Reborn As A Ghost: Time To Build My Undead Army!-Chapter 1343: A Child’s Dream

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Francis glanced at the scene in disbelief, her imagination and her fantasies as a child fueled by the existence of something even she had given up on.

Her dream… came true!

Her father was back, as a snowman, just like in that tale!

It was insane, it didn't make any sense.

Yet…

Here he was, helping her, protecting her, saving her!

What was left to not believe anymore?

"IMPOSSIBLE…! YOU… MERE… SNOWMAN! WHAT… WHAT ARE YOU?! NIGHTMARE? YET NOT… NIGHTMARE?!"

The Nightmare of Responsibility continued growing more and more confused as it faced the overpowered snowman.

The worst part was that its space-warping gravitational forces seemed to barely hurt the snowman, who seemed as hard as diamonds despise being made of mere snow.

Just what was the snowman's secret? How could it be so damn strong?

Francis smiled, her words saying it all.

"He's not a Nightmare, dummy! I already told you he's a hero!" Said Francis with a confident smile. "He's… he's my papa! So he's super strong! And he beats anybody that bullies me!"

As she spoke, her belief as a child, her love, imagination, and innocence, continued to manifest through this land of dreams and nightmares.

The snowman glared at the Nightmare, its face growing angrier, as its body overflowed with a pink-colored aura.

"NONSENSE… CHILD… SILENCE!"

The Nightmare of Responsibility ignored the snowman, rushing towards Francis and aiming to stop her, whatever was going on, it knew that the girl was behind this!

"Uwah! P-Papa!"

Francis quickly panicked, her face showing despair.

And yet… the Snowman's eyes glowed with bright red light, answering his daughter's call!

FLASH!

With its powerful body, it moved through the snow, literally fusing with it, manifesting in front of the Nightmare.

"W-Wha…?!"

The Nightmare of Responsibility didn't see that coming at all, even less when the Snowman's arms came rushing down at once, striking its entire body with the power of a mountain-splitting hammer.

CRAAASSHH!!

"UUUAAARRGGHH?!"

The snow around quickly exploded everywhere, as the Snowman protected Francis, absorbing the snow to grow larger and mightier.

There was left a huge crater where the Nightmare of Responsibility was left, slowly beginning to stand back up.

Its Miasmic secretions wrapped around its body, suddenly forming dozens of arms.

"I AM… RESPONSIBILITY! I AM… THE WEIGHT…! THAT WILL CRUSH YOUR DREAMS…!"

"B-Bring it on!"

Francis roared back, as the Snowman stepped forward, its body having grown thrice as big, overflowing with pink light.

"Nyx… is she ok?"

Francis looked into the distance…

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Nyx attempted to quickly fly back towards Francis to help her, but the Nightmare that was with her wouldn't allow that to happen.

"SHYAAAH!"

Its two arms wrapped around her body tightly, and then started hitting her in the snow constantly, lifting her up and striking her over and over again, all while biting her and injecting her with more cursed venom. Even these simple attacks hurt much more because of it!

"Aaarrgh! You damn monster! Who do you think you are?!" Nyx screamed furiously at the Nightmare.

Her veins started popping with her blazing dragon blood, as her wrath and anger fueled its powers to activate, their blazing powers flowing through her entire being.

Her curse was rapidly overcome by her sheer wrath and will, as Nyx ended kicking the chest of the Black Nightmare and blowing another hole through it with all her strength, catching it off guard!

CRAAASSHH!!!

The Nightmare was sent flying, hitting the ground and shattering the stones nearby, its body seemed cracked, shattered.

"Who… Am I, you ask?"

Yet even then, the Nightmare slowly stood back up.

"I… am… the curse… of all adults… I am… The Nightmare of Stress."

"T-The what?! Ah! Francis!" Nyx flew towards Francis as quickly as possible, ignoring the Nightmare entirely.

"You're not going anywhere!"

And yet… her legs were pulled back, the Nightmare of Stress grabbing them with its bizarre arms, trying to pull back where she came from.

"Ugh! Again?!"

"You… must… return… where you… came from…!"

"Uurrgh! So annoying!"

Nyx roared, opening her jaws to release a dragon breath, but noticing that nothing was coming out, the venom was seeping so deep, sealing her powers.

"Aaah! I-Is this real?! My dragon… powers?! I can't use them!"

"DEATH… AWAITS YOU, CHILD."

The Nightmare reached the girl, its head, which was split apart, suddenly split even more, opening to reveal a massive fleshy jaw with sharp teeth.

It began to slowly move towards Nyx, aiming to bite her and inject even more venom.

"Mom…!"

Nyx closed her eyes, feeling powerless after a series of unfortunate events one after another.

CRAAASSHH!!!

And in that moment, something happened.

Something emerged.

Something descended!

A thing, a gigantic snow thing!

"E-Eh?!"

Nyx's eyes widened, as a massive dragon made of snow crushed the Nightmare's entire body with its weight.

"W-What the…?!"

The girl gasped, unable to believe what she was seeing… The Snowman she had built, the Snowdragon, actually, that she had built imagining how her "other mother" could have looked like.

It was right in front of her, looking at her with its crystalline eyes made of blue ice, Nyx gave one step back, although still wrapped by these viper arms.

Until…

"RAAARRRGH!"

The Snowdragon's sharp jaws bit through the arms, slicing them apart with ease and freeing Nyx from their injection of cursed venom.

Yet the girl felt so weak and tired, she could barely move anyways…

"Haah… Haahh… I-Is this real? Who… who are you?" Nyx asked the giant Snowdragon, who glanced at her while smiling slightly, as if loving her. "You're… there's no way, right? Was Francis' tale… real?! A-Are you my other mom?"

"ROOOAAARRR!"

The Snowdragon roared mightily, facing the Nightmare of Stress, which slowly started standing up again, its entire body mutated, growing several snake-like limbs from across its body.

Nyx slowly felt better somewhat, as her curse was beginning to be lifted the more she saw this huge Snowdragon, and how much it filled her with hope.

"Y-You can do it! You can do it, other mom!"

As she cheered, the Snowdragon's aura grew stronger.

"MERELY… A SNOWMAN…?! YOU DARE…!"

The Nightmare of Stress rushed forward, clashing against the Snowdragon.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

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