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

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"Someone is watching us? What are you talking about, Alma?" Fran wondered, tilting her head in confusion.

"I felt it just now…" Alma muttered. "It was weird…"

The two girls walked through the ruined city, covered by vegetation, while Nyx was right in front of them, leading their adventure.

"You saw something?" Nyx asked.

"Not really, but I… just kind of felt it? I don't know how else to explain it!" Alma said. "Like there's someone looking at us, or something."

"Hmm…"

Nyx looked around, expanding her magic senses, and feeling a slight sensation, yes. She felt something similar to what Alma explained.

"You're right… there's someone watching us," Nyx nodded. "Probably the creator of this Nightmare Realm, I believe!"

"T-The creator?" wondered Alma. "W-Who is that?"

"The Nightmare Demon we met with mama and our friends…" Said Nyx. "You don't remember him, Alma?"

"I-I… don't… I'm sorry," Alma sighed. "I don't remember anything you're talking about… Was I really a young adult here but turned into a child? It sounds so crazy…"

"I know, but that's what happened, that must be the power of the Nightmare Demon, to turn people into children and to take away the memories of the years they lost," Nyx analyzed, acting like a detective. "We might end up meeting the rest like this too… I doubt mama will be affected though! She's super strong and probably will be able to counter it. So if we ever find her, she'll be fine!"

"Oh that's a relief!" Fran nodded. "I guess if we can find at least one adult…"

"W-Well, enough of this, it's getting confusing…" Alma sighed. "Um, so can't we do anything against the Nightmare Demon?"

"I can't… I mean, maybe I could try something, but I first want to rescue everyone," Nyx explained. "So let's hurry!"

"Okay, coming…" Alma muttered, gasping, she wasn't in the best shape, getting tired and sweating a lot. "Haah… I-I'm tired…"

"You don't get as tired when you grow up," Nyx commented. "So keep working hard!"

"D-Do I become lean?" wondered Alma, her eyes shining.

"I-I wouldn't say that completely but you're very cute!" Nyx smiled.

"Uuh… That means I'm still fat even when I have magic powers! Uwaaahh!" Alma cried, feeling worse than before.

"C-Calm down Alma, I didn't mean it that way!" Nyx sighed. "But I think you reached a point where… Um, where you felt more comfortable with your body? I think…"

"R-Really?" Alma asked, about to cry.

"Yep," Nyx patted her head. "Right Francis?"

"E-Eh? Ah yeah," Fran nodded, she hadn't paid much attention as she was wandering around a few nearby trees, she tried climbing one to grab an apple, but her snowman father got it for her. "We got an apple!"

"An apple? Don't eat it!" Nyx panicked, running to take the apple from Fran.

"Eh? Why! I found it first, Nyx… Don't be mean!" Fran said.

"It's not that, this is a fruit that grew inside a Nightmare Realm, it could be poisonous or a monster itself…" Nyx was overly cautious today, showing how she was much more mentally mature than her appearance indicated. "And yeah let's check it first and…"

Nyx analyzed it with her eyes, scanning the fruit with her Mana and everything…

"Hmm…"

As she squinted her eyes, her friends walked to her side.

"It's… uh…"

Fran looked at Nyx while crossing her little arms.

"It's what!"

"…"

Nyx sighed, giving the apple back.

"S-Sorry, it's a normal apple apparently."

"See?"

Fran quickly took a bite out of it, making a disgusted face.

"Eugh…"

"A-Are you ok?" Alma and Nyx panicked, asking the same thing at the same time.

Fran stepped back, groaning but then swallowing the apple piece she took a bite of.

"It was way too sour! I can't… I can't really eat something like this!" she comaplined. "Eugh…"

Fran dropped the apple into the ground, as it rolled over the stone floor, and then fell into a hole nearby, which led underground.

PLOCK!

As it fell, the sound of the apple bursting into pieces echoed beneath them.

"Wait, what was that?" Nyx wondered. "Did it fall very far down?"

"I think so? Why does that matter though…" Fran asked, looking around.

"Maybe the person we're looking for is underground?" Alma asked. "Nyx? What do you think?"

"It's a big possibility!" Nyx nodded. "We should go down, but not jump, stay right here. Snowdragon! Come!"

"Rooaar!"

The Snowdragon rushed down, reaching the floor and then lowering its head.

"Let's go!"

Nyx quickly climbed the neck, helping Alma and little Fran climb as well, and by using her long dragon wings, her arms, tail, and some of her shadows for good measure, she hugged them both very tightly so they wouldn't fall.

"Let's go down!" Nyx said. "Can you smash the floor in here? Ah right, Snowman, come too!"

"…!" The snowman jumped on top of the Snowdragon.

"ROOAARR!"

After that, the Snowdragon obeyed Nyx's request, smashing the floor with all her strength.

CRAAASH!

There was… nothing but silence though.

Perhaps they needed to hit it even harder? Maybe that would do the trick?

"Hmm, okay, hit it harder now!"

As Nyx said that the Snowdragon was about to hit the floor but…

Crack, crack…!

CRAAASH!

The floor shattered apart, rapidly crumbling down and falling, and so did the Snowdragon with the girls… and the snowman.

BAAAM!

As everything crumbled and shattered in the floor underneath, the Snowdragon spread its icy wings, slowly descending instead through the simple technique of gliding.

"Oh wow, it's deep…" Alma muttered. "How deep does this go anyways?"

"Probably a lot…" Fran said. "I can't see the bottom. It's weirdly… overly… very dark."

"Yeah…" Nyx nodded. "Hmm, I think there's… there she is! I can sense her, down there! Snowdragon, descend!"

"ROOAAR!"

The Snowdragon descended as quickly as possible, the plushie-like phantom dragons accompanying her on her journey.

FLUOSH!

As they descended deeper and deeper, the darkness became more and more prominent, Nyx quickly created Will-o-Wisps to illuminate the surroundings.

"This place… Huh? We are at the bottom already?" Nyx wondered, realizing the Snowdragon was standing on something.

The flames illuminated her surroundings, and they found themselves in…

"It stinks down here…" Nyx muttered, sniffing.

"Ew, we are in the sewers!" Fran complained.

"Oh…" Alma sighed in relief. "I-I thought I was the one that was stinky…"

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