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The professional inclination of a Traveling Merchant is nothing more than weaving commercial networks and establishing trade channels. This profession is naturally favored by the Goddess of Wealth.

The money comes in incredibly fast.

But...

Su Ming immediately abandoned the option of becoming a Traveling Merchant.

Even though this profession allows one to travel through the myriad realms every ten days, and to some extent, even initially breaks free from the Comprehensive Network's teleportation restrictions, Su Ming was still unwilling.

The reason is simple.

Insufficient professional depth is only one reason.

Secondly, the reason Traveling Merchants can travel through the myriad realms is due to the trade network established by the Goddess of Wealth!

The Legendary profession, Card Dominator, can also be taken up immediately, with the prerequisites being L9 Gathering and L5 Creation.

The professional inclination is to command a massive deck of magic cards in battle.

Gathering materials, making cards, accumulating decks, it seems very simple to operate, just play the cards.

But in reality, this profession emphasizes tactical thinking.

Deck composition, the organic integration of various card types, ever-changing battle rhythms—players with low intelligence or inflexible thinking who become a Card Dominator are simply courting death.

With Su Ming's current level of genius, meeting these requirements is not an issue.

But...

Su Ming found it troublesome.

Card Players, with all their talk of bonds and friendship all day long, are the most troublesome!

The profession Su Ming immediately set his sights on...

Was the Star-Forging Lord!

This profession has many prerequisites.

Both Gatherer and Creation Scholar must be max level, both Creation and Gathering must be max level, and both Intelligence and Inspiration must reach the legendary critical point!

Additionally.

The player must personally craft a scarlet Creation as their destined weapon!

Just the sheer number of prerequisites alone is enough to show the potential of the Star-Forging Lord!

After all, it's a legendary profession that can forge stars with one hand!

Yes.

The professional inclination of a Star-Forging Lord is Star Casting!

No!

That can't even be simply considered an inclination.

It should rather be called a Dao Path!

Chapter 80: Dao Path! The Rise of a Supernova

What is a Dao Path?

It is the path by which Great Emperors and Ancient Sovereigns achieve ultimate sublimation, the destiny practiced by Star Gods, and the core divine duty by which gods condense faith!

Therefore.

Su Ming immediately chose the Star-Forging Lord.

No matter what, a big shot who can manually create planets usually isn't weak in combat.

Having chosen the advanced profession.

The next step is to meet the prerequisites one by one.

The midnight rose continued its long voyage.

When other ships or island settlements were detected from afar, to prevent the Marines from getting intelligence and clinging to him, Su Ming ordered Midnight to dive deep into the sea, emphasizing a stealthy approach into the village, with no gunshots.

Everything was prioritized to reach the New World first!

As for checking in and taking photos, or the original plot, that could wait until the most difficult main quest was completed.

Of course.

Su Ming never held back against pirate ships encountered along the way.

Not because of the word 'Justice' on the back of his cloak.

Simply because they were one of only two sources of experience in this world.

In addition.

Considering the combat power of Midnight and her Banshee Legion.

Su Ming rarely took action recently.

Targets with bounties below 60 million Berries were all left to Midnight to handle.

As for Su Ming himself.

Of course, he was focused on crafting various super weapons.

If Midnight encountered a tough opponent, Su Ming would also step in: Jumpy Dumpty for crowd control, blowing up ships, clearing the area, and Blink to rush in for corpse collection.

What if they encountered a Great Pirate with tenacious vitality?

modao bristle-tusk combined with Armament Haki Overlord Body could easily teach them a lesson.

Even if the target's combat power was comparable to a Vice Admiral, Su Ming would attack, while Midnight and her Banshee Legion would distract, seizing the opportunity to channel Midnight Shriek.

With this combination.

Basically, pirates with bounties not exceeding 300 million Berries could be taken down in one wave.

If that didn't work.

The ghost ship would dive and escape, and Blink would disengage from combat.

Even a Marine Admiral arriving in person could only stare helplessly.

Time passed day by day, and the reputation of Su Ming and his midnight rose grew louder.

The complete annihilation of the Loguetown East Blue branch fleet, the crushing defeat of Smoker, the Smoke-Smoke Fruit user, and the fact that other Marine officers were thrown into the sea, had already spread.

Even the death of King Wapol of Drum Kingdom made headlines.

Of course.

Given the World Government's nature.

A positive image was simply impossible!

Sensational labels like 'brutalizing civilians,' 'attacking islands and massacring towns,' and 'subverting the Legitimate Government' were relentlessly slapped onto Su Ming, and his bounty soared throughout the process.

After the East Blue campaign.

Su Ming's bounty doubled, reaching 70 million Berries.

After King Wapol of Drum Kingdom was blown up, it soared again to 90 million Berries!

The Whiskey Peak incident further boosted Su Ming's bounty to 145 million Berries, officially placing him in the Supernova ranks!

Currently, no one can determine the upper limit of [Rebellious] Omar and his [midnight rose] ghost ship, but...

Everyone firmly believed.

The sudden emergence of this new pirate would inevitably shake the existing Order.

No choice!

The situation of bounties being refreshed every couple of days was unprecedented.

In less than ten days.

From the weakest East Blue straight to the Grand Line!

From a 35 million Berry bounty to a 145 million Berry Supernova.

Major pirate crews, underground organizations, and even the Revolutionary Army were closely monitoring the situation. Some simply wanted to see the Marines made a fool of, some harbored ill intentions to investigate the secrets of the ghost ship, and some intended to recruit Su Ming... the reasons varied.

As for the Marines...

They were indeed quite miserable...

Especially the three Vice Admirals ordered to encircle and suppress the rebellious son; it was rare for them not to be reprimanded by their superiors for a day. More often, being scolded by their respective Admirals and lectured by Fleet Admiral Sengoku was the norm.

EMO!—

Vice Admiral Onigumo was completely dejected.

Did he not want to join the division?

No!

He wanted to personally arrest Su Ming more than anyone else, and even more, wanted to personally send Omar into Impel Down.

But...

This concubine cannot do it!

I can't even find where the enemy is!

Vice Admiral Doberman and Vice Admiral Strawberry also had something to say.

Were they not working hard?

How could that be? This matter had alarmed not only Fleet Admiral Sengoku but even the World Government was paying attention.

But what good was that?

They had set up ambushes, fishing by disguising themselves as pirate crews in batches.

The result was that they themselves were fine.

Behind the encirclement spanning multiple sea areas, an underground auction house on an unnamed deserted island was instead blown into Syrian war-torn ruins by an overwhelming barrage of Jumpy Dumpty.

Since then.

Omar Su's intelligence had to be updated.

Adding a new entry: Target is suspected of possessing the highest level of Observation Haki!

Alright.

They guessed correctly.

Su Ming had indeed used his Observation Haki perception to detect the ambush in advance, then secretly submerged and navigated out of the encirclement, leaving the Marines to encircle nothing.

It was quite thrilling!

However.

After experiencing this too many times, Su Ming also got a bit annoyed.

Occasionally, he would explosively swear.

To immediately launch a satellite array, and then fire a hypersonic missile at Mary Geoise to test it out!

Emmm...

The kind with a mushroom cloud!

But after calming down a bit, Su Ming once again gave up.

For no other reason.

Simply because before he could create an aerospace vehicle, his meticulously designed satellite array, once launched, would truly become a huge waste.

Each satellite in the array, after Su Ming's secondary reconstruction, was priceless.

If they couldn't be recovered.

That would be too extravagant.

After thinking for a moment, Su Ming simply ordered:

"Midnight, you take the helm from now on. The target remains unchanged; avoid those annoying flies if possible!"