Chapter 178: Station Ticket: Angels Of Death
[Station Tickets were really rare. Only veteran Train Conductors would have a few of them in stock.]
[However, even most veteran Train Conductors would immediately use them or trade them if they have one at hand. The only exception would be if it’s a Station Ticket related to a Station that had a powerful item or resource, but was way out of their league.]
[In this case, the solo veteran Train Conductor was such a person. He rarely traded his Station Tickets, and if it’s for tickets related to extremely dangerous Stations, he’ll hold onto them until he is powerful enough to explore them.]
[There were five Station Tickets you found in total from him. One of them glaringly stood out as it was the station you were familiar with and had been coveting.]
[As soon as you saw it, you immediately used your Train Conductor Authority to check its item description.]
{Station Ticket: Angels of Death}
{Description: In this world, angels of death were bored enough to throw several Death Papyrus into the mortal world. Any names listed on the Death Papyrus, regardless of their strength, as long as they are mortals, will absolutely die.}
{Resources Available: Death Papyrus, Death Angel Feather, Angel of Death Bloodline, Mortal Soul.}
{Danger Rating: None - Certain Death}
[It was none other than a Station Ticket leading to the Angels of Death Station!]
[’It seems that the item descriptions of Station Tickets are in the same format as the Train Ability: Station Pathways.’]
[’Come to think of it, the Train Ability: Station Pathways, in some ways, aren’t exclusive to me but to the leading player in a batch. Although not every leading player might have it, the chances of getting it or another train ability are extremely high.’]
[’Because of that, the Train Survival World’s World Will must have already developed the format for the item description for Stations, and it made use of it for the Station Ticket and Station Pathways.’]
[’Because of that, even without the Train Ability: Station Pathways, they could choose a station as long as they have a Station Ticket.’]
[’It turns out that this solo Train Conductor coveted the Death Papyrus and didn’t want me to have it, so he decided to fool me by only releasing all of his items and even two Station Tickets except for the 3 Station Tickets that he coveted.’]
[’If I didn’t have the Hint Prompt talent and I was merely bluffing it, even I wouldn’t know since he had released two Station Tickets beforehand, which was more than enough to successfully trick other Train Conductors.’]
[While you have that thought in mind, you no longer want to waste time with these veteran Train Conductors. They had already fulfilled their end of the deal, so you used Absolute Boundary to kill them.]
[With their deaths, you dismantled their trains and obtained 31 Train Cores as well as some miscellaneous train upgrade materials that weren’t worth mentioning since Jade could exchange them using her innate talent.]
[After eliminating those Train Conductors and dismantling their trains, you asked Jade who was following beside you, "Jade, how powerful is your SSS-rank Hint Inquiry innate talent?"]
["Can you use it to determine the items inside a Train Conductor’s item inventory?"]
[Faced with your question, Jade shook her head, clearly having used it before you had killed those Train Conductors, "I attempted to use it, but it seems your hint prompt talent is way superior to my SSS-rank Hint Inquiry talent."]
["One of the proofs for that is my inability to check the items inside a Train Conductor’s item inventory."]
["However, while I might be oblivious of what specific items they have, I can still use Hint Inquiry to determine whether a Train Conductor still has items in their item inventory or not."]
["Compared to your Hint Prompt talent that can give accurate and specific hints, mine is slightly more vague and less targeted."]
["Nevertheless, it’s still very useful and powerful as it’s worthy of being an SSS-rank innate talent. At least, when it comes to information gathering and whatnot, it’s comparable in quality to Equivalent Exchange."]
[Hearing Jade’s words, you nodded, but then shook your head at her last statement, "Your Equivalent Exchange innate talent is still higher in quality and grade."]
["Even among SSS-rank innate talents, there’s still a difference between them. I had encountered other SSS-rank innate talents in a certain world, and some of them are noticeably weaker."]
["For example, you can consider my Absolute Compass talent in the same grade and quality as your Equivalent Exchange talent. As for Hint Inquiry, it’s only between Low SSS-rank and Mid SSS-rank."]
["As for SSS-rank Future Diary, it’s also at the same grade and quality as Absolute Compass and Equivalent Exchange."]
[You had made up those stage gradings, but it was more based on your experience with other SSS-rank Innate Talents and simulation talents.]
[For example, while the SSS-rank Time Stop you had encountered in the real world was an SSS-rank innate talent, it still has a cooldown and whatnot.]
[In comparison, Jade’s Golden Time, which has a Time Stop spirit avatar ability, had no cooldown and was more dependent on energy cost.]
[From what you estimated, in the same power rank, Jade’s Time Stop might have lower priority compared to a terran with an SSS-rank Time Stop innate talent.]
[Of course, if Jade has a higher power rank and higher spirit avatar grade, then that wouldn’t be a problem, and she could suppress them by virtue of having a higher power rank.]
[After thinking about that, you informed Jade about the Station Tickets you received, especially the Station Ticket: Angels of Death.]
[Hearing that the Zenith Train Crew could enter the Angels of Death Station, Jade immediately suggested, "Darling, we must get the Death Papyrus!"]
["If that isn’t enough, we can even be a bit bolder and invite an Angel of Death as our Train Crewmate!"]
["The Death Authority of those Angels of Death might even be stronger than the Death Papyrus. If we have one of them as our train crewmate, our Zenith Train Crew will be invincible!"]