📍 TOWER FLOOR 11 — Wildcore Expanse
Terrain Class: Bioadaptive Wastefield
Final Entity: [CRATER BEAST]
Player: Wang Ling
🔓 Floor Status: UNCLEARED
It imitated his silence.
But silence wasn't the point.
Wang Ling hadn't become dangerous because he stopped talking.
He became dangerous because he stopped needing to.
The Crater Beast lunged like a formula — perfectly calculated from thousands of player behaviors.
It wasn't hunting.
It was solving.
But Wang Ling was the one problem that broke formulas.
One twist of his body.
No skill name. No visual effect.
Just impact.
And the beast folded in on itself, cracking along a spine that had been pretending to be his.
[⚠️ ENTITY "CRATER BEAST" ELIMINATED]
Cause: Cognitive Failure – Cold Logic Path Not Imitable
Floor Cleared
The world changed.
Not just the Tower.
[📢 SYSTEM ANNOUNCEMENT — TOWER CORE EXPANSION]
FLOOR 11 CLEARED BY ALL ACTIVE CLIMBERS
🔓 EARTH-TOWER CIVILIZATION PROTOCOL ENABLED
ORIGIN: [CLASSIFIED]
📜 GLOBAL RULES – PERMANENT (Hidden Origin: Regression)
This system was triggered only once in Tower history.
The cause is unknown to the world, even to the Tower's highest-ranking guilds.
🌐 Earth Return Protocol – Activated
• After each Tower floor is cleared by surviving climbers:
o ✅ All players gain permanent return access to Earth
o ✅ Players may freely move between:
Earth
All previously cleared Tower floors
o ✅ Return Gates do not expire
• ❌ Tower NPCs and ❌ eliminated players are permanently excluded
🏢 Civilization System – Cleared Floors
• Cleared Tower floors become:
o ✅ Livable
o ✅ Settled
o ✅ Owned zones of human expansion
• Players may:
o ✅ Create guilds, cities, homes, shops, taverns, families
o ✅ Permanently move in and live on cleared floors
o ✅ Establish businesses, outposts, schools, hospitals, and more
• Non-climbers (Earth civilians) may:
o ✅ Enter and live on cleared floors
o ❌ Never enter uncleared or locked Tower zones
🕰️ Global Floor Lock
• After every cleared floor:
o ⏳ 20 Earth days until the next Tower floor unlocks
o Applies to:
Tutorial survivors
New players
Guilds
Wang Ling
🧊 MC Status – Wang Ling
• ✅ Eligible for all systems
• ✅ Subject to cooldown and return
• ❄ Chooses not to return, not to build, not to engage
• 🕶 Remains cold, solitary, unseen, walking the Tower alone
🌌 Scene Continues…
Return Gates opened across the world.
In Seoul. Cairo. Rome. Lagos. São Paulo.
Families screamed.
Governments scrambled.
Guild founders called press conferences.
And behind it all,
Wang Ling remained seated on black stone, blade across his knees.
He read the update silently.
"A second Earth…"
"Good."
"Let them start again without starting over."
He didn't smile.
But for a moment, he closed his eyes.
Behind him, the Tower reconfigured.
Ahead, Floor 12 stirred beyond a frozen gate.
Above, Earth reshaped its politics around cities built inside a dungeon.
And no one knew the truth.
That it was all possible because he had come back once —
Alone.
Silent.
And unseen.