"We will have to sacrifice some of us, if we make powerful enough beings to cause an explosion of mana with their bodies, it will be enough to destroy even large planets," Michael said. "Around fifty holy knights should be able to create an explosion big enough to make any planet explode."
They were already talking about sacrifices without trying anything else. Ryan didn't like that, but he could understand Michael's reasoning. His people reached thus far made a lot of compromises. Most of them gave up even on their free will.
"Based on what we know about Lucifer, we can't say that this plan will be effective," Zeus said. "Lucifer can recover his mana indefinitely with the power of lust, so he will be able to keep attacking us like that for as long as he can. With that in mind, sacrificing our soldiers is the worst thing we can do now."