Genesis: Starting with Growing Mushrooms

Chapter 255 Sixth-Tier Profession: Tarot Cards
Time keeps passing.

Years later, after completely absorbing these 300,000 soldiers and receiving this enormous gift from fate, the goddess of destiny was satisfied.

"The world is balanced; everything comes from the secret gifts of fate, and everything has a price tag in the dark."

"However, I am destiny itself, and this enormous gift from heaven will come at no cost!"

This goddess of fate began to execute her plan with great boldness.

Sixth order.

"It's time to reinvent the era of vampire nobles."

On this day, she once again summoned seventy-eight Tarot card messengers and began the next round of the Symphony of Destiny.

La la la~
As endless music filled the entire continent of Anamke, the world began to distort once more.

This time, the structure of the world was not reshaped; valleys remained valleys, and rivers remained rivers.

The only thing that has changed is the human element.

After the vampire dynasty, a second system emerged.

Card battle system!

The 78 Tarot cards of Arcana, the Shadow Lord, were initially used for more than just divination.

It also possesses combat capabilities.

"Based on the power of the shadows, people will use tarot cards to fight!"

As a majestic voice of destiny resounded across the land, like the morning light spreading across the world, the new era of Tarot has arrived.

The reason she hadn't created this system before was because she lacked the necessary foundation.

You must understand that she can weave destiny, but she cannot create destiny out of thin air.

The future she creates is a future that is being projected.

If there aren't enough strong individuals in this era, no matter how she weaves her own path, there won't be a revolutionary explosion of civilization.

It's like a pot of wild grass soup; no matter how the chef cooks it, it will never become a delicacy.

And now, these 300,000 top-tier experts are enough for the Goddess of Fate to use as materials to weave their destinies!

The goddess of fate spoke softly:
"Vampires feed on blood and essence in order to continuously enhance their divine status."

"The essential structure of essence blood is formed by the condensation of sixth-order 'ether' and 'infant essence,' which allows it to enhance the level of each divine era through blood absorption!"

"I will transform the Tarot cards into a power that condenses the essence of life."

"Since we live in an era where people can eat each other, instead of eating blood, we might as well eat cards."

The era was thus changed.

It seems like they're burying their heads in the sand, turning bloodsucking into card-sucking.

but!

Vampires belong to a society with a pastoral slave system, and noble vampires will raise a group of blood slaves.

Even the gods are no exception.

The gods, now bloodsucking, have also turned those 300,000 soldiers into blood slaves.

This does not align with the goddess of fate's ideals of "freedom of destiny" and "striving to change one's destiny."

She wants everyone to be as equal as possible.

Born into poverty, she knows the hardships of ordinary people like herself. Although she is carefree and easygoing, she always firmly stands from the perspective of ordinary people.

Because she is the goddess of fate, representing the fate of most people.

Most people are just ordinary people!

Vampire slavery was extremely unequal, representing an era of slave owners and slaves.

So she created Tarot card battles, where players could become stronger by plundering the cards of their enemies.

The powerful beings, however, can reproduce—no, they use 'ether' and 'infant essence' to create cards.

Each card contains the power of a god-like era!

If you are a member of the tenth generation of gods, you will have ten Tarot cards.

Through battle, you will either lose or gain a Tarot card, thereby increasing or decreasing your Age of Gods level.

When Liu Jun saw the altered world, he was somewhat surprised and couldn't help but comment:

"Don't be fooled by the fact that having children has been turned into having cards; the level of technology involved is outrageously high."

"You took my child, so I'll take yours?"

"Before, it was killing by exchanging fathers; now it's a new kind of cannibalism by exchanging children?"

"Even after several revisions, the sixth-tier version still looks so bizarre."

"However, the cards that are conceived are inanimate objects, so it's already quite good."

This is equivalent to reshaping the world's rules using the existing laws of the gods, creating an environment conducive to a sixth-order breakthrough.

Seeing this, Liu Jun, who was currently at the peak of the fifth rank, was somewhat tempted.
"Battle cards, to be honest, they kind of suit my aesthetic."

"Theoretically, there are currently seventy-eight Tarot cards, and the highest level that can be achieved is the Seventy-Eight Ages of Gods, which means having seventy-eight Tarot cards."

Once you reach the sixth tier, you have chosen your race and class.

Currently, as Liu Jun interprets each era, he has developed two professions.

[Vampire Clan]: Produce offspring of the sixth rank, keep them in captivity to suck blood, and increase their own godhood level.

[Tarot Cards]: Cards imbued with divine power for fertility. By playing cards, you can earn other people's Tarot cards to increase your own level of divine status.

These two sixth-tier professions still cannot change their sixth-tier nature of "life".

However, they all have different paths to advancement. This is because the sixth rank represents the ultimate fusion of soul and flesh, altering the very essence of life.

Therefore, once you reach this level, it becomes very difficult to change your race or profession.

Fate cannot change race, because fate changes your personality and memories.
Your race is a pig. Even if you were given human memories, you would only think you are a human pig.

Mystery cannot change a race, because mystery only awakens the wisdom of a certain organ or an inanimate object, but it is not true that words can become law.

To know.

Levels 1-5.

6~? order.

The sixth level is equivalent to the initial stage of human development.

Tier 6 is equivalent to choosing an initial race for you.

"Unless a divine object that can truly change the fundamental structure of life forms appears in the future, it is estimated that the fundamental attributes cannot be changed."

"That's why I was so cautious before."

Liu Jun pondered,

Anyway, before, Liu Jun was at the peak of the fifth rank, and he could barely hold back the combat power of a pseudo-sixth-rank early stage by relying on cheating.

Why gamble with your future?

He could easily break free from a flawed, trashy race, like the vampires, and shout that he was no longer human, becoming a vampire.

Then, try to create a divine artifact, such as the Stone Mask that a certain evolution demon king joked about before, and use the power of evolution to make up for his vampire defects and become the ultimate life form.

That's just asking for trouble.

The creation of divine substances through simmering soup is inherently highly random; who knows if a divine substance that could alter the very structure of one's race might emerge?

As for the gods of today?
As a vampire, how can one be compatible with tarot cards?
It really can.

The two combined: a vampire fortune teller.

However, the power is too mixed, and the vampire race itself is not very strong, so this batch of gods is basically useless.

He sucks blood and plays cards.
It feels jarring just thinking about it.

"To be honest, the scene of God retiring and fate rising is exactly what I've been looking forward to."

"After all, if God himself is unwilling to sacrifice his potential to break through to the sixth rank, then the era of the sixth rank cannot be suppressed."

"I need to find a new king of gods for this era to help me deduce the sixth rank, to lead the sixth rank, and to find a perfect sixth-rank profession."

As for who this person is?
The goddess of fate.

what?
You're saying the Goddess of Fortune, now a combination of vampires and tarot cards, is useless?

Has she ever risen to prominence?

Fate rendered her combat power virtually zero, and she never engaged in direct combat.

She was a complete combat failure to begin with, so choosing any race made no difference to her.

Therefore, she didn't care at all whether her level of understanding was solid.

She was a useless person with no talent for cultivation, and she remained a mortal for a hundred years. She relied on consuming resources like crazy to force herself to rise to the top.

Furthermore, you don't become stronger by taking drugs.

If drugs could make you stronger, there would already be a ton of powerful individuals.

The immortal herb next door, despite its poor aptitude, remains only at the fourth rank after so many years of cultivation.

If it weren't for fate, which averted her countless times from going astray in her cultivation and gave her numerous opportunities for breakthroughs, she would never have been able to reach the sixth rank.

All I can say is that the Goddess of Fate is a template for a protagonist who is a lucky but useless person who cultivates. She is a useless person, but she always finds opportunities wherever she goes.

The only thing that Liu Jun felt somewhat regretful about was the current state of the gods.

They've already worked hard enough to become stronger, and they're qualified enough, but at this rate, they're about to be eliminated.
Because their current racial potential is just garbage!
They will definitely be pushed to their deaths on the beach by the younger generation, or perhaps replaced by a new generation of gods.

But didn't they think of that?

They also want to reach the same level as God, but the times are pushing them forward, how could they not break through?
If they hadn't broken through to the sixth rank of trash, they would have been beaten to death by the heroes of the Age of Gods outside long ago.

"That's just how times are."

"No matter how amazing you are, as a pioneer and trailblazer of an era, you will be covered in wounds, take all sorts of wrong turns, and pay the price for paving the way for those who come after you."

Liu Jun knew that this was determined by the changing times, and that no one could live forever.

Putting all that aside, the goddess of fortune did indeed give her a decent career.

The power of each era of gods is condensed into cards.

He is not afraid of fate controlling his profession of Tarot cards, because although this power is primarily based on fate.
However, if I don't fall victim to the amnesia attack and deal with you normally, the power of destiny within my God body will still belong to your Goddess of Destiny.

Call it and see if it responds.

He has long since become my God's new knight of revelation: the knight of fate.

Don't underestimate the power of the mysterious.

Be strong when you are strong.

Why is God omnipotent?
Because although he is not truly omnipotent, your divine power will transform into a fairy, becoming my subordinate.

Your divine power is my divine power.

Therefore, God is never outdated and only gets stronger when faced with stronger opponents.

After thinking it over, Liu Jun decided to prioritize a steady approach:
"This Tarot card profession is pretty good, enough for me to break through to the sixth rank, but I might wait a little longer."

(End of this chapter)