The floors above seventy-five were deeper.
Not harder in the accumulation sense — the fable density they drew from was calibrated for a convergent being's compound output rather than an accumulation-class climber's sequential processing. They were harder in the way that a more complex instrument was harder to play than a simpler one: the difficulty was in the depth of engagement required rather than the effort of engagement required.
He ran seventy-six through seventy-nine across three days, the compound output running cleanly through the collar piece and the boundary framework, the star at the co-equal register that floor seventy had established. Each floor drew from different categories of his accumulated density simultaneously, the Tower's calibration above the convergence floor designed for the kind of compound engagement that the application tests had been developing, now running at full expression rather than in test format.
