Reborn As A Ghost: Time To Build My Undead Army!-Chapter 1907: Maria VS Odin [5]
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The Vampiric Curse.
The Wicked Abyssal God.
The Velvet Maw.
Sanguaroth.
An entity born in Umbralheim. From his blood the Vampire Progenitor was born—the one everyone knows as the Crimson Emperor.
The Emperor had always existed. Even the oldest vampires remembered him already reigning over the entire world of Umbralheim.
From a single droplet of Sanguaroth's blood, he emerged—an unparalleled vampire. All other Vampire Houses derived from his countless abilities, each taking only a fragment of his power.
They swore eternal loyalty and formed the Crimson Order. Together they launched conquests across countless worlds, seeking blood to feed their Emperor and resources for their own growth.
The very concept of "personal growth" was nearly nonexistent among vampires. They were beings born and shaped to devour and steal the achievements of others.
Sanguaroth created vampires to spread bloodshed and chaos, drawing power from the endless sacrifices—the lives his children had consumed since their origin.
While slumbering, the abyssal god resided within every single vampire. Their powerful curse was a fragment of his very existence—so potent that, until recently, it was believed impossible to reverse vampirism once inflicted.
This monstrous being, who had only ever deigned to speak with the Crimson Emperor, now emerged. Its aura and presence overwhelmed every vampire and every living soul present.
The entity's dark pressure warped space and time, instilling a bone-deep dread that clawed at every heart.
Yet Odin faced it head-on—devouring the monster while the monster devoured him in return.
It was a grotesque, impossible battle, shaking both worlds simultaneously.
Umbralheim had already lost over forty percent of its surface, all of it fusing into Odin and making him stronger.
At the same time, above the skies of Yggdrasil…
Giant black tentacles and hands plunged downward. Twisted, mutated faces of Odin began appearing everywhere.
Across every continent, above every empire, kingdom, village, and city…
These faces emerged, accompanied by enormous hands and tentacles.
And they all chanted the same word over and over.
"JUDGEMENT."
"JUDGEMENT."
"JUDGEMENT."
"JUDGEMENT."
"JUDGEMENT."
"JUDGEMENT."
"JUDGEMENT."
People screamed and fled in terror. Heroes and powerful magicians tried to fight back, unleashing skills and spells against the giant hands, tentacles, and faces.
But they dealt no damage.
As the faces, hands, and tentacles drew closer…
Their voices grew deafening. Agony ripped through the people.
"JUDGEMENT."
"JUDGEMENT."
"JUDGEMENT."
"JUDGEMENT."
"JUDGEMENT!!!"
Judgement descended.
Skin peeled from bodies. Bones pierced flesh. Muscles tore apart. Skulls exploded. Eyes burst and fell to the ground.
Hundreds, thousands, then millions died across Yggdrasil. Their blood and souls were drained by Odin, who had descended into utter madness, intent on devouring the entire world and everything in it.
Maria could feel it all. Her eyes widened in horror as she nearly vomited from the overwhelming dread. The negative emotions of every dying soul poured into her like an endless ocean of eternal darkness.
"STOP THIS! STOP IT, ODIN! YOU MONSTER! HOW MANY MORE MUST YOU KILL BEFORE YOU'RE SATISFIED?!"
Maria screamed. She gathered the dread, agony, and suffering of all the victims.
Hundreds, thousands, millions of tortured screams echoed through her soul. Her body rapidly grew larger, overflowing with dark energies.
"Maria's using the negative emotions from all the dying to grow stronger!" Lucifer said in disbelief.
"To think that fool is only making her stronger with this massacre!" Sirius laughed wildly. "We're drawing closer—get ready!"
"JUDGEMENT! ALL MORTALS WILL RECEIVE JUDGEMENT!"
Odin roared at Maria and her family. Hundreds of faces bellowed as tentacles surged toward them and thousands of dark red beams fired from countless eyes.
Maria quickly enveloped everyone in her Aura of Void. Using her Abyssal Shadows, Nightmares, and other elements, she wove protective armor over their bodies and enhanced their weapons to her absolute limit.
"FIGHT!"
As she roared, everyone clashed with everything they had—battling hundreds of tentacles, guarding against thousands of beams, and resisting the crushing dread that washed over them.
Maria opened a black hole in her chest, absorbing the dread to grow even stronger while teetering on the edge of madness.
"Hahh…! Hahahaha…!"
She laughed through tears. Her black void tear ocean became gigantic, surging into the sky like a nebula of black mist.
Her Nightmare Heart beat harder and harder. Her Nine Dream Ghosts suddenly began to multiply.
She was shattering her own limits. Her Consciousness and Soul expanded outward, merging with the world around her.
Yet even now the battle remained absurd.
Odin was monstrously powerful, attacking without pause.
His Gungnir had mutated into a titanic spear of gold and black pulsating flesh.
"FACE JUDGEMENT! YOU WILL ALL FACE JUDGEMENT!!!"
Odin babbled madly as he assaulted Maria. His spear released rays that disintegrated her attacks one after another.
"Nnnggghh…! Hel…! HEL! DO SOMETHING!!!"
Maria grew desperate.
Deep within the Underworld, in Helheim…
A small goddess of death gazed upward. She had already noticed the staggering number of souls flooding into her realm.
She knew something catastrophic was happening.
As Maria's pleas reached her, she nodded.
"I don't know what my father is doing! He's nowhere to be seen, but this world is about to end! Fenrir, Jormungandr! We must fight!"
"But sister, we are confined in this realm! We cannot leave!" Fenrir protested.
"Yeah!" Jormungandr agreed.
"That does not matter!" Hel roared. "Maria, open a portal to Helheim! I will help you expand a Dominion using a fragment of this realm!"
"O-OKAY!"
While resisting the encroaching madness and clenching her teeth, Maria fought Odin with her nine arms and nine swords. They divided into eighteen, then thirty-six, constantly multiplying as her form grew larger and larger.
Her body—fusing light, darkness, nightmare, void, chaos, and more—mutated and expanded monstrously. She struggled to hold Odin at bay while absorbing every drop of dread into herself.
Maria tore open space behind her with dozens of hands and sword soul hearts, creating a massive portal to Helheim.
The portal spread, warping the space of the Heavenly Realm and Yggdrasil itself.
A gigantic dimensional fracture formed. A massive distortion surged as Helheim began merging with reality.
Through Maria's Dominion—which expanded everywhere as she used her Outer God powers to fuse with the surrounding molecules—the two realms started to combine.
"What do you think you're doing?! Bringing Helheim here will solve nothing! FOOLISH MORTALS! YOU DESERVE JUDGEMENT! JUDGEMENT! JUDGEMENT! JUDGEMENT!!!"
"You're the only one who deserves judgement, Odin!"
Hel stepped out of Helheim, wrapped in endless death. Even Odin felt a flicker of fear at the sight of her.
She embodied the most ancient and terrifying concept.
Absolute Death!
She spread her arms. Billions of zombies, ghosts, and skeletons surged forward.
They were the Titans, Giants, Ancient Dragons, and Ancient Spirits Odin and his family had slain long ago.
"We have waited eons for this moment, Odin!"
"You will pay for stealing our world!"
"Thanks to Hel, we preserved our bodies!"
"Now that you have shattered the boundary between life and death, we will destroy you with all our might!"
The Ancient Gods advanced one after another!
"What?! You losers have come to die by my hands again?! GAHAHAHA!"
Odin laughed as he clashed with them. Titans, dragons, and spirits crawled over his gigantic body, wrestling his tentacles and tearing them apart.
"Long time no see, Odin!" Surtr, King of the Fire Titans, roared. He swung his titanic axe and cleaved through one of Odin's many heads.
"I hope you didn't miss us, you bastard son of a bitch!" Fárbauti—King of the Ice Titans, father of Loki, grandfather of Hel, Fenrir, and Jormungandr—stepped forward. He froze one of Odin's arms with ice and shattered it.
"There will be no forgiveness! We have waited for this moment! We will tear you to shreds!" The King of Mountain Titans bellowed. Larger than all the rest, he smashed his fist into Odin's entire body.
"GRAAAAHHH! DAMN IT! YOU DAMN MAGGOTS! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!"
Odin groaned in annoyance as he impaled dozens of ancient gods with Gungnir.
At the same time, Hel advanced alone—small as a speck compared to him.
"AND WHAT CAN YOU DO, YOU DAMN LITTLE MAGGOT?!"
"This."
Hel extended her hand. Half her body revealed its true form—rotten, dried, and mummified.
"Touch of Death."
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