Legendary Moonlight Sculptor follows the adventures of a young man named Lee Hyun, who is an impoverished student living in a near-future Korea where virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have become the most popular form of entertainment and commerce.
Lee Hyun, also known by his in-game name "Weed", was formerly known as the legendary God of War of the highly popular MMORPG, Continent of Magic.
[1] Despite starting out with nothing, he quickly proves to be a highly skilled player, making use of his real-life experience in poverty to become an expert in frugality and resourcefulness.
Despite the many challenges he faces, Weed remains determined to succeed and protect those he cares about, leading him on a thrilling journey of discovery, adventure, and self-realization.
A high school drop-out, Lee Hyun is talented gamer with an enormous debt, primarily inherited from his deceased parents.
Due to the inherited debt however, much of the money is collected by loan sharks, leaving Lee Hyun with around ₩90 million (roughly $75,000).
With his ailing grandmother and younger sister in mind, he joins the recently launched VR-MMORPG, Royal Road to earn more money.
[2] His quick growth and achievements earn him a spot in the Royal Road Hall of Fame, which allows the game's top 500 players to place videos of their adventures online.
[13] She is an exceptionally skilled shaman due to her unique style of training, and is a founding member of the famous Hermes Guild.
[16] Jeong Hyo-Lin is a world-renowned and successful singer, who plays the game as Hwaryeong, a dancer class, to relieve the stress of being famous yet single.
[17] Like Weed, she is familiar with the importance of increasing skill proficiency over regular levelling, making her a formidable character despite the weak profession or class.
[8] He joins his disciple Weed in Royal Road after witnessing the latter's improvement with the sword in the real life by experiencing combat in the game world.
He was entrusted with the task of guarding the stolen relic of Freya, Helain's Grail, which was enshrined at Bar Khan's crypt in the Sky City of Lavia.
[25] Weed defeated him en route to completing his retrieval of Helain's Grail and was awarded the Crimson Necklace of Life as a result, which he could later use to summon Van Hawk.
Through the course of the story, the Death Knight is freed from the influence of Bar Khan and pledges his loyalty to Weed, which meant that the latter could now summon him even without the necklace.
[26] Bahamorg is a barbarian-class sculptural lifeform created by Geihar Von Arpen,[27] the first emperor to have conquered the whole continent in the Royal Road lore.
[35] Weed encounters Tor as a part of a questline to free the Morata region and the Paladins of Freya's Church; it was mentioned that the clan possessed more than a thousand soldiers, with the lowest ranking vampire being level 270.