The leaderboard had refused to change.
Despite all his effort, kills and bloody push forward—Eden was still stuck in 4th place. No matter how high he climbed, three names always remained above him, immovable like mountains.
And the worst insult?
The name in 1st place belonged to someone who'd apparently completed their first trial with a record-breaking speed for the slowest… yet somehow now held a massive lead.
"In what twisted system," Eden had growled, staring at the screen, "does that make any sense?!"
It should have discouraged him. Others might have stopped, questioned the system, or blamed fate. But not Eden Feran.
He was only more emboldened.
Fueled by a savage will to climb, he redoubled his efforts. If the system was broken, then he'd break it harder. If someone was cheating, he'd expose them with sheer, overwhelming power.
If fate was mocking him, then he'd mock it back with the corpses of everything that dared stand in his way.
