Zane stepped into the boss chamber with a grin already forming on his face.
The gate sealed shut behind him slowly, heavy stone grinding together while cold air poured through the massive open arena ahead. The chamber itself looked endless, pillars stretching high into darkness while broken ruins circled the battlefield like remains of an older civilization.
And coiled around those ruins—
The boss waited.
A winged snake.
No—
Something worse.
Its body stretched across the chamber in massive loops, scales dark green with faint metallic reflections running beneath them like veins of sharpened steel. Each movement produced a scraping sound against the stone floor, thousands of scales shifting together in a way that made the entire creature seem armored.
Huge wings rested folded along its sides.
Its head lifted slowly.
Long.
Narrow.
