Devil's Bible

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That kind of kingly will that refuses to be eaten and can only devour others.

This moment pushes him to become stronger.

The pica expert had a premonition that if he could acquire some core cards related to ghouls in the future, he would be able to quickly become the new King of Ghouls.

When that time comes, he will be able to challenge the Lord of the Desolate Tomb and become the new Great Leader.

The mental stimulation from his own successful promotion made him suddenly lunge at Nems.

The rubber on his body became more flexible, and his strength became even greater. In fact, the moment he lunged at you, you felt as if death was attacking you.

Nemus gripped his sword, sensing his own physical strength.

Then draw a card.

[Sword Technique: Flying Star Combo] [Sword Slash] [Hood Strike]

The three cards were triggered by Nemus's sword strike, creating a chain reaction.

Then, in the next moment, Nemus felt a slight resonance from the card.

A glint of sword light merged entirely into it.

Looking at the sword that had pierced his body, he felt his ghoul heart stop beating.

The person with pica opened their mouth as if to say something.

But then he had no strength left.

The life force provided by the card continues to flow into the body, but this life force is just that—life force—and cannot truly save a life.

The person with pica began to writhe and convulse all over their body, 'eating' everything in their body.

The vigorous vitality, ironically, became the foundation of this self-eating.

Soon, the pica creatures lost their human form and turned into a mass of rotten flesh that kept devouring each other.

Only the phantom figure took half a step back and couldn't help but look at the other side of Nemus's finger, where some crystalline powder began to drift away.

"Secret technique..."

Chapter 747 Five Veins

"How do you know secret arts? How could you possibly use secret arts? How can your mastery of secret arts be so high?!" The phantom looked at Nemus and asked questions like cannonballs.

The secret arts lineage sounds very mysterious, but in reality, it's just a common occurrence.

There were two or three big cats and small fish.

There are only about a dozen people in the entire Silver City who practice secret arts.

Some of them were apprentices.

It's not that they don't want to expand, but that they simply don't have the money.

Their secret technique was built upon the unique resource cards of the Silver City, and it was also their downfall that led to their defeat.

The supplies are too expensive.

Cultivating secret techniques requires sensing the properties of various spell-casting materials, and each spell-casting requires consuming spell-casting materials.

This is essentially like fighting with money.

If they are geniuses, they can minimize the waste of materials and make them perform to their full potential.

In this way, materials can be used to generate more materials, thus leading to further development.

But that's the difficulty of the secret technique; many fools simply can't avoid wasting it.

Given the waste of materials, let alone development, even self-sufficiency is difficult to achieve.

Under these circumstances, the secret arts lineage gradually declined.

They can only barely survive in the Silver City. The only reason they can still exist is because some masters are still around. They have a passion for continuing the secret arts lineage.

Of course, he also harbored a thought—to find a true genius and carry forward the secret art.

According to some old folks, the secret arts lineage once enjoyed a period of glory.

Back then, the secret arts lineage was able to suppress those who practiced witchcraft and evil magic, and to fight against the alchemy lineage.

Unfortunately, after the defeat, without the experts at the top to hold things up, resources could not circulate properly.

That's why we've fallen into today's predicament.

As long as a master emerges to open up access to higher levels and guide the allocation of resources, the secret arts lineage will immediately be revitalized.

The phantom man thought he was a genius among thousands, but after living for more than ten years, the truth told him that he was not.

As it turns out, he met a true genius here today.

If he wasn't mistaken, Nemus's previous sword strike was an imitation of Hooknose's [Fusion Source].

This is an incredible, miraculous power.

Because the Hooked Nose card possessed the [Fusion] card, it resonated with all the cards at the cost of a Silver card, thus completing that Fusion strike.

But Nemus, after only seeing it once, used crystals to replicate it using a secret technique?

"Are you a god?" The phantom had completely given up resisting. He stared blankly at Nemus and asked this question.

The most outrageous idea in the secret arts lineage lies precisely in this.

Abandon the identity of a card player and create a new profession through arcane arts.

The key is to transform cards into arcane arts.

Even without that card, it can be performed using a secret technique.

According to their plan, this would allow them to break free from the card-based combat system and no longer be limited by action time.

Of course, they did not succeed in this idea; they failed.

The consequence of failure is what we see now; the alchemists, their former rivals, did nothing, yet they are already on the verge of self-destruction.

"This secret technique is quite interesting." Nemus gave up on drawing cards and showed no intention of continuing to kill.

He glanced at the still-expanding ghoul flesh, took the ghoul's crystal, and after a moment's thought, his body transformed into a phantom.

"Follow!"

Nems' voice came through.

The surviving phantom and Emerson exchanged a glance, then silently chose to take out the crystal and follow.

Nems is too strong; his strength is beyond their comprehension.

Even though they could clearly sense that Nemus's physical strength was declining again, they had no other thoughts.

If something is far beyond our comprehension, then we shouldn't even think about fighting against it.

Soon, they arrived at a clean spot, no longer affected by the proliferation of ghoul flesh and blood.

Without much asking, Nemus got the answer he wanted from the phantom.

The person who sent these people to cause trouble for him was Moro.

Nems wasn't surprised when he heard this.

Moro was a petty person by nature, and with the added twists of fate, the other party would inevitably hate him no matter what.

Even after being threatened with his life by Nems, he couldn't help but resort to some underhanded tactics.

"Could you give me some information about the secret technique?"

“I’m actually quite interested in this,” Nems asked.

The phantom figure immediately nodded and told Nemus everything he knew.

Nemus's interest in arcane arts stems from the fact that their existence challenges the Silver City's system to some extent.

Spells are cast using arcane arts, rather than through cards.

This is not a special ability of Nemus himself, but rather the 'authority' inherent in the arcane art itself.

According to ancient legends, there are five lineages in the entire Silver City.

"These five lineages are our Secret Arts lineage, Alchemy lineage, Secret Records lineage, Dry Tomb lineage, and Dragon Blood lineage," the phantom said.

From these names, one can roughly distinguish the special characteristics of each lineage and their current situation in the Silver City.

The secret arts lineage has declined; even the illusory figure before us can be considered a high-ranking member.

The Alchemy lineage is led by Silver, one of the five leaders.

The Secret Records lineage didn't even change its name; one of the five leaders was named Secret Records.

The lineage of the Dry Tomb is led by the Lord of the Desolate Tomb.

The Dragon Bloodline is most likely the City Lord's, because during Nemus's fight with the City Lord that day, he sensed a slight dragon aura.

These five factions have all dominated Silver City for a period of time.

The reason why the current five leaders are still in this number is largely related to this point.

The phantom didn't actually know much.

However, in general terms, the alchemy lineage held the highest status, but did not wield the most power.

The Secret Records lineage rarely holds power; they focus more on researching various forms of witchcraft or historical secrets, and remain relatively mysterious.

Those from the Dry Tomb and Dragon Blood lineages are generally those who wield power.

For example, in this generation, the city lord of the Dragon Blood lineage became the strongest and seized all power.

Then, the phantom man revealed the secret of the Five Meridians to Nemus without hesitation.

These five lineages are said to be related to the founders of the Silver City.

The founder established the city of silver and then quickly left.

However, the phantom figure didn't know the specifics of the situation.

After all, that happened many years ago and has become a legend.

There is such a claim among the secret arts lineage, but no one can say for sure whether this is just the secret arts lineage trying to embellish its own image.

However, Nemus was more certain than the phantom at this moment.

This statement is most likely true.

"The City of Silver is a place where the waters run deep!"

Chapter 748 Revenge

There's not much to say about what happened next.

Nems took the two in.

He was indeed short-staffed in Silver City.

The phantom is not weak. As one of the few 'generals' in the secret arts lineage, his strength is actually quite good.

Most importantly, the secret arts lineage possesses a certain 'qualification'.

Emerson, on the other hand, was a man of considerable talent and ability.

His only shortcoming is his lack of resources.

If he has enough resources to complete his card collection, he might be able to become a decent Silver-tier attacker.

Of course, as the price for their attack on him, their lives were temporarily entrusted to Nemus.

This is not just a statement, but a real threat.

The phantoms stared in disbelief as Nemus invented a secret technique on the spot, then used crystals as materials to implant it into their bodies.

From that point on, their lives were no longer in their own hands.

The phantom tried to probe the secret techniques within his body, but found that he couldn't understand them.

He, a high-ranking member of this secret arts lineage, couldn't understand the secret arts invented on the spot by someone who had only been exposed to them for half an hour.

Although he already knew that Nemus was not human, he did not expect the difference to be so great that he could not even understand it.