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

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Maria's body completely changed. All her Body Skills came together at once, and her new true form was born. A tall, lanky appearance, as tall as the titans, but with an intimidating monstrous appearance. Long legs and arms, with sharp spikes growing out of them. Incredibly long fingers with sharp, venomous claws. Six of such arms, three long, tentacle-like tails, each one ending in a sharp insectoid stinger.

Her face had no facial expressions, mouth, or nose, but a single, huge crimson eye in the middle of it. Her chest had an endlessly spiraling black void, and above her shoulders, there was a pair of enormous, bat-like wings, while her hair transformed into hundreds of long, stretchable and incredibly durable black tentacles.

The moment she evolved, she ignored every system notification she got, using her new form and powers almost naturally and instinctively, she slashed apart all the surviving Divine Holy Light Spirits killed them on the spot, before eating half of them and leaving the rest for her family.

The second after that, she appeared inside of Baldr's Domain and easily broke through it, trespassing a spatial domain as if she was built for that. Her very existence had now become an entity of the Void, capable of defying spatial boundaries.

Her sharp, indestructible claws tore through everything, devouring and destroying Baldr's Divine Realm in a split second, before her tentacles were to pierce his chest and drag it out of his pathetic excuse of a Divine Domain.

As Baldr screamed out of horror and agony as his chest and heart were pierced, and even his soul was being eaten at the same time, Emeraldine and everyone else leaped forwards, rescuing the still alive Lucifer, Partner, and Jonathan and quickly healing them.

"You'll be fine now, don't worry." Emeraldine's healing divine spiritual light encompassed their burnt bodies, quickly healing them rapidly.

"Maria…" Jonathan looked in the distance, the monstrous eldritch goddess that had awakened was his beloved. Although he admired her strength and loved her, he couldn't help but slightly feel sad. "Look how the world has shaped you… My dear Maria…"

"What the fuck are you?! GET AWAY FROM ME!"

Baldr screamed as he swung his axe, trying to cut Maria's tentacle-tail.

CRASH!

However, the moment he tried to hack through her "flesh", the axe gained countless cracks and shattered into pieces.

"W-Wha…?!"

His eyes were even more filled in disbelief when he realized that no matter what he tried, he was completely trapped within Maria's grasp. Her long fingers quickly grasping him, tearing his arms apart and then his legs.

"GYYAAAGGGH! STOP! STOOOP!"

As Baldr agonized, Maria only laughed. Her jaws, which were actually in her chest, opened up as they started syphoning away all of his Divinity, making her become stronger. Baldr desperately tried to summon the Domain again and trap Maria within a Domain of pure flames and sunlight, and he succeed, partially.

FLASH!

However, Maria felt no struggle. Her dark body was unaffected. It seemed as if flames couldn't even burn her anymore. And she was so deep black that the light wasn't reflected, it was somehow absorbed by her dark body, nullifying it even as it carried divinity.

"W-What have you become? Are you truly her?! ARE YOU TRULY HER AND NOT SOMETHING ELSE?!"

Baldr started going insane, beams after beams of sunlight were fired against Maria. But her charcoal black skin reflected all the light back to him, as beams of all-consuming miasmic chaotic void, which started melting Baldr's entire body.

"Do you realize how fucked you are?" Maria asked to his mind.

"N-Noooo! NOOO!" Baldr kept screaming, in disbelief. "I wasn't supposed to- URGH…! I was supposed to win! You're weak to light! You are an Undead, you're supposed to-"

"I am no longer an Undead." Maria's monstrous voice made Baldr's very existence shake.

"What?!" Baldr muttered, vomiting blood as his very existence was being devoured by the void.

"I have become the Void." Maria answered. "Chaos, Death, and Darkness."

"T-That's…" Baldr muttered. "No, that's impossible, you can't simply…!"

"I was born to set things right." Maria continued speaking, ignoring him. "I was born to make you realize the wrongs of your actions. You and every Aesir that is in fault of these things. You're all going to die painfully. Your days at the pinnacle will end, soon."

"N-No, you're lying… You simply can't… We are the glorious Aesir- I…!"

CRUNCH!

Baldr realized he couldn't speak anymore, as Maria's enormous maws devoured his head, and then the rest of his body was triturated and swallowed, completely assimilated. Maria's hands opened, bright golden light and sunlight surging from them, which then slowly turned black and gray in color.

"Baldr, your power is mine now." Maria spoke with an almost emotionless and all-powerful authority, she looked into the skies as the Domain slowly dissipated, the peace was finally back. Yet Maria… felt too different now. "Odin, I'm going to kill you very soon, please, sit down and relax until then."

The Heavens trembled. Odin and the other Aesir Gods felt the same dread that Baldr felt when he died. Maria not only did eat him, but she also tapped into the connection he possessed with the other gods through their Divine Souls. Using that, she transferred the same agony and pain Baldr felt when he died to all of them, even Odin was unable to completely negate that strange effect.

Some of the weaker and younger Gods started vomiting right there, feeling nausea after experiencing Baldr's agonizing death. Odin's face, however, grew paler. His rage was still there, boiling inside. But he had grown paler. There was a strong hint of tremendous fear within him, which although he didn't want to accept, was lingering within him.

"What have we created?" He muttered to himself. "This is… We made this happen, this is…"

Was he showing regret? Or perhaps, was this thought simply fueled by his own mistakes? Odin couldn't help but think of many things as he finally realized he fucked up.

Oceania and Baldr were dead.

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