[’As long as Jade’s Equivalent Exchange innate talent can be upgraded to a rank higher than SSS-rank, we’ll be able to exchange for those items that involve rules like that train crewmate summoning scroll.’]
[’Who knows? Just a one rank increase might even be possible to exchange for train coins and train cores. If that’s possible, then Jade and I will be able to print train coins and even mass produce trains.’]
[Of course, you knew that even if Jade could exchange for train cores, just building a train alone wasn’t enough to become a Train Conductor.]
[The Train Conductor Authority was one of the two main essentials for becoming a Train Conductor. Without it, a train would be just an empty shell, a vehicle incapable of traveling from station to station.]
[However, you didn’t plan to build trains anyway. The train cores and train coins would mostly be used to upgrade your own Zenith Train.]
[As for why you suddenly thought of getting an item that could upgrade innate talents, it was due to receiving a Hint Prompt related to it.]
{Hint Prompt: Acquire an item like the innate talent upgrade talent crystal and immediately upgrade Jade and your innate talents to X-rank, a rank above SSS-rank.
Ensure that all of Jade and your innate talents are at X-rank before you both become a Late Titan rank Train Conductor.}
{Hint Prompt: Becoming a Late Titan rank Train Conductor will trigger the Train Conductor Trial. By the time that happens, you and Jade will be forced to either participate in the trial or refuse to participate.
Refusing to partake in the Train Conductor Trial will cause you and Jade to complete a commission from the World Will before you both will be eligible to partake in it again.}
{Hint Prompt: The Train Conductor Trial can only be completed by you and Jade if Equivalent Exchange, Wish Maker, and All Stars Aligned are at X-rank. Otherwise, if those aren’t at X-rank, then the two of you won’t be able to take advantage of the Trial’s loophole and will be forced to partake in it the normal way.}
{Hint Prompt: If you and Jade honestly followed the Train Conductor Trial, the price for completing the Train Conductor Trial will be something that you and she wouldn’t want to bear.}
[Receiving those hint prompts, you were undoubtedly wary of the Train Conductor Trial.]
[From your experience, following the guidance of the hint prompts would always benefit you.]
[Since the hint prompts stated that the innate talents must be upgraded to X-rank before you and Jade become Late Titan rank Train Conductors, you had to do just that.]
[With that in mind, you decided to wait for next month to pass by so that you could use your monthly usage of Wish Maker rather than having to pay the price for it.]
[Knowing that it’s related to something as powerful and rule-based as the Innate Talents, you didn’t want to bear the price for making a wish related to it. Who knew if it would permanently cripple you or take a huge chunk of your lifespan.]
[With that caution in mind, a month soon passed by.]
[During the past month, four Extreme Events had occurred, and it further decreased the entire population of the Terran Train Conductors, causing another regional merge.]
[You no longer cared about your region since the existence of the Terran World Chat Group meant that as long as they chatted there or put something for trade, you could use Hint Prompt on them and coerce them to take a loan from you using Loan Shark’s Ledger.]
[With the Loan Shark’s Ledger, you’ve already acquired countless Innate Talents at A-rank and below. Those at S-rank were in the hundreds, while you had several SS-rank innate talent crystals that you placed in your system inventory.]
[You were well aware that only simulation talents could be passed on to the next doomsday life simulation. Because of that, it was crucial for you to keep innate talent crystals that you could use for your next doomsday life simulation.]
[After all, unlike those Terrans, you couldn’t awaken an innate talent as the Doomsday Life Simulator System had already taken that quota. At most, you could draw for simulation talents which were superior to innate talents as long as the simulation talent grade was high enough.]
[Those Terrans could only awaken one innate talent, while you could have three simulation talents whenever you started a doomsday life simulation.]
[However, despite that advantage, you didn’t underestimate innate talents. As long as the innate talent was high enough in rank, it could still compare with your simulation talents.]
[No matter what, you couldn’t deny that Jade’s SSS-rank Equivalent Exchange innate talent had assisted you a lot from the start of the Train Conductor Era to even now.]
[During the past month, the Zenith Train has been successfully upgraded to Level 57. Moreover, you and Jade have become Mid Titan rank Train Conductors, just a stage away from Late Titan rank.]
[As for Scarlet, Astraea, Morvane, and Old MacDonald, they have successfully become Late Titan rank powerhouses.]
[You and the Zenith Train Crew had fought against Mid Titan rank and even Late Titan rank powerhouses in those station worlds, using their flesh and blood as fertilizers for the Crystal Gem Tree.]
[Because of that, to avoid triggering the Train Conductor Trial, you and Jade only ate the Mid Titan-grade Crystal Gem Fruits to the limit, becoming Mid Titan rank Train Conductors.]
[As for Scarlet and the others, they’ve eaten the Late Titan-grade Crystal Gem Fruits. You didn’t care if they became stronger than you and Jade since they didn’t have any intentions to betray you and the Zenith Train Crew.]
[You trusted them, but you trusted your Hint Prompt even more. Since your own simulation talent prompted you that it was fine, then it was definitely not a problem.]
[After all, the contract they’ve signed to become train crewmates also binds them and prevents them from betraying the Zenith Train Crew.]
[With that month of progress passing by, it was already the third month since the Train Conductor Era had started.]
[A lot of Terran Train Conductors had perished. According to Hint Prompt, there were approximately only fifty million Terran Train Conductors left. Compared to the ten billion Terrans at the start of the Train Conductor Era, the disparity between before and after was huge.]
[Aside from that, you’ve also refreshed your monthly usage of Wish Maker.]
[Having one wish at your disposal, you didn’t hesitate to use it. Using All Stars Aligned actively to improve your luck, you immediately made your wish.]
["I wish for the Train Pathways to include a resource-filled station as one of the station options. In that station, the Zenith Train Crew will encounter a consumable-type resource that can upgrade innate talents to a minimum of X-rank as the limit. That station must either be safe, or contain powerhouses that can’t threaten the Zenith Train Crew."]
[After you made that wish, your innate talent, Wish Maker, soon responded.]
[You felt that your wish was successfully granted!]
[You immediately informed Jade and the others about your successful wish, to which they prepared themselves for the upcoming mandatory station.]
[With the line-up of the Zenith Train Crew, you were confident that as long as it wasn’t an Aether rank powerhouse, then anyone below Aether rank could be dealt with by you and the others.]
[Currently, you and the others were in Carriage 6, where the Vast Entertainment Facility was located. The Zenith Train crew, including Old MacDonald, was playing Texas Hold’em Poker.]
[The chips that you and the others used were real gems. But for you and the others who’ve eaten the Crystal Gem Fruit and could create crystals and gems, it was only valuable for magic purposes.]
[While looking at his two cards as well as the five community cards on the table, Morvane hid his expression, but he couldn’t help but complain, "I swear, if Zayne used his Hint Prompt this time..."]
[Hearing Morvane’s words, Old MacDonald chuckled, "Lad, didn’t he already use World Order to prevent each of us from cheating?"]
["The dealer is also the one provided by this carriage. With none of us being the dealer, the card dealing won’t be tampered with."]
[Morvane glared at Old MacDonald and complained, "Easy for you to say. From your tone, you’ve already gotten a good hand."]
[Although there wasn’t anything at stake, Morvane still disliked losing. Moreover, the cards dealt to him were truly unsightly.]
[The two cards he had were a 7 of clubs and a 2 of spades. They were the worst hand possible, a 7-2 offsuit.]
[As for Old MacDonald, he had Pocket Kings, aka a pair of Kings. It was the second strongest starting hand, which was why Old MacDonald’s mood was so good.]
[As for Scarlet and Astraea, they had already folded. They weren’t stubborn like Morvane.]
[Needless to say, despite you and Jade not cheating, the cards you got were great.]
[As Arch Humans, both of your luck was greater than all of them combined.]
[But before you could conclude your game, the station options soon appeared.]
[Looking at the five station options, you immediately chose the one that has the resource that could upgrade innate talents.]