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You call upon your Magnakai Discipline of Nexus to help you withstand the tremendous heat that is now radiating through the chamber door. It saves your skin from blistering, but it does not protect your tunic and equipment. After less than a minute, your Backpack and clothing begin to smoulder as the bronze surface becomes unbearably hot. When finally the heat forces you away from the door, you run and take cover behind Andarin’s tomb.

Suddenly the glowing portal bursts open and slams against the wall with a tremendous crash. An icy trickle of fear runs down your spine when you peek over the tomb and look upon the squat creature that is now framed in the doorway. It has a bloated, veined body and waxy skin that is as pale as a frozen corpse. From its fanged mouth there flickers a forked tongue, and its scarlet eye-slits radiate an evil light that chills the marrow in your bones. As it advances into the chamber with its arms outstretched, you swallow hard with disbelief when you see that its clenched fists are glowing white-hot. They flare and pulsate, like two great balls of fiery plasma.

If you wish to attack this creature, turn to 212.

If you wish to attempt to evade it, turn to 79.