Devil's Bible

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In this situation, if you actually believe that feeling and give up all your strength, that would be true surrender, and you would only be immediately swallowed up by the enemy's strength, achieving nothing.

Once Adrian understood this, he resolutely refused to surrender and constantly encouraged his own strength to fight against the causal forces within him.

Although it wasn't the right treatment for my condition, it still had some effect as I persisted with it.

My body gradually regained control.

In the next instant, mental power was released like a storm, stirring the elements to form an elemental storm that shattered the foundation of the surrounding illusions. These elements were constantly changing, starting with the illusions to break the cause and effect.

During the process, Adrian saw the woman, her husband, and many other 'lives' hidden in the shadows turn into transparent spirits.

Previously, it was the existence of these spirits that enhanced the realism of the illusion, while gradually restricting Adrian.

These spirits are the 'artificial souls' that Nems bestowed upon Salish.

Salish's own stats were insufficient; it was only with the assistance of these artificial souls that his power was enhanced, thus enabling him to control Adrian.

Unexpectedly, Adrian's mental will was so strong that it was not broken under such circumstances, and he even realized how Salish's ability worked.

"The so-called cause and effect, as long as the cause can be completely resolved, then the cause and effect will be resolved." Adrian recalled the teachings of his family elders.

Causal abilities are very difficult to deal with. Ordinary people have no direct way to 'unbreak' them and can only choose other ways to break the causal chain.

In the process, some experience was naturally accumulated.

The teachings of our family elders are that if you kill someone's parents or relatives, that is the cause; and if that person lies in wait for an opportunity to take revenge and kill you with a single blow, that is the effect.

If, at the very moment the cause occurs, one acts ruthlessly, killing all of that person's relatives along with the person themselves, and does so decisively, then the cause will end immediately, without any further consequences.

The relationship between cause and effect is not such that if there is a cause, the effect will immediately appear; this requires the ability of a causal system to achieve.

Therefore, cause needs a process to continuously drive the birth of the result. If we directly sever the cause and effect, the result will appear prematurely and will be an undeveloped and inferior result.

The teachings of these elders may seem useless in ordinary times, but in critical moments like this, they become life-saving knowledge.

“The most important thing about causal abilities is to interrupt the process.” Adrian understood this point, which is why he decisively launched a counterattack.

Otherwise, whether you give up your own abilities or hesitate and continue to wait for the accumulation of cause and effect, you are either waiting to die.

At this moment, Adrian realized that he was truly on the verge of death, his body riddled with holes.

The force of cause and effect wasn't actually that strong, but those artificial souls in the shadows were already constantly eroding his body.

This gradual encroachment occurs silently, concealed by illusion.

Salish knew that if things were too intense, it would only provoke Adrian into a complete rampage, so he had no choice but to adopt this piecemeal approach.

So far, the results haven't been bad.

Adrian's body was badly mangled, and he was barely clinging to life.

As soon as he broke free and sensed his physical condition, his spiritual energy surged, and green began to appear on his body.

Although he was a priest, Adrian did not choose the transformation through light.

The Light Transformation is the best way for most Gold-type Priests to improve. Every once in a while, the Light Transformation progress will be further advanced, and you will gain a numerical increase. After completion, you will also have the defensive trait of Light Transformation Body.

However, this change has two problems. One is the issue of faith. If faith is insufficient, problems will arise in the transformation of light, and the body will easily become unstable as a result.

Another issue is speed. Two or three hundred years is not a short time. In those two or three hundred years, the total time available for activity is less than a year.

For ordinary nobles, an increase of three or four hundred points in stats over two or three hundred years is not a loss.

But for a genius like Adrian, this was too slow.

Therefore, after Adrian reached the Golden Seed, he directly chose the path of a wizard, using other methods to modify his body and enhance its capacity.

At the same time, Adrian looked around warily. He didn't know where Salish was at the moment, but he knew that the other party must be preparing a powerful spell.

The same applies to illusion magic. Illusions have limited destructive power; they can confuse and trap enemies, but killing them is very difficult.

Therefore, practitioners of illusion magic will usually prepare a powerful spell while casting illusion magic.

These types of spells take a long time to cast, but are extremely powerful.

Adrian remained vigilant, focusing on restoring his physical strength while preparing for the opportunity to deal with powerful spells.

As his body recovered, his spiritual energy radiated outwards, but he did not receive any spells.

At that moment, Adrian immediately realized the other party's purpose: to use illusion to hold him back, and then to subtly reveal the presence of a powerful spell, thereby further suppressing him.

Being on guard actually led me to waste more time.

Nasalish was, after all, just a high-ranking demon with low stats.

Almost killing him through trickery is an achievement that would be unimaginable for a regular gold-tier character.

Chapter 536 Breaking Limits

Adrian immediately crossed the area, dispelling the remaining illusionary obstacles, and then realized that the current battle situation was very bad.

Nems, sitting in the castle, did not personally take action.

He would only occasionally reach out his hand, and a 'soul' would float out from his hand.

As soon as these spirits appeared, their bodies rapidly absorbed the elemental power around them, and in the blink of an eye, they possessed a value of nearly five hundred.

Although these spirits are not particularly strong in terms of characteristics and skills, their numerical output multiplier is only about 1.1 times.

However, they couldn't withstand their ever-increasing numbers.

Furthermore, these numerically enhanced souls can quickly match the abilities of others, becoming the best helpers for the members under Nemus's command.

Just like Oppein.

As an ordinary wizard, his power was always limited.

Even with ample resources, the improvement in numerical values ​​is not particularly rapid.

In just one year, he was able to advance to the Steel type and increase his stats to over forty, which was a tremendous feat.

He has gradually given up practicing summoning magic and is now focusing on internal affairs management and business operations.

This is inevitable.

His talent lies here.

Even though Nemes brought back a lot of ground grass during this time, he also gained some due to his status and position.

The stats of the ground grass are straightforward, and its stat increases are not slow.

However, he also felt that it was difficult.

This is the limitation of qualifications.

Therefore, Op was originally planning to give up.

By honestly handling domestic affairs such as business matters, and leveraging the advantage of joining early in fictitious agreements, one can obtain a stable identity.

This idea isn't wrong.

However, with the emergence of artificial souls, Op found another path.

“Limitations in mental and physical aptitude do exist, but wisdom is the way to break through them.” Op recalled what Nemus had said when they discussed this matter before.

At that moment, Nems looked at his old subordinate and then offered his advice.

"For wizards, what is truly important is wisdom."

"By using wisdom to transform oneself, as long as the right path is found, mental limitations are not actually insurmountable."

“Especially with my help.” Nemus said, and an artificial soul materialized in his hand.

The immense power of this soul caused significant fluctuations in Op's mental state.

This disparity left Aupu feeling somewhat dazed.

He had only known Nems for about two years when he first met him.

Nems took over Nair's body, and at that time he was able to use his advantage to suppress Nems to some extent.

However, in less than two years, the things Nemus casually created were already capable of killing him countless times.

This gap was fully revealed at this moment.

The artificial soul then calmed its numerical fluctuations and stayed obediently beside Op, allowing Op to investigate and manipulate it.

It can be said that Nemus loosened the security mechanism of the artificial soul, handing over almost all the permissions he could to Opu.

At that moment, Op completely abandoned his idea of ​​a peaceful and stable life and began his research journey.

At this moment, countless black and red threads were constantly changing all over his body, and the power of the Nest Beast was fully unleashed on him.

At this moment, Op's understanding of the Nest Beasts has far surpassed that of the old priest.

The old priest modified the hive beast simply to give himself another tool to manage bloodlines.

However, Op saw the possibility of his own transformation in the Nest Beast.

"Go to hell!" Opposite to him was Mocania.

At this moment, Mocania truly did not expect that she would find herself in a fierce battle again.

Previously, he participated in the battle against the top Gold Saints, using the move 'Puppet of a Puppet', and together with the Holy Son and Big, defeated Nemus's projection clone.

Although he was worried about his own strength, he was delighted with his combat power.

He thought that with his promotion to a Gold-tier being and his special characteristics, he would no longer need to worry about anyone except the few Gold-tier beings under Nemus's command.

However, at this moment, they suffered a loss against 'little Op'.

The puppet limbs he summoned were immediately bound by ubiquitous black and red threads as soon as they appeared, and the puppet limbs would 'die' the moment they were bound by these threads.

Most importantly, during this process, Mocania could feel that her doll 'traits' were being extracted.

With each wriggling motion of those black and red threads, something seemed to be pulled away.

And Op's aura became a circle stronger.

As a result, Mocania now dares not let her destiny doll get close.

Mocania looked around, pondering a way to break the deadlock.

First of all, the "doll" move is definitely unusable.

Once used, one will have absolutely no chance of participating in this battle.

Secondly, Op's current strength is entirely due to the support of external forces.

Adrian had just shouted out about the soul, and Mocania now knew where Op's stats came from.

With such external support, as long as the connection is severed, then Op is still a steel creature that he can crush with a flick of his wrist.

Then comes the most important question – how do you do it?

Mocania calmly analyzed that Op has now completely deviated from the conventional summoning system.

At this moment, the black and red threads covering Op's entire body are constantly changing, and his body has undergone many changes in the process.

For example, his height has increased from about 1.7 meters to nearly 2 meters.

At the same time, some snake scales appeared on his body, and he even showed some of the 'jade-like' quality of other dolls.

Based on this, we can roughly deduce that Op is currently using the blood vessels of the Nest Beast to extract the essence of other life forms, and using this essence to modify his own body.

One could vaguely sense the intense mental fluctuations of Op.

Therefore, this transformation is not just physical; it is very likely that it will drive mental change through the body.

“I sensed a forbidden flavor in them. The reason why these nest beast threads are so powerful is partly due to the numerical support of those souls, and partly because Op had previously used forbidden methods to give them the characteristics of calamity.”

"If I want to defeat Op, I need to break through the Calamity property and find the key connection within it."

"And the most common approach to dealing with calamities is through divine attributes..."

Mocania couldn't help but sense her own situation.

After his human and demonic traits merged, he was no longer restrained by the divine attribute.

There was also a dark golden fusion power within his body.

However, he was not yet capable enough to unleash the divine power of dark gold.

"Therefore, there is only one way at this moment—fight fire with fire!"