"There's not much we could do to block the door, kid. If we just froze it over or collapsed this tunnel the demons could just break or burrow through it. People tend to think of the fire-breathing type when they hear the word demon, but there's other breeds, like lumbering cave ones with crystal scales and tusks. If we had a Light Elemental we could cancel out the dark magic keeping the Inferno open and prevent the demons from getting near it, but that magic's a lot rarer than other kinds, and I never could get the hang of it," Richard responded. "Sir Old Man here's right. We have to go through, kill any demon or cultists we find, and collapse the thing."
"Collapse it? How?" Aldraniri questioned.
"You want to take down a bridge, you pull out the keystone. Infernos work on the same principle, kid. Not that I'm encouraging you to destroy bridges. That's bad, like drugs," Richard clarified, clearing his throat. "Anyway, Infernos are artificially created by Tenaembra opening up pocket dimensions. But even with him being a god he can't focus on keeping all those Infernos constantly open, so he creates vessels of his power to install in the Infernos to keep them cosmically stable. At least, that's the fancy theory stuff behind it. Basically if you see a good-sized black diamond in a shrine or pedestal or something in there, take it and run like mad towards the nearest exit. Infernos usually have more than one place in Gaiaca they lead to, so it shouldn't be too dangerous if you don't get back to the exact portal you came through."
