In the year 3217, Earth was no longer bound by gravity nor heaven by silence.
Skyscrapers floated on qi-cores. Spirit arrays flickered inside data chips. Human minds merged with ancient paths, and weaponized avatars cultivated digital realms alongside physical ones. It was a world where Technocultivators flew through cybernetic skies, and AI Sages debated Dao algorithms across star-channels.
But legends, as always, became background noise.
The story of Wang Chung—Heaven Breaker, Flame Sovereign, Lightbringer—was just that. A myth uploaded into the Great Archive, indexed as folklore. His pendant, once radiant with divine flame, now sat behind tempered glass in the Museum of Arcane History, its glow long faded.
They called him Uncle Flame in bedtime stories.
Yet beneath the city of New Dawn, in the deepest sector of the Azure Techno-Spiritual Network, a dormant signal pulsed for the first time in five centuries.
It bore only one signature.
W.C. – Protocol Sovereign Ignition
And far above, orbiting in a floating academy known as League of Sovereign Descent, a boy stirred.