The Fifth Floor

Taking in the sights, Astaroth almost went slack-jawed.

The entire floor seemed bigger than the ones under it, by double the area. Matter of fact, it looked bigger than it should, at all.

This entire floor looked like they had expanded it from the inside, even though the tree still looked the same from the outside when he arrived. He could already guess this was the work of a very potent mage.

But turning his head to his extreme right, he noticed runes on the wall next to him. Touching the rune, he immediately understood what it did, when it gave him an immediate sense of vertigo, like his surroundings suddenly expanded fourfold.

Drawing his hand away from the rune, he gasped for air a few times, shaking his head to recover from the vertigo.

"Well, that was… educational. I'll have to remind myself not to put my hands on unknown runes in the future."