{It has been detected that Train Conductor Zayne Voss and Train Conductor Jade Willows have reached Late Titan rank, qualifying for the Train Conductor Trial.}
{The Train Conductor Trial will now begin!}
[After receiving those notification screens from the World Will, you and Jade continued reading and paid great attention to it as it concerned both of your advancement to the Aether rank.]
{The Train Conductor Trial is simple. Its purpose is to allow the Train Conductor to advance to the Aether rank.}
{It should be known that there’s a reason why Train Conductors start as Duos rather than by themselves. It’s due to nurturing the Train Conductor Authority even further, achieving a higher quality Train Conductor Authority compared to if it were only nurtured by one person at the start.}
{Moreover, the Train Conductor Authority possessed too many powerful abilities. Its full power couldn’t be withstood by just one person.}
{In other words, the Train Conductor Authority that each Train Conductor possessed isn’t complete. The Authority has been divided into two parts, with each half possessed by the Train Conductor Duo.}
{To trigger the Train Conductor Trial, two conditions must be met.}
{The first condition is for the Train Crew to possess two Train Conductors. The Train Conductor Duo they started with mustn’t have one of the duos dying prematurely.}
{The second condition is for the Train Conductor Duo to reach Late Titan rank.}
{Since all of those two conditions have been met, the Train Conductor Trial has started!}
[Receiving that explanation from the World Will, you realized why everyone who has been transmigrated to this world started as a Train Conductor Duo rather than just by themselves.]
[’In other words, for those who already have their Train Conductor Duo dying earlier due to unfortunate accidents or even due to betrayal, aren’t their path to Aether rank already cut off?’]
[’Even so, with how the World Will worded its explanation, I have a bad feeling for this Train Conductor Trial.’]
[You felt a sense of foreboding that the Train Conductor Trial wasn’t up to anything good. Not only you, Jade, who was as smart and quick-witted as you, also came to that same realization.]
[-Ding!]
{The Train Conductor Trial is as follows:}
{Sacrifice your Train Conductor Duo to obtain the other half of the Train Conductor Authority.}
{By obtaining both halves of the Train Conductor Authority, you’ll be able to possess a complete Train Conductor Authority, allowing you to complete the advancement qualifications for becoming an Aether rank Train Conductor.}
[When Jade and you received the contents of the Train Conductor Trial, you both looked at each other with a bewildered gaze.]
[If it were other Train Conductor Duos, they might not hesitate to sacrifice the other for the sake of profit or becoming stronger.]
[But for you and Jade, the two of you were already lovers. The deep bond between you two naturally prevented the two of you from immediately attacking and harming each other.]
[Knowing that the World Will held favoritism for your Zenith Train Crew for slaughtering Wild Gods before, you decided to inquire from the World Will regarding the Train Conductor Trial.]
["World Will, can I choose not to sacrifice Jade? Or rather, are there any other alternatives to completing this Train Conductor Trial? You can’t expect me to kill my lover just because you said so."]
[Hearing your inquiry, the World Will soon responded.]
{You can choose not to sacrifice Jade, but that will mean forfeiting the Train Conductor Trial. Other Train Conductor Duos had also made this choice, which caused them to stagnate at Peak Titan rank.}
{Of course, you can also choose for the two of you to forfeit your identities as Train Conductors. Doing so would mean that you would become Wanderers.}
{However, as Wanderers, the two of you will no longer need to be restricted by the Train Conductor Authority. Like the average station world native, two of you could also become an Aether rank with just any Authority or Special Identity Spark.}
{But as long as the two of you still possessed half of the Train Conductor Authority, you and Jade will be restricted by the Train Conductor Authority, unable to reach the Aether rank, no matter what resources you and she used.}
[Receiving that reply from the World Will, you realized that on the surface, the Train Conductor Trial was quite simple.]
[In fact, in terms of difficulty, it wasn’t that high.]
[In most cases, the Train Conductor Duo were equal to each other in terms of power. Fighting and sacrificing someone at that level was much easier than the Train Conductor Trial, which required killing a certain number of Aether rank Wild Gods.]
[Unfortunately, humans weren’t emotionless machines who could disregard the bond already formed with their duo and sacrifice them to complete the trial.]
[After all, as the World Will had informed you and Jade, it wasn’t unusual for those Train Conductor Duos to forfeit from the trial and stagnate at Peak Titan rank.]
[In some ways, the duo pairing mechanism of the World Will was quite devious.]
[Most who were paired up as duos were those who already had a good relationship with each other in their previous world. Because of that, those who were already lovers, siblings, etc., would likely refuse the trial.]
[Perhaps, only those loners who didn’t have any relationships and were paired up with a stranger would accept this trial. But even so, those who were like that had already killed their Train Conductor Duo in the earlier days due to having a poor relationship, leading to betrayal due to a matter of interests.]
[As the World Will had mentioned, those who had already killed their Train Conductor Duo beforehand had already cut off their path. The sacrifice must start during the trial, not before it.]
[Because, at that time, the other half of the Train Conductor Authority wasn’t nurtured yet. Without the trial, the other half of the Train Conductor Authority wouldn’t be transferred to the sacrificer as well.]
[While you were thinking of a solution, Jade immediately made her move without any hesitation!]