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Using your advanced Kai mastery, you alter your body weight so that you are able to glide over this soft section of the cavern floor and you soon reach firmer ground. With ease, you slip past the end of the line of automatons and race towards the dais.

During your flight across the sagging floor, the Demoness was putting on an armoured breastplate of varnished black steel and was otherwise distracted. But she saw you get around the flank of her automatons and now she is aware of your plan. It is clear by the anger on her face that she has no intention of allowing you anywhere near the dais or the Deathstaff.

If you possess Kai-alchemy, turn to 57.

If you do not possess this Grand Master Discipline, turn to 282.

Text copyright © 1991 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1991 Brian Williams.