Devil's Bible

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In the land of slumber.

Nemus emerged from the edge of the mud pit, gazing at the slumbering land that had grown into a town, his eyes filled with scrutiny.

The current situation is actually quite normal.

Divine power enveloped the land of slumber, yet prohibited the flow of information.

Given this, it would be difficult for people in the land of slumber, who are all intelligent, to believe in the sun god.

The idea that the sun god, being a god, would not lie is entirely a figment of the imagination of the lower classes.

It's like the misconception that nobles must be noble, wealthy, and moral.

Identity does not equate to morality.

When there is enough benefit, it is perfectly normal for God to lie.

Those who choose to leave are not necessarily foolish; it's just that everyone's mindset is different.

Having endured so much confinement in the End of the World, it's perfectly normal for them to want to take a gamble.

However, those who remained cannot be said to be truly rational.

There are probably more people with ulterior motives here than you might imagine.

As expected, the first thing Thirteen did after seeing Nemus emerge was to establish an organization to manage this world belonging to Nemus.

The second matter directly addressed those who remained.

“I think quite a few of them might defect to the Sun God,” Thirteen said.

Nems nodded in agreement.

Thirteen chose to bet on himself, so someone else chose to bet on the sun god.

This is a perfectly normal thing.

Their previous fear of being killed by the sun god would be greatly reduced once they became one of the sun god's own.

There are definitely people like that.

After all, no matter how you look at it, the sun god has an absolute advantage.

Even if they struggled, it would be difficult for them to escape the encirclement of the sun god.

Therefore, there will be no shortage of people who want to surrender.

After a brief discussion, Nemes and Thirteen began preparations for the establishment of the fictitious church.

In any case, on the surface, Nemus has saved them all with the song "Unfinished Elegy".

Furthermore, the main authority over the music is still in Naim's hands, and given the previous contract they signed with Naim, Naim nominally has jurisdiction over everyone.

With the establishment of the fictional church here, Nemes has essentially completed the acquisition of ownership of the Sleeping Town.

Of course, this is because most of the people here have the skill to manipulate elements and then use those elements to create various things.

Therefore, there aren't that many issues in the town; it's enough to plan some areas and resolve some basic conflicts.

The main task then was to explore the land of slumber and figure out how to break through the divine power's protection and make contact with the outside world.

The fact that the Sun God controls the flow of information both inside and outside indicates that the information from the land of slumber is something He does not want the outside world to know.

If information channels can be opened, the situation in the Land of Slumber might change.

There are still quite a few people interested in this kind of thing.

There are so many people here, and so many experts.

The environmental resources, due to the elements brought about by the transformation of mud into natural resources, are also quite abundant.

If we put our findings together, we might actually discover something.

Chapter 693 Awakening

"Where am I?" Meng He woke up with a start.

She felt that everything was pitch black, as if she were buried in some kind of special place.

After a slight struggle, she felt that her strength had not diminished, but rather, for some unknown reason, it had become even stronger.

Meng He broke free of his restraints, lifted the covering soil, and saw his own tombstone.

It was a bronze mirror.

Seeing the bronze mirror slowly disappearing, Meng He finally realized what had happened and remembered what had occurred before—after arriving on Earth, she risked her life to obtain resources and then stumbled into a dangerous place.

As a golden-type being born into a minor noble family, her stats were just over 100, and she couldn't improve them even slightly through self-cultivation; this was already her limit.

Because of a lack of instruction, she used numbers in a very haphazard way, to the point that it became a golden seed, all thanks to good luck.

That's why, after handling family affairs, he chose to take the risk.

In the Land of Slumber, she sensed signs that her chaotic numbers were being transformed, so she crossed the first circle and entered the second.

The second lap went fairly well, but it wasn't enough to completely purify her numbers, so she chose to enter the third lap.

She thought that even if the power of her return was strengthened in the third cycle, her will could withstand it, and as long as she completed the final transformation, her future potential would be unlocked.

I never expected that I would fall into a deep sleep and die immediately after entering the third lap, and even a tombstone would be automatically generated.

Meng He shook his head. Based on his judgment before she fell into a coma, she probably wouldn't have a chance to wake up and would eventually revert to being a source substance over time.

However, for some reason, this time he suddenly woke up.

"Make way!" The sudden voice startled Meng He, who then instinctively stepped aside.

Then they saw a muscular man carrying something and walking away into the distance.

It was only then that Meng He realized what was happening. He looked around and discovered that the entire Sleeping Land had changed drastically.

What was once a place filled with graves and tombstones has now been transformed into a small town.

If it weren't for the continued presence of that returning force, Meng He might have even suspected that his grave had been moved.

With a sense of bewilderment, Meng He began to wander around the town.

The people around seemed very strange; they looked like ordinary town residents, but they also exuded a bizarre aura.

And they didn't find it strange that a stranger like themselves was there.

With this question in mind, she saw the largest building in the town—the church.

Instinctively, Meng He walked towards the church.

In any unfamiliar place, the quickest and most official way to understand the local situation is always to find the local church.

As long as it is a church of the true God, it can quickly understand the local situation.

When Menghe arrived at the church entrance, she stopped in her tracks because she didn't seem to have heard of the Fictional Church, which was probably not a church of a true god.

Such churches, which are not based on a true theocratic system, are extremely dangerous.

Because most of them are churches founded by evil gods.

Having been suppressed for a long time and lacking a fixed living area, these cults of evil gods are essentially like roving bandits.

They are very likely to disregard rules in any situation, and when it comes to valuable things, they never consider the long term and immediately try to extract every last drop of value.

After all, cults are inherently unsustainable.

Just as Meng He was hesitating, he saw a flash of divine light in the church, as if something was rapidly fluctuating.

The surrounding space and time seemed to have changed, but eventually the effects of that change dissipated.

"This level of spacetime fluctuation?" As a minor noble, Meng He's ability to become a Golden Seed, even if it was achieved through a chaotic process, indicates that she has had extraordinary adventures.

In her early years, she obtained a fragment of a bronze mirror. Within the mirror, she could see the presence of other people, creating strange illusions.

If you defeat the illusion of that person in the strange illusion, there is a certain chance of extracting certain numbers, traits, or even characteristics from that person.

This is why she advanced very quickly during her time with the Blackrock and Iron species.

However, it stops working when it comes to gold.

Because of a lack of knowledge, they blocked their own path.

The bronze mirror is most likely a special time-space artifact, and may have some other rules, but it is not clear.

Menghe also obtained some of the characteristics of the spacetime class through the bronze mirror.

However, compared to the current fluctuations in spacetime, that's really child's play.

With this level of power, it's no longer an ordinary cult.

"Come in." Just as the spacetime fluctuations stopped, a voice came from inside.

Meng He was taken aback, realizing that retreating was no longer an option.

She's too weak; she's just a gold-tier character with a stat of 100.

Once atop the floating whale, she believed herself to be incredibly powerful, possessing various privileges and having reached the pinnacle of her status.

Even the church treated them with respect.

At that point, she could have simply given up.

Further improvements would be pointless; it's better to just relax and enjoy the privileges.

After being born in the Golden Seed, as long as one does not commit any major sins against the church, there will generally be no problems.

However, Meng He was ultimately unwilling to give up. The Golden Seed served as a platform, allowing her to witness an even more powerful and terrifying world.

That world was too glamorous.

Meng He took a deep breath and then walked into the fictional church.

She met many people along the way.

What are these people recording?

Everyone seemed to her to be an ordinary person, yet she couldn't see through any of them.

At this moment, the doubts I had about the Land of Slumber resurfaced in my mind.

"The mechanism of reversion has not dissipated. I just woke up and my mental state became extremely active, which is why I was able to resist this reversion mechanism."

"After a period of time, if my mental and physical strength becomes exhausted, I will gradually be unable to resist and thus return to the grave."

"I must solidify my mental fortitude and enhance it to two or three times its current level in order to live a normal life in the Land of Slumber."

"If that's the case, then doesn't that mean everyone here has a mental strength several times greater than mine?" Meng He couldn't help but feel a little scared at this moment.

She, as a Golden Seed, was in a state of being neither weak nor lacking in status, yet still inferior to top experts.

I just glanced at it, and this town has at least several thousand people.

Thousands of people who are many times stronger than myself...

"Are all these people born of gold?"

With this thought in mind, Meng He entered the interior of the fictional church and met the person whose eyes seemed to hold endless darkness and burning starlight.

Chapter 694 Artifact

"You're the one who just woke up, right?" Nemus asked, his eyes also scrutinizing Meng He.

The other party is an ordinary gold-type.

Through a series of fortuitous encounters, it broke through the limitations of resources and the environment, thus becoming a golden seed.

Unsurprisingly, this is the opponent's limit.

He was quite talented, a genius, but he was just a genius.

The world is not lacking in geniuses, but it lacks super geniuses like Nemes Ann who can rise to prominence in a short period of time without expending too many resources.

Or it could be an indispensable talent with special abilities or an opportunity that exceeds normal circumstances.

“It’s me!” Although Meng He knew her own weakness, she wasn’t afraid of trouble. She said respectfully but not humbly.

"How do you think you woke up?" Naims's next question surprised Meng He. What did he mean by "I think"?