Ashen God
Chapter 327 - 326: Energy Vacuum

Chapter 327: Chapter 326: Energy Vacuum

"How should I put it... It might really be because I limited the Divination Tarot Card to Blue quality that I was able to successfully trigger the option,"

Zhang Yanhang carefully examined the three options triggered by his own choice, finding their contents completely different from what he had previously anticipated.

Zhang Yanhang had always felt that even if he really could successfully trigger an option this time, it would mostly only provide some clues. These clues might point to a certain location or person, from whom he would then have to obtain the Divination Tarot Card.

In other words, according to Zhang Yanhang’s previous assumptions, if he wanted to acquire another Divination Tarot Card, it would definitely be the kind that required him to endure various torments through an arduous process of ninety-nine difficulties before he could achieve his original dream.

However, he never expected that Multiple Choice would outright and brutally replace an unknown item in the Ashen Treasure Box with a Divination Tarot Card, as if conjuring it from thin air—an act of considerable divine power.

"Upon further contemplation, this is actually quite normal. After all, Multiple Choice is, at the very least, a Destiny System Talent, and given that the starting status of the Divination Tarot Card is merely Blue quality equipment, it’s quite reasonable for such an effect to occur."

The Quality associated with Second Tier Awakened is Blue and Purple, so for Multiple Choice, which has advanced to Second Tier, this was well within its power.

Zhang Yanhang had actually been concerned that Multiple Choice would overestimate the value of the Divination Tarot Card due to its set characteristics and future development prospects, thus failing to trigger the option. However, to his surprise, Multiple Choice was a bit too powerful, directly locating a new Divination Tarot Card for him.

"I choose Option One, to acquire the Divination Tarot Card from the Ashen Treasure Box."

Since the latter two options were unable to help him obtain the Divination Tarot Card, Zhang Yanhang quickly made his decision after briefly reviewing the contents of the three options.

After making his choice, with the disappearance of Time Pause, Zhang Yanhang immediately felt an emptiness in his body. He quickly opened his data panel to check and found that Multiple Choice hadn’t left him any Energy Value at all.

The complete depletion of the crucial Energy Value, vital to an Awakener’s survival, caused even Zhang Yanhang’s face, which wasn’t very pale to begin with, to take on a ghastly pallor.

Although this state of energy vacuum wouldn’t harm the Awakener’s body if it didn’t persist for a long time (generally indicated by ten days to half a month), it frightened Zhang Yanhang into immediately running his Limitless Universe Skill to recover Energy Value.

After running the Limitless Universe Skill for a short while, a trace of Energy began to reappear within Zhang Yanhang’s body to nourish it, and his complexion rapidly returned to normal.

Incidentally, the reason Second Tier Awakened have the fasting ability is due to the construction of the Spiritual Qi Cycle within the body, allowing the Spiritual Energy to nourish every part of the body at all times, thus allowing Awakeners to sustain their bodily functions without having to draw nutrition from ordinary grains and meat.

Therefore, the presence of Energy within the body is truly important for an Awakener, and they normally reserve a small foundation of Energy Value when using it, rather than depleting it completely.

From this perspective, the End of Dharma Era, with the extinction of Spiritual Energy, is indeed something that would instill fear in all Awakeners. At that time, Awakeners would have to return to their primitive state—relying on basic food intake to obtain meager amounts of energy to sustain themselves.

However, the efficiency of energy absorbed from food is extremely low. For High-level Awakened, eating perhaps hundreds of pounds of meat might not even compare to the amount of Energy Value recovered by casually absorbing a breath of Spiritual Energy during the Spiritual Qi Recovery Era.

"Sigh, I clearly specified Blue quality, but still, all of the Energy Value was drained. It seems that the value of the Divination Tarot Card might unexpectedly tally high in Multiple Choice’s evaluation standards."

Before making his choice, Zhang Yanhang had suggested that Multiple Choice might have deemed the Divination Tarot Card a plain Blue piece of equipment, which could be why the option was triggered so quickly. Now it seemed that Zhang Yanhang’s speculation in this regard was widely off the mark.

His mistake stemmed mainly from underestimating the power of Multiple Choice after its promotion to Second Tier. After all, the promotion was recent, and Zhang Yanhang hadn’t had the chance to explore much about Multiple Choice at its current state.

Seeing that his Energy Value was completely drained by Multiple Choice, just from the depletion alone, Zhang Yanhang felt that the Divination Tarot Card’s Evaluation Level was at least above Purple Quality.

"Now that Multiple Choice can even create something out of nothing, maybe later on I could use this ability to acquire more useful Artifacts and Equipment."

After going through this selection process, Zhang Yanhang felt he had gained a deeper understanding of Multiple Choice, but even so, he still believed that his overall knowledge of Multiple Choice was fairly superficial.

Whenever he faced such situations, Zhang Yanhang genuinely felt that a well-described effect was a blessing, as it allowed one to understand a Talent’s actual effects and functions clearly and succinctly. As for something like Multiple Choice, which only provided a brief note suggesting the user to discover it personally, it was a form of bad civilization that must be eradicated.

"Now that the issue with the Divination Tarot Card has been resolved, I should head to the Achievement Vending Machine first."

Zhang Yanhang decided to visit the Achievement Vending Machine first mainly because it was closer to him, located in the inner area while the Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box was in the Outer Zone. Thus, heading to the Achievement Vending Machine first and then on to the Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box would make for a convenient route.

Zhang Yanhang stood up and surveyed his surroundings. As he had spent quite some time recovering his Energy Value, the Core Area that had been covered in the tissues of the Crimson Iron Ant Queen now mysteriously appeared refreshed and brand new. It was clear that during his energy recovery, the corpse of the Crimson Iron Ant Queen had been reset.

Only some tissues around Zhang Yanhang’s location were not refreshed, but once he left, it was likely that the Crimson Iron Ant Queen’s last remnants would turn to ash and dissipate into the air like the other parts.