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You focus your sight and hearing at the bushes and suddenly realize that you have been taken in by an elaborate ruse. A thin length of twine runs away under the foliage; it is the trigger that dislodged the rock and made it fall. There is nobody hiding there after all.

Your eye follows the twine along the hillside to a boulder high up on the slope to your left. Perhaps your would-be ambusher is hiding there instead?

If you possess Grand Nexus, and have reached the Kai rank of Sun Knight; turn to 214.

If you do not possess this skill, or have yet to reach this level of Kai mastery, turn to 146.

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