*To be or not to be… my poison doesn't quite reach that level but!… I just want to kill them temporarily. *
In a similar way as he had done on himself during Cain's fight, Eric used the right quantitative of poison to cause a near-death experience to some of his companions.
The reason was simple: speed and practicality.
It could sound crazy and cynical, but that was the best choice Eric could make.
After all, to take his lower-leveled friends had to become ''objects'' for them to get inside his space pocket.
Would have been possible to escape the encirclement of dragons through his peculiar relationship with Nemesis and her employers?
Probably, but that would have been detrimental in the long term.
In the same way as the influx of money could be traced in Earthly society, the gods could do with causality.