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“What do you mean by that?” Ignisia asked Ketal.
“Exactly what it sounds like.”
“No, I mean,” Ignisia said, trying to make sure she had heard correctly. “You are saying you want to move the entire mine outside his domain?”
“Yes.” Ketal nodded once. “I have a question. What sits at the center of the demon’s domain?”
“For Mantamia, it was once Hephaite’s holy ground,” she replied after a beat. “It was protected by divine power. That holiness was stained and inverted, and the whole place transformed into a field of evil.”
“So the domain is not anchored to the demon himself.”
Which meant that if they could separate Mantamia from the space the domain covered, they would step outside its rules entirely.
“The only reason he can manipulate everything inside so freely is because the mine is within his domain,” Ketal said. “If we take the mine out, his reach should end.”
“That is impossible,” Grombir said at once.
“Impossible?” Ketal echoed. “Is the mine truly that large?”
“No. Not in volume,” the dwarf king answered. “Mantamia is compacted to an extreme, so if you compare raw size, you might call it a hill. In terms of dimensions alone, moving it is not unthinkable.”
Size was not the obstacle. Weight and nature were.
“The ores inside carry Myst in themselves,” Grombir went on. “They are highly resistant to Myst.”
Using Myst to pull or push them was nearly pointless. That was why the dwarves...
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