1.
He Yu woke up one day and discovered he had transmigrated.
Good news: He had transmigrated into the recently popular interstellar war game Age of Chaos, and he was bound to a System.
Bad news: He had become the bottom-ranked student in the logistics department of a human military academy. His major was "Interstellar Battlefield Supply Management and Equipment Maintenance," commonly known as... a battlefield repairman.
He Yu looked down at his skinny arms and legs, then at his physical fitness test score of 29, and finally at the glaring prompt on the System screen:
[Please win over Alez, one of the Demon Race's Round Table Demons]
He slowly typed a question mark.
"System, wake up. He's one of the late-game bosses who can cleave a planet apart with one strike! And I can't even afford a ticket to his lair!"
[Ding! Host reluctance detected. Task assistance mode activated automatically.]
[Starter Pack delivered: Demon Race Aesthetic Preferences Analysis Report x1]
[Helpful tip: The target has recently taken an interest in human handicrafts.]
He Yu: "...Does this System have something seriously wrong with it?"
Starting Task: [Give Alez an embroidered handkerchief (Reward: Mechanical Race Gamma Branch Structural Diagram)]
He Yu: "..."
"I don't even know where he is. How am I supposed to give him anything?"
He closed the System panel outright, deciding to pretend he hadn't seen it.
Then, one day later, the military academy suddenly held an "Interstellar Culture Festival" and required every student to submit an embroidered item.
He Yu casually handed in a handkerchief he'd embroidered himself.
A week later, the task was complete.
[Reward delivered: Mechanical Race Gamma Branch Structural Diagram (Complete Edition)]
He Yu stared at the data that had appeared out of nowhere in his terminal, utterly baffled.
"I completed the task? I haven't even seen Alez's shadow!"
?2.
Alez, one of the Demon Race's seven commanders, suddenly noticed a line of floating text in his field of vision one day:
[Give Alez an embroidered handkerchief (Reward: Mechanical Race Gamma Branch Structural Diagram)]
He narrowed his crimson eyes and sneered. "Which race's illusion is this? Boring."
At a Demon Round Table meeting, he mentioned it in passing, only to discover that every high-ranking demon was looking at him strangely.
Alez: "...You can see it too?"
The demons: "Yeah, but what does that have to do with us?"
He thought for a moment and decided to ignore it.
Then, a week later, he ran into the human army. The humans suddenly sent an envoy to deliver a handkerchief embroidered with crooked little flowers, saying it was "embroidered especially by the human He Yu, who admires Lord Alez."
Alez: "..."
He looked down at the task description on the panel, then at the handkerchief, and remained silent for a long while.
Task complete.
[Reward delivered: Mechanical Race Gamma Branch Weakness Analysis]
Alez: "...Interesting."
3.
The human military had recently held a "Mechanical Race Structural Hypothesis Contest" with generous prizes.
He Yu looked at the [Mechanical Race Gamma Branch Structural Diagram] in his System and hesitated, but eventually submitted it.
Two months later, the humans won a crushing victory in their battle against the Mechanical Race, precisely striking the Gamma Branch's energy core.
Alez looked at the battle report and suddenly realized:
"Damn! The humans can see that task panel too?!"
?4.
He Yu had been very confused lately.
His System tasks kept getting completed for no apparent reason:
[Task: Give Alez a flower and receive a return gift]
The next day, an envoy from the Demon Race delivered a bouquet of roses, saying it was "a return gift from Lord Alez."
[Task: Have dinner together]
The human military suddenly arranged a "Friendship Banquet Between the Two Races" and seated him next to Alez.
[Task: Hold hands once]
On the battlefield, Alez "casually" pulled him out of danger and even squeezed his wrist.
He Yu: "???"
"Isn't this progress way too fast?!"
Theme: Learning a special craft is important.