Show Off Like a God, Grow in the Shadows

Bai Xu has spent all eighteen years of his life in the Outer District.

To survive, he has taken every kind of job he could find. His best—and perhaps only—way out is to earn a place at an elite university.

Then one day, he receives a strange letter of admission.

Negentropy Academy.

A prestigious institution rumored to boast a one-hundred-percent employment rate.

In reality, it is an academy for people with special abilities, where every student is assigned to Class A, B, C, D, or E according to the credits they earn.

The strong rule.

Everyone competes.

And Bai Xu, an ordinary person without a single ability, has somehow wandered straight into their midst.

Then a panel that only he can see appears before his eyes:

[Hide your identity as an “ordinary person.”]

[And then—do everything you can to survive.]

A complete beginner has just stepped into a village full of max-level players.

Or so everyone thinks.

Because while Bai Xu may be called an ordinary person...

there is nothing ordinary about him.