Devil's Bible

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Swords clashed together.

The sacred sword was severed, a gale swept through, and a terrifying force seemed to shake everything.

Numerous sword marks appeared on the Holy Son's body, and the rising wind was cutting him to pieces. He couldn't withstand the sword strike, and his body was pushed backward and slid rapidly.

It was at this moment that...

A wisp of energy swirled up from afar, and the already prepared Whirlwind Swallow pierced through Isabella's body, its silvery blood seeping into Nemus's body.

Within Isabella's time vortex, Nemus will cycle back to the origin, and the damage he leaves behind that has no strong connection to the outside world will remain.

The injuries sustained will remain.

There was one exception: Isabella, a remnant left in this vortex of time.

Therefore, Isabella is the correct solution to this time vortex.

A figure suddenly appeared on Nems' body; it was Kru.

Before the contract ended, he used his demonic body to curse Nemus, which then fell onto Nemus along the rope of the oath.

Before Kru could do anything, Nems was back to square one.

Time has been completely reset to zero.

Because Kru had attached himself to Nemus in a cursed manner, he was also reduced to zero at this moment.

Upon seeing this change, the Holy Son did not hesitate at all. Despite his still not fully recovered body, he once again condensed the Holy Sword and launched a final attack on Nemus.

At this moment, Nemus had no time to move around. He stood at the starting point, trapped at the bottom of the time vortex.

However, Nemus had not actually completely lost his sense of the outside world at this moment.

He could sense that time in the outside world had almost stopped.

The three moles on his earlobe were burning hot. Under the influence of the powerful force, Naim made the right choice and gambled everything correctly.

The point at the very bottom of the time vortex is where time almost stops.

Nemes appeared here, and without the influence of time, he saw Isabella standing there.

Compared to the dead remnant outside, Isabella here seems much more vibrant.

Unfortunately, she is still not alive.

Isabella's face was free of scales, and she looked normal again.

She stood there, radiating a variety of different emotions.

Loneliness, regret, hesitation, madness, despair, persistence, determination, calmness, and resolve.

Nems should have stopped here completely, with only his past emotions remaining.

However, at this moment, the curse from Kru on him was slightly hindering the situation.

Because Kru is a twin demon, his other body was not affected.

Strong connections are not subject to the vortex of time.

Nemus looked at Isabella, the feedback power stored in his soul's divine essence still rapidly dissipating.

At this very moment, in this place where time seemed to stand still, the rope of the original oath began to move.

A new contract has been formed.

A silver signature has been affixed to the contract.

The drop of blood taken from Isabella was preserved after entering Nemus's body, becoming her signature.

Nemes did not write any further treaties; he simply signed his real name on this blank contract.

Or rather, the agreement between him and Isabella was formed after Nems helped Isabella solidify her resolve.

"Nemus! Let's be swept away by the tide of time together!"

A new contract was formed, and the previously stalled oath-keeping contract began to respond and resume its function.

The feedback power originally stored within the divine essence transformed into pure feedback power at this moment, then surged into the new discipline feedback, continuously strengthening its power according to the oath.

The precepts have been changed.

[Main Commandment: Keeping the Oath]

[Discipline Feedback: The artifact gains special properties—…………]

As feedback forces were applied, feedback information gradually emerged, and newly acquired characteristic information appeared before Nemus.

"Hahahaha!" Nemus looked at the characteristics formed by the discipline feedback and laughed wildly. He knew that he had grasped the change of time and taken the reins of fate.

Behind him, the rope of oath began to change from the original rope—a hemp rope.

Meanwhile, outside...

"Aaaaaah!" the Holy Son roared, wielding the Holy Sword with both hands and slashing down.

The next instant, the Holy Son suddenly found himself standing not far away, his sword seemingly already in a downward swing, but he had no recollection of the process of slashing down with his sword.

He looked up and saw that Nemus, who had been locked in place by the time vortex, had now left the origin of that time.

He flew alone in mid-air with only one wing.

The Holy Son squinted, knowing something was wrong, yet he was unaware of any changes in the outside world.

At this moment, all he could do was pick up his sword, turn around, and charge at Nemus once again.

This time, the Holy Son discovered that his attack had not mysteriously disappeared.

However, just as the blade was about to touch Nemus, Nemus did not draw his sword, seemingly giving up all resistance.

Until the next moment, Nemus turned slightly to the side.

The Holy Son seemed to see a knot being untied.

Then a sword gleaming with golden light came down from above, originally meant to strike Nemus on the head, but instead struck his own sword.

The Holy Son stared at the sword in disbelief, finally understanding what had happened.

Nemus, using this new ability for the first time, couldn't help but feel its power, and at this moment, the information above was completely solidified:

【Feature – ‘Knotting for Records’: The knotted rope establishes a connection with a lost, independent period of time. When the knot is tied, that period of time is recorded and sealed. During this sealed period, it is unaffected by external factors. When the knot is untied, the recorded time will resume as before.】

After turning to the side, Nemus stepped forward and thrust his sword in, piercing the head of the Holy Son Nemus from the bottom up through his chest.

"My things after I die are yours. Don't forget the name of Dartmenley." In his final moments, the Holy Son seemed to see something.

He didn't feel resentment at dying, but rather a sense of having let Dartmenley down.

"I have seen this world."

"It's not good."

He seemed to be addressing Daros, who had invited him into the human world, or perhaps he was speaking only to himself.

After saying this, the Holy Son Naim died.

At the wound on his body, some golden blood was flowing out, but instead of dispersing, it congealed into a ball and gradually turned into a golden egg.

As Nemus gazed at the golden egg, he felt the ripples of history; the numbers of history were being extracted.

He knew he had won.

Chapter 285 Willing to Dedicate Myself to God (Bonus Chapter 1/10)

When Nemes picked up the golden egg, he could clearly feel that the extraction process of the historical number had begun to accelerate significantly, and it would probably be completed in a few more minutes.

"So, the original protagonist of history should have been the Holy Son?" Nemus held the golden egg and could feel the holy power within it, a power that was close to divine power.

At this moment, Nemus could sense that if he absorbed this holy power into his divine core, the number of divine cores would not increase, but some of the missing functions would be supplemented.

However, Nems also has another option.

"A life embryo without a soul?" Nemus felt the pulsation of life from the very beginning within the golden egg and couldn't help but marvel at the terrifying life force of the Holy Son.

In itself, the Holy Son lost precisely because of this.

He lacked strong convictions and did not achieve self-transcendence.

From the very beginning, he was just a newborn fetus. He only came out of Mount Dorsal Fin because Daros asked him if he wanted to see the world.

He blurred his own identity and his judgment of the world. He only chose to stand on the Dartmenley family's side and fight a life-or-death battle because of Dartmenley's unwavering sacrifice for his family.

After the battle ended and they realized they had lost, they stopped struggling.

If his will is strong enough, with his terrifying vitality, even if Nemus were to split him in two, it would be difficult to truly kill him.

The Holy Son only saw the bad side of the world through Nemus and Isabella during this short journey, so he did not continue.

Nemus's strength and resilience were the strongest he had ever seen, but Nemus's condition was hard to predict.

What about Isabella?

She appears resilient, strong, and rational, yet she is equally vulnerable inside.

She never managed to distinguish right from wrong, nor could she figure out what was justice and what was evil. She could only hold onto her own ideas and then walk towards death with a hesitant yet resolute heart.

In this world, most people live like plants, being harvested by others.

A small number of people live like wild beasts, struggling desperately in their own territory, hunting prey, and seeking to reproduce.

They are powerful and ruthless, but once injured, they will silently die in some corner and become prey for others.

People like Isabella are truly human. On the one hand, they are like plants, rooted in a certain field and striving to grow upwards; on the other hand, they will bare their fangs when necessary and put their beliefs into practice.

In the end, however, I still couldn't understand this world or hold onto anything firmly.

People like Nemus, who clearly understand the world and are determined to achieve what they want, are rare.

The Holy Son himself blurred his identity among these different types of people.

In the end, they chose to give up.

Nemus looked at the golden egg, then looked up at the sky and the things beyond it.

Gradually, a plan began to take shape.

Then he turned to look at the other side.

The battle on the other side was pretty much over as well.

Most of the clergy were either dead or wounded, and many had already fainted from the prolonged battle, including Seppelison.

Previously, when Rhine was promoted to Gold Saint, he planned to take action against Leah, but was stopped by Angel A.

Seppelison attempted to intervene during this process, but failed and was knocked unconscious by Leah.

On the other side, the old man from the Tribunal released the demon within his body.

They were originally capable of beating Poole and his team.

However, he was affected by the battle of Nems.

The clash between the water and fire angels, and the ensuing battle, saw the power fluctuations of the divine attribute grow stronger with each encounter.

During this process, the old man's body couldn't hold on, the demon rebelled, and Poole and his men seized the opportunity to turn the tide and win.

The only battle that hasn't ended yet is the one at Heisenberg's place.

That's right, Kru won before, but the battle is not over yet.

Heisenberg is currently trapped in the magic circle, struggling like a caged beast.

"What's his situation?" Nemes glanced at him and immediately understood how Kru had won.

The key lies with the followers of the fictional protocol, whom nobody cares about.

Although they are not strong, they are numerous enough.

Furthermore, the V-shaped Berserk accessory allows them to resonate with each other's mental energy.

This level of mental pressure, while effective against ordinary enemies, is insufficient against mentally resilient experts.

Therefore, Kru made use of this mental energy. He had a deep understanding of the berserk accessories, so he cursed himself to make his mental frequency resonate with the berserk spirit.

Then the cursed land, the Lost Realm, was laid down.

A curse was placed on a region, and Heisenberg, who was located within it, was trapped.