From Floor 79 to 82 was brutal and unforgiving.
Floor 79 had rotating blood lasers that forced them to memorize patterns while fighting.
Floor 80 was a triple-chamber gauntlet with chained mid-bosses. Kill the order wrong? They revived at full HP.
Floor 81 drained mana passively. Cassie and Bunny had to rotate mana potions like mad, and Gabriel was forced to fight mostly with physical skills and basic attacks.
Two more members died permanently here. NPCs—people who had eaten with them, laughed, argued.
But they didn't have time to stop.
Floor 82 was worse—a reflect-damage floor. Hitting too hard without debuffing the enemies caused backlash.
Sophie's plant control, Anna's assassination skills, and Gabriel's precision attacks kept the team from wiping.
At each stairway, Bunny checked the ranking.
"Update," she called out at one point, chest heaving from exertion.
"Olympus 84. Martial Palace 83. Broken Dawn 82. Adventurer Guild 77."
