📍 TOWER FLOOR 13 – [Mirrorverse Plain]
Floor Type: Paradox Simulation
Biome: Reflective Illusion Expanse
Ruleset:
🔁 "The Tower does not test what you can destroy. It tests what can survive you."
Threat Type: Adaptive Doppelwalker
Status: Wang Ling — Entered Solo
Floor Lock: Active
Earth Return: Enabled
Civic Settlement: Not Available
The entire floor was made of silvered ground.
Polished stone plains stretched infinitely in every direction—mirroring not just the body, but the soul.
Wang Ling stepped onto it without hesitation.
But the Tower didn't spawn enemies.
It waited.
Then it formed something worse.
A figure emerged from the horizon.
Not running. Not approaching.
Walking exactly in sync with him.
Breathing like him.
Eyes the same cold burn.
It looked exactly like Wang Ling.
Except… its sword was already drawn.
[🔁 SYSTEM NOTICE – REFLECTIVE SIMULACRUM SPAWNED]
Threat: [Doppelwalker – Class Ω]
Logic Seed: "You cannot surpass what you do not admit exists."
The false Wang Ling said nothing.
It did not mimic.
It moved with purpose.
Not a copy.
A question.
One only he could answer.
They clashed once.
And the floor trembled.
Neither had used a skill.
Neither had blinked.
Wang Ling's thoughts ran silent, precise:
"It's not a fight. It's a confession."
"It shows me what I abandoned to climb."
"My regret."
Every attack came from somewhere in his past:
• The hesitation before his first kill
• The moment he realized saving Earth meant nothing if he couldn't forgive it
• The scream he didn't release when he was betrayed at the top
Each strike was a word he never said.
But Wang Ling didn't waver.
He didn't speak.
He accepted.
And as the blade of the Doppelwalker carved a shallow line across his shoulder—he didn't flinch.
He just breathed and moved.
"I won't be forgiven. I won't forgive."
"I will simply outlive what tried to define me."
With one last step, he pressed his hand into the clone's chest—
—and didn't kill it.
He let it fall.
Unfought.
Unfinished.
Unanswered.
The Tower hesitated.
Then folded.
[✔ FLOOR 13 CLEARED – Wang Ling (SOLO)]
Unique Clearance: "Paradox Rejected"
🕰 Next Floor Unlock: 20 Earth Days
🌐 Return Access: Earth and Cleared Floors
⚠ Civic Layer Unavailable – No settlement permissions granted
Wang Ling sat down beside his reflection's final imprint, burned into the glassy ground.
He watched it for a while.
Then stood.
And walked forward.
Because that was all he ever needed.
Volume 1 Completion! 🎉