Devil's Bible

At night, Nemus and the giant spider became book lovers again, continuing to browse through the church's collection of books.

Many of these books describe various landforms and special products related to those landforms.

For example, Nems was able to see a type of aquatic plant in a certain stream.

This aquatic plant can, to some extent, smooth out imbalances in a person's stats. It is said that if a Gold-type aquatic plant absorbs excessively chaotic stats and goes astray while in its Iron-type form, it can use this aquatic plant to modify its stats to some extent.

This was far beyond Nems' expectations.

On the back of the floating whale, there are many people whose golden seed values ​​remain at one or two hundred because the numbers they previously absorbed were too complex to find the corresponding values.

However, this predicament that has plagued countless golden species can be solved on the ground with just some water plants that are not particularly hard to find.

Of course, it's just some aquatic plants, which can only slightly smooth out the mess and bring their values ​​from a chaotic state toward a certain main value, breaking through some limitations.

Even so, once this aquatic plant appears on the back of a floating whale, it can be sold for a very high price immediately, and the merchant may even become the richest merchant on the back of the floating whale.

However, it is also very possible that one could immediately become dead.

Nemes continued flipping through the book.

During this process, the spider came and swapped books with Nemus again.

Then Nems received a new book.

The book is titled "God's Prayer," a name that sounds a bit odd.

This book is unusual in that it has a preface.

The world comes from mud, and will return to mud.

All struggles are nothing but delusion.

My delusions led to my downfall.

However, ultimately, I still want to leave them a future.

Nems looked at the preface and smiled slightly. These church members really liked to attribute sanctity to everything they did.

Then Nems began to read carefully, studying the contents.

Then they discovered it was an alchemy book.

It describes in detail the primitive state of the world—mud.

This mud is not the mud we usually think of; it represents the chaos of all things.

The mud separates afterward, and fire is the process of separation.

Water is light, so it turned into wind, and then it became water again.

What remains after that is soil.

Then the soil was removed, creating space.

All of this happened at the etheric layer.

The four elemental planes of earth, wind, water, and fire were also formed during this process.

These four elemental planes are not the four things of earth, water, wind, and fire, but rather byproducts of the emergence, operation, change, and sedimentation of these four things.

These byproducts are elements.

And what drives all of this is—ideas.

The source of the ideas lies in the astral plane.

As for who in the Astral Plane issued this 'idea' that propelled the world to change, Nemus already had the answer in his mind.

The book continues to be written.

The core concept is that everything comes from mud and will eventually return to mud.

From the moment the number zero appears, things begin to accumulate.

Once things reach a certain level, numbers will be combined and operated on.

The mutual integration and change between things drove the emergence of more new numbers. At that time, all sorts of things appeared because of various combinations.

Among these things, those that acquire thought from the astral plane and possess self-awareness can be called mythical beings.

The book records the changes in the world in a general tone, the emergence of mythical species, the appearance of the prime material plane, and that everything will inevitably begin to show a 'regression effect' after a certain number.

That regression effect will destroy everything, bringing everything back to square one.

All living things will be nothing more than part of the mud.

The book records that God defied this will and sought a way out.

Ultimately, this defiance led to a mistake.

This kind of mistake can have serious consequences.

The book doesn't record the specific consequences; it simply ends there.

However, on the last page, Nemus's eyes suddenly lit up.

[Upon reaching number six, under the influence of destiny, all things disperse and are brought together; strong connections emerge between phenomena and concepts, known as cause and effect!] — A maxim about destiny!

Nems truly did not expect that he would actually see a maxim about cause and effect under such circumstances.

It can be said that, based solely on this maxim of destiny, his exploration of the earth and his efforts to suppress his own thoughts were not in vain.

“I’m in this state of confusion right now.” Nemus’s self-control loosened slightly.

Then all the previous strangeness was resolved at this moment, quickly going through my mind.

The Holy Son was indeed affected. Unbeknownst to him, the causal relationships between phenomena became disordered, causing him to become equally disordered.

Only the Holy Son's soul was affected.

Although Nemes is only one being, he possesses multiple souls.

Furthermore, he possesses causal abilities and has a certain understanding of cause and effect.

If Nemus is not mistaken, the Holy Son most likely had a causal entanglement with a local paladin from who knows how many years ago.

Because the cause-and-effect relationship is wrong, when the Holy Son thinks and remembers, the memory is correct, but the corresponding result of external cognition is changed due to the confusion.

So everything seemed so normal, yet everything also seemed so abnormal.

"So, before the number six, the connections between things are so weak?" Nemes studied quietly for a while; people had become accustomed to cause and effect.

This kind of cause and effect is not the kind of cause and effect where 'good people get good rewards', that kind is called retribution.

The rule called causality is the cause-and-effect relationship between various concepts, things, and phenomena.

If there were no cause and effect, then clouds wouldn't produce rain; rain would appear on its own and wouldn't be affected by gravity. The chaos of all things would be incomprehensible to beings that base everything on cause and effect.

Anyone with even a little understanding will inevitably go crazy.

Although the cause and effect in this current state of confusion is wrong, at least there is still a connection.

There is absolutely no connection between the actual phenomena, which is unimaginable to normal people.

"The sacred number of cause and effect is six." Nemus memorized this maxim of destiny.

He then suppressed some of his thoughts and stopped communicating with other souls.

When cause and effect are confused, thinking and cognition also become problematic.

The Holy Son Nemus has once again returned to a state where everything is 'normal'.

A proverb about destiny is one important benefit, but it is not the only benefit.

Just like when Nemus asked the 'spider' before, he didn't want him to see those things.

Since the other party has not responded, there may be other changes.

Nems wasn't in a hurry, so he continued to immerse himself in the spectacle. (End of Chapter)