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

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In this World, Dream Weapons are everything.

To become someone beyond a mere civilian, sheeple, you must awaken.

For that purpose, people must be put into contact with Soot, the material left behind from Nightmare Realms.

However, there's only a chance for someone to become a Dream Warrior, and although it is not the lowest, most of the time, people either die, get sick and die later, or become Nightmares.

Of course, Nightmare Realm Breaks had been progressively become rarer over the years as they had been controlled more.

With the surge of Dream Warriors across the glove, and the governments seeking to fight back against the threat of Nightmares, this academy was formed.

Here, all sorts of young Dream Warriors, with strange Dream Weapons gather to discover their true power and potential and be trained for the future and to protect their countries.

Every student has a unique Dream Weapon, with their unique quirks… And even when everyone is different, sometimes, they can look similar or act similarly.

Therefore, "types" were given to classify them. However, this classification system was deeply flawed, as it made students believe that because their Dream Weapon was given a single initial classification, they were unable to do anything beyond the Dream Weapon's primary function.

And that was, entirely wrong!

BOOOM!

With a thunderous punch, Emily pushed back Eduard, as the titan made of stone gained a couple cracks over his armor, although he seemed completely fine anyways.

"Despite your armor being made of metal, is it weaker than mine?" wondered Eduard. "Or am I just heavier? It feels like… like you're weaker than me."

"…" Emily remained in silence, glancing at Eduard's giant figure from below.

Unlike her, who only covered her body with a gold and black armor with sharp spikes, and didn't became larger or something, Eduard became definitely half as big.

"My armor works differently than yours," Emily said. "We are not the same, unfortunately. Your armor seems to be mostly a composition of stones which you add up… I'm guessing you can do this indefinitely, right?"

"Hahaha! Let's see if that's true!" Eduard roared.

BAAAM!

With a single step forward, he rushed towards Emily, swinging his massive stone arms, which suddenly became even larger as Emily noticed hundreds of small stones fly towards them.

"Just as I guessed…!"

She smiled defiantly, rapidly shaping the form of her fists into giant metallic gauntlets, the largest she could make, which were only around three times the size of her fists.

Then, by hyper charging her metal with electricity, she unleashed a barrage of attacks against Eduard, so fast and strong that she started grinding through his stony body.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

Eduard was unable to hit her in time, as his left arm suddenly exploded into pieces, falling apart to reveal Eduard's normal arm beneath all the stone.

"There you are!"

"Hmph!"

However, Eduard didn't talk back, simply exerting force as he waved his empty hand, suddenly Emily saw hundreds of small boulders rushing towards her!

"Are these the boulders that made his arm?! So he can just freely control stones too!"

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Each time they hit her they exploded as she punched them away into smithereens, but this was rapidly emptying her stamina reserves.

It was quite clear; Eduard was going to tire her out like this!

"That damn bastard acting like an honorable warrior, but he got some pretty nasty tactics!" she thought, glaring at Eduard angrily. Your next read is at My Virtual Library Empire

Then, she smiled!

She infused electricity into her legs, and then rushed away from the boulders as they hit the ground.

Eduard quickly attempted to make them chase her, but she was already right in front of him.

His eyes widened, as he quickly unleashed a barrage of attacks with his two arms, the one he lost already fully formed.

"You're fast, I guess that's about it, huh?"

"Is that so?!"

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

An exchange of attacks was unleashed as both armored warriors released mighty shockwaves across the battlefield.

The students and teachers glancing the scene were surprised by how strong they were, capable of withstanding, intercept, and cancel one another's blows!

"Eduard's a powerhouse of his own, to think this girl Emily can go toe to toe against him…!"

"He is indeed one of our most promising Dream Warriors!"

"He will be able to become a great hero and guardian."

"That girl, Emily, I remember she wasn't that good though, how did she become so strong?"

"She has been training diligently…"

"At the end though…"

"Yeah, she cannot compare to Eduard's might."

"He is tougher, has regeneration, and can control stones as much as he wants!"

"At the end, she'll get tired and lose."

The professors, who were quite ruthless in their words, already had given up on Emily winning the match.

And Eduard himself was constantly pushing her back with his barrage of punches and stone spears.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

"You're strong, Emily, I am amazed," Eduard said stoically. "However…!"

Suddenly, his left arm grew twice as big, resembling the hand of a titan.

"At the end of the day, my Dream Weapon is better, it seems."

The giant hand descended, overflowing with his Aura.

"{Titan's Palm}"

TRUUUM!

Emily faced the giant palm descending towards her, the electricity in her body constantly flowed, faster and faster…

Memories blossomed through her mind as she began to charge her fists with everything she had.

The memories of her family, of her life before the academy.

Of her life in Brooklyn, and all the hope her family put into her.

"Emily, you've got a talent, my dear." Her mother once told her. "Nobody in the family got what you have! You're special."

"We've invested all we've saved these years, since you were a little baby girl, just so you could go to this academy," said her father. "We know you'll make us proud, as you've always done."

She belonged to a poor family that worked on a small restaurant of Italian food, selling mostly pizza, she was a descendant of an Italian immigrant family.

She worked for her family delivering pizza and pasta around the city, while in school and then high school.

However, things weren't going well, not at all, her parents ended getting on debt because of their investment on her from an early age.

This was all she had, unlike all these rich kids…

Her family depended in her success, to get out of the hole they were, full of debt.

"I cannot lose, I'm sorry."

Her eyes overflowed with electricity.

"But I'm taking this victory! I cannot afford to get bad grades!"

RUMBLE!

In that moment, everyone saw it, their eyes widened, while some covered them due to how blindingly bright it was.

By fighting all this time, constantly unleashing physical blows, Emily charged her armor, which could gain more electricity the more blows she received or landed on a foe.

And right now, she released it all.

In the shape of a golden dragon made of pure thunder.

"This is my true power!"

With a roar full of determination, she swung her fist upwards, clashing against the Titan's Palm.

A massive dragon made of golden thunder rose, roaring mightily.

"{Golden Thunder Dragon Ascension}"

"ROOOAAARRRR!"

"W-Wha…!?"

Eduard was completely shaken, taken aback entirely.

The dragon pierced through his attack, then the rest of his body made of stone, and finished by opening its jaws, and engulfing him in an explosion of thunder.

BOOOMMM!!!

Every teacher that doubted her dropped their jaws to the floor.

Even students were shocked.

Eduard was left over the floor, completely unconscious.

And Emily, stood there, as the victor.

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