Reborn As A Ghost: Time To Build My Undead Army! Chapter 645 Crystal

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In front of us, the boss of the dungeon erged… It was a gigantic Zombie Dragon, powerful enough to even rival the strength of Lucifer and Brunhild combined. The Zombie Dragon's body was covered on hard and colorful scales, resembling dark blue, black, red, and purple crystals growing all over the monster's body.

The Dragon's skull could be seen, and it lacked eyes, the crevices of its skull flashing with phantasmal blue flas, filled with feelings of resentnt, hate, anger, and sorrow… I could feel the Dragon's pain.

But when Brunhild and Lucifer recognized the Dragon's appearance, everything changed. We fell into silence, as we glanced at the scene. I couldn't recognize her, but she was nad Crystal.

…Or well, that was the na she had when she was alive.

"Crystal…?!" Lucifer cried. His entire body was suddenly paralyzed, he couldn't move an inch. His eyes seed filled with despair, as he started crying.

Perhaps seeing himself as an Undead didn't bother him, but when he saw the decaying and groaning body of the woman he loved the most… It must the most heartbreaking thing in the world.

"This… I knew sothing was up… This dungeon, this accursed dungeon!" Cried Brunhild, her flas flickering as she hit the ground in fury and frustration.

"Papa?!" Nyx wondered, flying towards her father, who was in tears.

Nyx looked back at the giant dragon, afraid of the beast's enormous strength, and its slow steps, as it made its way towards us… This beast was her mother.

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Maria felt taken aback by this revelation, as she didn't even knew what she could do to help everyone now. The Dungeon's Last Boss was the reanimated corpse of Lucifer's wife. Maria couldn't control it either, no matter how hard she tried, and every ti she attempted to glance at the undead soul, she would sense this feeling of dread like nothing she had felt before… Crystal's soul was either completely consud by this darkness or wasn't even there to begin with.

Maria couldn't tell until she clashed against the Undead Dragon and were to find out by herself… But things were only getting worse, the Dragon's powers weren't rely intimidation, it spread a powerful Domain that enhanced its stats and lowered those of its foes, it slowly approached at the sa ti, as if it was enjoying the despair of its victims.

"Crystal…"

Lucifer seed to be completely frozen. As he glanced at the decaying body of his loved one, he despaired. This wasn't how he wanted it to be… This wasn't how he thought it would happen either. He didn't wanted to et her again like this.

He had imagined her body had been buried in the mountain, and that was the end of it. He never thought for a mont that sothing like this could had happened to her… This Dungeon had the capacity of devouring the mountain's resources and energy, it even ant absorbing the corpses of anything buried in there.

The amount of Undead they fought was so large because they weren't simply the bodies of old dwarves that visited this dungeon, but also of other people that had rely been buried in the mountain long ago… the sa happened for Lucifer.

Seeing his forr wife like this made him feel completely despaired. It wasn't just because of the horrifying appearance her beautiful wife's body had now, but also that her very being… it was filled with feelings of resentnt, anger, despair, and suffering.

He could sense within her an incredible feeling of despair, like nothing else. The worst was that Maria couldn't do anything for her… Crystal couldn't be controlled by Maria's powers, and the only way to defeat her was by slaying her.

Killing the one he loved the most… He couldn't even imagine himself doing sothing so cruel. Despite the calling of Maria and Nyx, and everyone else with their Party, Lucifer seed incapable of hearing anything but his own thoughts.

Images of his life flashed through his mind, as he felt an imnse pain all around his soul and his head. The mories he thought he had lost slowly began to resurface one after the other after he saw his forr wife's reanimated body.

The first ti he et her was when he was rely a young Dragon, back in the past, thousands of years ago, perhaps. He was youthful and energetic, he was always going into hunts into the wilderness, fighting monsters and slowly growing stronger.

Because of this, he always ca back covered on wounds. Lucifer was an orphan dragon whose father and mother he never t. His egg was left inside a mountain and he hatched with the help of his big sister, a dragon a few years older than him that was always inside the cave with him.

She cared for him and helped him grow in his smallest of forms. However, as he grew older, he wanted independence as he beca rowdier and wilder, so he ended going off to another cave, to live alone.

His big sister wanted to take care of him forever… but she knew he had to get to live his own life as well. Ultimately the two departed, although she often ca to visit him once or twice a week, always bringing him company so he wouldn't feel so lonely.

But even then, he was most of the ti alone. He enjoyed his loneliness though, although his family seems to have grown away from the larger tribes of dragons, so he was unable to socialize with them. His sister was slightly the sa, more connected with nature, she rely hunted, ate, and slept.

Until one day, when Lucifer suddenly stumble upon a scene when he was looking for sothing to hunt in the Mountain's Forests. A smaller, crystal-covered dragon was fighting desperately against a fierce wyvern, and she seed to be losing despite her hard defenses.

"ROOOAAR!"

"Uggh! Get off you beast! Nnnggh…! Why is a wyvern this strong?! I won't be able to get back ho with sothing for my siblings to eat like this!"

She fiercely fought against the Wyvern, a powerful B Rank monster twice as big as her, who was fiercely slashing and biting her body while bathing her on blazing breath.

Lucifer quickly arrived, erging from the bushes and jumping over the wyvern, his powerful bite quickly tore through the monster's scales and then bit through the wyvern's neck bone, cracking it.

CRACK!

"GRYYAARRRGH!"

The Giant Wyvern fell into the ground, dead by the might of the young Lucifer. His wound-covered body surprised Crystal more than his sneaky attack.

"A-Ah! Another dragon…" She said, looking at him while still on the floor.

"Don't fight the things you can't beat." Lucifer said coldly, grabbing the wyvern by the neck and walking away.

That mont, Lucifer simply thought he would never et her again.

Yet…

"W-Wait, please!"

She followed him.

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