After finishing the inventory of the equipment obtained from the Crimson Iron Flame Demon Ant, the Crimson Iron Hell Finger, and the Crimson Iron Prince Ant's Drop Treasure Boxes, Zhang Yanhang promptly began to take stock of the equipment from the Lord's Treasure Chest.

Besides the Ash Source and the Legendary Essence, Zhang Yanhang had a total of three pieces of equipment from the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's Drop Treasure Box this time, the first of which was a new piece of Orange quality equipment—the Flame God's Blessing.

Zhang Yanhang picked up the Flame God's Blessing and gave it a cursory glance, realizing that it seemed to be a medal-like piece of equipment. "So, the question arises, can this thing be directly tucked into my Waist Bag and used as an Amulet?"

Adhering to the principle that practice yields true knowledge, Zhang Yanhang tried it out immediately and was sadly disappointed to learn that placing the item in the Waist Bag did not successfully activate the equipment bonus.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang eventually equipped the medal—which was interlaced with gold and red and inlaid with a Yellow Gemstone while also being engraved with a flame pattern—onto his chest.

Even though there was no pin or anything of the sort on it, there probably was some sort of small Magic that automatically adhered it to his chest—the moment he placed it there, the medal already clung to its spot. This alone proved that he had found the correct spot to equip it because if it were wrong, it probably wouldn't react this way.

After feeling that the Equipment bonus had been successfully activated, Zhang Yanhang nodded in satisfaction. "This piece of Orange quality Flame God's Blessing can provide a 60% bonus to my Movement Speed. It's certain to increase my speed by a large margin once again."

Due to the core area of the Crimson Iron Queen Ant being somewhat narrow, Zhang Yanhang just did a few kilometers of back-and-forth runs to test his current speed.

From the test results, Zhang Yanhang's speed increase was quite substantial this time. His Movement Speed had grown from 676 meters per second to 821 meters per second, an increase of 145 meters per second.

If converted to Mach, his original Movement Speed was 1.99 Mach, and now it increased to 2.42 Mach. This was an addition of 0.43 Mach, stronger than the increase gained after he had last cleared the Permanent Teleportation Channel and then boosted his Agility Attribute to 75 points in one go.

"2.42 Mach, and if I further power up with Spiritual Energy, I can immediately double it to a Movement Speed of 4.84 Mach. The United States' mainstream fighter jet, the world's first fifth-generation aircraft, the infamous F-22 Stealth Fighter, also known as the 'Raptor,' only has a maximum speed of 2.25 Mach, with a normal cruising speed even lower.

After powering up with Spiritual Energy, I am now equivalent to more than double the maximum speed of the F-22 Raptor; I can easily surpass the Raptor even in regular flight."

Zhang Yanhang remembered a short-range ballistic missile's end-speed is only about four to five Mach. After empowering himself with Spiritual Energy, he was essentially a human-shaped ballistic missile.

"If I convert my Movement Speed to kilometers, that's 2956 kilometers per hour. With this speed, starting from Kashgar, I could reach Syria in just an hour to experience real combat life during the summer job..."

Of course, if Zhang Yanhang wanted to take on a side job that made money faster, he could also start from Qin Island City and head straight into the Golden Triangle, encompassing Northern Myanmar. After getting there, he could earn a living by cutting opium poppies, but he heard that they don't use anesthesia there, and it's terribly painful to cut poppies without it.

"So, although making money quickly from drugs is appealing, perhaps it is still more comfortable to work a summer job in Syria. At least then, if you're lucky, you won't feel any pain when a shell blasts you to pieces."

"And this is just my normal Movement Speed. If I were to infuse some Spiritual Energy, I could move 5,912 kilometers in an hour.

From Edinburgh's Puxi District to Mumbai, which boasts a standard of living thirty years ahead and is touted as the 'East Asia's Little Edinburgh', is about 5,000 kilometers away. I could get there in less than an hour – a round trip would take me almost a hundred minutes."

Of course, overall, Zhang Yanhang wasn't much interested in going to Edinburgh. If he had the time, he would rather go straight from Qin Island City to Mumbai, India. After all, due to certain latitudinal reasons, the distance from Qin Island City to Mumbai is also about 5,000 kilometers, maybe even a bit less by a few dozen kilometers.

"Moreover, if it used to take me more than eight hours to travel around the equator, now it would take me at most seven hours. I've taken a big step closer to my humble dream of traveling around the Earth in an hour."

After testing his speed, Zhang Yanhang quickly began to tally up the second piece of Equipment from the Crimson Iron Queen Ant's Lord's Treasure Chest. It was the Blue quality Divination Tarot Card·Sun, but fortunately, it should be upgradable to Purple quality soon.

Zhang Yanhang didn't rush to check the Set Effect of the Divination Tarot Card·Sun right away; instead, he first examined the illustration on the front of the card. Like the other counterfeit tarot cards from the underground black workshops, the imagery of this Divination Tarot Card·Sun had completely changed from the original.

Zhang Yanhang remembered that in the original Divination Tarot Card·Sun, a huge Sun occupied the upper portion, while the lower part depicted a completely naked little boy with a red chicken feather inexplicably stuck on his head.

This undressed red-feathered little boy sat astride a white horse, holding high a red flag, walking through a field resembling a sunflower garden.

But now, while there was still a Sun, or perhaps a star, it was one at the late stages of its life, swelling madly into the status of a Red Giant Star.

This Red Giant Star, whose diameter was who knows how many billions of kilometers, was now being pinched like a small glass bead by a Golden Giant of an unfathomable height reaching trillions of kilometers.

Moreover, this Golden energy giant had opened its mouth and brought the Red Giant Star to its lips, seemingly about to eat it as one would a candy.

Due to the limited size of the card, Zhang Yanhang could only see a part of the Golden Giant's image from its chest upwards, yet he still felt an eerily familiar feeling about this giant. It was a mysterious familiarity he couldn't place as though he had seen this figure somewhere before, but he also had a vague sense of familiarity with what the giant was doing.

These feelings were similar to when Zhang Yanhang encountered the man in military uniform and the mysterious giant with the Phoenix tattoo on his chest— unexplainably familiar, yet he simply couldn't recall any specifics.

Although most of the card was occupied by the Golden Giant, Zhang Yanhang could still discern from the small portion of the image that the background was set in the cosmic starry sky, with large chunks of planetary debris drifting everywhere. Perhaps the Golden Giant had just destroyed a star system?

"Although I don't know how strong this Golden Giant is, it definitely seems much more powerful than the Light Particle Strike. The Light Particle Strike simply destroys stars by disrupting their internal equilibrium, taking advantage of a loophole—it's not really as exaggerated in terms of real destructive power."

But this Golden Giant simply ate a star, and not just any star, but a Red Giant at least hundreds of times larger than an ordinary one, as if it were a mere snack. It was likely that even a Light Particle Strike would not even scratch the surface.

After all, the destruction of a star would trigger a supernova explosion, and the energy level of a Light Particle Strike paled in comparison to that of a supernova. If a supernova could occur directly in the mouth or throat of the Golden Giant without causing harm, then what's to say a mere Light Particle Strike would pose any problem? Probably about as annoying as a mosquito bite."

Zhang Yanhang remembered that a supernova eruption would spew out all of its energy, creating a powerful gamma-ray burst and expelling all its inner materials at one-tenth the speed of light.

This process could cause a cosmic-scale catastrophe, easily destroying the star system it was in and in subsequent chain reactions, more neighboring star systems as well. Um, the exact scope of destruction largely depends on the size and total matter of the star itself.

To put it simply, a basic star system like the Solar System has a total area of only about one light-year, while a supernova eruption has a destruction radius starting at fifty light-years. That means a single supernova could destroy thousands of Solar Systems in a short time.

Thus, the so-called Light Particle Strike, which can only destroy stars by disrupting their internal balance, really looks insignificant in front of a supernova eruption.

And if such a powerful supernova eruption could take place directly in the mouth of a giant without affecting him, then this Golden Giant's strength could be said to have completely surpassed Zhang Yanhang's imagination, belonging at least to the level of a Super Star Cluster, if not a Giant Attraction Source.

"Wonder if I'll ever reach that level in my lifetime..."

To be honest, for Zhang Yanhang, who found even executing a Light Particle Strike quite difficult and doubted he'd ever manage it in his life, the strength of the Golden Giant was indeed off the charts; he really had no confidence in achieving it.

After involuntarily sighing to himself, Zhang Yanhang took out five more Divination Tarot Cards from his waist bag and placed them together with the recently acquired Divination Tarot Card·Sun to see what the unactivated Set Effect was all about.

[Divination Tarot Card·Sun[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: Skill Coverage +5%]

[Upgradable, Upgrade Condition 1: Possess 'Divination Tarot Card - Fool[False] (Gate of Truth)' (1/1), Possess 'Divination Tarot Card - Emperor[Fake] (Gate of Truth)' (1/1), Possess 'Divination Tarot Card - Chariot[Fake] (Gate of Truth)' (1/1).

Upgrade Condition 2: Possess 'Divination Tarot Card - Pope[Fake] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), Possess 'Divination Tarot Card - Wheel of Fortune[Fake] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1), Possess 'Divination Tarot Card - Judgement[False] (Gate of Truth)' (0/1).]

[Usage Requirements: Own Alchemy skills or other related Alchemy abilities.]

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

[Set Effect One: Unrivaled (Conqueror's Journey) — Critical Strike Rate +7.5%, Critical Strike Damage +15%.]

[Set Effect Two: In the Name of God (Cast the Judgment of Destiny on Heresy) — Critical Strike Rate +2.5%, Critical Strike Damage +5%, Skill Coverage +10%.]

[Introduction: The Sun is one of the 78 cards of the Tarot, ranking 19th among the 22 Major Arcana. It symbolizes enlightenment and vitality and is considered one of the most positive cards in the Major Arcana. The card depicts a child on horseback, singing praises to the Sun Goddess for bestowing life force and receiving energy from the sun...]

"Good gracious, after activating Set Effect Two, 'In the Name of God (Cast the Judgment of Destiny on Heresy),' it really packs a punch—providing a 2.5% bonus to Critical Strike Rate and a 5% bonus to Critical Strike Damage. Moreover, the most important aspect is the 10% Skill Coverage Range Bonus it provides.

Initially, the individual Divination Tarot Card·Sun could only provide a 5% bonus to Skill Coverage Range, but now, just by pairing it with the Moon and Star cards, the bonus has tripled out of nowhere. Now, in total, it can provide a 15% bonus to Skill Coverage for me, which is truly powerful."

Now, with this enhancement from Set Effect Two, Zhang Yanhang's Critical Strike Rate increased from 158.5% to 161%, effectively exceeding the bonus by 61%.

And a Golden quality Crimson Marrow Ghost Claw+6 could only provide a 50% Critical Strike Damage Bonus. The excess bonus he now had was equivalent to about 1.2 Crimson Marrow Ghost Claws+6, which was very decent.

At the same time, Zhang Yanhang's Attack Multiplier for Critical Strike Damage would also increase from 425% to 430%, merely a 5% increase, but it was better than nothing.

However, this was, after all, only a Blue quality set, and so it was acceptable. After the upgrade to Purple quality, the bonus to Critical Strike Damage provided by this set would undoubtedly increase significantly.

Of course, what Zhang Yanhang was most concerned about was the bonus to Skill Coverage Range, "Although this time the activation of the Set Effect provided a total of 15% bonus to Skill Range, what exactly does this Skill Coverage Range Bonus look like? Does it directly increase the corresponding area? Or does it increase the diameter?"

As soon as Zhang Yanhang thought of this, he immediately casually unleashed a Death Wave in the Core Area of the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano, which was now void of any ants but still scattered with plenty of flesh and blood tissue.

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