Devil's Bible

Chapter 358 The Twins of Cause and Effect
Blood and flesh flew everywhere, countless pieces of flesh were cut open in an instant, and then a little power was transmitted within the flesh, causing countless pieces of flesh to tremble and fly away.

Wherever that white line goes, everything is being cut apart.

This is pure power, cutting everything with its sharp edge.

The moment the flesh and blood were torn apart, Balthazar, who was also wrapped and restrained by flesh and blood, became Tong Fengqi's target.

The sharp sword energy seemed capable of cleaving through everything.

Even before the sword energy got close, amidst the surging and pure attack, Balthazar already felt as if he was being torn apart.

However, it was at this moment that Balthazar's blood-stained cloak changed.

A bloody mark appeared on it, a very thin mark that perfectly matched the damage caused by the sword energy of Tongfengqi.

During this process, a bloody gash appeared on Balthazar's body.

Then, Tong Fengqi inexplicably passed through Balthazar's body and appeared behind him, continuing to break through flesh and blood and fly to other places.

Then, the bloodstain on Balthazar's body disappeared, leaving only the bloodstain on his cloak, though it was slightly fainter.

"Causality?" Nemus could sense the attack missing its mark and couldn't help but marvel at how worthy it was of being a sacred artifact from another church.

During the fortune-telling process, Nemus could only vaguely see the general turning points in Balthazar's fate and could not obtain very precise and detailed information.

He knew that Balthazar had taken the sacred artifacts of the Church, the Flame of Purification and the Linen Robe of Purification.

However, the specific abilities of these two sacred artifacts remain unknown.

Only at this moment did he realize that the specific function of the Cleansing Dust Robe was actually a causal ability.

The consequences of the attack occur before the attack itself, thus effectively accepting the attack.

After all, the same attack cannot inflict damage on the same target twice at the same time.

Once the result is manifested, the cause can no longer produce the result.

Once the cause has left, the manifested effect is dispersed, and thus the attack is avoided.

In other words, before that cloak went wrong, Balthazar's margin for error was surprisingly high.

On the other hand, Clement was not in such good form.

He originally planned to take down Balthazar by himself, then quickly complete his plan and leave Azure Whale.

No matter what form the Azure Whale takes, it will have nothing to do with him.

However, Nemes intervened, and his swift victory became a joke.

What was originally a one-on-one targeted battle has turned into a chaotic one-on-one team battle.

Under these circumstances, it would be difficult for him to quickly obtain the Sin Souls, so Clement realized that his plan could not be implemented smoothly and he was already planning to retreat.

After all, he wasn't sure whether the Azure Whale would be in danger this time, or whether the demon lord would succeed.

The problem is that once the other side succeeds, the Azure Whale will be dragged into the abyss.

When a large area of ​​things falls into the abyss, a 'sinking' phenomenon occurs, meaning that surrounding things, even those not directly affected by the abyss, are also pulled into it.

Although Clement studies forbidden topics, and the Abyss is the greatest gathering place of forbidden topics, he does not want to enter the Abyss right now.

The abyss is barren, an era where the winner takes all; his entry into the abyss will inevitably lead to a decline in his conditions.

If they didn't want the conditions to worsen, they had to venture into the territories of those demon lords.

Those demon lords, within their own territories, are all no weaker than saints, making them far more troublesome to deal with than saints.

Although he is doing well now, he can only be considered a seasoned golden seed.

Once he completes his forbidden research and the light-transformation process, becoming a top-tier golden being, he might be able to contend with beings of that level. But is it necessary?

He would be better off staying in the material plane and finding an opportunity to secretly control a floating whale. That way, he could continuously produce various resources, and his quality of life and safety would far exceed those in the abyss.

After all, while levitating whales have a mating need, they can avoid mating if controlled.

In addition, no other spatial teleportation arrays are set up.

It is extremely difficult for outsiders to climb onto the back of a solitary floating whale.

It can be said that complete control over an adult floating whale is the dream of many golden-breed whales.

If he succeeds, he can even claim to be a god in the real world.

Clement felt the same way; he absolutely did not want to continue working under the church, as it made him increasingly uncomfortable.

Under this mindset, Clement's emotions were also stirred by the forbidden power, and past memories resurfaced.

As he began to cooperate with the devil, his bottom line was lowered little by little.

After all, he did this to protect the children.

Since it's a good deed, then whatever one does in return for it is reasonable.

Later, someone discovered his collaboration with the devil, and he chose to silence them.

It further evolved into the idea that he accidentally revealed information related to children, and he wanted to silence them.

Later, on the eve of becoming a Steel Seed, the Steel Seed who had previously run a pedophile brothel discovered clues and came looking for him.

He locked the children in a cave outside the village.

But they also knew that if they continued, the children would eventually be found, since a group of children couldn't stay in the cave forever.

So... he chose to silence them.

If he can't defeat the Ironborn, then the ones who can silence him are naturally the children for whom he paid the price of corruption.

After that, Clement's facade of kindness was completely shattered.

He discovered that he wasn't truly kind, or rather, as the pressure increased and the cost of kindness grew, he chose to abandon kindness.

He gained a profound understanding of his own true nature.

He didn't start by simply being kind; he acted to satisfy his own sense of moral superiority.

This isn't a big problem, or rather, it's a good thing most of the time.

We can't always expect everyone to do good deeds out of pure good intentions; that raises the bar for doing good.

The problem is that the demon got involved in the process.

He gradually made Clement pay for this 'good intention,' increasing his pressure bit by bit.

Ultimately, this led him to complete depravity, and he became extremely selfish.

He continued to cooperate with the devil, but no longer for the sake of the 'children,' but for his own sake.

This collaboration lasted for more than two hundred years.

More than seventy years ago, this demon was able to cause such a commotion and create such great destruction in the Azure Whale.

Even His rapid ascension to the position of Demon Lord was inseparable from Clement's support.

And this demon lord is known as the Twin Demons!
(End of this chapter)