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



After showing the pieces of the crown to the King and the Queen, their reaction was beyond what I had originally expected, like, completely!

"T-The lost crown of Atlantis, that's...!" muttered the King, looking at the pieces in disbelief. "I can't believe it! Are they real?! T-These are truly real! Oh... By the Sea Mother!"

"I-I can't believe it, just where have you found this, Maria?!" the Queen asked me. "T-These fragments... Y-You see, this artifact... well..."

"What's wrong? So you know about it!" I said. "Can you tell me what exactly is?"

The two looked at one another, still surprised.

"The thing is... the crown is supposed to have been destroyed long ago, not a single piece left," the king stated.

Huh? How is that possible? I mean, completely destroyed to the point absolutely nothing was left behind...

"How did this happen?" wondered Emeraldine. "S-Sorry for butting in, but I am quite interested now..."

"Me too, I'm wondering what the crown did to deserve such a fate..." Lucifer nodded.

"Well, we shall explain it," sighed the King.

"This is some old tale, of long ago, when our tribe had just arrived in the world of Yggdrasil," said the Queen.

"It was said that Priestess Naiad possessed the power of the Crown of Atlantis, an artifact gifted to her by a King from Atlantis, her father, long ago," the King said.

"The crown had the power to open a gate directly to the world of Atlantis, it was a way for her to come back home," said the Queen.

So that's how it is...

"But why was it destroyed?" wondered my daughter Nyx.

"Yeah?" Arachne asked.

"Well, it happened in the battle against the King of the Depths," said the King. "Using his powers, he destroyed the crown completely, leaving nothing but ashes."

"Naiad lamented the only thing that could have brought her back home, but never regretted her decision of coming to Yggdrasil's seas," said the Queen.

"T-This is why we are so surprised you found two fragments of it!" the King said. "I've been using Appraisal on it all this time and it certainly seems to be the legit thing!"

"But how did you find it? Were the tales of old false and the crown was instead only broken?" the Queen wondered. "And where did you find it, Maria?"n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Hmm, I can't say that for now," I said.

After all, they're Quest Rewards, if I spill the beans right now, wouldn't that be a bit too hard to believe?

"But I can say that I might be able to get the third and last part once we go fight the King of the Depths..." I said. "So I was thinking what to do with it, if its truly a tool to help you go back to your home world..."

"Ah, no, please, we don't really mind it if you keep it," the King smiled, nodding.

"That's right!" the Queen agreed. "It would be a good gift for all of you after all. It has been thousands of years since our tribe arrived in Yggdrasil, and we know very little of Atlantis ourselves. This is our home world, and these seas are what we've always known since we were born."

"Indeed, it would be weird for us to go back there... Also, they had ran away in the first place because of the many wars," sighed the King. "We would rather stay in these peaceful oceans, to be honest."

"Hahah... I suppose," I laughed a bit. "Then I'll keep it, I might eventually take a trip there then..."

Celes is the reincarnation of Naiad, and Naiad was the priestess of the Mother Sea, apparently, daughter of one of the Kings of Atlantis, no less.

Perhaps... if that King is long-lived and still alive, he could probably recognize within Celes the soul of his daughter?

Or maybe not and it's just weird and doesn't matter.

Well, whatever the case, I want to visit that nautical world and see how it is.

If its truly just an endless ocean with islands, it sounds really fun, we could be pirates for a bit and everything...

"Well thanks for telling us about that, I guess I've learned more than I imagined..." I nodded. "No problem, now, let us enjoy the meal we have here," the King smiled.

"Our chefs worked very hard for it! Please enjoy it, everyone!" the Queen said.

And we did, the food was really delicious and varied, the amount of seafood we were ingesting was tremendous. And so many preparations and plates we've never seen before too.

However, after this little trip, we might get really tired of it eventually, and we might not want more seafood for a while, I believe...

Once we finished our meals, we decided to have a trip around the city, while helping the people in anything they needed.

Well, it wasn't my idea! I am not that goody two shoes to do so much good for random people, but Emeraldine and my daughter insisted on wanting to help.

And then Nia agreed, and then Celes, and then the rest of the kids, and Jonathan... Partner and Lucifer were more like me though, just on their own and without the intention to help every in

every single thing.

However, everyone else is very heroic, and I believe Nyx and even Arachne are like this! Well, I guess... it's fine, right? As long as we have the power, and it doesn't really bother us or affect us negatively, it's never wrong or bad to be a nice person and help others.

Most of the time heroes are criticized because of their self-sacrificing nature, helping others by sacrificing their own time effort, powers, and even money and life.

I suppose that's where the hatred came from, talking through the perspective of an avid light novel and web novel reader. Though, I also don't really like edgy, selfish characters either.

I just like a good middle ground that doesn't go overboard, but I suppose that's also too

perfect, huh?

Nonetheless, I ended helping the people rebuild their houses...