American comics: I became a god at the beginning, I chose to practice both science and magic

Dane thought about it and felt that it was not a good idea to just let these demons do things without giving them any benefits. It would be best to tie everyone together with benefits.

So he selectively revealed some of his plans to Stolas.

He waved his hand to call Vicky, who was bringing in tea, over. When Vicky approached with a confused look on her face, he used his magic power to touch her arm with his fingers.

The next moment, a string of numbers appeared above, extending from her wrist to the joint of her forearm.

“This is the new monetary policy I want to implement. This string of numbers represents the value of the soul…”

"You want to use souls as currency!"

Before Dane could say anything, Stolas spoke out in shock.

He exclaimed in his heart, wow, other demons only want money and labor, but this one wants his life!

Spending your life as money is worse than the devil.

But... to be honest, if souls were used as currency, it would naturally become an equivalent with extremely high credit and would be recognized by all demons.

Moreover, the soul is not a consumable item like angel dust. For a demon who does not know how to use magic, its function is only to increase the opponent's "essence".

The higher the quality of the soul, generally speaking, it will gradually feed back to the physical body. However, this process does not happen all at once, but unfolds step by step.

Stolas thought that once this method was adopted, the demon nobles would probably no longer be the group that always wielded the greatest violence in Hell.

As long as any native demon could "earn" more souls through legal means, theoretically they could surpass the nobles. Dane's move had a greater impact on Stolas than his previous attempt to reform monetary policy.

The former only affects the interests of the great demons, while the latter is shaking the foundations of the demon nobles, especially the royal family!

The former is already difficult to get the consent of the demon nobles, and if it is the latter, don't even expect to be able to negotiate.

But Dane disagreed with him.

"I know what you're thinking, but that's not the way it should be thought.

Think about it, with the current potential of your nobles, it's probably going to be difficult for a demon stronger than the Seventh Ring Master to emerge for a long time to come, especially Lucifer."

In hell, although there are many races of demons, the strongest combat power levels can be roughly divided into four levels.

The first one ranked first is Lucifer. He occupies this position alone and is the strongest in all hells. He has the power to challenge all hells alone and has the ability to cause a devastating blow to hell itself.

Dane is also at this level. As for who is stronger between him and Lucifer, if it is Lucifer's real body, Dane is certainly not his opponent now, but if it is just a clone of this universe, it is hard to say.

In the second tier are the six ring masters except Lucifer. In the rings they rule, they are blessed with the power of the hell in their respective rings and also have extremely powerful strength.

It is no coincidence that the seven rings are named after the seven deadly sins. Each layer of hell is named after the seven sins, and itself represents the symbolic power of this sin.

They are the original state of the seven deadly sins.

Dane seriously suspected that the seven Seven Sins who were once sealed in the Eternal Rock were originally the ring masters of the various levels of hell.

They integrate the characteristics of each sin, and finally they themselves are assimilated by the power of "sin" and become the embodiment of sin.

Then, under the influence of Pandora's Box, he traveled through time and space and came to Dane's world...

If this speculation is correct, then the current seven ring masters will most likely eventually become the new incarnations of the seven sins, becoming the conceptualization of the seven sins.

Although he is not as strong as Dane and Lucifer, he is already infinitely close to Satan of the Trinity.

If the seven sins could be combined into one, then perhaps another demon god could be created, reaching the first level.

The third level is the level of demon nobles.

As mentioned earlier, every demon noble family is likely to possess a kind of power. Its strength is not as strong as the power of original sin possessed by the Ring Master, but it is already able to control various natural elements.

This way of mastering power is very similar to that of the Old Gods, but unlike the Old Gods, these demon nobles do not come from human beliefs, but rather use some magical means that Dane does not know about to seize the power from some gods.

Similar to the power of Shazam, but without Shazam's divine body.

The body of the demon noble is still a demon body and has not been upgraded. At most, it is far superior to other demons due to the enhancement of magic power.

Compared to Shazam's power, the demon nobles have stronger powers and are unmatched in their respective areas of power, but their physical bodies are relatively weak and rely entirely on talent for support.

Stolas's physical talent is relatively average. His magic is pretty good, and the power of the stars can ensure that his magic power will never be exhausted. However, Dane seriously suspects that his physical strength is not even as good as some sinner lords.

As for the fourth tier, they are demons at the level of sinner lords. They come from the human world, and their abilities are derived from their sins in their previous lives and the characteristics of their souls. They often produce some special individuals.

Generally, the superpowers randomly generated by sinners and demons are usually the ability to control elements, such as controlling wind, water, fire, etc., but a small number of sinners will gain rule-based abilities.

For example, if certain conditions are met, you can gain some additional power.

After he subdued the TV brain Vox, he heard a piece of information from him.

The broadcasting demon Alastor possesses this kind of rule-based ability. The more demons know his name, the stronger he becomes.

This is why he wanted to spread his reputation when he killed a native demon lord. He was doing this to expand his reputation and strengthen his strength.

This rule-based ability is, to some extent, even more powerful than the power of the demon nobles, because power has an upper limit, while the rule-based ability seems to have no upper limit.

As long as certain rules are met, the power can be increased infinitely, and the only limitation may be the rules themselves.

Therefore, among the sinner demons there are often strong men who can defeat the demon nobles.

There are also often powerful people who can challenge the "Great Purge", and the three strongest among them are the three sinner lords conquered by Dane. They have ruled their respective territories for quite some time.

And after years of training, their strength has reached a level that can rival that of the demon nobles.

To some extent, they have actually surpassed the fourth level and reached the third level.

However, there are only a few sinners who can reach this level, and their enemies are not only other demons, but also angels from heaven.

As a soul who committed sins on earth and is suffering in hell, how could heaven allow you to live comfortably and lord it over others in hell?

Therefore, in every "great purge", these sinner lords are the focus of attention. If their strength declines even a little, they will be beaten to death by a large group of angels with weapons.

However, except for the sinners who possess rule-based powers, the strength of most of the 170 lords has not actually reached the level of nobles among the native demons. They can only bully others among ordinary demons. This is the real fourth tier.

These four levels are the four strongest forces in hell today. The other demons below these four, no matter what race they are, are basically ants and can be killed with ease by the above four levels of powerhouses.

It is worth mentioning that judging by the strength, Xia Li's true strength should be at the level of demon nobles. If she is blessed with the power of original sin, she can instantly leap to the level of ring master.

This is also Lucifer's expectation of her. Considering Lucifer's own level of strength, this requirement is already very low.

There is a huge difference between these levels of strength. Of course, excluding Dane and Lucifer, there is an almost unbridgeable gap in strength between other levels.

The ability to follow rules is the only chance for the sinner demon to overtake others, but this ability is innate. If you have it, you have it, and if you don’t have it, you don’t have it. You can’t force it.

However, the new monetary system proposed by Dane makes it possible for all demons to transcend class again.

As long as they can accumulate more souls, their own "essence" will be able to continue to improve. In time, quantitative changes may lead to qualitative changes.

Even a demon with an extremely low racial value like the Imp has the opportunity to give birth to a power more powerful than that of a noble through the qualitative change of soul quality.

After all, if the nobles were deprived of the power of authority, they would be nothing more than great demons with more magical powers, and their spells could be learned and replicated.

This will be a major event that will subvert the entire structure of hell!

But as Dane said, this is not entirely a bad thing for the nobles.

Ordinary demons cannot cross the class gap to reach the nobles, but nobles cannot cross the class gap to reach the ring master.

For the nobles who have continued from the distant past to the present, order is just a short-lived lie, and what they believe in is only the violence in their hands.

However, the power of the Ring Master was beyond their reach. They tried for thousands of years but could not find a way to cross this class.

However, the plan provided by Dane made Stolas see the possibility. Ordinary demons can cross classes by accumulating souls, and of course nobles can do the same!

And because the souls of the nobles are naturally stronger than those of ordinary demons, once this plan is implemented, the nobles will still have an absolute first-mover advantage. As long as they are not fools, they will be able to use this advantage to go further, one step ahead, every step ahead.

Until the ring master is overturned!

Just thinking about how much blood and gore would be unleashed in Hell and the price that would be paid for destroying the current order made Stolas shudder.

Chapter 391 How to cause a panic in hell with a single thought...

Soul, the consciousness database of living beings.

This is Dane's definition of the special substance "soul" as the god of death.

But in fact, the formation of self-consciousness is a very complex process. It not only concerns the soul, but is also closely related to the physical body of the living being.

Dane did some research on this when he just gained the power of Death. From a scientific point of view, the formation of self-consciousness is inseparable from the activity of brain neurons, and it also cannot be without the participation of body senses.

The human body's senses, such as touch, hearing, vision, smell, taste, spatial perception, etc., all participate in the shaping of self-awareness.

When a baby is born, there is no self-awareness. Although he has a healthy soul, it is just an empty database with nothing in it.

However, when the baby begins to interact with the outside world, exchange materials and communicate information, consciousness begins to germinate and develop.

The emergence of this consciousness depends more on the coordination of the body's senses and the information processing of the brain, and does not seem to have anything to do with the soul.

However, we cannot jump to conclusions so hastily, because if we accept the results of the above research in their entirety, then we are saying that human self-awareness is actually a collection of hormones and brain signals. This would not explain the existence of "spirits" nor explain what sinners and demons are.

In fact, in Dane's research, he discovered that self-awareness is not continuous. As the controller of dreams, he is very clear that every time a person sleeps, his consciousness is disconnected from the body.

At this time, the body senses and brain no longer continue the previous thinking activities, so how does consciousness continue to exist?

The answer is the soul.

The soul contains consciousness and is also the collection of all self-information.

The trajectory of every life activity of a living being, even every fluctuation of thought, will be integrated and preserved in the soul as a carrier, so the weight of the soul is usually also the weight of all the life of the living being.

As for why the soul is invisible to the naked eye, it is because storing such a huge amount of data and existing in the form of physical particles is not conducive to the development of life because it may take up more energy.

Therefore, most of the time, the soul appears in the form of a "field". It has similar properties to the magnetic field. You cannot see it, but you can sense its existence under certain conditions.

Of course, taking the technological route would be more troublesome, but if you take the magical route, the true nature of the soul would be clear at a glance.

However, magic also has its drawbacks. What you see with your naked eyes is actually the result of magic integrating the soul information in a way that you can understand.

This is also why, when a magician sees a person's soul leaving the body, the other person's soul looks and wears almost exactly the same as the physical body, because this is the only way to see it clearly at a glance.

It is the magic that allows the mage to directly identify whose soul it is in a way that the caster can understand, and it actually omits a lot of key information.

But the real soul body does not look like this. It has no fixed shape, no gender, and no vocal organs. It is a collection of all the information of this living body.

The soul seen by the wizard's naked eyes is just an illusion, just like everything that the human eye can see is actually an illusion processed by the brain. It helps you understand the basic material properties of some things, but it is still far from the truth. The wizard just sees more things than ordinary people, but the amount is very limited.

Once you understand some basic knowledge about the soul, you will understand the importance of Dane's proposal.

Since the soul is a database that records all the information of a living being, the capacity of this information database will naturally be different for different living beings.

Life forms like Ring Masters and Demon Nobles, in addition to accommodating their self-awareness and life experiences, also need to accommodate additional information about power.

Power is the authority to control nature, and what is recorded is of course the natural formula, which is an extremely large amount of data. In order to accommodate such a huge amount of data information, these living beings must need an even larger database to accommodate them.

Therefore, demons like Ring Lords and noble royals are born with souls of higher quality than ordinary demons.

Dane didn't know what these demons had experienced in the past, but he believed that they must have paid a considerable price to complete the transformation of their souls.

Even Dane himself only upgraded his soul to this level after completing the demon experiment in hell.

But if reforms are carried out according to his monetary policy, even ordinary demons will be able to expand their soul databases, which is equivalent to them being able to continuously add external hard drives to themselves.

As the database grows, you can continue to add more information to it.

The reason why Bieliz couldn't use the magic book in Stolas's hand was because his soul database was too small to accommodate the advanced knowledge in the book.

But as long as the soul's capacity is expanded, even Bilitz may become a demon wizard comparable to Stolas.

The key point of this technology lies in how to separate only the soul body of another person without affecting the other person's information integrity.

Generally speaking, the soul and the information it contains are one and inseparable.

It's like the total capacity of a D drive is 200G, 50G of information has been occupied, and there is 150G of available space left, but you cannot separate this 150G of blank space from this hard drive and transfer it to the E drive.

As a top student among the demons, Stolas was well aware of the technical difficulties of this matter, so after calming down, he began to doubt that this plan could not be implemented at all.

But Dane turned the impossible into possible.

Right in front of Stolas, Dane still used Vicky as the experimental subject, but this time he added himself. A line of ridiculously long numbers also appeared on his arm, extending from his wrist to the inside of his clothes, with no idea where it ended.

Dane thought about it and felt that his soul value would have to be expressed in scientific notation, otherwise it would be a very long string.

He put his wrist against Vicky's, and the numbers on both wrists suddenly jumped.

The number on Vicky's wrist increased, and the number on Dane's wrist decreased, which meant that a soul transaction was completed between them.

Stolas immediately activated his magic eyes, staring at Vicky with his four eyes wide open, almost causing her to have a stress reaction.

"Unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable!" Stolas was a little out of control.

Because he did see that Vicki's soul had expanded slightly, in order to let him see more clearly, Dane had been continuously inputting "soul currency" into Vicki, so the expansion of Vicki's soul could be clearly observed by the magic eye.

For Dane, this loss of soul quality is less than a drop of water in the ocean, and there is no such thing as loss at all.