Reborn As A Ghost: Time To Build My Undead Army!-Chapter 1884: Her Rebirth

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"{Myriad Suffering Souls Formation: Spacetime-Tearing Ghostly Wails}"

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"

Everyone’s ears bled from the agonizing screams of hundreds of thousands of souls trapped in endless torment, dying and reviving in an unending cycle.

Maria’s Necromancy seemed truly kind and benevolent compared to this horrifying technique!

"Look, Maria, as I kill your beloved family!"

Annette laughed, spreading her arms wide and glaring at Maria.

Maria was losing.

Partner’s overwhelming strength kept pressing her down.

And above all...

She didn’t want to harm the woman she loved.

"Ungh... Partner..."

Maria collapsed, tears streaming down her face as Partner’s blazing swords tore deep into her flesh and blood, accompanied by a ghostly roar.

Her gentle hand reached out and caressed Partner’s skull.

Then she pulled her into an embrace.

Her flesh, blood, and soul began to devour Partner.

"I won’t let you suffer anymore, no matter what."

"Huh? What is she even doing?!"

Annette stared in confusion as Partner struggled, but ultimately she was completely swallowed.

Maria’s body started tearing apart from the inside.

Her soul and body transformed into countless fleshy tendrils that wrapped around Partner’s skeletal frame.

Slowly...

She began reclaiming the skeleton from her second life, fusing it with the living body from her first.

Partner’s soul—sealed inside Annette’s curse—screamed in complete turmoil.

But gradually the curse was assimilated, and Partner’s soul merged fully with Maria’s body.

Within their shared consciousness, Partner wept in an endless black abyss.

"I’ll never be able to be myself..."

"I am just her skeleton..."

"I am not truly my own self..."

"What can I be? Who am I?"

"I... was only born because she died..."

"I’m nothing but a skeleton... bones..."

Partner tormented herself relentlessly.

These were her deepest insecurities.

She had always displayed great pride in being a skeleton.

But it was all a facade.

She felt frustrated.

Afraid.

She didn’t want to be a skeleton.

She didn’t want to be just bones.

She wanted to be more than a byproduct of Maria’s corpse.

The more she thought about it, the more bizarre and disgusting it felt.

Even after having her daughter and loving her so deeply, the self-loathing remained.

"Partner..."

"M-Maria?"

Partner looked up and saw Maria floating slowly toward her, arms open.

Maria embraced her tightly.

"It’s okay..."

"A-Ahhh... I’m sorry... I’m sorryyy..."

Partner sobbed, but Maria refused to let go.

"Tell me now. Open your heart to me. What do you want, Partner?"

"I want... to be myself... I don’t want to be called Partner anymore...! I was created by accident... but I am my own self too...!"

"I know... And I’m sorry for not noticing sooner... You’re yourself—not my skeleton, not just ’Partner.’ Choose your own name."

"I... I want to be named Scarlet. I think it’s a nice name."

"I see! From now on, you’re no longer just Partner. You’re my beloved Scarlet."

"Really? But my skeleton... what’s happening?"

"You will be reborn from the stars themselves."

FLAAASH!

Their consciousnesses, bodies, and souls merged for a fleeting moment.

In that instant, Annette watched Maria re-emerge, radiating immense power!

She now possessed her living body from her first life.

Her skeleton from her second life.

And her powerful soul.

All fused together, overflowing with greater strength than ever before.

Maria had become even more "complete."

Beside her, countless stars aligned.

Ten percent of her Soul Realm’s resources were sacrificed to fuel the creation.

No longer a byproduct of her own corpse.

No longer merely a skeleton.

No longer "Partner."

She was...

"Come to me, Scarlet! My beloved!"

FLUOSH!

Crimson stars converged, and Scarlet was born.

Overflowing with starlight and ethereal blood energy, fused with Ki, Soul Essence, Dream Energy—everything.

She was a unique lifeform: Partner’s soul materialized and granted a new body through the combination of thousands of spirit and martial treasures.

She looked almost the same as before, but with longer red hair and larger bat-like wings.

"W-What is this madness?!"

Annette stared in disbelief, unable to comprehend the scene.

Not only had Maria suddenly grown far stronger...

Partner—or rather Scarlet—had been reborn!

Her long red hair flowed like a crimson nebula.

Scarlet’s body turned translucent, revealing thousands of tiny stars shining within her.

"Tsk! It doesn’t matter! Watch as your family dies!"

TRUUUMMM!!!

A colossal shockwave of void and death surged forward, striking Arthur and the others.

RUMBLE!

But!

In that critical instant, for just a few precious moments...

Arthur’s Formation held.

It resisted the world-ending pressure of combined void and death.

Those few seconds granted by their Protective Formation...

Were enough.

Maria and Scarlet drew swords from their Sword Soul Hearts.

Maria’s blade shone with brilliant light and darkness.

Scarlet’s sword burned red as her hair.

Their Auras fused into one, perfectly synchronized.

Not merely because Maria had reclaimed her skeleton.

But because their bond had transcended master and undead.

That bond had been severed.

What remained was a bond forged in love.

"I love you, Maria."

"I love you too, Scarlet."

In that exact moment, their Dream Hearts became one.

And their swords merged into a single blade capable of cutting through anything.

Void.

Space.

Time.

Matter.

By severing all of them, they reached another plane.

A beautiful realm of endless imagination, hopes, and memories.

The Plane of Dreams.

A single combined swing cleaved through planes.

Thus, this technique...

Was named...

{Spectral Ghostly Fist Art: Fifteenth Form – Dream-Soaring Blade}!

SLAAASH!

The world split apart.

Annette’s entire body, her formation, and everything she had built were torn asunder by an attack that originated beyond planes.

"R-Ridiculous..."

BOOOMMM!!!

A massive explosion erupted from everything being severed inside and outside her.

The damage transferred endlessly to her souls.

But because the attack was born of dreams, those souls took the full force.

And so the damage rebounded straight back to her.

"Ahh...! AAAAHHHHH!"

Annette screamed in terror as her body detonated thousands of times over while she desperately tried to regenerate.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Yet even now, her sheer relentlessness kept her clinging to life!

"Nnngh...! N-Not...! NOT YET!!!"

"If I can absorb my own pocket dimension...!"

"I can take in all the accumulated power and be reborn as a god-like being, heh... hehahahah!"

FLUOSH!

Annette unleashed her final trump card, fusing with her Dimension and every being inside it.

Hundreds of thousands of undead and souls merged into her.

All the dimensional energies—everything!

TRUUUM!

"She’s trying to become like the Living Nightmare Dimension!" Scarlet warned.

"Let’s go—we have to end her quickly!" Maria nodded, charging forward with her.

Arthur, Emeraldine, Arachne, Nyx, Laura, and Catarina joined them at once.

Their Auras merged, forming the Advancing Troop War Formation.

Catarina and Laura unleashed their combined Heavenly Demonic Dragon Martial Soul.

Maria and Scarlet extended their Sword Soul Hearts forward, becoming the dragon’s horns.

In that instant, their intent souls and auras became one.

Piercing through realms, planes, and souls.

An ultimate technique created solely for this moment.

{Fusion Form – Dream-Soaring Heavenly Dragon}!

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