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

Chapter 1231: The Automata That Wanted To Protect Their Master



The Automata constantly tried to kill Emily and Alma first, the weakest of our group, probably to try and absorb their Dream Weapons to become stronger.

But I wasn't going to let that bitch do that, nuh-huh.

"W-Wha...?!"

More and more he tried to escape my grasp, but he couldn't.

He would always come back to me!

I could see his eyes across his mask, he was shocked.

I was using [Void Shifting Spatial Movement] to manipulate the space around me.

I simply pulled him back to my side every time the coward tried to run and kill the weaker members of my party first.

"I-Impossible...! How can you do that?!"

"Space Manipulation, bitch."

I combined one hundred phantasmal fists at once, imbuing it into my right hand and then...

"{Abyssal Palm of Death}"

BOOOM!

With that single fist, I flew away his entire body into smithereens, as his pieces flew away and hit the ground.

However, they rapidly started flying back together, regenerating.

"H-How dare you...!"

As he was rapidly forming back, Emily and Alma attacked, a pair of flying fists imbued with lightning hit him directly, exploding into hundreds of electrified needles, meanwhile, a massive splash of water covered his body, making the conduct of electricity even deadlier. "Guugh?!"

BOOOM!

It exploded a second time, as its entire body fell apart, only for its light and miasmic nightmare to fuse back together again.

"Beatriz, what the hell is this thing?" I asked her.

"I am not so sure; I have never seen anything like this before!" she said. "But it's like a Dream Heart Weapon, turned into a Nightmare? No, it's like a hybrid. This somehow has given it the Dream Heart Weapon's regeneration coupled with the power of Nightmares!"

"Are you kidding me?! So they're immortal?" I wondered.

"Not really..." she said. "It still made of matter... Just disintegrate it."

She smiled at me, as I sighed.

"I will... I will protect master... Sofia! I WILL KILL YOU ALL!"

The Automata screamed, rushing towards me at lightning speed as he was still regenerating, all six of his giant needle-like arms clashed against me.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

I intercepted them with my sword and Halberd, conjuring shields made of Blood Dragon Bones, which immediately shattered, summoning dozens of Phantom Blood Dragons.

Crack, crack... CRASH!

"ROOAAARR!"

"Urgh?!"

The Automata was startled as its entire body was coiled by all these phantasmal beings, constantly burning through him. The dragons kept him entertained, as he started tearing them apart one after another while I quickly prepared something for him.

The Automata's true personality was that of a coward, unable to accept reality and move on, he entrapped Sofia inside an endless nightmare, and wanted her to die happily, merely an illusion.

"I will make her... HAPPY!"

With a furious roar, he broke through all the Phantom Blood Dragons, rushing towards me as his body started bloating and growing larger and more monstrous, countless tendrils of black goo encompassing him.

"Happy you say..."

As he approached me, within that split second, my body quickly transformed, gaining the appearance of the Death God of Egyptian Mythology, Anubis.

"I AM THE ONLY ONE THAT UNDERSTANDS HER!"

He swung his massive claws against me, now having turned into six massively muscular arms, yet I glanced back at him with indifference.

"Oh yeah? You understand her?! Instead of making her happy through a damn illusion, why don't you try to make her happy in real life, you fucking dimwit?!"

With all my might, I received his barrage of attacks, both my sword and my halberd merged into a giant scythe which I swung down, unleashing a destructive black hole.

"{Abyssal Black Death Void}!"

"W-What?!"

His entire arms were consumed by the black void, as it completely absorbed and consumed everything within his body, he started disappearing, screaming in agony.

"W-What is this?! UUAAAAGGGGH! NO...! Sofia...! NOO00!"

He started elongating like a noodle, trying to escape by detaching the parts my attack was absorbing! This fucking bastard, I swear to god he's-

"We won't let you escape! {Thor's Thunderous Hand}!"

Emily combined and amassed all of her armor into a gigantic golden, metallic hand, imbuing

it with all the electricity she could, clashing against the other half of the Automata and pushing it towards the black hole.

CLAAASH!

"Ugh!"

"Please, leave Sofia to us! {Eight-Headed Frozen Serpent}!"

Alma combined all the water she could, creating several currents in the shape of an eight- headed serpent, combining everything she had and turning them into ice.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

"N-NO!"

The Automata was pushed towards the Black Hole, which I enchanted using my other Void- related Skills, making it enormous and all-encompassing.

"Stop... Stop this...! STOOOP! MASTER SOFIA...! I MUST... MAKE HER HAPPY! I MUST... MAKE

HER...! HAPPYYYYYY!"

"Your idea of happiness is twisted! You are only going to make her suffer more! Don't you get

it?!"

"No...! I-I...! NOOOOOO!"

With a delirious and monstrous scream, the Automata was completely consumed by the void, being disintegrated to a molecular level.

BOOOMMM!!!

Beatriz managed to turn into a mantle of nightmare shadows and protected Emily and Alma

in time as I commanded her, while I faced the explosion.

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I glanced at the ceiling, as I saw the ashes of the Automata falling from the skies, small

sparkles of light and soot.

And then, a small, shattered mask, the only thing left of him.

"There's some of him left!" said Emily. "W-We have to destroy it!"

She was panicking, it was understandable. However, this wasn't the way.

"Calm down," I said. "It can't regenerate anymore."

"A-Ah... Master.... So... fia..."

As it muttered her name again, the light of the mask started to fade away.

"She'll be better outside of this nightmare, facing reality might be harsh sometimes, but it's

better than living an illusion that you know will never be true."

"Why... do you insist... of saying such things...?"

"Because that's how things are."

"Hah... hahah... What is reality...? What is... an illusion?"

"What?"

"Are you sure... you're not living in a dream... either?"

"But... I've been defeated... I was a failure... unable to protect her... after seeing her cry so

much... I only... I only wanted her... to smile..."

"Is that so?"

"Please... promise me that... that you will... protect her... that you will make her smile."

"I will."

"Thank you..."

The mask faded away completely.