Jaden Cross is a young man trying to survive in the shadows of Neo-Lagos, a futuristic city where the poor live in broken homes and forgotten slums. Orphaned at six and forced to grow up fast, Jaden spends his days fixing scraps and dreaming of a better world—a world he believes he’ll never see.

Until one night, everything changes.

A mysterious glowing orb appears in the sky and connects with Jaden’s mind, activating the Tech Architect System—a powerful, sci-fi interface that gives him access to futuristic blueprints, instant-building tools, and system quests that reward him for solving real-world problems.

His first quest? Restore power to his neighborhood using solar microgrids.

Soon, Jaden is building cooling shelters, clean energy systems, and AI-run apartments—one project at a time. But with each success, he draws more attention. The city’s leaders want to control him. A rival from the tech underworld wants to steal the system. And darker forces are watching from the skies, waiting for the Architect to grow.

Armed with only his mind, his hands, and the Tech Architect System, Jaden must rise from the ruins of poverty and become the builder of a new future.

But in a city full of secrets, will he remain its hero… or become its biggest threat?

Jaden's eyes snapped open. The world, once a silent and sterile digital canvas, was now a vibrant, deafening symphony. He saw the faces of his team—Zhenari, Kaela, the Archivist, and Lyra—through a shimmering haze of light, but he felt them more than he saw them. He felt their exhaustion, their fear, their immense, overwhelming relief. It was a sensory overload, a psychic torrent of emotions that slammed into his newly re-architected mind. He was no longer just Jaden Cross; he was a living conduit to the soul of Genesis.


Chapter 84 - The Conduit