Chapter 146: Ancient Text (II)

'What kind of weird language is this?' 

Zen touched the craving text mark with his hand slightly.

There was some ancient text carved in the walls but Zen had no idea what it meant for.

"These craving text marks seem to originate from the human god that existed in the past for at least 3 million years." Cecilia's voice resounded the room, shocking Zen.

"Cecilia, I'm finally able to communicate with you," Zen exclaimed happily as he was able to interact with her again.

Without Cecilia's presence around him, there was some uncomfortable feeling inside him.

"Mhmm, my connection with you was severed because of some restriction in this labyrinth and I have been trying to break through the restriction. Thankfully, you entered this isolated room where the restriction has no interference around here so I can finally communicate with you." 

Cecilia explained the situation to Zen and confirmed his thought process was correct.

"This labyrinth is really a mystery to be able to sever our connection when no one in this tiny world should have been able to," Zen said solemnly.

Cecilia at this time came out from Zen's spiritual core and appeared outside with her projection.

"We have really underestimated the tiny world and these ancient texts carved in here only prove there is something unknown hidden in here," Cecilia said softly and continued.

"I'm going to scan all the ancient texts to try and study them. Thus, as of this moment, you are to start using magic and learn this world structure and rules." 

Zen raised his eyebrow in surprise as Cecilia is ordering him to stop cultivating as a true qi cultivator and go back to being a mage.

"Didn't you tell me to reset my cultivation before? So why are you telling me to go back to being a mage and casting spells completely." Zen asked with his eyes staring deeply at Cecilia.

Cecilia stayed silent for a moment before shaking her head. "Right now, we are limited in our knowledge regarding this tiny world. If we continue to be arrogant and stay ignorant despite all these mysterious things that we cannot figure out then we are destined to fail in our revenge."

"Then we can just stay in the shadows and investigate slowly. There's no reason for me to focus completely on being a mage." Zen rebukes her words quickly.

He could understand needing to start thinking carefully before they continue their action since there are more powerful enemies hiding in the shadows while they'll be in the open for the enemies to take advantage of.

However, that doesn't explain why he should stop cultivating like a true qi cultivator. He could stay hidden being a true qi cultivator as well so why would Cecilia specify on focusing on being a mage.

"I'm not going to bother explaining something so simple to you. So I will just ask you one question. Are you or are you not willing to follow my advice?" Cecilia asked slowly as she started scanning the ancient texts in the wall to her space.

Zen was dumbfounded that Cecilia didn't even bother explaining to him the reason. 'Everyone just loves hiding secrets from me.'

"Do I even have a choice? I will stop cultivating spiritual qi and focus on my mana capacity." Zen shrugged his hand as there was no other option.

Going against Cecilia's advice is telling him to just jump off a cliff and suicide since Cecilia has no reason to plot against him.

There was no logical reason for her to harm him and she resides in his spiritual core as of this moment. Thus, if he dies then Cecilia would soon follow as their lives are connected.

Cecilia nodded her head slowly as she finished scanning all of the ancient texts. "These texts are going to take a long time to decipher since I can only recognize some of them because of my father. My father used to study and gather many texts from ancient times to increase his knowledge of cultivation."

When Cecilia mentioned her father, her emotion became slightly unstable. Zen understood her pain and tried to pat her shoulder to console her. 

Unfortunately, his hand simply went past her body since it was just a projection and not a real body with where he can have physical contact.

Cecilia merely glanced at Zen's action and said, "You don't have to console me. I'm just being a little sentimental. After all, it has been a long time since I've talked about my father with anyone else."

"You don't have to stay strong to stop me from worrying about you. I'm here for you so let me know whenever you want to vent." Zen smiled briefly and continued.

"After all, it's unfair how you know everything about my life while I know barely anything about you. Don't forget, I'm Zen Von Henning now so if we consider that, I should be your husband."

"You little flirtatious and lewd brat. When did I ever agree on becoming your wife?" Cecilia argued slightly but her face had turned bright red.

"Oi, don't act dumb when you told me to change my name. Did you think I never knew about your hidden intention about taking your last name as mine?" Zen walked forward and said teasingly.

However, he could only glance at her without being able to touch any of her parts physically. Despite her heavenly appearance, Zen could only look without being able to do anything.

It was the worst feeling ever for him. 'Goddamn it, I really need to refine a physical body for Cecilia soon otherwise I'm going to go crazy.'

"Stop overthinking yourself. I just told you to take my last name because when we take vengeance, your name would be the nightmare for those empyreans." Cecilia said bashfully and disappeared into the spiritual core.

She was too embarrassed to stay any longer and Zen twitched his mouth when she escaped.

"Cecilia, don't think you can run away from me every time. Also, I will start studying magic spells and show you how talented I am." 

Zen clenched his fist as he began to sit down and concentrate on his mana while waiting for Krista Dragoon to rescue him.