"Not even heaven's soldiers are spared the slaughter."
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Tower Floor 16 – Sanctuary of Wings (Safe Zone)
It was meant to be a place of peace.
A city suspended in the clouds, cradled by divine architecture. White marble walkways arched across floating islands. Waterfalls shimmered with holy essence. Choirs of low-ranking angels sang lullabies to weary climbers.
A safe zone.
No monsters.
No violence.
Here, even time flowed gently.
Then Jin arrived.
The moment he stepped onto the floor, the temperature dropped.
The air turned stale. The clouds darkened.
The angels felt it before they saw him.
A soundless pressure—like a scream before the throat opens.
> "Welcome to the Sanctuary, blessed one—"
The greeter angel never finished her sentence.
Jin shoved a dagger made from starbone through her mouth and out the back of her head.
Her body twitched.
Then he twisted.
Her skull ruptured, fragments splattering across the marble.
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System Distress – Safe Zone Protocol Breached
> [Warning: You are in a Designated Safe Zone]
> [Combat Disabled—Override Detected]
> [ERROR: Code 'Hollow' not found in system registry]
> [Initiating Floor Collapse Contingency]
Jin raised a hand.
The floor beneath him glowed red.
Rifts tore through the marble like glass under pressure.
Clouds twisted into black vortexes.
The waterfalls reversed direction—rising like veins from a corpse.
Buildings cracked. The floating islands trembled.
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Floor Collapse Event: Sanctuary Descent
> [You have triggered a Floor Collapse Event in a Safe Zone]
> [All NPCs and Players on Floor 16 will be eradicated]
> [Irreversible Damage to Floor Integrity – Recovery Impossible]
> [Reward Multiplier: 100x]
The sky fractured like porcelain.
He stomped once, and tremors surged outward. Statues of divine protectors crumbled. Archways collapsed.
The angelic guards retaliated. Their holy weapons hummed with righteous fury.
Jin reached into his coat.
Pulled out a fragment of the fallen star he crushed on Floor 15.
> [Skill Unlocked – Collapse Seed]
> A forbidden construct formed from devoured celestial remnants. Can be planted into any floor's foundation. Upon activation, causes a localized dimensional rupture.]
> Effects: – Immediate safe zone nullification – Exponential gravity distortion – Light inversion over a 5km radius – 1,000% increase to death energy absorption
Jin stabbed the star-shard into the floor.
The ground pulsed black. The gravity flipped.
People began to float, screaming—then implode.
Their organs twisted inward.
Skin peeled from bone.
Whole crowds exploded into red mist, which the ground greedily drank.
> "This is your sanctuary?"
> "Then bury your wings here."
He summoned the Tongue of Silence, muting their prayers.
He crushed a choir beneath a collapsing bell tower.
He walked through temples set aflame by divine oil and watched priests burn alive as they screamed for help.
Every building collapsed inward.
Every fountain turned to blood.
The sky itself cracked.
Angels fell, not like feathers—but like stones.
They begged.
He listened.
Then laughed.
And kept killing.
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System Notification
> [Floor 16 Destroyed]
> [Casualties: 12,485 NPCs | 347 Players | 78 Divine Entities]
> [Godslayer Progress: 72%]
> [New Passive Unlocked – Collapse Catalyst]
> – You can initiate Collapse Events manually
> – Kill zones are no longer limited by system protection
> – Reward scaling increases with each collapse
> [New Active Skill Acquired – Collapse Seed]
> – Implant a starborn rupture core into any floor
> – On detonation, absorbs death, despair, and divine essence
> – Leaves the floor permanently uninhabitable
> – Cooldown: 10 floors
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Outside the Tower – Global Collapse
World governments panicked.
Safe zones were thought inviolable.
Now one of the largest was gone.
Live streams cut out after a single, horrifying frame:
A plague-masked man, covered in divine blood, staring upward as the entire sky floor fell into a screaming void.
Families of climbers waiting at terminals watched their loved ones vanish from the tower.
There were no bodies to bury.
Only names.
And silence.
The Hollow Bloom cult broadcasted a new message:
> "Your towers are graveyards now."
> "Your gods are the ones begging."
> "And Hollow… Hollow is coming."
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