Chapter 201: Puzzle [4th Floor]
The teleport to Floor 4 was different.
The cold, earthy smell of the Golem's chamber dissolved, replaced by a blast of hot, sterile air.
We materialized not in a corridor, but on a wide, sandstone ledge overlooking a vast, cavernous chamber.
The room was immense, easily a hundred meters across, the ceiling so high it was lost in darkness.
The air was hot, smelling of sulfur and ozone. Below us, a thirty-meter drop led to the chamber's floor, which was a perfect, 10x10 grid of square pressure plates, each tile the size of a carriage.
At the far end of this deadly chessboard, a glowing golden barrier hummed, blocking the exit portal.
"A puzzle room," Seraphina observed, her voice now devoid of its earlier sarcasm. She was all business, her eyes scanning the grid below. "A classic pressure-plate trap."
"Look," Kaelen whispered, pointing.
