The chaos outside continued.
But outside a certain restaurant in Uto City...
A roadblock stood in place.
Even as passing pedestrians and Train Conductors smashed, looted, and robbed, they all steered clear of this restaurant.
And Ye Qiyan had become one of the restaurant's only three customers.
"Hey, Ye Qiyan, haven't I gotten really strong?"
The blue-haired girl with a ponytail was, in her true form, [Abyss], one of the apex Wasteland Species-powerful, but lacking in intelligence. Now, she went by Shen Yuan.
She puffed out her chest and proudly displayed a Light Screen before Ye Qiyan.
"Look, I got System Binding from just one set of upgrade options. Even she doesn't have it yet."
Shen Yuan's voice brimmed with pride.
She showed Ye Qiyan all her personal information without holding anything back.
[Name: Shen Yuan] [Race: Human/Abyss] [Train Level: 10] [Talent: Abyss] [Train Conductor ID: A-0-1] [Exclusive ultimate module: Abyss Gate] [Advanced enhancement module: [Contract Erosion Lock]] [Abyss-eroded entities: [Electromagnetic Puppet β] [Flying Right Glove] [Ghost Pirate Ship] [Tree Spirit]...]
As a Train Conductor, Shen Yuan was actually much the same as she was in her true form.
She defeated opponents and collected interesting life-forms as her subordinates.
In a sense, she was quite similar to Ye Qiyan's Gluttony.
But unlike before, Abyss no longer erased the individual wills of the life-forms she collected.
Because she had discovered that, quite often, she won more easily when she did not control them herself.
Compared with her former self, who had always hidden in the Abyss Realm without ever communicating with other living beings, merely spying on various worlds and capturing any interesting creatures she found...
Now that she could visit Platform Worlds every day and explore for herself, she experienced more joy than ever before.
"What do you