Chapter 208: 8th Floor [2]
The teleportation to Floor 8 was different.
Usually, there was a sensation of cold, a digital shiver.
This time, it was like stepping into an oven.
We materialized on a ridge of jagged, red rock.
The air was thick, shimmering with heat distortion.
Above, the sky was a relentless, cloudless expanse of bleached white, dominated by a sun that looked too large, too close.
[Floor 8: The Scorched Wastes]
[Objective: Reach the Northern Oasis (20km)]
[Environmental Hazard: Extreme Heat]
"Hot," Kaelen gasped immediately, doubling over.
"It's... so hot."
"Status check," I barked.
[Status Effect Applied: Scorching Heat]
[Stamina drain increased by 200%. Mana regeneration reduced by 50%.]
"It's an endurance floor," Seraphina said, wiping sweat from her brow mere seconds after arriving. She squinted at the horizon.
It was a sea of red dunes and black rock. "Twenty kilometers? In this? We'll dehydrate before we make it halfway."
