Chapter 222: Leaving Angel Of Death Station

[Intending to aim for Aether rank, you decided to lock in and treat this seriously.]

[You and the Zenith Train Crew were all powerhouses at Initial Crystal rank. Although there was a long way to go from Crystal rank to Aether rank, you believed that it was only a matter of time.]

[With Hint Prompt (Gold) and SSS-rank Future Diary to pave the way, you were confident that you wouldn’t die unfairly like in your first doomsday life simulation.]

[’If I’m not mistaken, even something like the Great Filter should be included in the scope of the Future Diary. In other words, as long as I keep using it whenever my hint prompt suggests to me, even at the cost of my lifespan, I will be able to avoid such a bad end.’]

[’The only exception would be if it’s a guaranteed death that is completely inescapable. Moreover, there are also deaths or causes of it that are way above the scope of an SSS-rank innate talent.’]

[’If I ever encounter something like that, then I can just attribute it to my bad luck. But as an Arch Human whose luck has been improved, I don’t think I’d be as unlucky as I was in the first doomsday life simulation.’]

[You haven’t forgotten that your system had remarked about your death being a luck-related problem. It was due to that incident that you were interested in anything that improved your luck.]

[Due to that, you weren’t interested in becoming an Angel of Death and wanted to remain a human. After all, when you became a High Human, one of the perks of evolving into it was not only the improvement of talent, comprehension, and potential, but also your luck.]

[Now that you were an Arch Human, your luck had already improved a lot. Because of this, you and Jade, who were Arch Humans, didn’t experience that many unfortunate events.]

[’Even in this battle against the Angel Of Death Race, it all went well, going in our favor. Jade was even lucky enough that I defeated my opponents in time before she’d meet an untimely end, and just happened to see her message in the zenith chat group.’]

[’A battle against seven Mythril rank powerhouses and hundreds of Crystal rank Angels of Death with only the Crystal rank Zenith Train Crew... It’s truly fortunate that we made it out alive.’]

[You admitted that having improved luck had allowed your Zenith Train Crew to experience a smooth sailing experience.]

[After all, if your luck was horrendous, then even with Train Ability: Train Pathways allowing you to choose from three to five station options, you’ll be forced to encounter stations with Certain Death danger rating.] 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

[You had recalled that some Train Conductors weren’t necessarily weak and incompetent. Yet, even Diamond rank Train Conductors would die despite their cautiousness and experience.]

[It was all due to encountering a station with a danger rating of Certain Death. In your case, while the Zenith Train Crew could indeed choose from at least three stations, having bad luck could still screw such options.]

[Having all three options with the Certain Death danger rating wouldn’t be impossible. Fortunately, while you encountered stations with a Certain Death danger rating, your luck ensured that there’d still be a safe station option.]

[Thinking of this, you decided to remain as a human and see through the end of this human evolution. No matter what, it had proven that you had indeed become luckier, aside from other perks that were way too great to pass up on.]

[As an Arch Human, you might not have an innate authority like the Angels of Death’s Death Authority, but what mattered was that you were the one who won this battle, which proved in some way that your bloodline was superior.]

[Of course, aside from that, you did have the help of a Pureblood Vampire like Astraea, as well as train crewmates with other races. So, your vision of recruiting elite train crewmates with different specialties and talent has proven to be effective.]

[’I can give the Late Mythril-grade Angel of Death Bloodline Orb to Morvane later on.’]

[’For now, since there’s nothing else left to do in this station, as it’s nothing but the ocean, as I’ve dug up the entire country, I might as well leave this station world with Jade and the crew.’]

[Thinking of that, you double-checked everything. After confirming that everything was taken care of, you and the Zenith Train Crew returned to the train.]

[Using your authority as a Train Conductor, you let the Zenith Train depart from this station world, letting it open a space wormhole.]

[Eventually, it returned to the endless barren wasteland.]

[After you all returned, Scarlet breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, everything went well. I thought I’d be beaten up by that Mid Mythril rank Angel of Death."]

[She had to admit that since she joined the Zenith Train Crew, it was the first battle she had ever experienced that could potentially take her life. Most battles so far were her overpowering enemies with Old MacDonald.]

[Morvane scratched his head in shame, "I apologize for putting everyone in such trouble."]

[In response to Morvane’s apology, you waved your hand in dismissal, "Don’t mind it. It at least allowed us as a Train Crew to obtain valuable combat experience."]

["Bullying enemies that are always weaker than us wouldn’t give us much benefit. Although fighting those who are stronger than us would be courting death, it at least allowed us to do our best to stay alive no matter what."]

[Jade added, "It seems we need to find a Train Ability or Train Module that will allow us to obtain the feature of fighting created enemies to earn combat experience."]

["For example, a Train Ability that can create sparring partners whose combat experience is way greater than ours."]

["That way, we can make use of them and fight in a safe environment while still obtaining the combat experience we need."]

[Listening to Jade’s words, you nodded, "I did hear of such a feature before from the Hint Prompts I used on other veteran Train Conductors."]

["One of the problems of fast-improving Train Crews like ours is high power rank, but low combat experience. However, such problems that were too common were already thought of by the World Will."]

["So, Train Abilities or Train Modules that could summon sparring partners came into existence. There are even ones that could summon grandmasters of certain martial arts and allow the train crew to learn from them."]

[Astraea nodded in agreement, "Not just train crews, but even powerful race clans like the Royal Vampire Clans from where I’m from also possessed such means."]

["After all, for us long-lived races, we rarely go into battle, and so it’s inevitable to have rusty combat skills. To deal with such problems, there were magic artifacts or magic formations created specifically to create sparring partners."]

["The reason why I never suggested them before was that while we had looted the magic artifact or magic formation blueprint for those from the Royal Vampire Clans, the strongest among them was only at Diamond rank."]

["For powerhouses at our rank, having Diamond rank combat experience wouldn’t be that good. Moreover, I do admit that products made by the World Will are higher in quality. Only a few extremely talented station world natives could be on par with the World Will’s products."]

[You agreed with Astraea. After all, you had checked all the treasures you had looted as well as read all the books you’ve taken from the Royal Vampire Clans.]

[Due to that, both Jade and you knew more about the treasury and royal library of the Royal Vampire Clans than Astraea.]

[In Astraea’s case, she didn’t care about other magic books that weren’t related to her bloodline magic and elemental attributes.]

[No matter how prodigious, not everyone would have enough time to invest in learning everything. Even if Astraea was extremely talented even among the Pureblood Vampires, she still couldn’t compare in innate talent, potential, and comprehension compared to you and Jade, who were Arch Humans.]

[Moreover, in magic, those who didn’t possess elemental affinities to a certain elemental attribute wouldn’t be able to effectively learn that magic, no matter what.]

[In some ways, talent could be quantified and defined as a "learning speed multiplier" or "experience multiplier". Those who didn’t have talent in a certain domain would learn it a lot slower than those who have talent.]

[As Arch Humans, you and Jade didn’t have such problems and were talented in everything. The convenience of that made you focus on evolving as a human rather than other races, even if you were given the chance.]

[After realizing that there weren’t any train abilities and modules that were related to that, you changed the subject, "We can deal with the combat experience problem later."]

["After all, lack of combat experience will only be a problem if it’s on the same power rank. But against those of lower ranks, those with a higher power rank can still dominate them."]

["So, we should focus on fertilizing the Blood Fruit Tree. Also, let’s ask Old MacDonald if he could find a way to use the Crystal Gem Fruit and convert them into seeds."]