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You pull away from the Vorka and retreat towards the stairs. As you move, you unshoulder your Bow and draw an Arrow to your lips. For a few fleeting seconds you see the rune clearly, and this is all you need in order to be able to let loose your shaft with accuracy. The Arrow strikes the rune with devastating effect. There is a tremendous explosion and a splash of fiery green sparks erupts as it cleaves the evil stone in two. Instantly the bell-chamber is swallowed up by sheets of orange flame and you are blown back against the wall of the pit. Shards of broken stone whistle around you. When the rain of debris ceases, you pull yourself to your feet and look upon the devastated remains of the bell-chamber. Pools of fire burn among the splinters that litter the floor, and all the Vorka that were spawned in its core now lie twisted and lifeless among the flaming ruins. The sight of this burning devastation is shocking to behold, yet you feel elated when you sense that the breaking of the rune has, at a single stroke, destroyed every Vorka that has ever emerged from the spawning chamber.

Turn to 202.