Devil's Bible

Chapter 450 The Joker Card

Nemus also felt the pressure when facing the Clown King, who had been in peak condition for a period of time.

Peak state and constant state are completely different intensities.

The Clown King doesn't need to care about his physical condition at all, and doesn't need to spend any time calming himself down.

The attack intensity is always at its highest, the attack speed is always at its fastest, and the physical condition is always constant. Even if you are injured, as long as there is no limb damage or danger to your life, you don't need to worry about it.

The blade and the tip of the knife collided, producing a series of crisp sounds.

It looks extremely intense, but if any high-ranking demon or golden-type demon were to experience it, it would be beyond just intense.

Instead, it should be represented by terror.

Thousands of values are condensed into a small weapon. Beneath its sharp edge, it may not seem to cause much damage to the outside world, but in reality, it is all due to the extreme concentration of power.

If anyone relaxes their control over their power even slightly at this moment, the weapon will explode in a terrifying blast when it is thrown outwards.

However, for them at this moment, the area-of-effect damage from the explosion is unlikely to actually reach them.

The Clown King is always at his peak, so his control techniques will never go wrong. As long as he can do it at his peak, then his next strike will definitely be flawless.

Nemes, on the other hand, is purely about consistent technique.

The talent brought by his special soul, combined with the culmination of two lifetimes of arduous swordsmanship training, allowed him to perform extremely consistently. With a value of over 980 and the Sword of Luck, his swordsmanship multiplier remained stable at five or six times or more.

"What terrifying and despair-inducing swordsmanship..." Clown King leaped backward, creating distance, and several Clown cards flew out from his hand.

During the Joker's attack, effects such as control, attack, and weakening occur one after another.

However, Nemus countered them all with various sword techniques.

This made Clown King give a wry smile.

With over three thousand stats, he managed to maintain the double multiplier of his throwing knife technique only through a special state.

This is the norm for high values; the higher the value, the more difficult it is to increase and maintain the multiplier.

However, Nemus maximized the multiplier to the extreme with his swordsmanship, and even with such a high value, the multiplier did not decrease much.

We can hold our own against Him in a direct confrontation.

The slight numerical disadvantage was compensated for by the 'Clown Sword' that was specially condensed to counter him.

He thought that Nemus's swordsmanship multiplier couldn't last, and that after a while he would lose his composure and reveal a weakness.

But Nemus's sword remained as steady as ever.

Like an abyss, bottomless, he wields all kinds of sword techniques with ease.

No matter how He attacks, Nemus seems to have the sword skills to counter it.

Sword techniques that others might never master in a lifetime, or that they could learn only a little of and pass down as family secrets, were commonplace in Nemus's hands.

Even if one of these moves were presented to another demon lord, as long as that demon lord was not in a state of confusion, he would be interested and reward him.

With such terrifying swordsmanship, his previous defeat was entirely justified.

Clown King secretly estimated his own power of transformation. At the current rate, he could probably hold on for another ten minutes.

If you cannot defeat the enemy and escape within ten minutes, your transformation power will be exhausted.

From then on, there was no chance to escape. It could only be turned into a card, losing everything external, and could no longer even be called a life.

Judging from the current situation, these ten minutes are not very meaningful.

One's peak performance is a powerful state, but it is also a limitation.

This limits Him from surpassing this 'peak'.

These changes made Clown King lament the impermanence of life.

But at the same time, He drew a throwing knife, and more Joker cards appeared around Him. He accepted his fate, but he would never admit defeat.

He was originally a clown who was ridiculed and played with, and he could accept whatever fate befall him.

The distant memories of humankind from hundreds of years ago seem to flash by.

He accepted his fate of depravity back then, and now the worst outcome is nothing more than completely losing everything about being alive and becoming just an 'object'.

Nothing is unacceptable.

But as long as he, He, and it have even the slightest strength to wield the knife, they will never give up.

"Pity."

“If you weren’t a demon lord, then perhaps you could serve me.” Intense emotions collided and intertwined, and Nemus’s sense of kinship was amplified to the maximum at this moment.

In this decaying world, Nemus once again found his kindred spirits.

Unfortunately, this time, his kind had already risen to the position of demon lord through their own abilities, becoming his target.

"Although I know it's unlikely, I still... never mind, I won't humiliate you anymore." Nemus had originally wanted to give the Clown King a chance to submit to him, as he was a talent of his own kind.

However, after carefully sensing the Clown King's emotions, he abandoned this idea; to Him, it was merely an insult.

At this moment, there is only one thing we can do—go all out!
The blade of the sword in his hand subtly changed.

With the 'Soul of Life' and 'Grace' working together, power rapidly converges.

Along with it came various auras stirred up by the movement.

With a single sword raised, the surrounding winds and clouds converged, as if everything had been condensed into this one sword strike.

Clown King, also holding a throwing knife, stared intently at Nemus, and in a flash, he appeared in front of Nemus.

Countless Joker cards flashed and merged into the Joker King's body, then converged at the tip of the blade.

The wind was stirred up in an instant, and various clown cards shot out from the tip of the knife.

The upper limit of attack power will not change, but by combining these externally consumed Joker cards, the attack frequency can be stacked to the extreme!
The wind surrounded Naimus layer by layer.

It resembles a roc taking flight.

Even if the wind stops and the waters come down, it can still stir up the vast ocean!
The blade tip sliced through the wind layer by layer, but the wind, in turn, pushed forward, causing even greater waves.

The sword blade flashed.

The wind, this time, no longer shifted in layers, but transformed into a streak of white light.

This light seems to be engraved in time and space, destined to climb to the sky from here.

There was a flash of light.

The juggling knife in the Clown King's hand broke, leaving a mark on his body.

He tried to wield the broken blade, only to find that his connection to most parts of his body had been severed.

"What kind of bird is that?" That was the only question the Clown King could ask in the end.

The sword in Nemus's hand slowly shattered, turning into countless tiny fragments that scattered in the wind.

His black hair fluttered in the wind, shimmering with starlight.

"Peng bird!"

The Clown King nodded upon hearing the name.

His physical injuries healed quickly, and he soon returned to full health.