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Ahead of you are two chests and a save point.  Jump across the platforms above 
you to reach a chest with red orbs inside.  Now head right and follow that one 
to reach more red orbs.  Take the left path here up to the large platform and 
battle through the evil demons here.  Start across this dangerous spinning 
mechanism being careful to avoid the knives.  Jump to the second platform on 
the right to find a chest with a large number of red orbs inside.  At the very 
end is another chest with red orbs in it, get there quick before the archer 
spawns and fires at you.  Follow the path right and then down to reach yet 
another large stash of red orbs.  Return to the very first spinning pole and 
jump across to the left.  Now from here on it just goes nuts I'm telling you, 
if you want to take the branching path to the right and get the red orbs go 
ahead.  Other than that it's pretty linear to the end with a few ore red orb 
chests here and there, I've got my hands full just trying to navigate through 
here alive while avoiding cheap deaths.  You don't need directions, you need a 
miracle.  Okay, well it's not that hard, but you'll need some luck for this.

There's a save point and a chest at the end here.  I'm absolutely in awe at 
the stupid things that you're forced to do here.  I mean the idea of 
platforming along with guys in the background firing arrows at you with barely 
enough magic to take them all out, if even that.  Really this whole area is 
just obnoxious, I'll stop complaining now.  Get across here however you can 
and when you reach the other side it's time to put your fighting skills to the 
test.  You must defeat every last enemy in this area to unlock the door and 
there's a lot of enemies.  One somewhat helpful tactic is to use the Blades of 
Chaos to knock the minotaurs off the edge, if you're desperate it works.  When 
the forcefield disappears a large spinning thing is revealed, you can start 
climbing up this now.  Obviously watch out for the knives as you ascend.  
There are places along the way where you can get stuck with no hope of escape 
and you have to climb from the very bottom each time you're hit, but I guess 
it wouldn't be a stupid cheap area if it wasn't stupid and cheap.

At the top you'll find a chest with red orbs, jump up to the right and defeat 
all the enemies here, then get ready for another dose of fun knife wall 
climbing.  This one is worse than the last one.  Hooray.  There's a save point 
on the right at the top along with two chests.  You'll need to fight your way 
through piles and piles of the same enemy here to create the platforms in the 
distance.  Once all of them have sprung up jump across and get to the top 
where a quick scene occurs.  Now climb up the rope and prepare for the end.