The chamber did not fade immediately even if the floor 11 portal was open.
After the death of the False Constant the silence lingered. The Tower did not celebrate loudly. It recorded.
Kael stood alone at the center of the circular chamber the last fragments of the anomaly dissolving into nothing.
Then the system resumed.
[Floor 10 – Boss Floor Cleared]
[Clear Time: 00:00:47]
[Previous Fastest Record:
1 hour 41 minutes – Ralos of the Iron March]
[New Global Fastest Record Established.]
A low vibration moved through the floor beneath him. The vibration was not earthquake, but the tower is acknowledging Kael's Achievements.
Light rose from the engraved lines across the black stone floor flowing toward the twelve pillars. Symbols ignited one after another, rewriting themselves.
History updated.
[Global Ranking Recalculated]
[Floor 10 – All Eras Combined]
1. Line Emperor – 00:00:47 sec
2. Ralos of the Iron Match – 01 hr 41 min
3. Veyra Ashmantle – 02 hr 41min
4. Kurn the Silent – 03 hr 12 min
5. Havel Thorn – 04 hr 06 min
For a moment Kael's name burned brighter than the rest.
Then the first global announcement rang out.
Not just inside the Tower.
Every active player connected to the system heard it and even the other worlds where tower existed.
[Global Announcement]
[A new fastest clear record has been established on Floor 10 – Boss Floor.
Player: Line Emperor
Clear Time: 47 seconds
Rank Achieved: 1]
All historical data has been updated.
The message did not carry emotion.
But the world did.
In different countries and cities and some places all over the world wherever active players were logged into auxiliary interfaces wherever guild halls tracked tower progress in real time…
Screens flickered.
System panels updated.
Names shifted.
And the chat channels erupted.
"Forty-seven seconds?"
"That's not possible."
"Floor 10 is a perceptual boss. You can't brute force it."
"Wait—who the hell is Line Emperor?"
"Wasn't he the one who cleared Floor 5 in two seconds?"
"Two seconds? That record still stands?"
"Yes."
"Then this is his second record"
The realization spread faster than the announcement and not realized its Kael third record.
Back inside the Tower, Kael didn't react.
He was already reading the next notification.
[Bonus Rewards Issued]
[Reward Category: Boss Floor Excellence
→ +75 Stat Points
→ +2 Skill Enhancement Tokens
→ Adaptive Resistance (Permanent +5%)
→ Awaken skill fragment 1/5]
Stat increases flowed into his body and there was a skill awakening but it's a fragment and total of 5, 'where will I find these fragments, lets see in the future'
Unlike earlier floors there was no overwhelming surge anymore. His body absorbed the energy cleanly. Efficiently. Like it had grown accustomed to the Tower's awards.
Then another notification appeared.
One he had been waiting for.
[Hidden Title Condition Updated]
[Title:One Second Executor (Dormant)]
[Activation Condition:
Maintain Top Global Fastest Clear Record Across Three Boss Floors (3/3)
✔ Floor 5 – 00:02 – Rank 1
✔ Floor 4 – 00:56:00 – Sole Executor Rank 1
✔ Floor 10 – 00:00:47 – Rank 1
Condition Fulfilled].
The air changed.
It wasn't dramatic.
But it was undeniable.
The Tower paused. Not for long.
Just long enough to acknowledge something rare.
[Hidden Title Activated]
[Title Evolved: One Second Executor]
The chamber darkened slightly as a deeper layer of the system surfaced.
This wasn't a standard title unlock.
This was a historical anomaly.
[Title: One Second Executor]
Classification: Transcendent Execution Title
Passive Effects:
Damage dealt within first second of engagement increased by 200%.Enemy adaptation delay increased by 1.5 seconds.Critical chance during initial strike phase significantly increased.
Conditional Effect:
If an enemy is killed within one second of engagement, cooldowns of all active skills reduced by 30%.
Hidden Effect:
Tower anomaly detection sensitivity increased.
Kael didn't smile. But his eyes sharpened.
The first-second bonus alone was monstrous.
Against adaptive enemies it was catastrophic.
The False Constant had lasted 47 seconds only because he chose not to instantly annihilate it. He observed. Tested.
If he had activated full execution mode?
It might have ended in under three.
The Tower spoke again.
[Global Announcement]
Hidden Title "One Second Executor" has been awakened.
Holder: Line Emperor
Qualification: Maintain fastest global clear across three boss floors.
This title has not been awakened in recorded Tower history.
That was the second shock wave.
The title was not showing rare or Legendary or first in this era but it's showing it has first recorded Tower history.
Guild command centers went silent.
In one alliance of Hammer headquarters a strategist muttered quietly,
"That means even the Founders didn't qualify."
Because they hadn't.
Most legendary players focused on scaling, Efficiency, Survival.
This Line Emperor was doing something else.
He was optimizing annihilation.
Back in the chamber the system wasn't finished.
Another panel emerged.
[Additional Reward – Tower Recognition]
[Due to historical record displacement additional compensation granted.
→ Unique Skill Fragment Acquired
→ Skill Synthesis Available
Would you like to proceed?]
Kael selected: Yes.
The fragment manifested as floating crystalline shards before him.
It was like a data manifesting.
The shards rotated slowly.
System voice:
[Unique Skill Fragment Identified: "Initiation Override"
Function: Temporarily suppress enemy defensive calculations at the moment of engagement.
Compatibility with current build: 87%]
Kael accepted.
The shards dissolved into him.
For a brief instant his perception split into layers. He could see not just mana flow but reaction timing. Anticipation patterns. Micro-adjustments in hostile entities.
When it stabilized, he exhaled slowly.
The Tower continued.
[System Notice]
[Player Kael has triggered accelerated growth flag.
Future floors will scale accordingly.]
That was new.
Kael's gaze sharpened.
Scaling accordingly meant the Tower had acknowledged his growth rate as abnormal.
Good. He preferred resistance and can grow stronger.
Outside the Tower there was another third announcement:
[Global Leader-board Update]
[Boss Floor Fastest Clears (All Floors Combined – Active Era)
Line Emperor – 2 seconds (Floor 5)Line Emperor – 47 seconds (Floor 10)Line Emperor – 56 minutes (Floor 4 – Sole Executor)]
Player Kael now holds three of the top five fastest boss clears.
That wasn't supposed to happen.
One player dominating multiple eras of record? This was extremely Rare.
One player compressing execution time across scaling difficulty floors?
Unprecedented.
Speculation began instantly.
"Is he SS-class? Like those Rankers?"
"No public registration?"
"Is he hiding guild affiliation?"
"No guild tag."
"Then he's solo?"
Silence.
Because that possibility was worse because if hes Solo player the guilds will either recruit that person or eliminate no matter what
Back inside the reward phase reached its final stage.
[Bonus: First Decade Breaker]
[You have completed Floors 4,5,10 without ranking below first position.
Reward:
→ +10 All Stats
→ Mental Fortitude Enhancement
→ Permanent +3% Experience Gain]
[Level up]
That one surprised him slightly.
The Tower rarely rewarded consistency.
It preferred milestones. But Kael had taken every floor methodically.
He absorbed the final stat influx.
Then the chamber began to shift.
A gate was formed at the far end.
Floor 11 awaited.
But Kael didn't move immediately.
Instead, he opened his status.
Name: Kael
Rank: 1 (Floor 4,5,10)
Titles:
1. Sole Executor
2. Anomaly Breaker
3. One Second Executor
4.….
5.….
6. ???????]
Each title radiated faintly.
Stacked and Synergizing.
He reviewed the numbers.
His stat distribution was no longer within conventional SSS-range projections.
He had crossed into something else.
The Tower had begun compensating and scaling.
Which meant future floors would test him differently.
He closed the panel.
Then finally stepped toward the gate.
Before entering one final system message appeared.
[System Advisory]
[Your growth pattern has triggered Observer Protocol.
Higher Floors will evaluate.
Proceed?]
Kael didn't hesitate.
"Yes."
The gate opened.
Light swallowed him.
Somewhere outside the World of Solaris existed the world called Outis which was billion light years away from Solaris.
Even there the records shifted. Archives updated.
A previously Ranked one of Floor 10 opened his eyes in floor 500.
Yes, he was a strong player who was in floor 500 and meditating on the floor 500th boss which was the Titan of the Frozen World.
When you reach 500th floors they were known as "Execution-Class Entities."
Out of all the Worlds known in the existence there were hardly few Execution class entities.
He was the race belonged to the Fire Titan race where his body boiled like a Sun.
As soon as the Global Announcement took place here, he was merely shocked.
Because during his initial days even if he was very talented it took lots of efforts to find the anomaly and fight the boss.
Yes, this person is none other than Ralos of the Iron Match, and his real name was Sartorius.
"Interesting, something is happening after long long time, I hope we meet someday Line Emperor, be stronger by that time hahahaha" Sartorius was laughing loudly as he slowly woke up and raised his hand and pierced the titan and removed the frozen heart and ate It like no one's business.
As Kael emerged onto Floor 11 the air very different.
It was denser. Sharper. Responsive.
The Tower was no longer passively measuring him.
It was preparing.
Kael rolled his shoulders once.
The One Second Executor title pulsed faintly.
Dormant no longer. He stepped forward.
And his power moved with him.