The timer ticked away, each second a small pressure against his thoughts. He assessed the room. The snake platforms were a solved problem. That left the dagger. It had been given to him for a reason, and that reason had to involve deactivating either the winged serpent or the wyvern symbols.
His theory of evolution held. The image of the winged serpent was identical to the one in the previous room: a great beast soaring over a landscape of
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