[ If he mentally substitutes all these religious or magical words with sci fi ones, this story makes complete sense to Gregor and even rings a sympathetic bell. (Only if he does the replacement; otherwise it's a lot of incredible nonsense to him, but he gamely goes along with it, a survival mechanism he'd learned rapidly here.) ]

That sounds frightfully irresponsible of the Emperor of Carthak, [ he points out factually. ] Does that imply the... divine realms are lawless, or just that they defy human authority over them?