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?

The single word, DIVERGENCE, burned into the crystalline wall where the countdown once stood. Jaden's defiant cry, a guttural roar that was both his own voice and the amplified echo of a billion souls, resonated through the Conflux. The air thickened, shimmering with a new, chaotic energy. The sterile, logical hum of the Architects' influence was gone, replaced by a dissonant symphony of reality itself bending and breaking. This was not a weapon he had unleashed; it was an act of pure, unadulterated anti-creation, a chaotic blast of illogical will designed to shatter the Architects' perfect order.


Chapter 88 - The Dissonant Symphony