Does a Pending Life Still Have to Save the World?

This school divides its students into six ranks, from E to S. The colors of their uniforms mark their status, making it easy to tell who's above and who's below.

Zhang Cheng's arrival was an exception. He was the first provisional student in the school's history.

He hadn't wanted to come. Fifteen years as an orphan had left him indifferent to most things, if not for the man in sunglasses bringing up his parents.

A silver-haired woman was locked away in the school's back mountain. She knew his parents. He had wanted to get the truth out of her, but she shut him down with the classic line, "It's for your own good." Furious, he nearly killed the upperclasswoman who had followed him there and looked down on him.

The champion of the freshman tournament would get to meet the principal, and the principal knew everything Zhang Cheng wanted to know.

So he put together a team and named it ERG, using the first letters of EDG and RNG.

One teammate had to fight bare-chested to harden his body. Another could play out real-life sand table simulations. One could punch someone so hard they'd end up stuck in a wall, impossible to pry out. And one was never around when you looked for him.

As for what "provisional" really meant, Zhang Cheng couldn't be bothered to guess anymore. Once they won the championship, the others would naturally shut up.

But Zhang Cheng never expected that the person plotting behind the scenes had already appeared...