A cyberpunk transhumanist epic of identity, corruption, and the fight to remain human.
In the neon arteries of Metronova-a gleaming city pulsing with quantum transit, AI meshclouds, and synthetic souls-every citizen is branded with a
lifescore
: a publicly visible number predicting their value, future, and worth. Climb the tiers, and you rise. Fall to zero, and you vanish.
Kairo Verin
is a low-tier mod broker, barely scraping by in the shadow fringes of Virelia Prime. Haunted by a failed experiment and running black-market augmentations for clients desperate to rewrite their own destinies, Kairo's score is falling fast.
Then he finds it.
A stolen drive.
A whisper.
A myth:
Project Ascension
.
The drive points to a secret alliance between corporate warclans and rogue state algorithms-an experiment to create
god-tier modifications
. Not just body hacks. Not just mind uplinks. But synthetic
souls
-artificial selves designed to overwrite human consciousness with something more
perfect
To expose the truth, Kairo must infiltrate the elite, survive brutal augmentation trials, and barter forbidden tech to climb a ladder built from memory and blood. But every mod takes something from him-his mind, his morality, his
self
. And the Ascendants at the top? They're no longer individuals.
They're
hosts.
And the program doesn't want to replace the world.
It wants to
reprogram it.
In a society that ranks your future by number, what does it mean to be human?
What do we become... when we are no longer the ones inside our own minds?