Chapter 295: Premonition Perception Delivers — Seventh Brother Template!
To be honest,
If he managed to meet the necessary conditions, he might even end up like Xingtian—carrying his own head into battle!
Even without entertaining such a perverse idea,
Just completing the in-combat regeneration category alone made Ron shudder to imagine how monstrous he could become in the future.
The terror of datafication still needed to be tested in practice, but just the integration of systems alone was enough for Ron to form an idea.
Or rather, he had a reference point.
There was a classic example in Sword Art Online.
When Kirito dealt with the Murder Guild incident, he deliberately allowed himself to be lured onto a small bridge where he faced a group of enemies.
The full explanation was complicated, but simplified—
Kirito allowed a group of enemies to attack him for an entire round, dealing what should have been their maximum possible damage.
Yet that damage only shaved off a portion of Kirito's HP bar, and in the very next second, it was fully restored.
Because the enemies' DPS simply couldn't surpass the regeneration efficiency granted by high levels and skills.
In a game, that was normal.
But in reality, to the enemy—
It was absolute despair.
Ron had a very real chance of achieving something similar.
For now, though, it was still only a projection.
After gaining a rough understanding of some of the effects of the Grand Prize · Datafication, the light screen popped up once more.
{Total draws have reached 100. The Dimensional Roulette has unlocked the Diamond Roulette. At this stage, the cost per draw is 1 billion Beli.}
{Chip Balance: 26.3 billion}
One billion per pull… so a full grand prize would be one hundred billion.
Ron took a deep breath and began the sea offering again.
This time, he wasn't sure what to throw in. After some thought, he simply dumped in a large pile of colorless crystal fragments.
The colorless fragments produced by the dismantling machine contained considerable potential.
It was just that there had been no good way to use them, and refining equipment to obtain them was costly.
Still, the technology they represented was worth mentioning.
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[Sea Sacrifice Judgment: Minor Success!]
[Better than nothing.]
[Divination — Triggered!]
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Looks like I'll need to start stockpiling Devil Fruits as sacrifices.
Ron sighed. As usual, he went in with a lucky opening—Passive · Premonition Perception was already twitching.
The multicolored roulette spun, and two beams of light shot out.
[Chip Balance: 26.3 billion → 25.3 billion]
{Drawn — Character Template: Calabash Brother · Seventh Brother}
{Drawn — Alchemy Furnace · Rice Cooker Edition}
Once again, another template-switch appeared in his mind.
The light screen refreshed instantly.
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[Character Template — Calabash Brother · Seventh Brother!]
[Origin: Calabash Brothers]
[Type: Template]
[Effect: Upon use, the body is converted to the Seventh Brother template.All attributes receive a minor-to-moderate boost based on the host's base attributes.
Granted Trait — Treasure Gourd: Designate a material ranging from palm-sized to up to one hundred times its original volume and bestow it with the Treasure Gourd trait.
Once activated, the designated material gains the abilities of a Treasure Gourd, capable of generating immense suction to absorb elements such as water, fire, lightning, and electricity.
The internal capacity is enormous, and it can emit purple light beams to compress absorbed targets.
This compression reduces volume while condensing energy.Depending on the designated material's properties, the gourd's internal environment will differ.
For example: If fire is designated, the interior will be extremely scorching. If lightning is designated, the interior will maintain high-intensity positive and negative electrical circulation.
At this stage, the ability is Refinement. After refining absorbed elements such as water, fire, lightning, or wind, a beam is formed.
This beam is a trait, with its attribute determined by the absorbed element—highly condensed and immensely powerful.
After full release, the Treasure Gourd will be destroyed until a new material is designated and the trait reapplied.]**
[Cost: Stamina]
[Traits: Absorption, Beam]
Ron scanned the description, his gaze stopping on the phrase "moderate boost to all attributes based on the host's base attributes."
As expected—
The intuitive prediction from Premonition Perception had been correct.
While grand prizes were extraordinarily special, high-tier prize pools weren't necessarily weaker.
At this stage, even without using a grand-prize slot, a prize pool unlocked after massive cumulative spending could yield nearly equivalent results.
That said, the manifestation of the Treasure Gourd was somewhat different, and its functionality diverged greatly from the original version.
In the original work, the purple beam targeted the enemy's heart—shattering their good nature and leaving only malice, leading to infighting and mutual slaughter.
But for Ron, the people he dealt with were almost entirely driven by malice already. Destroying their good nature would only make them worse.
The original also allowed the gourd to absorb people, digesting them into blood within moments.
However, Ron understood very clearly—
What was special was the Treasure Gourd that accompanied the Seventh Brother, not the Seventh Brother himself.
And Premonition Perception had already made one thing clear: even as a grand prize, it wouldn't be the original gourd.
Or rather—
With his current capabilities, obtaining any original version was simply impossible.
All Calabash Brother templates obtained so far were merely weakened versions of the originals.
Judging from the description, this version of the Seventh Brother template actually suits me better. The Treasure Gourd's beam will probably become the trump card of my thunder–fire system.
Hm… still missing one aspect. I'll keep drawing later and see.
For now, Ron set aside those thoughts and turned his attention to the glowing sphere in his hand.
Inside was something that looked like a rice cooker, but was in fact an alchemy furnace.
The light screen popped up accordingly.
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[Alchemy Furnace · Rice Cooker Edition]
[Origin: One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes]
[Type: Rule Item]
[Effect: A trend-driven design (i.e., turned into a rice cooker), this is a multifunctional new-era alchemy furnace.It allows materials to be inserted and formulas input for autonomous alchemy, and can also refine existing pills.
It can also perform formula deduction based on material interactions without preset recipes. The furnace includes an additional built-in program — Fusion, allowing it to fuse "materials" of the same origin but different entities.]
[Cost: Durability]
So the Calabash Brothers count as materials too, huh.
Ron's eye twitched. He instantly grasped what kind of "fusion" this referred to.
After some thought, he decided not to use it immediately.
Although he had already collected all seven Calabash Brother templates, the fact that this furnace came from One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes was honestly unsettling.
That bizarre worldview wasn't exactly reassuring. If possible, Ron would have preferred a different alchemy furnace entirely.
If I'm going to use this, it has to be inside the Time–Space: Creator Domain.
On this point, Ron was absolutely firm.
After sorting out the template matters and looking at the remaining 25.3 billion chips,
He decided to continue drawing.
Sea sacrifice as usual—after scraping together a minor success with a pile of offerings,
Ron chose to see what the baseline quality of the Diamond Prize Pool was like.
The multicolored roulette spun, and five beams of light were cast out.
{Drawn — Meteoric Burst}
{Drawn — Blood Demon Art}
{Drawn — Sword Bone}
{Drawn — Sword Soul}
{Drawn — Natural Healing}
[Chip Balance: 25.3 billion → 20.3 billion]
Money flowed away like water, leaving behind a crimson token in his hand.
It was blood-red throughout, and faintly, it felt as though a pair of eyes were watching him.
"Blood Demon Art?"
Ron frowned. The moment he saw the token, he understood what it was.
This was a cultivation manual!
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[Blood Demon Art]
[Origin: Assassin Seven]
[Type: Malicious Entity]
[Effect: A secret art from the Xuanwu Kingdom of the Assassin Seven world. Created by an unknown grandmaster who slew the Blood Demon and forged this cultivation legacy from the remnants of its corpse.
This art follows a twisted path, classified as demonic. Cultivation risks are extremely high, but progress is rapid.
Contains Blood Demon Art–related abilities such as gang qi, manifestations, blood energy, and more.
On the surface, cultivation requires human blood as material. In truth, it requires absorbing pain, malice, and other negative emotions from residual human souls during killing acts.
These are used to nourish the Blood Demon. The stronger the Blood Demon, the stronger the cultivator.
However, the drawbacks are severe. The Blood Demon never truly dies—feeding it malice can cause a "new Blood Demon" to resurrect from its corpse.
Due to the Blood Demon's innate hostility toward living beings, it is nearly impossible for it to produce beneficial effects for the cultivator.
As such, practitioners of the Blood Demon Art being devoured and replaced by the Blood Demon is a common outcome.]
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Ron frowned slightly, recalling exactly what the Blood Demon Art was.
It could indeed be considered a top-tier technique—and judging by the description, it was the complete version.
Redtooth's combat performance had been terrifying. Even the aftershocks of his fight with Seven had affected the entire island.
And that was when Redtooth was still partially sealed by White Lotus.
If his true combat power were measured against Doflamingo as a reference—
Joker would probably last only a few seconds before dying.
After all, assassins were the archetypal glass cannons.
But the side effects were equally obvious.
Is my luck starting to run out?
Ron scratched his head and closed his eyes, letting Passive · Premonition Perception spread out.
He had to admit—the convenience of this ability was astonishing.
It was practically an unlimited divination tool.
After testing repeatedly for several hours, Ron finally opened his eyes, his expression strange.
"Datafying the demonic shadow of killing intent… something like a Stand? So that's the direction?"
No matter what, it seemed the Blood Demon Art's defects had a potential solution.
Ron then turned his attention to the other rewards.
[Meteoric Burst]
[Origin: One Punch Man]
[Type: Trait]
[Effect: While possessing this trait, the user can actively charge to trigger Meteoric Burst.
This ability represents a talent in combining energy and physical function.
Upon activation, all energy possessed by the user (including controllable external energy) is fully converted and injected into bodily functions.
At this stage, the injected energy forms a new power source for the body.
Internal energy is converted into propulsion, granting explosive power beyond biological limits.
Provides massive increases to combat-related attributes such as strength, speed, burst output, and physical durability.
Drawbacks: If bodily strength is insufficient, sustained damage will occur, ultimately killing the user. Even if requirements are met, permanent bodily damage will still occur, and overuse will drastically shorten lifespan.
If bodily strength is too low, the injected energy may kill the user before conversion is complete.]
[Remark: Lifespan-reduction drawbacks do not apply under Datafication.]
"A core-level trait, without question.
In the original work, Boros didn't seem to have this trait exactly—he himself was a massive energy source."
Ron glanced over it and made his judgment.
If not for the clause 'including controllable external energy', this trait would never have been worthy of a one-billion prize pool.
(End of Chapter)