Full-Spectrum Control [Interstellar]

(3,000 words in reserve...)

In the final match of the Federal Junior League qualifiers, Yu Tang led the Shengshi team into the playoffs by a hair, with a margin of just 0.005.

Captain: "Yu Tang, are you fucking crazy? Every anchor point you gave us was wrong! We would've made the top five before you showed up. You're a jinx. No wonder nobody wants to team up with you!"

Yu Tang coldly raised his eyes. "The other side is right on top of us, and you're still asking me for anchor points?"

In other words, are you stupid?

For the first match of the playoffs, Yu Tang was replaced at the last minute. The new controller was a substitute from a university league team ranked in the top eighteen.

Sitting in the audience, Yu Tang watched the Shengshi team fight themselves into a frenzy, silently calculating their spirit body's remaining capacity, as well as the depreciation and damage to their energy panels.

Without him, Shengshi's ceiling was the top eighteen.

As he turned to leave, Yu Tang spotted an airship outside the venue.

It was the school airship of one of the Federation's top aristocratic high schools. Could it be... that team was coming too?

The Xierwei team had won the Federal Junior League five years in a row.

But this year, they were ambushed in the Endless Black Hole. Only three members of their special combat unit made it out alive, and they were badly injured. The championship was more likely than not to go to someone else this year.

Pei Yuan, background unknown, spirit body: snake

Shi Shixue, daughter of the committee chairman, spirit body: snow leopard

Zhang Guanqi, son of the chief justice, spirit body: wolf

According to reliable information, they were looking for new teammates.

Joining Xierwei was the most direct way Yu Tang could think of to cross class barriers.

Yu Tang was one of the rare people in the world with two spirit bodies: a crow with a psychic attribute, and a mutated civet cat with a metal attribute.

To survive, he started fighting in illegal matches at six and became the underground arena's Rookie of the Year at twelve.

But Yu Tang had no connections. His striking looks and just-good-enough abilities turned him into a source of entertainment for the powerful.

All it took was a snap of their fingers, and he could be killed at any moment.

Yu Tang needed to find himself a powerful backer.

Theme: Roll up your sleeves and work hard