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

885 Protect What Is Precious To You

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"W-Where are we? Who is he?!" Silva cried.

Catarina couldn't blame her, out of nowhere they were pulled out of the Inn and sent into a black void, where only the two of them were.

Nobody else could be found, and the only thing aside from the two of them there was… an intimidating, tall, and muscular behemoth, with three glowing eyes.

It was over ten meters of height, with incredibly muscular arms above all, and each eye glowed with a different color, red, blue, and yellow.

Catarina felt naturally nervous about the whole thing, Silva wasn't someone that had much experience on battle yet, and she herself wasn't an S Rank like the others.

"Calm down, Silva." Catarina glanced at the giant in front of them. "Whoever they are and whatever they want from us, they mean business if they trapped us here so seamlessly, without even Maria realizing…" Her fists started glowing with her aura.

Her sharp red eyes glanced at the giant in front of her. Even after dying and then having been reborn as a Zombie Vampire, she had gone through her fair share of incredible challenges.

And after Maria let her go anywhere she wanted and have her own life, she had battled all matter of thugs, bandits, and monsters… but nothing like this man in here.

His very presence exuded an incredibly strong pressure, something that only beings within the realm of S Rank could achieve!

"B-But he's scaring me…" Silva cried, hiding behind Catarina.

"I know, dear. But if you're always scared of any stranger trying to harm you, you'll never survive in this harsh world." Catarina said, smiling back at her. "Stay behind me, Blackie will protect you. Right Blackie?"

"WOOF!"

FLUOSH!

The Shadow Zombie Wolf emerged from within Catarina's shadows, quickly standing in front of Silva to protect her, his shadows emerging like many tentacles surrounding her to intercept any attack.

However, as ready as they were, the man in front of them seemed… unnervingly calm. Even though they couldn't even see his damn face because he was wearing a plague doctor mask, he was… seemingly happy to see them so energetic.

"He reeks like a Vampire… But I've never seen such a bizarre one, his aura also reeks like countless of monsters! Just what are these guys?!" Catarina thought, gritting her teeth. "Oi! Are you even going to say something?! If you stay quiet, I'm going to beat the shit out of you now…"

"Oooohhh…" The tall man groaned, his groan seemed to be filled with an unnerving excitement, making Catarina and Silva even more disgusted. "Such wonderful specimens! You will make a great part of my collection! Especially you, I've never seen such a stable Undead before, and a Vampire Zombie at that! You might be the key for our investigation to finally make a breakthrough." He laughed.

"Breakthrough…?" Catarina asked, with disgust. "What are you even talking about- Huh?!"

However, the man didn't waited for her to finish her words, his cloak covering the rest of his body being thrown away, as he revealed the rest of his strange, disgusting body.

While Maria's creations always looked seamless and perfect, without stitching marks, or other body parts that didn't fit in them, this man's entire body seemed like the opposite.

Born from the imperfection of his skills, his body looked of multiple colors, many body parts stuck together. His two arms were gigantic because they belonged to Giant Ogres of two different kinds, one arm was red and the other gray.

His torso was muscular and big, covered on black hair like a Gorilla Monster of some kind, while his legs seemed smaller for the rest of his body size, but nimble and athletic, like those of some sort of cheetah monster.

And in the middle of his chest, there was some strange blue crystal, glowing with a mysterious, corrupted spiritual energy much more complex than mere Demonite Cores.

"W-What with that body?!" Catarina asked. "DISGUSTING!"

"Disgusting you said…?" The tall Vampire glared at her. "Y-You… YOU DARE SAY MY BEAUTIFUL BODY IS DISGUSTING?!"

Suddenly, his calm demeanor changed, as he started to go completely insane…

"TAKE THAT BACK! [Bestial Lightning]!"

FLAAASH!

His three glowing eyes shone brightly; his gigantic body rushed towards Catarina at lightning speed. His cheetah-like legs moving at an amazing speed!

"His yellow eye is shining, and lightning is beginning to emerge from his legs!" Catarina thought, analyzing the situation within a split of a second through her battle-hardened instincts. "I-Is this how is power works?"

BAAAMMM!!!

The Vampire slammed Catarina with all his strength using his two gigantic arms and the rest of the weight of his body, throwing her away like a ragdoll!

"Ugh…! I couldn't evade in time…!" Catarina muttered. "Good thing this body barely feels pain but…"

CLAAASH!

She ended landing on the floor, rolling over it, her Aura had encompassed her entire body. If she hadn't activated that, she would be perhaps in an even worse situation than before.

"BIG SIS!"

Silva cried, looking at Catarina land rather terribly on the ground, her scream quickly bringing the attention of the huge Vampire, as he glared at her with furious eyes.

"Do you also think my body is ugly and disgusting?" He asked. "After I've refined it so much to gain the strength of so many beings I always admired? My body is perfect! It contains all the best parts of every one of these creatures! I'LL SMASH YOU INTO PIECES!"

With a monstrous, bestial roar, the Vampire rushed towards Silva while running on all fours, his red eye suddenly glowing brightly this time, as his arms started blazing with flames!

"BURN! [Beastly Inferno]!"

FLUOSH!

The flames emerged almost endlessly, shaping into countless of beasts of all kinds, rushing towards Silva, trying to burn her to ashes!

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

However, Blackie quickly grabbed the panicked girl and began running away within his shadows, barely escaping the bombardment of explosions, as the tall vampire kept chasing them!

"You will NOT get away easily! My precious SUBJECTS!"

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