Devil's Bible

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Since the big dog is here, the shepherd must be here too.

The eldest princess perked up; she no longer needed to worry, for the shepherd had walked right into her trap!

A chill spread outwards.

Ever since the sneak attack, the eldest princess has harbored a deep anger.

All she wanted to do at that moment was to turn the tide.

After waking up, she consulted the ancient texts and roughly understood that the other party's invisibility ability was a high-level form of invisibility.

This force is ineffective against conventional methods of detection and obstruction.

However, she is a genius. In the past few days, she has come up with a method to deal with the shepherd's invisibility ability.

"If you still think you can sneak up on me and knock me out, you're dreaming!" the eldest princess said confidently.

A chill spread, and tiny ice crystals began to form around the eldest princess.

"Ordinary stealth ability is just invisibility, while powerful stealth ability is to conceal one's own existence as well."

"But hiding it doesn't mean it completely disappears."

"You can move around without leaving a trace, but that doesn't mean you're completely unaffected by external things."

The shepherd glanced at the beast encased in ice, then revealed himself and walked toward the eldest princess.

The eldest princess was right; he used the Golden Fleece to become invisible, thus concealing his existence.

For example, walking on snow won't leave any marks, but the coolness won't be lost.

He could still feel the feedback from walking on the snow.

The same is true now.

Those chilling sensations became the eldest princess's defense.

If it were the old him, he might actually have been frozen out.

but now……

Without pausing, the shepherd rushed forward.

Layers of frost condensed around his body, but they did not disturb him in the slightest.

An arm with a hint of emerald green extended, its unparalleled strength shattering the ice shield, and then it grabbed the eldest princess by the neck.

The immense force instantly made the eldest princess feel as if her neck was about to snap.

The fear of death gripped my heart.

She never imagined that the shepherd would make such great progress.

She knows how hard her ice is.

As long as she remains conscious and the blessing continues to work, these ice blocks will be as hard as steel, and ordinary forces will find it difficult to break them.

But the shepherd was able to easily break through all her defenses and capture her.

This meant that she couldn't even unleash one-tenth of her strength before it was scattered.

Being controlled at close range is the biggest weakness of a mage-type powerhouse like her.

Especially in this situation, a chill ran down her neck toward the shepherd, but it only surrounded the shepherd's body and couldn't actually freeze him.

"If you don't want me to really kill you, then you'd better stop what you're doing." The shepherd's cold voice rang out, filled with unmistakable killing intent, forcing the eldest princess to believe his words.

"You bad people... cough cough cough!" The eldest princess cried out, her voice filled with fear and confusion, but mostly with grievance and resentment.

Shepherds now regard such curses as friendly greetings.

When others around saw this, they immediately screamed.

The eldest princess has been captured!

These problems are serious.

Upon seeing this, the blond prince was about to draw his sword and step forward when he saw a large dog with eyes like round towers appear before him.

Beneath those enormous eyes, the blond prince felt a chill run through his entire body.

"I urge Your Highness to invite the King and all the nobles here," the shepherd said coldly. "Otherwise, I will kill her."

The cold threat, however, gave the blond prince a reason to leave.

The shepherd was able to defeat the princess so easily, a feat he himself was not confident of defeating, and with the help of this big dog, he really didn't dare to launch a direct attack on the shepherd.

Now that he has this threat, he feels much more at ease.

"You monster, just you wait." After uttering these harsh words, the blond prince quickly left.

Meanwhile, the beast broke through the ice and broke free of its restraints because the eldest princess stopped using her blessing.

"Hahaha, brother, I knew you could do it!" The beast was overjoyed, knowing that the shepherd was on his way to find the god Nia.

At this moment, the shepherd returned, and his strength had greatly increased.

All of this shows that the shepherd succeeded; he truly gained the approval of the god Nya.

Meanwhile, on the other side, a large number of nobles and warriors were escorting the king of the kingdom. Beside the king was a little girl with tears in her eyes, looking very anxious. She was the little princess.

"Father!" The eldest princess felt tears welling up in her eyes.

"Monster, release the princess!" The king's voice carried an imposing aura, as if a unique pressure was pressing down on him.

To the king's surprise, this oppressive aura did not have the desired effect on the shepherd.

It was at this moment that the shepherd stretched out his arm.

The arm also quickly transformed into the form of a divine gift.

Chapter 598 The Bet

The king's eyes widened instantly upon seeing this object.

The eldest princess, who was captured by the shepherd, also became unbelievable.

There was also a divinely bestowed object in the royal palace, which she naturally recognized.

However, the shepherd, whom she considered a madman, a monster, and utterly unreasonable, has now received this divine gift.

This was completely beyond her comprehension.

“I met with the goddess Nia before and received her approval.”

"Now, in the name of the divine messenger, I demand that you come with me to the lower city!" the shepherd said as he put the eldest princess down.

There was also an information gap among the nobility.

That would be someone like a duchy king, who might know the true relationship between the god Nia and the nobles.

However, as time went by, the goddess Nia did not appear for a long time.

However, Nia's orthodox status remains.

Therefore, it is impossible for some nobles to openly and honestly pass down the practice of 'moral blackmail'.

Many nobles were unaware of this matter.

Therefore, the oracle of Nia was extremely useful at this time.

Even the king, who knew the details of the sorcery 'in the name of God,' could not stand up and deny the legitimacy of Nia's oracle at this moment.

There are some things that can be done, but not said.

The king and the shepherd looked at each other, then nodded, and then even laughed: "So it is a hero who has been recognized by the god Nia."

"Hahaha, it was all a misunderstanding before, a misunderstanding!!"

He immediately dismissed his earlier angry rebuke of the shepherd as utter nonsense.

Seeing this, the shepherd was not fooled by the other party's appearance.

He simply took the lead and walked ahead.

Then, these nobles and warriors, who may never have actually been to the lower city in their entire lives, saw another side of the royal capital for the first time.

The eldest princess naturally followed in the crowd.

Looking at the emaciated people who seemed to have been starving for a long time, she felt dizzy.

The eldest princess, who was unsteady on her feet, stumbled backward and accidentally stepped into the snow.

But the snow wasn't as soft as she'd imagined; she felt as if she'd stepped on something hard.

The eldest princess's face paled; her powerful senses had already detected what she had stepped on.

Upon lifting the snow, one could see naked corpses 'placed' and preserved in the snow along the street.

The soil is too hard in winter to bury the dead, and these people cannot be cremated.

Therefore, they can only be preserved in the snow until spring arrives.

Those with family members or the means to do so were buried in a suitable place.

Those who were unable to do so were gathered together and burned in a fire.

Of course, if cannibalism hadn't been considered a grave crime by morality and law, these corpses probably wouldn't have survived.

Upon witnessing this scene, the eldest princess felt as if all her past beliefs were crumbling.

At the same time, a series of thoughts rushed into my mind.

The words the beast had spoken earlier resurfaced.

At the same time, she couldn't help but think of the past few days.

The little princess saw that winter had come, but there was no snow.

So, because she loved snow so much, she begged the eldest princess to let it snow.

The eldest princess, who dotes on her younger sister, would naturally not refuse such a small favor.

She deliberately propelled the cold wave, thus bringing the snow to arrive sooner.

At that moment, the eldest princess felt that she had committed a heinous crime.

Her morality began to crumble, and at that moment, she clearly felt the disgust that morality and law had for her.

Her beautiful face was changing rapidly, and her silver hair was becoming withered at that moment.

She was about to transform into the image of an old witch.

Upon seeing this, the king went to the eldest princess's side.

Then he stroked the eldest princess's head with his palm.

A peculiar force surrounded the eldest princess, causing this feedback from moral and legal norms to disappear.

Witchcraft – in the name of God.

Although the problem of the eldest princess's moral collapse had been resolved, the king's expression was not pleasant at the moment.

He glanced at the shepherd walking ahead and understood the man's purpose.

Although the eldest princess is not subject to moral and legal judgment at this moment, she does need to be judged by her own conscience.

"Alas, I still spoiled her too much and didn't let her get involved in this kind of thing," the king sighed.

The education provided to nobles also differed.

Some forms of education are designed to make people 'aristocrats' from birth, naturally leading them to accept their status and morality, and forming a set of moral values ​​that are entirely their own internal understanding.

Just like now, among the other nobles who came with them, apart from a few who were affected by this scene, most of the princes of the ducal kingdoms did not care much about these things at the moment.

"I wonder what the divine messenger intends to do?"

“We haven’t treated them unfairly.”

"It's all because they don't work hard and they lack morality."

“It’s their own problem,” a nobleman said at this moment, his voice full of impatience.

"Oh!" A surge of anger rose in the shepherd's heart.

He wanted to kill the nobleman right then and there, but he knew that violence alone could not solve everything.