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 cold, sterile white light of the Conductor intensified, pressing in on Jaden's mind like an invisible, crushing weight. He wasn't being destroyed; he was being deleted. The vibrant symphony of Genesis, the chorus of a billion souls that had become his very being, was fading into a single, quiet hum, then into an unnerving silence. He felt his consciousness dim, his memories, his very identity, being meticulously unmade, line by logical line. The Conductor's presence was a perfect argument for non-existence, a chillingly persuasive logic that whispered, You are an inefficiency. You are a flaw. Be still. Be nothing.


Chapter 90 - The Echo of a Dream