Online Game: The Heavenly Craftsman Era

The Era of Celestial Craft

Prologue

In the year 2333 of the Star Era, humanity’s reach had already extended into deep space, yet it found another dimension of existence in the virtual world.

The Celestial Craft Group poured a trillion into creating the full-dive online game The Era of Celestial Craft, which did away with traditional keyboard and mouse controls. Using neural-link technology, it built a fantastical world indistinguishable from reality: towering mountains piercing the clouds, rivers rushing like ribbons, demonic beasts roaring across the wilderness, sects everywhere, and countless arts of the Dao.

On launch day, the global player count surpassed one billion, and the servers came close to crashing several times. Amid the bustle of this virtual continent, a young man named Chen Mo sat in a low-rent apartment, staring at the neural-link helmet glowing blue before him, his fingertips trembling.

He had only his last three hundred Star Coins in his pocket, and he was already three months behind on rent.