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Axiom
Paperback
Publisher: Davis Shyaka Musirikare
Published: Dec 1 2025
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In a world governed by absolute rules, the only way to survive is to break them.
Kai, a brilliant systems analyst, wakes up in the Simulacrum-a vast, sterile construct of white stone and impossible geometry. He has no memory of how he arrived, only a terrifying directive from the omnipresent voice of the Arbiter Obey the Axioms, or be deleted.
The Simulacrum is a deadly arena where the laws of physics are the weapons. The Axiom of Solidity dictates that walls cannot be passed-until Kai finds the glitch. The Axiom of Gravity dictates that what goes up must come down-until the sky cracks open.
While other players rely on brute strength to survive the culling, Kai sees the world for what it really is: a code full of bugs waiting to be exploited.
Teaming up with a disgraced architect, a pacifist brawler, and a chaotic tinkerer, Kai begins a dangerous ascent toward the Spire. To survive, they must hunt for Glyphs-forbidden tools that allow them to rewrite reality, turning gravity sideways, inverting damage, and hacking the environment.
But the System is fragile. Every time they break a rule, the world destabilizes. As the boundary between order and chaos collapses, Kai discovers a chilling truth: The Simulacrum isn't just a game. It is a lifeboat for humanity's consciousness, and the Arbiter is a terrified program willing to erase everything to keep it safe.
Caught between a zealot who worships the rules and a chaos that threatens to consume them all, Kai must make the ultimate choice: persist in a perfect cage, or rewrite the core code of existence.
From author Davis Shyaka Musirikare comes a high-concept sci-fi thriller about the cost of freedom and the power of human connection in a digital world.
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