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How do I kill the Warlock Lord?

  • 1 of 35: The Warlock Lord and the Behemoth are creatures of great power. It's difficult to kill them. Don't read all of these hints at once.
  • 2 of 35: You can't kill them with normal weapons. If you try, the Warlock Lord will burn you.
  • 3 of 35: Have you read Scroll 1 lately?
  • 4 of 35: "The staff of ages, to defeat the foe".
  • 5 of 35: This is the only weapon powerful enough to defeat the Warlock Lord.
  • 6 of 35: Where is the staff, though?
  • 7 of 35: The warlock lord hid this one REALLY well.
  • 8 of 35: It's disguised as something else.
  • 9 of 35: Inside a secret passage.
  • 10 of 35: Across a rotten bridge.
  • 11 of 35: Do you have an idea where to go now? I imagine you do. You had to have been near there to get this far.
  • 12 of 35: Don't know how to cross the rotten bridge?
  • 13 of 35: Don't know what to do with the snake? That's harder.
  • 14 of 35: If you try to use the staff on either the Warlock Lord or the behemoth now, the Warlock Lord will burn you. You need to do something to it.
  • 15 of 35: Wasn't there something else about the staff?
  • 16 of 35: Scroll 1 said something.
  • 17 of 35: So did the wizard that gave the HUMANA spell.
  • 18 of 35: "3 are one." "3 for the staff".
  • 19 of 35: You need to plug a couple of things into it.
  • 20 of 35: I hope you found them.
  • 21 of 35: You've used 2 of the five things to get here.
  • 22 of 35: And you have another one now.
  • 23 of 35: So you know what the other 2 are, at least.
  • 24 of 35: The GOLDEN BLADE
  • 25 of 35: The SILVER ORB
  • 26 of 35: Now, you need to put them together.
  • 27 of 35: You can't stick the orb into the staff.
  • 28 of 35: You can't stick the staff onto the spike.
  • 29 of 35: You can't stick the orb on the spike.
  • 30 of 35: You need to stick the spike in the staff.
  • 31 of 35: And then stick the orb into the spike.
  • 32 of 35: Look how powerful that is. You can kill something with this.
  • 33 of 35: But the warlock lord is too fast for you. Staff to staff, he can get the first shot.
  • 34 of 35: If you hurt the behemoth, it will turn on its master.
  • 35 of 35: Aim the staff at the behemoth, and prepare to win. Don't know why the Warlock Lord kept all that dangerous stuff around, anyway.