Watching Arthur and his team struggle through the dungeon, it dawned on me why they weren’t even considering the dungeon’s gimmicks.

“Joy!” “Tch! I’ll seal its movements with sheer force!” “We have no choice! It’s better than letting it collapse!”

The reason was simple—they thought they could just muscle through it without bothering to strategize.

When I designed the fifth-floor boss, I specifically made it so it couldn’t be overcome by brute force. The point of this Dungeon Studies exam was to test their ability to analyze and conquer gimmicks.

This final boss was supposed to be the culmination of …