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 Archivist's words hung in the air, a final, horrifying truth that shattered the fragile relief of their victory. The "Divergence Collapse" was not a system failure. It was a cosmic event. The Architects were not from this universe. They were a higher form of consciousness, an order that had come to correct a flaw in the fabric of this reality. The 'anomaly' they spoke of was not Jaden's defiance, but their very existence. They were preparing to launch a final purge, a "Re-Architecture" of their entire timeline. They were coming to erase Genesis from history. The 5-day countdown was not a timer for them to reassert control. It was the countdown to their final act of extermination.


Chapter 85 - The Temporal Anchor