Cocoons
"It looks like the sand particles here emit a lot of light for some odd reason…" Rain explained.
Rain touched the shining particles in the wall and soon flinched when he felt a sharp pain on bis fingers… the tips of his fingers began to bleed… the particles were like smashed glass. That was still weird, though. Rain's physical defenses should be able to handle something like that.
"Be careful of where you touch or step in," Rain said when the others landed. "These things are sharp and they can't ignore your defenses."
"For real? I wasn't expecting much from the first level, but…" Terra said.
"Where are the monsters?" Seara asked. "They usually appear faster when large groups enter a dungeon, right?"
"Sometimes, but considering that the stump drained a lot of mana from the world, we can't say how things will play out," Rain said.