### 60

A ghastly transformation is taking place before your eyes. The monk’s face is writhing and contorting as the skin tightens and grows darker. Tattered flesh drops from his sunken cheeks to hang in festoons beneath the exposed jawbone. A sickening dread fills your heart as you recognize the creature standing before you. It is a Helghast, a nightmarish agent of the Darklords. Its demonic eyes glow like red-hot coals as it shrieks and raises its long black staff.

If you possess the Sommerswerd,7turn to 308.

If you do not possess this Special Item, turn to 248.

#### Footnotes

[7] You cannot use the Dagger of Vashna, the Jewelled Mace, or the Magic Spear in lieu of the Sommerswerd to fight this Helghast because those weapons are not capable of protecting you from its impending attacks (cf. Sections 47 and 308).