Ashen God
Chapter 665 - 664 B-level Talent

Chapter 665: Chapter 664 B-level Talent

"So, I choose ’1200 Soul Points’, ’1200 Soul Points’, ’1200 Soul Points’, ’Prehistoric Giant Beast’, ’Demon Pig Bracelet’," Zhang Yanhang quickly made his final decision after reviewing the five item slots in the Drop Treasure Box from the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar. The Time Pause then disappeared.

But Zhang Yanhang immediately picked up another Drop Treasure Box from the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar, expecting, if nothing went wrong, to find a second Demon Pig Bracelet inside.

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After triggering a Time Pause again and opening the second Drop Treasure Box from the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar, Zhang Yanhang reached for the last treasure box, which was the Dark Purple Quality Lord’s Treasure Chest from the Third Tier Two-star Lord Monster Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi.

However, before opening the treasure box from Lord Monster Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, Zhang Yanhang thought to try again, to see if he could switch out items in the treasure box of the Queen Pei Qi to obtain more tarot cards.

"Choose! How can I, through a fairly normal channel, obtain a Blue quality Divination Tarot Card that may or may not be related to the ’Divination Tarot Card·Chariot[Fake] (Gate of Truth)’!" Due to path dependency, Zhang Yanhang once again raised this format that had become very familiar to him, triggering options related to tarot cards. As his question spilled out, Time Pause descended again over the Demonized Swamp, and several rows of text options appeared instantly before Zhang Yanhang.

[Would you like to obtain a Blue Quality Divination Tarot Card?]

[Option One: Yes (Because you have already completely killed all the Demonized Creatures in the Demonized Swamp, including Third Tier Two-star Lord Monster Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, you start standing around bored waiting for the refresh of dropped treasure boxes. As expected, you obtained a Dark Purple Quality Drop Treasure Box from the corpse of Queen Pei Qi.

Perhaps due to good fortune, while opening this Lord’s Treasure Chest from Queen Pei Qi, you unexpectedly obtained a Blue Quality Divination Tarot Card.)]

[Option Two: No (Because you know the intelligence of all creatures in places filled with demonized prehistoric creatures like the Demonized Swamp is especially low, and unlikely to develop any abilities or techniques related to Alchemy, you manage to persuade yourself to give up the idea of obtaining other Divination Tarot Cards, to avoid making fruitless efforts.)]

[Option Three: Not Found (Because you wanted to find other Divination Tarot Cards, you explored the entire Demonized Swamp once more. Although you knew the swamp only housed various low-intelligence and evolutionarily incomplete demonized prehistoric creatures, you still wanted to try, just in case a miracle might occur.

However, sadly, after searching the entire Demonized Swamp all over again, you grievously realized that no miracle appeared at all, and there was absolutely no trace of any Divination Tarot Cards. Although you had anticipated this outcome, you still found it quite upsetting when it actually happened.)]

"Huh? Huh?? Huh??!" Zhang Yanhang just wanted to try triggering an option with the mentality of "no dates, still hit the tree thrice," never really expecting the option to succeed. But looking at the current situation, it seemed like he had somehow succeeded inexplicably?

"Why did it succeed? I clearly never succeeded back on the Goblin Plain, only incidentally triggering the option after the Ashen Treasure Box, but this time I succeeded out of the blue."

Zhang Yanhang thought it over carefully and felt that it might be related to another increase in his Energy Value limit.

After all, the last time he tried to trigger this option, his Energy Value limit was only at 2240 points, while this time it had reached 2720 points, an increase of 480 points compared to before.

Rounded off, that’s 500 points in Energy Value limit, which is indeed quite a lot, almost a 20 percent increase from before.

Since Zhang Yanhang’s Multiple Choices get more useful the more Energy he has, if this is the reason he could now successfully trigger options related to the Divination Tarot Cards, then that does indeed make logical sense.

Mainly because Zhang Yanhang couldn’t think of any other relevant reason. It wasn’t like the Multiple Choices suddenly took pity on him and allowed him to successfully trigger the option. It wasn’t as if it was a time for giving out red envelopes during the Lunar New Year, this was too far-fetched.

"Now that I’ve triggered an option related to the Divination Tarot Cards in the Lord’s Treasure Chest, I should be able to trigger another one at the Ashen Treasure Box, which means I can get two Divination Tarot Cards in one go after clearing the Demonized Swamp.

However, it’s slightly unfortunate that whether it’s completing the set attributes or improving the quality, I need to gather three Divination Tarot Cards. So, for now, upgrading them isn’t possible; I’ll have to wait until clearing a new area to possibly enhance the quality."

Although this is slightly regrettable, getting two tarot cards at once is really good news for Zhang Yanhang, as this doubles the speed at which he could complete the entire Tarot Card Set.

If it were still the case where he could only obtain one Divination Tarot Card per area, then he would need to clear 18 more new areas to complete all 22 cards. But now, it’s different; he might only need 9 new areas to complete all 22 Divination Tarot Cards. Well, it’s still somewhat distant.

But judging by the current progress, although completing the Third Tier is definitely impossible, the Fourth Tier or even Fifth Tier might be achievable. If it were at the original pace, don’t even mention the Fifth Tier; it would be unlikely for Zhang Yanhang to get so many Divination Tarot Cards even if he reached the Sixth Tier, he would probably need the Seventh Tier to do so.

As for whether the Seventh Tier him would still need the Divination Tarot Card Set or if it would become obsolete due to being behind in quality, that remains an unknown.

"And besides, in the first option, I cleverly cheated to get new Divination Tarot Cards, while in the second option, I was smart enough to know when to give up immediately to cut losses. But in the third option, I was a bit irrational, heading straight into the wall without looking back. Are miracles that easy to trigger?"

Even for someone as fortunate as Zhang Yanhang, the Heavenly Destiny Master, there wasn’t much to expect from miracles. After all, hoping for miracles was less practical than directly choosing an option that could actually trigger one. Moreover, the very reason they were called miracles was that they were normally impossible to trigger, thus not worth much anticipation.

"So, I choose Option One, to receive a new Divination Tarot Card from the Dark Purple Quality Lord’s Treasure Chest contributed by the Demonized Four-Eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi."

After making his final choice, Time Pause disappeared instantly, and Zhang Yanhang immediately picked up the last Dark Purple Quality Drop Treasure Box and chose to open it, thereby instantly triggering another Time Pause.

However, although this was already the fourth occurrence of Time Pause above the Demonized Swamp, it was still remarkably lackluster compared to before. Previously, it would trigger hundreds of times, but now, even considering the options related to the Divination Tarot Card, it only triggered four times.

Of course, based on the situation, this fourth Time Pause might not be the last one triggered this time.

After all, he might need to retrigger an option related to the Divination Tarot Card after opening the Dark Purple Quality Drop Treasure Box, but that time it wouldn’t be related to the Lord’s Treasure Chest but rather preparing in advance for the possibility of drawing a Tarot Card from the Ashen Treasure Box later.

[Would you like to open the ’Drop Treasure Box (Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi)’?]

"Yes, open it."

Zhang Yanhang was already quite hopeful about what could be drawn from the Lord’s Treasure Chest of the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, but finding that the Dark Purple Quality Drop Treasure Box could also contain a Divination Tarot Card increased his expectations even more.

According to his previous wishing format, he believed Multiple Choice would not casually offer a completely unrelated Divination Tarot Card; it should definitely be one that is related to the previous three cards—the Fool, the King, and the Chariot—and could enhance their Quality, so Zhang Yanhang was naturally very hopeful.

Besides the Divination Tarot Card that was certain to be drawn after hacking, Zhang Yanhang was also very hopeful about the other items in the treasure chest. He had previously set two small objectives: one was to increase the work-rest ratio to 7:4, and the other was to shorten the clearing speed of the magazine to within two seconds.

Since the demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar’s Drop Treasure Box had previously yielded a Demon Pig Bracelet that was initially Dark Purple Quality with a perfect score, Zhang Yanhang, although not yet equipped, felt confident that there would be no problem greatly advancing his small objective of speeding up the magazine clearing to within two seconds.

Thus, since there was already a solution for the magazine clearing speed, Zhang Yanhang naturally looked forward more to the new equipment in the Lord’s Treasure Chest of Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi helping him address the first small objective: increasing the work-rest ratio to 7:4.

Although the objective related to clearing magazine speed might be tough and require a lot of time, unlike the objective of increasing the work-rest ratio to 7:4, which could be immediately achieved if he got new equipment that enhanced Physical Recovery Speed, Zhang Yanhang felt confident about accomplishing this small objective.

Though it might seem a bit exaggerated, considering that the new equipment in the Lord’s Treasure Chest of the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi was likely to initially be Light Golden Quality, Zhang Yanhang felt quite optimistic about accomplishing this objective.

After all, even if the new equipment from the Lord’s Treasure Box doesn’t help Zhang Yanhang achieve the small objective of increasing the work-rest ratio to 7:4, it should come close enough that just padding from the Achievement Vending Machine’s rewards should immediately help him achieve that small objective, then promptly proceed to establish new ones.

However, considering his imminent promotion to Third Tier, if he cannot achieve the currently set small objective now, then when he reaches Third Tier, it should likely lead to some changes.

After all, upon reaching Third Tier, his Stamina limit would increase significantly with the improvement of the Constitution Attribute, while his recovery speed would remain subpar, so there’s a possibility that the small objective he’s currently deemed completed might regress to incomplete by then.

Besides the increase in Stamina limit caused by the Constitution Attribute, Zhang Yanhang thought it more likely that excessive consumption of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures could also lead to a situation where the recovery speed fails to keep up with the increasing Stamina limit. Yet, as this belongs to random variables and cannot be accurately predicted, it need not be considered for now.

[Please select the specific contents of the ’Drop Treasure Box (Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi)’]

[Item One: ?]

[Item Two: ?]

[Item Three: ?]

[Item Four: ?]

[Item Five: ?]

"Although this Lord’s Treasure Chest of the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, like the Goblin Chief Nu Shan’s in Goblin Plain, is a Dark Purple Quality Drop Treasure Box, Goblin Chief Nu Shan was only a Third Tier One-star Lord Monster, while Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi is a Third Tier Two-star Lord Monster.

Though there’s only a difference of one star, if my prediction is correct, there should be a significant difference in their Racial Talents, or rather, I might see the first B-grade Racial Talent in the Drop Treasure Box of Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi." This point also made Zhang Yanhang quite hopeful.

Besides the Racial Talent of the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi, the amount of Soul points he could obtain from its Drop Treasure Box was crucial for him, especially given the tenfold value rule of Drop Treasure Box Soul points options, leading him to think that an unprecedented option of eighty thousand Soul points might appear.