The second year after the Age of Discovery began.
Because of the locust-swarm-like destructive power of Hong Huang Players and their steady, reliable Hate Grabbing techniques.
Retaliation from forces across the Real World arrived right on schedule.
When faced with enemies with immortal bodies.
Although the various factions found it difficult to completely kill those players, there were still quite a few compromise solutions.
For example: freezing those Hong Huang Players with Stasis Fields and turning them into specimens...
And unsurprisingly, thanks to factors such as Hate Value and research value.
The captured Hong Huang Players could often be sold for high prices!
As precious collectibles and experimental materials, they were carefully preserved and put to use!
Thus.
For a time.
Driven by new grudges, old hatreds, being bored out of their minds, enormous profits... and all sorts of other factors.
All kinds of professional Capture Teams sprang up rapidly among the public.
After all, they could avenge old wrongs and vent their anger, reap immense wealth to satisfy their material needs, and even gain fame, marry a rich, beautiful woman, and ascend to the pinnacle of life!
With multiple BUFFs stacked upon them.
Even though the risks were high.
Capturing Hong Huang Players truly was a rare and lucrative business!!
It felt both like pirates and bounty hunters, and like evil dragons and Dragon Slayer Knights.
The two sides directly formed a special relationship of supply and demand.
The weak were harvested like leeks → Hong Huang Players rapidly grew stronger and accumulated Hate Value, causing their own worth to soar → professional hunting teams caught wind of it and engaged in Imperial City PK with Hong Huang Players...
Each link locked into the next, perfectly logical!
And because of this.
Though they loathed and looked down on one