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The story so far.

Introduction of the game.

Main menu.

Choose your character: Mage and his dragon Baraba or Witch and her unicorn/pegasus Abarab.

Map of the Lake Shire kingdom, in which currently you can only visit three areas. Every dot also shows a type of enemy which you will face on the area you choose to play.

Ingame instructions.

Our adventure begins with the incoming wave of hostile wasps.

Fighting the first type of Monster Champion aka boss: Queen of the wasps.

Collect the spell scrolls after boss is defeated in order to obtain a new spell.

This area is complete, time to progress to next one.

In order to invoke the spell you will use to shoot down enemies, you have to place runes in the right order and mix them within the magical cauldron to get the spell you want to use.

Next stop: The forest of spiders.

Wasp's nest can be located at both, forest and sea.

Second type of Monster Champion aka boss is the Broodmother of the spiders.

Like asteroids waves in space, Some areas of the Lake Shire will have waves of rocks against you will need to break through.

Cyclops attack with their cudgels, slamming them against ground and shooting rocks that go at random directions.

Whenever a monster champion is defeated, it will drop several coins, runes and one spell scroll. Collect as many as you can.

Desert area introduces us with dragons, gargoyles and orcs.

Unlike other enemies, orcs will always aim at you with their crossbows.

Certain areas where rocks of waves appear will also have enemies coming to take you down.

Third type of Monster Champion aka boss is the king of cyclops.

Fourth type of Monster Champion aka boss is the king of gargoyles.

Fire-themed spells can inflict a damage over time when they hit enemies.

Ice-themed spells can freeze enemies, rendering them unable to act and easy targets to kill.

Collect the healing potion to restore your health.

Side fire will let you fire bullets horizontally.

Warlocks are attacking us with their dark magic. Magic Armor will help you reduce the damage you will take from enemy shots.

Super power will double the damage your spells are going to deal to enemies.

Poison-themed spells can inflict a damage over time based on the health of the enemies.

Careful, Eyentennas - the demons with four tentacles that end with one eye on each of them will leave a huge explosion that can hurt your greatly if you crash into them.

Notice that damage over time from both, fire-themed and poison-themed spells stack repetively with each other. Keep stacking them, more you stack them, more powerful they will be.

Wasps and spiders together? Ok, this area is totally not for those who are spheksophobic and arachnophobic. A big insect repellent would be handy here.

Double shot will give you some more bullets to fire at once, and will give fire-themed and ice-themed spells a spread-fire. Only ice-themed spells will not be able to benefit from spread-fire.

Fast shot will increase the travelling speed of your bullets.

Rapidity shot will allow you to shoot your bullets faster than normal.

Poison-themed spells's damage over time cannot effect weaker enemies such as wasps and spiders. And if you find your current spell weak, you can always replace it with stronger one in cauldron.

Rapidity shot and double shot are a very powerful combo that can take out enemies very easily.

Fiery pits is the last zone you will visit, and this is where enemies will be at their most dangerous and most powerful.

Stampede of bullfiends. Bullfiends - the bull-like demons will charge at high speed, and they are quite durable too. Thunder of their hooves will warn you when they are about to attack

Crown will automatically kill all enemies on the screen at once. But bear in mind that it will have a lesser effect on enemies at hardest difficulty of the game.

Collect the crystal skull aka soul to slightly decrease the duration of the level.

Don't bother to evade every single enemy shot. Both, dragon and unicorn/pegasus are invulnerable. Only mage and witch riding them are vulnerable to enemy shots.

Dragons, gargoyles, warlocks, eyentennas and bullfiends, oh my! That's a lot of enemy demons to fight, and they are all ready to strike us down.

Ah. Here he is. His majesty - Thorg the Demon King! Leader of the Underworld Demons that invaded Lake Shire kingdom. So, we meet at last! This is where your evil will end!

Ding dong! the evil Thorg - the demon king is defeated.

Game is complete. Thorg is vanquished, his demon army is annihilated, Lake Shire kingdom is once again peaceful, and the Young Mage and Charming Witch are Lake Shire's new heroes.

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