As Rivyn blinked through the flash of teleportation, his feet touched down on the damp, mist-covered ground of Floor 16. This was unlike any battlefield he'd encountered before. Shadows pooled around the edges of the dimly lit arena, and an unnatural silence hung in the air, thick and oppressive. Rivyn took a slow, steadying breath, grounding himself for the trial ahead. The prompt echoed in his mind.
[Floor 16: Defeat the Monsters]
As he scanned the space, Rivyn felt a faint tremor ripple through the earth beneath him, each thud growing louder, stronger. Then, from the shadows, a creature of nightmares emerged. The towering figure was a Minotaur—a monstrous blend of man and beast, its bull-like head crowned by enormous, jagged horns that jutted out in terrifying angles. Each of its footfalls seemed to make the ground tremble, and in its blood-red eyes was a spark of intelligent malice, as if it knew it was the apex predator here.
