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

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"I'LL DEVOUR… I'LL DEVOUR IT ALL…!"

The enormous cloud of miasma and void energies continued descending slowly from the skies. The people of Sapphire Temple screamed in horror, running to the underground areas of their houses, preparing for the worst.

The Paladins of the church gathered outside the church, their weapons on hand, preparing for the worst as well, all while Saintess Emilia glanced at the skies with a furious glare.

"Where is Maleficus?!" She asked angrily. "How dare he do this to me?! Is he betraying me?! After all the things we've worked on together? If the Church learns of your betrayal, you won't get out of this easily…!"

As Emilia raged, without knowing what to do herself, as she was naturally a coward despite the blessed abilities she possessed, an old man covered on black robes glanced atop a tall building, smiling.

"Hahahaha… Belphegor… I cannot believe what you've done…" He smiled devilishly, showing his sharp vampire fangs. "Despite having failed me, you have, nonetheless, brought quite an interesting and amusing result…"

"That… Is it Master Belphegor?!"

"I can't believe it…"

"Has his body ascended into something greater?!"

The other Warlocks seemed shocked and rejoiced by seeing Belphegor's new form, but Maleficus, the old man leading everything, only laughed.

"Hohoho, his vessel… His form, it is shaping well… This might be what we just needed for our Great Lord's Resurrection!" Maleficus smiled. "However… I wonder if those others will let him do as he pleases. Hmm, I wonder what will happen. That young lass of Emilia is probably very annoyed right now…"

"Should we stop him?"

"But if we do… Belphegor's new form…"

"We would be forced to go back several steps from our Great Lord's resurrection! And we have yet to secure the Divine Spirit's Reincarnation."

"Hmmm… Let us watch for now." Maleficus laughed. "This is too amusing to not see. Let Belphegor do as he pleases. No matter the result of this confrontation, we will benefit, I can assure you of that…"

"Maria went to her Shadow Realm to revive Catarina's soul." Lucifer said as he glanced the gigantic being slowly descend. "We have to stop this bastard while we are at it!"

"She's gone?!" Partner asked. "Ugh… Okay! We'll simply have to wait for her."

"We can't always rely on her for everything." Emeraldine said, her eyes shining brightly. "Let us work together to defend this city! Jonathan, we're counting on you too!"

"Of course!" Jonathan roared, his sword shining brightly. "First of all, we must stop it from descending any further!"

"Then we have to push it from below, isn't it?" Lucifer smiled, his body quickly growing into a gigantic black scaled dragon, the people of Sapphire Temple panicking as they saw that gigantic being appear once more.

His hands summoned a gigantic scythe made of Abyssal Death Flames, as his Aura kept surging from his body, resembling a gigantic and intimidating dragon made of shadows and death energy…

"Yeah, there's no choice." Emeraldine nodded. "Lucifer, Jonathan, can you two hold it off? I'll prepare something strong to blow it into the skies! Partner, assist them!"

"I was going to do that anyways. I'll leave the rest to you, Emeraldine." Lucifer nodded immediately. "Hey, let's go."

"Alright." Jonathan nodded as well.

"Me? Assisting these two?" Partner asked, complaining like a brat. "I'm stronger than Jonathan!"

"PARTNER!" Emeraldine roared angrily. "Stop messing around! You're always treating all situations like THIS! Can't you work efficiently and help us survive?! Your attack power might be high, and your speed too, but your defenses are really low! You almost got killed before too! Assist them and let them tank the hits!"

"T-That's…!" Partner was shocked Emeraldine had grown so angry, she realized she might have been being an asshole without realizing. It was ingrained within her, a part of her personality of every day. Maybe Maria had spoiled her too much too… But she quickly realized she wasn't acting responsible. "Okay! Fine, FINE! I'll help and assist them then! Just don't get so angry…"

"Sorry, but this… Sorry." Emeraldine sighed, smiling back at her. "Let's work together, okay?" Her gentle smile soothed Partner's worries.

"Okay…" Partner nodded. "Let's wait for Master to come back! I'll do my best, you two better not slow me down as… Well, as I assist you I guess."

"No more chit-chat, he's coming!" Lucifer roared, rushing towards the skies, and clashing against the gigantic aberration, of over five hundred meters spread across the skies!

"YOU'RE NOTHING BUT ANTS BEFORE MEEEE!"

Belphegor laughed manically as his gigantic tentacles, each one as big as fifty meters each, clashing against Lucifer's almost two-hundred-meter big body.

CLAAASH! CLAAASH! CLAAASH! CLAAASH!

Lucifer channeled the powers of his Skills and the Draconic Records he had been neglecting quite a lot so far, conjuring the power of his family of Fire Dragon's Primordial Mother, Muspel! And combining these powers with his Skills.

"[Abyssal Infernal Muspel's Shield]!"

FLUOOOSH!

A gigantic shield made of black and red flames emerged in front of him, taking the attacks one after another. Each strike into the shield generated several cracks over it, and accumulated energy into it.

Lucifer tanked the several blows as he kept flying upwards, swinging his giant scythe all while attacking with his long tail, using it as a deadly spear!

SLAASH! SLAASH! SLAASH! SLAASH! CLAASH! CLAASH! CLAASH! CLAASH!

"GRAAAAGGHH…!"

Belphegor groaned in agony as his tentacles were being covered on countless wounds, Deadly Poison and Abyssal Death Flames spreading through them.

As originally an Undead Dragon, Lucifer had already mastered the power of conjuring and manipulating poisons from his claws and scales, utilizing it to its maximum effect to weaken his foe!

"Here, take a load of all the fucking venom I've got!" Lucifer roared. "[Abyssal Dragon's Venomous Muspel Flare]!"

Loading his scythe with all this poison and mixing it with his flames, Lucifer unleashed a devastating slashing blow, a huge wave of purple and black flames impacting the entire body of Belphegor!

BOOOOOMMMM!!

"GRAAARRRRGGH! BASTARD!"

Belphegor, however, quickly grew a giant fist from its body, punching Lucifer with titanic strength!

BAAAAMMM!!!

"URGH?!"

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