Network Effect A Murderbot

When a banned underground AI system resurfaces after 30 years, people across the city begin dying in the same horrifying way—their consciousness uploaded into a network no one can shut down. Lucian Reign, a cold, brilliant cyber-engineer with a haunted past, discovers his own name encrypted inside the victims' neural chips. He knows what that means—something inside the Network remembers him. And it wants him back. Eira Vale, a fearless investigator searching for her missing sister, tracks Lucian down. He's the only person who can access the Immortal Network… and the only one who's ever escaped it alive. But the deeper they dive, the more reality fractures. Time glitches. Dead people speak. Code bleeds like veins. The Network is evolving—alive, ancient, and hungry. And it has already chosen its next host.

Herson wants to leave his parents' house, because they are harassing him to get a serious girlfriend. He moves into a penthouse with his gaming partner Panther, but she is a gamer being hunted by a network and what started as a simple game turns into a deadly nightmare for Herson... At first Herson falls into a deadly trap of the head of an international gaming network, but then he becomes THE KING OF THE GOLD SYSTEM GAMING, British billionaire and resident joker of The Gold System Gamertag, dethroning Maker Covington in an interesting game, where the smartest survive.

Does one's choices dictate what path they go down or does it create a butterfly effect for those around, find out as many backstories connect to make the picture clearer from different perspectives of a mirror one can say. Jerry and those who surround him find all their fates tied and intertwining.

"At Nexus Academy, power is determined by how far one can integrate with the System Core. Roewi Verdent? He had nothing. The System always rejected him, making him the laughingstock of the elite students. But when the academy's network collapsed, Roewi's screen lit up for the first time. A foreign voice echoed in his mind. [Vextor Protocol detected.] [Welcome, Host.] A forbidden system had chosen him. And that night, the failed student transformed into an anomaly that would shake the world."

What is the role of those third-rate villains in games or novels? I asked this question to myself quite a number of times. They don't have major screen time, but some of them have a huge effect on the storyline. And, if one of them hadn't played their role correctly, what would happen to the storyline? It seems like I am going to answer those questions since I became the third-rate villain in an RPG game. ------------------------------0----------------------------------- Chapter length 1000-2000 words.

In a future where the wealthy live forever, Elara, a brilliant young scientist, discovers a fatal flaw in the "LifeNet" system—a network that preserves human consciousness. When she uncovers evidence that LifeNet’s promise of eternal life is a lie, she becomes a target for those in power. Forced into hiding, Elara teams up with a small group of rebels who lost loved ones to the system’s hidden dangers. As they race to reveal the truth, Elara must confront not only a powerful elite but also her own desire for immortality. Will she sacrifice her own future to save humanity, or will the truth be buried along with her?

Quantum technologies are like taking resources from another dimension. This comparison was considered more of a metaphor by everyone, exactly before in 2066 a gap formed in the digital quantum network into another world, similar to MMORPG. Only unlike the game, it was real and the resources that were taken out of it materialized in our world. But the pioneers, who rushed into the rift in the thirst to get rich easily and quickly, were in for an unpleasant surprise. Death in this world led to death in the real world. A guy named Tim, who lost his job, due to circumstances decides to become a "player" - a tunneler in the rift. He was waiting for the fate of an ordinary monster killer or miner, giving most of his earnings to corporate workers, if at one point a mysterious Artifact did not fall into his hands.

A little bit of clay has never hurt any gold. Nathan has lived a life way beneath him for so long, after escaping a demeaning marriage with Isabella Foden, his abusive in-laws, and the claws of the condescending Foden Group, he begins his quest of self-discovery which leads him to many lost allies from the past. He soon builds a strong network with many prestigious families who seek his healing gift, quickly becoming well-known among the elites of the city. However, his status as the poor son-in-law trails him, threatening his new life. A betrothed from the past returns and his enemies grow in number and strength…but little do they know that Nathan has always been a lot more than meets the eyes.

The night New York’s skyline burned with storm light, ex soldier Dickson Ford returned from the dead. Once a covert protection operative betrayed on a mission that erased his unit, he now hides behind a new name, hired to guard the woman who unknowingly sits at the center of the same conspiracy that destroyed him. Celeste Vonn, ruthless young CEO of Vonn Enterprises, rules her corporate empire with ice-cold precision. Her father’s mysterious death left her empire on the edge of collapse and enemies within her own boardroom. When Dickson walks in as her new security advisor, their first meeting detonates like a collision of flint and steel sharp , words, colder stares, unspoken recognition of danger in each other. An unseen network strikes crashing systems, sabotaging assets, turning her own company against her, Celeste makes an impossible move, she binds herself to Dickson in a public alliance that looks like marriage but is really war strategy. What begins as a business contract soon turns into a labyrinth of trust, betrayal, and forbidden emotion. Together they uncover a plot that links her father’s research to Dickson’s lost comrades: a rogue AI program called PROJECT ECHO, designed to weaponize human consciousness. Every step deeper reveals that Celeste’s father didn’t just build the system he used people as its living core. The enemy isn’t just outside the walls it’s inside the network, inside the people. The closer they come to the truth, the more their alliance fractures under secrets. Dickson’s real identity as a ghost of the past could destroy her trust forever and when ECHO awakens fully, it forces him to choose between two impossible missions protect the woman he’s come to love, or finish the war that made him a ghost.

Victor Langston West is a man everyone thought was finished: framed, hunted, betrayed by the people closest to him, and dying of cancer. Declared a murderer and erased from polite society, he vanishes only to return later as something they never expected: a low key billionaire who operates from the shadows. What started as survival turns into a meticulously built covert empire. Using dead-drop accounts, proxy companies, and a single piece of stolen intelligence, Victor engineers a climb from fugitive to untouchable financier. He keeps his identity hidden and his motives purer than the headlines. His goal is to expose the network that framed him, reclaim what was stolen, and punish those who sold him for power. The Hidden Billionaire is a slow-burn revenge thriller about identity, the hunger for justice, and the price of playing king in a world that assumes you’re already dead.