Transmigrated as a Ghost

Viscount Poulsen shot up looking towards the sound that had just prevented him from getting to sleep and saw the mirror shattered across the ground.

He then looked around, making sure there were no intruders, and in front of his eyes he could see that there was no one else inside the room.

Grumbling angrily Poulsen called for one of the maids that worked in his service and she quickly cleaned up the mess before Poulsen once again tried to get some sleep.

This time Marcus did let Poulsen fall asleep waiting for about an hour before he used his chill zone ability and made the temperature in the room plummet.

It was not long before the viscount woke up shivering, noticing that there was frost forming on the windows in his room and that it was even cold enough to see his breath.

Jumping to his feet with a start, he immediately thought he was under some type of attack and called the guards that stayed outside his room to come in at once.

The men came rushing in quickly looking around except, Marcus had already shut down his chill zone and the room's temperature while slightly cold was going back to normal.

However, Marcus was incredibly fortunate with the guards that had come into the room since one of them was the lead guard that Poulsen had ordered to kill him.

'There you are, now let me see what level you are. Hm, twenty-six, not overly strong but still respectable. However, unlike last time I am not at level seventeen so this time will be much different.'

Marcus quickly began reformulating his plan fitting the guard he was not sure he could find into it.

The guards under Poulsen's orders began searching his room but they turned up nothing which further enraged Poulsen.

"My room did not suddenly get struck by a localized cold front; someone must have used magic of some kind to attack me. I want you to search this entire mansion until you find the perpetrator and how they got in."

The two guards looked at their master with contempt since it would take them hours to search the mansion and they were sure that the viscount was just imagining things.

However, they were being paid well and simply began searching the entire place hoping to find something since finding nothing was going to be even more of a headache.

Poulsen of course moved rooms going across to the other side of his mansion and using one of the buildings many guest room.

Unfortunately for him, this made no difference to Marcus as he simply floated on behind stalking Poulsen.

As Marcus followed behind Poulsen he waited for him to open the door to the new room, he summoned his spectral arm again, and quickly grabbed Poulsen's leg and tripped him.

Poulsen fell face first into the ground with a loud thud and began screaming saying that someone was attacking him.

His guards then ran over to him and saw that there was no one around and their master seemed to have simply tripped.

At this point Poulsen began acting frantic, he knew that someone had just grabbed his leg and was certain that something or someone was tormenting him.

Alas, there was no concrete proof and while his guards decided to humor Poulsen and guard him through the night in his study, but nothing else happened.

'That was a good start, for the first day. You made a big mistake attacking me and getting the ire of a ghost. Now I will give him a few hours of peace so that he thinks it was all in his head or maybe he will just get more paranoid either way works for me.'

Of course, Marcus could have just killed the viscount without any resistance, but he wanted Poulsen to suffer.

Marcus then allowed the viscount a number of hours of peace continuing to watch and follow him waiting for the next opportunity to ruin Viscount Poulsen's life.

Luckily the perfect chance came when Poulsen was holding some sort of banquet where he was trying to drum up support for some type of bridge or something, Marcus really was not paying much attention.

However, he was waiting for the right chance to ruin Poulsen's reputation, and the perfect opportunity presented itself when one of the other nobles attending the event gave some discontent with the project.

Seeing this Marcus floated right up to Poulsen and possessed him before he could respond.

Now in control of Viscount Poulsen's body Marcus walked up to the noble who had offered his grievances and dumped a glass of wine on his head.

Marcus then kicked the chair out from under him and said, "That is what I think of your opinion, this project is going through no matter what and I do not care what any of you dumb asses have to say."

After that Marcus bent over in Poulsen's body pulled his pants down flashing everyone in the room.

Marcus then left Poulsen's body leaving him to clean up the mess that he had just caused.

Every noble, merchant, and servant in the room were appalled by "Poulsen's" actions, and the noble that he had just assaulted got up and actually slapped Poulsen across the face.

Poulsen for his part had no idea what had happened, it seemed that he had blanked out and suddenly everyone was mad at him.

Many of the nobles and wealthy merchants immediately left angrily shouting at Poulsen telling him he would regret this, especially the count that he had just assaulted.

Poulsen even though he was confused tried his best to contain the predicament saying that he must have experienced a bout of madness, or that he was afflicted by a curse.

And while this did calm down a few of the people since it was not unheard of for a noble to be on the receiving end of a curse, they were not going to truly forgive him unless he could prove it.

As everyone left leaving Poulsen in a complete mess he went into a frenzy tossing furniture around before he told his butler to get a priest to his residence as soon as possible.

Marcus hearing this was a bit intrigued since he had heard that priests were supposed to be able to exercise malicious spirts, and the demon that had taken over Tyler's spirt in his own home had avoid the persists by hiding in the secret room.

'They must have some sort of power if that demon hid from them instead of just killing them.'

Waiting for the priest, Marcus decided not to do anything during this time since there were too many guards and servants around Poulsen.

Soon a priest arrived, and Marcus quickly appraised him and found that he was level twenty-nine which was pretty good.

'Hm should I leave the area or see what he is going to do. I really am interested in what kind of magic he is going to use… It should be fine worst-case scenario I just use my phantom pressure and kill Poulsen instantly.'

Marcus watched as the priest began tossing some type of dust into the area around the viscount and began chanting.

When he finished the chant he said, "Reveal Darkness." And the dust began lighting up until the entire room was glowing and, the area where Marcus was floating was outlined.

However, it only lasted for an incredibly fleeting moment and the priest was a bit confused.

It was as if his spell thought it had found a dark entity but then decided that whatever it thought it had found was not really there.

'What is going on, if there is a dark entity it should still be outlined. It is not like my spell stopped working or was countered, it is still in effect. This has never happened before, maybe at one time an entity was here, but is now gone.'

The priest tried wrapping his mind around what had happen but ultimately decided that it was probably nothing since if there truly was a being of malice and darkness that was attached to the viscount his spell would have reveled it.

Internally sighing Marcus thought for a moment that he would be found out, but it appeared that the spell the priest had used failed to work, because while Marcus was a being of darkness, he was also equally a being of light and so the spell had disregarded him after a moment.

The priest then informed Poulsen that he did not seem to be under the effects of a curse or was haunted but said he would use a purifying spell just in case.

The priest started up another chant and when he was finished said the name of the spell, "Cleansing Light."

A bright light shot out of the priest filling the entire room, and while Marcus felt slightly uncomfortable, ultimately the spell did nothing to him.

After the spell had finished, Poulsen looked visibly relived since he believed whatever was targeting him had been destroyed or dispelled.

Unfortunately, Marcus was perfectly find and moved onto the next phase of his plan.

Marcus then floated towards a certain painting in the viscount's study and floated right through it.

Passing through the painting Marcus found himself inside a safe, but he knew to keep going and went through the safe's wall and found his head poking into another hidden safe.

'Like father, like son. This must be where Ivar learned this trick. Too bad I already know about it."

Marcus then collected the documents inside the safe finding that many of them connected Poulsen to an underground organization called permafrost.

Collecting all of the incriminating documents Marcus floated out of safe and went to the table inside the study and wrote a letter for Poulsen.

Once he was finished, Marcus took the letter and one of the incriminating documents and laid them on Poulsen's bed.

Marcus waited for Poulsen to come back to his room and could see that this time while he still seemed upset, he seemed to be less wary.

However, when he saw the letter and document waiting on his bed Poulsen tensed up.

Carefully he approached the letter and when he saw which document it was, he nearly screamed out loud.

Luckily, he managed to keep calm enough to read the letter that had been left on his bed and when he was done, he began hyperventilating.

Marcus seeing this began laughing internally since his little prank had worked.

He had left a message impersonating a member of the permafrost and wrote that they had a leak and that this document was on its way to the higher ups of the kingdom.

This caused Poulsen to begin franticly packing as he planned to flee the kingdom.

Alas, this had just been another way that Marcus wanted to rile up Poulsen and make his last moments feel like hell.

'I suppose that will be enough, as much as I could continue to mess with him, I have better things to do.'

Marcus then went into the final part of his plan and found the guard that had been the reason for his defeated in the dungeon and possessed him.

The man put up a good fight not wanting to relinquish control to Marcus, but the difference between their spirt stats was too high, and Marcus was soon in control.

Having possessed the guard that who at one time nearly killed him, Marcus walked briskly towards Poulsen's room since he only had ten minutes since the limit on his possession skill was still in effect.

Luckily ten minutes was more than enough and after just two minutes Marcus was standing in front of Poulsen's room.

Walking in Marcus saw Poulsen shoving clothes into a trunk, while nearly frothing at the mouth.

When Poulsen saw Marcus, who was possessing one of his lead guards, he shouted at him, "What the hell are you doing in here, I did not call for you, get out I only have a little bit of time to get out of here."

Slamming the door Marcus disregarded the viscount's order and approached him with a sinister smile.

Seeing Marcus' actions Poulsen loudly yelled, "What are you doing, I told you to leave, if you do not want me to have you executed you will leave now."

Hearing this Marcus began laughing, causing Poulsen's expression to distort into one of confusion.

"Ah, that was funny, you really do think that you are more important than you really are. You should be carful about threating people that are much stronger than you, with the flick of my wrist I could leave you dead."

Visible terror appeared on Poulsen's face when he heard this. He knew that at only level eighteen his guard that is level twenty-six, really could dispose of him with no problem.

Steeling himself Poulsen haughtily said, "Have you gone crazy Nash, even if you did kill me, the kingdom and the organization would hunt you down and torture you before killing you. Wait are you the one who put this letter on my bed, I know you used to work for the organization so you must know that if I am exposed you will go down with me."

Marcus just smirked and said, "Yes that is what I am hoping for."

He then lunged forward with one of Nash's rapiers and stabbed it directly into the viscounts liver.

The viscount feeling the searing pain let out a loud painful scream as Marcus pulled the blade out.

Marcus then kicked the viscount onto the ground and left the body of Nash, who fell to the ground unconscious after Marcus' possession.

Marcus now standing in front of the viscount in his form as Irene stared at him and said, "Remember me, you came all the way to Loursend after tracking me down, just to kill me, so I have come to repay the favor."

Viscount Poulsen stared at Marcus in disbelief, he thought that he was dead, he had watched his body burst into dust.

With all the strength he could muster do to his rage the viscount said, "What the hell are you, I saw you die in that dungeon you should be dead."

Marcus shook his head and said, "You did destroy my corporal form, but it takes more than that to keep a good ghost down. You really should have left me alone, your son died because of his own incompetence and now you are going to be following after him."

Poulsen hearing this began shouting for his guards, but unfortunately Marcus had already knocked them unconscious on his way here.

Walking over towards him, Marcus picked up the rapier and jammed it into Poulsen's throat

As the rapier slid through Viscount Poulsen's soft flesh a fountain of blood began flowing out of his mouth and Marcus watched as the life left his body.

With his revenge now finally accomplish Marcus placed the rapier back in the hands of the unconscious Nash, and then went around the estate placing the incriminating documents in different difficult but not impossible to find locations, planning to ruin Poulsen's reputation even after his death.