Devil's Bible

"How do you know secret arts? How could you possibly use secret arts? How can your mastery of secret arts be so high?!" The phantom looked at Nemus and asked questions like cannonballs.

The secret arts lineage sounds very mysterious, but in reality, it's just a common occurrence.

There were two or three big cats and small fish.

There are only about a dozen people in the entire Silver City who practice secret arts.

Some of them were apprentices.

It's not that they don't want to expand, but that they simply don't have the money.

Their secret technique was built upon the unique resource cards of the Silver City, and it was also their downfall that led to their defeat.

The supplies are too expensive.

Cultivating secret techniques requires sensing the properties of various spell-casting materials, and each spell-casting requires consuming spell-casting materials.

This is essentially like fighting with money.

If they are geniuses, they can minimize the waste of materials and make them perform to their full potential.

In this way, materials can be used to generate more materials, thus leading to further development.

But that's the difficulty of the secret technique; many fools simply can't avoid wasting it.

Given the waste of materials, let alone development, even self-sufficiency is difficult to achieve.

Under these circumstances, the secret arts lineage gradually declined.

They can only barely survive in the Silver City. The only reason they can still exist is because some masters are still around. They have a passion for continuing the secret arts lineage.

Of course, he also harbored a thought—to find a true genius and carry forward the secret art.

According to some old folks, the secret arts lineage once enjoyed a period of glory.

Back then, the secret arts lineage was able to suppress those who practiced witchcraft and evil magic, and to fight against the alchemy lineage.

Unfortunately, after the defeat, without the experts at the top to hold things up, resources could not circulate properly.

That's why we've fallen into today's predicament.

As long as a master emerges to open up access to higher levels and guide the allocation of resources, the secret arts lineage will immediately be revitalized.

The phantom man thought he was a genius among thousands, but after living for more than ten years, the truth told him that he was not.

As it turns out, he met a true genius here today.

If he wasn't mistaken, Nemus's previous sword strike was an imitation of Hooknose's [Fusion Source].

This is an incredible, miraculous power.

Because the Hooked Nose card possessed the [Fusion] card, it resonated with all the cards at the cost of a Silver card, thus completing that Fusion strike.

But Nemus, after only seeing it once, used crystals to replicate it using a secret technique?

"Are you a god?" The phantom had completely given up resisting. He stared blankly at Nemus and asked this question.

The most outrageous idea in the secret arts lineage lies precisely in this.

Abandon the identity of a card player and create a new profession through arcane arts.

The key is to transform cards into arcane arts.

Even without that card, it can be performed using a secret technique.

According to their plan, this would allow them to break free from the card-based combat system and no longer be limited by action time.

Of course, they did not succeed in this idea; they failed.

The consequence of failure is what we see now; the alchemists, their former rivals, did nothing, yet they are already on the verge of self-destruction.

"This secret technique is quite interesting." Nemus gave up on drawing cards and showed no intention of continuing to kill.

He glanced at the still-expanding ghoul flesh, took the ghoul's crystal, and after a moment's thought, his body transformed into a phantom.

"Follow!"

Nems' voice came through.

The surviving phantom and Emerson exchanged a glance, then silently chose to take out their crystals and follow. Nemus was too strong; his strength exceeded their comprehension.

Even though they could clearly sense that Nemus's physical strength was declining again, they had no other thoughts.

If something is far beyond our comprehension, then we shouldn't even think about fighting against it.

Soon, they arrived at a clean spot, no longer affected by the proliferation of ghoul flesh and blood.

Without much asking, Nemus got the answer he wanted from the phantom.

The person who sent these people to cause trouble for him was Moro.

Nems wasn't surprised when he heard this.

Moro was a petty person by nature, and with the added twists of fate, the other party would inevitably hate him no matter what.

Even after being threatened with his life by Nems, he couldn't help but resort to some underhanded tactics.

"Could you give me some information about the secret technique?"

“I’m actually quite interested in this,” Nems asked.

The phantom figure immediately nodded and told Nemus everything he knew.

Nemus's interest in arcane arts stems from the fact that their existence challenges the Silver City's system to some extent.

Spells are cast using arcane arts, rather than through cards.

This is not a special ability of Nemus himself, but rather the 'authority' inherent in the arcane art itself.

According to ancient legends, there are five lineages in the entire Silver City.

"These five lineages are our Secret Arts lineage, Alchemy lineage, Secret Records lineage, Dry Tomb lineage, and Dragon Blood lineage," the phantom said.

From these names, one can roughly distinguish the special characteristics of each lineage and their current situation in the Silver City.

The secret arts lineage has declined; even the illusory figure before us can be considered a high-ranking member.

The Alchemy lineage is led by Silver, one of the five leaders.

The Secret Records lineage didn't even change its name; one of the five leaders was named Secret Records.

The lineage of the Dry Tomb is led by the Lord of the Desolate Tomb.

The Dragon Bloodline is most likely the City Lord's, because during Nemus's fight with the City Lord that day, he sensed a slight dragon aura.

These five factions have all dominated Silver City for a period of time.

The reason why the current five leaders are still in this number is largely related to this point.

The phantom didn't actually know much.

However, in general terms, the alchemy lineage held the highest status, but did not wield the most power.

The Secret Records lineage rarely holds power; they focus more on researching various forms of witchcraft or historical secrets, and remain relatively mysterious.

Those from the Dry Tomb and Dragon Blood lineages are generally those who wield power.

For example, in this generation, the city lord of the Dragon Blood lineage became the strongest and seized all power.

Then, the phantom man revealed the secret of the Five Meridians to Nemus without hesitation.

These five lineages are said to be related to the founders of the Silver City.

The founder established the city of silver and then quickly left.

However, the phantom figure didn't know the specifics of the situation.

After all, that happened many years ago and has become a legend.

There is such a claim among the secret arts lineage, but no one can say for sure whether this is just the secret arts lineage trying to embellish its own image.

However, Nemus was more certain than the phantom at this moment.

This statement is most likely true.

"The City of Silver, the waters run deep!" (End of Chapter)