Volume 1 of The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor, the Korean web novel that helped invent LitRPG and progression fantasy, now in its first official English edition.

Lee Hyun grew up with nothing. Orphaned young and buried under a debt his parents left behind, he learned early that in the real world, poverty is the enemy, and the only weapon he has ever been able to count on is his willingness to outwork everyone alive. After pouring years into a dying online game and building a character no one else could match, he does the unthinkable and sells it, walking away with a fortune that finally clears the loan sharks from his family's door.

Then he starts over from zero in Royal Road, the most advanced virtual reality world ever created, and this time he is not playing for fun. His grandmother needs care, and his younger sister deserves a future, and every copper coin he earns is for them. Handed the most ridiculed class in the game, a sculptor with no combat skills, no flashy magic, and an empty road ahead, Weed does the one thing he has always done. He works harder than anyone believes possible, and little by little, the class everyone laughed at begins to show what it can truly become.

This is where the legend starts. If you found this story through the manhwa, web serial, or heard it traded in fan translations for years, this is the real thing at last, the original in its author's own voice.

Perfect for fans of Solo Leveling, Sword Art Online, He Who Fights with Monsters, and Beware of Chicken, and for readers who love LitRPG and GameLit, Korean webtoon and manhwa adventures, immersive VR gaming worlds, and clean progression fantasy built around a hero with a real family to fight for.