NEXUS TRIAL: The Rise of Liam Parker
System, Game, Action, Fantasy, Urban Adventure.
Liam Parker is just a broke teenage boy from a poor family, bullied at school and crushed at home. After losing his father, he and his mother are treated like dirt by their own relatives. When his greedy uncle and cold grandmother try to sell their only home, Liam finally snaps but he’s powerless.
That night, everything changed.
He receives a strange invite to a new online game called Nexus Trials, created by a mystery organization known only as The Nexus. All he has to do is wear a strange wristband—and suddenly, he’s no longer in his world.
He’s on a never-ending bridge… with ten thousand other players.
When the bridge starts breaking apart, panic breaks out. Only 2,578 make it to the other side. Then a voice speaks:
“Welcome to the Nexus. This is not just a game. If you die here, you die in the real world.”
From now on, Liam must fight to survive through 10 brutal levels filled with monsters, mind games, and player-vs-player battles. Each level is harder. The rewards are great—but so is the risk.
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Chapter: Chapter 140: The End of the YearDecember arrived and brought with it the specific qualities that December brought to schools, the end-of-semester energy that was simultaneously exhausted and anticipatory, the compression of the academic calendar into its final weeks, and the particular social texture of people who had been in a contained environment together for four months and had arrived at whatever version of understanding or distance or relationship the four months had produced.Liam moved through it with the ease that had become his default mode, the specific combination of enhanced awareness and ordinary presence that meant he was always processing more than anyone around him could see and always appearing to be simply present and unhurried.The school had settled into its November configuration and that configuration had settled further into something more permanent as December established itself.Derek Whitmore was still there, quieter and more separate than he had been, and Liam's Percept
Last Updated: 2026-09-02
Chapter: Chapter 139: The State CompetitionThe state mathematics competition was held at the regional university on a Saturday in late November, in a building that had the specific quality of academic institutions that had been doing the same thing for a long time and had stopped needing to announce it.Liam drove there alone.Mr. Kaneda had offered to arrange transportation with the school's academic team but Liam had declined with the specific appreciation that the offer deserved and the preference for arriving in his own way, which meant in the Centurion with the particular combination of enhanced awareness and undisturbed thought that the drive allowed.The competition was organized in tiers: a written examination in the morning, a problem-solving session in groups of three in the early afternoon, and individual advanced problem presentations for the top scorers in the late afternoon.He knew, when he looked at the morning examination, that it was going to go the way it was going to go.The probl
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Chapter: Chapter 138: What Liam CarriesThere was an evening in late November when Liam sat at his desk with his textbooks open and his Nexus watch on his wrist and the one year countdown running in the back of his mind like a low frequency sound that the enhanced attention he had developed made impossible to fully ignore.The countdown was not a displayed number. There was no timer on the watch face. It was more like a directional awareness, the specific sense that something was approaching that had been approaching since the moment he materialized in the plaza near the abandoned warehouse at three in the morning with forty seven missed calls on his phone.He had been home for roughly two months.Ten months remained.The Nexus had said: one year. They would be recalled. There would be interdimensional competitions. The world they had returned to was the world they were protecting, and the protection required them to compete in things that the Nexus had not yet described in specific terms.He thou
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Chapter: Chapter 137: The New NormalNovember settled over the school with the flat gray quality of a season that had arrived and intended to stay, and life inside the school settled with it into a configuration that was not the configuration it had been in September and not the configuration it had been in October but something that was in the process of becoming what it would be for the rest of the year.Liam moved through it with the patience of someone who had stopped expecting the environment around him to be the most significant thing in his life and had started simply living in it, which was its own kind of progress.The library table near the periodicals had become an established institution in the way that things became established when they were useful and produced more than they cost and the people who participated in them found them worth continuing. Mateo was there most afternoons with his sociology and his questions. Yemi was there when her lab schedule allowed with her Physics and her precis
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Chapter: Chapter 136: Sunday DinnerElena Martinez's house was three miles from Sophie's building, a detail Liam had not known until Sophie gave him the address, which told him something about the geography of Sophie's life that he had not previously had context for.The house was a double-story in a neighborhood that was comfortable rather than wealthy, the specific aesthetic of a home where intellectual life had been prioritized over material accumulation, and when he pulled up in the Centurion on Sunday afternoon he was aware of the specific dissonance between the car and the neighborhood and adjusted his awareness of it accordingly.Elena Martinez opened the door before he reached it.She was everything Sophie's description had implied and several things it had not, a compact woman whose stillness communicated the specific quality of someone whose intelligence had nowhere to hide because she had stopped trying to hide it, and her eyes when she looked at him had the same direct quality as Sophie's
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Chapter: Chapter 135: What Came AfterThe days that followed the parking lot had a specific quality.Not resolution, exactly, though the shape of things had changed. More like the particular quietness of an aftermath, the specific texture of a situation that has moved through its active phase into something less defined and more durable.Derek came to school the next day and the day after that and continued coming, and his presence in the school was different in a way that was difficult to articulate precisely but that Liam's Perception registered clearly enough. Something in the performance register had dropped out of the way he moved through corridors and sat in classes, and what was left underneath it was something quieter and less certain and, in that specific way, more genuinely present.Nathaniel noticed it.He mentioned it to Liam in the corridor, appearing at his shoulder with the ease of someone who had stopped navigating the social mechanics of an approach and was simply approaching."
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Chapter: Chapter 758: The Weight of the NameThe grand dining room of the Wane Estate was quiet, save for the soft clinking of silver against fine china and the steady, rhythmic ticking of a grandfather clock in the corner. Warm, ambient light from a crystal chandelier reflected off the polished mahogany table at 8:00 PM on Thursday, April 23rd. Ryan Wane had invited James for a private, intimate dinner—a rare occurrence away from the bustling atmosphere of boardroom strategy and corporate crisis management.As the estate staff cleared the entree plates and poured two glasses of a rare vintage, Ryan leaned back in his chair. He studied his nephew across the table, taking in the subtle maturity that had settled over James in recent months. The air of quiet defiance was still there, but it was now tempered by profound confidence and tested authority."Thank you for taking the time to come out tonight, James," Ryan began, his deep voice carrying a reflective warmth. "I know your calendar has been relentless lately with the EMC rest
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Chapter: Chapter 757: A Fresh CanvasThe warm late-afternoon sun cast long, geometric patterns across the polished hardwood floors of Summit Creative Agency as 5:00 PM approached on Thursday, April 23rd. Milly stood near the entrance of the open-concept workspace, adjusting the strap of her leather shoulder bag as she took a deep, steadying breath. After months of navigating the suffocating tension and relentless scrutiny of EMC’s corporate crisis, stepping through the glass doors of Summit felt like crossing into an entirely different world.The office was flooded with natural light from floor-to-ceiling perimeter windows. High exposed-brick walls were adorned with vibrant contemporary art, bold abstract paintings, and framed graphic design posters. Modern hanging planters draped lush green vines down from industrial ceiling trusses, and the gentle hum of background music mingled with the quiet chatter of collaborative teams gathered around shared wooden tables. There were no rigid cubicle walls, no oppressive silence,
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Chapter: Chapter 756: Built to LastSunlight poured through the floor-to-ceiling windows of Liam’s corner suite at 1:00 PM on Thursday, April 23rd. Gathered around the solid oak conference table were Liam, Eric, EMC’s chief marketing director, and Cara, who stood beside a high-resolution display monitor presenting the finalized draft of her brand restoration strategy.The campaign title flashed across the screen in sleek, bold typography: Built to Last.Cara took a steadying breath, stepping forward with calm authority. She walked the team through each core element of the proposal: a emotional client testimonial series highlighting long-standing institutional partners who had stood by EMC, a high-level thought leadership editorial campaign, a complete overhaul of the company's digital footprint, and a redefined, forward-looking brand messaging framework centered on absolute transparency and modern governance.Throughout her presentation, Liam remained silent, his sharp eyes fixed on the financial allocations and timelin
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Chapter: Chapter 755: The Anatomy of TruthThe high-rise glass tower housing the central offices of Horizon Business Magazine overlooked the bustling financial district, bathed in the sharp morning sunlight of Thursday, April 23rd, at 10:00 AM. Inside a private, soundproof corner studio, James Wane sat in a comfortable leather armchair across from David Park.Park, the publication's senior editor, was a veteran journalist renowned throughout the industry for his formidable intellect, razor-sharp line of questioning, and absolute refusal to print polished PR fluff. Between them sat a small glass coffee table holding two glasses of water and two high-precision digital audio recorders.Park adjusted his wire-rimmed glasses, glanced down at his notepad, and then met James’s gaze directly."James, let's start from the beginning," Park began, his tone calm but expectant. "I don't want the sanitized press releases your communications team released last month. In your own words, walk me through the exact moment you decided to step int
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Chapter: Chapter 754: Reading the PulseThe quiet hum of the night air conditioning echoed through the empty executive floor of EMC Headquarters at 8:00 PM on Wednesday, April 22nd. Inside his office, Eric sat behind a clutter-free desk, illuminated only by the glow of his computer monitor and a single brass desk lamp.Spread across his screen were the compiled analytical reports of the company-wide employee sentiment survey. Over the past week, the HR department had conducted a comprehensive, anonymous assessment across every branch and division. The survey was designed to measure baseline employee satisfaction, trust in executive leadership, clarity regarding the firm’s forward direction, and general retention metrics in the wake of the catastrophic theft scandal and corporate restructuring.Eric adjusted his glasses, reading through the raw percentage breakdowns with careful, analytical focus.Overall employee satisfaction sat at forty-two percent—a dangerously low metric, marking a steep, alarming decline from pre-scand
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Chapter: Chapter 753: The Closing NetThe warm early autumn evening settled over the vibrant streets of Buenos Aires at 6:00 PM on Wednesday, April 22nd. Inside a dimly lit, modest apartment nestled in the Palermo district, Williams Jesse sat at a small wooden dining table, his face illuminated only by the harsh glow of an unencrypted laptop screen.He was refreshing an American news portal when the headline hit the top of the feed: Former ESU Director Donald Duke Arrested on Federal Corruption and Obstruction Charges.Williams stared at the text, a sudden, piercing chill of icy fear running straight down his spine. His breath hitched in his chest.Donald Duke had not just been another paid informant; he had been Williams’s ultimate trump card for years. As Director of the Executive Security Unit, Duke had provided priceless high-level intelligence, advance warnings of pending search warrants, sealed grand jury indictments, and tactical oversight that had allowed Williams’s syndicate to operate with near-total impunity.W
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LUCKY BILLIONAIRE
Alejandro García, once a struggling and mistreated son-in-law, found himself transformed into a wealthy billionaire after his lucky number, 369, scored him a billion-dollar jackpot in what turned out to be the biggest gamble of the century.
However, his newfound fortune came with a catch: the gamble was actually a scam, and Alejandro unwittingly foiled it with his stroke of luck, earning himself some powerful enemies in the process. Now, he must protect his wealth, and even his own life.
After defeating Diego Morales, the mastermind behind the scam, Alejandro's troubles are far from over. He soon faces a new threat in the form of his own doppelgänger, Carlos Rodriguez who murders him and seizes control of his entire estate.
But Alejandro's story doesn't end there. Anticipate the triumphant return of Alejandro García, the billionaire Gambler, as he rises from the ashes to reclaim what is rightfully his.
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Chapter: Chapter 54Chapter 54Jackson stayed late again, the office quiet except for the hum of the servers somewhere behind the walls. He'd spent the day chasing three more names Theo had flagged, each one dissolving into a dead end the same way Dolan and Reyes had before them. Frustration had settled into something closer to exhaustion by the time he finally allowed himself to circle back to the theory he'd been avoiding all week.He pulled up Vincent's file again, studying the photo longer this time, forcing himself to look past the obvious differences and consider what months of resentment and reduced circumstances might have changed about a person.The build in the footage was leaner than Jackson remembered, but people lost weight under stress, especially the kind of stress that came from watching your career shrink in front of colleagues who used to answer to you. He pulled up older footage from Vincent's time as team leader, years back, comparing his posture then against the posture
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Chapter: Chapter 53Chapter 53Diego's patience had worn thin by the time Javier arrived at the house that evening, summoned without explanation beyond a single terse message. He found Diego in the study again, a bottle of whiskey already half empty on the desk in front of him."Sit," Diego said, not looking up.Javier sat, choosing his words carefully. "Something happen?""The resort deal," Diego said. "It's not moving as fast as I was told it would.""Alejandro's partner wanted a background check," Javier said. "It's a minor delay. Marcus's paperwork will hold up under scrutiny. It always does.""A minor delay was supposed to be days, not weeks." Diego finally looked up, his eyes bloodshot with exhaustion or anger, Javier couldn't tell which. "I have people to answer to as well, Javier. This isn't only my patience being tested."Javier understood immediately who he meant. Diego rarely spoke about the men above him in the organization, the ones who'd fronted the resources f
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Chapter: Chapter 52Chapter 52Amy arrived at the mansion the next morning as instructed, the sealed envelope from Sophia tucked carefully inside her handbag. She'd barely slept the night before, more out of excitement at being trusted with something than any real sense of importance attached to the errand itself.Sophia met her in the entryway, already dressed for the day, checking her phone as Amy approached."Good, you're here," Sophia said, barely glancing up. "The address is on the envelope. Just hand it directly to whoever answers, don't leave it with anyone else.""Got it," Amy said, patting her bag reassuringly. "I'll head there now.""Thank you," Sophia said, already turning away, her attention elsewhere before Amy had even reached the door.Judy arrived just as Amy was leaving, breezing past her with barely a glance. "Oh, you're still here. I thought you'd have run your little errand by now.""I'm heading there now," Amy said."Good." Judy didn't slow down, alr
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Chapter: Chapter 51Chapter 51Jackson came in early the next morning, coffee in hand, still turning over the fragment of memory that had followed him home the night before. He couldn't place it fully, only that it felt tied to his early days as team leader, back when half the department had resented him for being handed a position some of them believed they deserved instead.He pulled up the old personnel roster from that period, scrolling through faces he hadn't thought about in months. Most of them had moved on naturally, promotions, transfers, a few resignations that had nothing to do with him personally. He paused on a handful of names that had left under less amicable circumstances, cross referencing each one against the timeline of the maintenance footage.None of them matched cleanly, though one name gave him pause longer than the others.Vincent.He stared at the name for a moment, an old, uncomfortable memory surfacing, the confrontation in the office when Vincent had humi
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Chapter: Chapter 50Chapter 50Jake's stitches from the fence had healed enough that he barely noticed them anymore, but Miguel still watched him more closely during briefings than he used to, an unspoken acknowledgment of how close things had come to going much worse."You're cleared for regular duty," Miguel said, closing the folder on his desk. "But you're not going anywhere near Oscar or that warehouse again. That's final."Jake nodded. He'd expected the decision and didn't have the energy left to argue against it. "Understood.""Good." Miguel leaned back in his chair. "I've got two new guys picking up that thread. Slower, more careful. I'd rather lose time than lose people."Nathan, seated beside Jake, cleared his throat. "What about the rest of us? Are we changing how we operate now that they've shown they're willing to shoot?""Yes," Miguel said simply. "No one goes anywhere alone anymore, on duty or off. I want check ins every two hours during active surveillance. If any
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Chapter: Chapter 49Chapter 49Oscar hadn't slept properly since the shooting. Every time he closed his eyes, he saw the man's face at the warehouse, the cold, calculating way he'd looked at the chaos he'd caused like it meant nothing to him at all. Diego's people didn't care about consequences the way Oscar had assumed they would when Sophia first brought him into this.He'd thought it would be simple. Show up, play the part, keep Sophia close, wait for the money to move and disappear somewhere far away with her once it was over. Nobody had mentioned guns. Nobody had mentioned men who'd shoot at strangers in broad daylight over a little surveillance.He met the man from the warehouse again two days later, this time in a quieter location, a back booth in a diner on the edge of town where nobody would recognize either of them."You look tired," the man said, sliding into the seat across from him."I haven't slept," Oscar admitted. "That thing at the warehouse. It's got Alejandro's pe
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War God’s Last Stand
Three years ago, Damon Kael was known as the War God. The strongest commander Earth had ever seen. He led the Iron Legion, a special force created to fight back against the Coalition. The Coalition was a brutal organization determined to conquer the planet through force, technology, and fear. During the final battle at the Iron Veil, Damon made the ultimate sacrifice. He locked an Iron Clamp, the key to the Iron Veil onto his own legs to prevent the coalition forces from getting access to the core of the Iron Veil. The Clamp was designed to disable his mobility completely. It kept him alive but crippled, and most importantly, hidden. The password to remove the Clamp was secured deep within the Iron Veil. It was impossible to access without risking exposure. Damon vanished from the world and allowed everyone to believe he was dead. Now he hides in plain sight. Weak. In a wheelchair. Married to Selene Vaughn, the disgraced heiress of the Vaughn family. Her family hates her. Her brother, Lucien Vaughn, wants to destroy her. He framed her for embezzlement, stole her company and sued her to court. Damon vows to protect her even if it means starting two wars.
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Chapter: Chapter 22 — Lucien RecruitsThe dining table had been set for four. The staff had been dismissed for the evening. The food came from a service that asked no questions and kept no records, and the wine was from a case that had not been opened since a celebration three years ago that Lucien no longer thought about. Tonight required something that did not carry prior associations. Tonight required a clean surface.He stood at the window with his glass while his three guests settled into their chairs, and he looked at the city below and thought about Selene standing on the courthouse steps with Leon Hart beside her and the expression on her face when she came out of that session, which was the expression of someone who had found their footing after a long time on uncertain ground.He did not intend to let her keep it.He turned from the window and took his seat at the head of the table.Carver Holt sat to his left. He was in a dark jacket without a tie, which was as casual as Holt ever appeared, and he had arrived f
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Chapter: Chapter 21 — Leon Moves Closer 2He drove her home.The city passed outside the windows in its evening arrangement of lights and movement and she sat with her hands in her lap and did not talk very much and he did not require her to. The radio was off. The car was warm.When he pulled up outside the estate she saw the light in the front room was on, which meant Damon was there, which meant Damon had been there all evening in the way he was always there, present and silent and occupying the house with the particular quality of a man who had decided that presence was the one thing he could offer without being asked.Leon put the car in park. He turned slightly in his seat to face her.“Thank you for coming,” he said.“You asked,” she said.“I wasn’t certain you would.”She looked at him. “I said I would.”“You did,” he said. “I’m learning what that means with you.”She held his gaze for a moment. The estate’s front light was on behind her and the city was quiet at this end of the street and the car was warm and she was
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Chapter: Chapter 20 — Leon Moves CloserThe restaurant Leon chose was quiet and well-lit and did not try to be impressive, which she appreciated. The kind of place that understood its own purpose and did not overreach it. The lighting was low without being theatrical about it. The tables were far enough apart that conversation did not carry.She was tired. It was the specific tiredness that followed a high-concentration morning: the kind where the body has been held in a particular alertness for several hours and releases it all at once when the pressure drops. She felt it in her shoulders when she sat down, in the way she set her bag beside her chair without her usual efficiency.She had not been able to keep her walls fully up since the courthouse steps. She was not certain she was trying.Leon ordered without looking at the menu, which told her he had been here before or had looked it up before arriving. She ordered and the waiter left and the restaurant continued its quiet business around them.“Speiss will file on the
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Chapter: Chapter 19 — What Selene Does Not SayThe courtroom was smaller than the one where the embezzlement charges had been heard, a secondary chamber on the building’s third floor used for procedural sessions and evidentiary submissions rather than full hearings.It had none of the gallery drama of the first proceeding. No reporters inside, no family members, no audience. Just the judge, the opposing counsel, a court clerk, and the four people at the two tables who had prepared for this morning for different reasons and with different levels of confidence.Selene sat at the defence table with her hands folded and her face composed and watched Leon work.He presented the second wave of financial evidence the way he presented everything: without performance, without the theatrical pauses that less capable lawyers used to signal to a room that something important was happening.He simply laid it out. Document by document, transfer by transfer, the shell company activity that connected a sequence of transactions directly to account
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Chapter: Chapter 18 — Old Wars, New Wounds 2The question was general enough that it could have meant the preparations, the timeline, the intelligence on Greymark. But it did not mean any of those things, and they both knew it.“The preparations are solid,” Damon said, deliberately misreading it.Dimitri let that sit for a moment. Then he said, “I meant with Selene.”Damon looked at the desk where the map had been. He was quiet for a few seconds. Then he said, “Not good.”Dimitri nodded once.“She had Leon pick her up this morning,” Damon said. “She walked past me in the hall yesterday without speaking. She makes her coffee and she makes one cup.” He paused. “She is not unkind about it. She is simply somewhere else. Like I’m furniture she’s learned the position of.”Dimitri said nothing.“I heard her laugh last night,” Damon said. “In the dining room. With Hart. The real one.” He stopped. He put his hand on the armrest and looked at it. “I haven’t heard her laugh like that in this house in longer than I can calculate.”The study
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Chapter: Chapter 17 — Old Wars, New WoundsA delivery van arrived at the estate’s rear gate at ten forty in the morning. It was the kind of van that appeared on every residential street in the city several times a day: white, unremarkable, a logo on the side for a courier company that existed and had a website and processed genuine deliveries and would have no record of this particular drop. Dimitri came in through the back entrance carrying a parcel that contained nothing and set it on the kitchen table and shrugged off the delivery jacket and folded it over a chair. He was dressed underneath in the dark, plain clothes he wore when he needed to be in a space without being remembered. He looked around the kitchen once, briefly, reading the room the way he read all rooms.“She’s at work?” he asked.“Since eight,” Damon said. “Leon picked her up.”Dimitri absorbed this without comment, which was its own kind of comment. He followed Damon to the study and closed the door behind him.The study was the most private room in the es
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