Chapter 371: Chapter 371: The Might of the Heroic Profession and Extraordinary Power

Lance closed his eyes. His consciousness gradually sank, returning to the Soul Space composed of a watery surface and a starry sky.

The Star Orbit Diagram left behind by the Lantern Carrier now hung in the center of this space, emitting a faint, starlit glow.

In this world, all Professionals who stepped onto the Ascension Ladder would receive a Star Orbit Diagram granted by the Star Realm upon reaching the Level 5 threshold.

The diagrams of the entire Star Realm were fixed. There were eighty-eight in total, each representing one of the eighty-eight constellations that existed within the Star Realm.

These constellations were a perfect match for the ones Lance knew from his past life. ’I wonder if this world has any other connection to my previous one.’

The Star Realm would offer a recommendation the first time you chose a diagram.

If you didn’t like the Star Realm’s recommendation, you could also choose from the remaining diagrams.

As long as one had not yet formally begun melting Specialities and forging a Star Track, they could perceive the Star Realm and proactively swap to a diagram that suited their development path.

And behind every Star Orbit Diagram, there was actually a specific concept contained within.

Any Professional who saw these concepts would know what the Star Track symbolized.

Lance stood on the water’s surface, reached out with his right hand, and gently beckoned toward the starry sky above.

Following the pull of his Telekinesis, a pillar of light descended from the Star Realm, and the [Hydra] Star Orbit Diagram, radiating a faint violet glow, fell before him.

The entire [Hydra] Star Track was like a complex geometric figure, requiring twenty-six Specialities to forge and complete.

The concepts represented by Hydra were: Proliferation, Addiction, and Ecstasy.

These concepts corresponded one-to-one with the authorities held by the gods. It could be said that after successfully forging a Star Track, an individual’s great power would gradually approach that of a deity.

When a Professional used the Specialities they had condensed to fill the nodes on their Star Track, upon breaking through the Excellence Tier and reaching the Extraordinary Tier, all the melted Specialities within would resonate with the concept represented by the Star Track. They would then undergo a metamorphosis, forming the Professional’s own Extraordinary Power.

Only by mastering Extraordinary Power could one be considered to have truly joined the ranks of the world’s powerhouses—a major figure who could command authority.

After all, Legendary Powerhouses were exceedingly rare. The Extraordinary Tier was already the ceiling of power most people could ever hope to reach.

In this world, people combined different Specialities into recipes for Star Tracks, which were collectively called "Sequences."

For example, the [Hunter·Dragon Hunter] Sequence represented the combination recipe for a certain kind of Extraordinary Power.

"What a pity."

Lance sighed as he looked at the [Hydra] diagram.

His current build didn’t have a single one of the Specialty types that were compatible with this diagram.

If his Specialities were completely incompatible with the diagram’s concept, even if they were ultimately sublimated into Extraordinary Power, the result would be a useless mess.

He waved his hand regretfully, sending the [Hydra] Star Orbit Diagram back into the Star Realm.

In fact, the last time he had been chatting with the Lantern Carrier, the latter had already filled him in on all the secret Knowledge about the Ascension Ladder that had been concealed by the great families throughout history.

Now, Lance no longer had any doubts about his future path of growth, at least regarding the Ascension Ladder.

The question that had long troubled him was: how exactly did the so-called Professions come into being?

He now had an idea and also understood the power of Heroic Professions.

In the early days, when people first began to explore the Ascension Ladder, there were no so-called "Rare Professions" or "Heroic Professions."

Back then, the first pioneers relied only on the most basic Profession templates, like Swordsman, Thief, and Mage.

With astonishing willpower, those pioneers blazed a trail up the Ascension Ladder.

When they reached Level 5, their consciousnesses delved deep into the Star Realm and saw the constellations that represented the core power of the Star Realm.

Then, they began to select suitable diagrams according to their own styles.

Next, they would take the Specialities sublimated from their Knowledge and skills and, like fitting puzzle pieces together, inlay them one by one into the diagram to form a Star Track.

And when the diagram was completely filled and they ascended to the Extraordinary Tier, they then used that Extraordinary Power, combined with their basic Profession, to create the very first batch of "Rare Professions."

This also explained why, as the wheels of time turned and human Knowledge continued to accumulate and expand, the number of recorded Rare Professions grew ever larger.

This was because, in theory, every blank Star Track filled with different Specialities had the potential to open up a brand new branch of Rare Professions for humanity upon ascension to the Extraordinary Tier!

This Knowledge also explained why top-tier geniuses tried their utmost to achieve a great deed at Level 10 and complete the transfer to a Heroic Profession.

This was because Rare Professions no longer provided any Profession-specific Specialities after Level 10, while Ordinary Professions like Swordsman only had five Profession Specialities from start to finish.

Moreover, those with Rare Professions had a huge advantage over those with Ordinary Professions when advancing to the Extraordinary Tier: they would possess two Extraordinary Powers simultaneously.

One would be sublimated from the Star Track they had painstakingly built, and the other would be the Extraordinary Power inscribed within the Rare Profession itself.

A Profession, in essence, was the most precious gift left to future generations—the experience of pioneers who carved out a path with their own wisdom and inscribed it into the Star Realm Law!

By the same token, those who took up a Heroic Profession would also be a cut above other Professionals when they reached the point of ascending to Legendary, possessing additional Legendary Traits.

However, the conditions for receiving this gift were also extremely harsh: one had to take up the Heroic Profession right from Level 1.

If one transferred to it midway, the Profession Specialities acquired before and after would not be unified in their core concepts, so it would be impossible to integrate these powers upon ascending to Legendary.

But even with this limitation, transferring to a Heroic Profession still granted five exclusive Heroic Specialities more than a Rare Profession, making it an absolute blowout in terms of foundation.

Lance pulled back his thoughts. Watching the [Hydra] diagram completely dissipate into starlight, he finally made his decision and reached out his hand.

The diagram the Lantern Carrier had given him before shimmered with a faint light and landed in his hand.

[Endless Star Ring of the Tail-Biting Giant Dragon]

The moment the diagram was in his hand, Lance activated his Outer World True Vision ability without hesitation.

As an item manifested from the Star Realm, the Star Orbit Diagram’s origin was seen with perfect clarity in the vision of a Foreigner.

[This diagram is a special Star Orbit Diagram created by the god Aretia Nicolea, who expended Divine Power to draw upon Star Realm Power. This diagram was once gifted to "Red Dragon" Clovis of the Iris Kingdom.]

[When the Star-Stealing Festival was halted, to ensure that the descendants of Pendragon would have a chance to compete for the new Dragon God’s position 680 years later, Clovis hid this diagram within the Star Realm’s Treasure, the "Flawless Sword Scabbard," before his death. Several centuries later, the diagram was retrieved from the Treasure by the Lantern Carrier.]

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