Reborn As A Ghost: Time To Build My Undead Army!

1198  The Nightmare Lord

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"Emilyyyy! Be careful please!"

Alma panicked, conjuring several barriers of water, and protecting Emily from the powerful blows of the Giant Furniture Mimics, each barrier exploded into water once it was hit once, but it did block a blow at least.

"Dammit this thing won't let go of me!"

Emily found herself trapped within the fleshy tentacles of the huge Staircase Mimic, which was constantly trying to pull her into its giant maws and eat her whole.

If it weren't for her armor, this would have made for a lewd scene.

Thankfully, that wasn't the case.

Ahem!

"Charge!"

After Sofia roared, her Automata rushed forward, clashing against dozens of mimics at once and serving as our tank, it swung its arms and legs, piercing their bodies and quickly beginning to tear them apart.

My Undead moved in unison, overwhelming the Mimics by hitting them from every angle, pushing forward, they continued crushing the furniture, pieces of flesh and wood splattering into the ground.

"Haaahh!"

Jonathan swung his sword carefully, making sure not to blow up the manor. This entire place was very susceptible to damage due to being so weak, and it wasn't at all like a dungeon.

If the entire manor broke, we would probably end up being lost in the endless dark void of the nightmare realm, which ends almost 99% of the time on the entire party being eaten by the Nightmare.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

Three slashes easily made dozens of the book and furniture mimics explode into black soot, dying instantly. Then, he conjured a barrier made of light and quickly pushed it forward, hitting the staircase mimic.

BOOM!

A small explosion of light was generated out of the barrier shattering, enough for the staircase mimic to scream in pain, letting go of Emily.

"Gryyaaggh!"

"Ugh!"

Emily quickly punched the stairs and destroyed them, before charging thunder into her chest and roaring angrily.

"You damn… perverted monster! FUCKING DIE!"

TRUUUMMM!!!

The reckless tomboy let loose, quickly blasting the staircase mimic into smithereens, and exploding with a gigantic boom!

BOOOM!

The only thing left was a huge hole leading to the floor below, where spider-like mimics suddenly started crawling from.

"Uwaah! What the…?!"

She quickly retreated, finding herself surrounded by hundreds of tiny spider-like mimics made of small furniture.

"Emily, stop screwing things up!" I said. "Jesus, this girl…!"

It was time I guess.

I quickly stepped forward, waving my hands, as void emerged from them.

"{Chaotic Void Ocean Waves}"

I unleashed waves of water-like void from my hands, which quickly washed away all the mimics and disintegrated them, quickly reaching the floor below and killing anything there.

I think there was a huge spider, but it died just as easily.

After that, while the furniture mimics and the paintings rushed to my back, I summoned my two Dream Heart Weapons to fight back.

"[Halberd of Death]! [Sword of Darkness]!"

With a huge black halberd and a red and purple colored sword emanating darkness, I stepped forward, leaping into action. My halberd cleaved through their wooden bodies with ease, reducing them to smithereens, while my sword slashed them apart into countless pieces.

CRASH! CRASH! SLASH! SLASH!

As the monsters died one after another, my undead kept everything in control, eventually, after our combined efforts, the last mimic was finally slain.

"Phew, it's finally over! What the hell man, this place's full of Nightmares!" Emily complained.

"Well, if it wasn't because you charged recklessly into battle, none of this would have happened!" said Sofia angrily. "Please be more careful from now on, okay?!"

"Sorry… I'm really sorry…" Emily cried.

And then, the sound of her stomach rumbling very loudly echoed across the large, destroyed room.

"I guess someone's hungry," Alma giggled. "Well, how long have we been exploring so far?"

"A couple of hours…" Sofia sighed.

"Then maybe we could eat something, no?" Jonathan asked.

"Did you bring food somehow?" wondered Sofia. "My ring's empty."

Ah, I guess its time for me to reveal yet another of my cheats.

Marvel before your great friend, girls, I have many amazing abilities!

"Don't worry, I brought food."

I opened my Inventory, a small black hole opened in front of everyone, where I grabbed a large quantity of pre-made meals, still pipping hot I had prepared back in Yggdrasil.

I can't believe I could bring them here, they're practically alien meals, would they be fine eating this?

System, help!

[They'll be fine… Food is food, the beings of Yggdrasil and this world are not incompatible biologically, so it doesn't matter. If anything they might feel very energized due to all the magic energy.]

Oh nice!

"Woah, what the hell! Maria! I had no idea you had a subspace storage ability?!" gasped Emily. "Is that an extension of your Shadow Magic?!"

"Can Shadow Magic do that?!" Sofia asked me. "I-I had no idea! Your power is worth tens of billions…! How much can you store?! Can you store whole airplanes perhaps?"

"Um, calm down Sofia, it's not that big!" I lied. "And yeah it's shadow magic. Pretty cool, huh? Want to eat? I got lunches for everyone! Undead, turn into a table and seats!"

The skeletons rapidly transformed by my commands, as I used Bone Manipulation to quickly fuse them into a beautiful, white-colored table and also seats for everyone.

"Y-You can even do this with the skellies?!" Emily gasped again.

"Wow, it's a bit creepy though…" Alma muttered. "But that food smells so nice, I'll risk it for the biscuit!"

Aren't those two airheads the cutest?

"Nice, I was so hungry!" Partner licked her lips. "Do you have some blood too?"

"Blood?!" Emily and Alma gasped, even Sofia glared at Partner weirdly.

"Uh, well, my Element of Magic is Blood, so to keep it strong, I must drink blood…" Partner tried to act like someone that didn't want to do that. "Ugh, it's disgusting but there's no helping it if I want to stay strong…"

"Ah… W-Well… I've heard weirder things from other people I guess," Emily shrugged.

"Ahh… I once heard that Nature Magicians have to eat a lot of vegetables!" said Alma. "M-Maybe it's like that?"

"Do you see Emily eating metals?" facepalmed Sofia. "Well, whatever… Jonathan~! Come sit by my side!"

This girl is so two-faced its even funny at this point…

Anyways, like that, we sat down and ate a nice meal before continuing.

And eventually, as we slain groups of mimics and paintings one after another.

We reached the last floor, and a huge black door greeted us.

"Phew, that was sure some nice exercise…" sighed Emily. "Let's get over with this then!"

As she was about to push the gate open, I quickly grabbed her with my skeletons and dragged her back.

"Don't be reckless! Were you going to open the door? Are you insane?" I sighed.

"S-Sorry! I was doing it without thinking, hahah!" laughed the short-haired blonde tomboy. "A-Anyways, I guess the undead should do it first, r-right? Please let me go…"

"Okay…" as I let her go, I quickly ordered the skeletons to open the gate. "Now… Open the gates."

The skeletons pushed the black gate open.

Creaaak…!

The sound of the gate opening reverberated, revealing a dark room that slowly illuminated by the light of candles being lit up.

Eventually, we saw a large figure, a giant puppet-like being, groaning in the floor. n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"G-Graaaggh… Graaaggghh…!"

As it groaned, we prepared for battle.

"This must be the Nightmare Lord-"

Sofia's voice was cut short, as the darkness was finally and completely dissipated.

Revealing a second figure, someone.

A small person, a girl.