As the saying goes, "Don't make a contract with the devil," and if you are forced to sign a contract, "don't pay the bill." In order to promote his contract, the devil needs to ensure its validity, that is, that his own side can fulfill his wishes, and on the other hand, he has to prove its completeness. In other words, if the contract can be done strictly in accordance with the contract, then the contractor can still get rid of the contract and regain his freedom.

In fact, this happens all the time, and the devil has no complaints about it. Because the devil knows that, like a gambler, a person who wants to profit from the devil's pact will not bet his precious soul on the table as a gambling book in the first place. It is the devil's responsibility to induce him to go to hell step by step. And those small favors, those convenient and quick devil contracts, are the ladder of depravity.

On the other hand, "the devil wants your soul", as long as you know a little about the devil, there is nothing you don't know. Therefore, everyone knows that the soul is valuable, and it is better not to sell it easily, and it is better not to write it into the contract. But the devil can't help it? Of course not! When the human side fails to fulfill the contract, such as deliberately violating or not paying compensation, then the liquidated damages will come.

A covenant is not sacred or evil in nature, but a manifestation of order, and its opposite is chaos. Breaking a contract is a sign of chaos that cannot be tolerated by a hell of order. The devil is born from hell and represents the will of hell, and it is natural that he will punish the violators by evil means.

It's like "angels are born in the heavenly mountain, representing the power of the heavenly realm, and it is only natural and righteous to punish the evil with righteous means", it is no different.

"Fortunately, Hell is reasonable, and it doesn't immediately kill people's souls because of the slightest mistake. Fei Qi used the power of the contract demon to calculate: "If we continue to correct it at all, the deficit of these supplies will continue to increase in profit, and it will increase in value enough to degrade their souls in a year or so." A depraved, controlled ex-paladin, that's a lot of money in hell. Well...... Let's see the situation when the time comes, and then let's do it specifically. ”

This depravity does not happen automatically, but requires the contract demon to "collect debts". As long as the contract is in hand, any devil can perform this task, so the contract demon generally sends a relatively low-level devil to act as a "thug". It's safer, and you only need to give the thugs a little leftover food afterwards.

Feige is a lonely contract demon and has no thugs, so if he really wants to collect his debts, he will have to pay for it himself. Gresham certainly wouldn't give his soul obediently, and he had his own "thugs" as a quasi-inspector. Violent resistance to debt, this kind of thing often happens, so Feige has to improve his strength to protect his legal rights.

"Credit is built on order, order is built on strength, and strength is built on violence. What a simple and crude truth!" Fitch flicked his wrist, and the paladin's devilish contract was hidden in his soul. "The devil uses great strength and deep stratagem to ensure the income of their souls...... The soul, why is the soul so important? Is there a secret in that?"

In previous lives, the soul was also very important in various religious and philosophical concepts, but no one in that world could do anything with the soul - it was true in myths and legends, but who had seen it in reality?

This world is different, Feige has seen souls with his own eyes, touched and absorbed them, and he has also traveled to hell several times. Not only is the currency in hell a soul, but the idea is also a soul, and it is also a necessary condition for casting spells. The soul really influences a lot of things, and it will definitely deal with it frequently in the future, so you should think about it more.

Feige has the mind of another world, as well as the memory and ability of the devil, so he can think from the perspective that ordinary people in this world dare not think about and will not think. "Master Hall" will definitely not associate "angels" with "need for souls". After all, the Goddess of Truth Thunder is kind, how can she need a soul as much as the devil?

Only a person who is more free of constraints and preconceptions can see the blind spots of others. Feiqi – or more accurately, Yama Rui – is unaffected by angels and demons, representing good and evil, and sees them as "otherworldly beings" and "demanders of souls". Then, combining several aspects of knowledge, he came up with a novel idea.

The soul circulates in hell because it strengthens the devil. For the devil who owns the territory, the soul can also strengthen the territory. Although he hasn't tried it himself, the Fork Demon's memory contains the content of using his soul to directly change the terrain of the territory and even generate buildings.

Hell can do this, and there's no reason why Heaven Mountain can't do this. However, there is a difference between good and evil, and the angels should not use their souls as currency, so ...... Yes, it should be the one who invokes! The one who conjures is a more powerful soul, a soul that retains most of its consciousness after death and can continue to live. The invoker in Heaven or Hell is more valuable because he or she can exert more powerful abilities and make more significant changes than a mere soul.

Thus, the soul is equal to the power that can cause changes in heaven or hell.

The devil's efforts to obtain souls, and Heaven's efforts to cultivate prayers, are all for the purpose of building their homes...... This conclusion was a little incredulous to Feige himself when it came to it, but it does explain a lot of things. For example, the reason why the Church of the Goddess of Truth and Thunder has a fortress in the Sunset Mountains - there are geyers here, and after transcendence, there are those who pray for it.

As his thoughts turned to the invokers, something suddenly occurred to Feige. The geist he harvested with the soul dagger reorganized in hell, and instead of becoming a hell attribute merger, he chose to go to the earth world, which is another mortal world. This does not match the memory of the fork in the road.

In the devil's cognition: "Those who pray for merger only have the attributes of the outer plane, and can only go to the country corresponding to the belief in the gods, or the place of good and evil such as heaven and hell, and the mortal world cannot exist and does not need to pray for it." ”

But what if this one is wrong? After all, Feige has already seen a counterexample, and he has to revisit this rule. There may also be those who pray for merger in the mortal world, and if this is a condition, then there should also be a way for the one to be prayed for to change directly, and the one who prays for merger ...... It's a stronger soul!

In other words, the soul is a force that can change the world around it.

No, it shouldn't be that simple. The hands are also the power to change the world, the teeth and the belly, why is the soul so important, why should the spell be combined with it? Fei Qi took a deep breath, calmed himself, and combed the entire logical chain from beginning to end. He thinks that there is nothing wrong with his deduction, but it still lacks a deeper connotation about the soul, so it is incomplete.

He used all his energy to think, and under his concentration, his body did not move. Midnight gets bored, so he rolls over and sweeps Feige's arm with his long furry tail, seeking attention and caresses. The soft fur tickled and Feige woke up with a shiver, and he moved his fingers to sweep the kitten like a string, helping it scratch the itch.

Hair~~~

Listening to this strange meow, Feige suddenly thought of the fork in the road's explanation of Mother Midnight's contract. How does it say, 'A small percentage of living beings can understand the concept of death'. In order to understand death, we must first form a complete concept of "me", and then be conscious of "what I am going to do", so that we can realize "my end" when thinking about "what prevents me from doing it". When these are satisfied, then there are the basic conditions for signing the soul contract.

A chicken can't sign a soul contract, and neither can a little ant, because they just act according to instinct, and they don't form an "I" and don't take the initiative...... Yes, the soul should be the power to change the world actively!

This kind of subjective agency is good, that is, the supplicator of the heavenly mountain, and if it is evil and depraved, then it belongs to hell! Feige gradually figured it out, and then used the example of heaven and hell to look at the mortal world. He realized that the magical power of spells was no different from the invokers and souls changing heaven and hell!

"Casting a spell is the process of exerting the power of the soul, just as the devil uses the soul to transform the hellish environment. No wonder the spell for my mind moving object spell was so short, only SUA had a half-syllable - the experience of the fork in the road demon to change hell helped a lot. Fei Qi became more and more convinced that he had found the key to learning spells in the future: "The most important thing to produce a spell effect is how to use the power of the soul to change the world around you." Powerful souls are like mortal invokers, and they can even be used as tools, just like the devil manipulates souls in hell!"

Thinking of this, Feige was completely excited, and it was a feeling of clearing the fog. "Divine magic! Yes, divine magic should also work like this! Good and evil are only differences in the direction of the soul's subjective initiative, not in the way they are used! Why is it that in this world, magic is strong and magic is weak, and there are no spells at all on earth?"

"Wait, if you think in terms of a powerful magic technique...... Feiqi's mind is about to stop the car. "What is the logical relationship between powerful magic, powerful church, and powerful goddess? Educate the people, produce believers, cultivate paladins, harvest prayers, and then increase the divine power and give power...... No, there's a bit of a flaw in that. God resides in another world, and it must be very expensive to transfer power across worlds, so it is not efficient. Therefore, the magic given should be a method to ...... It is used to exert the power of the mortal soul and then make changes. ”

"If you look at it in conjunction with the method of the devil gaining territory in hell, the soul changes the territory, and the spell changes the mortal world...... Yes, everyone should be able to generate territory, spells act on the territory, their own soul exerts the initiative, and then the soul and the effect of the conjugator generates power! The power of divine magic comes from the higher efficiency of the invoker and the soul, which is actually caused by the soul being more in tune with the surrounding world! Divine art is the most powerful in the kingdom of God, second in the Holy Land, again in other places, and in hell it is severely weakened - this is the reason!

"If everyone praises the goddess, then the goddess's magic will be powerful. There is no magic on the earth, but everyone believes in science, logic, rigor, and repeatability, which are also attributes of the world. If you let the people of this world see it, isn't science a spell?"

"The soul is a force that can actively transform the attributes of the world, and its way of working can be the spell of magic, it can be the labor of the hands, it can be the progress of science. After thinking about it attentively, Feige came to a conclusion that would soon completely change the spell system: spells are to take subjective initiative as the core, educate and adjust the attributes of the surrounding environment, so that they can obey the command of spells more smoothly and accept the transformation of souls more efficiently.

"Looks like something great has been discovered...... Feige pinched his chin and boasted.