Anyways, fighting them head on would just exhaust me. Instead, I used 【All Creation】 to increase the gravity around them by a factor of ten.
Unable to withstand the burden, the dragons crashed onto the arena one by one.
The impact was terrific, managing to tear and rip through their tough dragon scales. I guess I could say that their posture during their fall was bad? There was even one which had all of the bones in its thick limbs broken.
Though the pain angered them, they couldn’t move at all due to the powerful force weighing them down.
They writhed painfully as they continued to endure the force.
I approached the dragons while keeping my guard up. With my vermillion spear, I stabbed each dragon once and gouged their hearts out.
After doing so, I then collected all the corpses.
For managing to obtain a large amount of Dragon ingredients, I am thankful.
However, even though I’ve already defeated the dragons, there were more coming up.
This time, I could perceive 12 of them, twice as many as before.
Even if it’s that much, I think I can still deal with them no matter what.
However, there were six demons that couldn’t move and if I tried to protect them at the same time, the fight could become very tough.
Even if they were to advance or pull back, there were still a lot of risks.
Besides, even though Minokichi-kun and Kanami-chan can still move, they can’t fight at full strength. Even with a Gods 【Divine Protection】, even if their minds and bodies had been toughened by daily training, as a species, there surely exists a physical limit.
Having just finished the fight against the Crimson Dragon Emperor, the two would likely reach their limits if they attempted to fight the dragons without any rest.
In this case, I was the only demon who could still fight.
Still, I don’t know if even 【Summon Archfiend】 can keep them safe and if possible, I don’t want such a disadvantageous situation to appear.
In this situation, wouldn’t we get eaten by the dragons? Or maybe we would just be burnt down to the ground and turned into ash.
I’d want to avoid that at all costs.
There are others waiting for us to return and I still want to do some more things.
In that case, I can only propose an absurd plan.
First, I will have Minokichi-kun and Kanami-chan protect the six demons in the arena.
Meanwhile, I will head down to the bottom of the crater and reduce the number of dragons so that the two could handle them. After doing so, I will go and defeat the Dungeon Boss by myself.
By doing so, the capture can be completed and I can return without any regrets. It’s something that can’t even be called a plan.
When I told them, they complained about it but… well, there’s no other choice.
Because it’s a plan mixed with my own interests, I just listened to their complaints.
For some reason, unrelated complains were mixed in as well though I just set those aside.
After hearing out their words, I carried out my plan.
As for them, they said something like 『Well… Since its Aporou, there’s no helping it.』 before letting me go.
It was probably the result of the trust that I have built from them since the beginning. They most likely believed that I would be able to carry out this absurd plan.
Entrusting them with the rest, I jumped off the arena.
Minokichi-kun blamed himself for his weakness and injuries, but was determined to succeed in his goal of protecting the other six demons.
Although she worried about my safe return, Kanami-chan waved goodbye with a beautiful smile that would have charmed anyone looking at her.
"Well then, I'm going, I leave the rest to you."
Holding onto a red spear and cursed spear, Aporou, the black demon Apostle Lord, jumped off the arena. As Aporou began to fall, a tremendous amount of pressurised hot air blew past him. He had avoided the normal route which was the spiral path along the walls of the crater. As a result, he approached his destination extremely quickly.