"System Awakening" follows the extraordinary journey of Marcus Chen, a 23-year-old unemployed college dropout who has reached the lowest point in his life. After being evicted from his apartment, rejected from yet another job, and abandoned by his girlfriend, Marcus collapses in a park bench and wishes to never wake up again. However, fate has other plans.
Marcus awakens to find himself connected to a mysterious AI-like system that calls itself "NEXUS." This system communicates directly with his mind, explaining that it has chosen him as its host and can grant him extraordinary abilities, enhanced intelligence, and access to knowledge beyond human comprehension. Initially skeptical and believing he's experiencing a mental breakdown, Marcus soon discovers that NEXUS is very real when he instinctively uses its analytical capabilities to win a street chess match against a local champion, earning his first money in months.
As Marcus begins to explore his newfound abilities, he discovers a hidden world existing alongside the ordinary one—a world of secret societies, ancient powers, and factional conflicts over resources that grant supernatural abilities. He learns that systems like NEXUS are incredibly rare, and that various groups would stop at nothing to obtain or control such power.