The Celestial Chess Piece: Guarding the Mortal World

Lin Yan's life goal was clear: awaken a useless emblem, sneak into the outer academy, collect the family's minimum allowance, and coast until retirement. But on his sixth birthday awakening ceremony, he awakened the core leadership emblem—the Celestial Chess Piece—which hadn't been seen in a century. Worse, he was forcibly placed by the family elders into a death squad called 'Team C-7': his offensive teammate was a tsundere ice queen with a soft heart but a hard mouth, who refused to admit she cared; his defensive teammate was a hot-blooded musclehead always ready to sacrifice himself for the team; and his strategic teammate was a cunning, sinister individual with a possible antisocial personality who would even scheme against his own allies. Looking at this group of eccentric teammates who could poke a hole in the sky at any moment, Lin Yan sighed and silently picked up the baton. 'Forget it, since I chose these teammates, I'll protect them to the end, even on my knees.' Years later, when Lin Yan stood at the pinnacle of the continent, with the corpses of countless alien races and powerful enemies beneath his feet, a reporter asked him what he thought. Lin Yan smiled gently and said, 'Actually, I really just wanted to take them all to lie flat and do nothing.' — Description from novelcodex.org