"Ooh, shit! I messed up big time!" Aurelian groaned, feeling a surge of pain coursing through his body as a mystical change erupted within him, one he couldn't fully comprehend. And if he couldn't contain it, it would kill him.
Crack! And as if to confirm his thoughts, microfractures spread across his bones and skin, echoing softly as the pain ramped up a notch and sent him reeling back.
"I have to fix this!" Aurelian groaned, his fingers curling into fists, frustration eating at him until he forced himself calm and scanned the dungeon around him. Wisps of energy were starting to coalesce all across the dungeon, foggy mists covering it, but underneath it all the real terror was unfolding.
Monsters were respawning, only this time far larger, their forms almost all towering over eight metres, and with them a faint ethereal glow encapsulated them, the kind only E-rank beings emitted: the light of mana.
