Awakening Negative Growth: All Stats at -9999

[Negative Stats] [Invincible] Lu Chen is the eldest son of the Lu family of the Imperial Capital, and the most pitiful Awakened in the entire school, by unanimous agreement.

On Awakening Day, his half-sister Lu Yao awakened an SSS-rank ability. The principal personally escorted her onto the platform, and the whole crowd cheered. Lu Chen, meanwhile, awakened only an F-rank ability called “Negative Growth.” His stats were even more absurd: Strength -9999, Speed -9999, Constitution -9999.

The school expelled him in front of everyone. His family turned their backs on him, even forcing him to promise he would never again claim to be a member of the Lu family. In the end, he was dumped at a school in the suburbs and had the rest of his life arranged for him like unwanted scrap.

Everyone thought Lu Chen was finished.

But nobody knew that the ability panels in this world concealed a fundamental rule that no one had ever discovered: positive numbers marked the limits of mortals, while negative numbers belonged to the realm of gods.

When others leveled up, their stats increased. When Lu Chen leveled up, his stats plunged even further into the negatives. The stronger others became with training, the more “useless” he seemed. But whenever he made a move, testing machines exploded, dungeons collapsed, geniuses fell to their knees, and teachers were left speechless.

Starting as an F-rank outcast who had been expelled, Lu Chen fought his way through the school league, city trials, and the national rankings of young prodigies. Then his SSS-rank sister stood before him and asked, her voice trembling for the first time, “Brother, what exactly did you awaken?”