Global Survival: Starting from Scratch as a Witch

[Stockpiling + Infrastructure Building + Farming + Light Management]

Ke Jin was a miserable high school student raised on Chinese-style education. After the college entrance exam, all he wanted was a good night's sleep, but he was unexpectedly pulled into a survival game for all humanity.

[Welcome, survivor. From this moment on, you will face all kinds of trials, including torrential rain and extreme cold. Please prepare yourself.]

[Your starting profession will now be assigned...]

Staring at the profession displayed on the screen, Ke Jin fell into thought.

The good news: He had been assigned the Wizard profession, among the top one percent in rarity. Powerful wizards knew the heavens above and the earth below, could control all kinds of elements, and even foresee the future.

The bad news: He had been assigned the Homestead Wizard profession. He couldn't do any of the things listed above.

Ke Jin: ...Well, what's done is done. First, I'll get some sleep.

So while other players were locked in fierce battles with monsters, Ke Jin was in his safe house learning how to care for slimes after they gave birth.

While everyone else leveled up by fighting monsters, Ke Jin chatted with the cows at his Wizard Farm about what flavoring to put in today's cake.

Step by step, Ke Jin started from the ruins, clearing land, farming, and trading with the natives...

From ruins to farmland, from a wooden cottage to a Wizard Tower, then to a Wizard Market, he sold potions and cakes across the entire survival continent.

How did I accidentally end up ranked number one on the survival leaderboard?

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A question often comes up on the forums: Is there a strange wizard living in the forest? He keeps away from people, and now and then, you can hear him singing strange songs to the plants.

People guessed he was a poor soul driven mad by the survival game.

Until one day, a survivor who had lost his way wandered into the forest. As dusk fell and beasts howled around him, he thought he was about to die there.

But at the end of the road, a safe house appeared before him, looking like a garden.

The beautiful young man in wizard robes smacked the head of a roaring monster. "Keep it down! You're disturbing the neighbors!"

He turned with an apologetic smile and said, "Sorry about that. Would you like a snack?"

The survivor: ...

A garden, snacks, and even an S-rank monster for a pet.

Good heavens, are we even playing the same survival game?

Reader's Guide:

1. There is a CP. The top is a snow leopard. Childhood friends to lovers.

2. This should be a long novel?

Cover art from Yayabei

P.S. The blurb has been revised. I'm very, very sorry.

Theme: Grow big and strong!