Devil's Bible

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The next moment, the balloon with the human head on it burst.

Nemus felt his stats rapidly decreasing, while Clown King's stats were rapidly increasing, rising from 3,600 after being boosted by the Lord to 4,000.

At the same time, Nemus could also sense that, apart from his numerical values, his characteristics also seemed to be fluctuating.

Those characteristics seemed to be heading towards Clown King in the next moment, following that connection.

Nems squinted, carefully savoring the change.

"After singing the nursery rhyme, we'll be linked together!" The last balloon bursts.

The suction force reached its peak at that moment.

With a smile, the Clown King appeared in front of Nemus, about to take Nemus's head off.

At this moment, not only have Nemus's stats dropped to rock bottom, but his traits are also unstable.

There was no way they could resist anymore.

"A hastily conjured sword, a clown demon with a stat of only 500, and an information broker with little combat ability—you think you can defeat me?"

"Die, Nemus, your special ability is mine now!" The 'Clown Card' in the Clown King's hand is constantly absorbing everything from Nemus.

This nursery rhyme is the means by which He created cards that could be repeatedly printed and reused.

"I see. Starting with moonlight is essentially just using the strong local lunar element to control me with the moon's cold attribute, and that's the medium..."

“It’s not that I haven’t grasped the changes; rather, the changes have been integrated into all my skills and characteristics,” Nems said with a smile.

Meanwhile, the Clown King, who was opposite Nemus, had no idea what was happening.

He shook his hand, and the human head balloon he had just created was inexplicably reduced to just a few strings.

"Has my memory been affected again?" Clown King frowned, his gaze fixed intently on Nemus.

Yet, this memory loss felt different from the previous loss of sight of Nemus, which led to forgetting everything about Nemus.

This time, I remembered Nemes, but the events that happened in between seemed to have been completely blocked and disappeared from the world.

Then the Clown King felt a slight pain coming from his head.

He touched it with his hand, and there was already a bloody hole on it.

On the opposite side, behind Nems, a knot was untied and then tied again.

A beam of light emanated from it, containing a special power that was utterly impossible to resist.

It pierced through His head in an instant, perfectly matching the bloody hole He had touched earlier.

Chapter 449 Let's just treat this as a performance to please you!

"Knotting to record events & the law of cause and effect - a reverse narrative!" Nemus slowly exhaled, his physical condition slightly calming down.

His confidence in allowing the Clown King to use nursery rhymes stemmed from the existence of "knotting ropes for record-keeping".

Aside from the high-end characteristics under the rules of fate, Nemus acquired this top-level characteristic the earliest and has the deepest understanding and development of it.

It can now be combined with other top-tier features to use 'knot-tying'.

By combining "self-agreement" and "possibility convergence," Nemus perfectly decoupled the fact that the Clown Demon used "nursery rhymes" to extract his own power and tied it into a knot.

At the same time, as the knot was tied, the previous event stored inside was released—the final, furious blow of the God of Discipline in the replay of history.

The key here lies in the manipulation of causality, which allowed Nemus to reverse the causal relationship to a certain extent.

The effect appears before the cause.

That is, this period of time was stored, and after the Clown King was hit by the stored attack, Nemus completed the knot release and tied this cause again.

In essence, the Clown King's judgment was correct; His nursery rhyme not only drained Nemus's stats but also undermined Nemus's traits.

However, if we follow the normal cause-and-effect relationship, Nemes's "knotted record system" is also in a state of being shaken.

However, while the Clown King was using "Nursery Rhyme," Nemus's power was also operating simultaneously, and cause and effect had been reversed.

This is why all sorts of things were instantly brought together into one thing, tied together by the "knot-tying record," and then returned to normal, completing the operation.

Clown King staggered, a drop of blood quickly sliding down his forehead.

The trait 'Demon Lord' is at work, ensuring His immortality; however, He discovers that the power that injured Him is quite peculiar.

The value isn't very high, it's even quite inflated, like something unreal.

However, its power level is very high, so high that even a lord-level immortal would have difficulty fighting against it.

"Is it a god?" Although the demon lord has a certain possibility of challenging mythology in the abyss, it is only a certain possibility, and the margin for error is pitifully low.

The fact that I'm still alive despite being accurately hit is mainly because the attack was too weak and lacked substantial power.

“A miscalculation.” The Clown King shook his head, spilling a lot of brain matter, and said slowly, a smile creeping across his face as he watched Nemus approach rapidly with his sword.

Even in this situation, as He walks step by step toward a dead end, He still refuses to admit defeat or despair.

“But I’m not so easy to lose…” Clown King said as he drew a card.

The card features Himself.

This is the original card of the Clown King.

"I have one last move..."

"If this final move can't defeat you, then consider it a performance to please you!" As soon as he finished speaking, the cards in the Clown King's hand flew out.

Seeing this, Nemus watched the changes warily.

The Joker card flew around, and then a brand new Joker King emerged from it.

The original Clown King, whose head had been pierced, was transformed into some kind of transformative power and absorbed into the card.

"It's changed like this. The path of change will eventually lead to the path of discipline..." Upon seeing this, Nemus immediately grasped the key point.

The "Clown Card" represents the core characteristic of Clown King's understanding of change. It can seal various changes within it, which can be released and used directly when needed.

Essentially, it is about storing changes.

Since it involves storage, restrictions are necessary.

Limitations, then changes, and we've come full circle back to the realm of discipline.

This time, Clown King used his own original card to 'reset' his own state, thus restoring himself to his strongest state.

However, this is not a good thing, but rather a limitation.

Because from then on, the Clown King's 'strongest state' became a fixed state in the card.

Originally, as long as Clown King didn't use this move, His Origin Cards could keep growing.

After this, even if He survives, His card will no longer grow.

And most likely, He lost, and then everything He possessed was locked within this card.

We trade restrictions for change, but when the change is exhausted, everything will be in a state of restriction.

In other words, if He exhausts the power of change He gained by exchanging His own origin, He will not only die and lose His position as lord.

Even His own soul and everything else will become a joke card that anyone can use.

The Clown King truly poured everything he had into this final performance.

Either win, then break free from the restrictions, disable the maximum limit of one of your trump cards, and then slowly recover from your injuries.

Either lose, or lose everything.

This determination, this madness, this conviction.

"A commendable opponent!" Nemus exclaimed as he charged toward the Clown King.

The Clown King handled everything flawlessly from beginning to end; he truly deserves the title of Demon Lord.

His only problem was one thing—

"But you've met me, and I'm sure I'll win!"

"So, I have no choice but to ask you to lose!" The sword blade shifted, and as it twisted, everything around it coalesced into lines.

Sword of Fortune - Sparrow Falls from the Sky!

The terrifying sword energy was condensed into a line, circling around Nemus and stopping the approaching Clown King.

Then the blade changed and slashed forward, suddenly leaping through space during its movement and arriving at the face of the Clown King.

Sword of Fortune: Light-Eyed Falcon!

Clown King produced throwing knives in his hands, blocking Nemus's sword. He nimbly twisted and turned in mid-air, and with a flick of his wrist, several throwing knives flew out close to him.

These throwing knives were much more powerful than I had imagined.

"This method of change is based on the same principle as the precepts, but it increases the feedback in the opposite direction..." Nemus swept his sword horizontally, feeling the power of the throwing knife, and gained a deeper understanding of the Clown King's method of change.

The rules of Nemus are to restrict certain behaviors in order to obtain feedback from the power of change. These feedbacks form different powers depending on the specific rules.

The main purpose now is to establish points of repentance around them.

However, the situation is somewhat reversed for the Clown King.

He has fixed the original card to be his peak state, so every move he makes is at its peak, and all the power of change is poured into it to maintain this 'peak limitation'.

Normally, for the Piedmon to throw a knife with this kind of power, he would have to use a burst of energy.

An outburst cannot last; it may weaken in a few moments.

However, the current Clown King can maintain his peak burst of power without getting injured or having his power reduced.

Before the power of change is exhausted, He will forever remain at the pinnacle that He can reach!

Chapter 450 The Joker Card

Nemus also felt the pressure when facing the Clown King, who had been in peak condition for a period of time.

Peak state and constant state are completely different intensities.

The Clown King doesn't need to care about his physical condition at all, and doesn't need to spend any time calming himself down.

The attack intensity is always at its highest, the attack speed is always at its fastest, and the physical condition is always constant. Even if you are injured, as long as there is no limb damage or danger to your life, you don't need to worry about it.

The blade and the tip of the knife collided, producing a series of crisp sounds.

It looks extremely intense, but if any high-ranking demon or golden-type demon were to experience it, it would be beyond just intense.

Instead, it should be represented by terror.

Thousands of values ​​are condensed into a small weapon. Beneath its sharp edge, it may not seem to cause much damage to the outside world, but in reality, it is all due to the extreme concentration of power.

If anyone relaxes their control over their power even slightly at this moment, the weapon will explode in a terrifying blast when it is thrown outwards.

However, for them at this moment, the area-of-effect damage from the explosion is unlikely to actually reach them.

The Clown King is always at his peak, so his control techniques will never go wrong. As long as he can do it at his peak, then his next strike will definitely be flawless.

Nemes, on the other hand, is purely about consistent technique.

The talent brought by his special soul, combined with the culmination of two lifetimes of arduous swordsmanship training, allowed him to perform extremely consistently. With a value of over 980 and the Sword of Luck, his swordsmanship multiplier remained stable at five or six times or more.

"What terrifying and despair-inducing swordsmanship..." Clown King leaped backward, creating distance, and several Clown cards flew out from his hand.

During the Joker's attack, effects such as control, attack, and weakening occur one after another.

However, Nemus countered them all with various sword techniques.

This made Clown King give a wry smile.

With over three thousand stats, he managed to maintain the double multiplier of his throwing knife technique only through a special state.

This is the norm for high values; the higher the value, the more difficult it is to increase and maintain the multiplier.

However, Nemus maximized the multiplier to the extreme with his swordsmanship, and even with such a high value, the multiplier did not decrease much.

We can hold our own against Him in a direct confrontation.

The slight numerical disadvantage was compensated for by the 'Clown Sword' that was specially condensed to counter him.

He thought that Nemus's swordsmanship multiplier couldn't last, and that after a while he would lose his composure and reveal a weakness.

But Nemus's sword remained as steady as ever.