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You search the walls but detect no cracks nor crevices large enough to accommodate your body. Then you notice the supporting beams which criss-cross the tunnel ceiling. They protrude little more than a foot or two from the roof of the tunnel, but they could provide you with a way of escaping out of the path of the approaching juggernaut.

With mounting unease you watch as the distant shadow rumbles nearer and nearer. You magnify your vision and note that the shape looks similar to the front of a gigantic beetle, but one with hundreds of stubby legs that are moving in waves like those of a millipede. You sense that it is a living creature and that it is travelling too fast to be able to stop before it reaches you. Unless you take immediate steps to avoid it, you could be run down and flattened when it passes through this section of the tunnel.

If you possess Kai-alchemy and have attained the Kai rank of Grand Crown or higher, turn to 73.

If you possess Kai-alchemy but have yet to attain this rank, turn to 251.

If you do not possess Kai-alchemy, turn to 166.