Ideal City

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Ideal City (理想城市)
Alias(es)	Moen City; Cosmic City 1 7
Type	Near-future megacity and the center of the Ideal City Plan 1
Government	Moen Municipal Government 6 36
Status	Active 1
First Appearance	Chapter 1: “A New Era”

History

Reconstruction and expansion

The Great Cataclysm devastated the planet through Historical Hollows that released Void creatures into cities. In its aftermath, three major corporations cooperated to reconstruct civilization and establish the systems protecting the Inner City. 36

In 2077, humanity completed its first anti-gravity project. The three megacorporations used this breakthrough as the basis of the Ideal City Plan, replacing nature with steel and concrete until the cityscape covered half the planet. 1

Altered historical eras

Ideal City's recorded past includes the Potion Era, an age in which people could become extraordinary by consuming Sequence Potions. This era and its associated history appeared after Ron used the Dimensional Update Manual to add the settings Mysticism and Potions to the world. 1

The modern city is governed by Version 4.0's anti-mystical framework. Its foundational setting, Fantasy Dissolution, rejects and erases mystical influence, making the survival of past-era phenomena difficult in the present age. 2 23

Districts and cityscape

Area	Recorded characteristics
District D	An overcrowded Inner City slum with poor facilities, dense housing, low-cost student apartments, and limited public-security resources. 1 6
District C	More spacious and better resourced than District D; it contains expensive ability-training facilities and corporate sites such as Noah Pharmaceuticals' Ω8631 Laboratory. 8 20
District B	A wealthy district where artificial forests, lakes, mountains, deserts, and snowfields have been recreated for comfort. It is also associated with conspicuous luxury and widespread drug abuse among affluent residents. 35

• The city is built almost entirely from steel and concrete, with skyscrapers, cloud-rail trains, hover vehicles, and neon-lit commercial districts. 1
• The Inner City is materially advanced but sharply stratified. District D residents live in cramped steel forests, while District B residents have access to open space and reconstructed natural environments. 8 35
• Most people outside the Inner City live in the poorer Outer City, whose residents supply labor and wealth to Ideal City. 8

Society and economy

Ideal City presents itself as humanity's technological ideal, but its social order heavily favors wealth, institutional connections, and powerful Ability Models. Citizens without money, talent, or awakened abilities can be reduced to low-level corporate labor while carrying unyielding student-loan debt. 1

• Megacorporate influence — The city was built by three major megacorporations. Noah Pharmaceuticals and Heavenly Hearing Media are identified as members of this corporate tier. 1 4 35
• Ability-based status — Superpowered individuals receive access to elite education, government positions, corporate investment, and greater legal or social value. 1 8
• Educational inequality — The Three Great Academies generally require an ability rating of A or above. Regional advantages, corporate sponsorships, private enhancement programs, and cheating further distort competition. 6 10 20 24
• Commercialized public life — Advertising is embedded in civic spaces, including Patrol Bureau elevators and College Entrance Examination access controls. 14 24
• Ability Enhancement Plan — The District D gang Ark promotes a 5,000-credit “Ability Awakening Experiment” that allegedly grants guaranteed superpowers. Subjects who fail to receive subsequent Ability Needles can mutate into Void Monsters. 47 48

Superpowered system

Superpowered citizens construct Personal Reality through an Ability Model. Ability levels are ranked from Lv.0 upward, and an individual's power, computing capacity, and ability to sustain their Personal Reality determine their social prospects. 4 5 7

• Most abilities are activated through formal ability-activation experiments. 4
• Raw Stones are late-awakening individuals whose unusually complex Ability Models can exceed their initial computational capacity. Without control measures, they risk brain damage, collapse of Personal Reality, paralysis, or death. 7 9
• Reality Amplifiers can temporarily strengthen weak Personal Reality or create temporary Ability Models, allowing users to imitate “spells.” 4 25
• The reformed College Entrance Examination prioritizes combat ability over academic performance and uses lethal simulated battles in a Hollow Battlefield environment. 19 24 26

Sector Authority

Ordinary Personal Reality can naturally develop only to the peak of Lv.3. Advancement to Lv.4 and Lv.5 requires Authority delegated by the Central Intelligent Brain. 36

Rank	Requirement
Lv.3	Construct a unique Ability Formula. 36
Lv.4	Accumulate contributions and receive delegated Sector Authority. 36
Lv.5	Complete a Knowledge-Seeking Experiment and obtain supervisory authority over one of the Central Intelligent Brain's sectors. 36

The city has twelve Authority sectors. Prometheus, its computational core, is the only identified vacant sector capable of supporting another supervising Lv.5. 36

Government and security

Moen Municipal Government

The Moen Municipal Government administers Ideal City and enforces strict confidentiality around threats such as the Void, Historical Hollows, and the Anti-Mystery Equation. Unauthorized disclosure of protected information can result in life imprisonment or death. 36

Patrol Bureau

The Patrol Bureau is Ideal City's principal armed organization, responsible for public security, peacekeeping, and wartime force. Even its student-based Discipline Patrol units are composed of elite Superpowered individuals. 6

• Citizens are required to register dangerous or altered abilities with the Patrol Bureau. 14
• The bureau investigates supernatural incidents, including Class B malicious-supernatural events. 4
• District D Central Patrol Bureau combines law-enforcement functions with commercial branding, including the “Woof Woof Officer” mascot and embedded advertising. 14
• Patrol Bureau work provides credits, merit, equipment, and access to computational resources. 39

Artemis

Artemis is an investigative system connected to the city's surveillance and computational infrastructure. Patrol units can receive limited access to identify witnesses and analyze incidents when standard monitoring fails. 4

Artemis is also one of the Central Intelligent Brain's twelve sectors and is associated with the Patrol Bureau system. 45

Technology

• Anti-Gravity Engineering — Developed from the research of the Lv.5 Gravity Control user; it enabled the Ideal City Plan and remains fundamental to the city's expansion. 1 7
• Brain-computer interfaces — Used for navigation, communication, identity verification, virtual work, and operating Personal Reality. 4 35
• Simulated Reality — Used for ability training and the College Entrance Examination; candidates can be injured or killed within simulations, with death imposing revival restrictions. 10 25 26
• Ability Limiters and Amplifiers — Devices derived from Patrol Bureau restraints can suppress dangerous Ability Models or temporarily enhance Personal Reality through built-in computational support. 10 39
• Reality Amplifiers — Expensive prosthetics or interfaces that boost ability output and can provide automated defenses. 4 25

Historical Hollows and the Void

Historical Hollows are openings in reality associated with the Great Cataclysm. They release illusory monsters and Void influence capable of weakening or eroding Superpowered abilities. 36

The Anti-Mystery Equation is the Central Intelligent Brain's primary defensive program against these threats. It suppresses transcendent phenomena and protects the Inner City from disturbance. 2 36

Knowledge-Seeking Experiments can trigger new Void outbreaks when researchers explore unknown scientific or technological fields. The first Lv.5 Gravity Control user reportedly caused the London Great Hollow while researching anti-gravity engineering. 36

Hidden supernatural activity

Although Ideal City publicly treats “magic” as a form of superpower supported by Personal Reality, a concealed community of Magic users operates through organizations such as the Necromancer School. 4

• Magic users employ signet rings and temporary Ability Models resembling magic circles to cast abilities such as Necromantic Fire. 4
• The Necromancer School maintains an online association where members exchange commissions, materials, and information. 4
• Noah Pharmaceuticals has operated laboratories involving awakened corpses, Historical Hollow creatures, Beyonder materials, biological modification, and Void-related experiments. 4 22 39
• Ark's Ability Enhancement Plan appears connected to Noah Pharmaceuticals and to the creation of Void Monsters from vulnerable District D residents. 47 48

Notable locations

• Tian Ting Block 271 — District D site of the old Magic user's death and a Class B malicious-supernatural incident. 4 6
• District D Central Patrol Bureau — Local Patrol Bureau headquarters with ability-testing facilities and a morgue in its underground levels. 14 46
• Noah Pharmaceuticals Ω8631 Laboratory — A sealed District C laboratory affected by awakened corpses, failed rituals, and historical-supernatural experimentation. 4 20 22
• Heavenly Hearing Video headquarters — A ninety-nine-story District B corporate building where Irina evaluates high-potential Superpowered candidates. 35
• Moen University — A major academy associated with municipal careers, advanced research, Prometheus, and the competition for Sector Authority. 10 36