Devil's Bible

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He didn't start by simply being kind; he acted to satisfy his own sense of moral superiority.

This isn't a big problem, or rather, it's a good thing most of the time.

We can't always expect everyone to do good deeds out of pure good intentions; that raises the bar for doing good.

The problem is that the demon got involved in the process.

He gradually made Clement pay for this 'good intention,' increasing his pressure bit by bit.

Ultimately, this led him to complete depravity, and he became extremely selfish.

He continued to cooperate with the devil, but no longer for the sake of the 'children,' but for his own sake.

This collaboration lasted for more than two hundred years.

More than seventy years ago, this demon was able to cause such a commotion and create such great destruction in the Azure Whale.

Even His rapid ascension to the position of Demon Lord was inseparable from Clement's support.

And this demon lord is known as the Twin Demons!

Chapter 359 Forbidden Manifestation

Clement and his partner had been cooperating for over two hundred years.

Over the course of these two hundred years, he was dragged down by the twin demons and became a monster who would stop at nothing to do anything for his own benefit.

He did not fall into depravity after becoming a golden seed; he fell into depravity from the very beginning.

Therefore, his faith in the God of Commandments was problematic from the very beginning.

These issues will not have a significant impact when upgrading from Black Stone to Steel or Gold.

The real problem occurs during photochemical metamorphosis.

Because of its strong connection to faith, the mental stress involved caused Clement to have constant overthinking.

The disharmony between his will and his beliefs will continue to put a heavy burden on his mind, and the past will unconsciously resurface, with those emotions that once tormented him resurfacing.

In this situation, he became increasingly distressed and was even unable to withstand the photochemical transformation.

He had considered whether to abandon the light transformation from the beginning and instead use the spellcaster's magic to modify his body.

But he was unwilling to give up the advantages of photochemical transformation.

During the transformation, the stats of the Golden Priest can steadily increase, not quickly, but not too slowly either.

Clement's stats are currently around 400.

More than two hundred of these values ​​are due to photochemical transformation.

In contrast, a Gold-tier Paladin might not even gain ten points in stats even after hundreds of years of daily training. To increase their stats, they would need even stronger resources of the same type than when they were promoted to Gold-tier.

This is the only way to broaden the upper limit of the numerical value by tens of points. After quickly completing this increase of tens of points within a few years, it will be necessary to find numerical resources again.

One reason why legendary species are so powerful is that they don't need to search for resources everywhere. They only need to become trendsetters of the times and constantly complete various legends to continuously obtain the historical number of completely homologous substances, and then reach the peak.

Clement had specifically examined his own body before. His body needed to maintain the light transformation for about two to three hundred years to complete it. Of course, no matter how many years it took, the final value he could provide would be around three hundred points.

Therefore, Clement underestimated the danger of photochemical degeneration.

After about thirty years as a Golden Seed, he had reached his peak and could explode and die at any time due to the high degree of inconsistency between his spirit and faith.

Therefore, he had to begin researching taboo subjects.

Once taboos are involved, many things become beyond one's control. At his current point, if he doesn't want to die, he can only keep going with his head down.

Guilliman's earlier assessment that Lotus wouldn't do such things for the Sinister Souls was actually accurate.

While the souls of wealthy Gold Saints are indeed highly valuable, they are not enough to justify their complete betrayal of the Church.

However, this does not apply to Clement, who is about to die.

Taboo is a path of no return. If it's just for research, that's fine, but once you use the forbidden power on yourself, your body will become more and more 'strange'.

And gradually, it became the target of hostility from the world.

To solve this problem, we must involve more taboos.

So far, Clemente still has some free time, but not much.

If one cannot obtain the Sin Soul, then every step behind will lead to further setbacks, and one may very well die violently due to the taboo.

But reason told Clement that retreating at this moment was the safest and correct choice.

The immense mental pressure caused Clement's heart to waver, and then he saw the great monster he had summoned turn into mincemeat almost instantly.

The sword energy that Naimus and Fengqi had created, which was like a white line, quickly 'collapsed' after flying a certain distance, and then countless gusts of wind, like knives, cut towards the surrounding objects.

Balthazar was also affected.

The red in his eyes pulsed further, then entered the third stage.

Nemus is a formidable rival, and Clement is also a powerful figure. As a Metal-type, he has to fight his life to fight these monsters...

Balthazar, who originally only had two swollen arms, now had a larger body, and his physique was becoming more and more like a real berserker demon.

However, if a true berserker were to stand in front of Balthazar, it would probably be smashed into mincemeat in an instant with a single slap.

The forbidden power has been fully unleashed.

Unlike the calamity creatures, the taboos on Balthazar are comparatively more manic and violent.

However, judging from the characteristics of previous calamities, it is similar to calamities to some extent.

Sensing the calamity characteristics that the other party was further manifesting with the riot, Nemus also had some insights: "Could it be that the taboo on Balthazar is the Abyss's research on calamity?"

Thinking about it that way, it makes sense.

The abyss is the greatest collection of taboos.

However, more than 1,200 years ago, another major taboo emerged—the Great Calamity of Earth.

The Abyss cannot ignore this.

Some research will inevitably be conducted.

Balthazar may be one such research finding.

That's why the Abyss released Balthazar back, letting him walk on the earth to see if he could react more to the earth, thus calculating the other's situation.

Before he could think too much, a large amount of dark green energy appeared around Balthazar.

These auras were like steam, and every move Balthazar made caused them to spread rapidly outwards.

Under this aura, the flesh that had just been shredded into mincemeat by the wind blades rapidly rotted and withered, then emitted a further stench, and finally turned into black sludge like oil, dripping all over the ground.

"Is the stench of the Berserker Demon really that powerful?" Nemus couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.

The Berserker Demon possesses a putrid aura. In the abyss, its most common tactic is to charge forward and then use its massive arms to tightly constrict you.

Then the putrid stench emanating from the body will billow outwards like steam.

In this situation, even a demon would be disgusted to the point of vomiting.

However, the stench emanating from Balthazar at this moment can no longer be considered a disgusting attack.

Once affected, all life will decay.

He is a monster born to protect, and now he is simply continuing to push that forward, protecting more lives in his own way!

Balthazar's will completely collapsed, leaving only the berserker's violent fighting instincts.

Forbidden power manifested, and everything around him began to devour each other.

Then, he let out a beast-like roar, and his entire body erupted with dark green energy as he charged toward Nemus.

Chapter 360 Xihe

Meanwhile, Clement had no intention of leaving.

His spirit and will began to fluctuate violently at this moment.

Then the person's entire body began to show signs of photonization.

This is a manifestation of the intense conflict between spirit and belief during the Guanghua period.

Clement is ill, with a very serious mental illness.

Under the influence of the twin demons, Clement made choices time and time again, until finally, he chose to silence a group of children who originally regarded him as their benefactor.

After that, he also particularly liked to make others make 'choices,' and these choices often resulted in mutual destruction.

For example, when he was researching the Holy Son Project, there was that flesh-and-blood monster that he released to attract the church's attention, while at the same time setting a trap for the Holy Son Nemus.

The flesh and blood on its body can drive the parasitized people to kill each other through the instinct of hunger and pain, making them make a choice.

They feed others to the meat, then rapidly decline morally, and finally, in a choice, they kill each other.

The same applies to the other experimental subjects.

The Red-Eyed series, countless experimental subjects, began to kill each other under his orders due to insufficient resources.

Looking at those people stripped of all morality, naked in appearance, he could feel a kind of pleasure that people themselves have no noble qualities.

Clement loved this feeling; watching others' moral decline made even their transformation seem smoother.

This pathological condition constituted most of Clement's life experience.

So after discovering that Balthazar's taboo might be the type that perfectly suited him, Clement felt that his only purpose in life was to acquire this taboo.

Clement's body writhed, and then a large number of imps appeared, making his body look like a relief made up of countless children's bodies.

The details of the faces and bodies in each of the 'reliefs' are very clear, and even the faces of the children are lifelike.

These are the children that Clement saved and then killed to silence them.

Clement, now a bloated monster, charged madly toward Balthazar.

"Give me your soul!!!" Clement roared in a frenzy.

Balthazar on the other side was equally insane.

His mind was completely occupied by the battle.

Nemus watched the two people descend into madness, his sword twirling slightly in his hand.

Nems has no intention of letting go of either Balthazar, the sinful soul, or Clement.

Balthazar's sinful spirit might be able to help his original body break through its limitations, but of course, it's only a possibility.

After all, knowing that his sinful soul was formed by the abyss, and then sacrificing it to the will of the abyss, it is uncertain whether he will receive a reward.

But in any case, this is a good thing, and it's necessary to get your hands on it.

Next is Clement.

Clement is very strong, but the reason he is not performing well right now is largely because his mental state is unstable due to his transformation period.

A value of 400 might only yield around 200.

But now things are different. With Clement going completely insane, his mental problems have actually improved, and his strength has almost doubled.

One thing that was clear from the beginning was that most spellcasters were producers.

Their value lies not in fighting, but in production and creation.

For example, the flesh-and-blood monsters, Red Eyes, and Golden Saints—these experimental subjects were all secretly cultivated by Clement.

Although a large amount of resources from the Cult of the Devil were used, most of the knowledge and technology were controlled by Clement.

In addition, those rituals that imbue people with calamity should have originated from Clement's taboo research.

This is also a very important technology.

These technologies are where Clement's value lies.

At that moment, Balthazar and Clement, like two ghosts, were charging toward Nemes one after the other.

Numerous connections to fate surfaced in Nemus's eyes.

He then gradually set his sights on a goal.

"Coincidentally, a special sword technique has just been developed."