Liam lay back into the sofa, his gaze drifting up toward the high ceiling as his thoughts tangled into a dense knot.
The interface of the System Store still floated in his mind, each glowing item and its jaw-dropping description replaying like a slideshow he couldn't turn off.
The future…
It suddenly felt closer than ever, like he could reach out and grab it. With the things in that store, he could practically rewrite the rules of the world.
He could build technologies centuries ahead of anything in existence, improve himself beyond natural limits, and even create defenses so impenetrable that no one could touch him.
But the obstacles? Those loomed just as large.
