Reaching The Second Stage

As the entire party stepped through the portal, one by one, what greeted their eyes perplexed them. Not for the oddity of it, but more for its familiarity.

The town they had been in, on the previous stage of the dungeon, with the well in its center, was back in view. But it looked bigger.

The buildings looked like they had more age to them, for those who weren't entirely new, and they had a few more floors to them.

Astaroth looked around before he decided he wanted to check on something.

"Wait here a moment," he said to the party.

Then he jumped up the side of one building, bounding to another nearby, and finally launching himself upward one last time to land on the rooftops. Looking around himself, and in the distance, his stomach dropped.

In his view, far in the distance, something he didn't want to see towered. A massive tree whose height overshadowed every other structure in its vicinity.