You are too focused on your own survival to help anyone. You press on, wincing at the scream of deadly terror behind you. A last look, and you see them engulfed in thick smoke emanating from the beast, the Doom of Bastone running over them, stomping one of them to death under its giant foot.

You know you have to live, so their death is not in vain. You must reach Verum with what you know.