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

Chapter 1196: Fighting Nightmares

Chapter 1196: Fighting Nightmares

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Right after Emily used her armor to fight against the Nightmares, the paintings right behind her started moving and talking...

Yes, indeed.

"????????..."

The paintings started extending out of the canvas, made out of spectral energies and swirling, chaotic nightmare soot, the creatures rapidly grabbed their own canvas and dragged it with them.

Giant claws of over three meters each started crawling over the ground, they were four of them all of them exuding a strong aura of Nightmare Energy, turning their surroundings black.

"Give me back my face...!"

Their appearances were like monstrous forms of the people in the paintings, with their lack of faces apparently present, and also the "grudge" of these beings.

"This is sure something..."

Despite having lived in Yggdrasil for so long I never had seen a painting monster, so this is pretty cool, honestly.

"GIVE ME BACK MY FACEEE!"

They screamed, opening their faceless jaws and unleashing beams of darkness against Emily, she tried to defend, but was blown away.

BOOOM!

"Ugh!"

Her armor was tough so she resisted, but her body was heavy, so she had a hard time controlling where she would land, ending up hitting the ground, shattering the wooden floor, and then hitting the walls at our side.

"I'm fine..." she groaned, falling to the ground. "Ugh..."

"No you're not fine! [Water Spirit Staff Undine]!"

Alma ran towards Emily, conjuring a staff made of azure metal and with a huge bubble of water on top. Then, the staff released a blue glow, as water encompassed Emily, a spiritual water that quickly healed her internal injuries.

"MY FACEEEE!"

The four painting monsters rushed towards us; they were definitely on another level than the Mimics because they could easily fire beams of darkness.

Strangely, they were particularly fixated on Emily, as if they had found her face as their target to their wrath.

"Don't think you can get away with this!" roared Sofia. "[Six-Winged Archangel Automata]!" FLUOSH!

Her Powers manifested as light emerged from her body, quickly taking the form of a huge, two-meter-tall robot, a machine of pure white and silver color, glistening with a smooth metallic surface.

Its two arms and legs ended on pointy needles, and their face was wearing a strange golden mask resembling a calmly smiling woman. The automata also had long; golden hair made of chains of gold metal.

Lastly, three pairs of huge wings made of blades of light encompassed its back, the entity, the Dream Heart Weapon of Sofia, released a powerful presence.

"Look, Jonathan, this is my strength!"

She wanted to show off in front of him, of course.

"Go!"

She commanded, pointing her hand, as the automata immediately flew towards the Nightmare Paintings, swinging their legs and arms and piercing through their claws.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

The Nightmare Paintings attempted to attack physically, but as their arms were destroyed by the automata, they retorted to firing beams of darkness, which didn't work well either.

BOOOM!

The beams hit the automata, only for its shiny metallic body to shine even brighter as the smoke dissipated, it took no damage.

"Oh, it's amazing!" I said.

"Aha! Finally you're recognizing my amazing weapon, Maria," Sofia waved her hair. "There is nothing my Automata cannot do! All of you can just sit down and relax, I'll carry you."

She looked at her automata with a prideful smile.

"Eliminate them!"

"!"

The automata rushed forward, its wings helping it fly at lightning speed, the painting monsters attempted to fire more beams only for them to all be easily blocked.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

With a barrage of slashing attacks from two pairs of its six wings, the automata easily slashed apart the Nightmare Paintings, ultimately making their body parts explode into black soot.

POOOF!

"And done!" Sofia smiled pridefully. "Heheh! Wasn't that an amazing show? Hm, Jonathan?" "Yeah it was pretty great, your weapon is strong, Sofia," Jonathan smiled, he was mostly just talking how he was, no longer pretending. "Anyways, is Emily ok?"

"She's fine, just pay more attention to me instead!" Sofia pouted, but Jonathan went to check on her.

"I'm fine, haha, Alma healed me quickly," Emily smiled. "But I sure was sent flying, I think I had broken a rib right there! Tough shit, I need to be more careful."

Despite her armor protecting her, it also weighted over her body, if she was sent flying and then fell on the ground, she was naturally going to hurt her body beneath it.

"You ok?" I asked Emily.

"Yep, no worries!" she showed me her face through her helmet, winking at me.

Isn't she a cutie?

Well, if the girl's fine then it's all fine.

Though I feel a bit bad I didn't do anything, I better work a bit, or the tasks are never going to

get done.

I saw Sofia gathering black stones from the floor, which she called Nightmare Stones, they

were crystalized Nightmare Energy that can be used for a lot of things and are usually sold for

a good price.

"Anyways, shall we advance?" I wondered. "I'll summon my Undead to make things easier for

us."

I quickly expanded my Shadows and skeletons emerged.

I chose the human-like and beast-like skeletons of the smallest size, the place here was

limited.

I couldn't bring the heavy hitters for now, Myconidas was summoned though.

"Wow this is a big manor!" he said, looking around.

"Woah, every time I see her abilities I'm always shocked," said Emily, crossing her arms.

"Her Undead Summon is so cool too!"

"Yeah, it definitely is!" nodded Alma. "So many too! We'll definitely clear this on time!"

"Alright then, let's go!" I said.

We explored the manor cautiously, moving upstairs and letting the skeletons walk through things first. Traps were triggered sometimes, the floor broke, a huge hand made of wood

crushed them, and so on.

Eventually, the left corridor was unsafe, it broke down into a hole that led to the void outside,

so we took the right corridor, which aside from an arrow trap that triggered by touching the carpet on the floor, was safe.

"Alright, second room..." I looked into the room, peeking from the wall. "Hm? There doesn't

seem to be much of anything."

As I stepped forward, suddenly, everything came alive, chairs, tables, paintings, the damn chimney grew fangs and started spiting fire everywhere, and the books began flying around,

shooting slicing paper at us.

Of course...