Chapter 141: 88. Expend Energy_3
Translator: 549690339
This time, he didn’t deconstruct a spell blueprint, not even a fragmented one.
All were books pertaining to the life, work and rest of Undead Monks…
Judging from the introductions of the books, the authors were not part of the Undead Cult but rather appeared to have written these books after in-depth observations of the Undead Cult, likely masterpieces of the Death Herald Guild.
Noland Lee didn’t know the real situation, but looking at these books, he felt his eyebrows twitching violently and a feeling of suffocation in his chest. “This is a massive loss… 1000 energy points exchanged for a pile of textbooks.”
Noland Lee sighed with his head down and absentmindedly opened a book to start reading.
After all, it was exchanged with energy points. No matter what, he had to at least skim through it all. Otherwise, the energy points would be wasted.
Noland Lee, following the order from top to bottom, took “Cultivation Guidance for Undead Monks” as the first read.
As his reading deepened, his expression changed from regret to profundity, and then from profundity to severity.
After finishing the book, he immediately consumed 1 energy point to remember it all, then brought out the magic panel of “Mark of Resentment”.
At this moment, a dramatic change had already occurred in the “Usage” column of the “Mark of Resentment”.
Detailed text information finally appeared for the “Meditation” entry, no longer just saying, “You have not yet obtained the meditation knowledge about this mark”.
[Usage of “Mark of Resentment”]
[Meditation]
Activate the mark to enter meditation state.
Memories related to “Resentment” will be forcibly awakened, and you shall be immersed in it.
If you can break out of it, you may obtain “Spirit” attribute points.
The meditation process will continuously consume Soul Strength.
The consumption of Soul Strength is related to the difficulty of meditation.
The more intense the “Resentment” emotion in the memory fragment is, the higher the difficulty of meditation will be and thus, more Soul Strength will be needed.
You can only obtain “Spirit” attribute points from each “Resentment” memory once.
[Instructions]
Because you obtained this meditation method through “Harmless Deconstruction”, the system has stripped away meditation steps that would pollute the soul for you.
These steps include: drawing meditation ritual patterns, preparing meditation materials, chanting meditation prayers, begging for meditation permissions from designated targets, etc.
Now, you just need to select “Mark of Resentment” on the panel and quietly chant “Meditation” to begin your meditation.
“At last, I’ve got a method to increase the ‘Spirit’ attribute!”
In the dim isolation room, Noland Lee clenched his fist, waved it, and a broad smile lifted the corners of his mouth.
He had been waiting for this moment for too long.
Who would have thought that the method to improve the ‘Spirit’ attribute would be hidden in “Research Report on Undead Monks’ Cultivation Methods”?
These series of research books on Undead Monks definitely were the teaching materials within the Death Herald Guild.
Following the logic of these magic teaching materials, anyone could become an Extraordinary member of the Death Herald Guild.
Noland Lee summarised the ideas in the books roughly as follows:
“The undead despise the world of the living, yet they also yearn for their own memories.
“They recall their past in agony.
“Some undead will fall in their recollection, longing to return to the living’s side. These kinds of undead will gradually fade due to becoming lost and eventually, their soul will wither.”
“Only the Undead who conquer their past and their memories can gain sublimation from their painful recollections, making their consciousness stronger.”
“The people of the Death Herald Guild, referencing the Undead’s method of enhancing the ‘Spirit’, have researched a meditation method suitable for living people.”
“This meditation method is called by the people of the Death Herald Guild as ‘Martyrdom Meditation Method’. ”
That was roughly the idea.
In Noland Lee’s view, this method of increasing the ‘Spirit’ attribute was like a masochistic version of mental asceticism.
As long as one could bear the pain of the memories and endure it, they would become stronger.
This was the core principle of the ‘Martyrdom Meditation Method’.
Considering the meditation method, magic wand, magic books and other aspects, the Death Herald Guild, a group kept out of the public view by the Empire, seemed to be a group of wizards.
Otherwise, how could magic wands and meditation methods come out from the Death Herald Guild?
Noland Lee slapped his forehead, feeling quite the revelation.
Since he crossed over, his schedule had been so packed that he didn’t realize the relation between the Death Herald Guild and wizards until now.
Regaining his composure, Noland Lee rose, approached the door, and peeked through the window on the door panel into the corridor.
It should be around 6 pm in the evening, less than 4 hours away from 10 pm.
There was still plenty of time.
Given this, he might as well try meditation.
Noland Lee returned to his seat, crossed his legs, leaned against the wall, and closed his eyes.
He chanted in his mind:
“Activate ‘Mark of Resentment’, start meditation.’
[System Message: “Memory of Noland Lee Jarvis” has been activated. The system has filtered out memory fragments related to “Resentment” for you.] [Please choose one from these fragments]
As the system text flashed by in his mind, several small windows appeared, each containing a snapshot of a memory fragment.
These windows were the memory fragments Noland Lee could choose from, all related to “Resentment”.
The system had kindly annotated the difficulty of meditation and the Soul Strength required to meditate on this fragment under each window.
The difficulty of these memory pieces for meditation was not high, ranging from level 1 to level 5.
Noland Lee casually chose a memory fragment with level 1 difficulty to start his first meditation.
Maintaining his closed-eye posture, a glow gradually brightened before his
eyes.
Vague chattering could be heard beside his ears..
