In a hyper-stratified New Manhattan, where the System has been integrated into society for generations, Marcus Chen was born with a death sentence: a D- Potential rating. The son of low-level parents who couldn't afford to upgrade their stats before having him, Marcus scratches out a living in the Undercity, taking the jobs no one else wants, fighting for scraps of experience points that barely keep him alive. But when a routine drone recovery mission leads him to discover a hidden backdoor in the System's architecture—a legacy of its mysterious creators—Marcus stumbles onto a secret that threatens the carefully maintained hierarchy of New Manhattan. Now he's being hunted by corporate assassins with S-rank potential, backed by an AI that can predict his every move, and his only allies are a rogue data archivist born into the upper tiers and a group of underground hackers who've found ways to game a system designed to keep them down. In a world where your children inherit not just your genes but your stats, levels, and potential, Marcus will have to overcome generations of engineered inequality to expose the truth: the System was never meant to lift humanity up. It was meant to keep them docile, divided, and looking at their status windows instead of the powers behind them.