[The resources of the universe would be greatly depleted if it were used for quickly increasing the power of more than twenty thousand Train Conductors to Aether rank.]
[After all, resources were finite, and Aether rank powerhouses might seem like ants when compared to Starlight rank powerhouses, but Aether rank powerhouses were already the mainstay powerhouses of most powerhouses.]
[To truly traverse the galaxies, one must at least be an Aether rank powerhouse. They alone represent the combat power of an entire world.]
[As for those Starlight rank powerhouses, they were mostly ancient existences and race progenitor-level existences. It was only due to your Zenith Train Crew keeping on hunting them that they started popping out from their lairs.]
[Aside from your interference, it was also due to the Wild God Faction slowly escaping from their seal. Otherwise, if it were a hundred years ago, Starlight rank powerhouses would be nearly impossible to encounter.]
