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?

Stillness within the Temporal Anchor was a deceptive calm, a fragile membrane holding back the screaming universe. The shimmering dome pulsed around Neo-Lagos, a testament to Jaden's defiance, a bubble of impossible existence in a reality the Architects still sought to unmake. But within Jaden's heightened consciousness, the Loom's silent plea resonated with crushing urgency: [LOOM INTEGRITY CRITICAL: SEEK SUSTAINABLE POWER SOURCE. RISK OF ANCHOR COLLAPSE. TIME REMAINING: UNKNOWN. POSSIBLE SOLUTION: ANCIENT SPIRAL BASIN NEXUS.] The visionary leader had bought them time, but the cost was the very instrument of their salvation, and now, the shield itself was dying.


Chapter 94 - The Spiral's Call