"What... what do you mean? Like, the 'Filth' is from another realm?" Xenia asked, not totally sure if she was understanding Eisen correctly, but the old man immediately shook his head.
"No, not another realm. Not hell or heaven or whatever magical planes exist here; a different world. Like how earth is in a different world from this one," he explained, "And it looks like it's bleeding into this one. And in return... this one is bleeding into that world too. It's probably somewhat like how Samuel wants to introduce mana to earth."
Xenia silently turned her head. That cloud of dust was fully concealing the Filth, and she shuddered at the thought, "So it's... what do you... How even?"
"I don't know how, but you were researching a way to get us back to Earth independently from Samuel. But it looks like you... might have created a connection to a new world instead. And since then, it might have become easier to connect to the world that this thing is from."
"I..." Xenia's eyes darted around in thought as she tried to think about what was going on, attempting to properly comprehend the situation. As she did, the high-elf winced and held a hand to her forehead, as though she were in pain, "That feels familiar, but... does that mean that there's even more worlds out there?"
Eisen quickly nodded, "I'll explain what I remembered to you later, but I think for now, we should deal with that thing properly. It looks like it has something similar to mana; at least, it's similar enough that my truth-seeing eye can detect it. It's some kind of... wrong energy, dirty and disgusting. Filthy, like that thing's name would imply."
"Do you think it's dangerous? Or particularly powerful?"
"I don't know if it's powerful or not, but it doesn't follow the rules of our world. It could be incomprehensibly different, to the point where it might be worse for us if it 'dies', if that's even something that's possible," Eisen pointed out, and Xenia glared at the 'thing'.
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"I'm not sure if that's something we need to... worry about," she replied, "Even if it's from a different world, right now it took on a form that's of this world. Yes, there's a lot wrong about it, but if it was that easy to just ignore the rules of the world we're in, then Samuel never would have had to go through such immense effort to try and bring mana to earth."
"Let's hope you're right," a little nervously, Eisen looked at the magic circle on the ground, "Do you think you could try and figure out a way to open the gateway again so we can banish that thing?"
His Mantis Shrimp form quickly faded away, and the chitin on his body turned back into fur, but then quickly turned into glowing red feathers as a halo of flames was drawn around his head. Swinging his monkey staff around, sparks were flung around the area.
With a quick push forward, a swirl of fire was shot toward the small pieces of the Filth's flesh that was being thrown around the area, quickly scorching them. However, despite the flames, the flesh seemed to learn how to recover even faster.
"It's energy is still decreasing," Eisen pointed out, seeing that the Filth was clearly trying to pull in whatever it could from the gateway in order to continue sustaining itself, which is why Xenia had to quickly wake up.
She had to come back with the knowledge of what they had to do to banish this thing that just refused to die even with this constant, combined barrage of attacks from Brody, Jyuuk, and Eisen.
And then, they could try and close the gateway and then immediately question Van Horgh to figure out how the fuck the holy empire learned about something like this, as well as why they would ever even consider doing something like this.
Despite their behaviour, Eisen thought they had at least some level of integrity behind their actions. The reason they despised monsters was because they thought that they went against the laws of the world and were beings that didn't understand the divine doctrines. Which, of course, was absolute hogwash.
But at least they were consistent throughout their opinions regarding this part of their beliefs, and then they turned around and tried to use something like this, from a whole other world? That made absolutely no sense.
But really, who knew what they were thinking? Eisen still didn't know how they even learned how to do this ritual, but in the end, it didn't matter much. They went too far, making an innocent young woman sacrifice herself for some kind of large-scale cult, becoming a martyr for a false cause.
Eisen sure as hell hoped that Evalia was keeping a good eye on them, because if something happened to the envoys from the holy empire, the old man would go on a rampage. He had to give them what they deserved himself.
Before long, as the cycle of cutting, dicing, and roasting was being repeated again and again and again, Xenia finally woke back up. She jumped up from the ground, "I know what to. Eisen, come and help me out here!"
Immediately, the old man pulled back, and Brody immediately went into the next gear to make up for his absence.
"What do I need to do?" Eisen asked, looking into the concerned high-elf's face.