Although not all the Demon Gods of Gremlin believed in taking things by force, and there were quite a few moderates like Nephthys and Niangniang who preferred to achieve their goals peacefully through fair trades.
Since they were already enemies, Roland would treat them all alike.
He was no righteous protagonist. Was he supposed to find hardships and excuses for his enemies?
Those like Cthulhu and Bishop, who were too far gone to communicate with, would naturally be destroyed outright. The other Demon Gods, as precious assets that could still be salvaged, could receive a reprieve, but they would have to contribute their value in another way.
The New Heaven and Earth was a prison.
That was a fact Roland had established when he created it.
This dreamlike domain, which used the Complete Formula User's power to partition the timeline and allowed them to unleash their full strength at will, had never been a benefit.
The prison had only ever had one purpose.
To make its prisoners pay for their actions while uncovering their greater value along the way.
And to Roland, using unstable beings like the Demon Gods as labor might cause all sorts of future problems, but if he only used them as cannon fodder, there was no need for so much concern.
"Othinus."
"I'll keep watch over the Present World."
"Then I'll leave it to you."
After stroking the girl's head again and reflecting on how dependable a trustworthy helper was, Roland vanished from where he stood and appeared above deep space.
Inside the shattered Infinite Temple of Time, the surroundings had become a complete mess.
The endless plains crumbled like sandcastles, and the neatly arranged stone tiles were battered and broken.
Even the paths leading throughout the temple were intermittent, with sections of many abruptly missing,