All Chapters of I Awakened the World's Worst Class, Then Became Unstoppable: Chapter 1
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Chapter 1: The World's Worst Class
"No way. No freaking way. Our class golden boy—top of the scoreboard—and he awakens that?"Laughter bounced off the cinder-block walls of Classroom 9. A cluster of seniors had formed a loose half-circle around one desk, phones out, voices pitched high with the particular glee that comes from watching someone taller than you trip on the stairs."Farmer? Dude, are you serious?" someone called. "You gonna go till the dirt outside the walls? The Aberrations love a side salad.""Farmer Class, E-rank talent. I swear, in a hundred and twenty years of Awakening, nobody's ever pulled Farmer. He's a historical first. Congratulations."Ethan Su stared through the ring of faces without really seeing them. Summer heat pressed through the open windows, thick and slow, and somewhere a ceiling fan rattled like it was about to give up. His ears rang.Last thing he remembered, he'd been up at three in the morning grinding a crafting event in an MMO he'd played for years. He'd finally farmed enough mate
Chapter 2: The Starter Package
The bell rang, and the crowd around Ethan's desk scattered like roaches when the light comes on. Even after Awakening, even with their futures etched into their souls, nobody wanted to be late for the last day of classes.Ethan sat where he was, staring at the small yellow package icon in his inventory, while the room filled with the scrape of chairs and the murmur of voices comparing Classes and ranks and which Combat Academy scout had handed them a card.The door opened, and David Guo walked in.Forty-something, upright, with a military-short haircut and a voice that carried to the back row without straining. Their homeroom teacher. His Class was Teacher—A-rank, which was why he'd been assigned to the senior class at one of the city's top high schools. In this world, Teacher wasn't just a job title. It was a Class, with its own talents and obligations. A Teacher who abused students didn't get fired. They got their Class stripped, and a Class-stripped person didn't survive long outsi
Chapter 3: Forty-Eight Hours
Deploy Common Soil Plot.The ground in front of Ethan rippled, like heat haze on asphalt, and then it was there—a rectangle of dark, rich earth, exactly one square meter, sitting in the middle of his dead-dirt yard like a secret. He knelt and touched it. Loose. Moist. It smelled like something alive.He stared at it for a long moment. Then he got up and went inside.Under the bed, in a gray canvas bag, he kept a roll of three-color plastic sheeting—the kind people used for makeshift greenhouses, back before the soil died. It was old. Brittle in places. But it still blocked light, and it still kept out rain, and most importantly, it kept out eyes.He didn't want anyone knowing about this.The neighbors were good people. He trusted them as much as he trusted anyone. But this was a world where a single Chef could charge a year's salary for one meal, where the Agricultural Consortium controlled every arable square meter with private security. If word got out that an E-rank Farmer in the O
Chapter 4: Not Worth The Investment
The conference room on the third floor of the City Lord's Manor didn't have windows, and nobody in it was pretending to enjoy the fluorescent lights."So that's him," one official said, nodding at the file open in front of him. "Student of David Guo."A murmur ran around the long table. Saying David Guo's name in this city always earned a shake of the head and a tired half-smile. The man had walked away from everything the Guo family in the Capital had to offer. Refused the family's arranged marriage, told them exactly where to stick it, and vanished south to Jiangnan Walled City—a third-tier hole on the coast where Aberrations came from the land and the sea in roughly equal numbers and the wall had never managed to catch up.The Guo family had been furious. They hadn't been able to stop him.What made it all the more ridiculous was what David Guo actually was. Teacher was one thing. Saint Teacher was something else entirely—a rarer Class, one that could spot talent nobody else could
Chapter 5: A Wilderness That Bites Back
He kept going. He had five years of not freezing when things went wrong, and the one rule was: if the Aberrations were feeding, they weren't hunting. You walked wide, you walked quiet, and you didn't be the thing that made them look up.The ground around the Walled Cities had once held towns and villages. The rifts had burned them flat, but the ruins were still there—foundations, cracked walls, the occasional metal thing nobody had bothered to haul away.Ethan walked for an hour.He ran into three more pockets of Aberrations. Two more wiped-out scout teams, lying in the open where they'd gone down.His mouth got tighter the farther he went.This close to the city? The scouts normally worked a kilometer out without running into half this much trouble. Whatever was spooking the Aberrations inland, it had pushed the swarm toward the wall. The question that kept circling back was whether they were massing. If they decided to test the fence, the Outer District was where they'd come through
Chapter 6: The Harvest, and a Pair of Wild Cards
At 5:43, the progress bars above the plot hit zero.Ethan dropped to his knees and started pulling. The tenfold yield kicked in immediately—ten plants didn't look like much when you'd planted them, but when he was done, his arms were full. The cabbage heads came loose with a soft pop of roots. The cucumber vines gave up their fruit in handfuls. Even the scallions, which he'd half-expected to come up as a thin clump, came up as a rope of green.The system dumped his rewards.Harvest complete.Yield bonus applied: ×10.Seeds recovered: Common Vegetable Seeds ×20, Mysterious Seed ×2, Spirit Potato Seeds ×1, Spirit Peanut Seeds ×1.Ethan stared at the last two lines.Mysterious Seeds were a gamble. You planted one and you got whatever the system decided—sometimes a useful item, sometimes a crop with a buff attached. You never knew until it broke soil. He'd had no idea the harvest itself could hand him those. And the Spirit seeds? He didn't even know what a Spirit Potato looked like yet.H
Chapter 7: The Global Produce Wholesaler
It took him about five minutes to talk himself off the ceiling.Nobody has fresh vegetables, he thought. Chefs get ingredient packs. Those are calorie bricks with a buff glued on. Fresh dirt-on-the-root? That doesn't exist. The first one ever is a museum piece.Which also meant the price was a honeymoon. The novelty was why some idiot—a fat one, probably—had dropped a million on a vegetable. The second head wouldn't go for a million. The tenth wouldn't go for a tenth of that.In his head, a cabbage was worth three to five thousand on a normal day. The million was a once-in-a-century fluke.He logged back in and listed five more cabbages.He didn't dump the rest of the storage out. Scarcity did the heavy lifting; flood the market and he'd crater his own price before he'd even understood it. He had more than a million in the bank already. He could wait.He looked at his balance—one point one seven million—and tried to remember that six years of scraping and scholarship money had gotten
Chapter 8: Women Only Play Mind Games To Ruin Me
By the time the five cabbages and the snow peas sold, Ethan was looking at a six-million-dollar payout. The ten percent cut left five point four. The cabbage price had softened by about two hundred thousand a head once the novelty spread, which he'd expected; the snow peas had been a first-of-their-kind wildcard anyway.His balance climbed past six million.He did not celebrate.A man with no combat ability and six million in the bank was a man with a target on his back. The strong ate the weak in this era with a consistency that made nature look generous. Money only mattered if you could keep it.He went out to the plot. The new round of seeds had pushed up into the green of a dozen new varieties—carrots, daikon, pumpkin, corn, cilantro, broccoli alongside the originals.He was wiping his hands off when a horn blared from the front of his house.Felix was sitting in the driver's seat of a hovercar that looked like a thrown star. "Boss. Got the car from my dad. C'mon."Cars in this wo
Chapter 9: I Want Something Of Yours
For a second, Michelle Liu didn't know how to answer.She was a campus queen. The men in this city—Brandon included—tripped over themselves for five seconds of her attention. The only one who'd ever treated her like a wall was Ethan, and he'd been doing it since before either of them had Awakened.It infuriated her. It also confused her. The Liu family was one of the biggest names in Jiangnan. A connection to Michelle was a shortcut to twenty years of hard work avoided. And this orphan—this E-rank Farmer with no Class worth the paper it was written on—had the nerve to look bored.She studied his face.Then she understood.He's embarrassed. He'd awakened a garbage Class. He knew she was out of his league. He was overplaying the indifference because he was too insecure to admit he wanted her attention.That was it. That had to be it.She let out a slow breath and smoothed her expression into something patient. "I do have something to ask you. I want something you're carrying.""What?" E
Chapter 10: Coming For Him
"Dude." Felix was walking beside him, fascinated. "What if it's one of those things from the novels? You prick your finger on it, blood activates it, it picks you as the master—"Ethan gave him a look."What?" Felix scratched his head. "I read things."He sobered after a step. "Real talk, though. Fifteenth of the month, they bus us out to the academies. You still haven't picked one, right? What are you going to do?"Ethan considered it. Combat Academies only took combat Classes. Support Classes—Teachers, Chefs—had their own schools. Farmer had been awake once in a hundred and twenty years. Nobody had a curriculum for him. His grades were perfect. His Class was a joke. The two didn't cancel."I'm staying in Jiangnan," he said. "Farmer, remember? I want to try and actually grow things."Felix was quiet for a block. Then he tapped his wrist comms.Ethan's own device chimed.Incoming transfer: $200,000.00. Account ending 3344."What are you doing?" Ethan stopped walking."Boss." Felix wou