She continued speaking, but something else was itching at the back of his mind. Though his attention was dragged back to her when she loaded and fired an arrow, assailing something in the area. A black creature, as though it were made of shadow had emerged. It was as Erde felt in his core, something was in fact here. Something evil and had full intention of further corrupting the land of this planet. 

There was a foulness in the air, in the earth, as though something powerful and corrupted was nearby. A deep thrumming, like the sound of a bass-line string quartet started to come from within Erde's chest. It elevated to the sounds of war horns, as though an army of men was ready to wage war within his body. Erde's hulking form twisted upwards from its sitting position, unnaturally rotating parts of his body to better position him. The ground began to rumble and the horns began to sound like screaming, the screaming of a thousand men and women. A primal roar of the men and women of war echoed outwards, the sound was quickly followed by a tremor emanating from beneath Erde's feet. His influence zone was being infected with a disease, a pestilence. Like a virus his body began to defend on its own. The ground that obeyed his will began to shake, waves of stone and dirt pulsing up and down like the water of the oceans. 

For the first time in two years and three months Erde spoke, and his voice boomed with a powerful certainty. No hint of fear, no hint of overconfidence. A simple warning to those who dare infect the ground with unnatural presence. "Evil powers fear. Holy light beware. You are in a neutral zone, and the very ground you stand on will stop you." The twin bronze boots that are his feet dug downwards, accelerating the growth of his twin pillars. Sending the two earthen spires twisting upwards at nearly three times the speed that they were moving at before. By sundown they would reach the sky and tear apart the clouds. It would take a few more days to properly show them the sky, in fact it might prove more difficult than it seems. With the emergence of this rancid presence Erde had no idea what to expect. 

Though there were dark forms standing behind him, possibly dangerous, but there was something else. And Erde's eyes scanned the horizon before him, searching almost frantically for the source of this intrusion into his influence zone.