May 15, 2064.
The thirty-first day since "Battle Through the Heavens" launched.
The game servers were temporarily shut down.
Version 1.0 had come to a perfect close!
In the National Server alone, registered users had grown from seventy-two million at launch to 280 million.
The 1:5 time dilation was simply too enticing.
Combined with Tian Yao Company's decades of accumulated reputation and the overwhelming promotion across the internet, even core players who had spent years invested in other online games had begun abandoning them one after another to play this epoch-making masterpiece.
Competitive players and single-player gamers also continued flooding into "Battle Through the Heavens."
Tian Yao Company struck while the iron was hot, releasing Version 1.1's first story expansion during the day-long server shutdown for updates.
The viewpoint in the footage was clearly high in the air.
Below lay an unbroken stretch of mountain ranges.
The camera steadily moved forward.
A magnificent complex of buildings in the distance gradually grew larger.
However, the camera did not continue closing in.
Instead, it suddenly plunged downward.
On the ground, a disheveled young man with bloodshot eyes gripped a short-handled battle axe in both hands and swung it with all his might.
Flames condensed into fighting aura and directly engulfed an unidentified Tiger-Race Magical Beast ahead of him.
Then, the viewpoint advanced once more.
Sixteen arenas stood upon a training plaza larger than a football field.
Young faces on the arenas exchanged moves in pairs, fighting aura sweeping everywhere.
The viewpoint pushed forward again.
It passed through a vast forest.
Another complex of buildings came into view.
An enormous nine-story tower, outrageously vast in area, stood as the most eye-catching landmark.
At the top of the tower, a white-haired old man stood ramrod straight. "I wonder how many students that old fellow