I stared at the notifications hovering before me, my chest tightening with every passing second. My heart pounded so fiercely it felt as if it might tear straight out of my ribs.
There was simply… too much.
Too many impossible messages. Too many cosmic implications. Too many things that had no place appearing in my story — not yet, not now.
First, that being. The Librarian of Records. A name that shouldn't have appeared for at least another three years.
Then the talents… three affinities… and even a physique.
In the original book, Arthur awakened only dual affinity for space and time, and a single SS-rank talent.
But here I was, staring at something that shattered the established narrative.
Something that did not exist.
Something forbidden.
"…Null."
The moment the word slipped from my lips, the void around me shuddered.
Not gently. Not subtly. It quaked as if the very laws of existence revolted against the utterance.
As if I had spoken a command that reality rejected. As if the word itself was taboo.
Then, just as abruptly, the trembling stopped and the universe fell still again — silent and suffocating.
A cold bead of sweat slid down my forehead.
Because a memory resurfaced. A line from the deepest parts of the novel — from a chapter so obscure that even the protagonist barely recognized its meaning.
Inside the ancient ruins of Faronotha, engraved upon the wall of a forgotten temple, lay a single cryptic warning:
"Those who bear the mark of the word that must not be spoken shall enter the Temple of the Forgotten —the place where reality collapses and matter becomes anti-matter.— The Last Voidwalker."
That temple was sealed. Locked behind restrictions no mortal or god could bypass.
In the book, Aldric discovered those ruins on Floor 78 during a cosmic trial — one that forced him to cross galaxies within the Tower.
Even then, he wasn't permitted to enter. He simply marked the location and left, intending to return later.
He never did.
So why… why was Null attached to me?
I shook my head, forcing my thoughts to focus.
"One thing at a time. Status first."
I took a breath.
"Status."
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Name: Arthur Von Vormir
Titles:
Age: 16
Core Level: 0
Core Rank: Novice
Talents:•
Affinities:•
Physique:•
Bloodline:•
[Stats]Strength: 12
Agility: 11
Defense: 12
Vitality: 14
Charm: 25
Mana: 21
Null Energy: 5
Skills: Swordsmanship (Basic), Dimension Shift
World Points: 12
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I released the breath I'd been holding.
"My stats jumped more than I expected… and I got a skill too — Dimension Shift."
My gaze shifted to the first title. Information unfolded.
[Title: The One Who Knows Too Much]
Description: You are an anomaly who possesses knowledge that should not exist. You know the inevitable — and that is your weapon against fate.
Effect:• Intelligence (hidden stat) +40%
I swallowed.
Forty percent?
That was absurd for a title.
I moved to the next.
[Title: The Lord of the 4th #$%&^! Dimension]
Description: As the bearer and embodiment of the NULL Dimension, you are acknowledged as its sovereign. You are, in truth, a fragment of Null given form.
Effect:• No one may scry, observe, or track you within the Tower unless you permit it.
My hands trembled slightly.
This was beyond overpowered.
In the Tower, beings above Floor 90 could observe lower-floor trials — a scouting system for ancient powerhouses.
But this title stopped all of them.
It hid me from every future threat before they even realized I existed.
In the original story, Aldric spent years obtaining a much weaker observational resistance skill.
Yet here I was, fully hidden from the moment I awakened.
The third title slot was locked, so I left it alone.
Then my eyes fell to the thing that bothered me most.
The talent I didn't understand. The power that wasn't in the book. The word the universe itself trembled to hear.
The NULL Dimension.
A shiver crawled along my spine.
No matter how I looked at it…
This talent wasn't simply "strong."
It was something the world did not want to acknowledge.
Something that should not exist.
And yet—
It belonged to me now.