Devil's Bible

Therefore, Isabella's current stats are not just in the teens of the Steel type, but have already surpassed the basic stage and reached the twenties.

Furthermore, it can be discovered that Isabella still has a lot of potential; perhaps a single meditation session could improve her stats.

A single insight gained during battle, a fluctuation of the spirit, can unlock potential and improve stats.

However, Phos's gaze then fell on another person—Gabriel.

"Where is my daughter?!" It wasn't Isabella who spoke first, but rather Lina, the priest from the investigation team.

She joined the investigation team because her daughter rebelled, ran away from home, and then joined the fictitious agreement.

However, despite various searches over this period of time, no trace of her daughter has been found.

Only the three of them entered the clock tower this time.

"Who knows?" Phos's eyes flickered slightly, but he didn't seem to care about any of this.

They then launched the first attack.

A large number of steel balls fluctuated, and then suddenly a shock wave was emitted.

It spread rapidly outwards from the center of Fass.

Some wooden furniture was instantly reduced to sawdust by the impact.

Other things were also twisted and destroyed in an instant.

"Not good!" Isabella immediately realized the problem and quickly mobilized her mental energy to cast a spell.

They wanted to use magic to stabilize the surrounding environment.

However, they were still a step too late.

The shock seemed to have triggered some kind of pre-existing mechanism.

The originally spacious interior of the tower began to collapse rapidly.

As a result of this collapse, other things inside the tower were also quickly torn apart or crushed.

The special space constructed using alchemy collapsed like dominoes, starting with the one that Phos pushed down.

"Get out of here quickly!" Upon realizing this, Isabella swiftly completed her spell.

A terrifying white flame surged forth, forming a pillar of fire that hurtled towards one side of the tower.

Instantly, a large hole was burned out.

However, the next moment, the large hole twisted and turned into an irregular gap.

The changes in space were too rapid, so rapid that they didn't even have time to react.

However, Isabella did not feel despair because of this, but quickly looked at and observed the reactions in the two places.

The first one is naturally Phos.

Phos was definitely not someone who sought his own death. Since he did this, he must have had his own plans and a way to survive.

Sure enough, the next moment Phos made another move. He looked at the collapsing clock tower, then suddenly leaped up. The buoyancy formed by the steel balls lifted him up and flew to the center of the clock tower. His body then became blurry, as if separated by a layer of spatial fluctuations.

Meanwhile, another location was the breach created by Isabella's Holy Fire attack.

She sensed the fluctuations of magic through that twisted hole, which calmed her slightly.

Isabella had investigated the spatial issues of the clock tower from the beginning and was naturally aware of the potential dangers involved.

The reason she arrived a step later than Al was that she had made prior arrangements in case of unexpected changes in the clock tower space.

There are currently two ways to escape the clock tower: one is to follow Phos into the center of the clock tower, and the other is to make your own arrangements.

The next moment, Isabella made a decisive decision, activating her mental power and casting a divine spell.

Meanwhile, outside the clock tower, another priest, Hak, who had remained outside, quickly cast the discipline spells he had prepared beforehand.

Discipline spell - Limited Slow!

It can slow down anything that is exposed to the spell.

This sluggishness is not only reflected in speed.

For example, if this spell is applied to conditions such as poisoning or bleeding, the onset of the poison will be delayed.

The instant the spell was cast, Hak felt his spell being 'hijacked'.

Isabella learned spellcasting techniques from the old priest, including spell hijacking.

He then combined the hijacked discipline spells with his own divine spell, Divine Interference.

Also combined with this was the sealing technique that Isabella had mastered during this period.

A huge magic circle appeared between Isabella and Hack.

The power of divine intervention counteracts the distortion of space, and in conjunction with the slowing effect of Discipline spells, it slows down the changes in space by delaying the collapse of surrounding things.

At this moment, a passage appeared.

The passage was crooked and twisted, and there were many glowing things on it—characteristics of divine intervention and the confrontation of spatial forces.

This light essentially marks out the dangerous areas on the road.

"Get out of here!" Isabella calmly gave the order.

This combined spell is not specifically designed for space, and its duration will not be long.

Gabriel scooped up Lina in his arms, while Isabella used her mental power to propel herself rapidly toward the exit.

Al alone, however, still kept his gaze on Phos.

"You guys go first!" After shouting, Al suddenly jumped out and leaped towards the center of the clock tower.

Seeing this, Isabella couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.

This isn't the first or second time that Al has disobeyed orders and acted without authorization.

Isabella felt that this situation was entirely expected.

Isabella decisively abandoned Al and escaped the clock tower through the passage with Gabriel and Lina.

In the final moment before leaving, Isabella glanced at Al and Phos, both of whom disappeared as the spatial changes progressed.

Meanwhile, on the outskirts of Baiwei Town.

Two figures appeared as the space shifted.

Chapter 160 Sacrifice Does Not Always Guarantee Results

“The position has shifted slightly…” Phos noticed this as soon as he landed.

This is actually a normal situation.

Spatial teleportation is not a normal function in itself.

Becky herself didn't have the ability to create a stable space teleportation device.

This so-called spatial teleportation is essentially a form of spatial 'compression'.

The originally expanded interior space of the clock tower will return to its normal size as it collapses, thus 'compressing' the center of the clock tower.

During this compression process, living beings are ejected by space, resulting in a teleportation phenomenon.

Becky was originally unable to accomplish this alchemical miracle of stable 'squeezing' phenomenon, but Nemes' help made it possible.

As a demon, Nemus already had some understanding of summoning abilities.

In addition, Op, who was also a wizard specializing in summoning, was not difficult to control spatial changes.

That's how this thing came about.

This also allows Nemes to explore another skill he needs to master—moving on the backs of different whales.

Currently, most people who want to reach other whale backs can only do so through the once or twice-yearly floating whale mating season.

Furthermore, this movement is not fixed; a whale that wants to reach its target's back may need to travel back and forth for more than ten or even several decades to actually reach its destination.

This is why most religious groups never really take off.

Their power can only ever be confined to the back of a whale, and their development will inevitably be limited.

However, the churches of true gods are able to rely on long-distance spatial teleportation to achieve stable spatial teleportation and thus transport personnel.

Under the grid, even at relatively long distances, communication can be completed quickly, and spatial teleportation can be carried out immediately when needed.

The arrival of digital gold will surely be able to suppress all problems.

Therefore, exploring and perfecting spatial teleportation capabilities is something he must do.

Otherwise, even if one completely occupies a whale's back, it would be difficult to reliably complete one's plan to steal the number of gods.

Phos slowly moved his body, and several wounds appeared, all caused by the compression of space.

After all, it's not a perfect capability. Although Nemes and Becky have completed the theoretical foundation, no one can predict what will happen during the actual implementation process.

"It appears that the experiment has been basically successful."

“But it’s still not enough.” Nemus’s gaze followed, observing Phos’s condition.

Phos has only been teleported from the edge of the southern district to the suburbs, and his fully protected body is already unable to withstand it.

If the target is a different whale back, then the body of the golden species might have a hard time withstanding the teleportation.

With a slight shift in perspective, Al, who had followed Phos, was now in an even more miserable state.

He collapsed to one side, his body covered in bloody wounds.

If it weren't for the life force provided by his elven bloodline, he would probably have fainted from blood loss by now.

Even so, Al was already seriously injured and unable to move at all.

"Don't go! Phos!" But Al remained steadfast in his belief; he wanted to redeem Phos and prevent him from continuing down the wrong path.

Phos frowned upon hearing the faint call.

This tattered sack, which I couldn't shake off no matter what I did, caught up with me again, which was really inexplicably annoying.

"Phos, if killing me will make you repent and abandon your mistakes, then kill me!" Al stretched out his blood-stained hand and looked at Phos with blood-stained eyes.

He didn't understand why Phos hated him so much.

Everything was caused by Phos's own desires.

He is not wrong!

However, he was willing to sacrifice himself if he could make Phos realize the truth.

Upon hearing Al's words and seeing his blood-covered appearance, Fass was stunned, and memories of the years he had spent with him involuntarily surfaced in his mind.

'sip!'

A bloody hole appeared, and a blood-stained steel ball emerged from the back of Al's head. Looking at Al's eyes, which were gradually losing their luster, Phos felt a sense of comfort all over his body.

I've been troubled by this for far too long.

Al seemed unable to understand human speech, indulging in his own self-pity and spouting words about sacrifice.

"Al, you are not important to me at all."

"We only spent a little over ten days together."

"You're just the enemy who almost indirectly caused my death."

“It was right for me to kill you, not that killing you meant I had to be brainwashed by your twisted beliefs.” Fas looked at Al, whose eyes were wide open, and spoke his true feelings.

At this moment, the dead Al could no longer refute Phos's words with his stubborn ideas and clumsy excuses.

Having killed the 'vengeful spirit' that had been haunting him, Phos looked around at the terrain, searching for his next escape route.

However, the next moment, Phos suddenly sensed danger.

He quickly mobilized the small steel balls, which worked together to form a force field for protection.

The protective barrier had barely formed when a tremendous force struck, shattering the force field instantly. He himself was thrown back by the impact, leaving a short furrow in the ground.

If it weren't for the Berserk Accessory Type IV, which combined the Berserk coverage of Type III and improved his physical attributes, plus the protection provided by the symbiotic black energy, he wouldn't have been able to achieve such a feat.

He would probably be torn to pieces by that impact in an instant.

"Who is it?" Phos pondered, suppressing his instinctive urge to stand up and run away.