Devil's Bible

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The divine kingdom is essentially a fixed location used as a 'divine war layout'. Through long-term refinement and the accumulation of a large amount of divine power, its divine power output limit exceeds its true level, maximizing the advantage of fighting on home ground.

Given Naim's current situation, there's no need to do that.

"The first war with the gods was a life-or-death battle, directly determining the fate of the God of Discipline."

"Therefore, every battle from now on will be a life-or-death struggle!"

"Losing means death!"

Nems' words revealed an extreme indifference towards life and death.

Seeing this, the Moon Goddess gained a deeper understanding of the extent of Nemus's madness.

Battles between gods can often last for a hundred years, which is not unusual.

The reason is that the true form of a deity always resides in the divine kingdom, never taking any risks for itself.

Those who died were all believers; over the course of a century, new generations have been born one after another.

The gods didn't care at all.

Even incarnations can chat and laugh with hostile deities, and then enjoy drinks together.

After all, gods have infinite lifespans, and sometimes there's no need to completely break ties.

Nemus's current stance of not building a divine kingdom makes him seem more like an outlaw than a god.

Chapter 826 Open Source and Cost Reduction

Nemus stopped talking to the moon goddess and couldn't help but look around.

The senses of those gods stopped the instant Nemus swept over them, and then vanished.

Although Nemus's divine power is only weak now, even those strong among those with medium divine power feel fear when facing Nemus now.

Because this has never happened before.

A powerful deity was directly pulled out of his own divine kingdom and killed.

This completely shattered the gods' sense of security.

The gods who died in the past were either killed by enemies who breached their divine kingdoms at a cost many times greater.

Either he wanted a certain boost to his combat power, or he was careless and his main body left the divine kingdom and was killed.

Therefore, the gods generally understood that while staying in their own divine kingdoms was not absolutely safe, as long as they did not provoke gods many times stronger than themselves, they basically did not need to worry about death.

However, Nems defied this common sense.

Just like how hiding under the covers means you don't have to worry about ghosts coming to find you, Nemus, this ghost, doesn't care and just drags you out of the covers.

These changes made the gods less willing to provoke Nemus.

Nems was happy with this peace and quiet.

He doesn't have time to deal with his relationship with these gods.

At this moment, most of his mind was either immersed in the understanding of the changes in the world brought about by his divinity, or he was driving his subordinates to take over the territory of the Discipline Church.

Regardless of the circumstances, completing the faith transformation as soon as possible and gathering sufficient faith power are of paramount importance.

besides……

In the material plane, some people are rushing across the earth.

Upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that these individuals are all quite powerful.

Leading them were the saints of the God of Discipline.

They were carrying the torch of the church and were quickly fleeing to certain special areas.

Although it's uncertain whether those areas can be saved now, it's their only way to survive.

However, the surrounding environment changed rapidly in the next moment.

The expressions of the leading saints all changed; they sensed a similar yet completely different change in divine power.

"Split up and run!" one of the saints shouted, his figure almost turning into light.

However, this beam of light was visibly slowing down.

The area he flew over rippled and then transformed into a painting.

In the perception and understanding of that sage, his flight as light did not slow down.

But in the real world, he has become a part of the painting.

And it becomes smaller and smaller.

Upon seeing this, the other saints could only grit their teeth and quickly run to other places.

On the contrary, some of the church's promising young members suffered complete mental breakdowns after witnessing this scene.

"It's all fake, it's all fake!!!" he shouted. "You can't fool me!"

As he spoke, his entire body transformed into a ball of light and exploded rapidly.

But soon, the explosion he created was stopped in mid-air.

It was as if time had stopped; all the firelight remained still, clearly visible to everyone.

"Demon!!! I'll fight you to the death!" someone shouted, only to find that Nemus was nowhere to be found. He could only swing his sword at thin air.

The numbers spread rapidly during this process, and then suddenly slashed at the air beside them. The entire air was like a piece of fish meat, which was cut open by it, revealing the fleshy cavity behind it.

Upon witnessing this scene, the man went completely insane and began to doubt the reality of this world.

In comparison, the saints are much more resilient in spirit.

Even when faced with such a situation, they still held fast to their beliefs.

They must persevere and follow God's final message.

God will return in as little as six months, or at most a year.

If we can get through this period, the whole world will be restored to light!

The saints understood this.

Unfortunately……

After losing the God of Discipline, the power of these saints declined.

At the same time, its endurance and burst power are also limited.

Faced with Nemus's divine power arrangement, they now appeared extremely passive.

They didn't even have time to escape.

Small figures then appeared around them.

Around these tiny figures, concentric circles of divine power rippled outwards.

Then the surrounded saints found it difficult to truly understand everything in this world.

Everything is changing, and one's own perception quickly becomes vague and inaccurate.

Previously, countless years of knowledge had taught them that as long as the corresponding intention was conveyed, the body would move accordingly.

But now they've discovered that the body must move first before the related thoughts will appear.

The ground has gravity, so you can walk on solid ground.

But at this moment, the ground no longer has gravity, and if you walk on it, you will only push yourself into the sky.

There are many similar cases.

They can no longer distinguish whether their own perceptions are right or wrong; everything is in a state of ambiguity.

A few minutes later, the last saint was annihilated, unable to escape Nems's fabricated scheme.

Having done all this, the dwarf scouting team quickly headed off into the distance; they had other tasks to complete.

This is actually the state of powerlessness of the material plane when facing gods.

Of course, if it were a saint from another god, even if the other gods didn't help, the Nemus in the Astral Plane would have a slightly more troublesome time to kill the saint if they didn't have the right people.

However, these saints were all disciplined saints, and their holy power was all about "transformation".

For these people, a small group of people nearby is enough.

As for the task these little people will undertake next, it is already quite clear—to find other Earth Churches.

After three months, Nemus felt it was necessary to obtain the Earth Godhood.

If given the chance, I would even want to get my hands on that portion of the spatial divine core.

Nemus must maximize his strength.

"The rules governing the growth of divine power are somewhat unfavorable to me!" Nemus squinted and sensed for a moment before sighing.

The primary source of divine power is faith, and secondly, it is people's narrow understanding of the rules governing this system.

For example, when someone laments the impermanence of life and the changes in the world, their understanding and perception of these changes can form a belief.

In this situation, the "marginal diminishing returns" principle is not so effective for increasing numerical values.

"In general, the only option in this situation is to cut costs and increase revenue."

"In terms of cost-saving, I can give up building the divine kingdom, which is a major consumer of divine power."

"But open source..."

Nemus thought for a moment and realized that three months wasn't enough time to get more people to believe in him...

“Unless…” Nemus’s gaze turned toward the abyss.

Chapter 827 Taking the Detour

Even without establishing a divine kingdom, Nemus doesn't have enough time.

In this short time, even if he poured all his faith into himself, it would be difficult to stabilize the channel of faith. Becoming a weak god would be no problem, but becoming a medium god would be very difficult.

As for powerful divine strength, that's even more impossible.

Although the Godhood of 'Change' has a foundation of powerful divine power, it requires at least thousands of years of accumulation, gradually acquiring the power of faith and transforming it into divine power.

In addition, the composition of the divine nature needs to be optimized to the extreme to achieve this.

Nemus then tried using substances like elements to refine divine power.

After a few attempts, the conclusion was reached: it was possible, but very slow.

Everything in this world is made of mud.

In theory, everything can be unified by the source-matter theory.

Unfortunately, Nemes did not reach that level of understanding to fully develop a grand unified theory and its specific formulas.

With human capabilities and computing power, we can only ever grasp a partial understanding of the transformations.

Extracting divine power from elements requires several steps to transform and alter it, unless it comes from a corresponding elemental deity.

It takes a lot of effort, time, and energy.

And the abyss...

Demons are a very large group.

And we can learn a very important piece of information: almost all demons have no faith.

Yes, almost all of them.

Excluding a very few oddballs, the faith of a small number of demons is generally directed toward the abyss itself, the will of the abyss, the demon princes, and themselves.

Even if most demons are more intelligent than ordinary people, they will not believe in others; at most, they will pretend to be loyal.

This is due to the demonic nature of the body.

It's just a bunch of broken-down individuals.

They are broken and always want to take things from other places to fill their own voids. How could they possibly give up themselves and offer their 'spirit' to outsiders?

In some ways, demons are the most self-centered beings in the world.