Devil's Bible

Chapter 361 The Indescribable Soul Mud

An intense, divine heat enveloped Balthazar's body.

Nemus appears to have only one sword strike, but this strike contains three flows of time within it.

That's right. Using operation as a connection, Nemus's sword strike Xihe is mainly based on holy and fire attributes, with time attribute as a secondary attribute.

It is precisely because of these changes in time that the power of this sword is concentrated in a single moment, pushing the force to its limit.

However, this one moment has expanded into three moments.

Jingchen Mai stopped Balthazar for the first moment.

In the next instant, Balthazar's entire body was transformed into a torch.

Infused with the sacred properties of fire, it breached the city walls and stormed into Balthazar's body.

The demonic aura of those berserker demons was instantly burned away, and even the protection from the forbidden realm was of no use.

In the next instant, Balthazar had been forced out of his berserk state, and even the layer of keratinous scales on his body had been burned away, leaving him emaciated and looking like a charred corpse.

The charred corpse twitched slightly, and in the third instant, it had already fallen.

Balthazar was a truly good man; even if he wanted to escape, he could have easily avoided killing that important man's son.

But he was simply unwilling to accept it, why, under the rule of a church that claimed to be protecting others?

Those who should be protected can only become victims and be killed by him.

Yet a willful and reckless second-generation heir can make important figures in the church pay various prices.

If these costs had been invested in the plague, it would probably have been cured long ago.

If he lets that second-generation rich kid go, then what about those who died from the plague?
So Balthazar killed the second-generation heir, giving those people justice.

They're all just one life; killing them is no big deal.

That's what Balthazar thought...

"So, we all have one life, am I going to die now too?" Balthazar regained some of his rationality after exiting his Berserker form.

Before he died, he seemed somewhat relieved.

His eyes had been burned out, and his vision had vanished, but the orange-yellow light seemed to have been imprinted in his mind.

His powerful divine attributes even made him feel as if he were being attacked by a saint.

If it weren't revealed, it would be difficult for anyone to know that Nemus, who wielded this sword, was actually the leader of the fictional agreement and a different kind of demon.

At this moment, Balsade was at peace.

He has done everything he could.

If he ultimately fails to protect the Sinful Soul, he will feel regret, but he will no longer feel resentful about it.

"Nems..." Balthazar hadn't finished speaking when he turned into black ash and vanished completely.

In his final moments, what he wanted to say to Nemus is now lost to history, but Nemus didn't care.

The same applies to battles at the Gold level.

At the moment the battle begins, raw power is everything.

Reaching this level means that one's combat system is basically complete, with no obvious weaknesses or flaws.

In this situation, the only way to win is through a contest of raw strength.

Then, in this battle, you break the opponent's system with your strength, forcefully create a weakness, expand it, and then quickly defeat the opponent with a series of actions.

The same applies to this battle.

Although Nemus has the lowest stats, his combat system is the most complete.

The improved casting system of the Sword of Fortune has allowed Nemus's casting multiplier to remain stable at around eight times.

At the same time, while the "artificial holy child" characteristic limited Nemus's stats from increasing in most normal ways, the resulting bonus to holy attributes was enormous. If it weren't for Angel A's existence, Nemus would have found facing Rhine much more difficult.

With holiness as its foundation, Nemus combined "rope knotting" with a little bit of time power he had researched, which was simply bullying.

Divine attributes, though common, are powerful; the use of this power involves fundamental rules, not to mention time.

Combined, Nemus is the strongest of the three.

This battle began with the Bright Bird, then with the Rising Wind, and finally with Xihe.

All three sword techniques are offensive sword moves.

Under continuous and forceful attacks, the enemy naturally lost.

This is the true battle of the Golden Race.

It looks simple, but it contains many layers of strategic maneuvering.

Balthazar, who had turned to ashes and died, had a wisp of his soul appear on the spot.

Under normal circumstances, ordinary people cannot see the soul.

Even with steel, it is difficult to truly capture the soul.

Under normal circumstances, even demons can only accumulate a portion of souls through killing. Their main souls cannot be retained and will generally enter the divine kingdom of the gods they believe in.

Only by signing a demonic pact can one obtain a complete soul.

Those capable of capturing a complete soul on their own are either alien demons like those from the Aro realm, whose characteristics are related to the soul, or gold-level beings with certain special abilities.

But this particular sinful soul is different.

After Balthazar's death, a near-tangible soul appeared before Nemus.

It was something like a lump of mud.

The moment Nemus saw this thing, the maxim of destiny he had previously obtained from the divine essence came to mind.

In the beginning, all things were clay, and their number was zero.

Mud is definitely a special state of matter.

It's completely different from the soil we have now.

Now, seeing the Sin Soul appear in the form of mud, Nemus finally understood.

The soul may also be a number similar to [Mud Zero] or [Fate One], or at least something derived from that earlier number.

"So is the number of souls two or three?" Nemus guessed, while a vague realization arose in his mind: if he could accurately determine the number of souls, he could also obtain a maxim of destiny.

However, upon closer inspection, Nemus would then notice the differences in the Sin Soul.

Although its external shape is similar to mud, its internal structure is not granular, but rather some 'indescribable' structure.

That's right, it's indescribable. Nems simply couldn't describe its nature with accurate words or understanding.

All that can be drawn are a few superficial impressions—mania, riots, and cannibalism.

The mutual consumption aspect goes deeper, but it is still only a superficial phenomenon.

The deeper, more intrinsic thing is something that cannot be normally understood.

“No wonder the Forbidden Zone is so difficult to study.” Nemus shook his head, unable to investigate further.

The child relief monster that Clement had transformed into had already appeared before them.

At this moment, the 'relief' is already in a semi-melted state.

The previous attack by Xihe had also caused considerable damage to it.

"mine!!!"

(End of this chapter)