James had eleven of them on the right-hand route in the first ninety seconds and it was, by the standards of the last month, easy work.
They were fast and they were fragile and he had both hands and a sword.
`[NECRO BLAST — 60 MANA]` ×2
`[MANA: 2,980 / 3,100]`
`[GALLERY THRALLS SLAIN ×6]`
`[CALL OF SOULS ACTIVATED — MANA RESTORED: +180]`
And for the first time in three floors there were bodies on the ground in front of him.
`[SUMMON UNDEAD SKELETON — 80 MANA] ×2`
`[MANA: 2,900 / 3,100]`
He put both of them at the top of the ramp behind him and felt something unknot in his chest that had been knotted since Floor 36.
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He noticed the dark about four minutes in.
It came in at the edges of his vision first — not shadow, a *thickening*, the way a room looks when you have been reading in bad light for too long. He blinked it away twice before he stopped assuming it was his eyes.
Then a line came up.
`[ACCUMULATING — 22%]`
