One Month Later...
{Welcome back to the Tower of Beasts!}
{Floor Ten: Fog Marsh (E)}
A thick, pale fog blanketed the entire swamp.
It wasn't the kind of fog that simply obscured vision.
This one swallowed it.
Visibility stretched barely a metre ahead before dissolving into a grey void. The air was damp and heavy, carrying the stench of stagnant water and rotting vegetation.
Twisted trees rose from murky pools, their roots half-submerged in black sludge. Every step in the marsh produced a wet, sucking sound, as if the ground itself was trying to drag anything that walked on it down beneath the surface.
It was disorienting, claustrophobic, and scary.
And yet, Ethan sat casually atop a thick, moss-covered root, one leg hanging lazily over the side as if he were watching a show.
"This is honestly getting too easy."
Not far ahead, the fog churned violently, and something massive moved within it. Then, a guttural screech tore through the marsh as the beast revealed itself.
