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This level features some sword fights. Also, you meet up with an important character story-wise, and receive some important magical scrolls. Lastly, you have to ride a barrel, paddling with your staff. In the water duct, you must outrun the Norlac, a water monster. You seemed to be pinned between it and the whirlpool which leads down into the unknown.