Most of the parties that used up all of their entries on the first day trying to break through Floor 8 were met with the exact same void. They’d tried torches, illumination spells, enchanted lights, but none of it was effective. Some players tried to get around it by using scrolls imbued with the Night Vision spell, but it worked as well as a candle through fog.0

Every time someone tried to illuminate their surroundings, the Shadow Spiders that lived on the floor came crawling out and devoured the light like it was food. It was as if the entire floor was designed to stay dark no matter what. The spiders came in droves from all sides of the walls, the floors, and even the ceiling. It was impossible to track them all, let alone mount any kind of proper defense.0

As if that wasn’t enough, the entire floor was riddled with pits, most of them packed with thick, sticky webs that were impossible to get out of. Falling into one of those was basically a death sentence. This very first Challenge Floor was absolutely cursed in every sense of the word.0

All across the community, the players who had rushed to climb the tower on day one were losing it. Complaints flooded the chats nonstop, some...0