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

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My Origin Core shatteerd, it hurt, like nothing I've ever felt before. It felt like my very being was being deleted out of existence, everything about me was ending and disappearing. But I knew it wasn't going to kill me. I didn't foolishly follow the voice of a strange being that spoke to me without knowing it would work. After all, my Origin Core was already weird and strange, having melted and fused with the Fragments of the Evil God and more, it became something sinister and shapeless, not the beautiful white orb that it usually was for everyone.

And once it fully shattered, its fragments merged with all the materials I accumulated, and then everything melded together back to my Soul, my body. I had no flesh, no internal organs, I was nothing but a single soul, and to evolve, my soul itself was the one that needed to evolve and become larger and more powerful. Therefore, unlike the evolutions of other beings, every time I evolved, my soul would evolve too, reaching higher heights that nobody else could at the same stage.

And to further evolve I had to shatter the foundations and the core of my existence and reshape it. Transform it, remake it from the ground up, with everything I've collected. The Darkness, the Void, Death, Phantoms, Poison, Swarms, Lightning, Moonlight, Chaos. All these elements swirled and blossomed endlessly within me, like the beating of a heart. My entire soul gained a new shape.

And my Divine Ember, which died off, was rekindled, larger, more powerful, blazing with divinity. All the divinity I had, and the one I had eaten from my foes. Everything fused together, it felt like the birth of a new universe within my very soul, the immense, incomprehensibly large soul I now possessed, compacted itself more and more.

Until my new form, baptized by the Cosmos and the Void, was born.

My eyes opened, and I could now see everything.

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CLASH!

Jonathan's Divine Sword clashed against Baldr's overwhelmingly powerful Divine Golden Axe. The God's endless aura of divinity kept burning through the hero, his entire body beginning to burn despite his high resistance to light and his immunity to heat. It was a heat so powerful it ignored immunities and resistances; this was the true power of a Divinity forged within a fully created Divine Ember- no, a Divine Flame!

"Baldr, is there really no other way?! Why are you like this? Why are you all gods such heartless monsters?!" Jonathan cried. "I prayed to you for years, I was raised to see you and your family as our guardians and protectors…! Yet when I finally meet the God I respected so much, I only learn he's a psychotic?!"

"Bold words for someone that is slowly being cooked alive." Laughed Baldr. "We Gods have no qualms in showing what we are and what we want. You mortals should simply stand down and kneel. You're nothing, absolutely NOTHING!"

"You are not even a God either!" Jonathan roared, all his power erupted from his soul at the same time, his slashing attacks resembled an explosion of miniature stars. "I learned that you, your father, all the Aesir, you're fake! You're people from other worlds, Rankers that arrived in Yggdrasil through the Tower…! Ugh…! You're only pretending to be Gods, the only true Gods were the ones that existed in this world before, the ones you monster mercilessly killed!"

SLAAASH!

As Jonathan roared and spoke his heart out, he swung his sword again, Baldr attempted to block the attack easily with his Golden Axe, but was suddenly pushed back several meters, his Domain slightly trembling. Jonathan was using his same power against him after all.

"Tch, fucking kid. If they could bleed and die, then they weren't deserving of being Gods!" Baldr roared, rushing towards Jonathan. His axe hacked through the air, clashing against Jonathan's Divine Sword. Cracks spread through the hero's weapon, something he never thought possible as his Sword was made of Orichalcum and Mithril! His armor was already in tatters. "Don't you get it? As long as we say we are the Gods, then we ARE the Gods! We make the Rules, we govern here. In the worlds of the Tower, and even beyond, there's only one rule. Might makes right!"

Baldr kicked Jonathan in the stomach, making the young hero vomit a mouthful of blood and feel all his internal organs twist and burst. He was thrown away into the walls of the domain, feeling his spine almost snap.

CRASH!

"Uuugh…! Baldr…!" He muttered, gritting his teeth as blood kept coming from his mouth.

The God of Sunlight and Radiance appeared in front of Jonathan, his hands stretching into the hero's neck and beginning to tightly press them. He was going to give him a humiliating death by asphyxiating him.

"You deserve no mercy, traitor. I will give you a painful and humiliating death." The God smiled. "Repent as you slowly lose your breath!"

"Uuuggh..! Aarrggh…! Baldr…! You! Baldr!" Jonathan kept repeating his name, as if calling him even as he was being asphyxiated a burned by Baldr's incandescent hands made of burning sunlight.

"What?! Any last words as you die?!" Laughed the God of Sunlight and Radiance. "I am all ears, fool."

"Heh… Hahah…" However, Jonathan laughed as he kept coughing blood. "You lose…"

"What?"

Crack, crack…!

CRASH!

Before Baldr could even understand what Jonathan meant, his Domain gained countless cracks and shattered. The flames were suddenly sucked as a gigantic black hole absorbed it all. The God watched in awe as a monstrosity beyond his wildest dreams infiltrated his Divine Domain and completely devoured it. His eyes widened as he realized… that monstrosity was nobody else than Maria!

"BALDR!" With a monstrous roar, Maria's amorphous new evolution roared, her gigantic and long arms broke through the entire domain, her sharp claws tearing it all, as a gigantic black hole absorbed everything within her chest. "I'm here! Didn't you want to kill me so badly?! COME!"

"T-That's her?!" Baldr panicked, letting go of Johathan almost by reflex as Maria's tentacle-tail surged from her amorphous body, resembling a mass of materialized Void and Darkness, piercing Baldr's chest and dragging him towards her endlessly spiraling maws.

"AAAGGGHHH!"

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