The forge was a place for tempering in the first place.
When the Machine Priests jumped into the forge, as long as their spirituality had not been exhausted and the steel on their bodies remained, they would not suffer the slightest harm.
This was also why the Old Duke had made a point of removing all his Iron Prostheses before jumping into the forge.
If he had not removed them, jumping in would have been little different from taking a bath.
Even the maintenance routine for the Machine Priests' prostheses included a flame purification step.
Only after personally confirming all this had Elliot brought the Machine Priests over to clear the area.
As for Elliot himself?
The "Elliot" standing here was actually Elsa's corpse.
As for whether a corpse could be infected, that had long since been verified. Elsa's corpse had spent so long in those ruins without anything happening to it.
These monsters seemed only capable of parasitizing living things.
At that thought, Elliot's expression darkened further.
He should have thought of it long ago. Maeve and Eleanor had initially been parasitized by monsters, and those ruins belonged to the Cosmog Dynasty.
The Cosmog Dynasty had existed in the First Era, which was also known as the era of monsters. Humans back then had worshipped the moon, and those ruins had also been used to offer sacrifices to it.
Taken together, these details made one thing easy to deduce-the monsters on the moon were the "it" from the festival!
Elliot sighed. He had been misled by the Dream Creatures in the Sea of the Moon into thinking that these Dream Creatures were the only enemies.
"No wonder the rocks on the seabed showed up as [Flesh Chunks] on the Difference Engine, and Maeve felt an uncontrollable appetite when she