Chapter 172: Item Inventory Restrictions
[After a Train Conductor dies, the items in their item inventory would be lost in the void forever. From what you know, if it took quite a lot of time after the Train Conductor’s death, the items in their inventory would be converted by the World Will into energy.]
[It should be known that the Train Conductor’s item inventory was connected to their Train Conductor Authority. In other words, the World Will had placed failsafes to prevent exploitation.]
[’Only a Train Conductor without external influence would be able to access their item inventory. So, methods like mind control would definitely not work. Even illusions wouldn’t work as well.’]
[’But interestingly enough, while it forbids external influence and must be a voluntary decision by the Train Conductor, taking items from the item inventory under duress was allowed.’]
[’After all, even if someone is under duress, if they truly didn’t yield, then there’s nothing the hostile party couldn’t do. Like in my case, it’s my skill if I can manage to torture them well enough that they’d be willing to hand over all their items from their item inventory.’]
[’In return, I’d give them a quick death as promised. However, some were too stubborn, and no matter how much I did, they wouldn’t yield.’]
[’They have even learned self-destruction skills just to prevent themselves from being tortured out of their items. However, I was petty enough to use World Order and Royal Confiscation, which prevented them from using those self-destruction skills.’]
[Since they didn’t yield and didn’t give you the items you wanted, you naturally weren’t polite with them, torturing them to the best of your capabilities.]
[Astraea had even assisted you. Unlike you, who had limited knowledge in torture, Astraea, as the Vampire Princess, knew a thing or two.]
[According to her, it was learned due to boredom. Vampires who came from royal vampire clans like hers had plenty of blood slaves, so she’d sometimes practice her torture techniques on them.]
[Even after learning that from Astraea, you didn’t mind. Anyway, while the blood slaves were humans, they weren’t your relatives, and weren’t even fellow Terrans.]
[You didn’t care about them, and it wasn’t your responsibility to save them or anything like that. And besides, you even slaughtered Terran Train Conductors, so you were the least qualified to dissuade and preach to her about it.]
[In your case, while you wouldn’t go out to slaughter people in the real world unless they courted death, those in the simulation were fair game.]
[’I’ve already known Astraea is trustworthy, so I don’t care what she did beforehand. Anyway, while I haven’t lived as long as her, I still know how troublesome boredom can be.’]
[’So if doing those things had prevented her from losing her sanity, then the deaths and sufferings of those blood slaves were worth it.’]
[Moreover, you had learned new torture techniques from Astraea, so you weren’t the one losing out.]
[For a profit-driven individual like yourself who only cared about those who were dear to you, anything that wouldn’t make you lose out on something is a good thing.]
[Fortunately for you, only four Train Conductors were strong-willed enough to resist your tortures and prevent you from profiting.]
[Among those four, only one of them had an item you wanted, but you later discovered that another Train Conductor also had it, so their stubbornness actually didn’t prevent you from obtaining it.]
[At most, you couldn’t have multiple copies of that certain item, but it wasn’t a problem since Jade only needed one copy so that she’d be able to add it to her exchange list.]
[Moreover, while you were busy slaughtering those Train Conductors, you didn’t forget to take a detour to get Astraea’s castle.]
[Everything in the castle, from the land and its structures, was stored in your system inventory.]
[You had helped Astraea relocate her castle to the Blood Orchard since the atmosphere of the Blood Orchard was a blessed land for her in progressing her Bloodline Magic.]
[For a Vampire Ancestor like herself, the Blood Orchard to Astraea was like a beehive filled with honey for the bees.]
[Due to the blood mist in the Blood Orchard and certain blood-attributed plants there, Astraea could even live without consuming another living being’s blood, which you dissuaded her from refraining from drinking blood, since there’s a reason why vampires needed to drink blood.]
[Just like how humans require a proper diet rather than relying on artificial supplements, you didn’t want Astraea to refrain from drinking blood since it was necessary for a vampire’s nutrition.]
[Your Unlimited Food Creation (Gold) talent had plenty of blood food options anyway, such as the blood of those sea creatures from the Global Ocean Survival World. Even the blood of the Train Conductors and Vampires you killed was added, so you had plenty of blood food if she so needed it.]
[’No wonder blood is considered a food. Excluding duck blood and pig blood that could be eaten for human consumption, the blood of other living beings was also edible since there still existed training manuals that required the consumption of blood.’]
[’Humans could practice some of those and not just vampires, so the Unlimited Food Creation talent must have accounted for that possibility and didn’t exclude blood from the food catalog.’]
[Fortunately, that was included in your food catalog. Otherwise, it would have been difficult to water the Blood Fruit Tree if you lacked blood.]
[After you had assisted Astraea with relocation, you had not only given her blood food, but also tasked her with watering the Blood Fruit Tree and the other blood-attributed plants in the Blood Orchard.]
[Although the relocation would undoubtedly attract suspicion and would cause the Dravenhart Clan and other vampire clans to discover that it was Astraea and her familiars who were the "unstable variables" in the Millennium Vampire War, you didn’t mind.]
[’By now, they should have figured out that it’s Astraea and the Train Conductors she summoned who caused the Bloodthorne Clan Genocide. Not only that, other veteran Train Conductors would pin the blame of the recent Train Conductor slaughter on us.’]