Chapter 179: Interest In Inviting An Angel Of Death
[Listening to Jade’s suggestion, you felt that it wasn’t a bad idea to invite an Angel of Death as a train crewmate.]
[Currently, your Zenith Train Crew has a diversity of train crewmates. It could be said that you weren’t racist, but just picky with teammates who were powerful and had good potential.]
[Notably, your train crewmates all came from different races. You and Jade were Arch Humans. Old MacDonald was a fairytale human, while Scarlet was a Crown Moon Werewolf.]
[Even the newly invited train crewmate, Astraea Carmine Dravenhart, was a Vampire Ancestor who’ll eventually become a Pureblood Vampire as long as the Bloody Grail is attained.]
[You didn’t care about the race and bloodline of your train crewmates.]
[What was more important to you was that it was a racial bloodline that wasn’t harmful to any of your train crewmates and that the train crewmates themselves were powerful and had high talent and potential.]
["Your idea isn’t bad. Having an Angel of Death as our upcoming train crewmate would be nice. Normally, we wouldn’t be able to deal with them and wouldn’t be able to persuade one of them to join our Zenith Train Crew."]
["However, as long as we use the Vampire Progenitor’s granted wish to wish for an item that could increase our stats, we can become Initial Crystal rank Train Conductors."]
["With that much power, while some Angels of Death might be stronger than us, it won’t be impossible to invite the weaker but talented one among them since the power rank gap wouldn’t be as high as now."]
[You haven’t forgotten that while you could deal with Mid Diamond rank powerhouses now, you and the rest of the Zenith Train Crew were only at Peak Platinum rank.]
[The racial bloodline of Angels of Death was of high quality and grade. So, you weren’t that optimistic in achieving the feat of "the weak defeating the strong" against them.]
[If it were that easy to skip the gap between power ranks, then there wouldn’t be any point in increasing power rank if those at the lower ranks could defeat those higher.]
[No matter what, becoming a Crystal rank powerhouses was one of your main goals.]
[After Jade heard your words, she clarified, "So, we’ll enter the Angels of Death Station in our station after this one?"]
[You nodded in agreement, "As long as there aren’t any good station choices, we’ll choose to use the Station Ticket: Angels of Death for the next station stop."]
["However, if there’s a decent station that will be useful to us, then we’ll prioritize that. Anyways, having the Station Ticket means that we can choose it anytime we want."]
["Although Station Tickets with limited use and expiration date exist, the one we have only has limited use but no expiration date."]
[After receiving your reply, Jade asked, "Since we already defeated all veteran Train Conductors, should we start slaughtering those vampire participants?"]
["With our current power, we can speedrun the Millennium Vampire War. Those veteran Train Conductors, who are unstable variables, had already been wiped out."]
["Without them stirring up trouble, these native vampire participants wouldn’t be able to make any waves. Moreover, the sooner we become Crystal rank Train Conductors, the better."]
[Hearing the impatience in Jade’s voice, you pondered for a while before nodding in agreement.]
["We can start slaughtering them, but we should do it in moderation. We can use my Absolute Compass to locate them one by one, but we’ll only kidnap them."]
["From what we have discovered in the Bloodthorne Clan, royal vampire clans seemed to have the means of letting their core members leave life tablet."]
["A life tablet is a magic artifact they created just for the sake of knowing their core members’ life status. If we kill those vampire participants en masse, their life tablets will shatter, and it will alert those royal vampire clans."]
["The best course of action is to kidnap all of them in a single day without killing them. That way, they’ll be caught off-guard when they’ll later realize that their vampire participants had disappeared."]
[Regarding the plan you proposed to Jade, it revolved around taking advantage of the vampire race’s sense of time.]
[A day of disappearance for them wouldn’t be a problem even during the Millennium Vampire War. Only a week would cause them to start investigating it.]
[Otherwise, if it weren’t during the Millennium Vampire War, even decades and even centuries of disappearance wouldn’t be a problem to them.]
[After all, it wasn’t uncommon for vampires to fall into slumber just to pass the time and preserve their lifespan.]
[As long as the life tablet wasn’t shattered, even vampires in those royal vampire clans assigned to monitor those life tablets wouldn’t find anything amiss or suggest further investigation.]
[Now that you, Jade, and the rest of the Zenith Train Crew were this close to winning the Millennium Vampire War, you didn’t let confidence cloud your judgment, becoming even more cautious now that victory was near.]
[Only by regaining your composure and retaining rationality and a clear mind would you ensure that the victory would be secured.]
[Hearing your words, Jade decided, "We should take advantage of the fact that those vampire participants didn’t know that the remaining vampire familiars of theirs had already been ambushed and eliminated by us."]
["The best time to kidnap them is today, especially when they haven’t caught wind of this news yet."]
[You nodded in agreement, clearly pleased with Jade’s decisiveness. Striking while the iron was hot, you summoned your Absolute Compass.]
["Locate me the nearest Vampire Participant except for Astraea."]
[After giving your command to the Absolute Compass, the Absolute Compass’s magnetic needle spun for a while before it finally pointed northeast.]
[After getting the direction where the nearest vampire participant was located, you and Jade immediately returned to the Zenith Train.]
[Manually driving the Zenith Train, you followed the direction pointed by the Absolute Compass’s magnetic needle.]
[Although you had already killed the Bloodthorne Clan’s vampire participants, you weren’t worried since their death was already within the expectations of the royal vampire clans.]
[’While their deaths wouldn’t affect my plan, what if I use Future Diary now and see what will happen in the most probable future timeline?’]