In a world where death is no longer permanent and minds can be uploaded like files, Earth has become a playground for the rich and a graveyard for the forgotten.

Zane Everhart was never meant to be a hero.

He was just a desperate street rat trying to save his dying mother in a system that discarded the poor like trash. When NexaTech, the most powerful corporation on the planet offered him a spot in Project Ascension, he took it. 

The deal? Enter their high-risk simulation, survive the trials, and earn enough to buy her a second life... even if only as digital memory.

But something went wrong.

Zane didn’t only survive the experiment.
He became one with the system.

Now, he’s become a living anomaly—part man, part corrupted code. A Glitchwalker. Hunted by the company that created him. Feared by the simulations he’s meant to conquer. And haunted by a darker version of himself that whispers promises of chaos.

To find the truth and his mother’s fate, Zane must tear through layers of reality, face trials that warp his sanity, and challenge the very system that rewrote him.

But the deeper he descends, the more he realizes:

He’s not just part of the simulation anymore.
He might be the one preventing it from falling apart. 

Here, he knew:
“ The enemy of my enemy is myself ”

ASCENSION SYSTEM