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

Chapter 1223: Going Through The Dangerous Nightmare Realm



(Maria's POV)

Once we defeated all the Nightmares that had appeared to greet us, I had a little talk with my family outside of the Nightmare Realm, thankfully I left some Egos with them, so I was able to communicate even between these two separate dimensions, a pretty neat trick.

With that, I managed to bring along Beatriz, summoning her to my side in her cat form, she was confused an angry, but once she got here, she looked slightly happy and comfortable, like as if she were at home.

"Huh, this place's not so bad, it has a lot of Nightmare Essence concentrated! That Sofia... I never thought she had this potential! Maybe in the previous loops I wouldn't have eaten her if I knew I could turn her into this, haha!"

As she talked through telepathy, Emily and Alma, who were recovering from the battle, noticed the cute cat appearing, sensing her powerful aura.

"Oh, it's your familiar? You could summon her like this?" wondered Emily.

"Yeah! I can summon many more familiars too," I said. "Before we fought I sent a dozen Skeletons to check my surroundings. I managed to mentally map some of the area before they died by being eaten by Nightmares."

"E-Eaten?!" Alma cried. "How many are there? Did you see them?"

"Maybe too many!" I said. "There were giant trees, large shadows, creepy crawlies, and large bugs... But there seems to be a lot of dead-ends."

"What does that mean?" wondered Emily, drinking a special drink full of electrolytes and vitamins for athletes I gave to her.

"It means that most of the directions they went to led to places with nests teeming with Nightmares," I said. "If we had all the time in the world I would happily go hunt them, but we clearly don't have any time..."

"So there's Nightmare Monster nests here? This is the first time I hear of such a term; this means this Realm must be huge!" Alma said.

"It's really big, yeah, like a huge piece of landscape. But it has an end, one of my skeletons reached the border, falling from the ground and reaching the Nightmare Void Sea, being swallowed and disappearing... Not a good thing to look at," I sighed. "Hm, imagine it like we're standing on top of a floating island."

"O-Oh..." nodded Alma. "That's still very scary..."

"Yeah," I said.

I've used my Automatic Mapping Skill to rapidly map everything my skeletons saw though, and I got an overall layout of the entire Nightmare Realm.

"We're currently in the middle of the entire Realm, an area that is an open grassland surrounded by a garden of flowers," I explained. "From what I could detect, to the west there's a series of holes that lead to an Underground Nest of Mole-like Nightmares... that look really strange. Then to the east there's a frozen garden of ice flowers full of weird mannequin-like Nightmares with sharp limbs."

"That sounds annoying..." Emily said.

"Behind us, there's some mountains with open caves leading inside areas full of strange golem-like nightmares," I explained. "And lastly, if we go straight from here, we'll reach something resembling a labyrinth made of plants. It had some weird shadow things, but it seemed like the safest for you two. Also, the Nightmare's rate of assimilation is increasing a lot over time, so we have to hurry, or it might be impossible to save Sofia."

"You're right!" nodded Alma. "Please Emily, stop resting, we have to hurry! Nom, nom, nom!"

She finished eating the little cereal bar I gave to her as she said she got hungry from overusing her magic, and then Emily nodded, finishing her energy drink.

"Alright!"

She started stretching for a bit and then nodded.

"Let's go, Maria, lead the way please!"

"Sure, follow me!"

While using my shadows to move faster through the Nightmare Realm, we dashed across the dark garden, trying to run as fast as possible so more Nightmares wouldn't end up swarming

us.

But even when we moved quickly after I enhanced their speed using my Shadows, those things appeared anyways.

RUMBLE!

The gardens surrounding us started to tremble, as gigantic red, purple, and black roses with eyes on their bodies emerged from the ground.

"GRYYAAAAAHH!"

With horrendous, ear-piercing screams, dozens of giant five-meter-tall Nightmares emerged, quickly moving their long roots and branches covered on poisonous needles to

catch us.

"Hahaha! Look what you got yourself into now! A bunch of Nightmares want to eat you!" Beatriz was enjoying this, the little rascal.

"Emily! Alma! Attack them, I'll cover the rest!"

"Yeah!"

"Okay!"

Alma quickly loaded her armor with lightning and swung her fists, clashing against the roses and blasting holes through them, their roots were of no use, as she easily broke through them

all.

"{Thunderous Fist}!"

ВААМ! ВААМ! ВААМ! ВААМ!

Her fists were fast and powerful, followed by kicks and headbutts, as long as she used her Dream Weapon, her entire body became a weapon of its own.

Meanwhile, Alma conjured her magic using her Staff once more, this time spread bubbles everywhere around her and then changing their shape... hardening them.

Wait, what is she doing?!

"If its water then... Then I can... do this much, right?! Please... Please work!"Nôv(el)B\\jnn

As she cried, her eyes glowed with azure light, as her aura turned into one of frost, the water needles suddenly frozen, becoming dozens of ice needles!

"{Ice Needles}!"

The ice needles were fired, piercing through the Rose Nightmares bodies and then freezing their bodies as they did, slowing them down and outright shattering them into pieces once

they froze completely.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

It was incredible! What was once thought to be a Dream Weapon that only worked for support, was rapidly shaping into an offensive Weapon as well.

"SHYAAAAGH!"

As I faced over four gigantic Rose Nightmares, I smiled.

"Well done girls! Now's... Myconidas, it's time for you to shine! Beat these big plants for me,

will you?"

I summoned a little mushroom boy, who had been dying for some action.

"Finallyyyyy! It's my time to shineeeee!"

As he emerged from my shadows and leaped into the air, he touched one of the Nightmares.

FLASH!