Kang Min was in the middle of a conditioning sequence in the floor fifty transit zone, the kind of low-intensity maintenance work he ran between active floors to keep his body calibrated without pushing the recovery curve. He had just finished the third set when the system window opened without being called, which was how the Tower announced things it considered significant enough to interrupt whatever the climber was doing.
[RANKER THRESHOLD ACHIEVED]
[Floor Position: 50]
[Climber Designation: Active]
[Registry Status: Updating]
