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

Chapter 828 Confronting The Vampires

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Once Maria arrived at the scene with the rest of her large group, which even included the younglings that she didn't wanted to involve into this if necessary, they decided to infiltrate the laboratory of the Vampires. 

By using her Shadows as a special world by itself, she quickly brought everyone with them, as she sneakily entered the Laboratory, grabbing every vampire she found into her shadows, and also stealing everything she saw, storing it inside of her inventory.

"W-What's going on- Argh!"

"E-Eh?! We've been dragged?!"

"Dammit!"

"F-Fight!"

The Vampires working inside the laboratory deserved no mercy, especially because of all the things they've been doing here, experimenting with little and innocent children to achieve their goals was the most despicable thing Maria could imagine.

Because they were quite weak at B Rank and didn't gave much EXP, she let Catarina, Silva, Fabian, and Nyx to take care of them while in the shadow world. She allowed them to move and use abilities even while being trapped, to help them train their skills and magic against foes that could fight back.

Nyx easily overwhelmed the B Rank Vampires with ease, her fists pierced their chests and her Phantasmal Flames burned their souls painfully, her claws could easily cut down even A Rank monsters and even S Ranks would be damaged by her blows even when she was still B Rank herself.

"Hehehe, it's not that hard!" Nyx said pridefully, as she ordered a swarm of Phantom Dragons to devour the soul of a Vampire that had tried to bite her little face.

"H-How can this happen?!" The Vampire screamed. "Just who are you?!"

He desperately fought like everyone else but was taken down quite easily as Nyx's summons ate him alive. This time, because they were inside of Maria's Shadow Realm, their souls couldn't be stolen from her, and she dedicated herself to munch on them and learn their memories. Of course, she saved a few to raise them into Vampire Zombies.

"You guys are quite tough; this is the perfect time for training!" Catarina smiled defiantly, still having yet to reach S Rank, she had just recently evolved into an A Rank Vampire Zombie Warrior Queen.

Leading Silva and Fabian to fight using their abilities against the Vampires, she weakened the Vampires using her powerful Blood Magic and Blood Demon Fist Techniques, using her powerful muscles to crush their bones and weaken their regeneration by sucking their vampire blood out of their bodies, which Maria was storing in bottles in the side to feed Partner, who after becoming S Rank, had become even more bloodthirsty for "quality blood" and was growing tired of Frost Monsters blood.

"You damn red eyed bastards! All of you that worked here, you made our lives so miserable! Even if I am a weakling, I'll make sure to be the one that takes your lives!" Fabian was really pissed off, as he used his Stone Magic, his specialty, imbued with the power of the Chaos Element from the Miasma inside of his Demonite Heart Core. "[Demon Crystal Magic]: [Demonite Spears]!"

Summoning huge spears of sharp black Demonite, he pierced their bodies while the Vampires desperately attempted to attack him with their sharp claws and blood magic.

"Graaaagh!"

CRASH! 

"Y-You damn child…!"

CRASH! 

"You're nothing but… a guinea pig!"

CRAAASH! 

The unique Demonite Spears pierced their hearts before exploding into small crystal particles, that then dissipated into thin air, they seemed to not create contamination, interestingly enough.

Fabian seemed to remember many of these faces as he helped Catarina, Nyx, and Silva on killing them. Recalling how they laughed at his misfortune, how they tortured the children, how they used to bite their arms and take blood out of nowhere from them…

They were all despicable beasts, completely different from the "good vampires" like Catarina and Partner, who were so much different… 

Fabian knew their differences and couldn't simply call all Vampires as evil bloodthirsty monsters, some of them were helping him right now, as a matter of fact. 

However, that didn't meant he couldn't avenge all those fallen friends against the true culprits right here, because by giving a few Memory checks, it became clear to Maria that these Vampires were all really, really evil, almost cartoonishly evil.

"Are you okay, Fabian?" Silva asked, touching his shoulder.

"Hahh… Hahhh… Y-Yeah…" Sighed Fabian, gasping for air after having spent most of his energies. "It's just… I'm a bit tired, that's all."

"Here, I think this might help?" Silva wondered innocently, her powers suddenly condensing into a black light encompassing Fabian's body.

FLAAASH!

"E-Eh? My Demonic Energy's regenerated? And my exhaustions gone too…" Fabian was surprised.

"She doesn't got much in the offensive department, but this girl has a lot of supportive and healing spells that revolve around Miasmic and Chaos Elements, it is honestly quite fascinating that such powers can emerge even from such destructive attributes." Emeraldine was analyzing the battle from the side.

"I need to get stronger too!" Silva said. "I-I want to accompany everyone… further from here as well… I want to find mama; she came from a faraway place!"

"But didn't you said she died?" Asked Catarina.

"S-She did, I think… But I still don't know for sure! I want to learn… If she's alright, or not. I want to find out, so I can be at ease…" Silva sighed, holding a little black knife Maria had crafted for her.

"Then if you really want to come with us, you better fight and earn yourselves some levels! Here's even more Vampires incoming!" Maria said, as more Vampires dropped from the shadow realm's skies.

"Graaah?!"

"What the fuck?!"

"Where are we?! Hisss!"

"Humans?! No… kids?!"

"W-What in the world?!"

There were over twenty more Vampires now, and they kept coming, Maria seems to have stumbled across a few passages with tons of them.

"Alright, dear, if you really want to stick with us and see the end of this… You better wield that knife as well." Catarina smiled back at Silva. "Let's do this. I'll weaken then, you stab them!"

"O-Okay!" Silva was filled with the conviction to find her mother.

"Hah, I might as well help, I could end up sticking around too, never liked Ruby Palace anyways." Fabian smiled, summoning more Demonite Crystal Spears.

"Looks like you guys have made up your mind." Maria seemed rather happy. 

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