Clearing Multiple Floors

Kael's eyes narrowed further, the casual lightness in his tone completely gone now. "So… the hidden monsters are starting to crawl out from the cracks."

Across the vast city gathered around the Tower of Epoch, others were beginning to notice as well. But all of this had nothing to do with Apollo, who now appeared in front of his second challenge.

The moment he opened his eyes, he found himself standing on a floating landmass suspended in a sea of stars.

Above him, constellations shifted unnaturally—as if alive—gazing down like silent judges. Below, a seemingly bottomless void loomed, swirling with chaotic fragments of destroyed worlds and broken laws. The platform he stood on was ancient, inscribed with shifting runes that pulsed with timeworn power.

Before him was an altar, but not a simple altar, as it started radiating mysterious light the moment he appeared. And the next moment, three shadowy figures walked out of it.