Two months into the new training regime, the three of them tackled the Tier 8 wave rift. With their upgraded weapons and armor, they were able to reach the twentieth wave, which they learned was the final one. The boss had been the only monster to come back to life, and it took the combined efforts of all three of them over half an hour to finally take it down. They estimated that the monster was at the peak of Tier 9 in power. They only won the fight because they outnumbered it, and the monster wasn’t all that good with its blade.
None of the zombies returned to life and the mist didn’t rise again. When they finished checking their surroundings and entered the house, they discovered that a trap door had opened in front of the stairs.
Matt carefully led the way down the stairs into the d
