Gacha games can't save this bizarre world.

First and foremost, the eyes!

"Sharingan—activate!" Zhao Hao shouted softly, forming a hand seal with one hand.

Three blood-red commas appeared in Zhao Hao's eyes, and the world seemed to become clear, with every detail visible.

Since it was my first time opening my eyes, I wasn't very skilled yet, so I still needed to use hand gestures.

Unfortunately, there's no need to master this skill, because it's an innate ability, so you won't have it without the equipment card, and you can't learn it by just studying it.

Illusion and copying have no targets yet, and their effects are unknown. However, the enhancement of insight is a tangible benefit.

This thing is really useful! No wonder it's called "The Legend of the Eyes: Five Villages' Melee".

It's understandable that the Uchiha clan looks down on ordinary ninjas.

This Sharingan is like having a cheat code!

You're playing the same game, you're driving and he's already catching up, and he keeps asking you if you want to buy cheats. Do you think he'll respect you?

This is just the X-ray vision and speed hack. If it evolves into things like flying and invincibility, then it's normal for it to eventually degenerate into a war of gods.

After equipping the character card, Zhao Hao learned about the information attached to it.

Aside from the knowledge and skills of ninjutsu, genjutsu, sealing techniques, throwing techniques, and so on, he also learned the basic information about Itachi, the ANBU squad leader.

At the age of 13, he had just become the captain of the ANBU of Konoha.

In addition, he hadn't awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan yet, which was the period before Uchiha Shisui died.

Then came Shisui's suicide, Itachi's evolution into the Mangekyou Sharingan, and then the night of the massacre of the clan.

Zhao Hao was very familiar with the Mizukage.

"As expected of a bronze card! Putting aside the 12-point attribute bonus, the Sharingan alone is powerful enough. Moreover, there's a lot of knowledge about these ninjutsu and genjutsu that requires careful study and research! Just these skills alone would keep me busy for a year and a half."

Zhao Hao clicked on the fourth card, which showed a picture of several gold coins falling from a golden palm.

Midas's Hand

Bronze 3-star item card

Equipment: +30% hand speed.

Alchemy: Instantly refine a target below Bronze rank, yielding valuable random materials and a certain amount of psionic energy restoration. Cast range: 30 meters. Cooldown: 30 days.

Note: This is a greedy artifact that fills the holder's pockets by refining living beings.

"Is this the Midas Touch?" Zhao Hao exclaimed in surprise.

Midas Touch is an item in Dota that can turn creeps and minions into gold and experience.

A one-hit kill for anyone below Bronze rank?

Even if there is some special psionic protection, it would probably be difficult for someone with the high rank of Bronze 3-star Midas to defend against it.

What is this? A financial version of Avada Kedavra eating a melon?!

Zhao Hao conjured the Midas Touch and played with it in his hand; it was a golden metallic glove. Wearing this thing, he did feel that his hand speed had increased significantly.

"So the most powerful item is the item card! It's just that there are too many useless and weird items, so the probability of getting a valuable item like this is too low..."

Zhao Hao didn't dare to try it, because a month's cooldown period was indeed not short.

The fifth card is a paper scroll.

[Structural Diagram: Dwarfism Degeneration Rays]

Bronze 3-star item card

Use: It teaches you how to create this psionic engineering artifact.

Crafting Requirements: 15g of psionic mithril, 300g of psionic iron, a small piece of high-quality psionic crystal, a small piece of high-purity imperial green psionic jade, and 2 sheets of psionic silk.

Note: Oh, you're so tall! Biu~ You've regressed to a chimpanzee... Remember not to grow this tall in your next life!

This is actually a design drawing.

This is something from World of Warcraft; in the game, it can turn a target into a leper gnome, reducing various attributes. I wonder what the effect would be in reality.

Zhao Hao was quite interested in this. After all, he was now a psionic mechanical engineer!

After using the card, it disappeared, and Zhao Hao gained a wealth of knowledge about the processing and crafting of psionic materials. This included things like using psionic iron to make the main body of a pistol, and using psionic mithril for internal plating and engraving of the barrel. He also learned about grinding lenses from psionic crystals, and creating spellcasting cores from psionic jade, among other things.

However, that psionic mithril is hard to come by; it costs 5 psionic gold coins per gram, and most importantly, it's rare to find a seller. High-purity imperial green jade is also difficult to obtain; you need to find someone to buy it and then perform the spiritualization yourself.

In short, making one is quite a lot of work.

The next four cards were pretty weak: one bronze enhancement card and four bronze shard cards.

That's actually quite good.

After obtaining Uchiha Itachi, Zhao Hao learned some information about the Bronze Cards.

Bronze-level character cards increase attributes by 10 to 19 points, and require 4 to 6 fragments to synthesize a complete card.

If it weren't for these four bronze fragment cards, Zhao Hao would really be in trouble.

A single draw of a bronze card costs 1000 Fate Points. If you don't have enough fragment cards, it will take forever to draw one or two fragment cards to combine Uchiha Itachi!

You know what, the risks of drawing premium cards have actually increased!

This time I was lucky. It seems that until my Fate Points increase faster, a ten-pull in Bronze is still too difficult.

Thinking about it carefully, it doesn't seem like it's really worth it.

In a single bronze 10-pull, I got a Yasuo skin, an Uchiha Itachi skin, a Midas touch skin, and a psionic engineering schematic.

I've been saving up my Destiny Points for months!

One bronze 10-pull is equivalent to ten iron 10-pulls. Although Anbu Uchiha Itachi is very strong, extremely strong, it's not as cost-effective as drawing a hundred iron cards and combining them to upgrade!

If I'm really missing a fragment from the Bronze Quest Card, I'll be in for a real headache.

Just like playing a building game, building wonders is really hindering current development. The development process is uneven.

Zhao Hao realized he might be getting carried away and had actually started gambling. This was unacceptable!

Of course, having too many black iron cards is also a problem.

So we need to combine cards!

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Chapter 220 Chaos Secret Techniques

There are currently five character cards: Black Tiger Afu, Gargamel, Kankuro, Red Robe Mage, and Uchiha Itachi.

I definitely can't equip myself, so it's necessary to fuse them.

First, you should keep Afu. It's the only card in the Fighting faction, and it's already at Iron 5 stars. As long as you find a suitable fusion card, it's very likely to be upgraded to Bronze.

Then there's Gargamel. His chaos magic has enormous potential, and although it's still underdeveloped, Zhao Hao can't bear to part with it. The spellcasting side needs at least one character card to represent it, right?

He even needs Gargamel to back him up in his Enderman disguise.

As for Kankuro, he's a functional character card, mainly retaining the identity of the psionic mechanic Chanem Jonan. Besides, this card has unique attributes and doesn't synergize well with other cards, resulting in a low success rate for fusion. It's better to keep him.

As Uchiha Itachi only has a bronze-level character card, and his ninjutsu and genjutsu still require time to be studied, he definitely can't be touched.

"So it's you! Red-robed mage!"

Zhao Hao has already mastered all the spells of the red-robed mage, and can cast them without equipping character cards by using chaotic magic. It has thus fulfilled its mission. So, let it serve as fodder for Gargamel!

Using the Black Iron 5-star [Barrier Mage Gargamel] as the core and the Black Iron 4-star [Red Wizards Guild Red Wizard] as the material... 79% success rate, slightly low.

Add another [Black Iron Enhancement Card], 99% success rate, fusion!

[Secret of Chaos·Gargamel]

Bronze 1-star character card

Attributes: +3 Perception, +5 Intelligence, +4 Spirit.

Talents: Chaotic magic, spatial affinity, and exceptional intelligence

Skills: Chaos Spell System, Basic Barrier Spell, Basic Necromancy, and Potions.

Note: You have established your own magical system, using chaotic magic as its core and D&D spells as its framework. However, your skill is still developing and you need to explore further…

As Zhao Hao had predicted, it did advance to the Bronze Card, but there didn't seem to be any major changes.

It's possible that Gargamel has already fused with many character cards, so his current attributes and abilities are relatively stable. A single Red Wizard card won't cause a major change.

Besides the attribute enhancements, the new cards also feature the transformation of Chaos Magic, which previously relied solely on the user's mood for its effects, into spells with a more structured system. This makes both the effects and casting more reliable and consistent.

Although we currently only have basic level 0 to 2 spells, we can use this to create and research more advanced spells.

Previously, because chaotic magic was difficult to control, control was key.

Zhao Hao only dared to use some simple and safe spells, or to imitate the low-level spells carried by the red-robed mage.

But things are different now; a new framework for magic has been formed.

Chaotic magic shattered order and reorganized the rules it desired. It utilized existing rules to reduce the difficulty of creating new ones.

To change objective materialism with subjective idealism.

The magic of chaos is the lever, long enough; the mind is the fulcrum, strong enough to eventually lift immense weight.

……

For students, there's not much to say about August. They're still on holiday.

But for many people, August was anything but peaceful.

Several months ago, Zhao Hao deduced from the political changes in the Middle East that a second oil crisis, the likes of which had occurred in his world, was coming. He began making preparations well in advance.

He even met Warren Buffett, who was just 40 years old, through the Duke family.

The two had a pleasant conversation, and Zhao Hao invested the funds from the event into the financial company where he worked.

In early August, the stock market crash that Zhao Hao predicted had already begun.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average 20 bond market has begun to collapse, and it's collapsing rapidly!

Their short-selling plan began to show results, with large sums of US dollars flowing in. Zhao Hao's assets, worth several million dollars, doubled in just a few days!