The platform carried them upward again. Amber light swallowed them, then faded into another chamber.
Second Floor.
This time the room stretched wider and taller, its walls layered with jagged stone pillars and not smooth like before. The ground trembled before they even saw the enemy.
Massive quadrupeds emerged from between the pillars. Their bodies resembled armored rhinoceroses but their hides looked like overlapping basalt plates.
Cracks glowed faintly between those plates, leaking heat and dim red light.
When they charged, the floor shook.
"KILL THEM!" Myles roared.
"HYAAAAAHHH!!!" The others respond with the same spirit.
They scatter and attack whatever was in front of them.
George intercepted the first beast head-on but he was pushed back and slid backward several meters from the impact.
Ethan targeted the glowing cracks with rapid fire, forcing one creature to stumble. Samantha's arrows struck into the thinner seams beneath their forelegs.
