"Every floor feels less like a random challenge and more like... a lesson. Test designed to teach a specific skill or force adaptation to unusual circumstances."
Father Caelen's weathered features showed agreement as he maintained pace beside Jack through the poison fog.
"I've noticed the same pattern. The reversed healing, the inverse power scaling, the sensory deprivation forcing alternative perception methods, the beast required temporal combat awareness, and now this floor rewards calm in a lethal environment. Each challenge addresses a different aspect of combat capability or mental discipline."
"But why?" Jack's mind worried at the question, unable to let the inconsistency rest without explanation. "S-rank dungeons are dangerous, but they're usually just progressively harder combat encounters. This feels more like a training program. Like someone designed these floors specifically to force learning rather than test existing capabilities."
