Toppled over by Torrens' retaliatory blast and another barrage from D'Artagne's catapult, being impaled by both Emily and then Balothiss proved a mortal wound. Convulsing wildly as searing blood gushed from where it had mutilated, it let out a harrowing scream and flailed its limbs its a scything motion at Balothiss and anybody else unfortunate to be close to where it had fallen. Its spasms and howling grew rapidly more frantic for a brief time, until the thing simultaneously disintegrated and exploded. Rocky, demonic flesh crumbled to mere ash while the monster's burning heart erupted into a nova of flame. When all was said and done, nothing was left of the demon save the ash and bone that its demise has strewn everywhere through the cavern, as well as the destruction that it had inflicted during its brief time in the world.

All the straggling dwarves had now been found and killed; there was no more resistance to speak of. Further back in the cavern, a seemingly oblivious Master hummed loudly to himself as he conjured another gateway to the inferno and brought forth wave after wave of imps. A small horde of demons advanced into the storeroom to seize the alchemical explosives that the Master had come for, but the red tide did not stop there. The rest of them poured elsewhere, invading and pillaging what few buildings had remained barricaded and safe, picking through the bones and remains of the dead, and braving the crumbling remains of houses.

With the outpost thoroughly sacked and his minions already scouring it for every last bit of wealth, the Master now turned to his champions, the lot of them having had a few minutes to rest and regain their bearings after that incident with the massive demon. [b][i]"Now how will we make this look like the work of the humans?"[/i][/b] he asked in what could have been either a sarcastic or genuine tone. The look that he gave his followers was somehow both quizzical and lazy at the same time. No doubt the callous Dungeon Keeper was already bored yet again.

It would appear that he had already forgotten about the demon that he had just summoned, having either missed the spectacle that it had created or simply being so unimpressed and indifferent as to not even comment on it. The two were almost equally likely, as those in the Horde of Evil were most likely aware.