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

Chapter 1224: Myconidas' Power



"SHYAAAAGGH!"

The monstrous Rose-like Nightmares opened their massive jaws and quickly aimed to eat Myconidas with a single bite, he was small enough for that.

However, they quickly learned how wrong they were in such a foolish assumption.

The moment Myconidas' little hand touched one of them, suddenly, black color covered their entire body as an oozy, slime-like substance grew all over their bodies.

Mold.

"{Divinity: Wither & Decay}!"

With a single set of words, Myconidas unleashed his Divinity, the power he was born with as he grew as a mushroom from one of Ymir's bones, a divine being of his own, a naturally born god from Yggdrasil who had yet to fully awaken as one.

FLUOSH!

And then, the Nightmare coughed black blood and dropped into the floor, groaning in agony. Nightmare or not, it was a living being and it could wither and decay.

The mold grew all over its body until it started to fall apart and turn into mush, dying an horrendous death.

Another Rose tried to eat him and suffered the same fate, collapsing the moment he touched it, then, the other three stepped back and gathered energies into their jaws, firing Nightmare Beams from their eyes.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

"Uwawaaahahh!"

Myconidas panicked a little bit, but he was fine, as he quickly unleashed his aura more strongly, touching the ground to create a wall made of mushroom and mold.

"Long ranged attacks! I guess that's my weakness!" he said. "Hmm... How about this?!"

He touched the ground with his little hands and then spread his mold and mushrooms towards the Nightmare's roots, who were unaware of his stealthy attack as they continued firing beams due to their panicking fear.

FLUOSH!

Before they could realize what was happening, the mold and black and purple mushrooms were already covering their entire bodies, absorbing their nutrients and making them wither away.

They collapsed into the ground, feeling completely weak before they started Decaying and turning into compost, pretty much.

The thing is, they didn't even die like normal nightmares by exploding into black soot either. Myconidas power was so strong it kept them in their physical forms until they point they decayed away.

Once they turned into compost, there was a small Nightmare Core that popped up, but without me even telling him anything, he ran to collect them and then...

"Nom, nom, hmmm! They taste nice!"

He started eating them!

"W-Wait a second Myconidas, I don't know if you can eat those! Wait!"

I tried to stop him because I was worried Hel would scold me or something.

"They're mine, I earned them! I'll eat them all!"

He ended opening his mouth to a gigantic size and eating all the cores, crunching them into bits and swallowing them.

"Phew!" he said, patting his belly. "It was a good meal! I was hungry! Master doesn't feed me well!"

"I-I'm sorry, I was busy and- Wait, are you ok? Really? You just ate crystals imbued with Nightmare Essence!"

As I was panicking a bit, Beatriz walked by my side.

"Just what the hell did I just watch?" she asked me through telepathy. "Oi master, what's that thing?! Is it from your world?"

"Ah! Yes... he's Myconidas, a God of Decay and Withering, a young one born from the bones of a Titan God named Ymir," I gave Beatriz a brief introduction. "The Goddess of the Underworld, Hel, gave him to me as my... Well, "undead" but he's technically a Divine Death Mushroom of Decay and Withering, I don't know if it counts as an Undead."

"Y-Your world is insane..." Beatriz muttered. "Just when I thought we Nightmares were awesome you... You appeared, and your little group of monsters. To think there's such terrifying worlds out there... Yggdrasil, huh? I would rather never visit such a dreadful place!" "I mean, you might if you continue as my contracted spirit, hahaha!"

"Nooooo!"

As I laughed at Beatriz dread, I heard Emily and Alma coming to my side, a bit tired, but with the assistance of the Skeletons they were able to wipe out over twenty more Rose Nightmares.

"We're done here..." sighed Emily in relief. "Ah, the skeletons brought you the Nightmare Cores..."

"I-I can't believe I did it! I produced Ice Spells!" said Alma happily. "Hehehe!"

"Good for you Alma!" Emily patted her head.

"Yeah, amazingly done!" I nodded. "I knew you could do it!"

"T-Thank you..." Alma lowered her head, blushing in embarrassment.

She was so cute...

"I want to save Sofia, so I have to grow stronger..." she said, gripping her fists tightly. "Sof must be scared and confused right now... we have to find her!"

"Right! Yeah," nodded Emily. "Maria, do you know where we could go now? I'm honestly lost, but you got perception abilities or that mental mapping you talked about earlier."

"I am not too sure, but we were going to the labyrinth as it seemed like the safest place, and where Nightmare Essence was leaving trails but... Hmm," I looked at Beatriz's cat face. "Can you lead the way, Beatriz?"

She squinted her eyes at me slightly angrily, but then nodded.

"For fuck's sake, is this why you brought me here, you bad master?!" Beatriz complained through telepathy. "Ugh... but yeah, I can sense that girl. Sofia has a very peculiar smell, and her Aura of Dream Essence is strong- well, it's all Nightmare now, so she's very tasty. It's like a huge steak, I'll lead you there as long as you let me take a bite off her!"

"How about I let Myconidas wither you to death instead?" I asked her nicely through

telepathy.

"Mereow!" she said, as Emily and Alma's eyes widened, the cat began walking straight

towards the labyrinth.

"What did she say?" asked Emily.

"She'll lead us where Sofia is," I said with a smile.

Like that, we followed Beatriz who happily led the way through the labyrinth made of plants,

which were made into giant walls.

There was a ceiling too, made of countless vines wrapped together, so it was difficult to fly

over everything...Nôv(el)B\\jnn

And honestly, if we don't want to attract a giant swarm of Nightmares in the sky, it's better to

just walk.

Yet...

"Sssshhhhh!"

Suddenly, something started creepily stalking us...

Lanky, slender creatures made of shadows.