Long ago, back when the Newbie Village was set to Nightmare difficulty—in other words, during the Cyber Test Ground era—the players realized that Tier Two was this planet's limit.
The level cap of this "Newbie Village" was 60.
There was basically no possibility of breaking through.
But the reason it was only "basically impossible" was that a group of hackers with nothing better to do discovered an Easter egg left by the game designers.
As long as cyber hackers bypassed the planetary mainframe's restrictions and reconstructed themselves at the source-code level, they could advance to Tier Three.
This operation was called "electronic ascension."
Later, however, the players began making contact with the Mother City and learning about the performance and power of planetary computers. Only then did they realize that the designers had not created an Easter egg—they had simply been talking nonsense.
In fact, without the assistance of a planetary computer, they could not possibly break through to Tier Three.
That made it even more impossible to achieve ascension under the planetary computer's data restrictions.
But now, the Alphas on this planet seemed to be undergoing "electronic ascension" for real.
"No way!"
"That makes no sense!"
"There's no mainframe!"
In theory, this was impossible.
But the information fluctuations of Tier Three could not be faked.
Could all these Alphas be geniuses?
It was not only on Red Qi that this happened. On one immigrant planet after another, collective consciousness uploads were taking place.
There were sixteen immigrant planets in the Southern Gate star system and twenty-four in the Northern Gate star system.
Above every planet, a "stellar phenomenon" encompassing the entire planet materialized.
Over the Alphas' third eyes, Tier Three human-brain virus code flashed first. Then, the virus code quickly transformed into human-brain code. Combined with the Alphas' unique