Was this still turn-based?

Foxdeep Gate was Heartmoon Fox's proudest world creation within her Mindscape.

It was also the largest Mindscape ever confirmed to exist.

Heartmoon Fox had carefully tailored its rules around "a TRPG focused on dice-based, turn-based combat," laying the groundwork for everyone to enjoy their adventures. It was wildly popular among Magical Girls.

The rulebooks and player handbooks for Foxdeep Gate 1 + 2, published by Heartmoon Fox herself, had already gone on sale as a bundle. Sales were booming, with the first batch selling out in five minutes. They seemed poised to spark a new TRPG craze.

...But if this really was the Mindscape she knew, then everything here had taken a strange turn:

Turn-based combat?

"Fireball! Five in a row!"

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!

Five blazing orbs shot from the young mage's fingertips toward the tide of gaunt black shadows. Roaring explosions surged through waves of heat, instantly clearing a vast swath and leaving nothing but countless ashes.

Fun adventures?

Before Iris could catch her breath, countless more black shadows filled the gap blasted open by the fireballs, their onslaught undiminished.

"Why do they just keep coming?!"

Iris cried in astonishment. Mana surged through her hands as she raised her staff high, quietly reciting along with another voice that surfaced in her mind:

"Tier-six spell... [Unnamed: Blizzard]!"

A dice-rolling TRPG?

A mana-wrought blizzard raged across the sky, instantly blanketing a vast stretch of open ground before the young mage. The monsters formed from black shadows slowed in the snow, soon turning into countless ice sculptures that shattered and burst apart.

Iris finally gained a brief opening. She activated her Flight Spell, lifting herself onto the roof of a nearby ruined building for a moment's respite.

Wrong. Everything felt terribly wrong.

Something was seriously wrong here!

Not only were