Devil's Bible

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Generally speaking, practitioners on the life side mostly use weapons such as swords and knives to fight.

So-called close-quarters combat is actually quite rare.

They are all made of flesh and blood, and even if they have some defensive characteristics, they would basically not do such a thing, as the risk is too great.

There is an insurmountable chasm between armed and unarmed combat.

If hand-to-hand combat becomes widespread, there is only one possibility: the Church forbids warfare.

It is said that a certain god known as the God of War, under whose church the use of weapons in battles other than war is forbidden, has resulted in a high level of melee combat skills there, which has given rise to many different styles.

Unfortunately, the God of Discipline does not impose such restrictions here, so melee combat is mostly considered a supplementary skill, and even has a performative aspect.

Jin Sheng's physical skills are very high.

It's clear that he also made use of his own sacred lungs, coordinating every movement of his body with his breathing, so that he could generate the power of wind with every step he took.

He could be considered a worthy opponent to fight against.

"So... that's all?" Nemus brandished his sword. Red-Eyed Three and Golden Saint were both formidable opponents.

However, after several encounters, Nemus had roughly calculated the limits of their abilities and discovered their weaknesses.

Normally, Nemus might spar with his opponent a few more times to gauge their strength and perhaps gain some inspiration from them.

But now, Nemes thought that if they were still in this state, then he would kill them.

Based on the current situation, these two test subjects may very well be just pawns discarded by the mastermind behind the scenes.

This Holy Son's completion of the ritual will most likely involve nothing else.

After all, the mastermind behind the scenes was fairly certain that he had not used the Saint Transformation.

Once he activates his Sainthood, all these enemies will be nothing but dirt chickens and dogs.

Except for the swordsman Nemus.

To assume that one is bound to clash with the Sword Saint Nemus is not a well-thought-out plan.

In this situation, it seems unnecessary to waste time on them.

However, Jin Sheng appeared very calm at this moment, clearly indicating that he still had some trump cards up his sleeve.

With each breath he took, the circles that had been laid out on the ground began to transform into new power.

Within the three red circles, the animals, birds, and plants that had been there before began to die in large numbers.

During this process, something converged towards the circle where Jin Sheng was located.

Even though Jin Sheng and the others weren't in the circle at that moment, some power still flowed into their bodies through a special connection.

Unable to suppress a low growl of pain, Jin Sheng trembled all over, and then a thick black aura began to emerge from his body.

The moment that aura appeared, Nemus felt 'uncomfortable'.

This discomfort stemmed from the instinct of life, and then Nemus felt a slight tremor in his own hidden soul.

The thrill wasn't from encountering someone of the same kind or a natural enemy; it was more like encountering a fellow 'competitor'.

“Calamity…” This message immediately came to Nemus’s mind.

No one knows how the so-called great calamity came about.

Of course, the gods might find out.

Signs appeared about 1,200 years ago, and then humans completed their evacuation around 1,100 to 1,000 years ago, retreating to the backs of floating whales.

The only information Naim currently has is that the land is covered with calamities and calamity creatures.

These calamity creatures are at least of the Iron-type level, possess multiple characteristics, and are extremely powerful.

"Now it seems that calamity may very well be a kind of broken number?"

"It was only the majority of the fragmented elements that converged and became the abyss."

"Yet another fragmented number fell upon the land of our material plane, causing calamity?"

"Or perhaps, is the incompleteness of numbers not just the only taboo of fate?"

“Does number also have other forbidden manifestations, and this manifestation occurred more than a thousand years ago, thus forming the current catastrophe on earth?” Nemus speculated.

Meanwhile, watching Jin Sheng and Hong Mu San, the challenge began to increase.

Although he had never actually experienced Calamity, Nemus was still familiar with its three characteristics.

'Calamity Creature': Its body is like a calamity, possessing ethereal and intangible characteristics, making it difficult to be damaged by conventional physical attacks.

'Calamity Attack': The attack is like a calamity, difficult to predict, and has a certain chance of causing instant death.

'Calamity Contagion': Its very existence is a calamity, capable of spreading calamity to other things around it, thereby increasing their danger.

These are the famous three characteristics of Calamity.

All three of these characteristics are gold-level.

Ordinary calamity creatures also exist.

This is why, before becoming a golden seed, getting close to the earth is tantamount to suicide.

In the current situation, the Holy Son's Completion Ritual actually managed to seize some of the Calamity from the dangerous creature and condense the Calamity's characteristics.

Nemus became interested, and at the same time, the revelation of meditation was passively activated. Nemus vaguely sensed that the entire Instrumentality Ritual might have another use.

The so-called differentiation, and then acquiring the characteristics of other things to complete one's own holy son essence, may just be the mastermind behind the scenes... or rather, Clement, Nems has already figured out his identity.

All of this may just be a lie Clement told his experimental subjects.

It's almost impossible to expect a morbid person to think about the future of a group of experimental subjects.

Chapter 353 Self-Measurement

Nems didn't suspect Clement from the beginning. When he first received the list of people to access the Holy Son Project data, even though he saw Clement's name, he didn't consider him his first suspect.

The focus was more on Lotus Levine, since many things were related to him.

But soon Nems' suspicions fell on Clement.

First was Angel A, who used the "Azure Whale Mark" to contact the Azure Whale and learned some information from it.

According to the Azure Whale, someone cast some kind of spell on its blowhole that day.

Having realized the crucial element of magic, Nemus began to suspect Clement, the golden-race priest.

Subsequently, Clement delivered part of the Son's Enlightenment ceremony.

The ceremony included information about the 'holy son' to corroborate its effectiveness.

However, such complete information is not available to the average person.

It was Gotthard who led the team that discovered the 'Holy Child' on the back fin mountain and obtained the initial data.

However, that data is quite different from the current situation of the Holy Son Nemus.

Therefore, the mastermind behind this must be someone who obtained detailed data on the Holy Son Nemus.

After simply ruling out Guilliman and Gotthard, the real mastermind can be identified as Clement.

Only he had ever used his mental powers to touch Nemus's body and even probe his soul.

Clement was too confident in his own investigation, thus dismissing the possibility that the Holy Son's body and identity had been taken over by Nemus.

That's why he made this mistake, which helped Nemes confirm his identity.

"Nemus!!" Just as Nems was pondering the specific effects of the Holy Son's Instrumentality Ritual, Nems heard two angry roars.

Lotus arrived.

It has to be said that the golden seed, when operating at full speed, is indeed fast.

Fortunately, the one he called Nemus was not the Holy Son, but the Sword Saint.

He charged toward the swordsman Nemus, his anger blazing.

Nemus waved his hand, glanced at Moritulus who didn't intend to summon the saint, and Lotus who was rushing over quickly, and smiled helplessly.

“It seems we still can’t trick that saint out this time.” Nemus sighed. “Moriturus, I’ll rescue you next time.”

As soon as Nemes finished speaking, his body seemed to be smoothed out instantly, like a special piece of history, and disappeared from everyone's sight.

"Knotting to Record Events - Self-Scale!": A special ability developed by Nemus based on his characteristics.

With complete self-cooperation, a time-limited clone is created by tying knots to record a period of time, thus forming a time-based clone that can be used for a period of time and temporarily possesses most of the user's abilities.

As for the statement by E'tong, he had already run away.

Possessing the ability to stealthily move like a giant spider, he escaped very quickly.

Lotus could only watch as Nemus suddenly disappeared. He then frantically used the Summoning Decree, but he was unable to interfere with time manipulation and summon Nemus's time scale.

He immediately turned to look at Jin Sheng and the others. In his current understanding, these mysterious people should be Nems's partners.

“Nemus might be plotting against the Sinful Souls, right here in the Church.” Seeing a Golden Seed staring intently at him, Jin Sheng immediately offered his bargaining chip.

Although he has now acquired the Calamity attribute, there is no need for him to create unnecessary trouble by provoking a Gold-ranked individual.

Clement doesn't trust Jin Sheng and the other test subjects, so naturally Jin Sheng can't completely trust Clement either.

From the moment he used that crayon to find Clement and join his plan, Jin Sheng knew that he was just a pawn being used by the other party.

So he also secretly gathered information about Clement.

Information about the Sinful Souls was also collected at this time.

Since the Sword Saint Nemus didn't stay here, it's highly likely that something of higher value is attracting his attention.

Therefore, Jin Sheng made a very bold guess—Naimus is with the Sinful Soul.

Using this information to get Lotus to leave, Jin Sheng's only goal was the Holy Son.

Upon receiving this answer, Lotus's veins bulged slightly, but after giving Jin Sheng a deep look, he had no choice but to head back.

While Lotus was frantically rushing to the other side...

The same goes for the other person.

The third swordsman's face was filled with rage.

When Nemus appeared earlier, he was standing in the center of a circle, surrounded by many swordsmen.

These swordsmen were fighting for the "completeness" mentioned by Jin Sheng, and also for the ranking of their swordsmanship.

Like bloodthirsty spectators, they began a circle-based survival battle.

So when the third sword strikes out, the Sword Saint's timeline also disappears.

He felt a synchronized resonance as Lotus roared.

The Third Swordsman didn't care about the completion ritual; instead, he thought the ritual was sinister.

All he wants to do now is find the Sword Saint Nemus and have a fair sword duel with him!

So he followed Lotus, brandishing his sword to unleash wind blades, and then accelerated towards the church with the wind.

However, compared to Lotus, the third sword was not of the Gold type, so it was much slower.

Watching Rost come and go, the Holy Son Nems couldn't help but raise an eyebrow slightly.

They then turned their attention to Jin Sheng and his group.

Jin Sheng, Hong Mu San, and the others were also watching Naimus closely, preventing any possibility of Naimus escaping.

The experimental subject's physical defects made it impossible for him to live for long.

Furthermore, these experimental subjects all harbored an obsession with their human identity.

This can be seen from the previous cases of White and Rhein.

The same applies to Jane and others.

They get angry when the names of their past experiments are mentioned.

Currently, in their eyes, the only one qualified to be called a human being is the Holy Son.

Only by truly becoming the Holy Son, the sole 'successful one,' can they psychologically shed their identity as experimental subjects.

Seeing the gazes of Jin Sheng and the others, Nemus brandished the sword in his hand.