ESTIMATED VIABILITY: 48:00:00 [System Invasion LitRPG]

Connor hadn't left his mattress in three hours when the notification appeared in his left eye. MANDATORY PARTICIPATION PROTOCOL: ACTIVE No character creation screen. No stats to min-max. No tutorial NPC with a gentle voice explaining that he'd been chosen for a grand destiny. Just a HUD he couldn't dismiss, a health bar he couldn't afford to lose, and a building full of things that wanted to subtract him from it. Then it sent him a bill. SYSTEM ▸ RESOURCE ACQUIRED. PARTICIPATION NOTED.SYSTEM ▸ COMPLIANCE WINDOW: 71:58:42SYSTEM ▸ SHOP INVENTORY REFRESHED. PRICES ADJUSTED. Turns out the apocalypse has a shop. The shop has prices. The prices go up. And the system doesn't need to kill you, it just needs you productive, compliant, and too indebted to stop. Connor is not the chosen one. He is not strong, brave, or particularly smart. He is a depressed twenty-something with an impulse control problem and a flaw the system learned to exploit before he finished the first floor. But the system marked someone else too. Someone from his past. Someone who keeps information like other people keep weapons. And she's already three steps ahead of him. Estimated Viability: 48:00:00 Gritty system invasion LitRPG where the monsters are dangerous but the economy is worse. What to expect: - Slow-burn progression - Flawed MC - Three-dimensional companions with their own arcs - No harem or romance - No power fantasy - Regular updates 2x weekly - Each chapter 2000-3000 words