<h4>Chapter 236: A New Record-1</h4>


    After the fifty-first level, each floor of the Tower of Legends became a battle against shiftingpositions of monster armies across varied and hostile terrains. With every ascent the challenge grew harsher. The monsters themselves seemed to evolve, adapting to her tactics, some even disying unnerving intelligence as they marshalled others under theirmand.


    At level fifty-two, Eleanor entered a maze of dark, dripping limestone caverns. The floors and walls were slick with phosphorescent algae that glimmered faintly, casting ghostly green light. Deep, still pools dotted the chambers, concealing submerged passages.


    The Crocodile Monsters lurked beneath the water’s surface, bursting forth to seize and drag her down. Multi-headed Venomfang Hydras found sure footing on the slippery stone, their broad stances anchoring them as they spat venom that hissed against the wet rock, cloaking the cavern in toxic mist. From precarious ledges, Goblins loosed stones from their slings, the algae’s glow guiding their aim, while others scurried across the treacherous floor to strike from the nks.


    Level fifty-three was a suffocatingwork of trenches and tunnels, narrow and choked with mud. The passages were too small for her to stand upright, forcing her to crouch or crawl. Barbed wire and sharpened stakes lined the edges, cutting off escape routes. Goblins swarmed through the cramped passages, swift and sure-footed. Orcs blocked choke points with heavy shields, while Skeletons wed their way from the sodden earth, reassembling even after being shattered. The level demandedbat in confinement, where there was no room to breathe, much less swing freely.


    The fifty-fourth level unfolded into a silent forest of stone. Towering petrified trees stood like jagged pirs, their brittle, needle-like leaves crunching underfoot with every step, making stealth impossible. Spiders dropped from the high branches, skittering across the noisy ground. Stone Golemsy in wait, half-merged with the trunks for sudden ambushes. Orcs melted into the dense cover, loosing arrows in sudden, darting attacks before vanishing again.


    At fifty-five, Eleanor found herself upon a deste volcanic in of ck sand and jagged rock. The ground trembled with the constant threat of eruption. Jets of scalding steam roared skyward without warning, while ash thickened the air into a choking haze. Magma Fiends used the geysers themselves as weapons, merging with them and erupting in surprise assaults. Rustw Beasts raked the ground with ws impervious to heat, kicking up storms of blinding ash. The Orcs, d in heat-hardened armour, locked their shields together and drove their formations forward, forcing her step by step towards fissures and geysers ready to erupt.


    Level fifty-six was a sunken temple, its drowned courtyards and shadowed halls filled with murky, chest-high water. Crumbled stairs and fallen pirs hid beneath the surface, waiting to trip or trap the unwary. Trolls waded in with terrifying persistence, their wounds knitting closed beneath the water. Crocodile Monsters struck from below, dragging prey into the depths. Blight Serpents tainted the very water with their venom, sapping Eleanor’s strength with every breath and step.


    At fifty-seven, beauty masked lethal danger. The cavern was a cathedral of crystals, towering shards of razor-sharp stone refracting and amplifying every glimmer of light and spark of magic. Colours splintered into dizzying illusions, while beams of focused energy seared through the air without warning. Chitin Lords scuttled unseen, their reflective carapaces vanishing amid the crystal spires. Golems lumbered forward, their bodies sheathed in growing crystals that turned them nearly indestructible. The Hydras spat venom that refracted across the surfaces, transforming each spray into a barrage of death from a dozen directions at once.


    At level fifty-eight, she stepped into a multi-tiered jungle of petrified trees, their branches webbed together with thick, gleaming silk. The spider threads wove tforms, tunnels, and traps, forming a deadly maze suspended high above the mist-shrouded ground far below.


    The Giant Spiders darted across their webs with terrifying speed, tracking her through the vibrations of each step. Chitin Lords mbered up the stone trees with ded limbs, slicing the webs to send her plunging into traps. Skeletons, immune to both sticky silk and fall damage, were dropped from above or reassembled on the ground to harry her from below.


    Level fifty-nine opened into a bubbling bog of tar and sulphur. The stench clung to the air, and pockets of foul gas ignited into sudden bursts of me. The ground clutched at her boots, thick and cloying, dragging at her every step.


    Carrion Hulks lumbered easily through the fumes, impervious to both stench and tar. Magma Fiends deliberately ignited the gases, turning the bog into a field of fire and choking smoke. From patches of solid ground, Ogres hurled boulders, driving her back into the treacherous muck.


    At level sixty, she entered a vast hall floored entirely with ancient bones. The acoustics were unnerving... every sound amplified and distorted until the chamber was filled with phantom echoes. Her ears betrayed her, rendering her unable to judge direction or distance.


    The Bone Colossus rose silently from the floor itself, its bulk formed of fused skeletons. Arrows hissed through the darkness from unseen bowmen, the echoes disorienting her. Rustw Beasts skittered across the brittle floor, their movements magnified into a cacophony that surrounded her from every side.


    The sixty-first level spread into a vast, stinking swamp where the waters were acidic and thend treacherous. Patches of solid ground were rare, and a thick, poisonous fog rolled ceaselessly across the mire. Tangled rootsy hidden beneath the water, grasping at her feet.


    Blight Serpents swam effortlessly, breathing the tainted water and spreading their mists as cover. Trolls thrived here, regenerating with unnatural speed, their severed limbs regrowing in the murky depths. Carrion Hulks waded through the acid unscathed, their stench overwhelming, leaving Eleanor dizzy and struggling to keep her bnce.


    Level sixty-two thrust her onto wind-swept mountain passes, where violent gales howled through the cliffs. The winds threatened to hurl her into the abyss, and their roar drowned all sound but their own.


    Behemoths stood unshaken by the storm, their colossal horns releasing concussive sts magnified by the gale. Orcs fired crossbows with thick, wind-cutting bolts. From above, Spiders descended unseen, their approach masked by the shrieking wind.


    The sixty-third level stretched across a barren in of corroded metal ruins. The air itself was corrosive, rusting des and armour in moments. Crimson dust coated everything, and the ground crumbled under her weight.


    Rustw Beasts thrived, their ws honed to razors by the corrosion. Ogres, their metallic hides rusted and jagged, turned their very armour into weapons that tore through flesh. Chitin Lords, untouched by the decay, skittered freely across thendscape.


    At level sixty-four, she trudged into a vast desert of sand and crushed bone. Boneced whirlwinds raged across the in, shredding anything caught within. Beneath the treacherous ground, hollow pits copsed into mass graves of the ancient dead.


    Bone Colossi drew strength from the very terrain, their forms swellingrger as they absorbed bone fragments from the storms. Skeletons wed their way from the sand in endless numbers, reassembling the instant they were broken. At their backs, Orc necromancers bent the death-soaked desert to their will, shaping bone into storms that hunted Eleanor relentlessly.


    Level sixty-five was a canyon carved into dry, splintered stone. The ground fractured into narrow crevices and honebed tunnels, the earth unstable and prone to copse beneath too much weight.


    Serpents and Hydras slithered through the unseen tunnels, striking suddenly from holes at her sides or beneath her feet. Goblins crouched in the cracks, springing traps or darting out to cut at her ankles before vanishing again. Each step demanded precision... for one misjudgement would send the earth caving beneath her.


    At level sixty-six, she entered a spherical cavern lined with geode crystals that pulsed with stored thermal energy. The chamber cycled unpredictably between searing heat and freezing cold, the extremes forcing her to adapt her tactics with every shift. The Bloodstone Gargants remained unbothered, anchoring the field as they spewed magma regardless of the chamber’s phase.


    When she stepped into level sixty-seven, she found a deep, narrow gorge, its sheer walls made of pure maic iron ore. Metallic debris littered the floor, while invisible currents tugged with irresistible force at anything forged of steel.


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    Her sword and armour were wrenched toward the walls, pinned by the maism. Ironhide Ogres lumbered forward, their studded hides amplified by the ore until they were nearly impervious. Rustw Beasts scrambled up the maic cliffs, their ws drawn sharper by the unseen forces, striking down at her from above. Stone Golems, untouched by the pull, held the line with immovable weight.


    At sixty-eight, she plunged into the Trollbone River, a roaring torrent slicing through the cavern. The water was so cold it numbed the limbs, and jagged blocks of ice battered anything caught in the current. Slippery, half-submerged rocks offered the only footholds.


    Trolls regenerated from any piece severed in the water, multiplying with every strike. A Hydra used the current to whip its heads with terrifying speed. Crocodile Monsters prowled the depths, waiting to drag her into the freezing dark.


    Level sixty-nine was abyrinth of pits linked by narrow ledges. At the bottom of each yawning chasm festered heaps of diseased carrion, the stench so thick it sickened the body and mind alike.


    Carrion Hulks drew strength from the filth, growing more fearsome the deeper they waded into it. Ogres hurled chunks of rotting matter, the foul impact enough to stagger her. Spiders strung webs over the pits, eager to drop her into the churning decay below.


    At level seventy, she found herself in a system of caves whose porous, crystalline walls oozed a paralysing, toxic sap. The air was dense and humid, heavy with clouds of neurotoxic pollen. It was a killing ground of poisons.


    Here she faced the Venomfang Hydras, Blight Serpents, and Chitin Lords... a synergistic army of toxins. The Hydras spat venom that mingled with the dripping sap, creating bubbling pools of corrosive glue. The Serpents’ breathbined with the pollen into a hallucinogenic, choking fog that clouded her mind. The Chitin Lords, impervious to all toxins, scuttled freely along walls and ceilings, their sealed carapaces gleaming in the poisonous haze.