Of course, while wishing that the Fire God Hephaestus could stand tall and proud, Zhang Yanhang's final assessment of Hephaestus was still "a simp does not get a house."

"But even though it's fated that a simp like the Fire God Hephaestus won't have a good end, his hammer is really not bad. After all, it's a divine artifact, with just a divine projection having red quality. It is indeed the hammer that forged many famous artifacts in Olympus mythology; its own strength is quite remarkable."

If Zhang Yanhang remembered correctly, aside from the three Cyclopes from the ancient Titan era who made weapons for Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, the Fire God Hephaestus was pretty much the strongest in terms of forging craftsmanship. After all, he is the god of craftsmen, specializing in this field with added divine position bonuses; it would be difficult for him not to be strong.

"This red-quality Fire God's Hammer can enhance any piece of equipment or weapon directly to orange quality without any conditions. The effect is indeed very strong; it's a pity that it seems to be able to enhance only one item and not a set."

If it could enhance sets, whether it's Zhang Yanhang's previous ten-piece belt set or the current six-piece Divination Tarot Card set, both could be upgraded. But since it can only enhance one item, even if the enhancement is successful, it's of no use; it would only disrupt the set effect. So, Zhang Yanhang still has to think carefully about what specifically to enhance with this hammer.

"Moreover, the most important thing is that this hammer requires one hundred points in the strength attribute. As expected of red quality equipment, the attribute requirements are unprecedentedly high, and for this reason, I can't even use it right away even if I could obtain it."

Although Zhang Yanhang is very confident in himself, he doesn't think he can just promote and immediately max out his strength attribute to one hundred points. That would be too exaggerated, mainly because he simply doesn't have that many free attribute points. If he did, he definitely wouldn't mind upgrading casually, but unfortunately, he doesn't.

Besides not having enough free attribute points, he might not even have enough soul points to upgrade his profession level.

"So, there's no rush to use this hammer. I can take my time thinking about which piece of equipment or weapon to enhance."

Of course, he would definitely not enhance the Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist. After all, it's already an orange-quality weapon with full scores. Using the Fire God's Hammer to enhance it would be a complete waste.

"Come to think of it, the score range for red quality is from 681 to 730 points, like the orange quality, with a one hundred fifty-point score interval. I imagine upgrading will be very troublesome."

Zhang Yanhang's previously upgraded equipment, mostly through fusion, only increased by twenty or thirty points each time. If he continues to obtain excess orange or red quality equipment for fusion and can only maintain this level of increase, then the upgrading will surely be quite arduous.

"But this is only something to worry about at the fourth tier, and it's not relevant to me for the time being, as I'm just a third-tier Awakened right now."

Zhang Yanhang felt that such issues fall under "When we get to that bridge, we'll cross it." He must adapt to the situation to find solutions. There's no need for him to worry about it in a void right now.

Compared to this, Zhang Yanhang was more concerned about which keyword this hammer forged by the Fire God was related to in the treasure box.

"Flames, metal, divinity—these three keywords seem to relate to this Fire God's Forging Hammer..."

Zhang Yanhang felt that, in this respect, the keyword divinity played the main role, after all, the main body of the Forging Hammer is the Fire God Hephaestus. Of course, it's also possible that flames and divinity combined a bit, while metal is the least likely since the second option's special alloy is obviously the item matching the metal keyword.

[Item Four]

[Option One: Balrog Flame Whip, quality dark gold, weapon]

[Option Two: Balrog Flame Demon Beheading Greatsword, Quality: Dark Gold, Weapon]

[Option Three: Divination Tarot Card - Wheel of Destiny[Low] (Gate of Truth), Quality: Purple, Equipment]

"Before, I was saying that the Flame Demon Burning Body Explosion from the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano seemed very similar to the ancestral Burning Body Explosion of the Balrogs, but I didn't expect that the Ashen Treasure Box would directly produce the weapon of the Balrog. However, the quality isn't very high, it's just Dark Gold."

Naturally, this is just because Zhang Yanhang's standards have gradually increased. Ordinarily, Dark Gold Quality is already considered very high, after all, both Golden and Dark Gold are Fourth Tier Quality, with Dark Gold tending more towards the late stage of the Fourth Tier.

And Balrog Flame Demons are generally legendary demons of the Fourth Tier strength, and they are even Level 25 Elite Legendary demons, with many even being Level 30 High-level Balrog Flame Demon Lords.

So, overall, Dark Gold actually still matches the actual strength of a Balrog Flame Demon quite well, and Orange and Red Quality are theoretically Fifth Tier Quality, indeed not something that an ordinary Balrog Flame Demon can aspire to.

After all, if we're talking about the Fifth Tier, according to the DND classification, that would already be at the Saint Level of strength, equivalent to a Divine Avatar after a deity descends to the mortal world. You could say it's overwhelmingly stronger than ordinary legends.

"Normally, no matter how you look at it, this Balrog Flame Demon's flame whip and beheading sword should be related to the keyword 'Hell.'

However, in DND, Hell and the Abyss are two different things, and although Balrog Flame Demons are demons, they are Abyssal Demons and are elite demons dearly cherished by the will of the Abyss. Therefore, this Balrog Flame Demon beheading sword and flame whip should actually be more associated with the keyword 'Flames.'"

Of course, compared to the treasure box keyword, the Divination Tarot Card - Wheel of Destiny is more important. So, Zhang Yanhang quickly begins to look at the attribute list of the Purple Quality Divination Tarot Card - Wheel of Destiny.

[Divination Tarot Card - Wheel of Destiny[Low] (Gate of Truth)]

[Quality: Purple]

[Type: Equipment]

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

[Durability: 42/42]

[Defensive Power: 29]

[Additional Attributes: Maximum Energy Value Conversion Coefficient +2.]

[Upgradable, Upgrade Condition 1: Possess 'Divination Tarot Card - Star[Low] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), Possess 'Divination Tarot Card - Moon[Low] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), Possess 'Divination Tarot Card - Sun[Low] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1).

Upgrade Condition 2: Possess 'Divination Tarot Card - Hermit[Low] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), Possess 'Divination Tarot Card - Death[Low] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), Possess 'Divination Tarot Card - Demon[Low] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1).]

[Usage requirements: Possess Alchemy or other related Alchemy skills.]

[Score: 150 (Purple Item scores range from 71 to 150.)]

[Set Effect One: Mother of All Things (Two-piece set unlock attribute)]

[Set Effect Two: Abyssal Purgatory (Three-piece set unlock attribute)]

[Introduction: The Wheel of Fortune is one of the 78 cards in the tarot deck, ranked as the 10th of the 22 Major Arcana cards. This is a card that represents the fate of the natural world, the cycles and alternation of the seasons, learning and growth, extensions of the past and present, and the meaning and elevation of life.

The Wheel of Fortune features the Sphinx symbolizing angels at the top and the Death God Anubis at the bottom, surrounded by goddesses, swans, serpents, and other symbols of various fates in life.

Your fate, like the Wheel of Fortune in the tarot cards, keeps turning, sometimes good, sometimes bad, in a fair and balanced cycle.

The Wheel of Fortune may stop at an angle you like, bringing you incredible good luck, but it can also stop at an angle you dislike, and you will become very unlucky.

Whether you like it or not, fate is so merciless, and life itself is full of change, which fills your life with challenges and excitement.

However, all of the above has absolutely nothing to do with this counterfeit and defective product from a small workshop with printing errors.]

"So, how should I put this, the previous Judgement card was of the Christian divine series, and now this Wheel of Fortune suddenly features the Egyptian-deity Sphinx and Anubis; the tarot cards really are a mess," Zhang Yanhang couldn't help thinking.

He finally understood why there was a set effect called 'In the Name of God (bringing down the judgement of fate on heretics).' So, were those heretics from the Egyptian pantheon? The Pope and Angel Michael in the Pope and Judgement were indeed Christian, and it did seem like they were teaming up to fight against the Egyptian gods for the Power of Faith.

"Previously, the Divination Tarot Card·Judgement enhanced the Maximum Life Value Conversion Coefficient, and this Divination Tarot Card·Wheel of Fortune enhances the Maximum Energy Value Conversion Coefficient; that's really great. Now my Energy Value limit can also increase."

Compared to his Maximum Life Value, which he had managed to increase once before through upgrading his Indestructible Golden Body, Zhang Yanhang's Energy Value limit had indeed not increased for a long time, having been stuck at 5760 points since he entered the Large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano due to a lack of any means of increase.

"Although barely less than a day can't be considered a long time, in terms of the perceived passage of time, it has indeed been quite a while since I last had an increase."

Speaking of this perception of time, Zhang Yanhang was also curious why some power systems allowed stronger individuals to become less sensitive to the passage of time. After all, once one becomes stronger, each day's passage should only seem longer.

To put it simply, it would be like everything around a normal person is in slow motion replay, with his current speed at least a hundred times that of ordinary people. In other words, he could accomplish a hundred times more in the same time.

So, the question is, with time being so well utilized, why would one become less sensitive to it? For example, some would accumulate power for several years or even decades before a fight, expending energy. Is that even accumulating power? That is simply courting death.

If Zhang Yanhang ever encounters such an absurd power system, he swears he would show the cultivator what 'Empire (Awakener) speed' means, probably killing him in just a second upon encounter.

In actuality, Zhang Yanhang thought those cultivation systems where strength inversely correlated with time-sensitivity must be flawed, perhaps not having invested points in attack speed or move speed.

"Now that the matching incomplete Divination Tarot Cards 'Judgement' and 'Wheel of Fortune' for the Divination Tarot Card - Pope have been opened, the Tarot Card Set can almost certainly be upgraded to Dark Purple Quality afterwards.

Presumably, by then, the Dark Purple Quality Set Effects will certainly provide me with a substantial increase in my Maximum Life Value and Maximum Energy Value Conversion Coefficients..."

Zhang Yanhang was quite looking forward to this.

[Item Five]

[Option One: Sun Power, Dark Gold quality, Artifact]

[Option Two: Sun Power (Concentrated), Orange quality, Artifact]

[Option Three: Plasma Micro-star·Juvenile Stage (Nuclear Fusion), Red quality, Artifact]

"Although I haven't seen the attribute list yet, just by the name, this Option Three red-quality Artifact is completely different from the other two options, 'Plasma Micro-star'—what on earth is that? Just hearing the name makes it sound incredibly outrageous."

First off, Zhang Yanhang thought that this certainly couldn't be an actual star; otherwise, it wouldn't just be an artifact, and especially not just a Red-quality one. After all, the power of a star is generally at least Late or Late Stage strength in any power system and would definitely not be just Red quality.

As for what this so-called Plasma Micro-star actually is, one would only know after looking at the attribute list, so Zhang Yanhang quickly started to check the attribute list for this Red-quality 'Plasma Micro-star·Juvenile Stage (Nuclear Fusion)'

[Plasma Micro-star·Juvenile Stage (Nuclear Fusion)]

[Quality: Red]

[Type: Artifact]

[Origin: Ashen World, Ghost Energy Blade Technology Sect, Constant Star Laboratory, Solar Orbital Space Warehouse.]

[Usage effect: Increase the maximum Energy Value by 840 points, obtain 'Nuclear Fusion (Micro)' status, consume 1000 Life Value daily as nuclear fusion fuel to boost maximum Energy Value by 60 points, lasting for 6 days.]

[Usage requirements: Intelligence below 125 points.]

[Score: 830 (Red Item scores range from 681 to 830.)]

[Introduction: The Constant Star Laboratory, a key experimental project under the Ghost Energy Blade Technology Sect located in the Correnzo Superstellar Cluster, has lost a juvenile-stage artificial sun constructed in a microscopic state. A super bounty of a hundred million Star Coins has been issued, appealing to those responsible to come forward and surrender themselves.

An other-dimensional ██████ who wishes to remain anonymous has stated that they have no knowledge of this matter.]

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