Chapter 171: Slaughtering Veteran Train Conductors
[Needless to say, after you used World Order on Jordan, it immediately caused the Skull Crusher Hammer residing in his soul to be pulled out of his soul space involuntarily.]
[Under Jordan’s despairing gaze, the soul connection between him and the Skull Crusher Hammer was severed by World Order, causing him backlash.]
[If not for his motion being halted by your Absolute Boundary, he would have already coughed up blood.]
[Nevertheless, he still suffered from internal injuries as well as his power rank declining from Late Platinum rank to Mid Platinum rank. It was due to the backlash triggering Qi Deviation, causing his Gang Qi to deviate and his meridians to burst.]
[After the Skull Crusher Hammer was taken out, you immediately stored it in your system inventory.]
[To squeeze out his last bit of value, you used Hint Prompt on him countless times until every piece of information and knowledge he had was extracted by you.]
[As a veteran Train Conductor, Jordan knew a lot. Whether it was his experience in countless station worlds or his knowledge about the factions of other Train Conductors as well as the Train Survival World, you were quite satisfied.]
[’I’ve already taken his soul-bound artifact, and I can study it later. In other words, he no longer has any value left to be kept alive.’]
[With that thought in mind, you didn’t hesitate to kill him by using your Six Circle Magic: Cremation spell.]
[Watching his corpse burn to ashes by your magic flames, you waited until he was fully cremated before dismantling the train.]
[Aside from those miscellaneous train upgrade materials, you’ve also obtained Train Cores. Since it was a Level 22 Train, you didn’t just get one Train Core but instead, got three.]
[From what Hint Prompt had informed you, dismantling trains and the Train Cores obtained from doing so would depend on luck.]
[The higher the level of the Train, the higher the minimum train core yield and its maximum yield.]
[Despite only getting three Train Cores, you weren’t disappointed.]
[’Aside from Jordan, there are twenty-eight more Trains, assuming none of the Train Conductors had fought themselves to death.’]
[’Veteran Train Conductors at Platinum rank would have a minimum of Level 21 Train since they wouldn’t dare to neglect their train upgrades.’]
[’And since train upgrade materials are easier to obtain than resources that could boost stats and improve power rank, even some Late Gold rank Train Conductors have Level 21 Trains.’]
[From what you know, while the weakest veteran Train Conductor in this station was only at Late Gold rank, the minimum train level here was Level 21.]
[Stations such as this one, from what you discovered, were matched based on Train Level. Because of that, despite being a newbie, you were matched against veteran Train Conductors.]
[You didn’t mind, since this allowed you to hunt these veteran Train Conductors. Due to their trains being at Level 21 or higher, the Train Cores you could farm from them would be a minimum of 2 Train Cores per train.]
[As long as you weren’t that unlucky, expecting 70 Train Cores or more from dismantling 28 trains will allow you and Jade to have another wave of train level upgrades and module and carriage upgrades.]
[Looking forward to your train and carriages being upgraded, you returned to the Zenith Train.]
[After returning, you let the train enter the void parking space and manually operate it to head to the next veteran Train Conductor, following the Absolute Compass’s guidance.]
[After several hours had passed, the Zenith Train Crew had dismantled 21 Trains and killed the Train Conductors there.]
[Unlike with Jordan’s case, you and the others took your time to torture them, which was why it took so long.]
[As for why you tortured them, it was due to hoping you’d be able to trick them into taking out the items from their item inventory.]
[You didn’t torture Jordan since you didn’t covet any items from his item inventory. Of course, in reality, you just forgot since you had developed the habit of immediately killing train conductors after extracting their starter package.]
[You never had the reason to take your time in plundering the items in their item inventory. After all, the Train Conductors you and the others encountered were those weak Terran Train Conductors.]
[The items they had weren’t something you coveted since they were poor as hell. Because of that, only the innate talent crystals of Terran Train Conductors were of some value to you, hence the reason for developing such killing routines.]
[Fortunately, Jade reminded you in your following killings, so you didn’t make the same mistake.]
[After that slaughter of yours, there were only 5 Trains left. Two of the 29 Trains had been dismantled by other veteran Train Conductors, and they just happened to be the weakest among the 29 Train Crews.]
[Since those two Train Crews were already killed beforehand, you could only set your eyes on the five remaining Train Crews tomorrow.]
[It was already nighttime, and naturally, you wanted to take a rest. The remaining five Train Crews were the strongest, and according to Astraea’s divination, they had teamed up to crusade against you.]
[So, you weren’t worried that they’d leave the station world and initiate early departure. You knew they were greedy for the resources you plundered from more than twenty train crews.]
[Not only that, they were confident in their combined combat power, so they also didn’t want to give up the chance for their vampire contractors to become the champion of the Millennium Vampire War.]
[Coveting both your plundered resources and the Vampire Progenitor’s granted wish, those veteran Train Conductors wouldn’t dare leave the station world or else they’d miss out on something big.]
[’Unfortunately, even when I tortured those veteran Train Conductors, there were still a few who were unyielding and didn’t want me to earn anything.’]
[’I couldn’t even use any sort of mind control, such as using World Order on them, since taking out items from the item inventory could only be done voluntarily and without external influence.’]