Tower Branch – The Oblivion Path: Floor 0X1
The instant he crossed, the world turned grey.
Not lifeless, but empty. This was a dead floor. A broken one. The kind the Tower abandoned when no Architect could stabilize it.
Yet... something lived here.
Ruins stretched endlessly in all directions—familiar and foreign, echoing pieces of earlier floors, as if the Tower had tried to rebuild past memories and failed. Leon walked through crumbled remains of things that resembled the Obsidian Arena, fragments of the Dwarf Forgehalls, echoes of the Mirror Floors.
Memories. Just without their meaning.
Until he reached the center.
There, floating above a cracked dais, was a single throne—upside down. Beneath it hovered a figure chained in silence. His presence wasn't massive. His aura wasn't violent. But the Tower bent around him.
Not in fear.
In debt.
The figure's eyes opened as Leon stepped closer. No announcement. No threat.
Just a voice.
