“As you have surely noticed, a slain demon leaves behind Nethershards, solidified residual energy from the Twisting Nether. I require a significant quantity of them for an experiment I'm conducting... oa shards, to be precise.
Why are you looking at me like that? We've had this conversation before. I did the math.
I need exactly oa shards. Fewer would be inadequate. More would be absurd.
Don't question my methods. Go!”