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

Chapter 1169: Myconidas



Myconidas.

This little mushroom girl... boy, whatever person, was quite strange.

First, they were made out of mushrooms, yeah.

Second, I could tell they had a powerful, very powerful Divine Ember!

However, somehow, they had no idea how to use their powers and were absolutely not developing any since their conception.

And also they're quite cocky, and baby-like, despite being thousands of years old.

"Nooooo! Hel-sama! Don't leave me behind! Don't kick me out! Buuaaaah! I promise I'll get better and stronger!"

They started begging Hel as they grabbed her dress and began weeping over her, leaving her completely covered in a slimy-like mucus made out of a bunch of spores.

"Myconidas! That is enough! You cannot continue behaving like a child after so long! You are already several hundreds of thousands of years old!" Hel reprimanded him. "I have taken care of you since your conception but... It has become quite obvious you're not suited for this place. Your growth is most likely related with the outside world, the surface, where you can find and interact with the living."

"B-But all my friends...!" sniffed Myconidas, constantly crying out loud. "Don't kick me out! I promise... I-I promise I will be better... Sniff. I just can't... get stronger quickly! E-Everyone has their own pace, right?!"

"Geez, Myconidas! That is enough! Maria is your new... master," said Hel. "And from now on, you're her responsibility, not mine!"

"What?! So all of this was just to throw me the responsibility of this... child thing?" I wondered.

"So mean! I am not a child thing!" cried Myconidas. "I am Myconidas! A mighty entity born from the corpse of Ymir! Learn your place, sniff..."

He kept acting cocky as he tried and wept like a baby, serious they got some issues.

"The corpse of Ymir?" I wondered. "So what exactly happened with that? Is that true? I remember hearing that Ymir and Tiamat's bodies merged with the world to...?"

"Yeah, part of that is true," said Hel. "However, not entirely. Odin has modified history and religion after all, making it seem as if things happened much differently than originally. Ymir and Tiamat did indeed die. They bestowed upon Yggdrasil their Divine Thrones and most of their divine power, and once that happened, their bodies slowly decayed over many years, mixing with the world. My dad was the one that brought a large part of Ymir and Tiamat's corpses, fresh from the making, to raise me and create the Underworld properly."

"S-So the Underworld didn't exist before, Helheim?!" I asked.

"No, it didn't exist," Hel said. "Death wasn't a throne before, it didn't exist. But once Yggdrasil gained authority and the throne of the world, they changed it and created Death, the only throne that could overcome all things, and then Destruction. Oh, and Chaos was made before too."

"So this world didn't had death before?" I asked.

"It had but it happened like it happens in other worlds without underworlds. Bodies just die, souls go through a period of cleansing and reincarnation," said Hel. "It happened naturally across the world itself, and they weren't teleported to an underworld. This entire place, it has been built inside half of Ymir and Tiamat's skulls, carved using their femurs, some ribs, and their claws and fingers... They were so tremendously strong that even their body parts could twist space and reality, forming a Realm of its own that become the home of dad and his children, us. Aaand that's where this little mushroom was born, Myconidas was the only mushroom to have ever appeared over the corpse of Ymir, a unique lifeform that I decided to adopt and rise when I was still a child."

"Hel-sama! Don't kick me... We're best buddies, right? Forever..." cried Myconidas. "I-I'll work hard for you... I love you! Buuaaahh!"

"Geez, I know we're family and all, but you have to grow, Myconidas!" said Hel. "I am sorry, but this is as long as you'll stay here. One day, when you get stronger, you can come back. I'm being rough but this is the only way you'll learn. I've spoiled you too much."

"Not fairrrr!" cried Myconidas.

"So he's a living being or a dead being?" I asked.

"Both, like your new body, Myconidas is both an undead and also completely alive!" said Hel. "A truly miraculous being. I often call them male, but they don't really have any gender... So just call him whatever you want to."

"Um, okay..." I said. "His origins seem pretty mysterious. Why couldn't the corpses grow mushrooms and such?"

"Their divine power was so intense that anything would just perish," said Hel. "Yet Myconidas appeared one day and only grew bigger. A being that didn't die against the divinity irradiated, and instead absorbed it to grow. An incredibly strong lifeform!"

"Yeaaaah!" Myconidas nodded, rising his little arms. "I'm amazing!"

Looks like they have completely recovered from their weeping after being praised a tiny bit, huh? How predictable of them.

"I guess they count as an Undead then..." I sighed. "Alright, I'll take them. I bet they just need to gain levels, and they aren't getting that in here where nothing is alive. After all you only gain experience points and level up when taking the life of something."

"B-But...!" Myconidas cried.

I extended my hand towards him.

"Come on now, let's go," I smiled. "You can call me auntie Maria, I'll take good care of you, Myconidas. There's a bunch of people that would love to become your friend."

"I don't wannaaaa!" he kept weeping.

"Hahh... Myconidas is a special type of being, my father once speculated he might even be a God of Yggdrasil as well, an unseen, mysterious god related to a Divine Throne that has yet to be awakened," said Hel. "But for that to happen, he must grow and develop. So, take him." Hel grabbed the mushroom boy... or girl, or both, or none, and gave it to me.

"Ah, yes..."

As he kept weeping, I grabbed their very light and spongy body, and patted their cute mushroom cap.

"There, there, calm down baby... It's alright."

As he wept over my shoulders, Hel told me something.

"Make sure to be careful with their Spore Aura, use some veil to cover that up," she said.

"Gotcha! Anything else?" I wondered.

"Nothing much than that, if anything else happens, contact me and we can resolve it

together," Hel said. "Now, off you go!"Nôv(el)B\\jnn

FLASH!

And I was finally back home.

With a cute mushroom kid in my arms.

"Woah! So many colors!"