Global Ascension

【Original story with lots of secret identities and showing off, no identity reveals】【Mastermind】【Not switching roles, a big ensemble cast, lots of secret identities getting close and tangled romances】 「Recommending a friend’s completed no-CP secret-identity novel, Aesthetics of the Beautiful and Tragic Ending, by We Huo, ID 5867738」 Chu Zaizhou dominated the gaming world as a hardcore grinder. One day, he stumbled upon a game called Savior. To unlock every hidden achievement and side quest, Chu Zaizhou created hundreds upon hundreds of alternate accounts and played through their storylines together. #I’m the one destroying the world, I’m the one saving it, and I’m the one caught in a love-hate relationship: D# Chu Zaizhou: This is great! He woke up one day to find the game had become reality. 《What Should I Do After Waking Up as the Savior?》 《I Never Put Any Points into My Main Character’s Skills!》 To keep his utterly helpless main body safe and save the world, Chu Zaizhou announced on the spot that he was founding an “Ability Academy.” Every student, teacher, and even the janitor was one of his alternate accounts. Chu Zaizhou: Covers his liver.jpg Paranormal incidents were running rampant in World D619. Just as everyone was losing hope, an Ability Academy appeared out of nowhere! Its people were unbelievably strong and knew exactly how to deal with the supernatural. Chu Zaizhou: That’s just muscle memory from all the grinding. They presented a united front to the outside world. No matter how many spies were sent in, none made it out alive. Chu Zaizhou: A bunch of my alternate accounts with a third wheel in the middle. Whoa, here we go! Within the academy, however, they turned against each other. The cold and aloof 【Sage】 kept a watchful eye on the gentle, compassionate 【Prisoner】; the 【Twins】 were cursed never to meet; the 【Oriole】, who sang for their ideals, died among their companions’ thorns… Chu Zaizhou: They’re just random character settings … Bystander A: So this ancient school has been protecting us for all these years… Bystander B: Oh my god, oh my god! I want to slam my head into a wall for Teacher Lu. Why would they lock him up when he’s so gentle?! Bystander C: Don’t go! He’ll smile while cutting out your kidneys! Bystander D: Go check the trending post. The backstories of these big shots… spits blood.jpg As the world grew better and better, people began speculating about the identity of the principal, who never showed his face. Before long, rumors began to spread: To help the world overcome its crisis, the principal sacrificed himself and merged with the school. He was the leader who lit the torch in the dark, a god walking among us. 【Congratulations, you have achieved the ultimate personal achievement: Ascend to Godhood!】 Chu Zaizhou: …Is it possible I’m just a shut-in who plays video games? Reader’s Guide: 1. At its heart, this is a story about the protagonist creating a salvation organization out of thin air. It includes beautiful-and-tragic elements, which are the author’s personal preference. There’s an ensemble cast of supporting characters, secret identities getting tangled up and close, and plenty of people showing off. 2. Spiritual qi revival, global ascension. Don’t apply this to real life; there are no bizarre supernatural beings or abilities in reality. 3. There are romantic feelings between secret identities, as well as group shipping. 4. There are clear one-sided crushes on supporting characters, with quite a lot of scenes and a major role in the story. This is why it’s categorized as derivative danmei. 5. The author is chuuni, and so is the story. This may not be for you if you want to nitpick the logic. (Emphasis added.) 6. This story was started in 2021. I rewrote it midway through because the outline was getting too close to the word limit, then revised another 150,000 characters in 2023 due to changes to the setting. It had no rankings before going premium. Clicks and comments before Chapter 35 are unreliable. P.S. Please don’t read pirated copies. There have been too many revisions, and the pirated versions are seriously inaccurate. ****【Featured recommendation】A friend’s completed no-CP, angsty secret-identity novel. It’s ridiculously good!**** Aesthetics of the Beautiful and Tragic Ending by We Huo, ID 5867738 Gong Du was the least popular deity in the Three Thousand Divine Realms, with dominion over disease. Every world had a protagonist team, and that team embodied the world’s fortune. His job was to keep them safe and guide them, while also putting them through enough trials to help them gain that fortune. Gong Du worked himself to the bone, creating obstacles for the protagonist team while serving as their teacher, senior, or comrade-in-arms and guiding them along the way. But his ending had been set in stone from the start. He was destined to die. World One: 【A Federation general overthrown by a revolution. Role-playing side effect: stomach problems】 Gong Du played the part of a gentle, beloved teacher while using his identity as a Federation general to put the protagonist team through trials. Later, as the Federation general, he killed his beloved teacher secret identity, forcing the protagonist team to work harder and overthrow the Federation. But… as he lay dying, Gong Du looked at the protagonist team, all of them weeping, and fell silent for a moment. World Two: 【An ability-user world. Role-playing side effect: Capgras delusion】 The golden sunflower forever follows the sun. The flamboyant boy held a flower in his hands and disappeared into the sunlight. “I died in the past, to guard your future.” World Three: The Treacherous Official in Ancient Times “The spring in Jinling is beautiful.” What the protagonist teams have to say: In countless worlds, there is always someone like him. Sometimes he walks alone down a thorn-strewn road. Sometimes he dies in the dark before dawn. Sometimes he grovels and fawns, yet stands tall in the moments before his death. Sometimes he spends his whole life failing to grasp the light he swore to protect. He is their teacher, senior, or companion, a guide to many, and the regret they most fear to face. P.S. The protagonist is not a good person. He’s awful, really awful: a brilliant actor and master of scripted scenes who never reveals his identities, and is very good at playing the victim without batting an eye. Everyone’s relationships are platonic or familial. *****************Coming-soon recommendations************* Monsters on the Tip of Your Tongue by Zi Mu Tao, see the author’s page 【Told in third person】 “A monster has possessed my body.” “Every night, I lose consciousness.” “The refrigerator at home is stuffed full of strange things, and there are stains on the floor that are impossible to clean.” “Watching the cases become more frequent on the news, I can’t control my fear.” “, Who are you?” I wrote on a piece of paper. Realizing that a monster had taken over my body, I tried every way I could think of to get myself killed, hoping to force it out. But no matter what I tried, whenever I woke up again, my injuries had vanished, and I couldn’t ignore how full I felt. “I hate you,” I said coldly. That night, I received a note from it for the first time. The handwriting was crooked, but I could recognize the strokes as my own. “I luv you.” Oh. The monster was illiterate too. Until one day, after losing too much blood, I woke in the middle of the night. The familiar room. Blood-red candles scattered everywhere. Everything from before seemed to take on a terrifying, unnatural strangeness in the eerie red glow. In the faint, flickering, ominous light, my hand began to rise against my will. The knife and fork were sharp, their edges catching a glint of cold light. Some kind of sticky, fish-roe-like food was slowly moving toward my face. Its rich juices burst in my mouth. My wounds slowly disappeared, and even my strength increased. It was delicious. I suddenly realized the monster only wanted to feed me. … Here’s the question: what exactly is my food made of?! In World D620, monsters hide among the human population. They are devious and cunning, full of tricks, and they feed on human souls. Humans have come up with all sorts of ways to stop them, but nothing has worked. Then, one day, the monsters began disappearing at an astonishing rate. Some said it was humanity’s victory. Others suspected an even more terrifying conspiracy. Everyone was searching for the king who could make the monsters bow down. This was a world where light and darkness blended until they could no longer be told apart. Some people knelt in prayer, some set themselves ablaze, and some took up blades to meet their deaths… And Song Linchuan stood among the crowd, looking at the dark shadow staring back at him from the mirror and considering a more practical question: What should I eat tonight? … An obsessive, creepy seme who loves feeding the uke × a calm, unhinged combat-loving uke who only wants to get stronger 1. Inhuman love, pseudo-selfcest. 2. A long story with plenty of face-slapping, showing off, and satisfying fights. 3. The protagonist gets stronger and will become the strongest. Theme: Those who can act should act, and those who can speak should speak. The world is in our hands.