I Use Games to Build a God-Tier Civilization

[Transmigration + System + behind-the-scenes scheming + no heroine + no saintly protagonist + sly schemer + power fantasy]

Ten years from now, Blue Star will face a test to advance its civilization. Only Zhao Kai, who transmigrated here, knows about it. Just as he plans to slack off and wait for death, he receives a transmigrator's perk: a System binds itself to him...

Before long, a virtual game takes the world by storm. But when the first “Manifestation Token” appears, things start to take a strange turn...

System: Host, this is a Fantasy System. You need to collect emotional energy to manifest things...

Zhao Kai: Yeah, yeah, I know.

System: Host, why do I feel like this isn't quite what we agreed on?

Zhao Kai: It's the same, it's the same. You're overthinking it...

System: Host, are you exploiting a bug in my code?

Zhao Kai: No, no. That's just your imagination...

System: Host, I told you to use me to advance civilization! Advance it! Get it? Not ascend to godhood!

Ten years later, the test begins:

Level Two Civilization: Dad, I'm scared... They have Level Six planet-destroying cannons...

Level Three Civilization: What the hell, this is a Level 0.7 civilization? That fat guy going through tribulation, get the hell away from me!

Level Four Civilization: Cosmic Court, how dare you screw me over! I'm reporting you to the Divine Lord! You said this was an advancement test for a Level 0.7 civilization? That crazy woman bouncing around in subspace is about to beat my civilization's homeworld to smithereens!

Level Five Civilization: You think that's bad? I've already applied to the Divine Lord to restart everything. That was terrifying as hell! A bunch of people with divine artifacts who just won't die, plus those freaks from the Heavenly Cauldron's technology faction... I'm done talking... I'm tired...