[Informing Jade about that, you continued, "However, there’s one thing I can guarantee. The Train Conductors we’ll encounter in this station aren’t Terran Train Conductors."]
["Instead, they are Train Conductors from previous batches. In other words, we’ll encounter veteran Train Conductors. However, from the limited information I know, the strongest among them is only the Late Platinum rank."]
[Hearing your words, Jade nodded in understanding, "That makes sense. The Millennium Vampire War Station is a station with high-ranking vampires. Unless those fellow terrans are unlikely, they shouldn’t be in the Millennium Vampire War Station as it’s too way out of their league."]
["Darling, I’m curious, though, what batch they are in? Like how long they’ve been in the Train Survival World?"]
[Faced with Jade’s inquiry, you answered, "They aren’t exactly from the same batch. Some of them are from other batches. From what I know, Train Conductors are mass transmigrated into this world from modern worlds similar to Terra."]
["The interval when they’re summoned isn’t fixed, but on average, it’s approximately every 2 years. So at least 2 years from now, a new Train Conductor batch will be summoned into this world, and Terrans will no longer be the most newbie Train Conductors."]
["That Late Platinum rank Train Conductor is from 17 years ago. However, even now, he’s only at Late Platinum rank. He’s not actually a threat to us compared to the Vampire Ancestors from those royal vampire clans who are at Initial Diamond rank."]
["Actually, the Zenith Train Crew’s progress is outrageously fast. It’s due to my talent and yours. Otherwise, it’s quite difficult to get enough stat-boosting items, unlike me, who can keep on making them as long as I have one copy."]
["In other Train Conductors’ cases, they have to grind for them. And since only the best of their batch has the Station Pathways train ability, not all of them could even guarantee that the next station they’ll arrive in has stat-boosting items."]
["Because of that, stat-boosting items are really expensive compared to other items. Its value is only lower than powerful rule-based items like the Loan Shark’s Ledger."]
[Hearing your words, Jade nodded and felt that it made sense. She was also surprised by how fast the Zenith Train Crew has progressed, leaving the Terran Train Conductors in the dust with no way to catch up.]
[A natural power rank and train level progression speed was like those Terran Train Conductors who hadn’t even upgraded their train to Level 7.]
[After you and Jade came to an agreement, you and she chose the Millennium Vampire War Station.]
[-Ding!]
{Station 3 has been chosen!}
{Prepare to disembark in 2 minutes.}
[After choosing Station 3, the two of you waited in your train while starting your preparations.]
[Scarlet and Old MacDonald have already been informed of their roles in this quest-type station. Scarlet would come with you and Jade to assist you, while Old MacDonald would stay in the train to guard it.]
[You temporarily handed the authority to control the turrets to Old MacDonald so that he could operate them when needed. As a last resort, you’ve also created a multiplication avatar and let it stay in the living room.]
[As long as the situation was more dangerous than you expected it to be, you’ll immediately awaken your multiplication avatar and control it to let the train come pick you up along with Jade and Scarlet.]
[Moreover, you’ve already handed the Blood Fruits to Scarlet and Old MacDonald. They’ve already improved their bloodline ranks to the same rank as you and Jade, ensuring that the Zenith Train Crew were all in top form.]
[After a few minutes had passed, you, Jade, Scarlet, and Old MacDonald heard a notification sound.]
[-Ding!]
{The train has arrived at Station: Millennium Vampire War!}
{Dwell Time: 2 days and 14 hours}
{Early Departure Time: 30 minutes}
[From the train windows, you, Jade, and Scarlet saw the train stop inside a large and wide hall.]
[However, without waiting for your confirmation, Jade immediately sent the train to the Void Parking Space.]
[Before Jade had sent the train to the void parking space, you had already used your Hint Prompt (Gold) talent in everything you could perceive within the hall.]
[Because of that, you discovered that you and Jade were summoned above a summoning magic circle inside the hall of Astraea Carmine Dravenhart’s mansion.]
[Although Astraea had indeed fallen out of favor, she was by no means weak. She was only sidelined from the Dravenhart Clan’s lineage politics and couldn’t inherit the position of clan leader.]
[Regardless, no one had seized the assets she had. Aside from her resources being reduced due to being neglected by the clan leader and clan elders, her life didn’t change much.]
[None of her royal siblings and cousins dared offend her, as it wasn’t worth it. After all, none of them were stupid, and they naturally understood that the fewer enemies they had, the better they would fare during the Millennium Vampire War.]
[When your train was summoned by Princess Astraea, she was about to greet you and the others.]
[However, a second hadn’t passed by, and it suddenly disappeared from her sight, which caused her a lot of confusion.]
["Did the summoning fail? I could have sworn I did it correctly."]
[Crouching in front of the summoning magic circle, Astraea inspected it and found that there was nothing wrong with the way she drew the summoning magic circle.]
[The mana in the surroundings was being drawn by it, and the runes were working properly as they should be.]
[Forwarding her right hand, a four-pointed star made out of crimson blood appeared on top of her palm.]
["That’s unusual. They seem to be here, and I’ve successfully summoned them, but they are hiding?"]
[When Astraea realized that she had indeed summoned you and the Zenith Train Crew and the summoning didn’t fail, she started to slightly panic.]
[Since there was nothing wrong with the magic circle, Astraea couldn’t help but doubt, ’Were they bought off by my competitors? Or were they kidnapped?’]