The First League Survival Guide

This is so hard to write, so hard! Why is this story so hard to write?! (Completely falling apart, feet dangling, head in a noose)

[Synopsis] An interstellar league competition story, featuring an ensemble cast. Chapter comments are open, so come leave a paw print!

In the fifth month of the Star Calendar, the military academy league begins. Students from every school rub their hands together, eager to make a name for themselves in the competition.

But for military academy students of average ability, fighting for first place is no match for sneaking around and staying alive.

As a result, the military academy forums filled with posts discussing survival tactics for the league. The advice was compiled into a book titled The First League Survival Guide.

A student with second-level mental power commented through tears: "When the top dogs fight, stay out of the way so we little nobodies grinding for credits don't get caught in the crossfire."

As a new military academy student with a low rank and mediocre abilities, Wu Zhuo had no grand ambitions. She just wanted to earn enough credits and graduate as soon as possible.

After forming a team with a few friends who were just as unambitious, she decided to keep a low profile, as her upperclassmen had advised.

1. Survival Guide Rule One: "Burn incense and bathe."

[Better to pray than to strive. The most basic requirement for survival is good luck! Make a wish before the competition and hope you don't draw an arena from hell!]

Wu Zhuo paid her respects to the Federation's four famous generals. The next day, her arena was packed with fierce competitors and powerful contenders.

2. Survival Guide Rule Two: "Run when you get a whiff of trouble."

[Everyone, keep an eye on the top-ranked teams' aces at all times! If we can't take them on, we can at least stay out of their way!]

Wu Zhuo kept this advice in mind during the competition. After analyzing the enemy's movements, she realized that the elite students from every military academy were gathering around her location.

3. Survival Guide Rule Three: "Your life matters most."

[Credits are precious, but life is priceless. No matter how long you manage to hang on, protecting your life is what matters most!]

At the league finals, rampaging monsters unleashed a deafening roar, and the competitors in the arena suddenly began to change. In that swamp of blood, the various factions cornered a young student with black hair and black eyes on the edge of a cliff.

Cutting through the thick black-and-green poisonous fog, she, already crowned champion, cast a cool glance at those who thought they had her cornered, then leaped into the abyss.

After the blade of a tyrant who ruled a savage planet ended her own brief, expendable life, she transmigrated to another interstellar world, one with supernatural powers and strange beasts.

She had worked herself to the bone in her last life. This time, she planned to eat well and wait for death. She coasted through military academy, intending to become a security guard after graduation.

She never expected that entering the league just to make up the numbers would take her step by step to the awards podium as its champion.

"Hiding your abilities, deceiving the organizers, provoking the aces, and acting arrogant." Wu Zhuo read her online reviews, and she was furious.

She hadn't! That was nonsense! They forced her into it!

At the post-competition interview, she stared sternly at a certain spot below the stage. "Consider this a warning. If certain people keep harassing me, I'll call the police."

[Reader's Guide]

1. A military academy competition story with supernatural abilities. The main focus is the plot, and the author has created a mountain of original details.

2. There is a male lead, but he doesn't get much page time early on. A wicked cat x mad dog (?).

3. If you're in a hurry, you can start with the military training in Chapter Eight.

4. A slow burn! The league doesn't begin until Chapter Forty-Three. The author has a bad habit of writing reputation reversals, so the satisfaction builds gradually.

5. Blurb dated September 22, 2023.

Theme: I am the master of my own life