[Although the Train Survival World’s Will was capable of mass-producing Aether rank powerhouses and was fully supportive of it, it wasn’t without its limitations.]
[After all, those Train Conductors didn’t have your Unlimited Food Creation (Gold) talent or Jade’s X-rank Equivalent Exchange innate talent.]
[When it came to resource acquisition for stat-boosting items, it would take them an average of a hundred years to reach Titan rank, with the prodigious ones among them reaching Initial Aether rank.]
[To go farther from the Initial Aether rank to higher stages, aside from stat-boosting resources, the comprehension of Authority was inseparable from a Train Conductor’s advancement.]
[So even if the Train Survival World was willing, it would still take a hundred years on average to nurture prodigious Train Conductors to Aether rank. Only a few anomalies with powerful innate talents like yourself could achieve it even earlier.]
[Because of that, there weren’t many Aether rank Train Conductors that existed in the Train Survival World. From your estimation, they weren’t all enough to advance your Train Conductor Authority to Train Conductor Principle.]
[Due to this, you naturally didn’t place your hopes on the Train Conductor Principle for your advancement to Starlight rank. Instead, you focused all your attention on comprehending the Order Authority and Boundary Authority in hopes of advancing them to Principles.]
[Otherwise, if you relied on the Train Conductor Authority and waited for enough Aether rank Train Conductors to be born, it would take you who knows how many thousand years.]
[’If I’m not mistaken, the intention of the World Will isn’t to let the Train Conductors reach Starlight rank. At most, that shortcut path was just to leave a glimmer of hope for the Train Conductors, so that the more ambitious ones wouldn’t lose their drive in self-improvement.’]
[’The purpose of mass-producing powerful Train Conductors is mainly to deal with the impending doom of the universe. However, the World Will knew that there wouldn’t be enough time to nurture Starlight rank powerhouses, so the advent of the Train Conductor Era was merely its last-ditch effort.’]
[’Its sole purpose is to supplement the lack of mainstay powerhouses for the Train Survival World. In other words, it’s just to increase the Aether rank, Titan rank, and Mythril rank powerhouses of this universe.’]
[’From the World Will’s perspective, while the Starlight rank powerhouses were still insufficient, exchanging thirty thousand Aether rank Train Conductors just for one Starlight rank Train Conductor wasn’t a good trade.’]
[’After all, thirty thousand Aether rank Train Conductors could be scattered throughout different war zones while a Starlight rank Train Conductor’s scope of influence was undoubtedly limited in comparison.’]
[’Moreover, thirty thousand Aether rank Train Conductors are more than sufficient to kill an Initial Starlight rank powerhouse with a pyrrhic victory that would leave a few hundred of them alive. Of course, that’s only possible since most Starlight rank powerhouses focused on advancing with a low-grade Principle.’]
[’If it was against a Starlight rank powerhouse with a mid-grade Principle, they could kill thirty thousand Aether rank powerhouses slowly and surely in a hit-and-run tactic. As for those with high-grade Principle, killing them all with just a wave of a hand was easy!’]
[The gap between Aether rank and Starlight rank was more pronounced due to the existence of Principles. Naturally, the gap would only be wider if the Principle were of a higher grade.]
[If it were a high-grade Principle, just numbers alone couldn’t pile up to kill a Starlight rank powerhouse. They could ensure that they would be completely invincible and those weaker than them could never harm them.]
[’Now that I think about it, those with low-grade Principles could barely be considered a proper Starlight rank powerhouse. Just the fact that a certain number of enemies at Aether rank could kill them already disqualified them as a proper Starlight rank powerhouse.’]
[It was due to this reason that even if it would take time, you would never cut corners and become a Starlight rank powerhouse with a low-grade Principle.]
[’From your estimation, in approximately a hundred years from now, doomsday should occur and the universe’s state will become more perilous.’]
[’As for the perpetrators behind this doomsday, it’s none other than those Wild Gods!’]
[As you had become stronger, you naturally came into contact with more information, especially the forbidden knowledge.]
[In this world, forbidden knowledge existed, which was a classification for knowledge or information that could corrupt or paint a huge target on the receiver if their power rank was insufficient.]
[As you had become stronger, you could withstand forbidden knowledge of higher grades.]
[For example, only Peak Aether rank powerhouses and above could know about the universe’s impending doom and the perpetrators behind it.]
[Those who were weaker, if they forced themselves to learn about it, their sanity would drop, and those Wild Gods would be able to locate them due to the corruption caused by that forbidden knowledge.]
[As for how you discovered it, it was due to your Hint Prompt (Gold) talent allowing you to access forbidden knowledge as long as you had a target.]
[Your target was the Wild Gods, who were slumbering in the forsaken timeline. Before, you had also used Hint Prompt on them.]
[However, while Hint Prompt could dig up any information on the target, it wouldn’t prompt you with any hints that would contain forbidden knowledge that could harm you.]
[Because of that, even when you had used Hint Prompt on the Wild Gods, you never discovered any information related to them being the perpetrators of the doomsday.]
[It wasn’t until you reached Peak Aether rank and used Hint Prompt on them again that you discovered information about the doomsday they’d cause.]
[’It was no wonder that the World Will had a huge vendetta against the Wild Gods and would even brand Train Conductors who defected to the Wild Gods as cultists whom everyone could hunt and kill.’]
[’Its main purpose of nurturing Train Conductors was just to have new mass-producible high-ranking and mid-ranking combat forces against the Wild Gods. For these Train Conductors to defect to the Wild Gods naturally defeats the purpose of their existence.’]