Ashen God
Chapter 537 - 536: Divination Tarot Card·Chariot[Fake] (Gate of Truth)

Chapter 537: Chapter 536: Divination Tarot Card·Chariot[Fake] (Gate of Truth)

"Well, this brief seems to mention something related to this bottle of Blue Dragon Essence Blood, but then again, it’s not really relevant. It merely touches on why this Blue Dragon set foot on the path of selling its blood—a shivering thought. When will male dragons finally stand up for themselves?!"

During the process of reading the brief, Zhang Yanhang noticed that the two angels who seemed on the verge of sudden death had somehow come back to life. All you can say is that angels indeed have incredibly vigorous life forces—Red Dragon Salcano really did strike it lucky.

"Previously, the angels were blessed with the Holy Spirit Blessing, so where does this Dawn Blessing come from? I always feel like it’s still related to those two angels. Speaking of Dawn, could these angels be under the service of the God of Dawn?"

Zhang Yanhang pondered and felt that it truly was a possibility, given that there was such a god. As for the specific methods used, Zhang Yanhang thought it was possible that the angels and a bishop worked together to borrow a small part of the God of Dawn’s Divine Power to bless this bottle of Blue Dragon Essence Blood.

Maybe this also explained why Zhang Yanhang could see things resembling golden bubbles within the blue Dragon Blood, which could be the Dawn Divine Power used to boost the effectiveness of the blessing.

"Before, I felt that Red Dragon Salcano was showing signs of becoming a capitalist, but lately, he seems to be regressing, almost turning back into an old-fashioned Slave Master.

After all, real capitalists don’t need something as costly as slaves, but rather employees who can be exploited at will and then dismissed with a meager severance pay once they’re done being squeezed dry."

Zhang Yanhang remembered that in early England, capitalists would pull children from kindergarten age straight into factories as illegal workers, then work them to death before they even graduated from primary school.

These child laborers had to do at least a third or even half of an adult’s workload but received only a fifth or at most an eighth of the wages, truly representing a cheap and quality labor force exploited to the bone.

And around the same time, the United States was in the throes of a Civil War, as northern factory owners, needing labor to exploit, set their sights on the black slaves of southern planters. After four years of war and the South’s defeat, the planters were forced to turn their slaves into Free Persons and send them to work as ’black’ labor in factories.

What many don’t realize is that although the southern planters were the most resistant on the surface, the black slaves who were turned into Free Persons resisted even more.

Due to international embargoes at the time, the price of black slaves kept climbing. Buying one cost what would now be between three and five hundred thousand, so planters would cherish them greatly after purchase, providing all essentials including partners, retirement, and medical care.

Planters viewed the slaves as their private property, whether freshly born or old and worn out, a source of labor nonetheless, and still worthy of their monetary care.

But after slaves became Free Persons and were sent to the factories? All those benefits disappeared, and everything had to be paid for by themselves. Furthermore, labor significantly increased. When they slacked off at the planter’s, he was reluctant to beat them severely for fear of damage, resorting only to symbolic lashings to invoke fear.

But in factories? No one coddled you; slackers were beaten on the spot, and those who dared resist were thrown out to become homeless. With the conditions of the time, being a vagrant was incredibly risky; one could easily be shot dead by a drunk white police officer for trivial reasons like a gun practice match.

Buying a black slave for three to five hundred thousand, but only paying wages less than a hundred thousand in ten years—such a profitable deal for the northern factory owners.

Therefore, when compared to the life as a Free Person in the northern factories, all the Niges missed the affluent life of black slaves in the southern plantations, especially the endless supply of fried chicken, soda, and big watermelons.

Hence, Zhang Yanhang felt that Red Dragon Salcano truly appeared to be regressing into a Slave Master, even beginning to give angels four hours of long holidays. Losing ground today, giving up territory tomorrow, it wouldn’t be long before dropping from a 007 privilege to the toil of a 996 schedule.

"As for this bottle of Blue Dragon Essence Blood, although it indeed has the Lightning Resistance I least desire, thankfully, it doesn’t make up a large portion of the effects. The main effect is still Agility, and it can directly add five points to Agility. I suspect that Multiple Choice somehow knew I was lacking in Agility, which is why it could grant me this bottle of Blue Dragon Essence Blood.

However, the pity is that I’m currently only two points away from the Second Tier Limit. If I drink it now, I’ll waste three points of Agility, so this bottle of Blue Dragon Essence Blood will have to wait until after I’ve reached the Third Tier to be used.

Therefore, if I want to make up for the last two missing points of my Agility attribute, I still need to find another way to solve this issue."

After Zhang Yanhang finished reviewing the attribute list of the [Blue Dragon Essence Blood (Dawn Blessing)], he looked at the Dark Purple Quality and Light Gold Quality Blue Dragon Blood, only to find that the effects were roughly the same, except that those two bottles provided slightly less bonus to Agility attributes.

[Item Three]

[Option One: Witch Gu Skull Bracelet, Purple Quality, Artifact]

[Option Two: Voodoo Black Beast Tooth Necklace, Dark Purple Quality, Artifact]

[Option Three: Voodoo Red-faced Owl (Skull), Quality Light Gold, Material]

"Hmm? Light Golden Quality material? Although I did not manage to roll a Light Golden Quality weapon, getting a Light Golden Quality material isn’t bad. With a Light Golden Quality material, I just need to use Alchemy to modify its shape a bit to turn it into a weapon.

Now that I’ve rolled the Light Golden Quality Voodoo Red-faced Owl Skull, coupled with the two Light Gold weapons I have—the Heavenly Martial Soul-devouring Sword and the Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Sword—I should be able to upgrade the quality of my weapons. After waiting for so long, the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist can finally be promoted to Golden Quality.

But the question is whether the usage requirements of the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist, once promoted to Golden Quality, will rise to a level that I can’t use. I’ll ask Multiple Choice first and then decide on the upgrade, because if I can’t use it after upgrading, that would be quite the joke."

Zhang Yanhang remembered that the last time he upgraded the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist was just last week, so for him, it indeed felt like a long time since he had last upgraded it.

Zhang Yanhang briefly looked at the attribute list of the Voodoo Red-faced Owl Skull, and he had initially felt the name Voodoo seemed somewhat familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before. The introduction outlined that the so-called Voodoo is actually a transliteration of African Voodoo.

As for the Voodoo religion, it’s more commonly known among people, or rather, even if modern people have never heard their name, they have almost certainly experienced their culture.

Take the infamous Zombies, for instance, which are the T-virus Infected that Zhang Yanhang had previously eliminated in Raccoon City. They originate from Voodoo-related legends and ceremonies about resurrected corpses.

Moreover, besides that, Voodoo is also famous for another product—the Voodoo Doll, which is a doll made out of straw.

If someone holds a grudge against a person, they can take some body tissue, such as hair, or personal belongings and place them inside the doll—to stick it with pins day and night. This has the potential to curse and even kill the original owner.

This Voodoo Doll has appeared in various cultural and entertainment products far more frequently and much earlier than Zombies, and it continues to endure over time, with related merchandise always selling well."

Of course, although these two things are the most famous, Vodou is not only about that. In fact, it’s an amalgamation of ancestor worship, animism, and the art of communing with spirits—a primitive religion similar to Shamanism, specifically the primitive Shamanism of Africa.

So, they like to wear ox skulls or other beast skulls on their heads as masks during their rituals, and the Voodoo Red-faced Owl Skull that Zhang Yanhang summoned this time is a derivative of this traditional culture, made from a giant bird known as the Crimson-faced Owl.

"It seems that this Voodoo Red-faced Owl Skull should be the item represented by the Shaman keyword... and the other two items are probably also Voodoo-related," Zhang Yanhang surmised after quickly checking the descriptions of the other two items. Not surprisingly, they were both products of Voodoo and, moreover, Curse Items.

One of them, the Witch Gu Skull Bracelet, causes the enemy’s skull to soften and fail to support the brain, leading to death. Meanwhile, the Voodoo Black Beast Tooth Necklace causes rapid teeth growth until the wearer’s skull is pierced by their own teeth, akin to a babirusa, leading to death.

It must be said that these Curse Items from the primitive tribes of Africa truly possess a wild imagination—one that a person with a remotely normal brain might not even conceive of such gruesome ways to die.

[Item Four]

[Option One: Grimrose A-C3 Land Reconnaissance Mecha, Dark Purple Quality, Weapon]

[Option Two: Hughes Pielde E-G7 General Heavy Armor Mecha, Quality Light Gold, Weapon]

[Option Three: Divination Tarot Card·Chariot[Fake] (Gate of Truth), Blue quality, Equipment]

"Mecha, oh how wonderful, and it’s even a Quality Light Gold heavy armor mecha. But what a pity, I don’t like mechas. Only sissies use mechas. Real men tear them apart with their bare hands."

Had it been a Golden Quality mecha, Zhang Yanhang might have been tempted, and then would have considered abandoning the tarot cards in favor of the mecha.

Although mechas weren’t of much use to him, he was about to promote his Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist to Golden quality, at which point he would need Golden Quality weapons as materials. And, without any surprises, he might need four Golden Quality weapons.

But unfortunately, the Hughes Pielde E-G7 General Heavy Armor Mecha was just a Quality Light Gold weapon, and Zhang Yanhang no longer needed weapons of that quality.

After all, if he had already gathered the materials needed to upgrade his Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist, extra Quality Light Gold weapons were of no use to him. He couldn’t use them himself, couldn’t sell them—they were pure waste.

"So, what’s still the most important to me is this Blue quality [Divination Tarot Card·Chariot[Fake] (Gate of Truth)]. It’s amazing to see a Multiple Choice generate a Blue quality item when even the lowest options I’ve encountered are Purple Quality."

Zhang Yanhang calculated that above Blue quality were Purple, Dark Purple, Light Gold, and Golden. This meant that the [Divination Tarot Card·Chariot[Fake] (Gate of Truth)] was at least three, if not four, qualities lower than the items he had chosen before. Judging by quality alone, this was a significant downgrade.

But thankfully, as part of a set—and a super set with twenty-three components at that—the current quality of Divination Tarot Card·Chariot was actually not that important. What mattered were the Set Effect and the potential for Upgradability.

"Both Option One and Option Two are mechas, and Option Three is the Tarot Card·Chariot. It appears that this time, the choices must be closely related to the keyword ’war’, which is much more obvious than last time. I recall last time, I hardly managed to summon the barely related Divination Tarot Card·Emperor with the keyword ’Domination’."

As he spoke, Zhang Yanhang began to check the Attribute list for [Divination Tarot Card·Chariot[Fake] (Gate of Truth)].

[Divination Tarot Card·Chariot[Fake] (Gate of Truth)]

[Quality: Blue]

[Type: Equipment]

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

[Durability: 37/37]

[Defensive Power: 25]

[Additional Attributes: Attack Speed +5%.]

[Upgradable, Upgrade Conditions 1: Possess ’Divination Tarot Card·Strength[Fake] (Gate of Truth)’ (0/1), possess ’Divination Tarot Card·Justice[Fake] (Gate of Truth)’ (0/1), possess ’Divination Tarot Card·Hanged Man[Fake] (Gate of Truth)’ (0/1).

Upgrade Conditions 2: Possess ’Divination Tarot Card·Star[Fake] (Gate of Truth)’ (0/1), possess ’Divination Tarot Card·Moon[Fake] (Gate of Truth)’ (0/1), possess ’Divination Tarot Card·Sun[Fake] (Gate of Truth)’ (0/1).]

[Usage requirements: Must have Alchemy or other related Alchemy skills.]

[Score: 70 (Blue item Score ranges from 31 to 70.)]

[Set Effect One: Power is Justice (Unlocks with two-piece set)]

[Set Effect Two: Trinity (Unlocks with three-piece set)]

[Introduction: The Chariot is one of the 78 cards of the tarot, ranked as the seventh of the 22 Major Arcana cards. The victorious figure on the card exudes a forceful presence, displaying his grand achievements in the mortal world. The black and white lions that pull the chariot are always ready to forge ahead.

This card is a symbol of the strong, intrinsically linked to power, suggesting success through perseverance.

However, all the above have nothing to do with this knockoff produced by a small workshop and printed incorrectly.]

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