Chapter 240: Train Ability: Automated Train Turret Attack System, Invisible Coating, Zero Presence
[You didn’t doubt that those senior Train Conductors could affect rookie Train Conductors. Even if they couldn’t use normal means, it was still possible to come into contact and influence one another through a multiplayer-type station.]
[Just letting a veteran Train Conductor from a much later batch come into contact with a rookie Train Conductor in a multiplayer-type station would be enough to make contact.]
[The average senior Train Conductor was at Crystal rank, while the stronger ones are already at Mythril rank or even Titan rank.]
[As for those at Aether rank, they were either the strongest among the batch of senior Train Conductors, or the elites within the very first batch of Train Conductors thrown into this world.]
[When you and Jade had massacred those Train Conductor-controlled stations, you discovered more information about those senior Train Conductors and various Train Conductor Factions via Hint Prompt.]
[As you’ve expected, even the Vampire Progenitor’s Avatar Will wouldn’t know much about the Train Conductor Faction since the Vampire Progenitor focused more on dealing with the Wild Gods and other station world native powerhouses, as well as managing the vampire race.]
[To know more about the Train Conductor Faction, acquiring information from the Train Conductor Faction was undoubtedly the best move. You wouldn’t have to worry about their deceit and lies as you acquire information not through their mouth but through Hint Prompt (Gold).]
[Aside from the information you’ve learned about Train Conductors, the various resources you’ve plundered from them have allowed your train to not only reach Level 55, but also acquire various train abilities and train modules.]
[Some of them were acquired from treasure chests, while some were from those Train Conductor Factions that they haven’t used yet and were planning to sell.]
[Among the new Train Abilities you acquired were the Automated Train Turret Attack System, Invisible Coating, and Zero Presence.]
{Automated Train Turret Attack System (Ability): The Train will possess an intelligent battle spirit that will control the train turrets, achieving an automated turret attack system. The battle spirit is completely loyal to the train and will act according to the interests of the train conductors.
Any train turrets wielded by the battle spirit will have drastically improved accuracy. As long as the enemy doesn’t possess any rule-based evasion or concealment methods, the turret projectiles will undoubtedly hit.
The train turret projectiles possessed homing capabilities and could be manually controlled by the battle spirit. It can also lock onto a target and won’t stop until the target is either dead or a decision is made to cease targeting.}
{Invisible Coating (Ability): The train will be coated with paint that possesses invisibility properties. Invisibility is achieved either by being completely invisible or by being visible while using camouflage to deceive the senses of hostile enemies.
Like a chameleon, the train’s coating will allow it to change color or become completely invisible. When becoming completely invisible, those who locked onto the train via sight will lose targeting of it.
The train will only be invisible or hidden from hostile enemies. Under the Train Conductor’s discretion, the Train Conductor can assign those who could see it and those who could not. But by default, those who are part of the train crew will be able to see the train regardless of its invisibility.}
{Zero Presence (Ability): The train’s presence will become completely zero. No matter how perceptive the target is, they will never be able to detect the train as it doesn’t possess any presence in the first place.
Under the effect of zero presence, the train will be tantamount to erasing its existence from the world. With the use of zero presence, any means that were used to lock onto the train will be rendered useless.
By entering the state of zero presence and then switching back to the default state again, one can even remove the methods used by third parties to lock onto the train.}
[With those three train abilities, the Zenith Train had become even more formidable.]
[Train Ability: Automated Train Turret Attack System allowed the Zenith Train to possess the means to target and attack hostile enemies with even greater accuracy. And since it’s automated by letting a battle spirit preside in manning the train turrets, Old MacDonald would no longer have to be occupied in taking that role.]
[No matter how powerful Old MacDonald was, his energy wasn’t limitless, and even he would be exhausted from continuously controlling the train turrets.]
[But if a battle spirit were to take his place, then even when it’s nighttime and all the train crewmates were resting, the Zenith Train would still possess the capability to attack without anyone being awake.]
[You coveted such means as you knew that there were stations or Extreme Events that had waves of monsters, and their sheer number would undoubtedly require the train turrets to be used repeatedly without fail just to clear them out.]
[In terms of command authority, while the train crewmates could make use of the Automated Train Turret Attack System and command the battle spirit, the highest authority still lay with you and Jade, who were the Train Conductors.]
[Even in another train crew with treasonous and untrustworthy train crewmates, the battle spirit still possessed enough intelligence to discern whether the command given to it was harmful to the Train Crew and Train Conductors.]
[While you were satisfied with the Automated Train Turret Attack System, the other two train abilities were even more useful.]
[With Invisible Coating and Zero Presence, they both solved your problem of the Zenith Train being discovered by enemies. If they’re both used at the same time, the Zenith Train wouldn’t have to be parked in the void parking space anymore.]
[Even if it was parked outside, they wouldn’t be able to detect the Zenith Train. Perhaps, aside from rule-based abilities, it could only be discovered by pure coincidence and sheer luck of stumbling onto it.]
[’The Zenith Train, as its level increased and train abilities and modules were added to it, has finally become something akin to a divine artifact.’]
[’If I were to acquire enough simulation reward options, I’ll definitely have to choose bringing it to the real world.’]
