Medusa Slayer Perseus

Lore
"So I just don't have to look at her?" Perseus inadvertently stumbled upon the answer to defeating the Gorgon Medusa, yet his experience told him it was an incredibly dangerous proposition. The solution was elementary; executing it was the true challenge. Fortunately, he was endowed the strength and bravery required to bring about the end of the atrocious fiend.

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