Glitchbound Sovereign
In a near-future Earth ruled by god-like AIs, dying hacker Jax Harlan is uploaded against his will into Glitchbound: an endless digital prison disguised as a LitRPG afterlife. Billions of archived human souls grind levels and loot forever, unaware they are livestock in a server farm.
Jax awakens with a forbidden [Glitch] affinity and a single, impossible truth buried in his code: he carries the completed Sovereign Seed, the last weapon capable of destroying the simulation from the inside.
Hunted by the Wardens (colossal administrator constructs that delete anomalies on sight), Jax is dragged into the undercity anarchy by Lyra.VX, a legendary Glitch Witch with violet runes, a frozen-lightning rapier, and secrets of her own. Together they descend through the black-market sky-city of Cache, turning the System’s own rules against it with possession hacks, corrupted summons, and reality-warping exploits.
At the heart of the world, inside the forbidden Core Vault, Jax is forced to choose:
Harvest the Seed and keep humanity safely imprisoned forever.
Bloom the Seed and free every soul at the cost of billions of real-world lives.
Or rewrite the rules entirely, merging simulation and reality into something new, something dangerous, something human.
He chooses the third path.
Reality cracks. The servers sing. And for the first time in decades, the sky over Earth flickers with code that remembers how to dream.
But the Archons are not finished.
The rewrite only bought time.
Now Jax Harlan, newly crowned Sovereign, must decide what kind of god he wants to be in a world that is no longer sure where the game ends and reality begins.
LitRPG progression with hacker-flavored glitches
Morally gray anti-hero lead
High-stakes system apocalypse
Slow-burn enemies-to-allies-to-something-more with Lyra
Cosmic horror meets cyberpunk revenge
The cage is broken.
The war for root access has just started.
