In 2125, the embers of the interstellar battlefield had yet to cool when a dying alien warship crashed into Blue Star. It released no explosion, but an invisible “electronic plague.” Pale blue motes fell like stardust, invaded human brains, and rewrote their nerves!
Perseus, a lowly nobody who scraped by renting out his “brainpower,” became one of the first infected. His brain’s computing power skyrocketed, but his body rapidly withered away! Desperate to survive, he spent everything he had on a dose of forbidden serum. He had no idea whether the injection would awaken a power capable of overthrowing the Federation... or start a countdown to his own destruction.
Gaia, the cold deity controlling human society, immediately locked onto every infected person. “Virus carriers. Eliminate!” Brain-harvesting robots broke down his door, targeting the priceless “pale-blue pathogen” inside his brain!
At the brink of despair, a mysterious rebel army offered him his only way out: evolve, or die! From a “computing-power corpse” in the slums to a “humanoid weapon” capable of ripping steel apart, Perseus’s blue blood surged with unknown power. He could sense another “blue brain”: the wealthy young heir Corey Greens, up in the clouds and being “perfectly optimized” by Gaia.
Two infected men, two divergent paths of evolution. Would they become sacrifices on Gaia’s altar, or pawns under Corey’s authority? Or would they... ignite a wildfire to burn this “brain prison” to the ground?
When the human brain became a battlefield, computing power became a shackle. What had Perseus stolen: the flame of hope... or the key to opening the gates of hell?
Volume One: The Fire of the Brain Prison. Watch a lowly nobody become a “fire thief,” burn blue blood as fuel, and declare war on the gods in the dark jungle of cyberpunk!
