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

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BOOOMMM!!!

The barrier within the Nightmare Realm Domain shattered instantly, exploding into pieces and revealing Maria above the skies, standing on top of a gigantic black dragon, and surrounded by her friends wearing red bone armor.

Space and time were twisted as the entire Nightmare Realm was destroyed, and everyone reappeared over the surface of the island in the middle of all, with the demon above them.

"You fucking bastard! You'll pay for this!"

Maria's voice echoed through the skies, as the Nightmare Demon, suddenly greatly weakened from his Nightmare Realm exploding, gasped in disbelief.

"T-THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING! YOU DESTROYED A NIGHTMARE REALM?!"

The Nightmare Demon of Self-Hatred screamed in utter disbelief and anger, all reason was shattered into pieces in front of him, as Maria appeared and ruined all of his plans completely.

"M-Maria?!" Lucifer gasped. "S-She's here…!"

"Maria!" Emeraldine cried.

"I can't believe it's here! After so long…" Nia cried. "Maria, you're here for us!"

"S-So many died, Maria! We need to kill this bastard!" Partner cried.

"SHUT UP, TRASH!"

The Nightmare Demon suddenly harnessed a huge sphere of darkness on his right hand and pointed it at his victims.

"I'll kill you all first before I escape!"

"{Nightmare Cannon}!!!"

TRUUUM!

A massive cannon made of nightmare miasma reached everyone else, as Maria's eyes widened.

"STOP."

RUMBLE!

Her Nightmare Soul expanded faster than the cannon reached her family, as it suddenly made space itself stop moving.

"H-Huh?!"

The Nightmare Demon suddenly felt like time had stopped…

But that wasn't the case!

Maria had merged space into her own Nightmare and Shadow Soul, distorting space with her other abilities.

All within a nanosecond!

"W-What the…?!"

His beam was just hovering in midair, and he could barely move at all.

"You've seriously pissed the shit out of me already…"

"A-Ah!"

The Nightmare Demon's eyes widened in horror, as he saw Maria and… Beatriz by her side!

They appeared right there, glaring at him with utter hatred.

"W-Wait…! Beatriz?! You're alive!"

"Hello brother, or as you would prefer me to call you, Augulantia of Self-Hatred."

The Nightmare Demon noticed Maria and his sister were together… their auras connected, they had created a strange pact, a weird contract.

Something completely insane and impossible!

A human and a nightmare became allies, and no less, a nightmare became a human's familiar?!

"W-What… how are you even able to- Ah! How is this…! I don't…! You dare betray us, Beatriz?!"

The Nightmare Demon was having a hard time trying to process everything that was happening right now.

And yet, his beam suddenly returned towards Maria, as she absorbed it, devouring it completely.

BOOOM!

The beam exploded but dealt no damage to her.

What's more, the Nightmare Miasmic Essence that leaked out of his destroyed Realm all went to her, she ate it as well.

Her Aura constantly grew stronger and larger, all-encompassing!

"I think I've begun to understand how you make these Nightmare thingies," Maria said. "See how I was able to stop you? It's probably a part of my own Nightmare Realm, Domain, or World, whatever you call it!"

"I-Impossible! You're a Nightmare then?! But also a human- No, you're not human!" The Nightmare Demon stepped back, realizing he could move now. "You're some kind of strange monster! You're an otherwor-"

BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!

"G-GAAAGH?!"

Before he could speak another word, Maria's fists moved at lightning speed, dividing into hundreds of blazing skeletal arms that pierced through his entire body!

As he vomited blood and glanced at his own body being impaled dozens of times at once, his Aura merged with his body in an attempt to survive.

"Y-YOUUUUU!"

RUMBLE!

His body expanded into a monstrous aberration with countless tentacles and black swords emerging from his body! His blood itself transformed into thousands of weapons.

"FACE MY TRUE FORM AND DIE, YOU AND THE TRAITOR!"

Self-Hatred cried; his pain made him stronger as his powers continued rising the more Maria had hurt him! Maria and Beatriz glanced at him in silence, as he rushed to attack.

"{NIGHTMARE WEAPON STORM}!!!"

As he cried furiously, he unleashed a storm of thousands of nightmare weapons towards not only Maria but everyone around him, as he aimed to kill them all.

CLANK! CLANK! CLANK! CLANK!

However, Sofia's group appeared in front of Lucifer and the rest, using their Dream Weapons and attacks and destroying the Nightmare Weapons as they came, destroying them into tiny fragments.

"We won't let you harm our friends!" Sofia said, as her Dream Aura grew longer, resembling countless spears of light destroying the black, living Nightmare Weapons one after another.

"You've had enough fun, you piece of shit!" Emily roared, her armor merged with Maria's bone armor and growing to a much larger size, at least twice as tall as she was. Using her giant burly metallic arms, she unleashed thunderclaps and destroyed the weapons.

"Please stay there! I'll heal you all!" Alma said, she swung her staff, creating huge walls of ice and then firing water projectiles, catching dozens of weapons with her water magic and then destroying them by increasing the pressure of the water.

At the same time, Alma unleashed her Healing Water Rings, which covered everyone's bodies, slowly beginning to heal their exhaustion and wounds.

"Dammit, that bastard is going all-out!" Martina roared, her Jester spread her illusory clouds everywhere, as she summoned several clones of herself which she used to destroy the weapons and at the same time, used sharp threads to cut through more weapons.

"EH?!"

The Nightmare Demon glared down below, realizing that Maria's friends got her covered.

"Bad luck, jackass."

Maria appeared in front of him without any fear, his weapons suddenly reaching her, only to explode into pieces once they hit her.

Indeed, she didn't even take damage at all, not even a damned scratch!

"N-NO DAMAGE?!"

As the Demon grew surprised and shocked at what he was seeing, Maria summoned a gigantic sword made of white and black bone, swinging it as it blazed with phantasmal flames.

"{Phantom Blade Rush}!"

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

"GRYAAAAAGGHHH!"

With a never-ending flurry of attacks, Maria cut through the Nightmare Demon's massive body, dividing him into hundreds of little chunks in a mere second.

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