Activate the artifact

You use your magic to activate the artifact, its eyes glow pulsing with a blue energy. But nothing happens... For a few minutes, you think it’s failed.

Then you hear it. The rhythmic flap of massive wings, each beat sending tremors through the ground and creating waves of cold. You hide in the vegetation, his scales are gray, and his claws are like iron hooks.

You are frightened, and he hasn’t spotted you yet.

You can change your mind and move silently upstairs.
Or you can face your destiny and wait.