core.

Mainly because the stronger the new-age mages became, the more their self-confidence grew, believing that the failure of the ancient Arcane Masters to inherit the Magic Net didn't mean they couldn't; anything needed to be tried to know for sure.

In summary, this led to the strange phenomenon where the most original version of Miserla's Core had the highest quality. In contrast, those weakened by the Magic Goddess were only legendary, while the super-weakened version in the Magic Web Era had a pitiful red quality, a 'genuine epic weakening', directly weakened from sixth-tier epic to fifth-tier red quality.

"But honestly, the original is indeed powerful; the base energy value limit alone increases by as much as 1700 points, and it can boost the maximum energy value limit conversion coefficient by 5 points. With my current one-hundred-point Intelligence Attribute, it can increase my energy value limit by five hundred points, totaling to increase my energy value limit by 2200 points."

Although, from this perspective, this Miserla's Core might only match the previous legendary Mutated Ancestor Virus Liquid, the crucial part is, this Miserla's Core also enhances the energy value recovery speed by 30 points. It is expected to significantly accelerate Zhang Yanhang's physique growth rate.

Furthermore, this is just the basic value. If Zhang Yanhang's Heaven and Earth Devourer Skill and energy value limit bonuses come into play, it could easily multiply two or three times.

After reviewing the attribute list of the epic-grade Miserla's Core, Zhang Yanhang also glanced at the legendary-grade, the Magic Goddess version of the Miserla's Core's attribute list, because even though it's a weakened version, it's still a Miserla's Core and very valuable.

[Miserla's Core·Magic Goddess (Void Channel)]

[Quality: Legendary]

[Type: Artifact]

[Origin: Ashen World, Ferren Continent, Extreme Bliss Realm (Attached Half-plane), Mistra.]

[Usage Effect: Increases energy value limit by 1360 points, maximum energy value limit conversion coefficient +4, energy value recovery speed +24.]

[Usage Requirements: Intelligence below 140 points.]

[Score: 980 (Legendary item score ranges from 831 to 980.)]

[Introduction: Created by Master Iolaum, one of the greatest Arcane Masters of the Naisel Magic Empire, the Miserla's Core was later modified and utilized by the Magic Goddess Mistra. She weakened the performance to some extent to make it more 'stable'.]