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

Chapter 1226: The Mysterious Manor



"{Thunderclap}!"

Emily unleashed a barrage of punches combined with thunderbolts against the Lurking Shadows, their bodies quickly exploded into pieces as she smashed them down to dust.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

Her abilities had improved the more Nightmares we fought. I don't know how Dream Hearts worked exactly, but the more Nightmares a Dream Warrior defeats, the stronger their Dream Weapon grows.

Maybe it is through the absorption of the foe's Nightmare Essence or something? Probably summed with personal growth as well.

"{Ice Spears}!"

Alma, in the other case, improved upon the Ice Needles, now making them larger and heavier, and producing them in much less quantity, quality over quantity this time!

She fired the ice spears, piercing the Lurking Shadows bodies and freezing them before shattering them into pieces, loud explosions of ice dust spread out everywhere.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

"Phew..."

She sighed in relief as she noticed there weren't any more Nightmares, she seemed slightly proud of herself, and that was good, she had grown stronger.

By improving upon little things, she can slowly build larger and stronger things. Turn water into small ice, then make it a needle.

Then, make the needles larger, and she got spears.

Next, she has to improve even more and begin to shapeshift the ice into more complicated forms and shapes.

But that'll be for later, we don't have time to go around helping them train.

"Come here! I've been really hungry latelyyyy! NYAAAH!"

Beatriz transformed into an aberrant black cat with several heads and red eyes over her body, monstrously devouring the Lurking Shadows with a single bite and swallowing them after crushing them into smithereens inside her many jaws.

Nightmare Demons naturally predate all other Nightmares, Beatriz herself had said it is their "birthright" and that all other Nightmares are simply "inferior" to them, only born to become their food or pets.

"Hey, don't eat them all!"

Myconidas chased her around and killed the rest of the Lurking Shadows with his abilities, eating the cores and feeling... stronger? Somehow, he felt like he was getting a bit stronger. I guess if it works, it works.

"We're done!" I nodded, watching my skeletons bring me the Nightmare Cores. "Let's go now, quickly! Beatriz, lead the way!"

"Nyaaah~!"

Beatriz quickly kneeled, letting us sit over her wide back, Emily and Alma were a bit creeped out how the cat transformed, but didn't really reject the offer.

"Hey, Maria what the hell is this cat? Where did you get such a strong familiar?" wondered Emily.

"T-The mushroom is also very strong!" said Alma. "It feels like you've been hiding a lot of things from us, Maria... You seem much stronger than we thought."

"Ah! Uh... Sorry about that," I apologized. "I just thought it wasn't really necessary to talk about everything, my bad."

"Oh well..." Emily shrugged.

"It's better like this!" Alma nodded.

"Meow!"

Beatriz meowed, as our travel quickly ended, she sat down in front of an enormous building resembling an old manor that would be usually owned by a rich family.

"This is the place," she told me through telepathy. "I can smell that big juicy steak here! This is where Sofia is located."

"This is the place," I said. "Beatriz can sense Sofia inside."

"Really?" wondered Emily.

"So she's... in a manor?" wondered Alma. "This is like the previous Nightmare Realm we visited...!"

"A bit, yeah," Emily nodded. "But its much larger inside, I can tell... There's a certain... like, spatial or dimensional force within it."

"You can even sense that, Maria? You're amazing," said Emily with a gasp.

"Ah, nah, not that much..." I laughed a bit humbly. "Anyways, we should get inside. We don't have much time... The Nightmare Decaying Rate has already reached 70% in just like the half hour we've been here. Give it an hour or two and... everything might be lost."

"Yeah, you're not wrong," nodded Emily. "This is it then..."

"Hahh... I'm nervous," Alma sighed. "Sof..."

"Don't worry, there's nothing to be nervous about," I smiled. "We'll go inside, kill any Nightmare, find Sofia, kill the Nightmare Lord, and heal her."

"Y-You can heal her even if the Nightmare Heart is broken?" wondered Alma.

"I think it might work if I use the same ability I used that gave you my lifeforce," I explained. "It's an absolute heal that ignores any ailment or curse. So I'm at least 90% sure it could

work."

"Only 90%?!" Emily panicked.

"Look, it's either that or... or Sofia ends up becoming a Nightmare or something... something even worse," I sighed.

"Yeah, something even worse," Beatriz told me. "That girl is dying... and her Nightmare wants her completely for itself... If things keep going as it is and the Nightmare Lord consumes her completely, there'll be the birth of a new Nightmare Demon, I can feel it."

Dammit.

"Okay, let's go."

I nodded with confidence, as I moved towards the manor with everyone else. In front of the manor's entrance, there was a small garden of withered flowers and dead vines.

No Nightmares in sight, but there were two weird statues at the left and right side of the gate, they resembled knights made of gray stone, holding spears and shields.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

They were three-meters-tall, intimidating but...

CLANK!

Ah, of course they're Nightmares.

The two Knight Statues suddenly moved out of nowhere, giving one step forward that shook

the ground between the two of us.

"T-The statues are moving?!" Alma panicked, giving several steps back and hiding behind

me.

"Ah shit, here we go again I guess!" Emily groaned, her Dream Weapon covering her body as an armor. "Alma, don't be too afraid, we gotta safe Sof no matter what!"

"R-Right!" nodded Alma. "Please rely on me! I'll do my best to help too!"

"Okay then, here they come," I said, wielding my sword and the axe as the two giant statues

rushed towards us.

They swung their spears with genuine dexterity and skill, unleashing barrages of Spearmanship techniques, releasing explosions of darkness against us with each blow. We can't waste our time with this small fry, we have to hurry!

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