Devil's Bible

“I can’t gain any more knowledge from the Hermit Saint. In fact, if I go too deep, I’ll be contaminated by his abstract cognition and my understanding of things will be distorted.” After witnessing this, Nemus reduced his attention to the Hermit Saint and only kept collecting limited data.

He focused more of his energy on those extremely valuable gold-bearing species, and on Vislav, who hadn't made any moves so far.

Although Nemus used the grid permissions granted by his divine self-authorization, as well as the various powers he had arranged in advance, to pull all these people into the battle domain in which he had an absolute advantage.

However, this is not a reason to be careless.

Never underestimate anyone who has made it this far.

Even Hayes, who came from the best family and received family subsidies, was allowed to take more than his share.

Being able to take more than one's share is a talent in itself.

There are quite a few people with similar family backgrounds to Hayes, but many of them are currently just ordinary gold-bearers.

Many people, after accumulating enough resources to grow gold, then happily enjoyed a lifespan of over a thousand years.

In this kind of battle where one's advantage is built entirely on cognition and thought, no one can be sure that they will never make a mistake.

Nemus squinted, his body emanating a subtle yet precise mental fluctuation.

The mud around me began to change.

It all began with the birth of the very first thing, the appearance of something called destiny.

Then, if there are no errors, Nemus's thoughts rapidly fluctuate, using the power of fate to drive the mud to change further.

Alchemy is the best method of observation, based on the alchemical knowledge accumulated by people over countless years.

In Nemes's deduction, the second number that appears after fate is thought.

The emergence of ideas led to further changes in the clay.

This is also a sign of the appearance of the astral plane.

Following thought, space and time are very likely to follow.

However, the spacetime here is not a kind of matter as we currently believe it, but a state of motion.

Time exists because things come into motion; space exists because their movement expands their location.

This is also an insight Nemus gained from his time-related ability, "Knotting to Record Events."

So-called spacetime matter is most likely the matter that fills and attaches to later matter as spacetime changes; it is merely a spacetime shell.

True spacetime should be a dynamic process that transcends matter.

Based on his own logic, Naim, after time and space, judged that what was most likely generated was a concept.

After space and time were created, the mud contained the past, present, and future, as well as front, back, left, and right.

These are all just concepts.

It is a cognitive judgment made by one's thoughts in relation to the current situation.

Of course, the concept may have appeared even earlier, perhaps before space and time existed. It was thought that first came up with the concept, and then it propelled the creation of space and time.

However, based on his deduction, Nemes has now placed the concept behind spacetime.

There should be a number before and after time, space, and concepts.

However, Nems does not yet know this number.

The source of mud is zero, destiny is one, thought is two, spacetime is three, and concept is four.

It is also known that there are six causes and effects.

What about five?

Among the top attributes known to Nemus, End and Life are known to be related sequentially.

Therefore, Nemes placed the end after the sixth in causality, making it the seventh.

Life is the eighth after the end. The ninth is the known change.

There is still hope, but according to Nemus's deduction and understanding, hope is most likely an attribute that fate will evolve into later.

Therefore, the probability is likely to be ten.

At this point, Nemus knew ten of the eleven original rules of the world.

Naim was able to determine most of the rankings.

It's that unknown attribute; I don't know where it should be ranked—third, fourth, or fifth.

Furthermore, the location of spacetime and concepts may also be interchanged.

However, for Nemus, who is not even a god, to be able to extrapolate the process of the creation of this world to this extent is far beyond what other life forms can do.

Nemus even had a premonition that many not-so-ancient mythical species might not know as much as he did.

This understanding, which is so closely aligned with the creation process of this world, becomes extremely convenient when reconstructing this world once again.

Although it's called breaking down and reconstructing, Nemus's current power isn't enough to turn everything back into primordial mud.

So everything around them seemed to be blank, and all the power they could use had turned into 'mud'.

However, this mud was merely an imitation created by Nemes himself, based on his observation of ether and the destructive elements of the World-Devouring Whale.

As things stand, these things are already basic enough.

But Nemus knew that among these powers, there were still far too many remnants of this world.

Therefore, the closer one is to the original world's rules and framework at this moment, the faster and stronger the reconstruction will be compared to others.

While Mocania and the others were still in the experimental stage, Nemus had already reconstructed the 'mud' around him into a prototype of a world.

This prototype is changing rapidly, and new rules are quickly emerging from these ten rules.

For example, the first elements derived from them are earth, wind, water, and fire.

This material world, as a fundamental element, is also a metaphysical concept.

Working backward from this point, we can roughly conclude that the numbers for Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire are likely between eleven and fourteen.

Then, number forty-nine is the ocean, and number five-fifty-five is birds.

Nemus then gained some basic understanding of the subsequent evolution of this world.

After the basic elements such as earth, wind, water, and fire appeared, various rules emerged, and then the world was gradually constructed.

Planes, land, ocean, life, and so on.

The last complete world appeared before Nemus.

As for the numbers that followed, Nemus created them entirely according to his own ideas.

As long as the logic is sound, you can follow your own ideas regarding the order of things.

For example, after Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire, Nemus began to construct spatial matter, subsequently creating dimensional barriers and shaping the prototype of the world's internal structure.

However, in reality, these things may have appeared later.

The reason why Nemus and his group believed that this thing appeared earlier was because they lived in a special environment with dimensional barriers that could isolate heaven, earth, humans, and gods from the beginning.

However, according to current information, the concept of "plane" did not exist in the earliest mythological era when humans and gods coexisted, or in the subsequent Golden Age.

The dimensional barriers and related spatial structures most likely appeared after the Golden Age.

However, this is not a true recreation of the world, and some things still follow their own logic.

So Nems first established the framework, and then began to generate life. (End of Chapter)