Floor 8 (2)

The forest had been crushed flat along the trail left by something enormous crawling through it.

The horrific sight that greeted me the moment I entered Floor 8 made me murmur in a trembling voice.

...W-What is this?

It was far too enormous to be the trail of a living creature.

A gigantic trench tens of meters wide, its bare floor exposed like a dried-up riverbed.

The trees of the great forest, once like giant baobabs, had been crushed beyond recognition and were corroding as they were swallowed by black-purple slime.

And that trail continued as far as the horizon, with no end in sight.

......

Overwhelmed by the traces of something so vast and natural, I stared at the scene for a long while, stunned.

How much time had passed like that...