50: Section 50

"You guys are really weak!"

A silver blade flashed. Before they could even get angry, the Meowban Brothers jumped away from their positions in unison.

Crack!—

The deck was instantly split open.

"Weak point!"

Siam was ecstatic. The moment he landed, he lunged forward ferociously.

A pair of cat-claw gloves aimed directly at Su Ming's throat!

"I'm coming too! Cat Jump!"

The fat cat Butchie jumped high in perfect coordination. Mid-air, he curled his body into a ball and stomped down hard toward Su Ming's shoulders!

However!

A thirty-centimeter-thick steel plate abruptly appeared beside Su Ming.

Screech!—

Siam's throat-slitting claw strike only ground out a shower of sparks against the steel plate, leaving behind several white marks.

Chapter 51: Pirate Hunter

At the same moment.

Su Ming swung his blade upward again.

Splat!—

The fat cat Butchie was split in two!

Blink!—

The blade flashed again!

Poor Siam hadn't even had time to steady himself, nor had he realized that his dear brother had already been cleaved in half.

Suddenly, he felt a chill on his neck!

The world spun around him.

Then came a familiar headless figure~.

A second before his vision went completely dark, Siam realized with shock that his head had been cut off at some point!

Only then.

Did the two halves of Butchie's corpse fall onto the deck with a wet thud.

As blood rained down, Su Ming had already finished and sheathed his weapon.

As for the other pirates?

Heh, having witnessed the death of the Meowban Brothers, they didn't dare show any aggression.

Without needing Su Ming's orders, these old hands raised their hands in surrender and consciously stood in a row, waiting for this monster-like Marine to decide their fate.

[Ding!—]

[The Meowban Brothers are dead!]

[Congratulations: You have obtained: Class EXP +180, Sharp Cat Claws (Blue), Orange Cat Warboots (Blue)]

A bit interesting.

The Sharp Cat Claws and Orange Cat Warboots actually form a set!

The effect was a positive buff that greatly enhanced one's agility and jumping ability for a short time by mimicking the movements and posture of felines.

Too bad.

Su Ming couldn't use them himself.

The attack range of the Sharp Cat Claws was too short. Su Ming was still a melee novice; using these would be like walking a tightrope.

Although the Orange Cat Warboots could greatly increase jumping ability and deal terrifyingly high burst damage by stomping on a target... he was the one who had caused Butchie's tragedy in the first place!

He cast Gathering.

Su Ming decisively reverted the two-piece cat set back into materials.

[You have obtained: Spirit of the Orange Cat *2, Cat Claws *4, Soft Leather *6, wapol alloy *4]

Su Ming's eyes lit up.

He blinked back to the deck of the midnight rose, not even glancing at the pirate ship behind him that was crashing apart and abruptly vanishing.

His attention was entirely captured by the wapol alloy.

"An unexpected harvest! wapol alloy, let's see what this is all about!"

One could tell from the name.

This was a man-made alloy named after a person.

Su Ming remembered that the king ruling Drum Island was Wapol, a lucky guy who ate the munch-munch fruit!

“Hiss!—This yield strength is insane! It's almost ten times higher than special steel used for aircraft carriers!”

“Tensile strength above 13,000 MPa! Natural nanotube weaving? Okay, that explains it.”

“The impact toughness and hardness are both above the highest standards of the pre-nuclear era. Damn! It weighs less than a quarter of steel?”

“Its high and low temperature resistance is also impressive. This alloy has a very wide range of applications!”

“Plus, its corrosion resistance, wear resistance, and fatigue resistance are all above the bar... Damn, this alloy is good enough to build space warships!”

The more he analyzed it, the more he understood.

The smile on Su Ming's face became increasingly exaggerated.

The munch-munch fruit is a good thing. No, King Wapol will just have to suffer and die for a bit.

There was no other way; one of the prerequisites for synthesizing wapol alloy was the unique energy factor of the munch-munch fruit.

Su Ming had already planned it out. Once he killed Wapol.

He would immediately use his Collection Skill to separate the 'Munching' concept and then use that concept to create an alloy smelting furnace.

When that time comes.

With a steady stream of wapol alloy in hand, hand-crafting an aerospace-grade warship would no longer be out of reach!

Su Ming's excitement was understandable.

Su Ming not only had metal formulas superior to wapol alloy, but they were also very advanced.

The problem was they were too advanced.

Relying on Zhixin's teachings, Su Ming had formulas for Dark Iron, Dark Silver Alloy, Silver Star Alloy, and so on in his head.

But...

He couldn't make them!

Many of the trace elements in those formulas only existed in extreme cosmic environments.

And because such elements usually had extremely high decay rates, if one parameter was off, they would immediately turn into a different substance right before your eyes!

Even the Angels' matter editing couldn't perform artificial synthesis!

Su Ming also had other superalloy formulas commonly used in the space age, but he similarly had no way to produce them in large quantities.

Without a planetary-scale orbital accelerator, there was no way to perform microscopic processing through particle bombardment, and thus no way to synthesize aerospace-grade alloy materials.

That was why.

Su Ming was so excited when he saw the excellent properties of wapol alloy.

"Midnight! Set sail! Head for Loguetown!"

---Requesting flowers 0---

Following Su Ming's command.

The midnight rose's speed soared. Its sharp, spindle-shaped ram cut through the waves like a blade, reaching a speed of nearly 90 knots in less than a minute.

Only...

At the same moment.

In Syrup Village, the butler Klahadore suddenly felt like he was being watched by something foul.

After a subtle look around and finding nothing unusual, Klahadore couldn't help but murmur softly:

"The Meowban Brothers... they better arrive on time according to the plan, otherwise... hehe."

...

Captain Kuro would never know.

He would never see his Black Cat Pirates again. Except for Jango, who had set off alone, the Black Cat Pirates no longer existed.

...

Why was Su Ming so certain?

Through information Gathering, of course. How else?

However, Su Ming had long since forgotten about Kuro.

Yes, he didn't intend to detour to Syrup Village. Detouring to fight a boss was understandable, and going slightly out of the way to trouble an elite mob was also understandable.

But...

Su Ming found it incomprehensible to go out of his way to hunt down a lone elite mob.

More importantly.

With the annihilation of the Black Cat Pirates.

Su Ming's first achievement was reached.

[Ding!—]

[Detected that the player has annihilated three pirate crews!]

[Achievement: Pirate Hunter has been achieved!]

[Congratulations, you have obtained: Class EXP +800, Comprehensive Network Gold Coins +200, Blueprint: twilight hunter (ghost ship) *1]

He dumped all the Class EXP into his Gathering skill.

Emmm...

He was still four Black Cat Pirates away from Level 9 max... probably.

The Comprehensive Network Gold Coins were put away. Speaking of which, this was the first time he had seen Comprehensive Network Gold Coins. Well, solo players have no rights.

What made Su Ming unable to look away.

Was the Blueprint: twilight hunter!

A ghost ship!

If the Angels at home saw him driving a living ghost ship back, they would surely question their lives.

Queen Keisha would probably go crazy too!

Death God Karl... forget it, he's only a death god in name.

In reality, Karl is just a loyal simp for the Void!

Chapter 57: Blazing Flames · Even Burning Gods to Ash

[Item: Blueprint: twilight hunter (ghost ship)]

[Category: Consumable · Miracle Vehicle (Purple)]

[Cost: Breath of the Undead x50, Soul of the Drowned x30, Skeletons x850, Bone Meal x300, Tombstones x30, Mithril Ingots x20, Essence of Water x10, Any Shipwreck x1]

[Description: This is a miracle blueprint from the Abyssal Sea Game Field. Through it, players can transform any shipwreck into a ghost ship!]

[PS: This series of ghost ships possesses a certain growth potential.]