"You want to know something funny?" I shouted at the Titan. Blood ran from my nose, my ears, my eyes. The pressure was liquefying my internal organs. "I’ve been going easy on you!"

The Titan’s six eyes focused on me. It recognized a threat.

I’d been holding back. Trying to clear this floor the "right" way. Trying to be the hero who saved everyone. The protagonist who brought his party through Hell Mode intact.

Fuck that.

I was the Singularity. I’d reached the 99th floor in the Old World. I’d looked gods in the eye and told them they were obsolete. I’d erased cities. Killed beings that thought themselves immortal.

And I’d been struggling on the nineteenth floor because I was trying to account for two random players I didn’t even know.

The laughter kept coming. My mana pool was screaming. [Singularity] wanted to evolve. It wanted to consume. It had been begging me to unleash it since I started this climb.

So why not?

The Titan swung its massive hand down. I could feel the space around me collapsing under its gravitational field.

I pulled my hand back, forming my fingers into a gun shape. Index and middle finger pointed at the Titan’s chest. Thumb cocked back.

Something changed in the air. The harpies stopped shrieking. The wind died. Even Ji-won and Sang-ho froze on the trail below, their boulders forgotten.

Inside my mind, the System spoke. But only to me.

『System Notification - Private』

『Player Kang Min has met hidden requirements for Skill Evolution』

『[Singularity] Level 5 [Event Horizon] evolution available』

『Warning: Evolution path undefined. Skill may develop unpredictably』

『Proceed?』

"Yes," I whispered.

『Evolution initiated』

『Analyzing player combat data...』

『Analyzing player psychological profile...』

『Analyzing spatial manipulation patterns...』

『New evolution path discovered』

『[Singularity] Level MAX unlocked』

『New Skill: [Paradox Singularity - Twin Phenomena]』

The knowledge flooded into my brain. I understood immediately what had been created.

A black hole swallows. A white hole expels. Both are solutions to the same equations. Both are singularities. Both shouldn’t exist in a governed universe.

I was about to make both exist in the same space.

At the tip of my finger, reality began to tear. Two points manifested, each no larger than a peanut. One was a void darker than darkness, drinking in light. The other was a point of searing brilliance that made the purple sky look dim.

They orbited each other, spiraling in a dance of mutual annihilation and creation. Where they touched, space itself screamed.

"What is that?" Ji-won’s voice was distant. Awed and terrified.

The Titan Warden roared. It raised both arms to defend itself. Its body was infinite regeneration. It was a literal part of the mountain. The forums said it was unkillable.

"Let’s test that," I said.

I fired.

The twin singularities didn’t move fast. They drifted forward, spiraling around each other in an ever-tightening helix. As they moved, the mountain began to scream.

The black hole swallowed. Stone, air, light. Everything within its reach vanished into the void.

The white hole expelled. The matter it absorbed from some other dimension exploded outward in waves of superheated plasma.

Together, they created a moving zone of absolute chaos. Annihilation and creation in the same breath.

The Titan tried to swat them away. Its massive hand passed through the spiral.

The hand ceased to exist. Atoms ripped apart and reassembled incorrectly. The Titan’s fingers became a spray of exotic matter that evaporated into radiation.

The spiral continued forward. It hit the Titan’s chest.

The black hole anchored itself in the obsidian heart. It began eating. Not quickly. Methodically. Creating a perfectly spherical void that expanded at a constant rate.

The white hole manifested at the void’s opposite edge. It began filling the cavity with something that was almost matter but fundamentally wrong. Crystalline structures that glowed with colors that didn’t have names.

The Titan’s roar became a shriek. Its infinite regeneration tried to compensate. New stone formed to fill the void. The white hole expelled it. The black hole consumed it. The cycle accelerated.

"[Paradox Singularity - Twin Phenomena]!" I shouted, pouring more mana into the spiral.

The twin points began to orbit faster. The zone of chaos expanded. Ten meters. Twenty. Thirty.

The Titan Warden started to collapse inward. Its obsidian skin cracked, revealing the strange light of the white hole’s expulsion beneath. The cracks spread. The Titan tried to regenerate.

The regeneration became part of the cycle. Fresh stone was created and immediately consumed. The white hole used that matter as fuel. Expelled more exotic crystalline structures. The black hole consumed those too.

The Titan had become a perpetual motion machine of its own destruction.

"Holy..." Sang-ho’s voice was faint with shock.

The mountain itself started to lean toward the spiral. The Gravity-Golems fell apart, their component stones drawn into the maelstrom. Harpies tried to flee. The ones too close were shredded by the tidal forces, their flint feathers turned to dust.

I kept my fingers pointed at the Titan. My arm was shaking. The mana drain was catastrophic. My veins were burning. The skin on my hand was charring black.

The Titan made one last attempt. It lunged forward, trying to grab me before it fell apart completely.

"[Exchange]," I gasped.

I swapped positions with my own boulder. Appeared behind it, using the five-meter obsidian sphere as a shield.

The Titan’s hand closed around the Boulder of Sin instead of me.

The boulder touched the spiral.

Everything stopped.

The Boulder of Sin was a spiritual weight. The collective regrets of a thousand dead men. It had mass beyond the physical.

The black hole tried to swallow it. The white hole tried to expel it.

Neither succeeded.

The paradox intensified. The twin singularities began to feed on each other, spiraling faster and faster until they blurred into a ring of alternating void and light.

The ring began to expand.

"Ah," I said quietly. "Miscalculated."

The expanding ring hit the Titan. The sixty-meter boss simply ceased to exist in a band across its chest. No explosion. No collapse. Just gone. Erased from reality by the grinding contradiction of existence and non-existence occupying the same space.

The ring kept expanding. It hit the mountain trail. Stone vanished in a perfectly circular cut.

"RUN!" Ji-won screamed. He and Sang-ho abandoned their boulders, sprinting down the trail.

I was still behind my boulder. The ring was three seconds from reaching me.

I could Exchange away. Swap with a rock fragment outside the radius. Live to climb another day.

But I was laughing again. That wild, broken laughter.

Why run? This is beautiful.

The ring hit the Boulder of Sin. The spiritual weight met the physical paradox.

The ring stopped expanding.

For a moment, everything was silent.

Then the boulder shattered. A thousand pieces of obsidian exploded outward, each piece carrying a fragment of spiritual weight. The twin singularities, suddenly freed from their contradiction, collapsed into each other.

The resulting implosion created a shockwave that stripped the stone off Mount Agony. The purple sky turned white. The harpies were pulled into the vacuum and obliterated. The Gravity-Golems simply ceased to exist.

The Titan Warden, already bisected by the ring, fell apart into geometric chunks. Its "unkillable" body met a force that ignored the concept of health bars, regeneration, or continuity of existence.

The chunks fell into the crater where the Titan had stood. The impact created a secondary shockwave.

I was thrown backward, tumbling down the mountain trail. My boulder fragments rained down around me. One piece the size of my fist struck my shoulder, shattering the bone. Another grazed my temple, opening my scalp to the bone.

I hit the ground at the mountain’s base. My second heart vanished.

I lay there, staring at the sky. The white light was fading. The purple twilight was returning. My hand was still in the gun shape, fingers charred to the bone, skin peeled away by spatial friction.

My mana pool was empty. Dry. A hollow well in my chest.

I started laughing again. Quieter this time. Delirious.

"That was... that was stupid," I wheezed.

The summit portal, the trap designed to look like salvation, flickered and died. A new gate opened in the center of the impact crater. Brilliant white. Real.

『Main Scenario: The Myth of the Sisyphus Protocol - COMPLETED』

『Clear Result: CATASTROPHIC TRUE CLEAR』

『Condition: The Boulder has shattered. The Warden has been erased. The Loop is severed at the source.』

『Player Kang Min has achieved a ’Disaster-Class’ feat』

『Warning: Floor stability compromised. Evacuate immediately.』

Ji-won and Sang-ho appeared at my side. Their faces were pale. They looked at the crater where the Titan had stood. At the perfectly circular cuts in the mountain where the ring had passed. At the fragments of obsidian scattered across the base.

"You... you destroyed the floor," Sang-ho whispered.

"No," I coughed. Blood bubbled from my lips. "I completed it."

"That wasn’t magic," Ji-won said. His metallic skin had returned to normal. He was staring at my charred hand. "What was that?"

I didn’t answer. I just looked at the fading distortion in the air where the twin singularities had been. In the Old World, I’d used similar techniques to erase cities. To kill beings that called themselves gods.

I shouldn’t have used it, I thought distantly. The Tower is watching. The Constellations are leaning in now. I just showed them exactly what kind of monster is climbing their stairs. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

But another part of me didn’t care. The part that had been laughing. The part that had stopped trying to save everyone and just destroyed everything in its path.

That part felt alive for the first time since regression.

"Get up," I said, forcing my shaking legs to stand. My charred hand hung useless at my side. "The twentieth floor is the milestone. Let’s see if the Tower has anything left that can actually stop us."

We walked toward the white gate. Ji-won and Sang-ho kept their distance. They’d seen what I really was.

I was the Singularity. And I’d stopped pretending to be anything else.

The live stream chat was probably exploding. Players watching from safe zones, commentators trying to explain what they’d just witnessed. To them, it looked like high-level magic. A spectacular spell. They couldn’t comprehend the truth.

I’d violated the fundamental laws of the Tower’s physics. Created a paradox that should have collapsed the floor entirely. Erased an unkillable boss by making it part of an impossible equation.

And I’d enjoyed every second of it.

That was the disturbing part. The laughter hadn’t been pain or madness. It had been joy. Pure, unfiltered excitement at finally cutting loose. At finally using the power I’d been hoarding like a miser counting coins.

When was the last time I felt this alive?