Chapter 381: Eyes of the God Emperor

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[Spinning...]

[Congratulations! You received: 1x High-Level 2,500x Pops Card (Rank B)]

[Congratulations! You received: 1x National Crop Growth Speed Bonus Card (Rank A)]

Ethan could only curse his own luck.

Fifty spins, and all he had to show for it was a single Rank A and one measly Rank B.

Fortunately, on the fifty-third spin, fate finally decided to smile on him. A powerful golden light erupted in a single flash, engulfing the entire office in its radiance.

[Congratulations! You have received: Special Artifact; Goblet of the Blessing of War (Rank S)]

[Congratulations! You have received: Summoning Card for 20 Veteran Beast Tamers (Rank A)]

[Congratulations! You have received: 100 kg of Red Abyss Flower seeds (Rank S)]

[Congratulations! You have received: 1x Great Beast Tamer’s Ring Crafting Manual (Rank A)]

After a string of Rank A rewards and two Rank S drops, only the final item remained.

Ethan had specifically wished for a technique book from the fallen God-Emperor — or at the very least some manual tied to him — and the anticipation had him practically leaning forward in his chair.

For a moment, there was only silence.

Then a slight tremor rippled through the palace, followed by a reddish-gold light of blinding intensity.

An SSS-Rank item!

[Congratulations! You have received: Eyes of the Emperor God. (SSS-Rank)]

Ethan’s smile slowly faded, replaced by a strange expression — a mix of confusion and discomfort that froze his face halfway through the grin.

Without hesitation, he pulled up the item’s information screen.

[Name: Eyes of the God Emperor

Description: The Human God Emperor, also known as the Fallen God Emperor, was born blind.

For thousands of years, he forged his own eyes, refining them and filling them with divinity.

Not only did he cure his own blindness, he transformed his eyes into divine artifacts in and of themselves.

The Eyes of the Emperor God contain information on countless techniques and knowledge lost to time.

The Eyes of the God Emperor will grant the user vision superior to that of any mortal.

(Warning! The Eyes of the Emperor God will be implanted into the user as soon as they are removed from the system inventory. The process is painful.)

Rank: SSS]

"System... if you ever take the form of a hot woman, know I love you!" Ethan declared, his eyes sparkling as he leaned back in his chair. "This is way too OP."

[And if I turn into a man?]

"In that case, fuck you," Ethan joked, and for a moment he could have sworn he heard something like a muffled chuckle drifting out from the system.

He shook his head, laughing along with it.

His gaze then drifted to the other three items that had caught his attention during those hundred spins.

[Name: Goblet of the Blessing of War

Description: A wine goblet used by a great general of the past. It can be placed on an altar to grant a national bonus to the user’s army.

Effects: +5% base morale, +10% training XP gain.

Rank: S]

That one left Ethan quite satisfied, especially since the palace’s artifact altars sat completely empty. The goblet would be a more than welcome addition.

[Name: Red Abyss Flower Seeds

Description: A spiritual flower with a sweet and extremely pleasant flavor, possessing powerful healing and strengthening effects. It is an excellent and rare ingredient for fifth-stage wines. Each plant produces one flower and up to twenty seeds.

The seeds will die within about five minutes if they are not in a location of extremely high magical density, which makes breeding the Red Abyss Flower so difficult that the species exists only in a few pockets untouched by mortal hands.

Rank: S]

[Name: Manual for Crafting the Great Beast Tamer’s Ring

Description: The Great Beast Tamer’s Ring can be crafted by any mage above the third stage.

It allows a specialist to form a bond with a beast, guaranteeing 100% loyalty.

Rank: A]

Those two also filled him with satisfaction, especially the Red Abyss Flower.

With Alice’s accelerated growth ability and the power of a fifth-stage mage like his mother, Amelia, he could soon begin testing fourth- and fifth-stage wines.

If he managed to produce a new type of wine at that level, merchants from all over the world would fall over themselves trying to get their hands on the bottles.

As for the ring, it was a useful item, and he’d soon hand the manual over to his mother’s mages so they could begin production. With the number of magic cores they had in stock, there would be no shortage of resources to mass-produce that kind of artifact.

The rest of the items barely registered. He simply used the pop cards he’d obtained — equivalent to five thousand new citizens — and set them aside.

The new arrivals would be sent on to Windmere the moment they reached Goldenveil.

Settling back in his chair, Ethan turned his focus to the Eyes of the Fallen Emperor God.

He took a deep breath, his fingers hovering for a second over the system interface, and then removed the item from his inventory.

He didn’t have time to react.

The next moment, the pain hit.

His eyes clamped shut, and his breathing grew ragged, hissing through his clenched teeth. Even when he forced his eyelids open, he found only darkness on the other side.

"Ugh... fuck!" Ethan groaned, his body slumping from the chair to the floor, his knees hitting the carpet with a muffled thud.

He braced his hands on the soft fabric beneath him, feeling warm blood trickle from beneath his tightly shut eyelids. It ran down his cheeks in thin streams before dripping onto the floor, staining the carpet fibers with dark spots that slowly bled outward.

It was terrible — the worst pain he had ever felt in his life — as if red-hot blades were scraping the insides of his eyeballs, digging deep, tearing them away piece by piece while something new forced its way into the empty sockets.

[This is the pain of power, host. Endure it. Fight it.]

"Ah... fuck you, asshole," Ethan spat through clenched teeth and gasping breaths.