Devil's Bible

The sun rises as usual.

"I repent for my laziness." Nemus opened his eyes, feeling the approach of another day, and lamented his own decadence and laziness.

Then he began his daily work, inspecting the surrounding area and cleaning the entire church again.

Turn over the accumulated vegetation, and then gather up the bones that were exposed underneath.

Most of these bones are human.

Not many wounds were found on the bones, which roughly indicates that most of them died in an instant.

Nemes glanced at them briefly, then moved all the bones to the cemetery area behind the church.

"No need to trouble yourself, we'll do it ourselves," said the skeleton, his words full of apology. He then took the tools from Nemus and began digging his own grave.

Nemes nodded, then started digging a hole on the other side.

As he dug, Nemus lay down and looked at the sky, feeling that the sky was so blue and the clouds were so dark.

The sunlight was dazzling, and the rain was quite unique.

Although it seems a bit chaotic, it can be summarized in one sentence: The weather is great, perfect for sleeping.

So Nems fell asleep, lying in the pit he had dug.

The skeleton beside him also jumped into the pit after digging it. Strands of spider silk shot out from his hands, pulling up the soil and covering and burying Nemus along with it.

Time passed quickly, and night fell in no time.

Naims reached out his hand from the pit, and the not-so-compacted soil could not stop him.

My hand reached out from the soil and felt the chill of the moonlight.

At that moment, Nemes finally realized the problem: the sun really did have a problem.

"It's not that the night becomes dangerous; it's always been dangerous. It's just that the presence of the sun masks these dangers."

"It wasn't until nightfall, when the sun was gone, that our senses, which had been clouded, began to detect the problem!"

Nemes suddenly climbed out of the pit, scattering a large amount of soil.

Then Nems saw a large number of church personnel appear in the sky.

Among these people, Nems even spotted 'Jeff'.

The only difference is that Jeff seemed to be relatively young at this time.

In addition, Saint Veslav, whom we saw earlier, was also among them.

"The Discipline Church, why are their people here?" Nems didn't understand, or rather, the young paladin who had been linked to Nems with the wrong cause and effect didn't understand.

The saint in the sky glanced at him, and he was already dead.

The man fell back into the pit.

Nemes stood up; there was no mud around.

Emerging from the pit, the only one who survived was Nemus. The paladin who was assigned to this remote area, who greeted the fishermen, carefully crossed the bridge, and quietly admired the scenery, who, even living alone and cut off from the outside world, still upheld his duty, was killed in the same way many years ago.

Nemes looked toward the church.

The church sign that had melted away appears to have been restored to its original state.

However, the symbol seemed to possess a quality similar to that of Nemus's "external existence".

No matter how hard Nemes looked, he could only see a blurry layer of things.

It's as if its very existence has been erased.

However, under some force of recurrence, it seems that all of this must have such a thing, thus presenting such a vague thing.

Just like before, even though Nemus had killed the calamity creature and triggered a new taboo spread, everything here was still maintaining its original state under the influence of that power.

This time, however, what was hidden behind it was even more 'important'. Nemus stopped looking at the symbol and instead used logical reasoning to deduce the most appropriate shape for it.

He drew a symbol representing 'earth' in alchemy, which is not just soil, but a convergence of many things.

It is also something that most humans lack at this moment.

This abandoned church, this entity that seems to be trying to convey a message, must have originated from—

"The Church of the Earth." As Nems confirmed this realization, the church's symbol also appeared at that moment.

The blur was removed, revealing the earth element symbol.

Of course, the actual Church of the Earth in history may not have used this symbol, but it's not a big problem now.

Saint Vislav of the Discipline Church in the sky looked at the Earth Church on the ground, pointed his finger, and a wisp of spirit turned into light, igniting the newly formed symbol.

It quickly became the melted and destroyed state that Nemus had seen before.

"Sir, are you really going to continue hiding?"

“We have completely locked down this place. If you don’t come out, we will not leave, but will completely raze this place to the ground.”

“I don’t really want to destroy this place,” St. Vislav said, but his hands didn’t slow down at all.

Rays of light are gathering.

Then a person, also radiating divine light, walked out of the church.

He glanced at where Nemus had been, or more precisely, at the young paladin who had been killed, a hint of shame in his eyes.

"Hand over the items, and it will all be over." Saint Vislav looked at the Earth Saint, and the surrounding church members went on high alert at this moment.

Any unusual movement by the Earth Saints will be met with a joint attack from them.

The Earth Saint did not speak; he simply looked at Nemus's position, at the dead paladin, and then looked up at Nemus.

This time, they were truly looking at Nemus.

His eyes seemed to hold countless unspoken words, and he himself was like a book waiting for Nemus to read.

At this moment, Nems held up the book that he hadn't put back.

Upon seeing this, the Earth Saint smiled.

The divine power in his hands condensed into countless rays of light.

"Guess where I placed the divine spark!" As he spoke, the rays of light flowed like spider silk, wrapping around the body of the Earth Saint, and countless clods of earth surged.

Just as the others were attacking, the Earth Saint's body was instantly sliced ​​open by the pulling of those threads.

Body parts were scattered all over the ground.

The next moment, just as Nemus was about to continue observing the members of the Discipline Church, everything vanished under the fierce sunlight.

Nemus stood on the ground, surrounded by a dense, dark gray aura.

Everything was a sign of both corruption and prosperity.

Not far away, the church had already collapsed.

After looking through the papers for a while, Nemes finally spotted a rotten church brick.

Then he glanced at the two mounds of earth not far away.

Nemes looked up at the sky.

On the Azure Whale, Nemus also raised his head and looked at the sun not far away.

The timing was wrong, or rather...

"The sun isn't rising correctly." (End of Chapter)