[Tower of Trial – Floor 1 | Day 30]
[System Broadcast – Global Announcement]
[Final Trial Countdown: 24:00:00]
[Remaining Awakened Pairs: 4,823,901]
[Mortality Forecast: 9.89% | Estimated Casualties: 964,780 Individuals]
They said the final day would be glorious. That victory would be within reach.
But as the last 24 hours began, victory felt like a mirage painted in blood.
The Tower's sky turned red.
Not crimson from a sunset. Not the soft scarlet of twilight. But red like a murder scene, like oxygen-deprived lungs and open wounds. The clouds above the merged sectors cracked apart as veins of light pulsed through them—pulses like a heartbeat. Like something living was watching from above.
No one cheered anymore.
---
[Scene: Sector 42 – Central Encampment]
Kaito Yamada lay flat on the ground, his head resting comfortably in Aya Shirogane's lap.
Her blade, Eternal Fang, was leaned against a broken stone pillar behind them, freshly cleaned and glowing faintly. Aya's eyes didn't blink. She watched the sky, her fingers instinctively moving through Kaito's hair in a way she didn't even seem to notice.
"Think we'll survive?" Kaito mumbled.
"No."
"Wow. Harsh."
"I didn't say we'll die either."
Kaito tilted his head up. "So, you're saying there's a chance?"
"I'm saying shut up before I cut out your vocal cords."
"Romantic."
Aya rolled her eyes. "And you call yourself an S-rank."
"I prefer the term 'morally flexible genius with plot armor'."
---
Around them, thousands of tents were pitched. Teams from every corner of the world had gathered here. F-ranks, E-ranks, and up to SS and even UR-rank Awakened had unified under a fragile alliance led by necessity. The death toll throughout the month had dropped from 10 million pairs to under 5 million. But today... today was different.
The system's latest global alert wasn't just a timer.
It was a warning.
Something was coming.
Something that even the Tower beasts feared.
---
[Scene: South Ridge – Ranking Zone]
The updated leaderboard buzzed with global chatter.
[Global Pair Rankings – Final Floor Countdown]
1. Dev Rajan & Meera Sharma – UR Rank (India)
2. Xenovia Kael & Elijah Voss – UR Rank (Vatican)
3. Leonardo Takashi & Chloe Wu – SSS Rank (Japan-China)
4. Dmitri Volkov & Anya Petrova – SSS Rank (Russia)
5. Aamir Khan & Faisal Rana – SSS Rank (Pakistan)
...
6. Aya Shirogane & ??? – UR Rank + ??? (Japan)
The mysterious pairing of Aya Shirogane and the masked male with a hidden rank had drawn attention from the beginning. Analysts from every continent tried to crack the data. How could a partner have no rank? No identity? No class?
The system simply marked Kaito Yamada with:
[Classification: ??? | Rank: — | Origin: System-Linked]
But what no one knew was that this unknown was the single anomaly across the Tower.
Aya stared at the board, her name in the top 30. "Still hiding your rank, huh?"
Kaito, sipping juice from a wooden flask, shrugged. "Mystery makes me sexy."
"You make me homicidal."
"A match made in heaven."
---
[Scene: East Cliff Base – Indian UR Pair]
Meera Sharma adjusted her golden shawl and narrowed her eyes at the horizon. The Tower's eastern sky now shimmered with distorted shapes—like silhouettes pacing inside a red-lit fog. Dev Rajan stood beside her, arms folded, eyes aflame.
"We've got 24 hours."
"Less," Meera corrected. "If that sky's a sign... something might start before the timer ends."
Dev's gaze hardened. "We stand by them."
"The masked one?"
She smiled slightly. "He makes jokes like a coward. But there's fear in his humor. Real power hides in the ridiculous."
Dev nodded. "I like that guy."
Meera grinned. "You just like his partner."
"She has good footwork."
"She nearly dislocated your jaw in sparring."
"Exactly."
---
[Scene: Tower Core – Forbidden Depths | Unknown Coordinates]
Chains rattled.
Each link bigger than a skyscraper. Stretching across black voids of space and time. They trembled now.
A low growl echoed.
A breath inhaled.
Reality buckled.
And then...
[Boss Designation: ??? – Awakening Progress: 8%]
[Warning: Cataclysm Class Entity Detected]
In the center of the void, one red eye opened.
The Tower was no longer a test.
It was a prison.
And the prisoner was about to walk free.
---
[Scene: Central Alliance Meeting – Nightfall]
Xenovia Kael slammed her gloved fist on the stone table. "We need a plan. A united front. No more scattered sects."
Aamir Khan stood tall. "Divide by region, but send URs and SSS ranks to lead each zone."
Elijah smirked. "You assume the Tower will let us do that."
"Assume we'll get wiped otherwise," Meera said flatly.
Aya remained silent, arms crossed.
Kaito munched on dried squid chips beside her. "Y'all are so intense. What if we just make a giant scarecrow and hope the boss gets confused?"
Everyone stared.
Kaito pointed at Meera. "She gets it. She laughed a little."
"I didn't," Meera said.
"Liar."
Aya muttered, "Why do I feel safer with him than all of you combined?"
No one had an answer.
---
[Scene: Global Communications Hub]
System messages began flooding in from around the world.
Sector 3 – Tokyo: Sky turned black. No sunlight.
Sector 17 – Amazon Zone: Beasts are retreating.
Sector 29 – Cairo: Awakened randomly fainting.
Sector 45 – Antarctica: Ice cracking beneath camps.
The Tower was shifting.
Changing.
Preparing.
---
[Scene: Sector 42 – Night Before The End]
Campfires crackled weakly. People held hands. Some cried. Others kissed. A few prayed.
And a few, like Kaito and Aya, just sat quietly under the sky, watching the clouds twitch with red electricity.
"Want to hear a secret?" Kaito said.
Aya blinked. "What?"
"I don't like fighting. I mean... I can, but... I'd rather be at home watching anime."
Aya stared at him.
"I like that you admit it," she said softly. "I hate pretending this is normal."
Kaito smiled. "Normal went out the window when I got a death contract with a goddess-level tsundere."
She hit him again, but it was gentle.
The wind carried whispers.
The Tower was breathing.
---
[System Alert – 00:00:00]
[Final Trial Initiated – Zone Fusion In Progress]
[Boss Awakening: 20%]
[Evacuation Disabled – Survival Locked]
The ground rumbled.
The entire Tower shifted—plates of stone rotating like gears.
Above them, the red clouds split open like torn skin.
And from the depths of the sky, a silhouette began to descend.
It had no shape.
No form.
Only malice.
---
Part 2: The Blood of Beginnings
[System Announcement – Tower Reconfiguration Complete]
[First Floor Map Unlocked – Global View Enabled]
[Warning: All Zones Now Merged – Survival Rate Dropping Rapidly]
[New Designation: Cataclysm Tier Trial Begins Now]
---
[Full Map – Tower of Trial | First Floor]
The First Floor of the Tower spans the equivalent of Earth's continents, divided into 50 vast sectors now fused into a single apocalyptic battlefield.
ZONE MAP:
1. Obsidian Ridge – jagged black mountains filled with death traps
2. Echoing Plains – a grassland that repeats every sound tenfold, perfect for ambush
3. Ashen Dunes – volcanic sand that burns flesh and senses
4. Glacier Scar – frozen tundra with monsters burrowed deep under the ice
5. Shattered Sky Ruins – ancient floating ruins where gravity bends
6. Crimson Marshlands – acidic swamps that devour metal and flesh
7. Steel Spine Range – a mountain range made of literal metal bones
8. Vortex Depths – a collapsing canyon with gravity pulses
9. Blightwood Forest – forest of trees that bleed and scream
10. Stormhowl Valley – lightning strikes every 5 minutes
11. Sunken Temple Grounds – submerged ruins hiding cursed beings
12. Howler's Cradle – where beasts endlessly spawn from fog
13. Fangscar Barrens – bone-strewn deserts with skeletal beasts
14. Ironveil City – a once-civilized warzone overrun by sentient AI monsters
15. Silent Hollow – no sound can be heard, even screams
16. Vermillion Keep – burning fortress with eternal war inside
17. Seraph Lake – deceptively calm, but souls scream beneath
18. Blackspire Swell – obsidian towers that drain mana
19. Whisperstep Reaches – illusions dominate reality
20. Gravemind Steps – massive staircase of bones leading nowhere
… (only the top 20 shown, rest remain unrevealed due to distortion)
---
[Scene: The Great Merge – Obsidian Ridge + Echoing Plains + Crimson Marshlands Core Zone]
The ground shook like an angry god's tantrum.
All zones began collapsing inward. Mountains toppled into grasslands. Forests were eaten by fire. Cities were crushed by oceans pulled from the Seraph Lake. Gravity distorted as floating islands from the Shattered Sky Ruins slammed into deserts.
The Tower's First Floor was now one world-sized battlefield.
Millions of Awakeners, stunned and terrified, gathered toward the center — a circular crater over 300 kilometers wide, where a throne of bones, gears, and flesh rose.
The sky above was cracked like a mirror bleeding red light.
A heartbeat echoed across every mind.
BOOM.
BOOM.
BOOM.
Each beat made reality blur.
And then—he appeared.
---
[Boss Arrival – First Floor Cataclysm Boss: Nihilux, the Devourer of Realities]
He had no true form.
Sometimes a titan.
Sometimes a formless mist.
Sometimes a child's shadow.
Other times, a burning angel with six faces.
He moved, and 30 Awakeners dropped dead instantly.
[System Alert: 10.2% of Participants Have Died]
[Global Mortality Update: 963,112 Casualties Confirmed]
Screams filled the sky.
F-ranks vaporized just by looking at him.
D-ranks turned to stone.
C-ranks bled from the eyes.
B-ranks ran.
A-ranks tried to fight and were erased.
S-ranks bought seconds.
SS-ranks bought minutes.
Only the URs still stood.
---
[Scene: Central Battlefield – Aya, Kaito, Dev, and Meera]
Kaito stood absolutely still. His mask cracked slightly under the immense pressure.
Beside him, Aya was bleeding from her nose. Yet her sword pulsed with a defiant aura.
Dev Rajan had fire running through his veins. Meera raised both hands, forming a crystalline barrier large enough to shield a city.
All four of them stood between Nihilux and the last surviving battalions.
"We can't beat that," Meera whispered.
"We can't even understand it," Dev added.
Aya stepped forward. "We don't need to understand. We just stop it. Somehow."
Kaito grinned. "Why do I get dragged into every suicide mission?"
Aya grabbed his hand. "Because you're too annoying to die."
His grin froze.
That was… kind of romantic?
---
[End of Part 2 Tease]
As Nihilux raised its hand, the sky split like paper.
The battle truly began.
---
Part 3: The Devourer Descends
The world went silent—utterly, impossibly, cruelly silent.
Then, the scream of a million souls shattered the air.
From the eye of the crater, the First Floor Boss rose—Nihilux, the Devourer of Realities.
It didn't walk. It manifested—an amalgamation of every fear the Tower had ever consumed.
One moment it was a winged horror with jaws that cracked open space.
The next, it was an obsidian tree dripping with golden blood.
Then, a serpent made of names—a living archive of fallen Awakeners.
[System Alert: Cataclysm Class Entity Detected]
[Estimated Combat Rating: Beyond UR]
[Survival Rate: 2.4%]
The system didn't even bother explaining anymore.
---
[Massacre Begins]
It raised one of its many limbs—if you could call it that—and pointed to the sky.
And then... the sky caught fire.
Hundreds of Awakeners caught in the open zones below were instantly turned to ash. No dramatic screaming. No final words.
Just oblivion.
Zone after zone fell into chaos:
Stormhowl Valley was ripped apart by thunder arcs that danced at Nihilux's command.
In Blightwood Forest, the trees wept black tears and strangled anyone near.
Ironveil City's mechanical sentries, once enemies, deactivated as if bowing to their new king.
[Update: 1,102,013 casualties – 11.3% of global Awakeners eliminated]
---
[Scene: Resistance Frontline – 5 Minutes In]
"Dev, Meera, split left!" Aya shouted, her hair drenched in blood, sword trembling.
"On it!" Meera yelled, hurling a radiant spear made of pure light.
Dev followed, launching a barrage of solar fists that cratered the ground.
Nothing landed. Every attack phased through the boss as if reality itself had denied them.
Kaito stood still, watching.
"Think. Think. What the hell is that thing? Why can't we touch it?"
Then, as if hearing him, Nihilux turned toward him.
---
[Boss Focus Shift: Target – Unknown Signature Detected]
[Entity ID: Masked Pair – Anomaly Classification: ???]
Aya dashed in front of Kaito, shielding him. "Stay behind me!"
"I think it's already too late for that," Kaito muttered, trying to control the rising chill in his chest.
---
[First Major Death – UR Rank: Ahmed Al-Mu'tazz (Egypt)]
Far to the right, another UR Awakened stepped in—Ahmed, ranked third globally, known for his Time-Break ability.
He raised both hands.
"Chrono Prism: 10 Seconds of Godhood!"
The world slowed.
Nihilux froze.
The battlefield stilled.
Ahmed moved like lightning, creating copies of himself, each slicing at different parts of the boss's shifting form.
And then…
Snap.
All at once, time reversed, and he stood exactly where he'd started.
His head slowly fell from his shoulders.
A pause. A hush. And then his body dissolved into sand.
[UR Rank: Ahmed Al-Mu'tazz – DECEASED]
[Only 9 UR Rank Awakeners Remain Globally]
---
[Scene: Emotional Fallout]
Meera screamed. She had known Ahmed since the Trials began.
Dev grabbed her hand. "Focus. We lose our heads, we're next."
Aya gritted her teeth, barely holding her stance. Her blade, usually glowing, dimmed.
Kaito remained unreadable behind his cracked mask.
But inside?
"We're bugs. We're just... bugs to it."
---
[Comedy in Chaos – Kaito Being Kaito]
As Nihilux floated above, preparing another reality-distorting attack, Kaito raised a hand like a student in class.
"Excuse me—do we have a safe word?"
Aya stared at him, stunned. "You're joking? NOW?!"
He shrugged. "Humor's a defense mechanism. Also, we're very, very, very screwed."
Behind them, Nihilux's next move vaporized twenty more fighters—one of whom was mid-monologue about love and destiny.
"Tragic," Kaito muttered. "He didn't even finish his character arc."
---
[Boss Approaches – Direct Combat Begins]
Nihilux extended a tendril made of screams.
Dev and Meera tried to block it with their combined barrier: Solar Dome – Mirror Womb.
It shattered on impact.
Aya lunged forward, her blade shifting forms mid-swing.
"Celestial Form: Crescent Severance!"
For the first time, the boss twitched.
The blade touched it.
Barely. A scratch.
But it was enough.
[Status Effect: Harm Inflicted on Nihilux – Unquantifiable]
And then… the boss roared.
Not in pain.
In acknowledgment.
Like a predator who found a worthy challenge.
---
[To Be Continued…]
As Nihilux descended in full, darkness blanketed the merged battlefield.
Hope flickered.
But the fire hadn't gone out.
The final moments of the First Floor trial had begun.
---
Part 4: Feast of Despair
---
The battlefield was no longer a battlefield.
It was a graveyard. A warzone warped by madness.
The zones—once so distinct—were now shredded, overlapping like torn paper:
Ironveil's metal chunks crashed into the corrupted forests of Blightwood.
Stormhowl's thunderskies fused with Emberdeep's lava pits.
Terror itself flowed like liquid through the cracks.
And Nihilux—the boss—no longer floated above.
It walked.
Each step birthed a miniature apocalypse.
Reality twisted, screamed, and bled under its feet.
[Boss Evolution: Nihilux - Phase 2]
[Title Gained: The Absolute That Devours Stars]
[Combat Rating: Unclassifiable]
It looked human now.
Sort of.
It had adopted a mockery of a body—an obsidian humanoid shell with six arms and three faces—each face weeping, laughing, and screaming in endless cycles.
---
[Scene: The Collapse of Resistance]
Ten S-rank pairs—people who'd cleared dozens of Gate Raids—rushed in to buy time.
Ten pairs.
Twenty elite Awakeners.
Gone in ten seconds.
No explosions. No gore.
They simply vanished—deleted from existence.
Their names were removed from the System. Their history, gone.
"It's unmaking people!" Meera shrieked. "It's not killing them. It's erasing them!"
Dev roared, launching a fusion move—"Solar Veda: Dusk Reversal!"
A golden wave of compressed suns raced forward.
The boss caught it.
With. Its. Fingers.
"Impossible..." Dev whispered.
---
[System Announcement – Global Broadcast]
[Urgent Alert: Floor 1 Boss has entered Second Phase]
[Global Rankers Falling]
[Survival Rate Reduced to 0.9%]
[Remaining UR Rank Awakeners: 6]
---
[Another Death – UR Rank: Yuki Takahara (Japan)]
Yuki, the Ice Queen, descended from a frost dragon, her body emanating Absolute Zero.
"Glacier's End: Frozen Sunfall!" she yelled.
A storm of crystallized stars descended.
For a moment, Nihilux froze.
Then it laughed.
And the ice shattered—not physically, but conceptually.
Yuki turned to run—
A single dark thread pierced her heart.
She fell, smiling sadly. "Sorry… guess this is where my arc ends…"
[UR Rank: Yuki Takahara – DECEASED]
[Remaining UR Rank Awakeners: 5]
---
[Scene: Aya's Rage – "Queen Mode"]
Aya stepped forward, her aura spiking. Her eyes bled silver.
"You want a god? I'll show you one."
[System Alert: Celestial Queen Authority Activated – Rank: UR+]
[Unique Skill: Heavenly Wrath – Deployed]
Wings of starlight exploded from her back.
She lunged—twice as fast, ten times more focused.
A hundred slashes.
A thousand.
Blood—a black, tarry ichor—finally spilled from Nihilux.
The world blinked.
[Status: Nihilux – Damaged]
But…
Only one of its faces was scratched.
And then—
One of its arms elongated, warped like wet cloth, and slammed into Aya midair.
She crashed into a boulder, blood painting the sky.
"AYA!" Kaito yelled, heart skipping.
---
[Scene: Kaito – The Cracks Appear]
Kaito ran to her side.
She coughed, blood trailing down her chin.
"I'm… fine," she lied.
He knew she wasn't.
"Don't die," he whispered.
She gave a bloody smirk. "I thought you liked the idea of being free."
"I'm not joking," he said, voice trembling. "You die, I'll burn this damn Tower down."
---
[Nihilux Approaches]
It looked at Kaito.
Not at Aya. Not at Dev or Meera.
Him.
Its screaming face stopped.
Its laughing face grinned.
Its weeping face whispered: "Found you."
[System Error: Unidentified Entity Detected – Rank Suppressed]
[Unknown Awakening Imminent]
---
[Dev & Meera: Final Stand]
The Indian duo stepped in front of Kaito and Aya.
"We'll hold it," Dev said. "Wake her up. Or… do whatever you're planning."
Meera raised her twin chakrams. "Let's show it why we're UR."
[Fusion Skill: Vimana Collapse – Activated]
Their bodies burst into radiant avatars, drawing on Vedic lore—their weapons became divine, their forms celestial.
They clashed with Nihilux in midair.
It screamed.
They screamed louder.
A shockwave blew apart the ground.
For one glorious moment—Nihilux was pushed back.
But then—
One face opened its mouth.
And sang.
Reality melted where they floated.
[Dev – Status: Critical]
[Meera – Status: Bleeding Aura]
Still… they fought.
---
[Kaito's Awakening Begins]
Kaito knelt beside Aya.
His mask cracked.
A flicker of white flame licked across his hand.
Aya opened her eyes—barely. "What… is that?"
Kaito wasn't sure.
His head pounded. The Tower's air tasted like copper.
And inside him—
Something uncoiled.
A voice not his own whispered:
"Say the word."
"Kill it."
"Reality is your servant."
He clenched his jaw. "Not yet. Not yet…"
But the voice kept whispering.
---
[More Deaths – Side Characters We Knew]
A trio from Zone 13—C-rank hopefuls—stood their ground.
One had just awakened that week. He threw a knife.
It bounced off.
The boss crushed him with a thought.
Another side character—Haruto, the spear-thrower from Chapter 6—screamed in agony as Nihilux unthreaded his skin from his bones.
Haruto was the first to smile at Kaito after pairing.
Now, just dust.
Aya tried to stand.
She couldn't.
"I can't fight anymore," she whispered. "I'm sorry…"
Kaito shook his head. "You did enough."
Then he turned—
And walked toward Nihilux.
---
[To Be Continued in Part 5]
Nihilux noticed.
The world noticed.
Something ancient… divine… wrong… began to rise behind Kaito.
And for the first time, Nihilux backed away.
Just one step.
The battlefield had turned into a graveyard.
Of the hundreds who had entered the First Floor, only a handful still clung to life. The shattered earth was soaked in blood. Craters dotted the terrain like the pockmarks of a diseased corpse. The sky was no longer blue—it was a swirling vortex of crimson and black, reflecting the finality of what was about to happen.
Four figures remained standing—if it could even be called that.
Kaito Yamada, the quiet anomaly. Aya Shirogane, the Queen of Flames. Dev Sharma, the Indian Juggernaut. And Meera Iyer, the Blade Dancer of Delhi.
Every breath was pain. Every blink a gamble.
Opposite them loomed Nihilux, the First Floor Boss. It was no longer a creature of flesh or even logic. Its form shifted between incomprehensible states—smoke, bones, light, and something that pulsed like a dying star.
Three faces rotated around its head, each laughing with glee. Six arms stretched into the heavens, drawing down black lightning. The air itself rejected the idea of Nihilux. It should not have existed.
And yet, it did.
Aya's flames sputtered at her fingertips. Dev leaned on his warhammer, barely conscious. Meera's weapons were shattered, her hands shaking. Blood dripped from her eyes.
They had nothing left.
But Kaito walked forward.
No weapon. No aura. No visible power.
Just him.
The laughter of Nihilux stopped.
The creature looked down, curiosity etched into its constantly-morphing face.
"Erasure," it hissed. "You are beneath even that."
It pointed one elongated finger at Kaito. The sky fractured above him.
But Kaito didn't flinch. He closed his eyes.
He thought.
And that thought became the only truth in the universe.
( "You never existed." )
The moment the thought crossed his mind, the world stilled.
Not just time. Not just motion.
Everything.
The wind froze. The sky paused. The blood mid-air halted in place.
And Nihilux—
Screamed.
Not in agony. In disbelief.
Its body splintered into concepts—rage, terror, dominance—all of it torn apart at the seams.
It tried to run. Tried to blink away. Tried to plead.
But reality had already decided.
And it vanished.
Not killed. Not erased. Not defeated.
Unmade.
---
[SYSTEM ALERT – GLOBAL]
[BOSS DEFEATED: NIHILUX – STATUS: NULLIFIED] [FIRST FLOOR CLEARED] [WARNING: UNCLASSIFIED ENERGY SIGNATURE DETECTED] [RANK: UNKNOWN – ACCESS LEVEL: BEYOND TOWER PROTOCOLS] [USER: Kaito Yamada – CATEGORIZATION: ERROR] [UNIQUE ABILITY: "THOUGHT MANIFESTATION"] [EFFECT: ABSOLUTE REALITY OVERWRITE] [REWARD CALCULATION INITIATED…]
---
Kaito fell to his knees.
Blood poured from his ears. His nose. His eyes.
Aya caught him just in time, falling with him to the ground. Her eyes searched his face, full of terror.
"Why?" she whispered. "You weren't supposed to—"
Kaito smiled through the pain. A soft, genuine smile that didn't match the chaos.
"Because you were still standing," he replied. "And I didn't want to lose that."
And then his eyes closed.
He collapsed completely. Unconscious. Drained.
Aya sobbed.
Meera dropped to her knees.
Dev let go of his hammer, letting it hit the ground with a final thud.
They had survived.
But barely.
---
[SYSTEM BROADCAST – GLOBAL TRANSMISSION]
[TOWER OF TRIALS: FIRST FLOOR – CLEARED] [GLOBAL SURVIVAL RATE: 11.4%] [TOP CONTRIBUTORS IDENTIFIED – DATA SYNC IN PROGRESS]
[LEAD CONTRIBUTORS:]
1. Kaito Yamada – Classification: ERROR (??? Points)
2. Aya Shirogane – Rank: UR (78,250 Points)
3. Dev Sharma – Rank: UR (74,800 Points)
4. Meera Iyer – Rank: UR (71,940 Points) 5–10. Redacted for Data Privacy
[Next Floor Unlock Countdown: 364 Days Remaining] [Initializing Reward Packages for Survivors…] [Calculating Global Ranking System… Standby…]
---
Far above, in a place none could see, the Tower trembled.
One floor cleared.
Ninety-nine more to go.
But now, the Tower had taken notice.
Something ancient. Something deeper.
"He is here," a voice whispered from the 100th floor. "The anomaly. The one who should not exist."
The Tower's core pulsed once.
And for the first time since its arrival on Earth, it changed.
[END OF CHAPTER 10 – FIRST FLOOR COMPLETE]