As the saying goes, "Don't sign a contract with the devil"; if you are forced to sign a contract, "Don't be stolen." In order to promote your contract, the devil needs to ensure its effectiveness on the one hand, that is, one can satisfy his wishes; the other must also prove its completion ability later. In other words, if it can be completed strictly according to the contract, the contractor can still get rid of the contract and regain freedom.
In fact, such situations often occur, and the devil has no complaints about it. Because the devil knows well that like a gambler, those who want to gain benefits from the devil's contract will not bet on their precious souls as gambling money from the beginning. The devil has the responsibility to induce him to go to hell step by step. And those small favors, those convenient and fast devil's contracts are the ladders of depravity.
On the other hand, "The devil wants your soul". As long as you have a little understanding of the devil, there is nothing you don't know about it. Therefore, everyone knows that the soul is valuable, don't betray it easily, and it's better not to write it into the contract. But is there no way for the devil? Of course not! When the person fails to fulfill the contract, such as deliberately violating or not paying remuneration, then the liquidated damages will come.
A convention is not sacred or evil in nature, but a manifestation of order, and its opposite is chaos. Violation of contract is a manifestation of confusion, which is untolerable by hell with orderly characteristics. The devil is born from hell, representing the will of hell, and it is natural to punish the defaulter with evil means.
This is like "An angels are born on Mount Paradise, representing the power of heaven, and it is natural to punish the evil ones with righteous means", and it is no different.
"Fortunately, hell is reasonable, and he won't immediately need a soul because of a slight mistake." Feiqi used the ability of the contract demon to calculate: "If you don't correct it at all, the loss on these supplies will continue to make profits, and it will increase the value to a level that will make his soul degenerate in about a year. A degenerate, controlled former Paladin is a huge sum in hell. Well... Let's see the situation at that time and let's do it in detail."
This kind of depravity does not happen automatically, but requires the contract demon to "collect debts". As long as you hold the contract, any devil can perform this task, so the contract demon usually sends relatively low-level devils to act as "thugs". This is safer, and afterwards, you only need to give the thugs some leftovers of their souls.
Feiqi is a lonely contract demon and has no thugs, so he has to go to collect debts by himself. Gresham will definitely not give his soul obediently, but as a quasi-inspector, he has his own "thugs". Violent resistance to debts often happens, so Feiqi has to improve his strength to protect his legitimate rights and interests.
"Credit is based on order, order is based on strength, and strength is based on violence. It's such a simple and crude truth!" Feiqi turned his hand and the Paladin's devil contract was hidden in his soul. "The devil uses strong strength and deep strategies to ensure their soul income... Souls, why is the soul so important? Is there any secret here?"
In the past life, 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 does exist in myths and legends, but who has seen it in reality?
This world is different. Feiqi has seen the soul with his own eyes, touched and absorbed it, and he has also traveled to hell several times. Not only is the currency in hell the soul, but the idea of ​​spells also requires the soul, and it is also a necessary condition for casting spells. The soul has really affected many things and will definitely deal with them frequently in the future, so you should think more.
Feiqi has the thinking of another world, as well as the memory and ability of the devil, so he can think about the problem from the perspective that ordinary people dare not think about or think about in this world. "Master Hall" will definitely not associate "angels" with "needing souls". After all, the Goddess of Truth is kind, how could they need souls like the devil?
Only a person who is more free from bondage and prejudice can see other people's blind spots. Feiqi - or to be more precise, Yan Rui - is not affected by the fact that angels and devils represent good and evil respectively, and directly regards them as "an alien creatures" and "the need side of the soul". Then, combined with several aspects of knowledge, he developed a novel view.
The soul circulates in hell because it can strengthen the devil. For devils who have territory, the soul can also strengthen the territory. Although I have not tried it myself, there is a memory of the fork-way demon using the soul to directly change the territory terrain, and even produce the content of the building.
There is no reason why Hell can do this, and there is no reason why Paradise Mountain cannot do this. However, good and evil will eventually be different. Angels should not use their souls as currency. So... Yes, it should be the one who prays! The one who prays is a stronger soul, a soul that can retain most of its consciousness after death and can continue to live. The one who prays in heaven or hell can exert more powerful abilities than a simple soul, make more significant changes, and therefore has a higher value.
Thus, the soul is equal to the power that can change heaven or hell.
The devil strives to obtain souls, and the heaven strives to cultivate prayers. It turns out that they are all for building their own homes... When this conclusion came into being, Feiqi himself was a little unbelievable, but it can indeed explain many things. For example, the reason why the Goddess of Truth Goddess Church wanted to set up a fortress in the Sunset Mountains - there are wandering souls here, and after the salvation, the prayers are prayers.
When his thoughts turned to the prayer, Feiqi suddenly thought of something. The wandering soul he harvested with the soul dagger was reorganized in hell, and did not become a prayer with hell attribute, but chose to go to the earth world, which is another mortal world. This is inconsistent with the memory of the fork-way demon.
In the devil's cognition: "The one who prays for the same has only outer plane attributes, and can only go to the kingdom corresponding to the gods of faith, or a place of good and evil such as heaven and hell, which cannot exist in the mortal world, and there is no need for the one who prays for the same."
But what if this is wrong? After all, Feiqi has seen a counterexample, and he has to re-examine this rule. There may also be prayers in the mortal world. On this condition, then there should be a way for those who pray to be directly changed, and those who pray to be... are a stronger soul!
In other words, the soul is a kind of power that can change the surrounding world.
No, it shouldn't be that simple. Hands are also the power to change the world, tooth and belly, so why is the soul so important? Why should spells be combined with it? Feiqi took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and sorted out the entire logical chain from beginning to end. He thought his deduction was fine, but he still lacked deeper connotations about the soul, so it was not complete.
He used all his energy to think and concentrate, and his body remained motionless. He felt bored at midnight, so he turned over and swept Feich's arms with his long furry tail, seeking attention and caress. The soft and fine hair made people itchy. Feich woke up after a cold war. He moved his fingers and swept the kitten like plucking a string to help it scratch itch.
Hairy~~~
Listening to the weird cat meow, Feiqi suddenly thought of the fork-way demon's explanation of the contract of Midnight Mother. What did it say? 'Small creatures can understand the concept of death'. To understand death, one must first form the concept of "I", and then be conscious of "what I want to do" so that he can realize "my end" when thinking about "what prevent me from doing it". When all these are satisfied, there are basic conditions for signing the soul contract.
A chicken cannot sign a soul contract, and small ants cannot do it either, because they only act according to instinct, do not form a "me" and do not take the initiative... Yes! Take the initiative! The soul should be the force that subjectively and actively changes the world!
This subjective initiative is kind, that is, the prayer of the mountain of Heaven; if it is evil and fallen, it belongs to hell! Feiqi gradually made up his mind and then looked at the mortal world with the examples of heaven and hell. He realized that the magical power of spells is no different from the prayer and soul changing heaven, and hell!
"Casting spells is the process of exerting the power of the soul, just like a devil using his soul to transform the environment of hell. No wonder my mind moves objects spells so brief, only SUA is a semisyllable - the experience of the fork-way demon changing hell has helped a lot." Feiqi increasingly believed that he had found the key to learning spells in the future: "The most important thing in producing spell effects is how to use the power of the soul to change the surrounding world. A powerful soul is like a prayer in the mortal world, and he can even use the prayer in the mortal world as a tool, just like a devil manipulating his soul in hell!"
Thinking of this level, Feiqi was completely excited. It was a feeling of clearing away the fog. "Divine Art! Yes, divine art should also work like this! Good and evil are just the difference in the soul's subjective dynamic direction, not the difference in the way of use! Why is the magical arts in this world strong and the magical arts are weak; but there is even no magic on earth at all?"
"Wait, if you think about it from the powerful magic..." Feiqi's thinking was almost impossible to stop. "What is the logical relationship between powerful magic, powerful church, and powerful goddess? Educate the people, produce believers, cultivate paladins, harvest prayers, and then strengthen the divine power and give power... No, there is a little flaw in it. God lives in another world, and the power transmission across the world must be very expensive, so it is inefficient. Therefore, the magic given should be a method to... use to exert the power of the soul in the mortal world and then make changes."
"If we combine the method of the devil obtaining territory in hell, the soul changes territory, and the spells change the mortal world... Yes, everyone should be able to generate territory, and the spells act on the territory, and their own souls take initiative, and then the soul and similar effects of prayer produce power! The power of the magic comes from the higher effectiveness of the prayer and the soul, which is actually caused by the more coordinated nature of the soul and the surrounding world! The magic is the most powerful in the Kingdom of God, second in the Holy Land, again in other places, and weakened in hell - this is why!"
"Everyone praises the goddess, then the goddess' magic will be powerful. This is produced by the soul changing the world attributes! There is no spell here on the earth, but everyone believes in science, logic, rigor and repeatability, which is also the world attributes. If people in this world see it, is science also a magic?"
"The soul is a power that can subjectively and actively transform the attributes of the world. The way it works can be spells, the labor of both hands, and the progress of science." After careful thinking, Feiqi came to the conclusion that the spell system will be completely changed soon: spells are to take subjective initiative as the core, educate and adjust the surrounding environmental attributes, so that they can obey the command of the spell more smoothly and accept the transformation of the soul more efficiently.
Chapter completed!