The market

[Maero]

The beast began to fight with the animated soldiers, fiercely tearing them to pieces and freezing them in dark glass. Suddenly, a flash of powerful blinding light blasted it and it screamed in pain. But the cold of the room soon began to overwhelm the light, and the basilisk was left intact. It was, however, badly injured, and collapsed, coiling up into a ball and hiding its burned face beneath its body. The creature made no further movement aside from some occasional spasms of pain. Alex could attempt to reengage the beast, or proceed to the final room. Either way, time was running out, Mickal would soon be unstoppable, regaurdless of what he did, he was wasting to much time!

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Mickal's mere presence bent the beams of energy away now, they could not even touch him, and his body and produced horrible snaking tendrils of dark energy which sought out life to sap. Already they were moving outward in every direction, aiming for civilization. Soon they would reach the town, and then the elven slaves, and then D's home. Soon, nowhere would be safe to run or hide! D and Hoods would be running out of spells at this point, and being so close to the creature felt like standing in a freezer, even with sheilds on. The ground around them was an alien landscape of ice and obsidian which spiraled ever upward into wicked towers. The whole world would be like this if they could not stop Mickal! Time was almost up!