The Worldbinding Chronicles: Corebound (Previously Alex Thorne:Corebound)

If you grow up in a scrapyard, you learn fast that nothing is useless.Not broken tech. Not failed systems. Not people. Alex Thorne was raised squeezing every last drop of value out of wreckage in a corporate-controlled city where law belongs to whoever can afford to write it. He fixes machines for a living, races scrap-built speeders for extra credits, and keeps his head down because people who attract attention do not last long. The upgrade core Alex finds is valuable by any standard. Its function is well understood, its limits widely accepted. Alex is not interested in those limits, he only sees more opportunities to find hidden power. Instead of chasing shortcuts, he treats advancement like engineering. Study the system. Understand the rules. Push the parts until they either work or tweak something until it works anyway. Cores. Meridians. Gates. Essence-fueled magitech. Corporate debt collars and Fixers who make problems disappear. Book 1 of The Worldbinding Chronicles, Corebound, is a dark cyberpunk LitRPG with steady cultivation-style progression and a long multiverse arc.  There are no chosen ones here. Only choices, and consequences.Content note: slavery and exploitation, human trafficking references, violence, Non-Harem, Low Romance Check out the official Alex Thorne reddit community here:https://www.reddit.com/r/AlexThorne/