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



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A catastrophe.

After having completed the dungeon and even retrieved one of the Evil God Fragments, everyone had imagined they would be able to take it easy for a while.

However, the mind of mortals is usually incapable of imagining what Gods might be thinking. Cunningly, they planned to strike when they had their guards lowered.

They all saw as a being made of Divine Power descended from the skies, breaking the "indestructible" walls of the dungeon, and launching an attack against Maria and all of them.

Partner panicked, but quickly decided to fight. Even when Maria herself tried to sacrifice herself to protect everyone from the massive divine attack, which was as big as a mountain, and which consumed everything in their sight. Partner utilized all her blood and mana reserves, activating her strongest technique.

Lucifer's mind worked rapidly, quickly putting Nyx behind him as his body quickly regained his dragon form, in mere seconds, he gathered every bit of Mana within his soul and body into his jaws, unleashing a breath attack.

Emeraldine protected Takeshi and Laura, and the rest of the dwarves, gathering all her Spirit's power and her Mana into the palm of her hands and then transferring it into her bow, which grew into an immense size, overflowing with light.

At the same time, Root, who already had his roots piercing the ground quickly began drawing the power of Nature and the vast Mana reserves of the entire Dungeon, fusing his powers with Emeraldine, and generating a massive dome made of his own wooden body, trying to protect everyone.

"Vampiric Blood Arts: [Endless Blood Spiral]!"

"Draconic Arts: [Ultimate Death Dragon Breath]!"

"Holy Spirit Bow Arts: [Yggdrasil's Nine Divine Realms]!"

An enormous attack emerged. Partner, Lucifer, and Emeraldine unleashed the strongest blows they could ever muster.

Partner conjured an absolutely massive spiraling tornado made entirely out of Mana and Blood Energy, so big it could completely destroy a whole mountain, reaching high into the skies and clashing against Thor's Lightning!

CLAAAAAASSSSH!!!!

Lucifer's unleashed his strongest breath attack, utilizing even his own Life Force and all the Death Energy, Dragon Force, and Mana he possessed, unleashing a devastating and destructive Dragon Breath that could completely engulf an entire country into black flames of death.

BOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!

And lastly, Emeraldine's eyes shone brightly with the power of the spirits she held, suddenly, nine arrows containing nine different elements were conjured, her own long lifespan was used as a sacrifice as she utilized a hundred years of her long elven lifespan to bring out elements she didn't even had an affinity with, an innate power of Elves. Nine arrows containing the elements of Yggdrasil's nine realms emerged, firing against Thor's Lightning attack, and exploding subsequently.

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOOOMMMM!!!

The strongest members of this party unleashed their most powerful attacks, the very auras they emanated shook the entire dungeon, shattering the ground and the surrounding walls. Even the outside world was not spared, the entire mountain began to tremble and an earthquake happened all around the dwarven city.

Their combined attacks melded together as their wills became one, suddenly resembling a monstrous, multi-elemental roaring dragon made of pure Mana, flying towards Thor's Lightning and somehow… resisting his powers!

TRUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMM…!

"Hoh?!"

Thor was surprised, he never thought mere mortals would be able to push him back like this! He glanced down at the inferior creatures, his eyes growing sharper as he merely intensified the level of divine power charged into his attack.

"Hmph, arrogant insects… You're not worth anything, weaklings! Your struggle is pointless! Mortals had never been able to fight back against the almighty judgement of us Gods!" He laughed.

FLAAAAAAAAASSSSHHHH!!!

His lightning quickly began to overpower the Multi-Elemental Dragon, as Partner, Lucifer, and Emeraldine were already running out of Mana! Their teeth gritted tightly, as their bodies began to lose their strength, their very lives were being consumed as they tried to enhance their attacks even further.

"It's pointless! While you have to sacrifice your very lives to even be able to do this much… I don't even break a sweat while putting this almighty power! Cannot you understand the difference between gods and mortals?! You're merely insects, waiting to be stomped by our foot!"

Thor's comments only angered them more!

"Shut your damn mouth, you damn bastard!" Lucifer roared first, offending a god. He amongst everyone here knew the most what a God truly was, a divine being without parallel. Yet he offended him, a taboo amongst taboos between dragons, the former guardians of the world and the gods themselves.

"I don't… GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOU BEING A GOD!!!" Partner roared, without even understanding what being a God truly entailed other than just "being very strong".

"Heh… For being a God, you really seem desperate, Thor!" Emeraldine smiled defiantly, provoking Thor even more.

Thor's youthful and flawless face grew furious! His face distorted into that of a monstrous aberration, as he couldn't contain his fury! How dare they! Mortals insulting a god?!

"Y-You…!" Thor muttered, trying to keep his composure. Only a few seconds have passed yet he found it weird… what was blocking his powers aside from these three?

Suddenly, he noticed it.

The power of Yggdrasil herself was intervening!

He saw an enormous dome made of Yggdrasil wood growing all around them, protecting them from his divine power, even if a little bit.

With Maria's soul also stacking with the dome, their time of survival was greatly increased from less than ten seconds to almost a minute?!

"Yggdrasil?! Why is that monster holding the power of Yggdrasil…?!" Thor felt shocked. However, a confident smile emerged on his lips. "If I can defeat that and then absorb that branch into my Divine Realm, I'll grow even stronger… I could even one day overthrown father, right?"

Thor's very own greed was what bought Maria even more time, those mere thoughts, which lasted for a few seconds, made him stand still without not putting much attention into his own attack, which lost a part of its original intensity!

FLAAAAAASH!

And from within the Maria's Soul Core, something else began to emerge…

"This Darkness…! Eh?! Don't tell me…!" Thor began to panic.

He saw an enormous quantity of darkness erupting from within Maria's disintegrating body.

"She's evolving?!"

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