Lucien returned his consciousness to his real body.
His pets shrieked in his mind. Their alarms pierced with such intensity that each one felt sharper than any blade.
The flood of system notifications blinked across his vision but he pushed them aside for now. They could wait.
Byakko and Seiryu's warning echoed in the back of his mind.
Outside, the battlefield was breaking. From the other Twisted Towers surged waves of monsters. They were no longer the fodder of earlier battles but creatures beyond Tier 9.
But before leaving... Lucien swept his gaze across the chamber, searching for the dungeon core . His senses spread wide to every corner of the chamber.
'Where is it…? The core…'
The answer did not come. His search was met with nothing but silence and emptiness. No dungeon core revealed itself.
