You're just suggesting a bland story where mc kills a faceless plain villain with no actual motives besides being evil for the sake of evil. If that's a story you like then this isn't for you, go and read Overlord or something.
The eastern district is such a small place where akira currently lives, but if he tries and goes to the frontline (a much massive place where the corporate government resides) he'd be dead real quick for how dangerous that place is.
Nope, even without the A. I as long as you have a fairly above-average connectivity strength then you can influence how other people (with weak connectivity strength to the old world domain) think about you