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

Chapter 817 Exploring The City

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(Maria's POV)

Once we arrived in the city, the first thing we did was beat a bunch of Giant Sandworms that were trying to destroy the whole place. We were honestly shocked when we saw that happening literally out of nowhere, as if someone had summoned them. For a few seconds, it made me think there could had been some baddie attacking this place.

However, after encountering with nobody else than miss Catarina, who had now become a legend in the sand lands and a little girl that looked an awful lot like Ash and the twins, we moved to a much more peaceful and darker area of the city, walking through the alleyways by Silva's guidance while hiding our identities with black and brown robes wrapped around our bodies.

Ding!

[You and your Party have defeated [Giant Sandworm: Lv90 (B+ Rank)] x18 [Giant Sandworm King (A Rank)] x3!]

[You earned 12.000.000 EXP]

[EXP]: [27.000.000/90.000.000] 

Hmm, still not enough! Where can I find more of these wormy bastards to kill? They gave some mighty EXP! 500k each and the kings were 1 million each! Hot damn.

"Anyways, is it alright what we did? We didn't even talked with the guards about this…" Emeraldine wondered. "They must be confused."

"The guards? Don't worry about them, they're all corrupt bastards. They tried to rape and kill this little girl." Catarina said.

"E-Eh? So… I see." Emeraldine sighed, feeling a bit detached. "Then I shouldn't really care." She crossed her arms; her change of attitude was surprisingly fast.

"So what exactly happened? And why are you here?" Lucifer wondered, questioning Catarina.

"I can't be here now? I'm free to go anywhere. The desert was just calling me, the golden sands… The people in trouble, this is a place goodie two shoes like you guys never visit is filled with so much suffering. To redeem myself a bit for what I used to do when I was alive, I wanted to help out the people in need."

"How nice and benevolent of you." Laughed Partner. "Did you get the "Hero" Title or something now?"

"I don't think that's something you can get so easily, Partner, actually-" Jonathan was going to explain how to get the hero blessing but was quickly interrupted by the sound of a door below the sand opening, as the little Silva invited everyone inside.

"Here! It's in here!" Said Silva. "This is where my friends live…"

"Oh, I see! Souds cool!" Nyx said. "Like a secret lair!"

"You do get it!" Silva nodded, quickly making friends with my daughter. "Let's go inside, Nyx!"

"Okay! Do you have meat down there?" Nyx wondered, following Silva, and getting inside the dark depths without a care of the world.

"Dare to explain me what's up with that little girl?" Wondered Catarina.

"Let's catch up when we're down there." I said. "There's a lot to talk about, hahaha… So do you know this place?"

"Nope, first time being here too- I mean, I've wandered through this city a few times, mostly hunting down rotten people, helping poor people, the usual." Catarina shrugged.

"I don't know her but she's already sounding kind of awesome." Said Tear, giggling.

"I guess she was always quite the badass Vampire girl herself." I laughed, as we made our way into the dark underground.

We were greeted by what seemed to be the ruins of an ancient underground temple, now completely drowned in the sand, there was… sand everywhere, pretty much. Some spiderwebs over here and there, and it was dark and dry, my type of place.

The architecture was made out of black stone, which seemed to be a material named "Onyx Stone" and had quite the good durability, further information using my Analysis told me this place was called "Abandoned Ruins of the Ancient Gerophyteles".

And it was a Dungeon?!

Well, a D Rank Dungeon, so it wasn't much of a threat, but a dungeon below the city? That still sounds a bit dangerous… And these kids are using this place as their hideout? Damn, they're pretty cool, not gonna lie.

As we followed Silva and Nyx walking downstairs, we were greeted with many presences at the end of the stairs.

"Silva's back!" A kid screamed.

"She's back?!"

"Did she brought the stone?"

"What was that commotion?"

"Eep! She brought another girl?!"

"Aw come on! Another mouth to feed?!"

Several kids gathered around Silva and Nyx, quickly noticing Silva didn't brought any crystal, and then got really angry at her.

"You didn't brought the crystal!"

"Where is it? You never stole it?"

"Without that we won't have any money! You failed your entrance test."

"Hey, don't be rude with her!" Nyx said, stepping forwards. "Silva's hungry, do you have any food?"

"And who are you, scaled brat?"

"Fuck off!"

The slightly older kids tried to push Nyx away, someone tried to actually drag her hair down, but I didn't had to worry. Nyx was so durable nobody could ever move her. It probably felt like trying to push a wall.

"W-Wha…?"

"She's really tough…"

"Oi! Is the boss here already- Uwaaaah?!"

It took them a little while to realize we were all just walking downstairs, almost a dozen people at that! The kids started running away like little bugs when you lift a huge rock.

 "Hahaha! Don't be intimidated, kids, we're not here to hurt anybody. We're in your side." I said. "…I think."

"You're on our side?! Silva, who the fuck did you brought here?!" Suddenly, a kid around his fifteen years, probably the oldest here, with brown skin and black hair stepped in. "They all look suspicious! I bet we're going to get sent to the damn labs again! Fuck! I'm going to fucking kill you, you stupid brat!" The guy quickly ran towards Silva.

"Wait, please wait a bit." I sighed, using my shadows to wrap around his body. His eyes suddenly became red, as he tried to fight back using some sort of miasmic powers.

"Nah, that won't work." I laughed. "Anyways, calm down, I said we're in your side. Now tell me more about these "labs"…"

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