Chapter 168: A Year Of Magic Training Arc, Becoming Seven Circle Mages!
[Approximately a year has passed inside the Training Room Carriage, specifically the Bloodthorne Clan Inverted Tower subspace.]
[During that year, around 12 days had passed in the outside world.]
[During that time, you and the Zenith Train Crew had gone on a training arc.]
[All of you trained your magic mastery and, with Jade, Astraea, and your deliberate coaching to Scarlet and Old MacDonald, all of you finally became a Seven Circle Mage!]
[Of course, you and Jade became one even faster than Astraea. Not only that, since you and Jade had achieved Seven Circle Mage status way earlier, the two of you even had the free time to learn Eight Circle Magic spells.]
[Interestingly, while none of the Bloodthorne Clan powerhouses were capable of using Eight Circle Magic, there were still a few magic books that spoke of it in detail and even had a usable Eight Circle Magic spell.]
[From what you had discovered using Hint Prompt, those magic books were delivered by their relative from another continent. It was one of the Bloodthorne Clan members who went abroad to enter a wider world and become stronger.]
[In other words, while you had exterminated most of the Bloodthorne Clan members, especially the ones in this Vampire Continent, there were still a few of them scattered beyond this continent.]
[From what you discovered, there were even a few of them who were at Crystal rank!]
[Those who reached Crystal rank were even Pureblood Vampires who had previously won past sessions of the Millennium Vampire War, representing the Bloodthorne Clan.]
[If they were to return here and take revenge against you after catching wind of the Bloodthorne Clan Genocide, the Zenith Train Crew would have been screwed.]
[However, you weren’t that worried. Due to the existence of the world barrier after a place had been transformed into a station world, it was impossible for mere Crystal rank Pureblood Vampires to break it.]
[You weren’t certain if the Vampire Progenitor could break the world barrier set up by the world rules of the Train Survival World, but it was definitely something that couldn’t be achieved by just a Crystal rank Pureblood Vampire.]
[So, you didn’t care about them and read the magic books they had delivered for their clan in the past. Now, their actions have benefited you.]
[Unlike those incompetent vampires from the Bloodthorne Clan, you and Jade could easily learn Eight Circle Magic spells and even make new versions of it based on your Bloodline Magic and specialized magic spells.]
[Eight Circle Magic spells corresponded to the Crystal rank. Although you and Jade had mastered it and made a set of it for your own usage, the lack of mana to cast it made it almost unusable.]
[If not for specifically creating a magic spell to solve that, which was by creating separate mana pools inside your body temporarily to have more mana storage, it would have been impossible to cast it.]
[The best that you and Jade achieved with it was inscribing it in a magic scroll and making it something akin to a nuke.]
[Although such magic scrolls were one-time use, they were still qualified to be weapons of mass destruction, something that could be used as deterrence, especially when hostile mages discovered them to be Eight Circle Magic spells inscribed on magic scrolls.]
[No matter what, those magic scrolls could easily destroy the remaining eight royal vampire clans. If they dared to encircle you and the Zenith Train Crew, you wouldn’t mind bombing your little hearts out and disregard the Millennium Vampire War.]
[The only reason why you didn’t cause genocide to the rest of the royal vampire clans was due to wariness towards the Vampire Progenitor. But if they overstep their boundaries, you wouldn’t hesitate to destroy their clans and exterminate their kin.]
[After that year had passed, you, Jade, Scarlet, Astraea, and Old MacDonald had all become powerful enough to fight a Crystal rank powerhouses for several rounds.]
[Although defeating and killing one of them might require a copious amount of luck, it still proved that the Zenith Train Crew, despite being only at Peak Platinum rank, could now easily defeat Diamond rank powerhouses!]
[For a system user and transmigrator like yourself, it would be embarrassing if you couldn’t even fight above your rank. One couldn’t call themselves a system user if they couldn’t even achieve that.]
[Aside from improving the Zenith Train Crew’s combat power, you had also fought countless sparring rounds with each of them, improving each other’s combat experience and instinct.]
[After achieving enough power to easily defeat an entire royal vampire clan, while you were still wary of veteran Train Conductors, you were no longer worried about losing the Millennium Vampire War.]
[Due to that, you and the rest of the Zenith Train Crew decided to come out of seclusion and start the hunt!]
[Taking out your Absolute Compass, you commanded, "Locate me the train conductors of the Bloodthorne Clan vampire participants."]
[Seeing the magnetic needle of the compass point towards southeast, you manually drove the Zenith Train in the void, heading to where it pointed.]
[While you were driving the train, Jade beside you asked, "Darling, do we start exterminating those Train Conductors?"]
[You nodded, "As we had planned before, they must be killed first. They are the biggest variable in this Millennium Vampire War. Those vampire participants aren’t really a threat to us since none of them can be stronger than their Diamond rank Vampire Ancestors."]
[Most of the Vampire Ancestors sealed under each royal vampire clan’s ancestral lands were only at the Initial Diamond rank. Although it was possible for a few of them at Mid Diamond or even Late Diamond rank to exist, you weren’t that worried.]
[The Bloodthorne Clan didn’t have Late Diamond rank Vampire Ancestors, and while they have one Mid Diamond rank Vampire Ancestor, you realized that it was due to that Mid Diamond rank Vampire Ancestor being way too old.]
[Due to that, a Mid Diamond rank Vampire Ancestor way past his prime, fresh from unsealing, was not much different from an Initial Diamond rank in terms of combat power.]
["Don’t worry, Jade. If shit hits the fan, didn’t we already prepare those Eight Circle Magic spell scrolls? Even those veteran Train Conductors can only grit their teeth and take it head on!"]