The Devil's Bible
Chapter 564

Selfish Desires

1,206 words•4 min read•0 views
24d ago•

Faced with a giant royal family that concentrated individual power within itself, the Littlefolk were not afraid.

"The rules governing their world are extremely unreasonable." The apostles behind the Littlefolk began preparing to act as well.

"The royal family consists of the strongest individuals, and all power ultimately flows toward them."

"Yet as slave owners, the royal family does not need to appear on the battlefield."

"Otherwise, things might not have gone so easily for us." Seeing the combat power of the royal family members, one apostle could not help lamenting that the enemy possessed such strength yet had wasted it all along.

Adrian himself knew this as well, but he had no way to alter it.

Because this was a restriction imposed by the world's rules.

Under the path of sovereign transformation he had established, whenever he was outside, he himself was the "royal family" of this world.

A world constructed from cognition was bound to have rules related to cognition.

If he denied those rules and forcibly sent the giant royal family into battle, it would instead run counter to the slave system and only destabilize the world.

This was the flaw caused by unreasonable rule construction.

In Adrian's original conception, the royal family should have dispersed its power to ensure the slaves' combat strength.

Unfortunately, that conception lost its effect at the most crucial moment.

Because Adrian himself was resisting that sharing.

It was pride and jealousy that had driven him to seize the beautiful things others possessed.

Thus, he instinctively did not want to share what was his.

And that instinctive cognition had already been embedded into this world.

His rationality had preserved the rule that civilian slaves could kill royalty and become new royalty, as well as the rule that slave owners could share their

End of Chapter
Novel

Explore the wiki