Devil's Bible

Chapter 423 Increasing Margins
On the absurd plains, Nemus, dressed in a black robe, walked in front, followed by the clown demon.

Nemus was currently experiencing the changes that came with his advancement to a high-ranking demon.

The first thing is the numerical value.

Nemus's stats eventually stopped at 902.

However, Naims wasn't too worried about the numbers.

During the previous era of the alien demons, Nemus did not possess many special characteristics.

Whether it's something hidden deep within the soul and difficult to detect, or something that increases extremely quickly, these are merely traits, not yet condensed into characteristics.

However, now that he has been promoted to a high-ranking demon, these traits have finally come together to form his unique characteristics.

The numerical characteristic is called "marginal increment": when a certain internal driving force is continuously invested, the utility of numerical increment will become higher and higher, and the upper limit of the numerical value will be three times the normal limit.

This is one of Nems's characteristics.

It's simple and crude, with no other capabilities.

It is not much different from the alien species period.

However, this is the biggest difference.

Because for most people, the improvement in numerical values ​​has diminishing marginal returns.

This refers to the phenomenon that, all other things being equal, the incremental utility or output of a certain input factor gradually decreases as it continues to increase.

There have been instances in the abyss where alien demons have broken through to become high-level demons.

Those alien demons generally have twice the stats of regular demons of the same rank, which is two hundred.

However, after they are promoted to high-ranking demons, this inflationary effect of demonic stats quickly diminishes.

Firstly, because high-ranking demons have a numerical inflation effect, the upper limit of a high-ranking demon's numerical value is 1200, which exceeds the 1000 of a human golden species.

Secondly, the higher the value goes, the more difficult it becomes to increase this multiplier.

The natural double multiplier of the alien demon will be reduced to 1.2 times during this process.

If the damage caused by some alien demons breaking through abnormal souls to create a breach is too great, then this multiplier will be reduced, and will most likely only be 1.1 times.

Therefore, the original maximum value of the alien demon with double the multiplier is 1440.

However, Naims's situation is special.

At this point, even Nemus himself couldn't calculate where his numerical limit was.

If we take the standard value of 1,200 for demons as the base, then three times that would be 3,600.

However, the Nemus alien demon had a value of 500.

Nemus had no way of calculating what the maximum value of himself, with his five-fold multiplier, would be after becoming a high-ranking demon.

If we consider the inner soul and the outer soul as two separate souls, there are multiple ways to calculate it.

In short, Nems couldn't calculate it at the moment, he only knew that there were 903... Now it was 904, which was far from his current limit.

This diminishing marginal effect also appears in numerical improvements.

Nems calculated that it had taken him about a day to upgrade from level 03 to level 04, roughly from leaving the mudflats with the Clown Demon to finding the way to level 333.

This speed is so fast that other Gold and Demon races would be devastated if they knew about it.

However, Nems felt that upgrading from 04 to 05 would be a little faster.

This improvement might take less than a minute.

However, this once again defied the general pattern of improvement for most gold-type gold.

After all, it becomes increasingly difficult for others to improve, while it becomes increasingly easier for me.

Naim estimated that this rate of improvement would continue to increase.

When we reach the later values, it's estimated that it might improve by a little in less than an hour.

"Of course, this requires keeping other conditions unchanged."

"The key condition is that the number of anomalies must remain stable." "I need to ensure that the number of anomalies is sufficient at all times in order to maintain this rate of improvement."

There's nothing particularly difficult about that.

Anomalies are perhaps the easiest type of number to obtain.

Other types of gold require the pursuit of a specific resource, and then the extraction of the number is carried out using the same ritual.

But the demon doesn't need to care about that at all.

All high-ranking demons use essentially the same type of number—anomalies distributed by the abyss.

This creates a problem: what if there aren't enough anomalies? Even if you go out and kill tens of thousands of lesser demons, the Abyss will distribute a certain number of anomalies, but it's very few.

Sacrificing a high-level demon of equal value will yield a significantly larger number of anomalous items.

Alternatively, bringing life and souls from the material plane into the abyss through killing, robbery, kidnapping, or deception will result in corresponding abnormal numbers.

In this situation, demons don't really need to worry about their numerical caps reaching their maximum value.

Because for high-ranking demons, the maximum number of abnormalities they can acquire can easily reach 1200.

However, it would take more than a hundred years of effort to raise the value to its limit.

In these hundred years, the acquisition of anomalous numbers has never been the problem; the problem has always been whether one can survive these hundred years.

According to incomplete calculations, the average lifespan of most high-ranking demons is thirty years.

Because there are specialized experts who hunt down high-ranking demons who have been promoted for less than thirty years.

The risk is relatively small, but the returns are very high.

And whatever you think of, it will appear.

Nemus raised his head and looked at the dark sky in the distance.

There was a black dot getting closer and closer.

The opponent's aura was completely undisguised, with a value of eight or nine hundred.

These numerical values, combined with certain characteristics, created a terrifying aura that enveloped the area where Nemus and his group were located.

This is a tactic of striking first to intimidate and shock people.

Although the advantage gained from the surprise attack is lost, the target's fighting spirit can be broken down.

"A fear demon?" Nemus observed the other party with great interest.

The Fear Demon is a demon with a very clear evolutionary path.

Its initial form is the lesser demon, the most common type of demon with the most average characteristics and qualities.

It is also the demon sealed within Downs' body, one of Nemes' subordinates—Klogg.

Most broken souls, without any special characteristics, will evolve from worms into lesser demons.

The same lesser demons can also evolve into most of the full demons.

For example, Kurogumo evolved into the Pain Demon.

A demonic form that uses spellcasting techniques such as pain and sacrificial fire to cast curses.

The higher-level demon that evolves from the Pain Demon is the Fear Demon.

This demon can further incite various negative emotions in living beings and then form them into an aura.

He is also extremely skilled in psychology.

It often instills immense fear in its prey.

They will also harvest this fear and transform it into extraordinary power.

“It’s good that you came.” Nemus knew that this was a ‘test target’ attracted by the unconscious release of ‘Destiny’.

A 'artificial soul' had already appeared in his hand.

(End of this chapter)