The market

[Maero]

The lightning hit the beast at the tip of its nose, sending electrical volts throughout the creatures body, causing it to release a hellish hissing scream. Alas Alex's next attack was much less effective. The monster appeared to only feed off of the cold and as ice slicked its body it seemed to form an extra armor instead of a frozen snaked cube. It then bristled its scales, which became black as night, and stared right at Alex. If he dared to meet its gaze, even for a second, then it would slay him in an instant, and even if he avoided its deadly gaze, blooms obsidian began to creep along the edges of his robes and along the cracks on the floor like black ice. This was no ordinary basilisk.

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Mickal continued to grow until he literally burst from the mansion, thick spirals of obsidian glass following him up and spreading to everything. All the poor elven slaves who were locked in the dungeon begged for their lives as Alex and Hoods rushed past. Left as they were, the obsidian and evil would overtake them and kill the innocent elves, but even if freed a great deal of them would never make it out, and it would cost D and Hoods precious time to escape. But they were both magical and unbound by conventional logic, what they decided to do was up to them.