[Hearing Jade’s questions, you patiently answered, "I’ve already used my Hint Prompt on each station countless times, and I can confidently say that Station 3 is the best option."]
["The Vampire Progenitor is one of the peak powerhouses of the Train Survival World. He mostly deals with the affairs of the vampire race and represents it."]
["Although he’s a race supremacist and believes that the vampire race is the most supreme and that every other race is just a blood bag, especially humans, he still is quite reliable when doing transactions."]
[You added, "The Vampire Progenitor only disdains those of low blood and impure bloodline. So, while he does treat humans as blood bags, Arch Humans like us aren’t treated the same, as from what I know, our human race also has a Human Progenitor representing the human race."]
["Out of respect for the major races’ powerhouses in the world, they wouldn’t care about the lives of the weak members of another powerhouse’s race, but they wouldn’t go as far as kill those of noble blood as long as they didn’t court death and offend them."]
["Since we are Arch Humans and of noble blood, the Vampire Progenitor won’t make it difficult for us and will still grant the wish. But we can forget about getting the Bloody Grail’s opportunity to become a Pureblood Vampire, as that is reserved for the vampire that wins the Bloody Grail."]
["On the other hand, the wish is either hoarded selfishly by the champion vampire, or is given as a reward to their familiars for assisting them in winning the Bloody Grail. It just depends on whether the vampire that summons us is ungrateful or not."]
[Listening to your words, Jade breathed a sigh of relief, "That’s good to know. The Vampire Progenitor defaulting on the wish is already a good outcome. The worst one would be if he says, ’Such talented juniors from the human race, you all can’t be allowed to grow!’"]
[Having already benefited from the item wish from the Rule Horror Maze, Jade was interested in reenacting it again, choosing stat-boosting items similar to the Heavenly Essence.]
[She had to admit, items that improve power rank, especially if they were consumable foods, were the greatest. Even if just one of them wasn’t enough, your talent could make copies of it without any cost.]
[But soon, Jade realized, and she immediately asked, "Is the vampire that summons us as familiars reliable or not? If they’re an ungrateful swine, we might as well defect and find a better vampire to sign a contract with."]
[Undoubtedly, the settings of the Millennium Vampire War Station were based on a native vampire summoning familiars from another world to assist them in the Millennium Vampire War.]
[In Jade’s opinion, it was way better to have a weaker vampire as a contractor as long as they would give the Zenith Train Crew the right to make a wish from the Vampire Progenitor.]
[She was confident that even without the assistance of a powerful vampire contractor, the Zenith Train Crew could hold their ground and let whoever it was to win the Millennium Vampire War and acquire the Bloody Grail.]
[You replied to Jade, "Regarding our vampire contractor, she’s the young vampire princess who had fallen out of favor, mentioned in the station description."]
["Her name is Astraea Carmine Dravenhart, a Vampire Royal who comes from the Royal Dravenhart Clan. I’d say she’s pretty trustworthy, but she’s also very patient and calculating."]
["Princess Astraea only fell out of favor due to being ’mediocre’, others believing that her Bloodline Magic: Crimson Constellation, is just fancy parlor tricks."]
["However, what they didn’t know is that her bloodline magic is based on calculating blood fate. Her few hundred years of acting mediocre was to lower their vigilance and make them believe that she isn’t a threat."]
["In reality, all of that was just her preparation for the upcoming Millennium Vampire War. From what she had prophesied, as long as the stars aligned in her favor, she would be able to summon powerful familiars who would guarantee her victory in the upcoming Millennium Vampire War."]
["Of course, she’s referring to us, the Zenith Train Crew. However, it’s still a gamble for her since we have the choice to not become her familiars, by not choosing the Millennium Vampire War Station."]
[Pausing for a while, you continued, "Astraea mostly coveted the opportunity to become a Pureblood Vampire. As long as we let her win the Millennium Vampire War, she already planned to give the wish-making right to us."]
["Moreover, we familiars aren’t really forced to sign a contract when we’re summoned. Only after making a deal with the vampire contractor can the contract be finalized."]
["In this case, we can sign a contract with her and let Astraea swear to give us the wish-making right. And in return, we will let her acquire the Bloody Grail and the opportunity to become a Pureblood Vampire."]
[You knew that Astraea valued the Pureblood Vampire bloodline more than the wish since a vampire’s power was greatly based on their bloodline.]
[It was due to knowing that she was willing to part with the wish-making right that you didn’t mind becoming her familiar temporarily, at least until the duration of the Millennium Vampire War ended.]
[Hearing your words, Jade asked in curiosity, "By the way, in stations like these that grant the Train Conductor a familiar or summoned mercenary identity to integrate into the station world..."]
["Does the system description guarantee that our contractor will be the one mentioned in it. In this case, it’s Astraea? So if it’s other vampires, a brief description of them would have been displayed on the system description instead?"]
[Hearing Jade’s question, you nodded your head, "Yes, that’s right. Other Train Conductors naturally have a different vampire contractor compared to us. And unlike them, we know who will become our vampire contractor."]
["In their case, they’ll assume that it’s completely random when in reality, it’s not. As soon as a train isn’t that far from the station world, their contractor has already been finalized and chosen for them randomly."]