Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Zhao Yao knew about this but he didn’t think of Mango. After Grayley’s reminder, he was enlightened.
“I’ve always thought that Mango’s superpower is specific to a target just like Elizabeth’s control and illusion and his superpower is ineffective against high level supercats.”
“But Mango’s superpower might not be specific to a target. Perhaps, he’s changing the material realm? Like creating earthquakes, hurricanes, changing gravity. Those supercats with high levels are not immune to the effects of environmental change…”
Grayley taught Zhao Yao for a while and left for the battlefield to reinforce the Short Fur Tribe.
Zhao Yao brought along his question regarding Mango back to Earth.
“Maybe I could experiment a bit.”
Zhao Yao decided to experiment with Mango’s superpower but he did not dare to borrow from him. He got his new worker Ivanovic to experiment.
“Mango.” Zhao Yao caressed Mango’s head and pointed at Ivanovic as he said, “Lend your superpower to him. Do you understand superpower?”
Mango stared wide-eyed at Zhao with his blank face.
Zhao Yao continued to guide Mango by patting his body, pointing at his buttocks and then pointing to Ivanovic.
Mango tilted his head, opened his mouth and became dumbfounded.
Zhao Yao slapped Mango’s buttocks and said, “Lend your superpower…” He pointed at Ivanovic and said, “To him! Lend it to him, all to him, do you understand?”
Mango’s eyes lit up and he walked towards Ivanovic.
Zhao Yao thought, “Did Mango understand?”
Mango walked to Ivanovic’s side and aimed his own buttocks at the Russian. Then he pooed at him.
Zhao Yao sighed. “This is tricky. With Mango’s current state, if I contract him, it’s going to be risky. I’m afraid the side effects of the superpower may get out of hand. I’ve to lend it out for testing…”
He lowered his head to look at Mango who was rubbing his feet. “With his low intelligence, it’s not easy for him to understand complex instructions.”
Matcha, who was licking his feet, said, “Try asking Roly Poly as he had trained Mango before. Apparently, he made Mango activate his superpower.”
“Oh, yes, Roly Poly…” Zhao Yao said, “He was badly affected by the setback. Is he having autism?”
A few minutes later, Zhao Yao arrived at a cat dwelling on Cat Island. He peered inside and saw Roly Poly sprawl on the ground with his head lowered.
“Roly Poly?”
There was no response.
Zhao Yao poked Roly Poly but there was no reaction.
“I’m treating you to fried chicken Roly Poly.”
There was still no response
“Hey, you created trouble when I was not around, do you think you could play dead and get away with it?”
Zhao Yao flipped Roly Poly over and saw both his eyes were like dark holes as though he had stopped thinking completely.
In a deep end of Roly Poly’s awareness, Roly Poly laid motionless on the ground in complete darkness.
Project X walked around him as he coaxed, “Enough Roly Poly, when are you stopping your decadence?”
Roly Poly said, “I’m a piece of shit, so what if I’m decadent?”
Project X said, “Don’t be so hard on yourself! Didn’t that dog lick you clean? It’s cleaner than bathing.”
Roly Poly’s mind recounted that when he returned to the Extradimensional Belly, Elizabeth, Diana, Lionhead and the rest looked at him as though he was a piece of trash.
“After I came back, no cats are willing to lick me. I better die and reincarnate again.”
Project X said, “Have you forgotten our dreams? Didn’t we agreed to rule Zhao Yao and the world?” Project X lifted Roly Poly up and shook him up. “Look here, Zhao Yao’s here to find you! Get up quickly and go lick Zhao Yao! Think of your dreams!”
Roly Poly’s body shook while he kept quiet.
Project X said angrily, “If you’re thinking of death, then I’ll take over your body!”
Roly Poly turned his head away and said, “This body’s a trash. Go and use it.”
Project X was infuriated. “You think I don’t dare? I’ll take over your body right now!”
Seeing Roly Poly going back to sleep, Project screamed, “Going into autism again?”
In the material realm, Zhao Yao shook Roly Poly’s body and said, “Hey, when are you waking up? Who doesn’t have embarrassing experiences? It’s only being excreted out like feces. If you don’t wake up, I won’t let you manage the Royal Police Cat Guards. Perhaps, I should let Caesar erase your memories…”
Roly Poly’s eyes glimmered abruptly. He rolled and stood up.
Zhao Yao looked at Roly Poly and said, “You’re good?”
Roly Poly did not answer. He looked excitedly at his own paws and feet.
Zhao Yao stood up and said, “Start working if you’re awake. Let Mango lend his superpower to other people.”
Roly Poly’s body trembled and he nodded at Zhao Yao earnestly. “Okay, I’ll go now.”
No matter how Roly Poly coached Mango, Mango was unable to lend his superpower to other people.
Zhao Yao shook his head and decided to let it go for now.
“Perhaps next time I could contract Mango?”
Zhao Yao shook his head again and returned to the Closers World.
In the next few days, Zhao Yao returned to Short Fur Tribe twice daily. For the remaining time, he stayed on Earth and logged in Dust Ball’s account so that she could evolve and upgrade her levels. He also completed many missions to accumulate experience points.
He discovered that he could obtain missions in the Closers World by helping others. Zhao Yao was killing two birds with one stone and it would even be better if he worked harder.
The entire Closers World was abuzz with rumours that the game master was going around torturing players.
Zhao Yao was also practising the Personality Backup from the Cat Revolution Society to prevent himself from being controlled by superior supercats.
After a week or so, Dust Ball managed to reach Level 25. The level cap mission was completed and Zhao Yao’s cats could continue to evolve and upgrade their levels.
After some thoughts, Zhao Yao decided to log in Matcha’s account for the next evolution upgrade. He already had Level 60 awareness and the Dragon Slaying Saber for his attacks. In the short term, he did not expect his supercats to catch up with him.
For defense and combat assistance, Matcha’s Time Freeze was becoming more useful. Every level upgrade allowed him to increase speed in the Time Freeze and it translated to longer duration. In addition, the cooling down period of the Time Distortion was also reduced.
“Only if I’m standing would there be outputs. I’m going to work all the way and I’ll even depend on my equipment for outputs.”
Zhao discovered that the evolution progress was much slower than when Matcha’s Level was below 25.
“Oh? What’s happening? Why is the evolution progress slowing down?”
Zhao Yao studied his BOOK and discovered a new message after the level cap was removed.
After Level 25, the requirements for level upgrades were much higher.
For normal people, they did not have power of awareness and their mental energy were absorbed via the Closers World. However, there were lots of contaminants in the mental energy and they reduced the efficiency of level upgrades.
In order to increase the efficiency after Level 25, the Closers World had to be an awareness country. The more supercats with power of awareness and the higher the power of awareness, the faster the speed of level upgrades.
“If I get the Short Fur Tribe’s supercats to play in the Closers World, the speed of level upgrades would be very fast.” Zhao Yao stroked his chin and thought, “There are only Giggle, Tom and the rest and a few of my supercats with power of awareness in the Closers World so the progress is slow.”
“I’ve to think of ways to capture more alien cats to play.”
Zhao Yao spent another three days on Earth to make progress in the Closers World before returning to the Short Fur Tribe. He felt something was different.
Every cat slave, every supercat looked like they were in a hurry as though there was an invisible pressure bearing down on them.
Grayley summoned Zhao Yao and he saw the luminous exclamation mark above Grayley’s head. He knew he was going to earn experience points.
“We are lacking superior warriors. Guang Yu, you’ve progressed a lot during this time and you’ve borrowed my superpower. It’s time for you to put your skills to test on the battlefield.”
Grayley pointed at the star system on the map and said, “The strength of this combat zone is not high, you’ll try your hand in this area.”
Zhao Yao’s eyes lit up. The chance for capturing cats was here.
