Dramatic irony, we the readers know this (and not even because it has been mentioned in the story but because of SIU's blogs) but that doesn't necessarily mean that the characters in the story know it. Of course, someone has mentioned that Zahard and co. could know it from the Outside, but this still has never been mentioned, so until we know the full details about what happened on the day that Phanta visited, everything is still a guessing game.
If it comes to phantaminum's intentions or relevance to the plot, yeah, thats a mystery. But if it comes to his his power than that is pretty much set in stone. it would take a full blown retcon to change this.
As we know that the workshop exists outside the tower, I assume they know about the existence of Axis.
This is from the wikia...
But I'm not talking about whether or not he is an Axis, but whether or not Zahard knows what an Axis is and if he knows that Phanta is one.
In reddit has a detailed review of ToG and the TUS Universe, with the other stories/chronicles written by SIU. IICR the Axis Users are not so rare in outside world, people know and talk about them. I suppose that everyone who hasn’t been locked in a cave knows about them, so as the FH and Workshop (as someone remembered they also exists on outside world).
The stuff and its summaries are also available in the TOG wiki. Axis are indeed well known on the outside, depending on how much of it remain cannon. And the way things have been phrased suggest no one in the tower knows phantaminum is an axis. But it says nothing about them knowing or not what an axis is. So odds are they know what an axis is.
Or maybe Luslec is pretty sure karaka & co. Will fail.
phanta is SIU. He once said Phata could completely rewrite story of TOG and he was serious about it
I agree, but, at least for me, it was about how the ranking system works - how do they get their data? One argument was due to them visiting the administration office and doing some kind of test(s), one other was due to accomplisments - that's why i brought up Enryu and Phanta, since both arguments don't work with them. I doubt that they went to the administration office and it's clear that it is not about accomplishments, since Enryu killed an admin and Phanta "only" invaded Zahards palace. My guess would be that they (the ranking guys) use some sort of lighthouse or a similar device to do so.
The Guy in charge of ranks saw Phantaminum fight and concluded this. He sees all, in a sense like Heimdall from Thor, but instead of distances he got the ability to measure ranks. His rank is ? instead of a number, and all he does is this.
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IF SIU was an axis, which I am reasonably sure has been discussed before, I doubt he'd be one as measly as phantaminum. Phantaminum is one of the top axis but logically SIU would have to be the top axis that controls all stories. It'd make more sense if SIU was Talse user in than him being phantaminum. And even then it'd make more sense that he was a superior axis to him.
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That reads like the guy might be an irregular. At least if he actually has any battle prowess. People within the tower need to climb it and get contracts in order to get access to more shinsoo... If the guy is anywhere near as strong as a ranker, or even within some regular categories, it makes more sense that he got access to shinsoo via already having permission than anything else. Whether he has that much power or none at all, it is interesting that he would have regular protection against rankers. Being powerful and influential while enjoying regular protection actually seems like an insanely convenient scenario.
Ok, but how does he do that? Was he actually there or did he watch from far away? How did he watch? Is it some kind of ability or is it a machine? Or did someone go to him and showed him, like Beta showed Bam what happened on the hidden Floor?
Since some (or all, not sure about that part) rules of the tower are different or don't apply at all for irregulars, are they able to mess with regulars in regular areas? I know that Zahard did it with the hidden floor, but that was a special case under special circumstances.
I am not aware of any rules which apply differently between irregulars. So far the series has leaned towards irregulars not even breaking rules in general. The shinsoo thing has been framed as irregulars having permission to use shinsoo by default which is drastically different from them breaking any rules whatsoever.
Using shinsoo freely, having not a set limit, they can take the test directly from the admin, for them the contracts are shackles (according to the second floor Guardian), they are not bound by some contracts (at least to Hwa, but since she is a liar, i am not sure about it)
