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

Chapter 1222: What Happened Outside



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While Maria, Emily, and Alma were engulfed by Sofia's Fractured Nightmare Realm, the rest of the people outside the bathroom seemed to have remained mostly intact. The shockwave of Nightmare Energy was powerful, enough to quickly force them to step back, the school also entered in panic as everyone started running, cracks appeared in the ceiling and walls, as the there was a black curtain in the girl's bathroom, an entrance to this Nightmare Realm.

"What the hell happened?!" asked Partner. "Maria! Where is she?!"

"This is a Nightmare Realm! Wait, Partner, don't go in without a plan!" Lucifer grabbed Partner before she was to go inside. "Calm down! Maria is very strong; I doubt she'll face any difficulties anyways."

"But I'm worried!" Partner cried. "Aren't you?!"

"I am but calm down!" sighed Lucifer, trying to hold down Partner who was constantly kicking and punching him to let her go.

"What is this? How did this appear out of nowhere though!" said Emeraldine. "Not only Maria but I feel like Sofia, Emily, and Alma disappeared inside too! Will they be alright with only Maria? W-What if they get separated!"

"This is indeed dangerous... Maybe we could split and send a small group inside?" Nia wondered. "I'm worried! This world is so strange and confusing... Nightmares appearing out of nowhere, that's not something that even in Yggdrasil happens!"

"Hmm... calm down, Nia," said Jonathan. "Maria actually never left us... Look."

"Huh?"

Everyone suddenly glanced into their shadows, which quickly began to combine to form the appearance of Maria but made of shadows!

"Calm down everyone, I'm fine for now!" "Maria?!"

They gasped in shock and disbelief, and also relief she was okay, and that they could talk with her like this too! It was never something they guessed she could do but now that they thought about it, seemed pretty obvious.

"I left a Soul and a Body Ego here," she said. "This is my Shadow Soul Ego; the Body Ego is with the kids right now. like this we can communicate even when I'm far away! Pretty cool, right?"

"Yeah but I'm glad you're ok! Is nothing bad happening there?!" asked Nia, panicking and hyperventilating.

"C-Calm down a bit dear, it's alright, seriously," she said. "Though, I guess it's not really alright how all of this happened... It was provoked by Sofia."

"By Sofia?!" Jonathan wondered. "Wait, how?"

"Uuh, I think I've learned a new thing about this world. Dream Hearts can turn into Nightmare Hearts and create Nightmares based on people's Negative Energy accumulated from their feelings of Frustration, Hatred, Fear, Traumatic Memories, and so on," Maria explained. "So this ended happening to Sofia because... well, because of what happened."

"There's no way she would go so crazy about it like that!" said Partner. "The hell is wrong with that girl... seriously!"

"So this is one of the things that hasn't been revealed to the public, then?" asked Lucifer. "I had my suspicions. This means that any person with a Dream Heart has the potential to become a Nightmare? Or create one..."

"Yes, I've speculated that the reason is because the Dream Heart absorbs all the Negative Energy of a person instead of this energy simply dissipating into thin air... meaning that every Dream Warrior could be a tickling time bomb," said Maria. "But we'll have to solve this later... Hey Beatriz!"

"Hm?" Beatriz quickly appeared out of Maria's shadows. "W-What is it?"

"Come with me, I'll summon you inside. You'll be of great help figuring out what's inside," said Maria, grabbing Beatriz from her collar like a cat.

"Uwaack! Hey wait a second- Uaagh!"

And then she was dragged away.

Then Maria appeared again.

"Right now, I'm moving across a dark garden with the girls, the entire Realm seems to be made out of Sofia's Traumatic Memories," said Maria. "The first Nightmare we fought were literally Sofia in her childhood, they resembled pale ghosts... crying blood and holding knives, really weird and creepy."

"Wow..." Emeraldine muttered. "I-I didn't expect Sofia to have traumas like that, isn't she like a rich lady? Just what was her life like until she got here?"

"Perhaps we've underestimated the girl," said Nia. "For now, what should we do then, Maria?"

"I'll try to find a way to save her. Until then, there's no need to come. But if I need extra help, I'll call you." Maria winked at everyone. "This is also a good opportunity to learn more about Sofia... and also for Emily and Alma to get stronger. So I'll stay here until its resolved. It shouldn't take too long."

"A-Are you sure?" wondered Partner. "I'm about to jump there anyways!"

"Please don't, stay there for now," said Maria. "We don't know if Nightmares would end up coming out from this fracture, so I want strong people outside to deal with them, I'm leaving this task to you guys."

"Alright then..." sighed Partner. "But please take care! Ok?"

"I'm fine, it's not like I'll leave though, this Soul Ego will remain here!" said Maria. "Ah, we found some sort of weird labyrinth now... Huh, this place's sure weird. Wait, what's that?!"

Maria suddenly seemed to panic, making everyone in front of her panic even more!

"M-Maria?! What is it!" Jonathan cried.

"Ah, nothing, haha, it was just a creepy shadow- Woaaah!"

Everyone started sweating a lot at Maria's reactions to what was happening in the Nightmare

Realm, she quickly created a projection of what she was seeing.

"Ok, how's this then? Only you can see it anyways," Maria said. "I made it using Illusion and Mind-Bending Skills and Spells! Pretty neat, right? It's like a projection of what I'm seeing into your heads, with live commentary!"

"T-This is really weird..." Lucifer muttered.

"Wow, so that's how it looks inside?" wondered Partner.

"Maria, what was that shadow?! Be careful!" Emeraldine said.

"Don't worry, I'll be fine," said Maria. "Looks like this whole Labyrinth is being guarded by weird Shadow-like Nightmares... I might require the help of some Undead and Beatriz, huh?" As if they were watching a youtuber playing a game with live commentary, the group glanced at Maria's adventures with nervousness clear in their eyes.

Only Maria was taking this easy, everyone else was too worried!

Soon enough professors and other authorities arrived, and they had to explain to them what

happened.

However, due to Maria's request, they skipped the part where Sofia was the one that made this Nightmare Realm...