As the "child" of Red Queen, a "business prodigy," Little Red's talent for business went without saying. Using every method at her disposal, she quickly turned Kurumi from an undocumented citizen into a high-ranking executive of one of the eight conglomerates.
In this highly advanced society, elites made up only a tiny fraction of the population. Yet compared to humanity's total population, their numbers were still considerable.
Because of advances in neural nanotechnology, acquiring knowledge had become incredibly easy. In order to preserve their ruling status, those at the top began making a series of decisions.
Those nanocrystalline chips that could be injected directly into the brain were available only to true upper-echelon elites. They were born with vast amounts of knowledge. Even if a genius emerged from the lower class and spent an entire lifetime researching technology, their achievements might well be knowledge that upper-class elites had obtained through nanocrystalline chips by the age of ten.
Having developed robots capable of replacing most human manual labor, Yingzhou's upper class became the first in the human world to launch a purge.
They restricted the lower class's reproduction and used knowledge caps to limit their horizons. A person only needed to master one skill in their lifetime, while their monthly wages barely covered the cost of liquid food.
Finally, the upper class planned to numb the lower masses through entertainment, allowing them to vent their resentment from work through holographic games.
Thus, holographic games emerged one after another, and one game currently enjoying immense popularity was called "OVERLORD."
Translated, it meant "World Tree."
Kurumi glanced over World Tree's setting and shook her head.
Using her authority, she pulled up World Tree's classified files.
The upper class was attempting to create a "New World." Of course, this New World was still a