He took on the fable on floor forty-three.
The floor was a standard-architecture scenario with a hidden fable layer underneath it — the kind the Tower built into certain floors in the mid-ranges where the standard scenario was clearable by most climbers who reached it, but a secondary completion condition existed for climbers who had the density accumulation to perceive and engage with the floor's deeper structure.
Kang Min had known about the fable layer from his old-world records. He had marked it in his internal catalog when he first mapped the mid-range floors in the current cycle. He had been saving it.
The fable was mid-tier rather than myth-grade — below what the fractures had prevented him from taking on, above what the restriction had permitted. A transitional test, not a ceiling push. He wanted to see what the framework handled before he returned to myth-grade accumulation.
