Level Zero Striker: My Trash System Conquered Global Football
When Japanese-American striker Naoya Sato sends his World Cup semi-final penalty wide, he doesn't just cost Japan the match, he becomes the most hated man in Japanese football. At twenty-four, his career is over before it truly began, and the whole world watched him fail.
Then Apex Sports Tech makes an offer that sounds like salvation: undergo their experimental System Integration surgery for a chance to compete in the Elite International League, where enhanced players perform at superhuman levels and earn billions. The catch? A 25-30% chance you'll die on the operating table.
Desperate for redemption, Naoya takes the gamble, and survives. But while other players receive elite combat systems, legendary playmaker protocols, and godlike striker frameworks, Naoya wakes up with the "Foundation System", a Level Zero rank considered so worthless that most players would rather die than live with it.
Now branded as trash twice over, Naoya enters a brutal new world where enhanced players move like lightning, strike like thunder, and play a version of football that's closer to gladiatorial combat. His competitors have systems that make them superhuman. He has a Foundation System that everyone says is useless.
In a league where your system determines your worth and your worth determines your survival, Naoya Sato is about to prove that it's not the system that makes the player, it's the player that makes the system.