“Now we just need to drag Satan out and kill them.”
But how do we get Satan out?
I could roughly infer the location from the Demonic Energy I could sense, but……
“Do we dig?”
“An ignorant method. And useless besides.”
True.
Even if we dug toward Satan's current position, it would become meaningless the moment Satan slipped sideways underground.
The problem was that this also made any technique aimed only at Satan's present location more or less useless.
“What if we remove all the soil inside the barrier?”
“If you intend to do so with shovels, there could hardly be a more absurdly laborious task. And if you intend to use force… do you plan on destroying the barrier as well?”
Yeah.
I figured that wouldn't work either.
If I wanted, I could probably carve the entire ground apart with hundreds of slashes and grind it to pieces.
But then we'd genuinely risk breaking the barrier and simply give Satan more opportunities to escape.
[You sure worry about a lot of things. Turning the whole place into a sea of fire would be much easier.]
“Do you even have enough Demonic Energy for that?”
[Oh, my dear one. Are you worried about me?]
“Obviously not. I'm asking because I'd rather we didn't burn too.”
More importantly, are we seriously going to shovel all the soil outside the barrier by hand?
Seriously?
I stared miserably down into the earth.
Then, at the Inquisitor's words, I raised my head.
“Come out this way.”
The Inquisitor was…