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

Chapter 1189: Q&A



"Most of you must already know this and already have one, but Dream Hearts grow stronger the more you defeat Nightmares and also by having strong aspirations, emotions, and bonds with other people. And so, Dream Heart Weapons grow stronger, evolve, or develop new abilities through this very development. Any questions?"

I quickly raised my hand almost instantly.

As I listened to the classes attentively, I couldn't help but end up asking the big questions.

"Oh? Yes miss Maria?" the professor asked, as the whole class stared at me.

"What's exactly the Soot? And where did these Realms originate from?"

After my question, Frederica's eyebrows rose a bit.

"I believe that's something that everyone knows, but! I suppose you want to refresh your memory for the coming exams, yes?" she asked. "Well, first of all, the origin of the Fragmented Nightmare Realms goes back fifty years ago, when the first one was reported in Dragon Country, which ended with the death of half of the population of the city of Shin Shanghai. Since then, Fragmented Nightmare Realms have appeared across the entire world, never-ending, they have brought both new dangers and also new opportunities to our world."

"I see..."

"It is believed that they originate from humans themselves, as it has been studied that these portals usually appear within densely populated areas, and that people naturally produce Negative Energy through a myriad of ways," explained the woman. "Usually, after a while, all of such energies condense and amass into a fragmented nightmare realm, encompassing the nightmares of the population around them. And this is where the Nightmares, inhabitants of these Realms, emerge."

"Nightmares?" I asked.

"They're entities born from humans' negativity, hatred, sins, and our inner darkness," explained the woman. "There are various types, from the Beast-type and Monster-type Nightmares, the most commons, to the rare Demi-human-type, Demon-type, and the strongest of them all, Divine-type Nightmares, with only two of them to have ever been reported in the entire world so far. These smarter Nightmares work together to actively destroy humanity, they often have psychopathic tendencies and do not answer to reason, so they must be eliminated on sight, just like any. They may look like us sometimes... but they're definitely not people."

"So that's how it is..." I nodded. "And about Soot?"

"Soot is the supernatural, or well, as some would like to call it, "Magical" Substance generated from the Fragmented Nightmare Realms, the longer these Realms are open, the more the surroundings are exposed to it," she explained. "People that is contaminated with it either develop a sickness and die, or adapt to it, absorb it, and refine it into Dream Power, which fuels our abilities and magic. Once enough Dream Power is accumulated... poof! Your Heart evolves, crystalizing and becoming a Dream Heart. And once you can grow your Dream Heart enough, a Dream Heart Weapon can manifest, born from your deepest desires, talents, bonds, aspirations, and dreams."

"Wow..." I gasped. "So we're survivors then!"

"Y-Yes, exactly," she muttered. "Maria, did you forget all of this?"

"Of course not! I was just refreshing my mind," I said with a noble lady-like attitude. "Anyways, thank you for refreshing my mind, miss Frederica."

"Heh, well, I'm glad I could be of any help to our talented exchange student," the professor smiled. "Now, students, open your books and go to page 36 of Dream Heart Weapon Manifestation studies. We'll be reading about the many types of Dream Heart Weapons and their purposes, alright?"

"Yes-"

The students all nodded and quickly opened their books, I quickly did the same, checking the pictures and everything inside.

We were really in another world, with their own history, people, abilities, enemies, everything. It was more complete than I could have ever imagined too!

I opened the book rather hastily, looking at its contents and reading along the teacher, who despite being cold, was rather nice when it came to teaching.

Nightmares, Fragmented Nightmare Realms, Soot, Dream Hearts, and Dream Heart Weapons were all unique to this world, and I can't remember any phenomena like this in Yggdrasil at all.

this means our current weapons, the things we carried along, they ended becoming our Dream Heart Weapons automatically, and were renamed too.

Also our powers have been condensed, and even though our stats and skills remain the same, and perhaps even magic to an extent, things feel... I don't know, assimilated?

Its like whatever power system of this world is, it has already absorbed our own powers and allowed us to have them back, but on the world's own rules.

It's not like we've grown weaker, technically, but our abilities mighty present themselves differently, if that makes any sense.

I explained this to my family as we read the books, most of them were reading with interest, although Arachne fell asleep during class.

"Um, auntie Maria, where are we?"

Suddenly, I saw Myconidas appearing out of my shadows, looking around the class.

"W-Wait, Myconidas!"

I tried to stop him as everyone glanced at me panicking.

"What's wrong?" the teacher asked.

Wait, she doesn't see him?

So he's invincible to them?

How is this possible?

Maybe unless I add "Soot" to him to manifest him into reality, he can remain unseen.

Well that's convenient! So he works kind of like Spirits, Spirits can't be usually seen either. But when they attack or do magic or something, they can be seen.

"N-Nothing! My stomach, ouch! It ached a bit, but I'm fine, thank you for worrying though, Miss Frederica," I said.

"I see, if it hurts too much, you should get to the infirmary, Maria," she said. "Anyways, let's continue on our classes, shall we? First of all, there are six main types of Dream Heart

Weapons."

The teacher started drawing on the board using her hands, it was a virtual board, very

amazing.

She drew what resembled a sword, axe, hammer, and spear, then a gun and bow, then a bookNôv(el)B\\jnn

and a staff, and then what resembled a creature like a monster, a shield and armor, and then other tools, such as cooking utensils, glasses, alchemy tools, and so on.

Hoh, this is pretty interesting...