Frostbound

"You know, I really thought there would be stairs," Austin's voice echoed off the cave walls we were traveling down.

We were in the process of making our way down to the fifth floor after defeating the fourth floor guardian and it was taking longer than usual. The tunnel extended on for quite a while without a monster to fight leaving us alone with only our footfalls echoing off the tunnel to accompany us.

The fourth guardian was a massive lizard the size of a car that had an earth affinity to help it out. Well, the affinity didn't do much to us but to anyone else, it would be a difficult fight.

We were a great distance below ground and were surrounded by stone and rock on all sides. The thing literally ripped chunks of it out of the walls and ceiling to use.

It was a touch unfair in my opinion but the thing died all the same.

"Like in games?" I questioned, "Yeah, I can see it. Maybe some dungeons do have stairs? Not all of them are the same apparently."

Our conversation broke the silence we were in and carried through the open tunnel. The quiet was odd at first but quickly became normal after traveling through four floors.

"Where do you think the monsters come from?" Austin asked, "What do you think's wrong with them?"

I just turned and gave him a dumb look. His ball of light illuminating the area made the face I was making at him visible even if he didn't turn to face me. He knew what I was doing.

"Man, you are asking the wrong person. You just had a chance to ask the two most knowledgeable on dungeons and you waited to ask me?" I joked.

We both chuckled at that but Austin continued, "That was different. We were being told what to expect but now I've actually seen it. I've fought them for four floors and have experienced it myself.

"It just made me curious where they came from."