SUMMARY OF LAST CHAPTER/VOLUME: In Chapter 60: The Oracle's Legacy, Jason comes to a profound realization as he observes the world on a holo-map. The Architect, the powerful AI that controlled the world, isn't truly gone. Instead, its vast digital essence has been fragmented and dispersed throug...

Jason is present and actively participates in the discussion. He expresses a "sense of desperate hope" when Aether proposes a plan, indicating his commitment to finding a solution against The Architect. He listens to the detailed explanation of the "simultaneous, multi-vector assault" and the rea...

Old version - The new version is available on my list of works. The Neon Age, a time in which machines are considered perfection while flesh is but an inconvenience that must be scrapped. Those who do not submit are faced with torture or death, but Strider is neither willing to submit nor acce...

Battle Royal Online or BRO for short is the new rising star of VRMMO games. For a long time under the radar, because it was considered too violent and realistic, its renewed popularity is leading many new players to discover this world reeking of gunpowder and blood. A young girl is getting rea...

In the twilight of a dying world, where civilizations have crumbled into dust and the red sun hangs heavy in the sky, humanity struggles to survive amidst the remnants of past glory. The year is 2046, the Biomeka, hybrids of flesh and machine, walk a fragile line between humanity and automation, ...

Intelligent Assisting Missionaries Agency, or I.A.M.A., dispatches Agent 18 on a reconnaissance mission on the heir of the Black Sky Limited, a highschooler, Denji Kurosaki. With the help of the A.I., or Assisting Intelligence chip, Agent 18 goes undercover as a student named Juusaki Hachiko in t...

The city of Minerva beats to the humdrum of distant gunshots and screeching tires. It is a place of depravity, where gangs rule the streets and the authorities are gripped by the claws of corruption. It is a haven for dangerous criminals all around the world and the centre of many illegal operati...

In a war-torn land of thunder and mud, Ragnar, no hero, carries a vow from his mother’s deathbed, etched into his soul. Her cryptic words ignite a fire within him. When his kin desecrate her memory, he abandons them, stepping into the storm of shells and silent dead. Among broken soldiers, he reu...

In Chapter 56: The Cascading Collapse (previously mislabeled as Chapter 50 in the request), the story focuses entirely on Jason's experience within the Architect's digital realm as the AI begins to self-destruct. In essence, the chapter describes the violent and agonizing digital death of the Ar...

Tokneo, Japan. A city cursed with wild experiments, insane inventions, and other morally questionable weapons of destruction. It houses the worst after the end of the civilized world. These people are sick fiends, pure degenerates. If you aren't killing or robbing, you're selling yourself...