The start was always the same. This is where the real run started.

I had twenty minutes until the finished their prep talk.

I bounced, [Flare], [Puppetry] [Quick Thinker] and [Bullet Time] allowed me to move quickly.

There were millions of tutorial bubble cities, and they funneled up the towers.

This level was a lightly forested area, where players would begin getting used to their new skills and attributes against monsters. It was also where players would start to form teams and alliances.

The forest had groves, more dense areas where you could defeat a [Forest Lord] boss monster to get some loot and move to the next floor.

My bounding took me past many weaker monsters, and I would occasionally land, and then leap off the odd monster to gain speed.

The trees flew past, but the sky always stayed the same ambivalent grey.

After reaching my target grove, I sped into the center, towards a quivering mountain of jelly, and shoved my hand, still bleeding and holding a glass shard, deep into it. My aim was true.

I ignored the following messages, and quickly allocated my stats.

What I was going to do next was risky, I had been reading through early interrogation logs, and had come across some interesting information.

“Allocate all stats to charisma!”

A moment later, the mimic finished evaporating, and I picked up my cornerstone for this part of the run.

The sword started out as a non-descript katana.

I held it against my face and concentrated.

It deformed and flowed around my body into a thin suit of armor, however, the outside took on the thin and pale form of an

were the “Support and Management” staff of the tower. Anytime anything weird happened, like any game breaking etc, they were supposed to be sent out to deal with it. After interrogations, it had been determined that they were basically clones who had the personalities and memories copied from past victims of the tower, with some things selectively removed.

Most runs had to deal with them eventually, but I was doing something different.

I ignored the portal to Level 2 opening behind me, and waited.

Appeared after a few minutes' wait.

A couple seconds later, another portal opened.

“Hey Lorpth, I think my workstation messed up, sorry to call you down here like that”

I spoke quickly, rushing past him into the portal.

“Hey wait!” Lorpth called out behind me.

“I'm late!” I yelled back.

I pretended to trip over the edge of it, and hit the portal dial.

The portal closed, and I was behind enemy lines.

I quickly shifted the [Mimics AnySword] to look like Lorpth.

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The portal led to a hallway made of white nothing. There were other here and there, and I waved as I passed them by.

“Lorpth! What are you doing?” A voice rang out.

Busted.

I was nearly where I needed to be though, so I broke form, and started to bound away. Alarmed shouts were starting from the nearby

My destination was close though. A portal was open, where an assistant was in the middle of fixing a broken boss on the 98th floor.

I slapped the dial as I flew through, and the portal closed behind me. We were on a plateau above the [fields of blood and suffering].

An was tinkering with a massive golem. A massive array of rune lines twisted between them and the monster.

I bounded towards her, and as I got close, I grabbed a rune line, and snapped it.

Holding on to one end, I dragged it towards them. Their wyes widened as I shoved the rune line end into their face.

The energy overflowed, and the assistant was blown thirty feet backwards.

They did not get back up.

I ignored them, and focused on the rune lines.

After grabbing a few, and consulting with the diagram in my head, I connected a few seemingly random ones.

I had some time now to think. The giant golem was starting to glow an ominous blue.

This run was so much more successful then I had expected. I hadnt even included this route on the itinerary because the likelihood of it happening was almost nothing. Sure I had planned, and scouted for decades to do this, but I never had a chance to see what had only been theorized.

When A boss is defeated out of order, before you had cleared a boss on the floor below, the system gets an error, and through some faulty logic, when it assumes you killed a boss, and the boss is still alive, you get the experience for it.

Explosions started going off in the giant, and a cascade of notifications appeared.

…

…

I had never seen that many errors before, but it showed that I was right!

That’s not good

I was going to be in a lot of trouble.

I put the AnyBlade in my mouth and made it into a helicopter.

<[Wish of Beginnings] has activated>

Suddenly…

I was back in my old apartment.

Better make myself some breakfast and wait for the jury.

I watched out my window as a group of people went through the habit of freeing Darrel from his car.

I waved at him.

He waved back.