The main storyline of "Palworld" was not complicated.
Whenever players reached a new region, they would encounter islanders who needed help, then somehow cross paths with the tower master who controlled that region and eventually challenge them.
Each tower master had a distinctive personality.
So far, Zhong Yi's group of four had challenged Zoe, the bratty tsundere tower master; Lily, the Pal-loving yandere tower master; and Ark, the hot-blooded Jiahao tower master.
In the original game, only Zoe had a follow-up storyline and could be captured.
In the cultivation world's Illusion Realm, Lu Ze had changed it so that all of them could be captured.
But there were built-in conditions, and each could only be captured once.
Zoe, for instance, had a hidden affection system that required players to keep raising her affection.
The hot-blooded Jiahao tower master Ark, meanwhile, quickly hit it off with the equally earnest Mu Yawen and became her teammate.
The hardest of them to capture was Lily, the Pal-loving yandere tower master.
Her hidden condition required players to treat Pals gently.
With the cultivators' current attitude toward Pals, nobody would necessarily meet that condition even by the day they cleared the game.
Once players' map progress reached the Volcano region, the Pals' danger level began to rise visibly.
Pals became more aggressive, and berserk Pals appeared more frequently.
The difficulty of Boss battles also underwent an earth-shaking change from the earlier fights, which had been little more than playing house.
Flame Emperor, Sea-Covering Dragon, Taifeng...
These Bosses better matched the cultivators' image of "great demons," shattering the cute, dreamlike filter in one stroke.
Their bodies were often the size of small hills, radiating an overwhelming sense of pressure.
At this stage, players' death counts began to climb steadily.
They were mobbed to death while passing