[As the shattered meteor became whole again, it didnât continue falling but was fixed in place. After time was rewound, Jadeâs time stop was still in effect, and the surrounding drone swarms and the meteor in the sky couldnât move.]
[Looking at the meteor glowing in purple light in the sky, Astraea commented, "It sure looks pretty. If you donât mind, I want a spherical chunk of it. Iâll add it to my castleâs collection."]
[Listening to Astraeaâs request, you nodded in agreement, "Sure, I donât mind. I plan to keep this meteor intact. Only a small grain of the talent cosmic spice is enough to be added into my food catalog."]
["The Zenith Train hasnât really collected a glowing purple meteorite, so I might as well keep most of it. You can have a spherical sample of it, as you had requested."]
[You and Astraea were conversing as if the time stop didnât affect the two of you.]
[Not only you, Morvane, Scarlet, and Old MacDonald remained unaffected, gazing at the glowing purple meteor in the sky.]
[It wasnât that Jadeâs time stop wasnât effective, but rather that you had used Bloodline Magic: Absolute Boundary to manipulate the boundary of Jadeâs time stop range.]
[You made it so that Jadeâs time stop didnât include you and the Zenith Train Crewmate. Coupled with Jade not forcibly using it on you and the others, you managed to let you and your train crewmates become unaffected by her time stop.]
[Looking at the glowing purple meteor, you immediately used Invisible Force and, with a tugging motion from your hand, it was pulled towards you.]
[As it entered your range, you examined it for a while before storing it in your system inventory.]
["Iâve stored it in my inventory. We can get out of here and let the people behind the drone swarms handle the aftermath."]
[Hearing your words, Jade and the others agreed.]
[As you all headed back inside the Zenith Train, Jade commented, "With my time stop, none of them will be able to detect and trace us. In fact, they might not even know whether the mastermind behind this is someone with a powerful SSS-rank innate talent or from a Train Crew."]
[After you and the others entered the Zenith Train, Jade lifted her time stop effect.]
[The drone swarms soon moved like headless flies, attempting to locate where the glowing purple meteor was.]
[From what the people behind them could see in the droneâs camera, the glowing purple meteor descended like a shooting star. Afterwards, it shattered into countless pieces, becoming a beautiful light shower that bloomed in the sky.]
[Yet, before the shattered meteor could reach ten kilometers near the ground and escape the stratosphere, they suddenly disappeared.]
[It left the people behind the drone swarm confused. But later on, they panicked!]
[After all, only when the drone swarm had reached close proximity with the glowing purple meteor did they discover that the talent cosmic spice within it contained energy fluctuations much greater than their past collection.]
[In other words, the talent cosmic spice within that meteor was greater in quality than the past ones theyâve collected!]
[That discovery alone drove some of them crazy, while others were afraid of being implicated in this mess.]
[However, for you and the rest of the Zenith Train Crew, you all didnât care about that.]
[In the Vast Training Room Carriage, youâve used the Plane Core to create a subspace within it, placing the meteor containing the talent cosmic spice inside it.]
[Standing in front of the glowing purple meteor, Jade summoned her Unseen Blade and imbued it with the power of division.]
[Slashing her blade towards the glowing purple meteor, Jade chanted, "Divide!"]
[An energy sword wave passed through the glowing purple meteor, perfectly dividing it at the center.]
[The purple meteor was cleanly cut into two perfect hemispheres, and the center of it revealed a glowing purple crystal-like surface.]
[If you were to describe it, it looked like...]
["Purple salt? Its crystal-like texture and surface seemed to resemble mineral salts."]
[Old MacDonaldâs words confirmed what you and the others saw and thought about.]
[Without any hesitation, you boldly used Invisible Force to take a small spherical ball of it, scooping it from the upper hemisphere.]
[Taking that spherical chunk of talent cosmic spice, you opened your mouth and immediately ate it!]
[As soon as it came into contact with the tip of your tongue, you felt an overwhelming spice in your mouth, as if you ate a chili that was ten times more potent than the Carolina Reaper.]
[As if that wasnât enough, your body soon started to heat up as if you had a furnace inside your body.]
[âThis is quite absurd! No wonder some who arenât compatible with it or couldnât withstand it have died. And this is only when Iâve eaten a small spherical sample of it!â]
[Thinking of this, you didnât hesitate to immediately use your multiplication fairy fruit to multiply your spice resistance and your digestion speed by ten thousand times.]
[In just a few seconds, it was finally digested, to which you felt a foreign energy within your soul.]
[The feeling was quite subtle. If not for your Late Titan-grade Spirit attribute and the fact that you possessed a Spirit Avatar, you wouldnât have noticed the peculiar soul energy within your soul.]
[Because most people couldnât detect it, the effect of the talent cosmic spice became random to them. However, you could manipulate spirit energy due to possessing a Spirit Avatar.]
[Due to that, you guided the purple cosmic energy within your soul and directed it to the orb in your soul, which represented the SSS-rank Future Diary innate talent.]
[After all the purple cosmic energy nourished the SSS-rank Future Diary innate talent, you felt that its quality improved, but the energy wasnât enough to bring a true qualitative change to it.]
[âIt seems that the talent cosmic spice I ate wasnât enough to generate enough purple cosmic energy to upgrade an SSS-rank innate talent to X-rank.â]
[Thinking of this, you immediately checked your food catalog. Much to your delight, the talent cosmic spice was not only added to your food catalog, but the Unlimited Food Creation (Gold) talent even generated countless dishes using the talent cosmic spice as an ingredient or seasoning.]
[In other words, you and the others didnât have to suffer from the outrageously spicy talent cosmic spice.]
[Some of the dishes created by the Unlimited Food Creation talent had even used various ingredients that youâve acquired from other station worlds to create a dish that not only neutralized the spice, but even ensured that it wouldnât affect the generation of purple cosmic energy within oneâs soul!]
[Without any hesitation, youâve created cosmic spice chewing candy, which was one of the food recipes created by Unlimited Food Creation.]
[Although this candy hadnât completely eliminated the spiciness of the talent cosmic spice, it still made it so that the spice wasnât overwhelming. Combined with the sweet and sour candy taste mixed with the talent cosmic spiceâs spiciness, it made a perfect blend of those three flavors.]
[Eating a bunch of cosmic spice chewing candies, you immediately created a bunch of it and gave Jade a huge portion of it, while the rest were for Scarlet and the others.]
[Due to the time that had passed since the Terra World Chat Group was established, those who had fallen victim to your Loan Sharkâs Ledger had all their innate talents and lifespan taken by you as collateral for their debts.]
[Because of that, it wasnât that difficult to find a suitable innate talent for at least each of the train crewmates. So, all of them possessed at least one innate talent.]
[The only problem was that not all of those innate talents were at SSS-rank. Due to that, Morvane and the others barely made use of their innate talents and waited for this day.]
[Now that theyâve obtained resources to upgrade their innate talentâs rank, they not only could skip SSS-rank but even upgrade the innate talent to X-rank!]
[As soon as Scarlet and the others received the cosmic spice chewing candy, they didnât hesitate to eat it.]
[While Jade was eating hers, she didnât forget to use Time Rewind to fix the shape of the purple glowing meteor.]
[Due to the use of time rewind, the small spherical chunk youâve taken from the purple glowing meteor was restored, but it was at the expense of costing Jade more spirit energy.]
[After eating countless cosmic spice chewing candy, all of your innate talents eventually reached X-rank!]
[Not only you, but Jade and the others also had upgraded their innate talents to X-rank.]
[After upgrading her Equivalent Exchange innate talent to X-rank, Jade immediately exclaimed in discovery, "My innate talent can exchange for train cores and train coins now!"]
["However, while innate talent can achieve that, my power rank is still insufficient. It seems that I need to reach Aether rank before I can be qualified to exchange for train cores and train coins."]