Chapter 147: Hymn of Death Prowess (I)

While waiting for Krista Dragoon to arrive, Zen decided to start reading the grimoire that he won from the auction house.

A grimoire where the 'Hymn of Death' spell is available for Zen to learn. The harsh condition where it requires the user to experience death before being able to learn has already been fulfilled by Zen.

"With my talent, there's no way a simple grimoire spell is an obstacle in my path," Zen exclaimed loudly as he held the grimoire in his hand.

Taking a few moments to calm his emotion, Zen slowly opened the grimoire book and instantly, his mind was overflowing with information.

At the same time, the texts in the grimoire slowly dissipate as each and every word enters his mind.

Zen wasn't able to stop the words as he never expected the information in the grimoire to suddenly react like that. Evie has mentioned that one must start reading the texts before being able to learn them.

However, it was like there's a soul in the grimoire book as it straight up flooded his mind with information when he didn't even get a chance to read one line.

Time slowly passed by as Zen was in a trance, completely oblivious to his surroundings. It was like time had slowed down for him as he found himself in a dark environment.

In the dark environment, Zen slowly saw a tall figure wearing a black mask and he was approaching some corpses.

'Who is he?' 

Zen asked inwardly as he tried to get closer but his movement was restricted.

The only thing he could do was use his eye to stare at the tall figure without doing much. He tried to open his mouth to speak but no voice came out of it.

In the end, Zen could only witness the tall figure in silence as he tried to comprehend his action and reason for his appearance.

The tall figure slowly walked next to the corpse before chanting some weird language. 

Afterward, the corpse starts to tremble slightly as its shadow starts to rise up, mimicking the corpse's appearance in terms of size and Zen widens his eye in disbelief.

'R-Resurrection' Zen mumbled softly in shock as he glanced at the tall figure.

The shadow that was resurrected by the tall figure knelt down on one knee, seemingly obedient toward him.

The tall figure simply nodded his head as he began the same procedure to the rest of the corpses. The chanting was fuzzy and unclear in the beginning for Zen to understand him.

But as time passed on, the tall figure continued to resurrect at least 40 corpses, turning them into shadow, Zen was able to comprehend the chanting was a command.

A command used to resurrect corpses into shadows where they are absolutely loyal to the caster and they would still retain their power. Their power would remain the same when they were alive and with this spell, there's a chance that they could become even stronger.

'T-This is the power of the Hymn of Death spell,' Zen exclaimed inwardly as he was basically witnessing a miracle.

A miracle where the laws of death are ignored and defy heaven completely with this power.

Zen couldn't help but tremble in excitement as he wanted to try this spell already and see if he could chant it.

As Zen wondered in his mind, the tall figure movement stopped as he started glancing toward Zen.

His stare sent a chill down into Zen's spine as he could feel an immense powerful mana from the tall figure. It was suffocating to even breathe in when the tall figure continued to stare at him.

Luckily, the tall figure stopped glancing at him after another second, and Zen used this moment to breathe heavily as sweat started trickling down his forehead.

'What was that stare? I felt like I was being choked and hanged upside down.' Zen cursed inwardly as he stepped back a little bit.

A surprised expression appeared on his face when he realized he was no longer restricted by the movement.

Touching every part of his body to make sure he was fine, Zen swallowed some of his saliva nervously as the tall figure pointed at a corpse.

It didn't take a genius to know that the tall figure wanted him to perform the Hymn of Death after his demonstration.

Stepping forward slowly, Zen was standing next to a corpse who had three heads and a figure that looked like a dog with four legs.

"Is this a chimera from the myths?" Zen tried to ask the tall figure for an answer since the corpse was very similar to a chimera.

The tall figure didn't reply and stood still in his position. 

"I don't know the chanting spell completely so I might fail in resurrecting the chimera with the Hymn of Death," Zen continued to interact with the tall figure. 

The tall figure continued to ignore his word and Zen could also smile bitterly for always receiving this kind of response. No one wanted to answer his questions, including his most closed ones who kept him in suspense.

Unable to receive a response, Zen decided to attempt casting the Hymn of Death on the chimera corpse. Alas, he was not familiar with the chanting method since he only managed to comprehend a little bit so the first resurrection attempt failed.

Sneaking a glance at the tall figure on his reaction, Zen was slightly disappointed to see nothing from him. There was no disapproval nor dissatisfaction coming from him. 

It was like he turned into a statue since all the shadows that he managed to resurrect before were standing upright like him without talking at all.

'How the hell do you expect me to learn a forbidden spell this quickly?'

Zen cursed inwardly as he twitched his mouth slightly. Although he proclaimed himself as a talented person, it was just a shameless boasting to boost his confidence.

Since he received zero reaction from the tall figure and was stuck in this environment, Zen could only resign at his pitiful fate as he continued to try and chant the spell correctly.