The battlefield was already broken.
Mountains cracked.
The sky torn open.
Ninety percent of the army flattened into debris and shattered cores.
Only two forces remained standing.
Kael and the Delta Chieftain – Level 130.
Its armour was fractured across the torso. Gravitational sigils flickered erratically. The rotating core within its chest glowed violently unstable.
Yet it stood. It refused to collapse. It raised both twin blades.
The air screamed in vibration of the enormous pressure.
All remaining elemental signatures fused around it fire, frost, gravity, bone, shadow. The battlefield began warping inward toward its core.
Finally, the boss is going all out with its last amount of power left behind.
Shen Yao did not interfere.
Kael exhaled once. His aura was fully released but the aura which was released is showed chaotic and wild and structured.
A visible pressure field extending nearly fifty meters now dense enough to distort the horizon line.
The Chieftain roared and vanished from sight.
It moved with absolute burst of power.
Reappearing above Kael twin blades descended in a cross-execution arc capable of splitting the entire plain.
Kael stepped forward. He raised both hands.
Authority condensed into twin compression points around his palms.
The blades collided the impact erased sound.
Stone vaporized in a massive circle. Shock waves rippled to the surrounding mountains and shattered their peaks completely.
But the blades stopped. Kael held them.
The Chieftain pushed downward with everything.
Sigils ignited violently. Kael's boots sank into the fractured ground.
His aura flared brighter.
Then he pushed upward.
The twin blades cracked from base to tip.
The Chieftains arms trembled.
Kael rotated his grip shattered both weapons completely and stepped inside its guard.
The Chieftain responded instantly. It unleashed its core.
A point-blank gravitational implosion detonated outward.
The battlefield collapsed inward toward the Chieftains' chest in a spiraling vortex.
Kael was pulled in but so was everything else.
This wasn't a push. It was collapse.
Kael understood immediately.
This boss was built to destroy itself if dominance was inevitable.
Fine. Kael did not resist the pull.
He walked into it. The aura around him compressed tighter than it ever had before.
Fifty meters shrank to twenty. Twenty to ten. ten to five.
Every ounce of released authority folded inward like a star collapsing.
The Sovereign's implosion intensified.
The ground beneath them disappeared entirely.
Only gravitational distortion remained.
Kael reached the Chieftains' chest.
Placed one hand directly over the exposed core.
And then he did not punch. He released everything inward.
All compressed authority detonated in reverse into the core.
For one frozen second nothing moved.
Then the Chieftains 's core shattered from the inside.
Cracks spidered across its entire composite body.
Fire extinguished.
Frost vaporized.
Gravity sigils imploded.
Shadow disintegrated.
The Chieftain's massive frame froze mid-motion and exploded into fragments of dead energy.
The implosion stopped the battlefield stabilized.
Silence. Absolute silence.
Kael stood alone in the center of a crater nearly one hundred meters wide.
His aura slowly stabilized around him again, but it was different.
No longer raw atmospheric pressure. It felt… controlled.
Shaped. Defined.
Then the system activated.
[Floor 20 Cleared]
[You have Restricted Yourself from 11–20]
[All Skills, Talents, and System Abilities Unused]
[Unique Evolution Triggered]
The sky above rippled.
Then a global system voice echoed across every registered climber within the Tower.
[GLOBAL ANNOUNCEMENT]
Floor 20 Cleared.
New Record Established.
Rank 1 – Line Emperor.
Clear Type: Absolute Suppression.
Previous Rank 1: 10 Hours 11 Minutes.
New Record: 41 Minutes 32 Seconds.
Margin: Overwhelming.
Across the Tower ranking boards updated.
Floor 15 Rankings – Updated
Kael – 2 Hours 03 Minutes – Solo Authority Restriction
Elias Thorn – 5 Hours 47 Minutes – Party of 6
Marius Vane – 6 Hours 12 Minutes – Party of 8
Floor 20 Rankings – Updated
Kael – 41 Minutes 32 Seconds – Solo Authority Only
Valdrik the Ashborn – 2 Hours 11 Minutes – Elemental Class, party of 10
Hesperion – 2 Hours 33 Minutes – Saint-Tier Support Party
Then another notification.
[Hidden Title Condition Evolved]
[Hidden Title: One Second Executor]
[Activation Condition: Maintain Top Global Fastest Clear Record Across Three Boss Floors (5/3)
Floor 4 – 56 Minutes – Rank 1
Floor 5 – 2 Seconds – Rank 1
Floor 10 – Rank 1
Floor 15- Rank 1
Floor 20 – Rank 1
Condition Met.]
[Title Upgraded]
[Hidden Title Evolves]
[SSS Title: Emperor of Suppression]
[Effect:
All enemies below 80% of your Authority Rank experience fear status upon entry into domain.Authority Field efficiency +300%. Suppression against composite entities increases exponentially.Domain manifestation unlocked.]
Another notification followed.
[Massive Experience Allocation (Floors 11–20 Consolidated)
Floor 11 – Level Gain +3
Floor 12 – Level Gain +4
Floor 13 – Level Gain +4
Floor 14 – Level Gain +5
Floor 15 – Level Gain +6
Floor 16 – Level Gain +7
Floor 17 – Level Gain +8
Floor 18 – Level Gain +9
Floor 19 – Level Gain +11
Floor 20 – Level Gain +15]
Total Level Increase: +72
Kael's body trembled slightly as energy surged through him.
His level updated.
[Kael: Level 161]
His skeletal structure reinforced.
Muscle density increased.
Authority channels expanded.
But the final notification eclipsed them all.
[Unique Skill Created]
[Based on Continuous Authority Compression and Domain Emergence]
[SSS Rank Skill Acquired]
[Imperial Domain – Absolute Authority
Type: Active / Passive Hybrid
Description:
A manifested domain formed from stabilized Authority.
Within domain radius:
->All hostile entities suffer continuous suppression scaling to level gap.
->Movement speed, skill output and reaction time reduced proportionally.
->Fear and submission status applied to lower-tier entities.
->Environmental control within domain granted to user.
->Domain density adjustable at will.
Maximum Radius (Current): 60 Meters
Scalable with Authority Growth.
Cooldown: None
Cost: Sustained Authority Output]
Kael was amazed and shocked "Another SSS Rank skill, viewers will get angry when they see this, I hope the author upgrade the rank of the skills"
"Bu this skill and the hidden evolved title when combined nothing can beat me even when I climb to the upper floors".
"And the massive Level up that's crazy"
The battlefield floor beneath Kael subtly reshaped.
Stone fragments hovered briefly before settling.
The air bowed around him. This was no longer aura. It was domain.
Shen Yao descended slowly and landed in front of him.
He studied Kael for several seconds.
Kael looked at his hands.
"I need to learn how to control it properly" Kael said.
"Teach me."
Shen Yao's expression did not change.
"I already did and you did yourself the whole time"
Kael frowned slightly.
Shen Yao gestured toward the cratered battlefield.
"You compressed for ten floors."
"You released when necessary."
"You reshaped pressure into structure."
"You didn't learn a new skill."
He looked directly into Kael's eyes.
"You created it."
The wind across Floor 20 moved gently for the first time.
Shen Yao turned slightly toward the now-forming gateway beyond the crater.
"Authority isn't given" he said calmly. "It is recognized."
Kael closed his eyes briefly.
He felt it clearly now.
The domain around him responded to thought.
Expanded slightly then contracted.
Stable and controlled.
When he opened his eyes there was no strain.
Only quiet dominance.
There was a time where one day he felt so useless in the world and now he has the massive power surge within him just because he was chosen by the architect, but now the question is when will I meet him and also about the planet eater, its been 10 days entering the tower and now he just cleared 20th floor and still many more to go.
The gateway to Floor 21 began forming at the far end of the ruined battlefield.
Massive. Unfamiliar. Unseen territory.
Kael stepped forward. The domain moved with him and he could control it by its will.
And it was simply present, structured and recognized.
Behind him Floor 20 lay silent.
Ahead the Tower rose higher.
And for the first time Kael was not merely climbing it.
He was shaping the space around him as he did.