Infinite Skin System: Starting as An Eldritch Knight-Chapter 41: Prime Train

In the midst of night, Carter equipped Dracula and stood at an open field in the woods.

In his hand was a glimmering bronze ticket. The ticket to board the Prime Train.

<Activate Bronze Prime Ticket?>

<Yes/No>

Carter touched the yes button. Immediately, a portal opened up before him.

’Prime World... I have returned.’

Carter walked inside and he was immediately bombarded with notifications from the Prime System.

<You have boarded the Bronze Prime Station>

<Bronze Prime Station only accepts Awaken Primers>

<Verifying User...>

<Rank: Awaken; Star Level: 10>

<Identity verified>

<Welcome, [_____]>

’It acknowledges my skin level... Not my true level. Interesting.’

The Bronze Station was a modernized train station that looked nothing out of the ordinary. There was no one at the train station but him.

The Prime Train itself was a dimension. More precisely, it was a pocket dimension between the cracks of worlds. This allowed it to transfer passengers from each world to the next.

The Prime Train mostly operated in the registered worlds that the Prime World had conquered. But it also operated in unconquerable worlds like Terrorstate. The difference was Carter wouldn’t meet too many Primers around.

The Prime Train quickly came to a half. Its door opened automatically.

Carter entered it.

The Prime Train was huge. Each compartment had its own unique living quarters. Each passenger had their own room and they wouldn’t need to encounter other passengers if they didn’t want to.

But he could come to the communal area as well to meet other Primers.

His living quarters were rather tame. A bed, a desk, and a wardrobe. Carter could upgrade his living quarters if he wanted to. But that would require Prime Coins.

He didn’t have that much Prime Coins to waste on unnecessary things like this.

Carter sat on the bed and felt its soft surface.

’Not too bad. Everything looks new. The woods smell nice. Much better than whatever Cyber Runner has.’

Carter left his living quarters and joined the communal area. He felt like he was transferred back to his world. Everything looked so familiar and yet so different at the same time.

A bar at the end. Many empty chairs lying around. A few ’humans’ walking around.

A staff member approached him, "Do you need anything, kind sir?"

It was a man with blue eyes. He wasn’t a living being. It was just a projection created by the Prime Train to serve its customer. Primer could differentiate them by the name hovered above their head.

Primers wouldn’t have tag names like that.

"Leave me be." Carter said.

"As you wish, sir." The projection went away.

Carter sat down on the bar and tried some cocktails. The Prime Train guaranteed total protection for its passengers. Any one that broke its rules would be banned for eternity.

No one was that stupid because the train was the only reliable way to travel across worlds.

Carter tried the cocktails. His Metabolism Manipulation skill made sure he would never get drunk. His Blood Manipulate also automatically filtered out any poison, including alcohol.

’Having too many skills is also a curse in some aspects,’ Carter thought to himself.

He sat there and enjoyed his drink. He didn’t think much and didn’t try to plan anything. He was just enjoying the moment.

’I wonder if the Train knows what the next stop would be.’

Carter called a projection over.

"How may we help you, kind sir?" The projection bowed respectfully.

"Who operates this train?"

"The train is made by a Paradox." The projection said.

Carter’s heart skipped a beat.

Paradox wasn’t a phenomenon that he knew so well. Paradox was a title. Carter learned as much as he could in his short time in Cyber Runner. He knew the basics.

Especially about the Seven Pillars. One of the Seven Pillars was the Paradoxes. This Pillar had the least number of members out of all the Pillars and the least number of followed factions.

That didn’t mean that they were weak. In contrast, it meant that they were incredibly strong.

Each Paradox was a personification of an exception. They had the power to ignore literally every rule of every world. But they walked alone and they never tried to grow their own influence.

One Paradox could overthrow an entire Pantheon of the Mythos if they wanted to. But they never did.

"May I know which Paradox it is?" Carter said.

The projection nodded, "The owner of the Prime Train is called the Traveler."

"The Traveler, huh?" Carter heard some scientists in Cyber Runner talk about him before.

The Traveler was an immortal being that stood above time and space. They called him the Traveler because he could travel to any time and any place. Even time and place that weren’t meant to travel.

"Do you know where the next stop will be?" Carter said.

The projection nodded again. He clicked something in the air that Carter couldn’t see. That would usually be a sign of interacting with the Prime System.

’Even a projection could access the Prime System. Paradoxes are no joke.’

"I have sent the planned destinations to you, kind sir. If you see some destinations black out, it means the Traveler has not visited that place yet. We do not recommend visiting black out dimension as they are usually very inhabitable and deathly."

"Thank you, I’ll keep that in mind."

The Traveler literally became famous because he was presented in every possible world. If there was a place he didn’t go to, he probably had a good reason. Carter was not going to risk that.

Carter switched on his Prime System. He could see that he had received a new package from the Prime Train.

<Minor Dimensional Map received>

<Open the item?>

<Yes/No>

Carter clicked ’yes’. A new window appeared. It looked like a star map with each dimension representing a star in the dark sky. The Bronze Prime Train was visible on the map, it was just leaving Terrorstate and now entering the dimensional space of Corrupted Corps.

’Corrupted Corps? Some kind of futuristic world or something?’

Carter turned to the projection, "The Traveler would just give our Dimensional Map like this for free?"

The projection smiled, "That’s right, kind sir. But you don’t need to worry that there is a catch. The map might show the dimensional paths but the details of each world is blocked behind a pay wall."

"Ah. The first one is free, right?"

"Something like that, kind sir." The projection bowed and took his leave.

Carter clicked on Corruption Corps.

<Would you like to buy General Information about Corrupted Corps?>

<Cost: 9,999 Prime Coins>

’Sheesh! No wonder why they gave me the map for free.>