Devil's Bible

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His mind was racing, trying to figure out a way to break the deadlock.

Nems didn't know whether he would succeed, whether he would be swallowed by the sea of ​​time, killed by the Holy Son or Rhine, or some other ending.

All he knew was that he was now searching for any possible way to break the deadlock.

"Isabella!" Nemus thrust his sword out again, piercing Isabella's heart.

As her blood, tinged with silver, flowed out, the very essence of time seemed to shift slightly.

Before Nems could react, he returned to the starting point once again, and Isabella was standing in front of him again.

She didn't say a word, she just looked at Nemes as if she were parting from a lover, or as if she were parting from a dead enemy.

Looking at her like this, Nemus suddenly realized that the real Isabella was dead; she had died after using the Time Vortex technique.

In the end, she still didn't know whether she was right or wrong.

So she chose to leave Nems where she was and then left everything to Rhine and the Holy Son.

Perhaps it's an escape, or perhaps it's a courageous confrontation.

Just like the vortex of time, it pulled everything back to the starting point.

Nemus's gaze flickered slightly, then without hesitation, he thrust his sword at Isabella, splattering silver blood, wasting not a moment.

The Rhine, in the distance, had already begun a probing attack on Nems.

From their perspective, it's highly likely that Nemes did something and then suddenly returned to some starting point.

It's like someone caught in a whirlpool, constantly going around in circles.

Nemus touched the silver blood and sensed the power of time within it.

Fortune is fluctuating; try to understand the time element within it.

However, the next moment, Nemes returned to the starting point once again.

Before Nemus could continue his blood sampling and research, Rhine's attack arrived from not far away.

The water angel and fire angel did not approach, but stood not far away. Water and fire transformed, with divine attributes as the core, and then formed a state of water and fire merging into one, flying towards Nemus.

As Nemus brandished his ice sword, the sacred properties between water and fire began to destabilize, causing them to clash and form a dense fog.

Nemes passed directly through the fog and arrived beside Isabella.

She still looked at Nemus with that complex yet resolute gaze.

The blood sample is collected and then returned to its original position.

Upon his return, a vast array of celestial vines had formed a prison, awaiting Nemus's return.

The vines spread, instantly creating a strangling effect.

While Rhine's combat intelligence may not be as good as Nems', he is by no means a fool.

After testing the water and fire angels and confirming that the time effect would only affect Nemus and Isabella, he immediately thought of how to use this to kill Nemus.

Of course, during this process, it is still necessary to restrict Naims.

After all, Nemus had killed Isabella time and time again, so he must be planning to do something to help him escape, and he had to stop him.

In an instant, the vines were shattered into countless pieces, and the change in the aura around Nemus had already annihilated them.

Then, in the next instant, the water and fire angels approached and launched an attack on Nemus.

Rhine boldly abandoned his defense and stood not far away.

According to his calculations, Nemus's speed was insufficient to reach him and kill him before returning to the starting point.

Since that's the case, then let's launch a full-scale attack.

The sword in Nemus's hand changed.

Although in terms of skill, they completely overwhelm newly created beings like the Water and Fire Angels.

However, these two items are still gold-level items after all.

Nems wanted to kill them all at once, but it wouldn't be that easy.

After a few moves, Nemus returned to his starting point. In front of him was no longer Isabella, but the Water and Fire Angel.

The previously broken celestial vines grew again, wrapping around Nemus and interfering with his movements.

Meanwhile, on Rhine's side, the mental energy around him was also fluctuating rapidly.

He had figured out the pattern by which Nems returned to the starting point.

It's about once every three seconds, and the interval is decreasing. Now it should only be about 2.8 seconds left.

At this rate, Nemus will have less and less time to move around.

He doesn't actually need to do much now. He just needs to interfere with Nemus and wait, and Nemus will be trapped in that time vortex until time is zero.

However, Rhine still harbored the idea of ​​personally killing Nemus.

and so……

His mental energy shifted rapidly, and a spear of light condensed in front of him.

Heavy spells rained down on the spear of light.

Next, with just one more strike, he could kill Nemus.

And although he can be prepared to return to the starting point, his position at that moment is certain.

This means that Nemus has absolutely no way to dodge and can only choose to confront the incoming attack head-on.

If my attack is powerful enough, I will definitely be able to kill Nemus in one blow!

The light spear condensed, waiting only for the next moment to mark Nemus's death.

'Whoosh!'

The sound of piercing flesh rang out, and Rhine stared in disbelief at the sword of energy that had pierced through his head.

The overwhelming aura seized his mind, disrupting its structure and leaving him no time to heal himself.

Nems figured out the mechanism of the time vortex before Rhine did.

He discovered that everything about him would be pulled back to its original state, but the damage he caused would not.

This means that he can make certain changes to the outside world during the previous rotation, and then sever his strong connection with this thing.

So only Nemus himself is back to square one. The change he made will not happen. All Nemus needs to do is re-establish contact, and he can regain control.

The same applies to breath.

Rhine was blinded by hatred, and in that moment of losing his composure, he was blinded by the advantage of the time vortex and fell into his own mindset of absolute security.

Completely abandoning their own defenses, they prepared an attack powerful enough to kill Nemus, ignoring the changes in their aura.

Thus, with the arrival of a new round, Nems laid the groundwork for an attack and relatively easily took Rhine's life.

The damage reduction from the Golden Seed didn't have much effect. If Angel A hadn't been crippled, it wouldn't just be that the damage reduction wasn't working; a Holy Critical Strike might have occurred as well.

Chapter 282 Sainthood

However, although Rhine died, he was not completely extinct.

At the last moment, his mental energy made a final decision, merging entirely into the Water and Fire Angels, thus extending their lifespan.

It doesn't matter if he loses, he still has the Holy Son.

must……

It is necessary to...

Kill Nemus!

Rhine's struggling thoughts seemed to touch the Holy Son.

Naim slightly opened his eyes, which were filled with golden light. He was somewhat weaker than the old priest in his previous pseudo-saint state, but he was much more stable.

Naim sighed slightly. In this state, he understood that he was only in a state of sainthood, not a true saint.

He wasn't even a Gold Seed yet, because the Saint's Elixir had been completely converted into 'Saint Power'.

This power is beyond his control, and instead puts immense pressure on his mind.

If it weren't for his relatively pure spirit and the large amount of energy he received, he probably would have entered a burning state and burned himself to death in a short time.

Most importantly, Dartmenley underestimated the impact of family opposition.

I missed the best historical path.

In that line of reasoning, he shouldn't have used the Dartmenti family bloodline that Jacques sent, but rather used the 'Saint's Potion' from Rhine after Rhine was seriously injured.

Jacques's Saint's Potion is a special version made for Dartment, while Rhine's is a universal version developed for church research.

Although the potion wasn't a perfect match, that's exactly what was needed—a less-than-perfect match.

Even with an imperfect fit, he can use this to ascend to the Golden Seed and acquire the 'Sainthood' trait.

But now it's different. The Saint state can be maintained for a certain period of time, and after a while, it will revert to the extreme state of the Iron Seed.

Holy power will also fall into dormancy and will require other means to activate it.

In terms of strength, it will also be much weaker because the control will be weakened.

The current situation is only favorable in the future. Perhaps only if he himself advances to the Gold level and his soul becomes purer can he redeem this potential.

Now?

"Even if it's just a temporary sainthood, I will still get rid of you, Nemus!" The Holy Son didn't harbor much hatred towards Nemus.

His enmity with Nemes was entirely for the sake of the Dartmenley family.

Now, he and Nems have reached a point where it's a matter of life and death.

Nems needs to silence him and kill him in order to truly extract that piece of historical information.

He also needs to kill Nemus in order to secure his original position as the protagonist of history and, in turn, seize the historical number that Nemus has acquired.

By acquiring historical data, he will most likely become a legendary species.

I wonder if the legendary species and the saintly transformation will undergo some kind of different changes.

The jumbled thoughts and ideas didn't occupy my mind for long.

After becoming a saint, the Holy Son's thinking ability increased dramatically.

When he opened his eyes, he understood the current situation.

As the Holy Son watched the constantly appearing and dying Lady Isabella, he felt pity and admiration for her.

After becoming a saint, many seemingly unrelated things now become connected in his eyes. He can clearly deduce the possibilities of the past and observe the development of the future.

In the true history, he did not continue with the Dartmenley family.

Instead, during that time, he was moved by Isabella's discourse on humanity and chose to follow Ms. Isabella.

"You are a real person, Lady Isabella." Isabella could not hear the words of the Holy Son. Although she was constantly being reset in the time vortex, unlike Nemus, she was already dead.

Then the Holy Son strode towards Nemus.

In his saintly state, all aspects of his abilities were greatly enhanced, with the strongest being that unique feeling of 'omnipotence'.

As the opposing force, Nemus could truly feel the pressure emanating from the Holy Son.

He has now completed a full evolution.

I could feel the pressure emanating from him right now.

After becoming a saint, the Holy Son's power far exceeded normal levels; his stats did not increase but instead decreased.

However, each strand of power felt completely different at this moment.

It was as if, after Rhine was promoted to a Gold-ranked individual, the quality of his mental energy increased dramatically.

The same applies to the Holy Son's stats; the quality has changed, but it far exceeds the situation in Rhine, and its improvement is far more than just a significant increase.

This was a situation Nemus had never encountered before.

Even during the Prayer Angel era, his numerical quality wasn't that high.

After becoming a Prayer Angel, I entered the 'Celestial Kingdom' and was then placed in a nurturing pool where the concentration of elemental energy far exceeded the imagination of the material plane.