Entropy's Architect

The Universe isn't a creation. It is a simulation. And it is running out of memory. For eons, the Grand Design has maintained order across the 99 Layers of Reality. It chooses "Players" from lower worlds, grants them Classes, and forces them to climb the Layers to entertain the Gods residing at the top. The winners gain immortality. The losers are deleted, their souls recycled into mana. Humanity was just the latest batch of livestock. When the Integration hit Earth, billions received shining armors, holy swords, and fireballs. They were the Heroes. Then there was Kieran. Kieran was a maintenance worker in a dying subway station, dying of radiation poisoning from a dirty bomb, forgotten by the world. When the blue light scanned him, it didn't see a Hero. It didn't even see a Human. It saw a Corrupted File. Instead of deleting him, the System lagged. In that split second of cosmic hesitation, Kieran saw the code behind the curtain. He saw that the "Magic" was just programming, and the "Gods" were just administrators. He woke up in the Trash Bin of the Universe—Layer 0—a place where broken timelines and deleted concepts are dumped. He had no mana. He had no strength. He had no holy weapon. He had something worse. [Class Generated: Error.] [Unique Authority: The Decompiler.] While other Awakened level up by killing monsters, Kieran levels up by unmaking them. He can dismantle the code of reality itself. A fireball isn't heat to him; it is a script he can rewrite. A dragon's scale isn't armor; it is data he can steal. But the System is self-correcting. The Angels are coming to patch the glitch. The Gods are watching with fearful eyes. Kieran doesn't want to save the world. He doesn't want to climb the tower to become a God. He is going to climb the 99 Layers to find the source code of the Universe... and delete it all. The Architect built the cage. The Glitch holds the key.