"Brother? You've got a brother?" the current Grandour asked, and Eisen nodded his head with a smile, "Yep. And to be honest, he's not the only sibling I have. Though, I don't remember them at this time, I know they exist. My father took multiple wives over his lifetime. Giants live quite long, after all," the old man explained.
He stood up and walked toward the window at the side of the room, which faced the statue that was holding up the roof of the mountain.
"I was the oldest. And obviously, the one that left the greatest mark in history, but if they're all like my brother and I, then I doubt their achievments were anything to scoff at either. Silber, specifically, found himself close to nature. To all living things. And as such, he chose to learn from them. And amongst them is-"
"A mountain gobbler," the Irngrad repeated, "So it really was that..?"
"Mountain gobbler?" The desert giant chieftain asked, and the cloud giant chieftain let out a deep, annoyed sigh, "A monster that lives in slumber for most of its lifetime. As they sleep, they feed on nature's mana to keep themselves alive. I'm guessing what they're referring to is the crystal tendril they use to do so."
"...During some mining operations, we've come across multiple of these. A few of them had been broken before we were told about it, but it didn't seem to lead to any issues," the Irngrad explained, and Eisen turned around, trying to suppress his glare, "They were destroyed?"
"Only some of them... and then new ones grew somewhere else."
Eisen's eyes widened surprised, "They're still actively expanding? That... is an active ability. Either consciously or subconsciously... he's still making more?"
"At least that seems to be true for when we found the first tendrils. This happened thousands of years ago, so I can't promise that he's still in that same state..."
The old man scoffed at the Irngrad's words, "I'm sorry, but Silber ended up like this nearly a hundred thousand years ago. Just a couple millennia won't budge him anymore."
"So..." the Bralfam started, "You wish to cure his curse, and replace his burden with pillars? What if they can't hold the load?"
Eisen smiled, "Well... If anything can make pillars to hold a mountaintop, it would be me, right?"
"Hold on, what I still don't get is how he got that large... and what about the arrow? Who attacked him? And why the hell was the mountain carved out? I just- what?" the desert giant chieftain rubbed the bridge of her nose, trying to make sense of the situation properly. Eisen thought about it for a moment, but simply shrugged, "I don't know.
I can't remember how he ended up like this yet. But I'm sure there's going to be a great explanation when it comes down to it."
Eisen walked through the room, stepping behind the seat of the cloud giant chieftain. He placed his hands on the giant's shoulders, leaning forward, "Ain't that right, Samuel?"
"What's going on? What did Samuel do?" the Irngrad asked, rushing toward the window as well. He didn't even have to get all the way there to freeze up completely, "No, he..."
"Yeah. He cured my brother's curse."
The grandour stuttered, "But... but then..."
"Just shut up and get moving," Eisen frowned, jumping out of the window. He spread out his demonic wings and flew out away from the castle. As he did, he pulled up his status window to look at his friend-list. Jyuuk and Xenia were online. Evalia and Brody weren't. He could apologize later.
This was something Eisen promised only to do in total emergencies. Ever since he had become the King, and the other originals had technically become his 'retainers', Eisen had gotten the ability to summon them to his location. Not against their will, of course, they still had to agree. But they would know that if Eisen summoned them, it was an emergency deserving of the situation.
The old man held forward his hand, trying to summon Xenia and Jyuuk onto his palm. He waited for a few seconds, each of which seemed way too long. In the meantime, he had landed, and began to spread out his Demonic Domain onto the city. That way he could manipulate the space better, and he could summon some Demonic Spawn to help protect and evacuate the townsfolk.
By the time his duplicates appeared by his side, two small people appeared on his palm.
"Eisen, what's going on?"
"What do you need us to do?"
Xenia and Jyuuk looked up at the old man, and Eisen pointed forward, "The statue was a cursed giant, and Samuel removed the curse. He's crumbling, or buckling, or shrinking; whichever it is, the mountain is about to collapse onto the city."
The two other originals looked around. They could see the first chunks of the mountain start dropping down onto the city below. Just those relatively small pieces, which ended up being larger than boulders, would cause unbelievable death and destruction. Without further ado, Xenia started to cast a spell and Jyuuk immediately jumped off Eisen's hand.
From the beastman's body, a massive bird appeared and quickly started carrying him around the city. He pulled out a book as well, starting to flip through it, and numerous beasts and monsters started spreading out around him, flying through the air or dropping down onto the ground.
Once Xenia stopped casting her spell, her body lifted off Eisen's palm as she flew through the air. She shot out needles of magic that attached to the falling boulders, slowing their fall, if not fully stopping them. But even the ones that did reach close to the ground were blocked by a massive barrier that had spread out thinly.
"When will the others be here?!" Eisen yelled out toward them, and Xenia quickly replied, "Brody only just logged out, said he needed to eat. Evalia's been gone for an hour already, but she should be back soon as well! Just keep an eye on the friendlist!"
The old man clicked his tongue. With the support of the other two as well, Eisen would be feeling a lot better. Though even then, this situation was still nigh-apocalyptic. He simply needed all the help he could get.
After all, the world was literally crumbling into pieces above him.