I Got Reincarnated as a Zombie Girl

The monochrome sky at the bottom of the Abyssal Chasm felt like a giant canvas painted with the ink of despair. No wind blew, only the spatial distortion created by the pure murderous intent wafting from thousands of red eyes surrounding Sylvia. In this place, in the deepest depths of the Underworld, the concept of mercy was never born.

For mortals or even low-tier gods, being in this place was equivalent to suicide. But for Sylvia, this was her own stage, and she was the sole director.

Sylvia stood gracefully atop a black bedrock pillar. Her Dress of Death fluttered slowly, absorbing the surrounding miasma energy and boosting her death magic power by 220%. She could feel the power rippling within her dead veins.

Thanks to the EXP absorption in Aeloria and her dimensional travel, her Level had reached a brand new limit. She was a walking catastrophe.

"Since you refuse to leave your corpses behind for me to use as servants..." Sylvia hissed, her blood-red eyes narrowing coldly as she stared at the ocean of flesh-blob monsters, skinless hellhounds, and bone gargoyles growling toward her. "...then I shall swallow your entire existence until not even a speck of dust remains."

GRAAAAAAA!!!

Like a broken dam, thousands of level 250 to 280 monsters charged forward simultaneously. That black wave covered the ground, tearing through the air at sonic speeds, trying to shred the sole anomaly in their territory.

Sylvia didn’t budge. She merely raised her left hand encased in indestructible Black Gloves, then flicked her finger elegantly.

"Dominion Lock – Absolute."

ZREEEENG!

Instantly, space within a 3-kilometer radius trembled violently. A transparent purplish-black dome shot out, covering the sky and ground. The physical and magical laws within that dome were rewritten by Sylvia’s authority. All forms of teleportation, time manipulation, or evasion abilities of the monsters were absolutely sealed. They were now inside a slaughter cage.

"Eternal Nightfall," Sylvia continued in a flat tone.

Eternal darkness descended to envelop the battlefield. The dim light of the lava and the red eyes of the monsters were swallowed by absolute shadows. Simultaneously, Sylvia activated two of her passive auras at once: Grave Sovereign Presence and Death Aura – Sovereign Dominion.

The effect was immediate and devastating.

An 800-meter radius around Sylvia turned into a domain of pure death. Thousands of monsters that had just leaped to pounce on her suddenly froze in mid-air. Sylvia’s presence crushing their souls made their beastly instincts scream in terror, stripping away their will to fight. Even more terrifyingly, their bodies began to decay instantly. Sylvia’s law of death snatched away 0.8% of their HP and MP every second without needing physical contact. Their shadow flesh melted, their bones grew brittle.

However, Sylvia had no intention of waiting for them to die slowly. She wanted a swift massacre.

"Chain Technique – Eternal Formation. Form 1: Binding!"

From within the dark shadows beneath her feet, an ocean of Chains of Abyss erupted outward. Hundreds of thousands of obsidian chains writhing like living dragons spread across a radius of hundreds of meters. The deafening sound of grinding metal tore through the silence. Those chains darted forward, entangling hundreds of monsters at once, locking their movements in the air and on the ground.

"Form 4: Guillotine Blossom!"

The chains wrapping around the enemies instantly grew giant spikes as sharp as legendary swords. Those spikes not only pierced physically, but also injected extreme poison and permanent mental trauma that directly attacked the monsters’ soul essence thanks to the Toxic Affinity ++ effect.

Screams of agony echoed throughout the Abyssal Chasm. Black blood spurted like a fountain amidst the darkness, but before a single drop could touch Sylvia’s body, that lethal energy instantly evaporated.

[Killed ’Void Stalker’ Lv 260. Obtained 9,000,000 EXP.]

[Killed ’Abyssal Dire Wolf’ Lv 265. Obtained 9,500,000 EXP.]

[Killed ’Bone Gargoyle’ Lv 270. Obtained 10,200,000 EXP.]

A row of EXP notifications streamed rapidly into Sylvia’s view, but she wasn’t satisfied yet. Her red eyes caught movement from above. A group of Chaos Drakes dragons made of dense miasma swooped down from beyond her chain’s range, firing a vortex of corrosive energy capable of erasing a mountain.

Sylvia smiled crookedly. She activated Death Step – Eternal Mirage.

Instantly, her body vanished from the stone pillar, leaving behind an illusory clone split apart by the dragons’ energy blasts. Sylvia had teleported directly onto the back of one of the Chaos Drakes in the air. She was in a state of full invincibility for five whole seconds thanks to that skill.

With lightning speed, Sylvia drew the Rapier of Night from the void. The slender sword emitting a dark galactic glow hummed.

"Eclipse Rend IV."

Sylvia swung her rapier once in a horizontal motion so beautiful and deadly. That dimensional slash produced no explosive sound, instead creating a pure black line that split space, time, and destiny itself. That black line shot forward, slicing the necks of all three Chaos Drakes simultaneously.

Their heads detached, but the wounds bled no blood. The body parts touched by the slash were conceptually erased. Their existence was destroyed, and their giant bodies evaporated into cosmic dust before hitting the ground.

The mass death around Sylvia instantly triggered her new skill: Soul Harvest – Reaper’s Banquet. Those shattered souls were pulled into Sylvia’s body like a whirlpool. She wasn’t injured, so the HP recovery effect wasn’t very noticeable, but her temporary stat boost made her death aura explode even more uncontrollably. She felt drunk on this surge of pure power.

BZZZZT!

Suddenly, Sylvia’s Appraisal EX+ eyes detected a massive energy fluctuation from the bottom of the abyss, right beneath the ground she stood on. She could see extremely thick existence information colored purplish-red.

[Name: Colossus] [Race: Abyssal Convergence] [Level: 320] [Description: Manifestation of millions of sinner souls fusing with the crust of Tartarus. Possesses absolute resistance to physical attacks.]

The ground beneath Sylvia burst open. A hundred-meter-tall giant hand made of black magma and bones punched upward, trying to squeeze Sylvia’s small body. Its speed was illogical for something of that size.

However, Sylvia’s Agility was far beyond logic. She used Death Step repeatedly in mid-air without cooldown, leaping from one rock fragment to another like a ghost, dodging the giant’s deadly grip.

The Colossus rose completely from within the ground. Its height reached five hundred meters, its figure covering the solar eclipse disk on the eastern horizon. The monster roared, creating a shockwave that blew away the remaining small monsters around it.

"Interesting," Sylvia muttered, hovering in the air with her sword in her right hand. "Level 320. Absolute physical resistance. In that case, let’s see if you can withstand the law of absolute annihilation."

The giant opened its mouth on its chest, gathering dense miasma energy the size of a small moon ready to be fired to flatten the entire area.

Sylvia closed her eyes for a moment. When her eyes opened again, her blood-red irises emitted a blinding light in the darkness. She sheathed the Rapier of Night and raised both hands high.

"Chain Technique – Final Form: UNIFICATION!"

A pitch-black pillar of light erupted from Sylvia’s body, piercing the monochrome sky of Tartarus. The resulting mana pressure was so massive that the surrounding space cracked like a mirror struck by a sledgehammer. All her base stats surged sharply by 900% for the next 120 seconds.

Her dress transformed into a shadow cloak armor shimmering with the energy of dying stars. She was now the true embodiment of the god of death.

The Colossus fired its miasma cannon. The black light of destruction shot toward Sylvia.

Sylvia didn’t dodge. She merely raised her left palm forward. Her physical strength now transcended the limits of reality. With a single empty-handed parry coated in Black Gloves, she slapped the energy cannon aside.

BAM!

The continent-destroying blast was deflected sideways, crashing into the abyss cliff and turning it into dust in an instant. The Colossus fell silent, the hundreds of eyes across its body widening in conceptual shock. How could an entity so small slap its attack away barehanded?

"My turn," Sylvia whispered right in the Colossus’s ear. Thanks to her insane speed, she was already in the air right before the giant’s face.

"Reaper Claw – Mortis Sovereign."

The five fingers of Sylvia’s right hand lengthened, forming silvery-black energy claws. This skill ignored all forms of defense and armor. Sylvia swung her claws toward the chest of the Colossus which possessed absolute resistance.

CRASH!

The claws pierced the giant’s magma skin and bone as if slicing through warm butter. A giant tear wound appeared, not bleeding, but vomiting out emptiness.

The Colossus roared in pain and tried to regenerate its wound, but Sylvia immediately followed up with her next attack.

"Chain Technique Form 5: Abyss Crucifix!"

From within the open wound, thousands of chains with glowing purple seals erupted outward, nailing the Colossus’s body from the inside out into the air. A giant sigil field manifested beneath the giant’s feet, instantly sealing all its regeneration abilities. That level 320 giant could now no longer move at all.

To end it, Sylvia flew backward slowly. She pointed both palms toward the target.

"Phantom Bloom IV."

Inside the core of the Colossus’s body, within its soul space, and across its magma skin, thousands of red spider lily flowers made of death energy bloomed simultaneously. These deadly flowers absorbed the target’s remaining existence as nutrients.

And as a final touch, before those flowers exploded, Sylvia unleashed another of her absolute authorities.

"Infectious Devour III."

An absolute death infection field spread from Sylvia’s body, swallowing the pinned Colossus. The giant’s body began to crumble, not destroyed, but consumed by the concept of emptiness. Its soul, its body, and the concept of its existence were chewed up by Sylvia’s aura.

BZZZZT!

That Level 320 giant didn’t even have time to put up a final resistance. Its entire body shattered into black light particles that were directly absorbed into Sylvia’s body. An extraordinarily massive EXP energy explosion hit her system.

[Killed ’Colossus’ Lv 320 (Boss). Obtained 450,000,000 EXP.]

[You have slaughtered more than 5,000 Abyss entities at once.]

[Level Up!] [Level Up!]

Sylvia exhaled a long breath, neutralizing the remaining Unification energy before its duration ran out, avoiding an overload on her soul. She drifted down, landing back on the intact stone pillar in the middle of a ten-kilometer-wide crater of destruction.

Around her, the Abyssal Chasm that was previously filled with the roars of thousands of monsters fell completely silent. Not a single living or undead entity remained within a radius of dozens of kilometers. Everything had been swallowed by the Queen of Death.

Sylvia projected her status screen. Her level number had climbed significantly. A stunning yet terrifying faint smile was etched on her pale face. Her eyes stared deep into the mist, searching for her next prey.

"Still not enough," she muttered softly. "I need more."

And with that, she dashed forward, moving deeper into the heart of darkness, ready to turn the entire Underworld ecosystem into her personal monument of victory. In the distance, the castle of death, her adoptive mother must be enjoying this show with a goblet in hand. Sylvia Hortensia’s grand evolution had only just begun.