Devil's Bible

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This strange bird and Nemus have quite a connection. It was used as bait by Nemus before, but managed to escape and was not killed by the calamity creature.

Later, it was fortunate enough to encounter the Five-Tailed Bird, and in the process, it completed its life transformation.

This luck suggests that it might be the right one for us.

Nemus looked at the strange bird's condition and then gave the feather to it.

The strange bird immediately started chirping, its large eyes showing a hint of confusion.

The reason it didn't leave was simply to demand an explanation.

Previously, the sword energy was hidden inside its body, and it became an inflatable chicken.

The feeling of sword energy gushing out from one's intestines was really unpleasant.

But to his surprise, the feather was already in front of him shortly after they surrounded him.

That primal, life-giving thirst made the strange bird seize the feather without hesitation.

Immediately, it felt a surge of life force flowing into its body through the feathers.

Seeing this, some of the surrounding birds even tried to snatch it away.

Although the strange bird was a bit silly, it still had the instinct to protect its food at this moment.

As the power of the feathers surged into his body, his strength rapidly increased, and he easily took down the birds that tried to steal his feathers with a single wing.

Soon, the strange bird's size and shape transformed into that of a roc.

Meanwhile, the Great Roc was crouching low, secretly aiming at the back of the strange bird.

It seems they are preparing to determine the sex of the strange bird in this way.

At that very moment, the strange bird completed its evolution, noticed what was happening, and kicked out, sending the roc flying.

The roc that had been kicked away seemed to realize something and immediately pounced on the strange bird, tearing and fighting with it.

The two newly born roc birds are different. The first roc bird is more pure, while the strange bird roc bird is due to its previous accumulation of experience.

The two giant roc birds fought fiercely, neither gaining the upper hand.

During the process, the initial Roc would occasionally let out a few frantic cries to Naimus, and Naimus could roughly sense the content of these cries through his emotions.

The actual translation would probably be extremely vulgar.

The gist of it is why Nemes didn't choose a female bird.

Faced with such insults, Nemes smiled and began to explain.

“The Roc can change its form,” Nemus said. “It’s roughly like a chicken.”

"When there are no individuals with another trait in the group environment, then there will be an individual in the group who, in a state of 'failure,' transforms into another trait."

At this moment, both the original Roc and the strange bird Roc looked at Nemus as if they were seeing a demon.

However, the next moment, the two rocs could only wrestle together again, fighting each other wildly.

Given the current situation, they all have a premonition that whoever loses will be crushed.

With this belief, the two roc birds will never give up their 'sovereignty'.

"Alright, let's get ready to leave, the calamity creatures are coming!" Nemus interrupted their fight and then flew into the sky.

Upon witnessing this scene, the two rocs abandoned their fight and flew away behind Nemus.

Previously, due to the deterrent effect of the Five-Tailed Bird, most of the calamity creatures in the surrounding area dared not approach, and those that did approach were disintegrated by the force field.

Now that the Five-Tailed Bird has left, these calamity-inducing creatures are already stirring.

Although they are almost certain to become Golden Seeds once they reach adulthood, they are nothing at the moment.

After taking off from the earth, Nemus, along with the two roc birds, quickly re-established contact with the church and relocated the Azure Whale's location.

In the past few days, Hayes and his team, who had previously infiltrated the Azure Whale, have also begun to take action.

Big and Mocania reunited and helped Mocania and his team complete the initial repairs to the teleportation array, which is now able to perform short-range teleportation on the whale's back.

At the same time, the signal strength was also guaranteed, so it no longer had to be locked by a fictitious protocol and hunted down as before, every time a message was transmitted to the outside world.

It must be said that although Bige was criticized by Hayes as a 'power maniac' who was obsessed with power.

But he does indeed possess very strong abilities.

Bige was instrumental in rebuilding a relatively stable communication system in the occupied areas.

Meanwhile, Hayes and the Holy Walkers also successfully liberated a small area and established a 'counter-offensive zone'.

This officially launched the church's counter-offensive.

Of course, the Holy Walkers and Hayes were also prepared to conduct a strategic withdrawal and change the 'counter-offensive zone' at any time.

The danger posed by Nemus alone is simply too great. As long as Nemus doesn't come in person, they have nothing to fear.

This also shows that Nems is indeed lacking in senior talent.

Fortunately, this will be made up for soon.

In the city of Qiquan, Nemus looked at the harvested earth grass in front of him and waved his hand to bestow it as a reward.

With this batch of resources, if used in a concentrated manner, one can quickly produce a larger batch of high-quality steel products under one's command.

As for their promotion to the Golden Seed...

Nemus stood up, and the dense power of faith surrounding him began to change rapidly.

With Nemes officially taking control of the Azure Whale, the Fictional Protocol became a 'hot topic'.

The rate at which faith power is collected has been greatly increased.

"Pulse, come here." Pullse, who had always served as Nemes's personal guard, immediately came to Nemes's side.

Chapter 518 Grand Sacrifice

Churches generally offer two types of baptisms: major and minor.

The minor baptism, known as the pilgrimage, helps people steadily advance from the extreme blackstone race to the steel race.

The Great Baptism is called the Great Sacrifice.

This effect is even more powerful, as it can help top-tier steel species advance to gold species, though it's more often used to improve the stats of gold species.

Such grand sacrifices were previously a means for the church to appease various nobles.

For nobles who wish to perpetuate their family's golden legacy, the Golden Medicine is indispensable.

And in this process, the Great Baptism is precisely the most common and effective remedy.

The golden medicine obtained from this baptism possesses sacred and divine attributes, and is associated with deities.

Generally, this is held once every thirty to fifty years for each floating whale.

The problems with the Discipline Church likely began about a century ago, so based on the timeline, the Discipline Church should have held two or three major festivals in Bikongjing.

However, for the past century, the high sacrifices of the Discipline Church have been completely suspended, and all the resources have been used to prepare for the war against the Abyss.

A few years ago, even the minor baptisms were stopped.

And now, the grand festival of the Azure Whale, which had been suspended for a hundred years, has begun to appear in Nemus's hands.

"Holy be it Nemus, may the tides of Nemus sweep away all!" Poole knelt before Nemus, chanting a prayer, his eyes fixed on Nemus with a calm yet fervent gaze.

“This is a gift to the devout!” Nemes said softly, pointing a finger at Poole’s forehead.

One after another, magic circles lit up on the ground, and a large amount of faith power flowed rapidly along with the magic circles.

These forces of faith acted as a kind of mediator in this process.

“Life, change, cause and effect…” Nemus sensed the changes in power within the magic circle.

These changes brought about a relatively pure number.

Poole stood at the center of the magic circle, his heart filled only with devout faith in Nemus.

Of all his subordinates, Poole has always been the most devout.

Phaethon's faith had a touch of madness and utilitarianism; he might be considered a fanatic, but he couldn't compare to Poole.

At this moment, this devout faith becomes the final medium of guidance.

Driven by faith, the numbers gradually converged towards Poole.

This number is primarily based on the two attributes of Divinity and Transmutation.

Especially the variable system.

This force entered Poole's body and quickly reacted with Poole's own power.

Most of Poole's original stats came from the floating whale, and he mastered the power of the 'transformed whale'.

A large part of the power of the floating whale actually belongs to the transformation type, while another part is the very rare 'thought type' and life type.

The thought system is the highest level of all mental, spiritual, psychic, cognitive, and even dream-related attributes.

However, most people rarely obtain the power of the thought system; they mostly possess the characteristics of its branches, such as the mind and cognition.

This is not surprising, since the origin of the floating whales comes from the astral plane.

The Astral Realm is a place where movement and combat are achieved purely through 'thought'.

That place is the stronghold of the thought system's abilities.

Just like the 'Source Material' power, which very few people can obtain, it can only be obtained by going to the Ether Layer.

At this moment, Poole felt the power of transformation flowing through his body, gradually merging into his essence.

The power of whale transformation has also been greatly enhanced, but the ideological part has not yet been truly solidified and implemented, and most of it has been concentrated in the transformation part.

This is the norm for most people.

It is difficult for the attributes of features to be perfectly matched, especially for high-end features, whose internal characteristics are very likely to come from different attributes.

This is not a good thing. A complete trait brings together a complete characteristic. At this point, adding other attribute traits would be icing on the cake.

A characteristic formed by combining a group of traits with different attributes will only appear to fall short in any aspect, and thus seem mediocre.

Sensing this, Nems chose to intervene at this point.

Special Feature – "Gift"!

Nemus usually uses fate-related powers on the artificial souls he creates, but this time, he uses them on Poole.

The characteristic of "gift" mostly involves giving a target a mission, thereby enabling the individual who has been given that mission to receive help from fate.

However, "gift" also has another use: using the power of movement to bestow different strengths upon others.

At this moment, Nemus began to manipulate the power of transformation, forming traits according to his own understanding and integrating them into Poole's body.

As his personal bodyguard, Nemus felt that Poole should possess some special strengths and characteristics, no matter what.

With the infusion of a large amount of change-type power, Poole's body gradually changed.

At this moment, the power of the magic circle also propelled more numbers into Poole's body.

The price is the rapid depletion of the fictitious faith accumulated during this period.

After a major ceremony ends, it may take several months for the depleted faith to recover.

This is because only Poole was present at this grand ceremony.

When the church holds a grand ceremony, it is usually attended by three to five people.

They mostly use gold-grade seeds to increase stats.

It's relatively rare for steel to be upgraded to gold.

Firstly, for nobles, the highest value of steel is not so easy to obtain.

Secondly, most people actually encounter negative factors such as advanced age, mixed physical conditions, and serious physical damage in the later stages of cultivation, which makes their success rate of advancement low.

Therefore, it often takes several grand sacrifices to produce a single golden seed.

For most people, seeing a golden seed is a once-in-a-lifetime event, let alone becoming one.

Poole, however, did not have much excitement at the moment. He had gone from being a reserve village guard to a golden seed in just over a year after following Nems.

He was well aware of one thing: he might have some talent, but there were too many people like him.