Wait, Who Said Plant-Type Abilities Are Useless?

Jiang Ning, once a top student in agricultural science, transmigrates to the interstellar age, where she's so poor she can barely put food on the table. Just as she's about to return to her old profession and start farming again, she's told that the land here is too barren for cultivation.

Jiang Ning is on the verge of tears.

With no other choice, she keeps working odd jobs to earn money. When she finally awakens an ability, she's told yet again that hers is the most useless kind: a plant-type ability.

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To everyone else, plant-type ability users are useless, with no future to speak of.

But Jiang Ning's eyes light up. A plant-type ability? That's great!

It's steady, profitable, and there's no need to risk her life fighting alien beasts.

It couldn't be more perfect.

For example, she can summon a sunflower, put it up for sale on the Star Network, and start a business with zero startup costs.

Within days, every plant she's listed has sold out, and people are constantly waiting outside her shop, begging her to restock.

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But lately, Jiang Ning's been a little troubled. The plants she summons aren't reliable, and most of them are somewhat aggressive, so she can't sell them to customers.

As it happens, Semir Academy has opened a plant studies program this year. Having made a little money, Jiang Ning decides to go to school and find out what's going on.

After choosing the right major, Jiang Ning's plant-type ability improves by a whole level. She decides to put it to the test.

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So, at a certain freshman livestream competition, viewers see that every new student this year is a powerhouse, with extraordinary talent and outstanding mental strength.

[AA is way too fast! When it comes to footwork, you can't beat a space-type ability user!]

[FF's fireball packs a serious punch! Elemental abilities are the classic choice!]

The camera shifts to Jiang Ning as she takes the stage, and viewers immediately start complaining.

[Has she lost her mind? She actually thinks a plant-type ability can compete!]

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But when the official match begins, Jiang Ning calmly takes out a pot of gorgeous purple flowers. As everyone watches, the little flower grows to two meters tall, opens its enormous jaws, and bites the head off the alien beast across from her.

The audience is dumbfounded: ...

Wait, what the hell? That's a plant-type ability?

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A little promo for my upcoming novel: Beast Taming, Starting with Raising Pigs

Here's the blurb:

Other people only talk about it. Jiang Qing actually studied postpartum care for sows in college.

With graduation approaching, she thought she was in for a tough job hunt. Who could have guessed that she'd just lift a leg and transmigrate?

And into a world where people are ranked by the strength of the alien beasts they contract.

She arrives on the very day of the beast-taming exam.

After weighing her options, Jiang Qing finally manages to contract a... pig.

Jiang Qing: "..."

How is that not a perfect match for my major?

Since it was her choice, Jiang Qing accepts it and begins her daily routine of raising pigs in another world.

While her classmates struggle to gather materials to level up, Jiang Qing raises pigs.

While everyone else heads out to train, weather-beaten and travel-worn, Jiang Qing raises pigs.

When the others return from training, showing off their battle scars and spoils, Jiang Qing... is still raising pigs.

Before long, the whole academy knows Jiang Qing as the girl who can only raise pigs.

Even when her professor mentions her, all he can do is shake his head and sigh in frustration. "This student is beyond teaching!"

Then comes graduation assessment day. After four years of keeping a low profile, Jiang Qing finally appears at the exam site with the pig she's raised for all four years.

Everyone there will remember that moment forever.

The instant the starting signal sounds, a massive, dark teal figure slowly steps out from behind Jiang Qing.

In an instant, the heavens and earth change color.

The giant pig swells at incredible speed, blotting out the sky in moments. The world beneath its feet seems no more than a colony of insignificant ants.

Terrifying pressure sweeps across the site, and even the air grows still.

Jiang Qing's opponent's legs give way, and he drops to his knees in terror. "Th-that's the... pig you raised?!"

Jiang Qing nods.

"..." A deathly silence falls over the site.

Help!

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Theme: An agricultural student finds a new career in the stars