My first win ever, not special but special to me.

[Blasphemous]

Stingray has a point. Fire bolt those corpses then maybe remove curse from them until the moment you can eat them.
Personally, I never eat chaos guardians' corpses but I understand the desire for power when people do that.
It's a 50/50 situation, something I love about RPG games that leave the choice to the player.

[JellySlayer]

I thought Mino Maze was only accessible to level 21-30. You sure you entered at 19? Might be a bug in the new releases.

Congrats on first win!

[Raray]

@Blasphemous: I ate the guardians because I had 12 SoCR and 3 PoCC, I thought that allows me to eat at least a few of them without having corruption trouble.

@JellySlayer: OOPS, I remembered things in the wrong order. I did the rift, maze, and RoHK in the same trip, but I must have gotten to level 22 in the library before doing the maze.

[zasvid]

Congratulations!

Nah, it was a wise decision to let the demon kill Garth. Sacrificing gold for piety is a much better way to spend it than Garth.

Indeed, it's much worse if the daemon kills the dwarven mystic (true story )

[Mobius]

All wins are special. Even the cheating ones are. But those are special, in the 'special ed' sense, except with less dignity.