Shard Protocol

By: K.C. Reese

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

She stole the wrong thing from the wrong vault. Now reality has a user interface—and a mega-corporation wants it back.

Zyla Voslin is a ghost. A data-thief who survives in the neon-soaked megacity of Xylos by stealing corporate secrets and trusting no one. When she lifts a crystalline shard from Omni-Core's most secure vault, she expects a payday. What she gets is the end of the world as anyone knew it.

The moment she touches the artifact, the sky glitches. The laws of physics flicker. And eight million people receive the same notification:

Welcome, User. System Initializing.

The Shard Protocol is active—a galaxy-spanning operating system left behind by a dead alien civilization, overlaying reality with skills, classes, levels, and monsters made of corrupted corporate data. The rules of the old world no longer apply. The corporations that ran it are scrambling to catch up.

And Omni-Core will do anything to get its artifact back.

With hostile Glitches spawning across the city and a ruthless corporate enforcer deploying everything in his arsenal to seize control of Earth's new operating system, Zyla has a choice: disappear the way she always has, or use everything she knows about hacking systems to hack this one.

She's going to need help. More than she's ever let herself accept.

Shard Protocol is a fast-paced LitRPG System Apocalypse set in a corporate dystopia, where the most powerful move isn't combat—it's trust. Perfect for fans of Tao Wong and Dakota Krout. If you want your progression fantasy with a hopepunk soul, then this is for you!