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...

In the neon-lit ruins of Neo-Edo, society is ruled by machines, megacorps, and shadows. Hackers ghost through firewalls, the elite live high in arcologies, and the rest survive below in electric slums. Rika Kisaragi, a sharp street-coder with a haunted past, lives off-grid, selling stolen data...

In the year 2026—or so the world believes—Schelvia City stands as a utopia for the brightest young minds, a place where students train to become the future’s elite. Governed by strict academic rankings and the Golden Children, life in the city seems orderly—until the shadows of its past and the t...

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The wheel is at the heart the center of the town and exists within multiple dimensions. Time functions differently. The past, present and future seem to blur. The wheel tends to alter and bend reality. The light is blending. This society is high-tech and futuristic. There exists a man sitting...

Aaron went to sleep after a rough day of his first month in middle school. He ignored his little brother and his friends in the neighborhood, and fell into a peaceful slumber in his own world. In his imagination, he entered a dream world where he met his childhood idol, a magical girl. She invite...

In the town of Corsten a boy named J lives a life nobody would be envious of. Mundane would be one word to describe it. He doesn't have any friends worth mentioning and has a not so standard home life that people would never want to have. He is as normal, or abnormal as they come. One day an inde...

Humans don't age anymore but mental illness is only getting worse. What will humanity do?

The surface isn't what it used to be. The cities now lie above, floating over vast substrata of magnetic rock, while the towns and villages still exist on the ground. Hale Prosper is a young man with a passion for machinery and a wish to live and work in the most renowned of these metropolises: A...