The year 2150.
The future.
The world has changed.
Throughout the decades, Earth flourished.
The wars that were present all over the world ceased. The superpowers shook hands and set aside their racial and ethnical discrimination, and welcomed foreign cultural movements.
The poorer and lacking countries were given aid as opportunities upon opportunities to advance presented themselves.
Be it in the field of medicine, agriculture, education, resources and energy, communication, technology, and etc, all the industries progressed with extraordinary speed.
Currently, the leading industries were technology and medicine.
The global technological advancement successfully allowed continuous interstellar voyages. Mars has been terraformed, turning the massive and desolate red planet into a habitable place for humans. This, in turn, solved the troubling problem of overpopulation and the disappearing natural resources throughout Earth.
And it didn't just end there! Humanity's technology continuously broke through its bottlenecks and moved forward through the years, allowing the terraforming of planets that were beyond the solar system, possible.
But out of all the fields within technology, the field of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and communications developed the most.
With the help of advanced quantum computers and AI's, space travel became much easier due to their unrivaled calculations and trial tests. Artificial Intelligence solved countless problems that have blocked the way for human technological and scientific advancements.
Paired with the rapidly developing Virtual Realities where innumerable trials and experiments were held, the path to technological elevation was finally paved!
And it didn't just end there—
Intelligence exchange and information delivery across tens of thousands of astronomical units were made possible. Communication and contact that distanced as far as a lightyear was even miraculously realized!
Such impossible achievements were finally accomplished after more than a century! The swift development of humanity's technology and machinery was unstoppable!
As for the field of medicine and health, the achievements here weren't the least bit inferior!
With the founding of the Global Health Care and Pharmaceuticals in the year 2050, which nearly every country in the world allied to create and contributed in, miraculous antibodies to counter countless diseases and terminal illnesses were produced!
The illnesses that terrified the world before such as cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, liver disease, and etc, cures and medication for all of them were finally realized! This achievement made the world rejoice as those who were suffering under said illnesses couldn't help but be moved in tears of joy.
And what was even more amazing were the Life Serums that were produced and delivered worldwide. The heaven-defying drug was capable of increasing a human's lifespan!
Such effects drove the world's richest tycoons and the higher-ups of both the government and politics alike, mad!
The Life Serum was capable of increasing the lifespan by a minimum of 50 years! The even better yet rarer ones could even increase up to 100+ years!
How astonishing!
Of course, for the masses and the common people of the world, there were inferior drugs that were created with lesser yet still amazing effects. After all, the best of those drugs and serums were created with painstaking efforts and numerous resources; naturally, they were limited in number.
As the average lifespan of humans reached 130 to 150 years, the people's health naturally improved. Their bodies became immune to common diseases and their vitality was greatly heightened.
This is where Martial Arts come in.
As the people gradually improved their physique with the help of both medicine and technology, the advantages brought by Martial Arts improved their bodies to an even better degree, making it stronger and healthier.
Be it ancient eastern Martial Arts that dated back hundreds of years to thousands of years ago or the western ones that surfaced a few centuries ago, nearly 90% of the population practiced and versed themselves with Martial Arts.
And now, our story will begin within the world's first man-made created country.
The home of the rich and powerful, this country boasts of the world's most advanced technology, the best medical facilities available, and is the country of martial arts. Nowhere else would you find another place where experts and geniuses of all fields were scattered along the streets like ants. Enjoying the most successful of economic development for years now, this country is called Alpha.