Flora learns of the attacks on Enoch Village and offers Morgan the aid of her apprentice, Schierke, then casts a spell that will temporarily protect Guts and Casca from spirits. Flora explains their plane of existence exists alongside the Astral Plane, the home of supernatural beings, and the Realm of Ideas which all creation is derived. Guts shows Flora the Behelit and she says that it is a gateway to link the physical world with the Plane where the God Hand dwells, and that its senior members were once human like Griffith and answer to a higher power within the deepest layer of the Astral Plane. Schierke assumes Griffith is the fifth angel prophesied by the Holy See. The next day, Guts's group receive magical weapons: Serpico a cloak and sword imbued with Sylphs, Isidro a dagger imbued with Salamanders, and Farnese a silver short-sword along with silver chain mail and tunics for herself and Casca as protection from spirits. Guts takes a battle-axe and leaves and with the others for Enoch Village. Flora meets her friend, The Skull Knight, who requests a favor regarding Guts.