Chapter 1196: Fighting Nightmares

Chapter 1196: Fighting Nightmares



Right after Emily used her armor to fight against the Nightmares, the paintings right behind her started moving and talking...

Yes, indeed.

"ООООНННН..."

The paintings started extending out of the canvas, made out of spectral energies and swirling, chaotic nightmare soot, the creatures rapidly grabbed their own canvas and dragged it with them.

Giant claws of over three meters each started crawling over the ground, they were four of them all of them exuding a strong aura of Nightmare Energy, turning their surroundings black.

"Give me back my face...!"

Their appearances were like monstrous forms of the people in the paintings, with their lack of faces apparently present, and also the "grudge" of these beings.

"This is sure something..."

Despite having lived in Yggdrasil for so long I never had seen a painting monster, so this is pretty cool, honestly.

"GIVE ME BACK MY FACEEE!"

They screamed, opening their faceless jaws and unleashing beams of darkness against Emily, she tried to defend, but was blown away.

BOOOM!

"Ugh!"

Her armor was tough so she resisted, but her body was heavy, so she had a hard time controlling where she would land, ending up hitting the ground, shattering the wooden floor, and then hitting the walls at our side.

"I'm fine..." she groaned, falling to the ground. "Ugh..."

"No you're not fine! [Water Spirit Staff Undine]!"

Alma ran towards Emily, conjuring a staff made of azure metal and with a huge bubble of water on top. Then, the staff released a blue glow, as water encompassed Emily, a spiritual water that quickly healed her internal injuries.

"MY FACEEEE!"

The four painting monsters rushed towards us; they were definitely on another level than the Mimics because they could easily fire beams of darkness.

Strangely, they were particularly fixated on Emily, as if they had found her face as their target to their wrath.

"Don't think you can get away with this!" roared Sofia. "[Six-Winged Archangel Automata]!" FLUOSH!

Her Powers manifested as light emerged from her body, quickly taking the form of a huge, two-meter-tall robot, a machine of pure white and silver color, glistening with a smooth metallic surface.

Its two arms and legs ended on pointy needles, and their face was wearing a strange golden mask resembling a calmly smiling woman. The automata also had long; golden hair made of chains of gold metal.

Lastly, three pairs of huge wings made of blades of light encompassed its back, the entity, the Dream Heart Weapon of Sofia, released a powerful presence.

Though I feel a bit bad I didn't do anything, I better work a bit, or the tasks are never going to

get done.

I saw Sofia gathering black stones from the floor, which she called Nightmare Stones, they

were crystalized Nightmare Energy that can be used for a lot of things and are usually sold for

a good price.

"Anyways, shall we advance?" I wondered. "I'll summon my Undead to make things easier for

us."

I quickly expanded my Shadows and skeletons emerged.

I chose the human-like and beast-like skeletons of the smallest size, the place here was

limited.

I couldn't bring the heavy hitters for now, Myconidas was summoned though.

"Wow this is a big manor!" he said, looking around.

"Woah, every time I see her abilities I'm always shocked," said Emily, crossing her arms.

"Her Undead Summon is so cool too!"

"Yeah, it definitely is!" nodded Alma. "So many too! We'll definitely clear this on time!"

"Alright then, let's go!" I said.

We explored the manor cautiously, moving upstairs and letting the skeletons walk through things first. Traps were triggered sometimes, the floor broke, a huge hand made of wood

crushed them, and so on.

Eventually, the left corridor was unsafe, it broke down into a hole that led to the void outside,

so we took the right corridor, which aside from an arrow trap that triggered by touching the carpet on the floor, was safe.

"Alright, second room..." I looked into the room, peeking from the wall. "Hm? There doesn't

seem to be much of anything."

As I stepped forward, suddenly, everything came alive, chairs, tables, paintings, the damn chimney grew fangs and started spiting fire everywhere, and the books began flying around,

shooting slicing paper at us.

Of course...