Last decade

**Two hours later**

"Are you for real?" Claudia stood frozen in place as soon as the two of them reached the new floor. 

"That's worrying," Tom muttered, gripping the handle of his spear a bit harder. 

They just finished the next set of ten floors. Even with Cleo out of the game, Tom and Claudia alike grew at a rate allowing them to just burst through the monsters on their way. 

As if there was some upgrade of a deeper level to the stones, their levels continued to soar ever since they reached the seventy-first floor. And now, crossing the barrier between the eighty and eighty-first floor, a massive change occurred. 

There was no dungeon at all around them. Instead of a maze of spiraling corridors, the two of them appeared in the boss room right after crossing through to the new floor.