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You draw your weapon and strike out at the hellish worm-beast. It recoils from your blow and the tip of your blade misses its oozing skin by barely an inch. It spits again, and a gobbet of its corrosive saliva splashes your left arm. Within seconds, this corrosive fluid eats through the cloth of your tunic and sears your flesh: lose 3 ENDURANCE points.

Illustration XVIII—A worm-beast spits its acidic saliva directly at you.

Aided by your Magnakai Disciplines of Nexus and Curing, you bite back the pain and recover in time to launch a second attack upon this burrowing horror.

Nahba Worm: COMBAT SKILL 45 ENDURANCE 40

If you win this combat, turn to 8.