The player rode the lift up to the Library entrance, where an enormous door stood.
Golden summoning Runes appeared on the ground before the door-Thops's.
The player took a deep breath and chose to summon him.
They pushed open the doors, and the cutscene began.
Beyond the doors lay a vast space piled with books everywhere. A tall figure stood in the center of the room, her back to them.
Hearing the doors open, she gave a light wave without even turning her head.
Their surroundings changed in an instant.
The player found themselves standing in an empty void.
Rennala's voice came from every direction:
"Fool who disturbed my experiments, drown here."
Countless transparent enemies appeared out of thin air: Trolls, Bloodhound Knights, Flying Dragons, and even a very familiar-looking dog-headed Blaidd!
These enemies varied in strength, but they had numbers on their side and shared a single health bar.
The player soon discovered that focusing their attacks on the larger enemies drained the health bar fastest.
But the deadliest part was the strange patterns that occasionally appeared underfoot, followed by bursts of pink gas.
Sleepiness shot up.
Thops moved around the battlefield, using his Barrier to block some lethal ranged attacks for the player.
His figure looked especially frail among the transparent enemies, but he never fell.
After a hard fight, the last enemy dissipated.
Rennala's voice rang out again. "Ill-mannered intruders... how infuriating..."
Her figure appeared. "Welcome the radiance of the Full Moon!"
Phase two began.
Rennala raised her hand and immediately hurled a Full Moon, beating the player to a pulp.
After she landed, all kinds of True Magic poured down like machine-gun fire, without a moment's pause.
Most terrifying of all, she would suddenly stop and cast a youthful version of Comet Azur. Blue light filled