Austin Carter’s absolute victory in a single yawn did not just drain the oxygen supply from the Simulation Arena; it instantly triggered a mass panic among the high-ranking officials of the Tower Academy. In less than ten minutes after Jaxon Cross was hauled off to the medical bay looking like a piece of charcoal, the corridors of the central administration building were flooded with hurried, frantic footsteps. "This makes no sense! Re-check every single magic log in the arena!" "How can a support faction student with zero mana reverse a high-tier Inferno Burst?!" Inside the Primary Interrogation Room located at the apex of the Administration Tower, the atmosphere was suffocating. The obsidian-walled room was illuminated only by a pair of dim mana crystal lamps. In the center of the room, Austin Carter sat casually on a heavy iron chair. His blue-striped sleeping pillow was placed neatly on his lap, and he held it tightly as if it were the most precious treasure in the world. In f

The shock from the simulation arena duel and the administration corridor incident had not even had time to settle, yet the high management of the Tower Academy made an extreme decision. In order to suppress the mass panic and the rumors of conspiracy circulating around, the schedule for the Floor 2 Trial was abruptly moved forward. Every single new student, without exception, was immediately mobilized toward the Dimensional Portal Gate constructed by the tower. "Attention, all students! The Floor 2 Trial is no longer a simple forest simulation!" Vice Headmaster Katherine's voice boomed in front of the portal room. "You will be deployed into The Zombie City. A dead city teeming with thousands of high-caste, toxic Undead and Zombies. The time limit for survival and elimination is twenty-four hours!" In the corner of the support faction's ranks, Austin Carter stood cradling his blue-striped sleeping pillow tightly. His eyes were bloodshot and the dark circles under his eyes had blacken

BOOM! A massive seismic explosion suddenly shook the heart of the Zombie City, collapsing the remaining concrete walls of the buildings around where Special Team 1 was holding their ground. In that exact instant, the thousands of ordinary Undead that had been rampaging suddenly froze. Concurrently, they all dropped to their knees on the asphalt, bowing their heads as their bodies trembled in absolute terror. "W-What is this aura?!" Balthazar coughed up a mouthful of blood, his knees instantly clanging against the ground. His face turned deathly pale as he felt a suffocating wave of dense magical oppression choke off his mana pathways. Selena Vance panted heavily, using her silver rapier as a crutch to keep herself from kneeling. Her beautiful eyes widened to their absolute limits as she stared toward the end of the main avenue. There, the darkness of the night seemed to solidify, revealing a colossal, eight-meter-tall monster walking slowly, yet crushing every single inch of asphal

The atmospheric pressure in the heart of the Zombie City plummeted to its absolute nadir. The Mutant Zombie King, who had just been standing tall as the apex predator of Floor 2, was now completely trembling. Its bloated, grotesque body shook violently, causing the massive iron chains embedded in its rotting flesh to clank in utter terror. Every beastly instinct in its head screamed hysterically, telling it to turn around and flee as far away as possible from the youth cradling the sleeping pillow. However, the oppressive aura passively released by Austin's body had absolutely locked down the surrounding space. The Zombie King could not even lift its feet, which suddenly felt as heavy as millions of tons. "W-What is this aura... What kind of pressure is this?!" Balthazar, who was sprawled flat on the asphalt several dozen meters behind, coughed violently. His face turned blue, forced to kiss the ground by the weight of the conceptual gravitational pressure that had suddenly material

The silence of the night in dormitory room 404 continued after Selena Vance stepped out with incredibly quiet footsteps, careful not to disrupt their newfound agreement. Atop his foam mattress, Austin Carter still kept his eyes closed. However, his consciousness had not fully submerged into an ordinary dream realm. Behind the darkness of his eyelids, a neon-blue digital interface suddenly flared to life with an exceptionally bright glow. [Ding! Synchronization of hidden Floor 2 boss clear rewards complete.] [Extracting unique reward item from the elimination of 'Mutant Zombie King'...] [You have obtained a Bound Unique Item: Memory Fragment of the Pantheon Guild x1.] [Description: A conceptual memory fragment locked within the soul core of the anomalous target. Contains past truths deliberately erased from the Tower's history.] Austin furrowed his brows in his sleep. A reward item? Usually, his AFK system only spat out pure gold, ene