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

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CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

Black Tentacles chased Celes and Nia as they clashed into the ground, barely being evaded by the nimble boy and his healed mother.

"Come here you damn brat!" Roared the old man. "I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU YET!"

The old Vampire grossly walked with his many tentacles, chasing mother and son. Celes had managed to cut through his tentacles with his magic, but had suddenly lost his concentration due to fear, and he and his mother started running away.

However, no matter how far they ran away, the environment, a pitch-black darkness, never changed, everything was completely dark, and it felt like they were not even running anywhere, always, and constantly going back to the same starting point.

"W-Why is not changing?! It feels like we're always coming back to the same point…" Nia gasped for air.

"Mom, I don't know what to do…!" Celes was growing fearful, he had yet to train on hunting monsters to sharpen his skills after all.

"Calm down honey, everything's going to be okay…!" Nia sighed, looking into the distance as the old man kept creeping in.

"Ehehehehe! Do you think you can escape from this?! Fools! It is a special Domain, a Pseudo Dimension made through the almighty powers of our Great Lord and the Divine Strength he stole from your foolish Guardian." Laughed the old man. "By harnessing it with our own magics and hexes, we can create truly magnificent things, isn't it true?! Just look at what my body has become! I've finally become strong and powerful, despite being an old man!"

The old man threw away his black cloak completely, showing that from his torso and below he was completely made up of slimy, miasmic tentacles, covered in sharp jaws and eyes!

"Strong and powerful?! You're ugly and horrible!" Celes cried, his water magic suddenly gathering around him into several floating water blades. "Go away!"

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

Dozens of cutting water attacks reached their foe, cutting down his tentacles into pieces, only for them to regenerate almost instantly.

"Hehehe, you caught me by surprise before, but it doesn't matter anymore!" Laughed the Vampire. "No matter how much you cut my tentacles, they will keep regrowing endlessly!"

His tentacles kept regrowing, as he sent a dozen towards Celes and Nia. The boy tried to conjure barriers made of water, but they were instantly popped and destroyed, the tentacles about to wrap around his legs!

"CELES!"

However, his mother valiantly rushed forwards, imbuing Mana into her weapon like Partner had taught her to use Spear Techniques for a bit, as she unleashed a strong blow.

"[Piercing Strike]!"

CLAAASH!

The tentacle was quickly cut down, with several more behind her being destroyed! The Vampire glanced with a raging expression on his face at the woman.

"Tch, you're such an annoying rat!"

He gathered dark and red energies into his hands, firing bullets made of blood energy and darkness, which exploded on contact!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Nia grabbed her son and started running away from the explosions, but one managed to hit her legs from behind, making her trip over the ground as she hit her head strongly.

BAAM!

"Urgh…!" Nia desperately tried to stand back up, the tentacles creeping in.

"Mom!" Celes desperately cried.

He pointed his little hands against their foes, as he started gathering more and more magic, remembering that Nyx had told her something, a "trick" about magic!

"You have to channel the mana into your hands and then visualize what you want it to become! The stronger you can visualize something, the better!" "Visualize… Visualize…!" Celes cried, suddenly noticing his mother's spear, as the water he conjured shone with a divine light, shaping into a gigantic spiraling water spear, overflowing with spiritual energies!

FLUUOSH!

"W-What the…?!"

The Vampire stepped back in slight surprise, his face distorting into desperation as he suddenly started running towards Celes at full speed again!

"I won't let you conjure any more of your tricky magic spells, you damn brat!"

His tentacles shapeshifted into sharp metallic spears, seconds before the Spirit Water Spear reached his body, clashing into his chest and blowing through his heart, leaving a huge hole behind!

BOOOMMM!!!

"UUAARGH…!"

The Vampire couldn't take the hit really well, instantly falling into the ground, vomiting blood as he saw the enormous wound, perplexed and in complete disbelief!

"Y-You did it Celes!" Nia panicked in surprise.

"I-I did?!" Celes was amazed.

"UURRGHH… YOU HAVEN'T DONE SINGLE THING!"

The Vampire, however, swiftly stood back up, his many tentacles swirling and moving around like deadly appendages, his wound quickly being covered and filled by dark miasma and crystals growing over him.

"I might have to just kill you! I can deal with your soul later…"

His body slowly transformed completely into a mass of tentacles and eyes, consumed by his own monstrous half, the old Vampire turned into an Abyssal Horror himself!

"GRUOOHHHH!"

"Uwaah!"

Celes cried in fear, as her Mother gritted her teeth, covering her son to protect him from the attack that was coming, as dozens of sharp, spear-tipped tentacles rushed down towards the two!

Crack, crack…!

CRAAASH!

However, an even louder sound echoed behind the two of them, as a gigantic draconic body emerged from the void itself, breaking through its dimensional walls and stopping the tentacles from reaching the two!

"W-What…?!"

The tentacled abomination suddenly found himself stopped by a huge black dragon, with black crystal scales and long silver hair!

"ROOOAAARRRR!"

"W-Who is that?! A-A Dragon?!" Celes cried.

"A Black Dragon… Wait…! Are you Lucifer?!" Nia cried.

"I'm not papa!" The intimidating dragon spoke with a girly voice. "I'm Nyx!"

"NYX?!" Celes and Nia, who had never seen Nyx in such a form were shocked. "R-Right, she's the daughter of Lord Lucifer after all!" Nia was slightly relieved.

"Nyx, you came to save us!" Little Celes said.

"Don't worry, now that I'm here I won't let the baddie hurt you or your mom!" Nyx roared, looking at the giant monster she had stopped.

"You dare believe you stand a chance?!" The Vampire went insane, attacking Nyx with everything he had! "Dragon or not, you're still a pathetic child!"

"Let's see about that!" Nyx opened her jaws, unleashing her devastating breath attack!

BOOOMMM!!!

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