Devil's Bible

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"I'm going to kill you now!" the beast said, charging at the shepherd with eyes full of desire.

Kill me!

Please, kill me!

Don't make me live like this beast forever.

In doing so, the authority of the shepherds as messengers of God is preserved as much as possible.

This may not be the best solution, but it's the only thing he can do for the shepherd right now.

The shepherd saw the resolve and pain in the wild beast's eyes.

Everything that happened was pushing the beast toward the abyss.

At this moment, the beast had lost all will to live.

The shepherd closed his eyes, and the fluctuating emotions in them subsided in that moment.

Then he extended his hand.

Limbs strengthened by divine gifts are the best weapons.

And now, in the blink of an eye, this weapon pierced through the beast's chest.

The shepherd gripped the wild beast's beating heart and held it tightly.

A powerful will caused this heart to stop beating.

The beast gave the shepherd a smile, then closed his eyes.

Beasts, death.

The shepherd did not say a word as he looked at the carcass of the wild beast.

He simply raised his head and glanced around at all the nobles.

At that moment, he understood something.

There's no point in arguing with these nobles about rules.

They appear civilized and polite, very elegant, and extremely friendly.

They are willing to acknowledge and follow the various reform measures and rules implemented previously.

However, those are all public knowledge.

Once they go into the shadows, they become the most despicable and shameless beings.

They will use every means to scheme and plot.

The nobility is the biggest cancer in the world.

“You are right, beast,” the shepherd said in a low voice.

The nobles present, who had initially smiled upon witnessing this scene, were pleased to see it.

How could they not see through the little tricks of wild beasts?

Friends turned on each other in the face of reality.

And one of them was even a so-called divine messenger.

This is so interesting.

But for some reason, a chill rose in their hearts.

They felt as if disaster was about to befall them at any moment.

Looking at these shameless nobles, the shepherd had given up all his illusions.

These people are enemies, not partners, and it is impossible for them to truly cooperate sincerely.

They are obstacles to the external enemies, but these obstacles are now covered in thorns and connected to the load-bearing walls of the world, so they cannot be forcibly demolished.

"But we cannot have any compassion when dealing with these people."

"To deal with nobles, one must be more greedy, more despicable, and more shameless than them!" the shepherd thought, and at that moment, the blessing of 'simplicity' on him shattered.

Of the three blessings I carried with me when I left home, two have now shattered.

All that remains is the pure emotion related to love.

As long as you maintain a pure heart, you can obtain perfect love.

At this moment, the shepherd was somewhat dazed. It seemed that he had only one purpose in leaving his hometown in the first place—to find a beautiful bride, or even better, a princess.

However, at this moment, if he wanted to marry the princess, even though most nobles hated him to death, they would still be very eager to arrange a marriage with him.

Ignoring the chaos, the shepherd carried the animal's carcass to the place where they had first met.

Right there by that dead tree.

At that time, the beast was still a soldier, and he killed the old witch with his sword.

At that time, he was no different from most people and had no idea of ​​the truth of the world.

He just lived a muddled yet 'kind' life.

It wasn't until later, when his connection with the princess shattered all the peace.

The shepherd buried the wild animals here.

Standing beside his grave, his gaze became very somber.

He was fully aware that everything he was about to do would have very serious consequences.

The shepherd then sat down and pondered for the entire night.

Looking at the brightening sky in the distance, he then stood up.

He has made his decision.

The nobles in the city were still laughing and playing, holding a grand banquet.

It's certainly something to be happy about when one of those annoying guys dies.

They made merry all night, and it was then that they saw the shepherd returning in the distance.

Then, the shepherd gave an order.

Starting today, all nobles must begin paying taxes.

The tax revenue is not much, only one percent.

However, nobles were required to pay this tax during any major event.

For example, for this large banquet, one percent of the funds used to host the banquet must be paid in remittance.

"Why should I?" one of the nobles, who was completely drunk, immediately retorted.

“Because of the crimes you committed before, and I did not kill you for those crimes!” The shepherd grabbed the nobleman by the neck and calmly stated the problems the nobleman had committed.

Big dogs are very good at finding things.

He only needed to instruct the big dog to find evidence of the other party's crimes, and he could immediately find a lot.

"So, your tax rate has increased from one percent to two percent."

"Fine, I'll give it to you!" the nobleman scoffed, not caring at all.

A month later, he began to regret his attitude.

Because afterwards the shepherd went completely mad.

He began to rapidly use his money to arm those civilians, gaining a large following.

He then used this as a pretext to further increase taxes.

Now, most nobles and wealthy merchants hate shepherds to death.

Because in a short period of time, the tax rate has increased from none to 94%.

Chapter 607: The small human race - the people of the heart

This means that whatever they want to do, regardless of the profits, they have to hand over 94 percent to the shepherd and his growing army of commoners.

The beast did not die; instead, it took up residence in the shepherd's heart, and they unleashed an even more ruthless and unscrupulous monster.

During this process, they did put up a fight, but they were simply no match for the enemy.

Thanks to the divine gifts, the shepherd's strength has surpassed that of others, and during this time his methods have become even more ruthless and targeted.

The shepherd pretends not to see the other nobles who cooperate obediently, but he is very happy whenever there is resistance in the process.

He will make a statement, but it will only be directed at the person who is most vocal in their criticism.

And initially, it was only targeted at that one person.

Given the aristocracy's previous unbridled behavior, it would have been far too easy for the shepherds to find evidence of their crimes.

Even without evidence, the shepherd sees the existence of nobles as a sin.

Anyway, he's really capable of killing people now.

Under such measures, the fragility of the noble alliance is clearly exposed.

When disaster strikes, everyone flees for their own lives; they'll always only care about sweeping the snow from their own doorstep.

The nobles appear to be very powerful, but in reality, the strength of an individual noble is only so-so.

They couldn't come up with a good solution for the shepherd.

However, the assistance that other nobles could provide was limited.

In addition, these nobles also united to disobey orders and even tried to find the god Nia to take back the power in the hands of the shepherds.

Or they might simply disobey any of the shepherd's instructions, treating them as if they don't exist.

But none of it worked.

They had underestimated the shepherds too much before, and now they've come up with this idea.

The shepherd already has a large following.

A large group of princes and heroes, in the process, came to realize the 'rightness' of the world and then chose to stand on the side of the shepherd.

In this morally driven world, though it is rapidly decaying because of things like identity morality.

But there are always some parts that haven't rotted yet.

For example, the Hero system.

While the hero system has been tainted by corruption related to identity and morality, there are also quite a few individuals who act with pure moral principles.

Through the shepherd's hands, they saw the problems with the morality of aristocratic status and realized that too many people in the world were suffering.

Such suffering is unnecessary.

So these people chose to align themselves with the shepherds, thus forming a powerful force.

The most important point is that the kingdom's eldest princess chose to stand by the shepherd's side.

Since her moral compass collapsed, the eldest princess has paid extra attention to these matters.

She temporarily relinquished her status as a princess and chose to travel and witness the lives of those at the bottom of society.

She then discovered that those living in remote rural areas were doing alright.

Although the complex taxes force them to maintain a moral standard of happiness, they can at least still have a certain degree of 'happiness'.

However, the closer one is to big cities and the closer one is to the nobility, the lower the public's awareness and support for morality becomes.

Their situation has reached a point where even with the help of morality and law, it is difficult for them to survive.

After being repeatedly subjected to this situation, these people have completely abandoned morality.

They don't care about these things at all, and just live their lives as they please, cheating and swindling without any psychological burden.

It's a case of being infected by the nobility; it's a kind of collective moral decline.

Under this phenomenon, these people have changed externally, but because everyone around them is like this, it is as if nothing has changed.

In this morally bankrupt place, everything filled the eldest princess with despair.

So she chose to stand by the shepherd's side and help him begin to restrict the nobility.