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You utter the words of the Brotherhood Spell Lightning Hand and raise your right arm, pointing your outstretched hand towards the shadowy creature. A bolt of energy leaps from your fingertips and rips through Zorkaan, leaving a ragged hole at the centre of its dark form. This hole quickly seals, yet you sense that your attack has further weakened this entity. Guided purely by instinct, you draw back your Kai Weapon and charge headlong at the faltering shadow.

‘For Sommerlund and the Kai!’ you scream, as you cut and stab at Zorkaan’s vaporous form.

Zorkaan the Soultaker: COMBAT SKILL 46 ENDURANCE 35

This creature is temporarily vulnerable to all forms of psychic attack. If you possess the Discipline of Kai-screen, you may add 3 to your COMBAT SKILL for the duration of this fight. If you wield the Kai Weapon ‘Alema’ or ‘Kaistar’, you will benefit from the additional combat bonus applicable to its unique properties.

If you win the combat, turn to 240.