For example, the kind of drag-racing party shown in Ready Player One—simply driving a high-speed car in a virtual world—can already satisfy many people. Add a bit of spectacle, and it even becomes a movie.
Xu Dan, however, would never be foolish enough to waste such a powerful virtual platform on something as trivial as racing a small car.
For a long time, virtual online game novels—once wildly popular—had pursued a single metric: authenticity.
Figures like 99.99%, 98%, or 97% would inevitably be followed by the phrase "degree of realism."
Xu Dan had no intention of branding the first virtual game of his era with such shallow labels.
If he was going to create a virtual game, then it had to be perfectly realistic—a world capable of completely immersing players, one they could never pull themselves out of.
A true realization of the concept of a "second world."
The first game design that came to his mind was League of Legends.
In his understanding, this was the most popular and longest-lasting game ever created.
Of course, he wasn't stupid enough to have players log into a virtual world just to perform operations in Summoner's Rift. That would be utterly ridiculous.
Were players supposed to show off their keyboard mechanics in VR?
He intended to transform the MOBA game League of Legends into a virtual online world suitable for full immersion.
The classic battle mode wouldn't be removed entirely. Instead, players could teleport to a special map—Summoner's Rift—whenever they chose competitive gameplay.
First, players would select a faction.
This faction—essentially a birthplace—could be Demacia, Noxus, Piltover, the Kumangu Jungle, and so on.
After choosing a birthplace, players would select their race.
In the League of Legends universe, races include humans, Vastaya, yordles, Aspects, and more.
The storyline would begin with Noxus's first invasion of Ionia.
Players would level up through participation in these events. No matter which side they joined, all progress would be treated as campaign missions.
Beyond campaign missions, there would naturally be countless side quests.
Every major historical event in the League universe could be turned into instance content.
The Celestial Giants and the Star-Forger Dragon King, Shurima and Icathia, Aspects and Darkin, Mordekaiser's brutal reign—there was simply too much material to use.
And in a virtual game, relationship quests were something that absolutely couldn't be left out.
Who wouldn't want something indescribable to happen with a goddess inside the game?
Conquering Ahri, winning over Lux, taking down the sheriff—of course, if you were bold enough, you could even try challenging Illaoi head-on.
...
Turning all these ideas into reality required an enormous amount of work.
Just building the Shadow Isles alone would take an absurd amount of time.
As for the core game systems, Xu Dan was already very experienced. After all, he had created countless game templates himself. His practical experience was beyond rich.
However, one problem completely stumped him.
In a virtual world, NPCs needed to possess extremely high intelligence—capable of speaking, thinking, and reacting like real humans.
That was far beyond what simple programming could achieve.
Hero-level AI might be manageable, but the League universe was far more than just heroes—it was a fully connected world.
Every character needed to feel alive.
Even a random street guard needed the ability to think.
How to grant intelligence—how to turn data into wisdom—this question left Xu Dan utterly stuck.
After long deliberation, he finally decided to hand this task over to the Red Queen.
The Red Queen was already a top-tier artificial intelligence. Although she hadn't yet developed human nature, using parameter settings to shape character personalities was well within her capabilities.
Time passed in a blur during this period of intense development.
The sheer workload nearly erased Xu Dan's sense of time itself.
After half a year, the virtual online version of League of Legends was finally completed.
To improve NPC intelligence, the Red Queen had proactively used her own template to generate character-specific behavioral logic.
The entirety of Runeterra—hundreds of millions of living beings—was an engineering feat that Xu Dan could never have completed alone in a lifetime without her help.
Virtual games were fundamentally different from traditional ones. Ordinary people couldn't contribute even if they wanted to—though Liva's modeling ability still proved quite useful.
Rubbing his sore, overworked lower back, Xu Dan struggled to stand. His waist cracked loudly.
"It's time to head to the hardware department's super server and test the runtime performance."
Every game goes through repeated testing before release.
Only when the developer is completely satisfied does it ever reach players.
And Xu Dan—like Antarctica Technologies—had always been uncompromisingly strict.
Not a single flaw would be tolerated.
The hardware department had already become an independent branch, but Xu Dan still habitually referred to it by its old name.
The super server produced there was astonishing just in terms of size.
Inside a secure warehouse stood a massive black cube, completely pitch-black—five meters in length, width, and height.
Standing before it felt like staring up at a second floor.
Since the hardware revolution, servers had only grown smaller and smaller.
This super server defied that trend entirely.
Its performance, however, was something Xu Dan knew very well.
A single unit could effortlessly run World of Warcraft, Sky Saber, and Crossfire simultaneously.
And that was with ease.
After all, just the first batch of World of Warcraft servers alone had required ten machines from Stark Industries.
The sheer power of this Nanji Technology super server was nothing short of terrifying.
In the eyes of the world, it would undoubtedly be considered black technology.
Not something money alone could buy.
Xu Dan uploaded the packaged game data and injected it into the server.
As the data transmission began, the lights on the super server gradually illuminated.
"Bzzzz—!"
The sound alone told Xu Dan everything.
The super server was running at full overload.
A machine capable of running three major games simultaneously without lag was being pushed to its limit by a single virtual game.
Xu Dan scratched his head and reached for another unit beside it.
With two super servers, the first virtual game was finally stabilized.
During the testing phase, Xu Dan didn't even need to wear a VR helmet.
Simply scanning the game's internal structure was enough for him to grasp the state of the entire world.
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