Devil's Bible

Chapter 246 Chips
Meanwhile, in the southern border region, Towns and Becky did not disappoint Naim.

Of the two of them, one was considered poor in combat ability, and the other was even worse.

On the contrary, Jacques seemed to have divine assistance under these circumstances. His combat abilities, which were originally only average, seemed to rapidly increase with the power passed down through his bloodline.

While fighting the two, he quickly discovered that there was something wrong with the space in this area and successfully found a way to escape.

When Jacques broke through numerous obstacles and left the underground park, he felt his entire being trembling.

Outside lies a free future; after being imprisoned for an unknown period of time, he has once again gained his freedom.

However, the next moment, a large amount of cursed power from the bloodline was directly poured in.

His sanity and his personality are being rapidly destroyed.

Having previously absorbed the power of the curse, he was now powerless to stop it all.

This is precisely why Nemes descended upon Poole and swiftly killed Dartmenley.

"Isabella...!" Jacques's mind flashed with the image of that person, and then all the bones in his body seemed to grow rapidly.

In an instant, he transformed into the same skeletal monster as Daros before him, truly becoming a cursed creature.

However, unlike Daros before him, Jacques was not filled with a desire for destruction.

After numerous eradications, the instincts that shaped the curse's operation have changed somewhat.

The bone curse that had been spreading across his body no longer spread everywhere, but instead subsided.

Meanwhile, Poole and the white-tailed fox were also taken back to the church for interrogation.

However, the result still conforms to 'logic'.

Whaleification is a special training method developed by Nemus based on his research on whaleification disease, specifically for village guardians.

Because this power is related to the whale disease, it was hidden by Nemus and used as a reserve of power in the dark to maintain order in Tailtail Town, thereby helping Nemus obtain the historical number.

As for the other person, Cecilia is even more reasonable.

She was originally an experimental subject of the Dartmenley family and was refined into a golden elixir by Dartmenley.

To protect this innocent experimental subject, Nemus hid her away.

Dartmanley attacked them in order to retrieve the family's 'Golden Medicine'.

Everyone knows about the feud between Neil and Dartmanley's bloodline experiments.

Therefore, although Nems had some operational issues, no one would criticize him for it.

So far, everything Naims has done has been reasonable.

And Isabella knew that the card Nemus was currently holding would become one of his allies.

Strictly speaking, whale-related diseases should be eradicated.

But controlled whale disease is something that can truly arouse greed in most people.

Most importantly, for example, whale-like diseases, when developed to their extreme, can naturally be promoted to steel species.

Even with its various side effects, this method of steadily advancing to the Iron-type race is a force that all the major noble families desperately need.

The emergence of such a thing is a double-edged sword.

Nemes can use this as leverage to negotiate deals with others.

Some nobles, however, are inherently averse to trade. They believe that good things should belong to them, so they will use their power to intimidate others and prepare to seize them by force.

Dealing with these 'nobles' who came attracted by the smell was also a troublesome matter.

Overall, in this situation, Naim should be more suited than them.

Isabella, on the other hand, rarely uses her power to make political compromises. If she were to secretly collaborate with the high nobility, she could actually keep Nemus locked up in solitary confinement.

But if she actually did that, she wouldn't be Isabella.

"Has that Cecilia been examined?" Isabella wondered, a headache forming as she pondered how to handle the situation.

She had already sent aid to Qiquan City, and it's estimated that Qiquan City will also send some people over.

If they're just here to handle the crisis, that's fine. The real problem is that the people who come are thinking about the benefits that Nemes has offered, and then there are a few more 'political creatures' causing trouble in Tailtail Town.

"There should be no problem. There are indeed a lot of drug residues from the conventional refining of gold medicine in the other party's body."

"However, because there are many traces of alchemy on her body, as well as the residue of various drugs, rituals, and runes, routine examinations will have a large margin of error, and can only roughly confirm that she is Cecilia."

What the pastor didn't say in his reply was that the inspectors lost interest after discovering that Cecilia's golden potion was cursed and contaminated, and that she herself had already consumed most of it.

Most people are now focused on Poole, hoping to get the secret of controlled whale transformation from him.

By acquiring even a small amount of information, one can immediately become a guest of honor of various powerful forces and make a fortune.

Therefore, they basically had no interest in paying attention to Cecilia; most of them were with Poole.

However, given the current situation, Isabella could guess some things.

"What about the energy reaction in the southern border region?" Isabella then inquired.

"When our people arrived, the fighting had stopped, and apart from some demonic aura, we didn't find anything else."

"I suspect it's the egg that the alien demon spat out before; the aura is somewhat similar."

"We were unable to identify any individuals who were merely fighting demons."

The pastor then gave Isabella a report on the findings.

The report described the situation in the southern border region in detail.

The so-called border area is actually the outermost part of the city, close to the edge of the whale's back.

That place is extremely dangerous. If the whale's tail swings too much, the vibrations will be so strong that a person could be thrown off.

And because of the constant shaking, this place is bare and there's not much to think about.

Therefore, apart from a small number of people who come to commit suicide or dispose of their bodies, not many people usually come to the border area.

This report mainly describes the various traces left by the battle.

And in one place, there were some sinkholes, possibly due to damage from the battle.

Someone checked the area beneath the sinkhole but found nothing unusual.

Isabella nodded, but something felt off.

The battle happened too coincidentally.

After the attack on Datmenley, unusual combat fluctuations appeared there after a period of time.

Isabella thought about it and decided to go there herself.

However, it was at this moment that a trainee pastor rushed over.

"Investigators from Qiquan City have arrived!"

"Huh? So fast?" Isabella frowned; her distress message had been processed as soon as it was sent.

So unless they're from the Gold Species, they'll have to fly over in a pillar-of-air ship. The battle only ended a short while ago, and those people are already here.

(End of this chapter)