Other people enter horror games as players hunted down by the rules.
Su Yu enters a horror game as an NPC, crouching behind the rules, munching on seeds as she watches players struggle.
When doomsday horrors descend, Blue Star becomes a hunting ground for game instances. Su Yu sleeps herself to death, and when she opens her eyes again, she has become the weakest half-spirit. A beautiful, three-hundred-year-old boss takes her back to an F-rank instance, where she lands a job as a wage slave. Her boss is stingy, there are no staff meals, her uniform is barely fit for purpose, and her wages are calculated by the number of players who die: one death, one paycheck. From the start, she even owes her boss 105 ghost coins.
A wage slave who doesn't want to become a boss isn't a good wage slave.
She sets herself a modest goal: save money, level up, and open an instance of her own so she can rise from employee to boss.
Others rely on luck to survive instances; she designs them with her brains.
An ordinary-looking rule becomes an inescapable death trap in her hands. Players rack their brains searching for a way out, unaware that whether the path leads to life or death is entirely up to her.
See how the weakest half-spirit uses her brains to rise from wage slave to a powerful boss who holds life and death in her hands, in a world overrun by horrors.
No Romance | Strong Female Lead | Leveling Up | Rule-Based Horror | Relies on her brains early on, then becomes both powerful and clever | Smart protagonist | Female-Centric
I found the premise interesting, but the writing was just so-so. Some comments said the second arc was much better. I'll save it for later and check it out when it's finished.
The writing style is a bit immature at the beginning, but it becomes very engaging from the second chapter onwards and is definitely worth reading.
It's a female-centric story.