Devil's Bible

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This is one of the weaknesses of change—it is difficult to sustain and easily leads to differentiation.

The God of Discipline was like this before; because of the discipline system, his own divine power became insufficient.

Since Nemus doesn't have a problem with insufficient activity, the Storm God, in turn, promotes its activity.

A large number of life forms entered Nemus's divine power scheme. They grew rapidly with the help of the changes brought about by Nemus's divine power, and then began to destroy Nemus's divine war scheme because of the 'destructive nature' bestowed by the Storm God.

His arrival immediately put immense pressure on Nems.

The cooperation between the Storm God and the Discipline Goddess, while not flawless, was certainly extremely harmonious.

The two combined their divine powers to create an advantage little by little, and then used that advantage to swiftly crush Nemus's plan.

In this situation, even if Nemus read the memories of the Goddess of Discipline, it would be of no use.

This understanding of others stems from the tacit understanding formed through countless past encounters as adversaries and countless collaborations.

This tacit understanding was not one-sided, even though Nemus learned about the God of Storms through the Goddess of Discipline.

However, he was unaware of the Storm God's 'understanding' of the Discipline Goddess.

Such one-sided understanding is bound to be biased.

Even the God of Storms could use this to set a trap.

In other words, the God of Storms now holds the initiative.

Therefore, after only a few rounds of thought, Nems was forced into a dangerous situation.

"Their strategy is less than ten thought processes away from me."

The astral plane does not possess normal spacetime; the ten cycles of thought represent the current safe distance between Nemus and the other party.

Nems has no divine kingdom, so once the opponent breaks through this safe distance, he will be constantly facing the opponent's deadly attacks.

Nemus's body had not been strengthened by divine power for a long time, and his physical strength was not very high.

Therefore, it could be said that death was very close to Nems's.

At the same time, besides the Goddess of Discipline and the God of Storms, another major enemy of Nemus will certainly not just stand by and watch.

The God of the Sun had previously warned the God of the Storm.

Now, the Sun God, who has been accumulating power and preparing for so long, may be in greater danger than the Sun God, who could strike at any moment.

If the opponent makes a move, they could very well crush Luna in one fell swoop and then come over to swarm Nemus.

Or take advantage of the moment when your attention is drawn to them, and then kill yourself.

Becoming an ancient god only grants one the qualification to break the deadlock, but Nemus couldn't find a way out of the specifics of how to do so.

Chapter 906 Responsibilities

"Not good!" At this moment, the Goddess of Discipline sensed something from Nemus's thoughts, and her divine power suddenly fluctuated, causing a misunderstanding in her coordination with the God of Storms.

The moment this happened, the God of Storms was taken aback, but quickly responded.

Thanks to hundreds of millions of years of hostility and cooperation, the Storm God has an exceptional 'understanding' of the Discipline Goddess.

In the tacit understanding prior to this, everything was presided over by the Storm God, a deity whose thoughts were not aligned with Nemus's.

All the Goddess of Discipline had to do was use her power according to the tacit understanding.

This sudden departure from the unspoken understanding could only have one reason: the Goddess of Discipline had discovered some unusual change, forcing her to... flee.

The Storm God and the Discipline Goddess moved almost simultaneously, but the Storm God was ultimately a fraction of a second slower.

Due to the difference in thinking, something had already appeared beside the God of Storms.

It was a black, special power.

The moment the fog appeared, a sense of depravity spread out, pulling at the God of Storms as if to drag him down.

"The Calamity of the Earth?" The God of Storms recognized it almost without thinking.

It was at this moment that the God of Storms understood why the Goddess of Discipline had dodged so quickly, causing problems in their previous joint effort to annihilate Nemus.

"It's one of Nems's subordinates..."

"Has he already absorbed the Earth Godhead and become something akin to a God of Calamity?" The God of Storms realized instantly.

He could clearly feel this pulling force spreading from his current divine body towards his true form within his divine kingdom.

Fortunately, the God of Storms is much safer than the God of Discipline he once was.

The reason why the God of Discipline was able to be directly pulled out of the divine kingdom was largely due to the presence of the Son of God, a traitorous incarnation of Nemus.

If the Son of God had not become a saint and held the Holy Wish Ceremony, directly giving advice through the Holy Wish, then the God of Discipline would not have been dragged out.

Although the God of Storms is also being pulled along, the problem is not that serious.

Firstly, after the incident involving the God of Discipline, most deities strengthened their defenses in this regard.

The divine kingdom has implemented several measures to prevent the main body from being dragged away by other forces.

Secondly, although the God of Storms is not at his peak at this moment, he is still better than the God of Discipline was back then.

The moment he sensed the pulling force, he immediately drew upon his divine power to resist it.

If the Storm God hadn't fallen to demonic possession and developed an aura of sin, with calamities attracting each other, this earth calamity triggered by Kru might not have even been able to pull the Storm God's true form away.

"The new Earth God..." The Storm God's vision tracking quickly found Kru's whereabouts.

"They were indeed hiding in the material plane!"

The rule that gods cannot appear in the material plane seems to be an ironclad law.

After Nemus ascended to godhood, even when traveling to other material planes, he would be restricted and unable to directly connect with them through thought.

However, this is not entirely impossible to go against, after all, rules are not the same as regulations.

Rules are numbers derived from the world, and regulations are merely special constraints imposed by the environment to make the world better.

In this situation, the lower limit of the rules is actually higher, and even gods cannot disobey them.

Because it is essentially the result of multiple rules working together.

Even if a single deity has sufficient understanding of one rule and is the deity of that rule, it still cannot deal with the other rules.

Therefore, all the rules established by fate, such as that after the mythological era, gods cannot descend into the material plane, or that before the potential deviation of the new world stabilizes, other gods cannot interfere with their thoughts or enter into other deflection forces, must be obeyed by the gods.

However, there are exceptions.

The god of the earth was once such an exception.

One important reason why fate sets rules to prevent the descent of gods is that gods would disrupt the stability of the material plane.

The god of the earth is not within this scope.

The element of earth itself symbolizes the stability of the space it carries; therefore, the presence of the Earth God in the material plane will only reinforce the stability of the material plane.

Of course, this is on the premise that the Earth God cannot carry too much divine power to the Prime Material Plane.

This situation is just right for Kluge right now.

He himself doesn't have much divine power; in fact, some mythical beings might be able to suppress Kru.

In this situation, Kru's location on the material plane is equivalent to being in a safe house built for him by fate.

If the God of Earth hadn't caused such a huge problem by starting with life in order to reverse the fate of all things returning to mud, let alone the God of Storms engaging in a life-or-death divine war with him.

Even the sun god would find it difficult to truly kill the earth god.

It can be said that the death of the Earth God was largely due to his own self-destruction.

Since ascending to godhood, Kru has not been excluded from the material plane. As long as the divine power reserves of his 'body' do not exceed 100,000, he will be able to stay in the material plane indefinitely.

During this period, Kru only needed to take on the responsibility of stabilizing the land.

Overall, this place can only be considered a sanctuary for the weak.

The opponent may be 'invincible' in the material plane, but there are also limitations to what they can do, and they will not be seen as a threat by other gods.

But things are different now. The Earth Calamity perfectly compensates for the opponent's lack of divine power reserves and attack capabilities while staying in the material plane.

Using the power of the Earth's Calamity, this calamity can perfectly penetrate the material plane and then attack things in the astral plane.

It could be said that, based on this alone, Kru would be one of the most disgusting gods.

However, even with great divine power, one can only be beaten in the face of this situation, and probably cannot even dodge, at least not for the time being.

"Responsibility?" The Storm God is the one who is hardest to avoid.

At this moment, the God of Storms immediately understood.

In name, deities are equal in power and responsibility.

The amount of power one possesses corresponds to the amount of responsibility one bears.

In the past, however, fate could be more or less regulated, for example, by establishing various rules.

But after the tablet of fate shattered, things spiraled out of control.

Firstly, fate has lost the ability to establish rules. In response to the loopholes that appear in the world later, fate can only rely on macro-level forces of fate to manipulate things.

Such manipulation, while not entirely ineffective for deities who are naturally capable of interfering with fate, is of limited use.

The gods shirked their responsibilities.

Chapter 907 Winning

For example, in dealing with the catastrophe on Earth, the gods chose to let it go, preferring to create floating whales rather than expending their own power to deal with the land bit by bit.

To use the Floating Whale, you only need to provide the mythical creature, the Astral Whale, and make certain modifications.

However, dealing with the earth requires a great deal of divine power to plan and then gradually clear it away.

Throughout the entire process, it was a pure act of sacrifice for the deities.

Therefore, in recent years, the gods have been very passive in dealing with calamities on earth.

As long as the calamities on earth do not continue to expand, the gods will pretend not to see them.

Only in the Central Plains region would the Seven Gods Alliance regularly organize the Golden Seeds to clean up the calamity beasts.

It can be said that the responsibilities borne by the gods have decreased dramatically.

Now, the appearance of Kru gives direction to the cause and effect.

Driven by a sense of responsibility, these gods could not escape these calamities of the earth and could only wage a 'divine war' against them.

From Kru, the God of Storms saw another possibility for the God of Calamity.

"Those who fail in their responsibilities will suffer disaster..." This is another truth about calamity, and also a truth that fate is willing to see.

By bringing disasters under control and downgrading them to a certain extent, calamities are transformed from world-destroying catastrophes into a form of punishment.

Using human form to control calamity, fighting against calamity, yet also utilizing calamity, with enemies and allies sharing the same origin, calamity is also incorporated into the world's system.

In comparison, the true meaning of the world's destruction in the God of Storms is that it is a path that has truly led to utter darkness.

"Persuade me to turn back?" The thought flashed through the Storm God's mind instantly.

If the God of Storms could absorb all the other calamities in the world and then govern the disasters according to Kru's ideals, then this path of the God of Calamity might truly be feasible.

but……

"I have no need to look back!" The Storm God felt no regret.

Before embarking on the path of becoming a god of disaster, he didn't have many choices.

His unwillingness to submit to the sun god, his greed for other powers, and his poor management skills led him to choose a negative faith to strengthen himself.

It seems like he always has a way back, but in reality, he has no other choice.

As long as he refuses to admit defeat, this is the only path he has.

And there is never any regret on this path.

Even if he already knew that Kru had unified the calamities of the earth, and that there was still hope for him, the God of Storms would not follow Kru's path.

"Too weak!" the Storm God thought to himself.

Although it was only a brief contact, the God of Storms had already seen through Kru's strength.