With the addition of Uendo's summon skills, the elemental affiliation to Richard's spear, Red's Magitek attacks, and the overall fury of the party, the elementals soon collapsed into piles of lifeless, icy runes. As a reward for their efforts, the hooks unraveled from their spools, rising from the perspective of the fighters to allow the group a chance to reach the next floor more readily.

They could take some time to heal before moving on and even investigate the crates if they so desired. Otherwise, the next floor awaited.

Upon arriving, they would find more tubes of draining fluids, but where before the encounters consisted solely of elementals, a Golem now joined the fray. What's more, the elementals are now split between Ice and Lightning. Two of each kind.

Be careful, heroes!