Ligeia, whose face was still bleeding, murmured in surprise: "I thought it was just a legend."
"It's indeed almost the same as the legend."
Yanis lamented: "Even I have never seen a demon complete evolution in my life, let alone you."
Theoretically speaking, there is no doubt that demons can evolve. After all, the power system of the Sin Mark is here, and keeping the form unchanged must not be in line with the changing nature of the transcendent path.
"Because the evolution of demons often accumulates a large amount of power of the path, which requires devouring a large number of souls and requires an extremely long period of accumulation."
Aiwass heard the discussion between the two, and while healing himself, he replied: "If the time span is extended to five hundred years, then demons that have independently evolved will still exist."
After all, in this world, it is quite dangerous to harvest even the souls of mortals.
Because according to the rules of this world, after all lives with souls disappear, the souls will enter the dream world and plunge into one of the nine rivers in the dream world according to their strongest path adaptability.
After two rounds of screening by the Nine Pillar Gods and all the gods, souls that are not wanted by any gods will reintegrate into the world and become the material for the souls of newborns of various races. The souls will gradually grow as their personality matures and their intelligence increases.
If the old man dies, he will be able to produce nine babies. If this cycle continues, there will be more and more creatures in the world.
In other words, every soul in this world is on the account and cannot be misappropriated at will.
To create an apostle, you need to share part of your own power, and the nine rivers need to be filled with souls, otherwise it may cause the world to tilt - if there is a path that has not returned the soul of this path to the world for a long time, then the soul of the newborn baby
The proportion of roads mixed with this part will undoubtedly become smaller and smaller.
Then the influence of this path in the material world will decrease. Tiansi who are inclined to other paths will also have opportunities to take advantage of it.
From this perspective, the soul given to the world can also be regarded as a kind of "tax". After paying enough tax, the rest is yours, and everyone can use the tax paid together.
——Yes, in this world even the high gods have to pay taxes.
There have been many dream wars between the Pillar Gods and the Pillar Gods, between the Pillar Gods and the Tiansi, and between the Tiansi and the Tiansi. The direct cause of these wars is often problems with the distribution of souls.
Maybe Si Zhu was interested in someone who wanted to be an apostle, but he was poached by a Tian Si from another path before he died; or maybe the soul that was originally going to enter the realm of blood was secretly branded with a major sin and turned into a demon.
Even if a soul is directly destroyed, it will be equivalent to the soul returning to the world directly, but not many gods will be dissatisfied. At most, the pillar god or Tiansi who reserved the soul in advance will be angry because of this.
But if you steal a soul, especially a soul that is favored by the Pillar God or Tiansi, it is undoubtedly a very serious crime.
——It seems that he just stole a soul, but in fact he killed an apostle in advance and stole the soul that might have belonged to other paths to the transcendent path.
This is an "imbalance" move.
Therefore, only when the terms of the contract are met - that is, if the other party has determined in advance that he will "hand over his soul" and actively accepts the deal, the responsible person will be transferred to the party who signed the contract.
"It's okay to say that the phantoms of other paths are better, but the demons that transcend the paths must have a strong desire to ascend. However, they have no flesh and blood themselves, and are just phantoms living in the dream world. Therefore, they cannot be like creatures in the material world.
The power of the path itself becomes stronger.
"So, the demons can only obtain the extremely valuable souls by signing contracts. The transcendent power emitted by the host can slowly increase the power of the demons; the demons can also find a way to complete the contract and eat the souls directly.
To gain a lot of transcendent power.”
Aiwass made a simple metaphor: "It's like eating eggs and eating the hens that lay them. Although the latter seems not cost-effective, if there are other hens who are not afraid of death who dare to take over, it is not impossible to carry them.
Stab and then jump ship.”
Because of this, few demons can gather enough strength to complete evolution. They need to be active in the material world for at least four to five hundred years before they have the opportunity to accumulate the power to support evolution - and they must not die completely during the entire process, otherwise they will end up again.
When the Phantom Egg's identity is reborn, its power naturally has to be calculated from scratch.
In Aiwass' impression, there are not many demons that have clearly completed evolution.
For example, the giant prince's brother, the beholder - it gained a little bit of power during the Ring of Endings ceremony and evolved into the beholder lord.
This is one of the evolutionary directions, and it is also the simplest evolutionary direction.
Aiwass's Shadow Demon can also directly evolve into the Shadow Demon Lord. This only strengthens its own template without changing the skill set and form. It is equivalent to obtaining comprehensive strengthening on the original basis. The race remains unchanged, only the elite monsters
But it turned into a lord monster. But this is still not a high-level phantom.
In addition, the shadow demon with the brand of "Rage" has another real evolutionary direction.
That is the "Fire Demon" who became a high-level phantom.
Balrog also belongs to the system of the Brand of Fury, and is a high-level phantom, very powerful.
Balrog is also the only demon among demons that has mastered the power of the path of devotion - Balrog can divide itself infinitely to create a large number of familiars by devouring souls, and can also create "demons" equivalent to the level of deep purple "sacred objects" through forging
equipment".
This is roughly equivalent to a low-end version of the Fallen God - instead of turning people into demons, it turns people into familiars; at the same time, Balrog can also give others power... Although it is given through equipment, the equipment must also be
It can be considered part of the power.
——A gun doesn’t count as a combat weapon?
Not to mention having a combat power of 5 with a gun, you can't even reach a combat power of 5 without a gun!
But there is no doubt that if Aiwass's shadow demon becomes the Balrog, then Aiwass will not be able to sign a contract with her as a beast of sin. Because the flame-ridden butterfly is also a fire attribute, overlapping with the Balrog.
.
And there is another problem.
That means Balrog is ugly.
Some players may think it's majestic, but Aiwass just thinks it's ugly.
The posture of the Balrog is that of a scorching monster made of flames, magma and red-hot metal. It looks like a strong giant... not to mention that it is unable to contact Aiwass, and it even appears outside.
, the high temperature that can easily melt the earth will be unbearable for surrounding creatures.
And if the Shadow Demon really becomes the Balrog, it means that all the power she has accumulated on the path of love will be nullified. She can still use part of the power of shadow, but not too much - after all, she still needs to accumulate
Only by dedicating a lot of devotion to the deviation of the path can it be possible to complete evolution.
But Night Stalker is different.
The Night Demon is a demon with the mark of jealousy, and her counterpart is the Mirror Demon. The essence of jealousy is comparison and imitation, and imitation is the essence of ritual. Therefore, the Mirror Demon is a demon that purely transcends the path, and the same is true for evolving into a Night Demon across the path.
Quite difficult.
But it just so happened that Shadow Demon's Rage Brand changed into a Jealousy Brand. If she evolved from Shadow Demon's Jump Mark to Night Demon, she would be able to retain a considerable part of Shadow Demon's power and at the same time obtain a new template for Night Demon.
——The sixth-level high-level phantom!
In terms of strength alone, it is already as powerful as the final BOSS of the current version.
"Brother," Yulia frowned slightly, "You were too dangerous just now..."
She didn't want to blame Aiwass, nor did she want to look back and reflect on what had been successful. But just now it really scared her to tears.
What if Aiwass does this again in the future?
What if the devil betrays him next time?
——That’s a devil! A devil with a traitorous nature!
"Don't worry, I will only raise one demon, Vines, and there will be no others... The others will also be phantom demons from other paths, and they will not be dangerous demons."
Aiwas comforted: "I know Vignes very well, and she will never betray me. And the desire for transcendence that Vignes gets from me is more mellow than the soul of a vulgar person. It is like the taste of an egg."
Nutrition and deliciousness have surpassed hens..."
...So she won't harm me, just don't worry.
Aiwass wanted to make a joke to make Yulia relax.
But looking at her red eyes and the eyes staring silently at him, Aiwass still shrank his neck and did not dare to say these words.
——Aiwass’ intuition told him that Yulia might explode after saying this.
So Yanis quickly changed the topic: "I remember that if a demon devours other people's souls, it may be discovered and punished by the agent of the hourglass."
"Well," Aiwass nodded and immediately answered, "Although Sand Time is a bit nosy...but he is indeed the pillar god who cares most about maintaining the balance between the two worlds.
"Restricting the pillar gods and Tiansi from coming to the material world, blocking the upper limit of the world level to protect the material world, these are all the contributions of Sand Timepiece; and the fragments of Tiansi fell into the material world, increasing the power concentration of the corresponding path
After that, He will work diligently to raise the upper limit of the corresponding world level to restore balance between the two worlds.
"Without Sand Clock, the Lord of Balance, the world would be doomed——"
This is a statement from the heart.
Think about it, the Nine Pillar Gods and the Heavenly Lords can walk around the world as they please, without any restrictions, and can initiate world-scale wars at every turn... Aiwass couldn't even imagine how chaotic the scene would be.
...Of course, Sand Clock is also the most troubled Pillar God.
When the contract with the phantoms summoned from the dream world expires, He will prevent these phantoms from staying in the material world; if someone steals souls in the material world, He will also send an agent to deal with it; if the war in the material world lasts too long and the people are unable to survive, He will
He will also be responsible for intervening and mediating; if there are wild high-level phantoms in the material world that are too powerful, He will also take action to send them back to the dream world...
When the Ring of Ending Ceremony begins, Sand Clock will become the busiest Pillar God.
When players challenge Tiansi, they will receive targeted blessings from Sand Clock and use this as a countermeasure - this is the normal mode.
And if the player chooses not to accept the blessing of the Sand Clock, he can forcefully challenge Tiansi and pass the level to obtain another difficult achievement. This is considered a difficult achievement.
In terms of the settings of the game "The Linking Ring", card draw guarantees, crit probability pseudo-randomness, backpack detection, difficulty balance...these are only designs at the game level, and they also belong to the field of sand timepieces. At least officially
That's what it said.
……Um?
As soon as Aiwass thought of this, his expression suddenly changed and he covered his chest. The Night Demon who had transformed into a crow also suddenly changed back.
"……etc?"
He felt as if something was cracking in his heart.
——That was the contract signed with Shadow Demon on the night when Aiwass awakened his past life memories.
