Devil's Bible

Chapter 324 The Fragmented Number
Considering the special circumstances surrounding the previous Holy Son Project, the person behind both events is the same person.

He is secretly studying various materials related to the Holy Son Project, but his current purpose is unknown.

At the same time, he summoned many demons and obtained information related to the Sinful Souls.

A standard demon, only one that is relatively more powerful.

And he was bold enough that he was captured by Agnelli and his men.

"So their purpose is related to the Sinful Souls?" With this thought in mind, Nemus went to the Grand Master's office to report.

Cooperating with the enemy is one of the stupidest things you can do.

When you have a strong enough backer, the best approach is to pass the problem on to them.

And perhaps through this, they could obtain information about the Sinister Soul from Guilliman.

Nems now roughly deduces that the mastermind is most likely hidden within the church or among the high nobility.

This is the most 'normal' speculation, because only these two parties have the corresponding information channels to handle so much confidential information.

For example, the Holy Son Project is top secret, but the two test subjects in the orphanage were taken away from the orphanage more than a decade ago.

This indicates that the mastermind behind the scenes actually knew about the Holy Son Project more than a decade ago.

This means that the pool of suspects is actually much smaller than one might imagine.

The next best course of action is to gather more information to find out the other party's purpose.

Others have their own motives for doing all this.

It's impossible for someone in a high position to suddenly plot for over a decade just to fool everyone.

The office was empty; according to the staff around there, Killieman had gone out.

After waiting for a while, Killieman returned to the office with a serious demeanor.

Seeing Nemes waiting for him, Guilliman said, "Elias, you can go out now."

Without hesitation or delay, he turned and left. This was the first time Nemus had ever heard his name.

Nemus then reported the confession of the standard demon, and Guilliman's brow furrowed even more deeply.

Nems naturally did not reveal the inferences he made based on his knowledge of information from both sides.

Killieman was also having a headache over the progress of both things.

"As for Project Holy Son, let's talk about it after we catch that muscle monster."

"As for the fictitious agreement, Nems's goal is most likely to get promoted."

Guilliman’s next words shocked Nems.

This alien demon was somewhat clueless about how to advance to a higher demon.

The message conveyed by the will of the abyss was too vague.

Collect enough flesh and soul to understand the nature of a normal soul.

Accept the abnormal number, transform the sin of the world.

Even with just these few words, Nems was completely confused; there were far too many possible interpretations.

The key issue is that Nemus has captured a lot of demons, but he doesn't really know what the so-called anomaly number is.

And Guilliman, as expected of a veteran of the Golden Race who has lived for hundreds of years, knows quite a few secrets.

“Nemus, do you know how the Abyss was formed?” Guilliman asked.

Nems naturally shook his head.

The abyss is said to have existed since the beginning of the world; how could he know such a secret?

"Because of a miscalculation." Guilliman didn't keep them in suspense and directly revealed the key information.

"A wrong number?" Nemus knew that the initial number of the world was fate, and then fate, as the driving force, propelled everything. Afterward, the number increased, and little by little, this world was formed.

He originally thought that the abyss was just a number that had increased.

Now it seems that the abyss is not like that.

"Yes, or you could call it the broken number."

"The early life forms were basically mythical species, so that was the mythical era."

"And when most life forms are born as golden seeds, the era has come to the Golden Age."

"During the Golden Age, humans and gods did not live separately. Most mythical creatures and gods lived in the material plane just like humans."

“Golden species cannot be promoted to mythical species, but since mythical species exist, they will naturally attract people to them.”

"Therefore, some of the gold miners began to study numbers."

"In this process, the number was interfered with, causing it to become incomplete and fragmented."

"These broken numbers cannot constitute the things in the world normally. When they are together with normal numbers, they may cause a chain of errors, making the originally normal numbers also broken."

"Therefore, they were grouped together by the gods of that time, so as not to interfere with other normal numbers."

"This is the prototype of the abyss."

"That's why demons must be eradicated."

"If the demons are allowed to continue their activities, then more and more normal numbers will be corrupted by the broken numbers, and the abyss will continue to grow stronger."

"Therefore, demons must be eradicated at all times; they cannot be ignored!"

At this point, Guilliman's explanation clarified many of Nems' doubts.

Why do demons have physical forms in the abyss, but lose their concrete form when they come to the material plane, and therefore need a 'vessel'?

It turns out that because demons are part of the abyss, their main component is the broken number.

As a fragmented number, it naturally cannot take on a concrete form in the normal world.

At the same time, it has exceeded the planned number to a certain extent, resulting in numerical inflation.

This also seems to explain why the abyss has always been so chaotic, because if normal numbers represent order, then the order of broken numbers has also disappeared.

"And the so-called sinful souls are the souls of those sinners who researched numbers and caused the broken numbers."

"The souls of these people are connected to the origin of the abyss. Once they are handed over to the will of the abyss, they can receive the abyss's help and complete their advancement."

"For alien demons who struggle to advance, this is a shortcut."

"Of course, the continuation of some sins will also create new sinful souls."

"It's like some secret techniques that can harm many people; once they are used, new sinful souls will be born."

"These newly born sinful souls are also of great use to demons."

"The fictional demon somehow obtained information about the Sin Souls, so it constantly provokes and summons various demons in order to obtain them," Guilliman analyzed seriously.

“If that’s the case, then fictional demons are becoming increasingly dangerous.” Nemus nodded in agreement with Guilliman.

He said that infiltrating the church was the right thing to do.

In some places, the church's understanding of the devil may be more comprehensive than that of the devil himself.

As long-term adversaries, they knew very well what the demons wanted in the material plane.

Nemus was even able to regard the church's high command's manual on preventing demons as a guide to a hundred things demons would do in the material plane.

For example, right now, he knows about the information of the Sinful Soul.

Obtaining the Sin Souls thus became one of Nemus's goals.

(End of this chapter)