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?

With a surge of desperate, defiant resolve, Jaden extended his hand, the Architect's Eye glowing with a fierce, blinding light. He channeled the full, unbridled power of the Loom and the Nexus, not into defense, but into a direct, desperate counter-attack. He would not just be consumed. He would fight. He would make them taste his paradox. And in that desperate act, he discovered a new, terrifying power within himself, a power to not just command chaos, but to weaponize its very nature. The war had truly begun, and Genesis, the fragile city of paradox, was its first, pivotal battleground.


Chapter 98 - The Scars of Reality