Ever since a month ago, when he first entered the tower, no matter the challenge after the first floor.
Nothing was ever easy.
No that would be a massive understatement and disservice to everything he had gone through.
One thing or another always went wrong.
And if it didn't, just the base challenge set by the tower was simply impossible.
Up until now, he had just been choking things up to coincidences or simple bad luck.
After all, it would be silly to think there was something going on behind the scenes just because all his floors or challenges were tougher than they were supposed to be.
More than anything, anyone in the tutorial should have realistically been able to survive.
Or that he met an eldritch entity and whatever the fuck the tower merchant was.