"He once wished on stars. Now he rips them down."
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Tower Floor 15 – Celestial Mirror
The floor opened to a sea of stars suspended in infinite sky.
Jin stepped into nothing.
Yet the void beneath his feet was solid—crystalline, clear, like walking across frozen glass. Above, the stars shone brighter than any real sky. Each was a fragment of divine light, a shard of hope forged into celestial form.
The system spoke:
> [Trial Initiated – Judgment of the Cosmos]
> Objective: Traverse the Celestial Bridge without succumbing to heavenly pressure.
> Warning: Those with impure hearts will be judged.
The bridge unfolded, a path of glass stretching through constellations.
Each step he took triggered a star above to flare.
And speak.
Voices from his past.
"You weren't strong enough."
"You should've died."
"No one loved you. No one ever will."
His old self might have wept.
This one smiled.
The stars didn't understand:
You cannot break a man already shattered.
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The Star Execution
A comet streaked down.
A fragment of a minor god, burning with celestial authority. It took human form—a luminous knight with wings of fractured galaxies.
Its armor radiated holy aura. Its face was a sun behind a mask.
> "You do not belong in this sky."
> "Your soul is polluted."
Jin's response was a whisper.
> "Good. Then let it rot."
The knight raised its blade, forged from a collapsing nebula.
Jin raised his hand.
> [Skill: Black Pyre – Celestial Bane]
The blade shattered before contact.
The knight's hand turned to ash.
It screamed, but the sound warped into static as Jin's aura overtook it.
> "You were forged in light."
> "I was reborn in ruin."
Jin slammed his fist through the knight's chest.
Pulled out a glowing, throbbing core—a miniature sun wrapped in soul-wire.
He crushed it.
Starlight bled like molten glass.
The knight's body imploded, showering the bridge in shards of bone made from collapsed galaxies. Where his remains hit the bridge, it sizzled and warped into black nothing.
> [Celestial Fragment Devoured – +2% Power]
> [Cosmic Integrity Falling]
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Angelic Descent – Massacre in the Skies
The stars above began to blink.
Not out.
But inward—drawn into Jin's shadow.
He walked the bridge, every footstep leaving behind cracks.
An entire battalion of angels descended.
Haloed figures wielding spears of light.
Wings like comets, voices like choirs.
He welcomed them.
With blades of bone.
With fire that burned the concept of sound.
The first angel landed.
Jin ripped her wings from her back.
She screamed, her voice echoing into her own skull. He forced the broken wings down her throat and twisted until she choked on her divinity.
Another tried to pray.
He laughed, then forced her to finish the prayer with his boot pressed against her lungs.
As she died, he carved a new symbol into her chest—his own name.
The sky fell into chaos.
He skewered five at once with a spear made from a constellation.
He crushed a seraph's skull by slamming it into the mirrored floor until her face became a smear of grace.
Feathers burned, blood turned to cosmic sludge, and the air filled with the scent of heaven's rotting breath.
> [New Passive Acquired – Star-Eater]
> – Absorbs celestial essence
> – Permanently nullifies divine vision
> – Can extinguish star-based spells or rituals
Jin reached the final star.
It spoke in a voice that shook the Tower.
> "You were once a child who wished."
> "You begged for light."
> "Why now do you destroy it?"
He looked up at the sky.
The stars stared down.
He whispered:
> "Because you watched while I died."
And he leapt.
Upward.
Into the sky.
Fist first.
He punched the final star—and the sky exploded.
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System Notification
> [Floor 15 Cleared – Judgment Failed: Star System Crushed]
> [Godslayer Progress: 64%]
> [Corruption: +18]
> [Heavenly Alert: STAR CLASS DEITIES WARNING – GLOBAL EXCOMMUNICATION ENGAGED]
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Outside the Tower – Global Nightfall
Astronomers panicked as entire constellations disappeared.
Star-based blessings failed.
Worshippers screamed as the sky fell silent.
Some tore their own eyes out.
Others stood in prayer until the cold killed them.
Entire towers powered by divine starlight collapsed in unison across continents.
> "There are no stars left."
> "Only him."
A child looked up at the night sky.
Saw only a silhouette in the void.
A plague mask.
A hand still raised.
Fingers curled into a fist.
The stars once granted dreams.
Now they granted only silence.
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