In the original version of "Palworld" from Lu Ze's past life, NPCs could be captured, and they could be captured repeatedly.
But in this world, because special NPCs had been granted sentience, they could only be captured once.
Additionally, in the original game, only Zoe could be captured, whereas in the illusion-realm, all Tower Masters could be captured, though the conditions were rather harsh.
Lu Ze had built a hidden affection system into the game.
If players wanted to capture a Tower Master, they either had to complete hidden side quests to max out the affection meter,
or they had to overpower them with sheer level advantage and force-capture them using high-tier Pal Spheres.
Upon learning that Pal Spheres could capture humans, Zhong Yi followed the others to the dilapidated Daoist temple, ready to capture Zuo Yi.
After all, Tower Masters counted as the most special characters in the Palworld universe—whether in terms of design or combat prowess, they were clearly no ordinary catch.
"Hmph! You small fry! Last time was just a moment of carelessness on my part. Don't think I'll think any better of you just because you won that match!"
The moment Zhong Yi reached the temple gate, Zuo Yi inside raised her chin haughtily and turned her face away.
"That attitude is seriously annoying..."
Zhong Yi gritted his teeth.
Zhou Yue and Zhou Qiaoling exchanged glances, looking puzzled.
"Wait... isn't she supposed to have fixed dialogue when talking to us?"
"I feel like she's got something going on with Senior Brother Zhong..."
The two muttered their complaints to each other, and the capture operation was launched with Zhong Yi taking the lead.
Zuo Yi's level was only 10, not particularly high, so they quickly wore her down to a sliver of HP.
"Time to catch you~"
Zhou Qiaoling moved swiftly, tossing out a Master Pal Sphere—but it didn't react at all, bouncing right off Zuo Yi's forehead.
"Whoa!! What the heck is with it just bouncing off!?"
Zhou Qiaoling's heart ached at the loss; the pink Master Pal Sphere was the highest-tier equipment she currently had.
"One more try!"
She refused to believe it and threw another one.
The result was exactly the same—it bounced off again.
Zhong Yi frowned: "Damn. Looks like Tower Masters are special characters—Pal Spheres can't catch them!"
"Hmph! There's no way I'd be caught by something like that—"
Zuo Yi's words were cut off as a pale-yellow Quality Pal Sphere sailed lightly from Zhong Yi's hand and struck her.
The very next moment, a scene no one expected unfolded.
Zuo Yi transformed into a beam of white light, sucked into the Quality Pal Sphere, which then began to shake violently.
"???"
"???"
"???"
Under the dumbfounded gazes of the three, the Pal Sphere kept trembling.
[45%... 68%... 91%... 99%...]
"Just... like that?"
Zhong Yi stared at Zuo Yi now in his party, feeling a surreal sense of disbelief.
"Summon her out, quick!"
Zhou Qiaoling was brimming with curiosity about this good-looking girl character.
Zhong Yi nodded, switched his active Pal to Zuo Yi, and selected summon.
The twin-tailed young woman materialized in front of the three, and the moment she landed, she started chattering nonstop.
"P–pervert, pervert, pervert!"
"How dare you treat me like a Pal! I hate people like you the most... ugh!"
"Guh... don't think this will make me submit. I'll never be that kind of—"
Before Zuo Yi could finish, her figure vanished again as Zhong Yi recalled her into the Pal Sphere.
"This woman talks way too much..."
Zhong Yi frowned and muttered, a not-so-pleasant memory stirring in his mind.
"So annoying. Am I really that unlikeable?"
Meanwhile, the chat in Zhong Yi's livestream was losing its mind.
[First time I've ever seen Tower Master Zuo say this much]
[All exclusive dialogue for Zhong!]
[Streamer, streamer, have you considered the possibility that this woman has a crush on you?]
[Absolutely not! She literally said she hates people like Zhong the most!!]
[The guy above should just swear brotherhood with Zhong already]
[First time I've seen Zuo Yi get captured... honestly feels like she's got something with Zhong!]
...
At that very moment, Lu Ze, lurking in the livestream to enjoy the chaos, was laughing his ass off.
He had written special-version dialogue, sure.
But it was just generic lines for the general playerbase—zero interaction.
What Zhong Yi had unlocked here, though, was nothing but genuine emotion.
Lu Ze even suspected that the moment Zhong Yi caught Zuo Yi, their bond level was already starting at Level 5 or higher...
Unlike in his past life, Tower Masters were no longer pure decoration.
Though their strength couldn't compare to legendary bosses, they had growth potential now, with a decent ceiling.
Lu Ze was curious to see whether Zhong Yi raising Zuo Yi by his side might cure him of that stubborn, dense head of his...
[Machiavellian Value +2.6]
...
While he was enjoying the show, the sound of Machiavellian Value kept ringing nonstop in his ear.
No need to guess—Li Moran was still challenging the Forest Mammoth.
From last night until now, the sound of Machiavellian Value gains hadn't stopped.
But the frequency of the increases was gradually slowing down.
That meant Li Moran was lasting longer and longer against the Forest Mammoth.
"Treating Palworld like a Souls-like game... only you could pull that off."
Lu Ze chuckled to himself in amusement.
He then continued to hang around Zhong Yi's livestream for more entertainment.
Every time Zhong Yi let Zuo Yi out, there were all sorts of cute, sharp-tongued little exchanges—dialogue that Lu Ze himself couldn't even have imagined.
Honestly, it was kind of fun to ship.
...
Who knows how much time passed.
[Machiavellian Value +2.7]
"???"
Lu Ze froze for a moment.
A 0.1 increase in Machiavellian Value might seem tiny, but in reality, that was a visible boost in strength.
Wait...
Did this woman have another epiphany???
It's just playing a game—what do you mean "epiphany" again??
Don't tell me you've got cheats too???
Shocked and uncertain, Lu Ze stealthily slipped into Zhong Yi's Palworld, locating Li Moran's position.
At that moment, Li Moran was standing atop the Forest Mammoth's corpse, collecting the spoils scattered across the battlefield.
"You... actually killed it??"
Lu Ze was utterly astounded as he revealed himself.
The boss-state Forest Mammoth had over 4,000 HP.
Given the level gap between them, Li Moran shouldn't have been able to break through its defenses at all—only chipping away with forced 1-damage hits.
That would take over 4,000 strikes!
And without a single mistake.
Because even one graze from the Forest Mammoth meant instant death.
"Yeah. I killed it."
Li Moran nodded calmly.
"At first, I thought you were just messing with me... but then I had an epiphany."
"As long as it has a health bar, and as long as my attacks can deal damage... then my sword is invincible."
Hearing this, Lu Ze couldn't help but suck in a cold breath.
Good grief—she's really achieving enlightenment inside a game, huh?
"This is also what you wanted to teach me... isn't it?"
Li Moran sheathed her iron sword and smiled calmly.
"Huh? Uh... yeah!! Exactly!"
Lu Ze nodded hastily.
The truth was, he just wanted to farm some Machiavellian Value off Li Moran, seeing as she hadn't come to the illusion-realm to play in ages while she was in closed-door training.
"Wait... have you been watching here the whole time!?"
Li Moran suddenly remembered something and drew her iron sword again.
She suddenly remembered the scene of falling asleep in the arms of the shimmering Fluffball yesterday, and her expression turned several shades colder.
"Wh... what do you mean? Do I look like that kind of person? Ha-ha, hahaha..."
"If you dare breathe a word about this, you're dead."
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
