Nine seconds!

The blinking circle of light traversed the entire second floor in nine seconds, actually faster than his first floor completion.

BOOM!

Another explosive sound echoed across the Sanctuary. The second floor of the Tower of Life began to shine with luminosity that rivaled the first floor's eruption, verdant-gold radiance blazing outward to announce another record-shattering achievement.

The blinking light appeared on the third floor!

Initially, when observers had witnessed the first floor's phenomenon, they'd felt shock and incredulity. Some had even suggested the display was malfunctioning, that perhaps the observation system had encountered an error.

But now…

As they watched the exact same phenomenon begin to occur on the third floor, where that same blinking dot of green light started shooting across the display again...

Not even at the same speed.

Actually accelerating.

Their faces showed something beyond shock.

Horror!

Pure, undiluted horror at implications they couldn't fully process!

"What exactly is this?" Someone whispered, voice trembling. "What kind of candidate breaks three floors in less than thirty seconds combined?"

What exactly was this creature that Xar'vantheon had brought to their Sanctuary?!

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Inside of the Tower of Life.

Achilles felt like he was experiencing a transformation almost as pivotal and grand as when he'd broken the shackles of Limitation and devoured their Aspects. This sensation rivaled that cosmic moment when reality itself had acknowledged his ascension to the Level Zero Scale.

Because this time, the Living Existential Authority of Life he was gleefully Assimilating into his existence was something truly unfathomable to comprehend. It operated on principles that transcended conventional understanding of how authorities should integrate with one's being.

It felt like a type of authority meant for higher forms of life. Not just power or capability, but fundamental alteration to what life itself meant…transformation that touched upon the most basic definitions of existence and rewrote them according to grander paradigms.

Because the more he kept Assimilating it, the more his already grand existence was being altered and changed. The idea of Complexity, that measurement of how intricate and sophisticated his being had become, was being redefined at every moment he consumed this authority.

He was becoming a more complex lifeform. Each particle of Living Existential Authority that flooded into his cells elevated the fundamental architecture of his existence, making him more sophisticated, more refined, more... complete.

In addition to this, his existence was also becoming more pure. The corruption that always threatened him when he Assimilated too much too quickly, the existential degradation that should have accompanied such rapid integration…simply wasn't manifesting.

His Existence Corruption Value remained unfathomably low. Even while he Assimilated this incredibly complex authority, not a single percentage point was rising!

The purity of the Living Existential Authority seemed to actively cleanse rather than corrupt, refining his being toward greater resonance.

It felt like he could continue Assimilating this authority endlessly. There was no ceiling, no limit where his existence would reach saturation and reject further integration. The more he consumed, the grander his existence became…as if this particular authority had been designed specifically to facilitate unlimited growth.

At this moment, the grandeur of purple-gold within his eyes was gradually shifting. A hue of verdant-gold began bleeding through, mixing with his original coloration to create something that transcended simple description.

His hair began to shine with stellar light. The strands gradually transformed from their original coloration toward brilliant verdant-gold that seemed to contain living luminescence…each strand pulsing with concentrated Life energy.

And behind him…

An unfathomably grand pair of wings began to sprout from his back.

They emerged slowly, magnificently, unfolding with grace that suggested inevitability rather than sudden manifestation. Verdant-gold feathers materialized from nothing, each one containing concentrated Living Existential Authority compressed into physical form.

The wings spread outward, their span impressive enough to rival Xar'vantheon's own magnificent appendages. They weren't constructed or summoned…they were growing naturally, as if his existence had always been meant to possess them and was only now remembering this fundamental truth.

He felt like the level of his lifeform was becoming something unfathomably more advanced!

He crossed the first floor of the Tower of Life with this euphoric sensation flooding his consciousness. The second floor appeared before him…its pressure exponentially greater than what he'd just traversed, its concentrated Haki of Life pressing down with force that should have demanded careful adaptation.

Instead, he Assimilated it even faster!

The third floor manifested with even more intense pressure, even denser concentrations of authority. His existence consumed it with accelerating hunger, each floor's resistance becoming fuel that propelled him forward with momentum.

No…not with the same rapidity and speed.

He was actually accelerating because how quickly he Assimilated this authority was also increasing at an exponential rate!

Each floor made him more compatible with the next, each consumed fragment of Living Existential Authority making subsequent integration easier and faster.

It was a moment of unprecedented euphoria. His consciousness blazed with sensation that transcended pleasure or satisfaction…this was fulfillment at the deepest possible level, his existence discovering exactly what it had been craving without consciously understanding!

WAA!

Prompts began flashing before his vision. They materialized from his own consciousness processing the transformation occurring within his fundamental structure.

|Unprecedented Integration Detected.|

|Your existence is undergoing rapid metamorphosis through concentrated Assimilation of Living Existential Authority of Life.|

|Complexity Values: Increasing exponentially across all measured parameters. Currently undergoing quantification|

|Purity Values: Approaching theoretical perfection. Existence Corruption: 0.000001%|

|Transformation progressing beyond conventional evolutionary thresholds.|

HUUM!

More prompts blazed to life as his ascent through the Tower continued. The fourth floor, fifth floor, sixth…all consumed with the same impossible rapidity, all adding their concentrated authority to the fundamental changes reshaping his existence!

|Cellular Structure: Transforming toward higher-order biological architecture.|

|Energy Signature: Resonating with primordial frequencies associated with earliest epochs of observable existence.|

|Existential Classification: Undergoing reclassification from conventional categorization.|

|Analysis: You are becoming something other than what you were.|

The seventh floor. Eighth floor. Each one pressing down with pressure that should have required hours to adapt to, days to traverse fully. Achilles consumed them in seconds, his form blazing with verdant-gold radiance that made him appear less like a candidate being evaluated and more like a cosmic phenomenon tearing through carefully constructed testing mechanisms.

Then…

The final prompt manifested. This one carried weight that made all previous notifications seem trivial by comparison. Its words were written in light that seemed drawn from the deepest principles of existence itself.

|A sufficient amount of Living Existential Authority of Life has been Assimilated into your existence with such purity and complexity that fundamental reclassification is occurring.|

|You are transforming to become a genuine Living Life.|

|Definition: A Living Life is the product of embers from a Primordial Civilization that traces back to the earliest formation of currently observable existence. This designation transcends conventional evolutionary achievement to touch upon that heritage.|

|Your lineage now connects to THE Slumbering Genesis.|

|Note: This connection has been established even though you have not officially embarked on the Way of Life, nor formally entered The Primordial Civilization of Life through standard channels.|

|You have claimed inheritance through pure compatibility rather than ceremonial initiation.|

...!

Achilles's consciousness processed these implications even as his body continued its impossible ascent through the Tower's evaluation floors. His eyes blazed with verdant-gold radiance that threatened to eclipse their original purple-gold coloration entirely.

The Slumbering Genesis.

THE Slumbering Genesis!

What the fuck was that?

His wings spread wider behind him, now fully manifested and radiating authority that marked him as something other than what he'd been when entering this Tower.

The ninth floor materialized before him. Its pressure was overwhelming—force that should have crushed anyone who hadn't spent years cultivating their compatibility with Living Existential Authority.

Achilles crossed it in eight seconds.

BOOM!

The tenth floor appeared. The legendary level that supposedly no one had ever reached during their initial evaluation. The floor whose top one hundred rankings contained only names of beings who had become Dukes of Life… nobility whose achievements had elevated them to positions of unimaginable authority.

Achilles stood at its entrance. His verdant-gold eyes blazed with hunger that transcended mere ambition. His newly manifested wings spread behind him with magnificent span that made the surrounding pressure seem almost welcoming rather than oppressive.

And then…

He began to run!

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