Devil's Bible

Chapter 239 Awakening
Isabella has the ability to manipulate the power of time, and the most important aspect of this ability is her control over her own time.

She can separate her time from the flow of time, and in this independent time, she can speed up, pause, or even rewind her time to some extent.

Once she has completed her control over her own time, she will connect to the mainstream timeline.

During this process, Isabella lost contact with the mainstream timeline, so she was unable to interact with the outside world or change her position in the world. The only things she could change were herself and those things that were closely connected to her and attached to her.

Therefore, from the outside perspective, her position is no different from before.

Of course, her bloodline awakening is limited; currently, within her independent time, she can only accelerate her own time.

By accelerating her own time, she quickly regained her composure.

Then they plunged back into battle.

The defining characteristic of cursed creatures is their ability to spread.

It's like how if a vampire bites another individual, the curse will spread.

Although the new vampires that emerge from this process will be very weak, their bloodlust will be even stronger.

The same applies to this bone monster; its curse can spread, and if not handled properly, it might give rise to a race of cursed creatures.

In this situation, it is necessary to kill it as soon as possible, and at the same time, to quickly clean up the scattered bones.

They then swiftly treated those infected by the curse.

If it cannot be cured, it also needs to be purified.

With these thoughts swirling in her mind, Isabella tried to enter Independent Time again, but found that she couldn't. She sensed precisely how many more minutes she would need before she could use the Independent Time property again.

"It seems that under this characteristic, the amount of time I have to be independent is the same amount of time I need to take a break before I can have my time independent again."

"It's good news that the time acceleration factor isn't taken into account, but unfortunately, the amount of time I can accelerate is currently limited."

She had just spent ten minutes recovering her mental energy and accelerating the experiment's time, most of which was spent in a time-accelerated environment at double speed.

Fortunately, her bloodline awakened, which alleviated the backlash; otherwise, her mental strength would not have recovered so quickly.

After Isabella confirmed the details of the characteristics, she immediately began to organize the other clergy who had rushed over to restrain the bone monster and buy time.

There was no other way but to delay. The monster was covered in bone spikes, and the paladin dared not move forward. As for the other priests, their stats and spell multipliers were limited, making it difficult for them to actually harm the bone monster.

The only way to delay is to use restrictive divine spells such as discipline spells.

A few minutes passed, and then Isabella's expression changed, as if she was no longer the same.

The mental energy that had been prepared beforehand was released outwards in an instant, completing the release.

This is the greatest use of independent time—it no longer takes up real-world thinking time, and at the same time, one's mental energy can be prepared in advance.

While the pre-casting time cannot be completely skipped, it takes time for mental energy to penetrate external matter and interact with other elements.

However, from the outside perspective, it appears that Isabella herself does not require any prior mental preparation time; the spell begins to operate as soon as she has a thought.

Then a large amount of white holy fire rapidly spread and condensed, becoming a lava-like substance.

It already bears some resemblance to the luminous substance that previously contained most of the magic.

This is Isabella's combat system—using holy fire as the main medium, and then incorporating other spells through techniques such as spell hijacking and spell fusion.

The biggest problem was the need for human cooperation, but that's not the case anymore. Because we can prepare in advance using our own time, we can slowly cast several spells together during the preparation phase, and then instantly complete the spell fusion when the time comes and the spells begin to react.

The white, high-temperature, and bright magma-like holy fire once again covered the bone monster.

This time, the collision between the holy fire and the curse triggered an even more violent reaction. The holy attributes clashed fiercely with the red curse, forming torrents of energy.

This spilled energy accumulated in mid-air, altering the surrounding environment.

Just like the air fluctuating and distorting in hot weather, the whole world is fluctuating rapidly.

Some clergy members nearby, especially paladins, even had the feeling that they were using resources to practice breathing techniques.

A large amount of energy was absorbed into the air through their breathing, and then burned their lungs.

Isabella manipulated the spell and then entered her own time once again.

Nothing in the outside world had changed; the things around her seemed to have stood still to her.

She can move freely and think normally.

Without taking a break, he briefly assessed the lava material and his mental energy surged rapidly.

Time reconnected, and the original spell was still maintained by her previous mental energy. The next moment, the new mental energy model combined with the external matter to form a new spell, which was then manipulated and merged with it.

The spell's power increased further, but the white, lava-like substance seemed to be truly transforming into magma. Isabella could even see a magma bubble bulging on the surface—a sign that the spell was about to go out of control.

Isabella gritted her teeth and continued to unleash her mental power to stabilize the spell and keep damaging the bone monster.

Then, time was once again stripped away.

Isabella covered her head, trying to calm herself down.

Through independent time, she can continuously add spells to the outside world, as long as she can control it.

However, the more spells are stacked, the more complex the changes that occur after the various elements within the spells operate and merge.

She even needs to spend a lot of time thinking and calculating during her independent time in order to stabilize the increasingly complex magical structure.

And now, with all these additions, the power of the spells is already too high.

If she loses control and the spell goes out of control, the resulting explosion could destroy a large part of the North District, destroying dozens of streets and killing thousands of people.

This is only in the less densely populated northern area.

If this had happened in the southern district, the number of deaths would likely have been in the tens of thousands.

Isabella remained calm despite the situation.

She needs to have confidence in herself.

She had already realized the path she needed to take: to possess power, to wield authority, and then to use that power to advance the church's governance.

And the pressure they will have to endure during this process may be even greater than it is now.

She needs to be able to withstand pressure and have the awareness to take on the responsibility of influencing the fate of more people.

At this moment, Isabella had already come to this realization!
(End of this chapter)