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

Chapter 1230: Nightmare Vice-Lord



At the end, the Nightmare we were fighting was indeed him, Sofia's Familiar, the [Six- Winged Archangel Automata].

However, it was twisted and demonic, having given up "his heart" to protect and make Sofia "happy", which most likely was what created the Nightmare Lord.

Therefore, his true form would be completely different...

He said he wanted to make her happy, but he's unable to understand that whatever happiness Sofia is going through, it isn't real.

It seems unaware, or simply doesn't care if she'll die afterwards, as long as he made her happy before...

Indeed, despite having good intentions, it cannot think like a human.

FLUOSH!

The sparkling golden light left behind by his body parts gathered together, suddenly forming something. The mannequin parts melted into miasma, fusing together into something resembling Sofia's Familiar.

But also much more bizarre, twisted. It now had a huge hole on its chest, shattered, and constantly bleeding a black miasmic goo. The rest of its body was pitch black, with cracks of golden color.

As it formed, a powerful Aura of Nightmare and Light surged, a combination I didn't thought possible, but that combined Sofia's Familiar Element with the Nightmare Elements.

His head had the mask of a smiling man and a crying woman, and it had six wings, made of purple light at the left, and golden light at the right.

His halo was strange too, only one half was gold, the other half, red, broken and slowly bleeding red liquid. It wasn't really blood, but something similar to the miasma.

This thing... It seemed much stronger than what Sofia's Familiar originally was.

"For... her... I would do... anything... do you understand?" he muttered, while his entire body quivered. "For master Sofia's happiness... I will... kill all of you."

He finished his reconstruction as six long arms that ended on incredibly long and sharp crimson needles emerged; it resembled a spider somewhat.

[The {Nightmare Vice-Lord}: [Fallen Heartless Six-Winged Archangel Automata (SSS+ Rank)] has manifested himself!]

[He seeks nothing but to see Sofia happy within the endless Nightmares, and he will protect her until his dying breath.]

[Before you can advance any further, you must defeat him for good.]

"For master Sofia... I would give up my everything..." he continued muttering. "I will... make her happy... I will give her the happiness... she never experienced!"

His Aura grew stronger, as Emily and Alma quickly stepped back, as I stepped forward.

"Whatever happiness she's experiencing now is nothing but an illusion!" I said. "She has been trapped within a dream, a nightmare! If she doesn't come out, she'll die! Don't you understand?! Shouldn't it be your duty to protect your master from death?!"n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"I am protecting her right now..." he said. "You will wake her up, and you will try to kill him, my heart... Once you do that, she will die... I cannot let you kill her."

"She won't die!" Emily said. "We'll heal her just in time! Believe us!"

"Y-Yeah!" Alma said. "Y-You're Sofia's Dream Weapon, her guardian... Do we have to really do this? Can't we solve things peacefully?"

"Peace is not an option..." said the Automata. "It never was. Master's happiness... I will not let you disturb it!"

Without talking any longer, the bastard attacked us without impunity. I guess I shouldn't have even bothered trying to reason with him!

He's nothing but a monster anyways, Dream Weapons are just Nightmares that don't possess negative traits.

However, at the end of the day, once this guy was corrupted, he showed his true colors, a complete an endless obsession towards Sofia.

I received his incoming attack with my sword and my halberd at the same time, an explosion of shadows, phantasmal flames, moonlight, light, and nightmare energy erupted.

CRAAASH!

"Make her happy my ass, you're just an obsessed bastard!"

He seemed to grow slightly angered after hearing me.

"Silence! You simply have no idea what Sofia truly wants! Y-You... you're the one that... that broke her heart!"

"No, Sofia's heart was already broken, that girl had been holding the pieces together this whole time until she simply could not do it any longer..." I said, as my sword flared with Void Energy. "I'll help her stitch back that heart, and then heal it completely!"

I swung my blade vertically, as a huge wave of pure void was unleashed. The Archangel groaned in agony as its entire body was sliced apart.

SLASH!

"Nnggh...! U-Useless!"

However, he quickly stuck himself back together. Indeed, this bastard was without a doubt an

SSS Rank Nightmare.

But even then... He's no match against me!

"MASTER SOFIA IS MINE TO MAKE HAPPY!"

He furiously roared like a beast, unleashing a barrage of attacks using his six needle-like arms

at once, which I intercepted with my weapons, at the same time as I summoned several arms made of phantasmal energy, using my Martial Arts to punch through his body.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

As I held him back, I looked at Emily and Alma, quickly noticing they were already charging their attacks. Good, these girls work fast.

"Provide me with support from afar! Don't you dare fight him! He'll kill you with a single

blow!"

"We know!"

"We'll help you out in the back!"

As they said that, the Automata quickly glared at them, rushing away from my grasp and trying to attack them, it was as if he was way too obvious.

"Hey, where do you think you're going?"

TRUUM!

However, to his surprise, he suddenly was pulled back to me by space itself, glaring at me in

disbelief, he attacked me furiously.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

Then, once more, he tried to kill Emily and Alma.

Yet...

TRUUM!

He came back to me yet again.

"W-Wha...?!"

More and more he tried to escape my grasp, but he couldn't.

I was using [Void Shifting Spatial Movement] to manipulate the space around me.

I simply pulled him back to my side every time the coward tried to run and kill the weaker

members of my party first.

"I-Impossible...! How can you do that?!"

"Space Manipulation, bitch."

I combined one hundred phantasmal fists at once, imbuing it into my right hand and then...

"{Abyssal Palm of Death}"

BOOOM!