The book with its metal-like cover was flipped open by a white palm, and a piece of parchment with upturned corners slipped from the spread book. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Mephistopheles' slender fingers grasped the parchment dancing in the air, and took it up close to examine it carefully. It's not the first time he's signed a contract with someone else, but every time he finalizes the terms of the contract one by one, and he's never been negligent.

He understood that when the contract was made, the enemies of both sides were no longer each other, but the will of the law. Therefore, if you want to profit from it, you must take advantage of the terms of the contract. It's an alternative war, albeit less fair.

There are nine steps under the Mephistopheles throne, and the casting of each step means that a "simple" soul has lost the game. That's all Mephistopheles has been accumulating over the course of hundreds of years.

Whether he was originally an undead spirit, or he is now a devil, the passage of time has no substantial meaning for him. In a way, the positive passage of time will not be a tool to kill him, unless someone can manipulate it.

Unlike Monroe, who only has a symbolic meaning, the souls of these nine losers all have extremely high quality and good potential, after all, this is the support and cornerstone that Mephistopheles has chosen for herself, and it is natural that she must be able to carry the weight of the throne.

An being with such potential is not as easy to deceive as Monroe, so when it comes to signing a contract with them, Mephistopheles plays a little trick.

There are no loopholes in the terms written in the lingua franca on the surface, and Mephistopheles is simply like a merciful sage, completely considering the other party's point of view.

But what they didn't know was that the lines on the corners of the parchment, which they used as decorations, were the real terms of the contract.

Yes, this is a language that Mephistopheles named "Devil's Language", a kind of writing and language that he has researched by himself by combining the hieroglyphs and characters of his previous life and his current understanding of the lines of the magic array.

Although this language is unknown to no one but himself, it is a language that is truly recognized by the will of the world.

The creation of words has always been a field that is difficult for the gods to peep into, not to say that there are any restrictions on such behavior, but that the birth of any language is accompanied by the evolution of civilization, and without enough time to precipitate and use this language, it cannot be revised to the point that it can be recognized by the will of the world.

No new language can be infallible in logic and civilizational capacity. So, despite the variety of languages in the material world, there has never been a language that has been approved by the will of the world as soon as it was created by someone.

The reason why "Devil's Language" can be so easily recognized by the will of the world is that the logic in speech and the continuity between words have formed an extremely mature style, even compared to the most mature lingua franca and elven language.

Mephistopheles alone would certainly not have been able to do this out of thin air. But don't forget that what he needs with memories of another world is not to create, but to borrow and change.

The logical core of "Devil's Language" is very similar to that of Chinese, and even if there are some things that cannot be described in Chinese, they are solved by Mephistopheles's ingenious knowledge of the relevant runes in the magic array. In addition, he deliberately transformed the image of the text, which made the elegant "devil's language" written like a painting.

Except for the senior mages who know the magic circle very well, and the linguists who have a very good grasp of grammar knowledge, who can guess that this is a language based on their own experience and intuition, everyone else will probably subconsciously ignore these beautiful patterns as exquisite decorations on parchment.

And then?

Then their souls become part of the ladder.

Thanks to the creation of the "Devil's Language", Mephistopheles was able to get the help of the will of the world when he transformed his own life form.

Every race has its own unique civilization, and any civilization must have a unique language to carry it.

Since the "devil's language" has been born and has been recognized by the will of the world, the "devil" group has naturally been indirectly recognized by the will of the world.

It is for this reason that the birth process of this new species is so easy.

After all, in the record of the will of the world, there is already a civilization called "devil", so Mephistopheles's behavior is just an alternative inheritance in the eyes of the will of the world, rather than the creation of a new species like a struggle.

The name is different, the meaning is naturally different, the meaning is different, and the difficulty is of course different.

No matter how difficult the process may be, Mephistopheles has succeeded today. So he needed a ritual, not only to celebrate the birth of the "devil" species, but also to name the new species in the will of the world.

Sacrifices were required for the ceremony to be held, and Mephistopheles' chosen sacrifice was Monroe's soul.

This kind of soul, which is only symbolic, is certainly not worthy of Mephistopheles' use of such means, so there is no "pattern" on the contract signed by Munro and Mephistopheles.

It was not Mephistopheles pride, but the ritual sacrifice could not be obtained by this means, and it was related to his choice of the future path, and he could not be careless.

After reading for a while, Mephistopheles lost interest, the parchment in his hand turned into a streamer and disappeared into the book, Mephistopheles closed the book in his hand, gently stroked the cover with his palm, and was silent.

As the ritual approached, Mephistopheles' "Book of Souls" began to metamorphose, and it urgently and continuously conveyed an idea to Mephistopheles that it needed a true name to complete its final transformation.

Isn't the "Book of Souls" its name?

Of course not, it's just a specific designation for a type of thing, like "magic", "vindictiveness", "gods......

This thirst for a name was so strong that Mephistopheles had to devote a lot of energy to forcibly suppressing this emotion that arose in the depths of her soul.

He can't make a choice just yet, because the name of the Book of Souls is related to his future path.

It's not that he didn't make a good decision, Mephistopheles has always had a firm choice about his future direction, but this choice can only be made at the ceremony. Because only then would "Devil" become the name of a race, rather than a specific title for him Mephistopheles.

"The time has come," Mephistopheles chuckled, "the stubborn Earl of Bronque must have dreamed of me, and he must believe it, for it was his father who told him the news!"

"Hahaha-"

The "devil's" chuckle turned into a rampant laugh, the torches on the walls swayed in laughter, huge shadows surged in the fireworks, and the collected haze that symbolized people's emotions constantly changed shapes, echoing Mephistopheles' laughter with the cries left behind by the original souls.

The picture seems to be still at this moment, and a wonderful ukiyo-e is slowly being produced.

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