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

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"Let's go, Celes! We have to hurry! The Soul Fragments are moving to fuse together!" Nyx said. "We gotta hurryyyyy!"

"I know! Sorry, let's go!" Celes nodded, leaping into the bubble and rushing down.

"YOU THINK I'LL LET YOU GO HELP THEM?! THEY'RE MY MEALS!!!"

The Original Nightmare Curse roared furiously, extending its tentacles and stopping Nyx, Celes, Arthur, and the rest from going down, attempting to catch the bubble and destroy it.

However, Nia's eyes glowed brightly. Wielding her thunderous spear, her aura of winds erupted, fusing with her thunder and releasing a gigantic storm around her.

"I won't let you touch my child!"

She roared mightily, charging against the nearby tentacles and piercing through them with her spear. Her entire aura constantly rotated and spiraled, preventing him from touching them.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Each of her blows released a thunderous blast with slicing winds, tearing apart the tentacles and stopping them from reaching the group altogether as they descended into the city at lightning speed.

"AAAGGH! S-SINCE WHEN HAS A PATHETIC INSECT LIKE YOU HELD THIS POWER?! NONE OF YOU CAN MAKE A DENT ON ME!!!"

He roared furiously, opening his crimson eyes and firing beams of darkness and nightmare flames against them. Nia evaded and then rapidly redirected the attacks back to him, using her powerful storm aura to unleash destructive thunderbolts and slicing winds.

FLUOOOSH!

"UUUGGHHH?! NOOO!"

The Original Nightmare Curse groaned furiously as the bubble passed through the barrier with ease, reaching the city below. At the same time, Maria and the rest of her group smiled, attacking him at once from every angle.

"They'll make sure to destroy your shitty little soul fragments, so don't worry!" Maria laughed. "Your plan will only work against you, fucking idiot! Your soul fragments are going to shatter, and you're going to become even weaker!"

"S-SILENCE! IT WON'T FAIL! HEHEHE…! I'LL MAKE SURE IT WON'T!"

As the Nightmare Curse laughed, his tentacles unified into a gigantic fist blazing with soul-burning nightmare flames, rushing toward Maria and everyone.

"Maybe you can handle smaller body parts, but can you handle this?! Without your original monstrous power, you're nothing!!!"

As the massive fist rushed toward them, Maria's Divine Spirit Thunder and her Calamity Swarm merged once more, constantly multiplying and manifesting millions of giant insects made of black and golden thunder.

"{Soul Ego and Body Ego Combination Art}: {Abyssal Calamity Thunder Swarm Fusion: Zeus' Hand}!"

RUMBLE!

The insects made of thunder rapidly fused together, spiraling and melting into a single, equally titanic hand, clashing against the Original Nightmare Curse's monstrous Nightmare Hand and pushing it back. Thunder spread through his entire body.

CRAAASH!

"I-IMPOSSIBLE…!"

He couldn't believe how far Maria could go! She was simply, as her Status stated, {Boundless}!

But this was as far as she could push herself with this Ego of hers. The rest had to be her family's efforts.

And they worked very hard!

"We got this, Maria! We can win!"

Emeraldine pointed her bow at the monster, charging a gigantic arrow made of rainbow light, encompassing many elements at once and firing not one but multiple arrows, bombarding the monster before her with explosions of spiritual elements. Roots of Yggdrasil spread through his body, further injecting him with "positive" energies.

"He's already cornered! Give it your all!"

Partner roared as she imbued her powers into her two spears, which overflowed with both their Blood and Darkness and new Nightmare Elements, spiraling and becoming gigantic pillars of calamity, piercing through dozens of tentacles and leaving holes across the monster's body.

"We must push forward together, don't falter!"

Jonathan imbued his newly forged divinity and his divine ember into his divine sword, his dream weapon, no longer a gift from someone else but a part of his very being and the embodiment of his dreams and what he embodied as a "hero" to everyone. Swinging his sword of light, a barrage of slashing waves pierced through the monster, constantly tearing his body apart.

"For Celes and the kids down below, we cannot let you hurt them!"

Nia roared, releasing her stormy aura like before. This, combined with her powerful dream weapon spear, merged her thunder and wind into the perfect Thunderstorm and Windstorm Domain, devastating everything around her and turning her into a literal natural disaster. Long gone were the days when she was a defenseless single mother in a desert town.

"Don't forget about me!"

And lastly, there was Arachne, who had stayed behind instead of going with Nyx, as she preferred to stay with her mama. Using her Dream Weapon, her legs themselves, she walked, crawled, and manipulated the empty space and the void to her advantage, tearing it apart and sending shockwaves of void against her opponent. At the same time, the power of Sloth manifested from her body, encompassing her foe and beginning to slow him down, making him strangely dizzy.

The endless bombardment of attacks was becoming tiring for the abomination, but he was enduring, constantly regenerating while focusing a part of his mind inside the city, devastating as much as he could while seeking to kill as many people as possible to feed on their souls and dream essence. His Four Soul Fragments attempted to find one another and fuse.

However, one of them was suddenly interrupted as a giant red and golden staff slammed it and sent it flying toward a building instead!

CLASH!

"UUUGGH…! WHO…! WHO DARES?!"

The Avatar's eyes widened as he saw a young Chinese man standing on a long red and golden pole, wearing a golden headband. His Aura exuded the power of Divinity itself.

He was the embodiment of this world's oldest and most ridiculous "myth," the inheritor of the dreams of countless Asian people across the globe, of a being both seen as a hero and sometimes as a villain.

The Great Sage Equal to Heaven.

He wielded his power through his Dream Heart, the only one, a miracle among miracles.

The strongest human of the world before Maria arrived with everyone else.

A truly boundless individual!

"Yo! Looks like I finally caught myself something worth fighting!"

Cheng Xie, the wielder of the [Endless Magic Pole] and the one carrying the essence of Sun Wu Kong born from the collective dreams of the masses, had finally stepped into the battle.

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