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

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"Oof… Phew…"

"Why are we doing this to begin with?"

"Can't we step out and help Lady Maria in her trial at least?"

"Master! Can't you tell her that this is too dishonorable for us Cultivators of a sect like the Blood Demon Sect?"

Old Master Wu Lien glared at his disciples with a tired, bored expression. Compared to having an agonizing death or his soul eaten, he thought that doing some physical labor wasn't even a problem.

"Why are you complaining so much you lot?!" he groaned angrily. "Once Lady Maria is done with this trial we'll be able to return to Murim… or well, eventually! It shouldn't be too far away from there. All of you are powerful Cultivators with strong bodies, carrying a lot of these Nightmare Cores is somehow too much work now? Maybe you've grown too spoiled…"

"Y-Yeah but even then, carrying hundreds- no, thousands of these things around is exhausting!"

"How are you even fine when you're so old, master Wu?"

"Well he's of a much higher realm than ours so he's of course fine!"

"Haaahhh… These youngsters truly need some punishment," Old Man Wu sighed. "Once we return back home, if you keep behaving like this, you might face appropriate punishment. Behave!"

"Y-Yes!"

As he released his powerful Aura, his students finally stopped complaining and getting cocky, and resumed their job as he looked at them working even faster than before.

"I knew it, you could do it even faster if you wanted, you lazy rats!" he sighed, crossing his arms as he started smoking from a wooden pipe. "Hmm… Phew…"

As he sighed in relief after leaving all the job to his disciples and finally taking a break himself, he admired the thing within the Shadow Realm that Young Lady Maria had told him to do for her.

With the help of his disciples, a giant… thing was being made.

And a little Mushroom boy was using his Mushroom-growing powers to create it, alongside hundreds of Nightmare Cores.

"Hmm, is it like this, right? I am creating a heart… made of deadly mushrooms! Woah this is funnier than I thought, hahaha!"

Little Myconidas was having his own fun, growing countless mushrooms and mushroom roots all around the entire heart-shaped formation. Experience exclusive tales on My Virtual Library Empire

Inside of it, there were several Nightmare Cores being placed, merging and being covered by the mushroom roots, fusing with it.

Slowly, the Nightmare Essence within them started flowing out, rapidly, through every single vein they had merged with…

At the same time, Tyr glanced at the entire thing with silence.

"If I may ask, although I dare not to defy her orders, what is Lady Maria planning to do with this?" asked Wu.

"She said she wanted to do a Formation," said Tyr. "And it has already been activated… But she's further expanding it right now. She said she wanted to "process" the Nightmare Essence and experiment with it. First she'll try to distill it using Myconidas' Withering and Decay Mushroom Roots."

"Such a thing is possible?" wondered Old Man Wu.

"Maria figured out Myconidas powers could do it," said Tyr. "It is because he can make anything, and all things wither and decay. So he's specifically targeting all "bad things" within the Nightmare Essence, filtering them out while leaving the purity within it."

"Oooh!" nodded Old Man Wu. "Incredible… To think Yggdrasil has so many incredible, magical powers and beings! Someone like Myconidas would certainly… never exist in Murim."

"Hmm…" Tyr glared at the old man while squinting his eye. "But there are also other monsters there, isn't it?"

"Hah, indeed…" smiled Old Man Wu. "At the top of my head, I can think of a couple dangerous Mythical Martial Beasts. Powerful beings that dominate a large piece of land within the Murim. And there's also… The Calamities."

"So you have them in your world as well?" Tyr wondered.

"Yes… Every world always has then, Calamities are like unmovable forces of nature…" sighed Wu. "Although sometimes, like Arachne. They are also people… or once were people."

"…" Tyr glared at the old man, noticing he was referring to someone he once knew.

"Hmm, well, we'll see what we can do once we're there," Tyr glanced into the distance. "For now, looks like its my cue."

He quickly transformed from his small spherical form to a giant made of black chaos with purple and red colors swirling around his muscular humanoid form.

His long hair made of darkness and red and purple stars spread out around, and his single crimson eye on his face, alongside the many more across his body made him resemble a completely eldritch monstrosity.

"Ooohh… So this is the Legendary Evil God of Yggdrasil we've heard so much about!"

"Incredible, such a massive body… full of divinity!"

"It is said that whoever could get a Fragment of the Evil God would gain unparalleled power…"

"Yet to think Maria befriended him instead…" Old Man Wu laughed as his disciples talked with one another after seeing Tyr's "true form".

"Hmm… I once was much human-like than before," said Tyr. "My body was mutated and corrupted by Loki's Chaos Divinity. And I was turned into a rampaging Calamity. Then I was split apart into pieces. It is thanks to Maria that I've begun to regain my consciousness once more, and each fragment she gathers of me, I gain more power. This form… I don't particularly like it, it's so far away from what I once was… But then again, I suppose it is not too bad either. I once was a God of War and Justice…"

"I see…" Wu muttered, surprised as he gazed at Tyr's glorious chaotic form.

"Now…"

Tyr stepped forward, making the ground tremble as he imbued his Chaotic Energies into the formation's heart, enhancing the speed in which Myconidas' mushrooms purified the Nightmare Cores.

FLAAASH!

Eventually, a large fleshy tube made of mushroom started dropping huge purple and pink colored crystal spheres, purified Nightmare Cores.

"Ooh, there they are! Dream Cores! It worked as she thought!" Wu celebrated. "But I wonder what can be done with this?"

"We'll see…" Tyr said. "But Maria is certainly planning something big. Let's put our trust into her."

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