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System Reset

(2025)
(The fourth book in the Void Meridian series)
A Story by

 
 
The grid went online. The world went offline. Now the only thing keeping the city alive is a pissed-off maintenance tech with system powers he never asked for.

When the global Integration event hits, every screen, sensor, and power line in Meridian City lights up with System code. People wake up with classes and stats. Skyscrapers turn into dungeons. Whole districts vanish behind glitching force fields.

Cade Mercer was supposed to be off shift, nursing a busted knee and a grudge against the utility company that chewed him up. Instead, he’s the only guy on the crew who can see the grid as the System sees it: a living network of nodes, routes… and invading entities from the Void.

The System tags him with a unique class: [GRID ANCHOR]. His skills aren’t about flashy damage numbers. They’re about control. Reroute power. Lock down corruption. Stabilize collapsing zones before they wipe out everyone inside. Every time Cade forces reality back into place, the Void pushes harder to erase him.

As Meridian’s infrastructure mutates into a sprawling dungeon, Cade is dragged into a crew of survivors who suddenly matter way too much:

a street-level fixer who treats System prompts like side quests

a paramedic with a healing build and zero self-preservation

a conspiracy nerd who’s been tracking ‘Void anomalies’ for years

Together they’re the only line between a city on life support and full-scale deletion. But there’s a catch: every heavy use of Cade’s grid skills burns away something he can’t get back. Memories. Reflexes. Pieces of the person he used to be.

The Void wants Meridian as a foothold. The System wants ‘optimization at any cost.’ Cade just wants to keep the lights on without erasing himself from his own life.

Void Meridian: System Reset is a fast-paced LitRPG System Apocalypse novel set in the Void Walker System universe, featuring:

blue-collar MC with utility-based powers

stats, skill trees, and real System penalties

dungeonified city zones and escalating Void incursions

found-family crew, high stakes, and no filler grinding

If you like progression, glitching realities, and stubborn bastards refusing to let their world get overwritten, jack in and hit System Reset.



Genre: Science Fiction

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