Floor 3 began the moment Owen stepped through the doorway.
The chamber was larger this time. The walls pulsed faster, the violet light more intense.
Ten hunters remained. The weakest had stayed behind. The overconfident had died.
The voice echoed.
"Floor 3 of 50. Objective: Endure. Resonance Pressure increased to 75%. Constructs now adapt more to combat patterns. Begin."
Owen's CE core resisted harder. A Momentum Shift that cost 7 CE on Floor 2 now cost 10. A 30 CE punch now cost 52.
"Seventy-five percent increase. This is too fucking brutal."
The floor cracked and constructs emerged....again.
[Resonance Construct - Tier 5, Two-Star]
[Ability: Pattern Recognition - Learns opponent's attack sequence after three repetitions]
Twelve constructs. For ten hunters.
Two hunters would face multiple opponents immediately.
Owen wasn't one of them. Lucky again as One construct locked onto him, its featureless head tracking his movement.
He didn't wait for it to attack.
