I decide to leave Zeus and Zephyr to their own devices after that.
But not before demanding some actual answers from Zeus, who seems to be far too eager to provide them for me.
What is up with that? He is scheming something, I swear.
In any case, I did learn the whole picture or maybe most of the picture. Zeus never tells me everything for one reason or another.
Sigh.
Zeus and Zephyr need to farm these Spirit Shards in order to reconstitute their missing soul, at least a little. It will take at least a million shards each, so they have a lot of work ahead of them.
Having an actual soul is a must to enter the Twisted Nether, a place of infinite dimensions, apparently.
It is all to hunt bigger game as well as for training, not to mention looting. There are a lot of lost items, weapons, and artefact there.