Devil's Bible

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When he opened his eyes again, Nemus was already standing in front of the God of Storms.

At that moment, the God of Storms felt an invisible force rapidly invading his body, and the storm began to spiral out of control.

Most terrifyingly, the endless changes created a kind of change that even the God of Storms couldn't comprehend.

Just like the nameless wind before, if the God of Storms had not received guidance from the Goddess of Discipline and the God of the Sun, he would have had to abandon his divine body within the possibilities of this world, and withdraw his divine essence and deflection power.

Now, with his fall from grace, things have become even more dangerous.

Not only did Nemus advance further, but he also gained control of almost one-seventh of the Tablet of Fate.

And he himself got worse as a result.

After falling into demonic possession, although he could still use deflection power normally, he also seemed to have lost a layer of protection from the crystal wall system.

In this situation, it wouldn't be difficult for Nemus to kill the Storm God, who could potentially control the entire world...

"How could this be...!" The God of Storms reviewed all his decisions for this battle and found that everything he had prepared was actually perfect.

Whether it's a decisive fall into demonic possession or a coordinated attack on Nemus by the Goddess of Discipline.

All decisions and all action plans were the most correct choices.

But he still lost.

At that moment, the God of Storms realized something: he hadn't lost at this point, but much earlier, perhaps even before Nemus was born.

"No, it's not that I lost, it's that the whole world lost!" Nemus's countless transformations invaded, easily swallowing up the existence of the Storm God, and then using it as a springboard to attack the Storm God in other possibilities.

It was at this critical moment of life and death that the God of Storms realized everything...

"From the moment this world was born, it was destined to lose."

"Numbers are finite, and everything finite will eventually lose!"

"I am the God of Storms, the God of Wind Elements, and the number twelve, so I will also be reset to zero at some point!"

“Even if Nemes hadn’t killed me today, I would have gradually perished for other reasons.”

"The world did not perish because of any kind of broken number or calamity."

"We have reversed cause and effect because the world is heading towards destruction, which is why all sorts of calamities arise in the process."

"We are not the cause of the world's death, but the consequence of it!"

"Therefore, the divine status of cause and effect is not because cause and effect is too great for the gods to bear."

"Instead, all the gods who attempted to seize the divine status of cause and effect have reversed the greatest cause and effect in this world when they were trying to connect with the concept!"

"I also got all of this wrong. I wanted to be the cause of the world's destruction, which is why it's so difficult..."

The moment the thought arose, a sense of calamity also stirred within the body of the Storm God.

As the God of Storms realized that the God of Calamity was the fruit of the world's destruction, his path to becoming the God of Calamity was opened.

Faced with life and death, the God of Storms no longer needed to kill Nemus; he had already grasped the true meaning of the world's destruction.

That is, the world was destined to be destroyed from the very beginning.

Everything will be lost.

This is precisely why the existence of external elements is so unique.

Chapter 922 The Invisible End

The Storm God, who had completely evolved into a calamity god, now understood that he had no way out from the beginning, that he was destined to die from the start, and that all his efforts and achievements would only point to the destruction of the world.

In other words, this was the predetermined fate of the God of Storms. Everything seemed to be his choice, but in reality, it was decided from the very beginning.

At this moment, however, the God of Storms did not care much about this point; he only cared about whether he could win once with this power.

Consciousness was rapidly fading as the Storm God intently watched whether his final attack after his ascension could defeat Nemus.

At this moment, Nemus and the Sun God gradually became united.

In the eyes of the Storm God, the true god of disaster, the other party was merely an outsider who had unexpectedly entered this deadly predicament.

They are the same.

Even just once!

"Just once, let me, the one destined for this, win this foreign object just once..."

"Just... just once!!!" The pounding belief transformed into sparks and wind at that moment.

From the very beginning, when the God of Sun first encountered the God of Storms, the God of Storms never won.

From the time of mythology, there was only a minor conflict between them and the sun god.

Then came the Golden Age, when the sun god rose to power and formed the sky pantheon.

Then, during the elemental chaos, he was severely injured and fell into a coma, missing the best time to acquire deflection power.

Even if he returns later and becomes a powerful god in his final moments.

He was always one step behind the sun god.

It was through these steps that an insurmountable chasm formed between him and the sun god.

From beginning to end, from ancient times to the present, in every single event, he seems to have never truly defeated the sun god even once.

This sense of defeat seeped into his very bones, gradually becoming the only indicator of the Storm God's survival.

Just as other gods have lived to this day for the sake of face, and the God of Discipline has lived to this day for eternal glory, the God of Storms has lived to this day only to win once!

The Storm God, who became the God of Calamity, has seen through the fate of this world, and he has also come to understand the source of his own obsession.

Now, the idea of ​​winning has begun to detach itself from a specific purpose and become a different kind of pure thought.

The predetermined outcome will allow you to win against external forces once!

"Win!!!" This frenzied belief became the most violent wind in this astral land.

This gust of wind made even the look of world destruction seem somewhat different at this moment.

The winds of destruction.

Looking at that gust of wind, Nemus instantly knew its name. Of course, this world-destroying wind had another, more essential name—the formless end.

And through this name, I learned that there should be five kinds of world-destroying fruits in this world, and even gained a deeper understanding of the calamities of the earth.

The abyss is the primordial calamity, and can also be called the abyss of ruin.

A major catastrophe can be described as the collapse of all things.

The other three catastrophic disasters are the invisible end, the sea of ​​the end, and the fire of destruction.

Together they correspond to the alchemical concepts of ether, earth, wind, water, and fire.

However, the difference lies in...

Ether is one, which is all.

It is emptiness, and it is everything; it can generate all elements from ether.

It is the fifth element, and also the primordial mother of all things.

However, the Abyss is different. Its essence is decay, which is exactly the opposite of the Aether.

Ether is empty and real, while the abyss is full and empty.

The alchemical correspondences involved here could be discussed for decades without being fully explored.

Since the Abyss is the opposite of the Ether, other calamities are naturally not the same.

The Great Calamity of Earth and the Collapse of All Things currently manifests as a collapsing and pulling force that returns everything to its original state. It also contains anti-life imagery, which is completely opposite to the imagery that the earth carries.

The winds of destruction, the formless end, are naturally the same.

The image of wind is circulation, flow, connection of everything, and rotation in space.

The image of the formless end is the complete opposite.

The invisible end is an obstacle, but not a substantial one; rather, it is the obstacle that abruptly breaks off everything in progress.

It is nothingness, it is rupture, it is the end.

Everything that goes from being to non-being is this wind.

The appearance of the wind severed the connection between this Storm God and other possible Storm Gods in other worlds.

The cause and effect of the changes that Nemes had previously infiltrated were all severed by this gust of wind.

In addition, Nemus's power and everything it projected were instantly interrupted and returned to nothingness.

The end came to Nemus at this moment.

What was originally the perilous situation belonging to the Storm God became Nemus's perilous situation in an instant.

That's how battles are; all advantages and victories can be overturned in the blink of an eye.

Nemus's so-called demon prince, his so-called abyss-ruling, and his so-called ancient god transformation all seemed to have little effect at this moment.

The formless end seems to be the nemesis of change.

Or rather, all calamities are the nemesis of change.

The great calamity of the earth and the collapse of all things will bring everything back to its origin under the force that pulls everything apart.

The formless end means that everything stops, and everything is broken and returns to nothingness.

The true nature of the Abyss may be even stronger than the Invisible End, but Nemus is currently only acting as its proxy, not truly becoming the master of this world-ending catastrophe, so it is of no use to him.

Nemus was even certain that once he used the power of the Abyss, his connection with the Abyss would be instantly severed by the Invisible End.

This is the terrifying aspect of the formless end: anything not inherent in itself is fragile in its presence.

Even the individual is small and fragile in the face of this disaster, and will be rapidly decomposed and severed from all connection with everything.

Whether by coincidence or not, the final, invisible wisp of desolation formed by the God of Storms perfectly countered Nemus's snowballing ability, its effect being akin to a reverse snowball.

Any force that needs to be accumulated simply cannot proceed in the face of it.

The causal relationship, ironically, becomes the most fatal weakness under this force.

Without giving Nems any time to think, the invisible end enveloped Nems in an instant.

Death has come, the end is near.

But the next moment, that invisible force capable of destroying the world stopped itself first.

Nemes emerged from the wind.

Dense starlight condensed, and sparks of light ignited everything.

It felt as if an invisible wind was flowing through his hands, before Naims closed his palms and fell silent.

Upon witnessing this scene, the last vestiges of the Storm God's consciousness sighed softly.

"In the end... it was still just a little short..."

"Just this little bit..."

The God of Storms realized where he went wrong: he lost because he wanted to win too much.

This unwavering belief in winning ultimately brought about the end of the intangible, but it was not so 'intangible' after all.

Chapter 923 Fragment

This time it was indeed extremely dangerous.

The description of the Storm God transforming into the formless End and then launching a fatal attack on Nemus is merely a cognitive one.

In fact, there was no 'subsequent' process in the whole process.

The fatal attack enveloped Nemus the instant the transformation occurred; there was no process involved.

Or rather, the process was torn apart and ended by an invisible finality.

There is no reaction time, no room for reaction.

Even if Nemus had other ways to counter this move, they would be fatal in an instant, leaving no time to execute them.

It was almost as if they were instantly killed.