Devil's Bible

Chapter 350 Forbidden Past
“Killiman, why can’t it be me?” Clement asked with a smile, some parts of his body still showing traces of light before returning to normal flesh and blood.

Clearly, he is still in the critical transformation period of a Gold-type priest, but judging from the illusion spells he is currently casting, he seems to have, to some extent, broken free from the situation where it is difficult to fight for a long time during the transformation period.

“I was a clergyman a few years earlier than you, and I had greater talent and opportunities. I quickly reached the Gold rank.” Clement was not in a hurry to make a move, but instead began to reminisce.

He had already become a golden seed about two hundred and fifty years ago.

For many years, his body has been in this period of transformation.

In the early stages, things were alright; the transformation wasn't too dramatic, and I was still able to be active for several hours each day.

Two hundred years later, he could only move once every few days, and each time it lasted for less than an hour.

Often, he was like an object, constantly being transported to various places. Once he was able to move again and did some things for the church, he would immediately become unable to move again and had to return to his specially made place to lie down.

"When my son died, I was lying down and couldn't move."

"I was on a transport route when my apprentice died."

“Priest…heh.” Clement couldn’t help but say, hatred inevitably appearing in his eyes.

This is also the pastor's biggest challenge—the transformation through light.

As his faith deepened, the priest's body became a complete burden during his golden age.

At this point, the priests of the golden race actually have two choices.

One of them is the beginning of the use of magic body techniques, which involve using various spells to strengthen the body.

Most spellcaster classes do the same.

The other is photochemical transformation.

During this transformation process, the body is influenced by spiritual beliefs, resulting in a photochemical reaction.

After the event concludes, the golden-type priest's body will transform into an 'elemental-like life form'.

In that situation, there would naturally be no limitation that the body cannot bear the mental strain.

However, there is a huge problem with this: the pastor's spirit is highly linked to his faith.

This process affects not only the body but also the mind.

In other words, it is the degree of harmony between one's own spirit and beliefs during this process.

The higher the compatibility between them, the easier the photochemical transformation becomes.

“The problem is that I’ve seen too many things that don’t conform to the doctrine, and I’ve done too many similar things myself, and so has God.” Clement blasphemed without hesitation.

Suddenly, Clement saw glimpses of his past.

At that time, he had not yet become a Steel Seed; as a Black Stone Seed, he encountered the Church's filth.

As a trainee priest, he witnessed priests and paladins colluding with each other, even working with demons to treat humans as resources for various benefits.

When he exposed them, the clergy even argued that God did the same thing.

These words were unacceptable to him until the escaped demon came to him.

The other party did not discuss cooperation with him from the beginning, but instead asked him to rescue a group of children, a group of children from a child molestation brothel.

Clement, of course, did not believe in the demon, but he did investigate and found that it was indeed true.

In a nearby town, a pastor named Iron Man opened what was originally a church welfare home.

Of course, besides child molestation, the lower-ranking officials also followed suit and opened brothels for the elderly.

Clement's worldview was shattered at that time.

Welfare homes, nursing homes, and similar institutions were originally established by the church to maintain social order. However, they have now become tools for some people to profit from.

Most of the elderly people in nursing homes are those who have difficulty moving around or speaking clearly.

Clergy members secretly provide various services to the outside world, including but not limited to prostitution, torture, and murder.

Furthermore, if the bone is not broken, half of the project cost will be refunded.

Because they also provided complete skeletons for some alchemists and wizards.

Such a complete skeleton is not cheap.

After discovering all this, Clement was unable to rescue the elderly, so he burned down the nursing home and took the opportunity to rescue the children from the welfare home.

He took the children back to the village where he was stationed...

His train of thought continued, but was quickly interrupted by the thrusting blade.

Killieman seized the opportunity when Clement was distracted and launched an attack.

For Guilliman, whatever the reason, since Clement chose to betray, he had a duty to punish him and make him pay the price for betraying the Church.

But the next moment, flesh and blood surged from Clement's body, and a monster resembling a child emerged from his body, leaping out and biting Guilliman's blade tightly.

If Guilliman's sword hadn't been made of special materials and if his swordsmanship hadn't been quite good, the brat would probably have bitten a chip off the blade of his sword.

“As expected… you’re touching a taboo!” With a flick of his sword, Guilliman threw the brat aside and looked at Clement with a complicated expression.

Generally, the incredibly valuable Sin Souls are primarily used in three areas.

Demons are promoted, and they receive rewards for sacrificing themselves to the will of the abyss.

The purification sacrifice of the Golden Seeds eradicates their sins through a specific ritual, and in return, they receive blessings from the world. These blessings can further increase the upper limit of the Golden Seeds' stats by fifty to one hundred points, even if they have eight or nine hundred points.

It is one of the top resources for increasing the stats of gold-tier items in the later stages.

The third type is taboo research.

Since the Sin Soul was created by forbidden research, the forbidden traces can be found in the Sin Soul.

Therefore, many individuals who want to continue researching the forbidden want to acquire one or two sinful souls in order to obtain more forbidden information.

Only taboo research can give Clement more time to act during his metamorphosis.

This also explains why he does so many things.

And why are there so many resources to do so much?

Only then can such 'disaster creatures' be cultivated.

That's right, the childlike monster that emerged from Clement is the calamity creature that wreaked havoc on the land after the great catastrophe.

Such creatures are generally uncontrollable by other forces, and even those that have only been tainted by a portion of that force are extremely dangerous.

Most of the calamity creatures are of the Iron type in strength, and those that are slightly stronger can be considered Gold type.

“You can’t stay away from the whale’s back for long, so someone must be supplying you with earth resources,” Killieman asked earnestly.

Which cult have you allied with?

"Worship the Devil Cult?"

"The Cult of Calamity?"

(End of this chapter)