Devil's Bible

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It was as if some special force, hidden deep within his soul, was propelling him toward frantic progress.

Anything placed before Nemus could be quickly observed, and then gleaned useful insights from it.

And occasionally, they can have a burst of inspiration, and many problems that have troubled them for decades are solved in the blink of an eye during a burst of inspiration.

That's fine.

The most terrifying thing is that Nemus's growth rate is not decreasing, but even showing a trend of accelerating.

Nems is like a circle; when this circle isn't big enough, he doesn't come into contact with too many things.

As he acquires more knowledge, the entire circle expands significantly, allowing Nemus access to a wider range of things.

His efficiency in acquiring knowledge thus became faster and faster.

This rapid pace of progress has resulted in a significant gap in hard power.

Vislav had anticipated that if they were to rely solely on their numbers, even if they were all committed to this battle, they would be suppressed by Nems.

His chances of winning were estimated at 30/70, with 30% going to them and 70% to Naims.

If they don't enter the market now, they may not be able to hold on for the rest of the time.

The virtual space has trapped them for some time now, and it won't dissipate for a while.

During this time, Nemus will have enough time to devour all the people on the battlefield, and then, in turn, gradually consume their world one by one.

"So we have no choice but to fight, fight for a chance at all!" After thinking it through, Vislav didn't hesitate any longer and immediately went onto the field.

A large amount of light rapidly transformed and then pierced into the battlefield.

The dark sky brightened up in an instant.

Meanwhile, following Vislav's actions, other members of the church also chose to take action at this time.

The reclusive sage, who had been silent all along, finally made his move.

His world is directly linked to this broken land.

Then a large number of ascetics rushed out from it.

The state of these ascetics was quite peculiar.

They used to have eyes, but now they are blind.

They used to have mouths, but now their mouths are empty.

They used to have ears, but now sounds are imperceptible to them.

They originally had noses, but those noses have now been cut off.

In addition, they have large tattoos all over their bodies.

This is the unique life form in the world of hidden saints—the ascetic.

There was no other way; the Hidden Saint himself was originally a hermit.

As ascetics, all they need to do is practice asceticism and then have a key insight into the understanding of God, thereby purifying their souls through that insight.

Their understanding of the world's hidden saints is not very strong.

Therefore, the world built by the hermit saint was not prepared to be perfectly seamless in this process.

He took a purely pragmatic approach.

Compared to the Holy Walkers, the world of the Hermit Saints is more purely about faith.

God is the meaning of everything, and there is no longer a need to bind it to survival and life.

The saint's own thoughts are able to solidify the original rules.

This rule is fixed: God is the ultimate goal of all pursuits.

All life and all meaning ultimately point to God.

In this way, he created the most monotonous world.

Everything is born because of God, therefore everything naturally follows God.

These lives, once born, will naturally be inspired.

Then they will instinctively take God as their life's pursuit.

Not pursuing it?

That is, monsters are evil creatures, and the world recognizes them as unjust.

Chapter 644 The Ascetic

It can be said that Nemus can learn some knowledge from other worlds, more or less.

In the ascetic world of the reclusive saints, even if Nemus could glimpse some knowledge, he would discard it and pay it no further attention.

The other party's perception is distorted.

The hermit himself was aware of this.

Others who build the world also need cognition and logic.

Cognition and logic work together to form the basic rules of the world.

However, the Hidden Saint paid no attention to these things at all; his thoughts were twisted to the extreme, twisted to a state of purity.

If Nemes were to acquire such distorted cognition and logic, he would only pollute his own knowledge base.

The hermit saints didn't care whether their understanding was correct or not, whether it made sense or not, or what the actual situation was like. They simply firmly believed that the God of Discipline was the only way out of the real world.

If that's the case, then in this false world he has created, the God of Discipline will be the way out for everything.

This idea is stuck here.

This resulted in the fact that although some members of the dwarf race infiltrated the world of ascetics, they also conveyed the message of the Fifty Years of Destiny.

However, the number of ascetics who betrayed the world of ascetics was pitifully small.

These ascetics were also quite rigid in their beliefs. They believed that even if their lives and souls were false, as long as they had a devout faith in the God of Discipline, they would be freed from falsehood and become real.

Therefore, upon hearing that the world would be destroyed in a certain period of time, the ascetics' faith became even stronger.

The most important point is that after these ascetics entered, the Hermit Saint also personally joined the fray.

He mingled among the ascetics, and apart from being several times larger than them, he was no different from them in any other way.

Upon entering the battlefield, he began to chant scriptures in a low voice.

These ascetics did not fight, and even when the Lilliputian's talent manifested as a phenomenon and was smashed in their faces, they remained unmoved.

To die is to die.

Most of these ascetics were not afraid of death.

On the contrary, they were even willing to die for their cause.

Because if they maintain the purity of their faith even under such a life-threatening situation, they might be favored by the God of Discipline.

"Human hearts are truly dark." Seeing this, Nemus twitched his fingers slightly, causing a subtle change in the shimmering light. Subsequently, some rules related to faith were pulled and embedded into this world.

And so all faith began to manifest at this moment.

Strands of faith are like rays of light.

All of this radiance was collected and gathered by the Hidden Saint, and then turned into 'resources'.

The same applies to the ascetics who died during this process.

Their already unreal souls, mixed with their consciousness, were directly absorbed by the Hermit Saint.

If we look at the Hidden Saint from the perspective of the present moment, we will find that the Hidden Saint is now a Holy Light Demon.

His entire body was radiating light, but upon closer inspection, each ray of light contained the 'struggling' soul of an ascetic.

This situation is extremely alarming.

Some ascetics couldn't help but take a 'look'. Although they had no eyes, their spiritual perception was still quite strong, and their perception was extremely realistic in this situation.

Then I realized that the so-called belief in a god of faith and precepts, which could free one from falsehood and make one become real, was all a lie.

Of course, it's not entirely a lie; they will be refined into a wisp of power, becoming the power of the Hidden Saints.

In the process, they also became real, but in the end, they may not even have self-awareness anymore.

"These are all false illusions, tricks used by the devil to deceive us."

"If you believe this, then your faith has wavered!!"

Under such words, most ascetics, following their inertia, continued to shrink their heads back.

Even if you sense something, pretend you don't see it.

Since you can't see it, you still have hope, your piety, and your faith.

Aside from those whose minds were still filled with distracting thoughts, there were many ascetics who simply didn't care about these things.

They were born into a world that worships gods, and over the years they have become completely accustomed to it.

Does it matter whether I still exist or whether I can survive?

unimportant!

The important thing is that God is everything.

Just keep following this guiding principle.

There's no need to consider anything else.

If you focus on only one thing and concentrate all your thoughts on it, you will not feel any hesitation or fear.

With this understanding, these ascetics resigned themselves to their fate without any struggle.

If it weren't for Nemus's extremely keen perception, he wouldn't have noticed the slight ripple in their hearts.

"The methods are indeed terrifying." Nemus sighed. The world of the Hidden Saint is essentially the Hidden Saint himself 'brainwashing' others from beginning to end.

Their brainwashing skills are incredibly powerful; many people have been completely brainwashed and have lost their sense of self.

That slight ripple was their last remaining echo.

This residue is not so easy to eliminate.

Once eliminated, these people will become puppets.

However, if this remaining self-sublimation comprehends the content of the brainwashing and forms a distorted cooperation, then...

Then a new saint might appear.

It may seem like just one step, but that one step has stopped too many people.

Saints are beings with incredible resilience, which is why they are so rare to appear.

That slightest ripple is the final difficulty.

Complete transformation means either a pure puppet or a perfect transformation of itself.

Even finding one that is perfect is difficult, even among millions.

It is virtually impossible to replicate.

Therefore, saints cannot be replicated, but there are definitely many individuals whose faith is 99% pure.

They united and became weapons in the hands of the Hidden Saints, forming a tremendous threat.

Nemes pointed out their faith, soul, and stream of consciousness, but this only shook the faith of a very small number of the ascetics.

Many more people remain firmly held captive by the Hidden Saints.

Decades of brainwashing cannot be defeated by a few realities.

Faith, by its very nature, restrains reality.

Therefore, the Hidden Saint is very strong at this moment, strong enough to become a key point for the Church to break the deadlock.

He opened his eyes, and it seemed as if endless light shone from them.

His gaze then fell upon the shepherd.

According to Vislav, the key to breaking the deadlock now lies with the shepherd.