The Hardcore Gamer Can Do Anything [Full-Dive]

Coming Soon: Starting a Magic Academy, but With Secret Identities If this sounds interesting, feel free to take a look~ Every game has that kind of player whose avatar is always lit up, no matter when you log in. No matter how strict the playtime restrictions are, they just can't be stopped. Whales grit their teeth in frustration, while free-to-play players look up at them in awe and sigh. They are the hardcore grinders. The hottest full-dive game in the interstellar world, Calamity, has just entered open beta. While ordinary players are still exploring the map, the big shots are already rolling up their sleeves and racing for the top of the rankings. The first day is usually when the leaderboard gets the most exciting. In the first hour, the number-one spot belonged to Qian Ziqiu. Twenty-four hours later, it still belonged to Qian Ziqiu. Other players: Huh? This Qian Ziqiu seems pretty good. It didn't take them long to realize how wrong they were. This guy wasn't just pretty good! While ordinary players were struggling to survive the first beginner dungeon, Qian Ziqiu had already earned an S-rank first clear. While ordinary players were still begging for guides to the main quests, Qian Ziqiu had already completed a hidden quest and obtained the key to a new world. While ordinary players were finally managing to stay alive until the mission timer ran out, Qian Ziqiu had already become the lord of a city in the new world. As Qian Ziqiu's lead over second place grew ever wider, he dominated the number-one spot across the entire server. Other hardcore grinders wailed: We can't keep up! We really can't! Whales and top players fumed: Why don't you log off and get some sleep for once!!! - Qian Ziqiu took a half-dead vegetative patient to a junk planet. After getting him settled, Qian Ziqiu had just twenty star coins to his name. With twenty star coins, he had to choose between two ordinary nutrient solutions and spending the night at an internet cafe. Qian Ziqiu decisively chose the latter. He had no other special talents. If he didn't want to starve or be unable to afford medicine, all he could do was grind games! If grinding won't kill you, grind until it does! Just do it!! Main quests, side quests, hidden quests, first kills on dungeon bosses, world storylines, even the number-one spot across the whole server: he would grind them all out! Qian Ziqiu proved with his skill that hardcore grinders can do anything! Calamity has a special two-player mode, with one human player and one support system. If a player doesn't have a teammate, the game assigns them an AI system. The AI is quite intelligent and can communicate with players normally. But Qian Ziqiu felt he was rather unlucky. He'd been assigned an artificial idiot. No choice. He was short on time, so he'd make do. What else could he do? Shao Yunsong became a vegetative patient shortly before graduating at the age of twenty-two. By chance, his consciousness remained inside the game. Shao Yunsong didn't have much to hold on to, but there was one person he couldn't stop worrying about. He thought, If only I could see him again. After an unknown amount of time, the game entered open beta. Shao Yunsong was automatically matched with a teammate. He read out the name: "Qian Xiaoqiu." He said, "That cracked me up. Can your AI system not even read the characters right?" "Let me teach you. Repeat after me: Qian Ziqiu." "..." Xiaoqiu, his Xiaoqiu. P.S.: 1. Pairing: Qian Ziqiu x Shao Yunsong. Childhood friends, mutually devoted. 2. The blurb has been extensively revised. The game is the same Calamity of the Apocalypse as in the author's other completed novel, The Interstellar World's Number-One Game Designer. You can read this one without having read that one. 3. There's a lot of game content, and there will be a romance too. This time it won't just be in the background. 4. This blurb was written on March 24, 2024. - Coming soon. If you're interested, feel free to take a look~ Starting a Magic Academy, but With Secret Identities Blurb: Jing Ke had just graduated from high school and was lounging at home playing games. He thought the unluckiest thing in life wasn't waking up to find he'd transmigrated. It was that he had... Transmigrated into a magical world; Been bound to a magic academy System; And been saddled with a System that was both broke and useless, yet demanded he build the number-one comprehensive academy on the entire continent, or else it would kill him. And the worst part was that he could handle the strict requirements, but couldn't the System at least pick a decent location? On the left was the top swordsmanship academy, on the right the finest magic academy, in front was the church's academy for light-aligned nobles, and behind stood a black magic academy on the edge of the abyss. Jing Ke's run-down little academy was right in the middle, and there was no way to move it! So Jing Ke had no choice but to keep a low profile and scrape by in the cracks between the four top-tier academies. One day, the few students Jing Ke had finally managed to lure in watched him sneak out in a cloak like a thief, then gathered to place bets: "I bet the headmaster went to the Dais Swordsmanship Academy to learn their techniques!" "Hmph, I saw him carrying a staff today. He must be going to take a class at the Harlow Magic Academy!" "No way. He's wearing a black cloak today, so he must be going to the Black Magic Academy!" "Black? Everyone on this street wears a black cloak. He's being so secretive, so I say he's off to the church again!" - At first, none of the four academies paid any attention to the shabby little building in their midst. Even as it steadily expanded, the four heads never considered it a threat. That is, until one day, one of the heads discovered to his shock that his favorite genius student was secretly teaching at that shabby academy! The other three heads laughed their heads off when they heard. But then they turned around and discovered that their own youngest-ever great swordsman, the child with the purest light element whom one had already chosen as his godchild, and the ruthless, taciturn necromancer who could beat the entire year were all teaching at that shabby academy too!! The four heads were furious and showed up at Jing Ke Academy's entrance together to confront him. Jing Ke was already sweating buckets as he braced himself against the academy doors. He hissed, "System! System, say something already!" System: ...Hello? Is this what you call scraping by in the cracks??? [No CP] [Secret Identities] [Academy Management and Development] Theme: Never give up, and cherish the present