The Perfect Code

Julian Kade is a brilliant but struggling tech school graduate with a revolutionary dream—to create an AI system capable of perfecting the human body and mind. His vision, The Human Perfected, promises limitless learning, rapid healing, enhanced strength, and mental clarity. But when his closest friend and collaborator, Aaron Vale, betrays him and steals the idea, Julian is left penniless, blacklisted, and forgotten. Broken and drifting through the neon-lit slums of a hyper-advanced future city, Julian stumbles upon a mysterious black ring etched with living circuitry. When he puts it on, it fuses into his body and activates the Ascendancy Protocol—a powerful, otherworldly system that brings his dream to life. Overnight, Julian gains the tools to transform himself and rise above everything that once held him down. But greatness comes at a cost. As Julian begins amassing wealth, influence, and notoriety, his disruptive technology threatens the world’s most powerful corporations and governments. Shadowy CEOs, cybernetic assassins, and rogue AI factions move to eliminate him. The deeper he explores the Ascendancy Protocol’s true capabilities, the more he realizes the system may be far older—and more dangerous—than anything man ever created. Torn between using his newfound power to uplift humanity or protect himself from destruction, Julian must decide: will he become the world’s greatest innovator, or its most wanted target?