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



The gate to the throne room opened, bringing us to the huge room where the King and the Queen of Aquarose were. According to what we heard from the guards; they were hiding underground until recently.

The colorful throne room was finely decorated with all sorts of golden statues and also colorful furniture made of giant corals. There were also some paintings, I don't know how they did those underwater though.

The King sat over his large throne, beautifully decorated with bounties of the sea, such as colorful corals, clams, the shells of sea snails, and sea stars.

His bulky appearance and near giant-size made him rather intimidating, he was roughly three-meters-tall, with bulky arms and legs that were as huge as logs. His long fish tail wrapped around the throne room. His long blue hair and sharp green eyes immediately gave away he was someone of nobility, the golden crown above his head also... well, gave that away too.

He was holding upon a gold, silver, and blue colored trident, which exuded the Aura of a Divine Relic! Meanwhile, the Queen was much smaller yet not too small, she was still roughly two and half meters tall, with a much slender yet still big figure.

Her beauty was very noticeable, her gentle, pink-colored eyes melded well with her dark purple hair, her crown was golden and pink, and she wore a dress of pink and white color. The King was only wearing something around his hips but was almost naked.

People just don't wear those many clothes here, and it makes sense, wearing clothes underwater feels very annoying.

The king and the queen remained in silence as they analyzed us with their sharp eyes. Their presences weren't weak at all! They both exuded the Auras of S Ranks at the very least, if not slightly higher.

"Father, mother, we've returned as promised..."

"We present you the heroes that saved this Kingdom from the monsters..."

The two princesses acted very respectfully to their parents, despite being... well, their kids, I suppose the royal family of this Kingdom had some level of etiquette.

Their silence was only interrumpted by a sudden celebratory scream.

"MY DAUGHTERS ARE BACK!"

"I WAS SO WORRIED!"

Both parents rushed out of their throne seats and jumped over Aqua and Rose, hugging them both. The girls felt embarrassed, blushing while asking their parents to let them go.

"You don't know how much you made daddy worry, Rose, Aqua!" cried the King, kissing his daughters in the cheeks.

"Mommy was also worried to death! I'm so happy you're fine!" the Queen was in tears of happiness, hugging and kissing her daughters.

"Ah..."

We were left speechless over the sudden change of atmosphere. I could swear they were intimidating and everything, but they ended being very expressive... like everyone else in this city, I suppose.

"W-Wait, mom, dad, stop!" Rose cried, trying to fight against her father's hugs. "You're embarrassing us in front of our guests!"

"T-They're the heroes that saved everyone, please don't ignore them..." Aqua cried.

"R-Right!" the King's eyes widened, he looked rather clueless.

"I almost forgot, oh my gosh, silly me!" the Queen giggled carefreely.

What a way to kill their intimidating presences, these two are just as silly as their people I suppose!

The two quickly flew back to their thrones.

"Ahem! Greetings, travelers from the surface," the King tried to pretend nothing that we saw before happened. "Thank you for saving our Kingdom, we really thought everything was over back then... You came here like a miracle, saving us from our despair. If you hadn't arrived in time, I am afraid everything we've built for the last thousands of years would have been lost completely."

"You have our eternal gratitude," the Queen smiled. "Please, feel free to stay as much as you need to! We will also, of course, give you all a proper compensation! And thanks again, truly..."

They didn't look that emotionally impacted about being saved than to seeing their children again, maybe living as royalty has twisted their perception of reality because it truly feels like they're forcing themselves to act grateful...

Well, whatever.

"Yeah, let us introduce ourselves at the very least!" I sighed. "I am Maria, I've killed the goddess of the sea recently and inherited her powers, if you haven't guessed already. You two seem very relaxed, and only seemed to care about your daughters. Please think more deeply about what happened and don't take everything too carefreely."

"A-Ah... Wait, what?!" the King screamed.

"S-She killed the goddess?" the Queen gasped.

"Anyways..."

After I gave them a good reprimand for acting so carelessly and letting everyone else in my large group introduce themselves, the King and the Queen pondered more deeply about what I told them, and sincerely apologized.

"We are sorry if it was shown that way, we were indeed very afraid. It just that, we had an even greater fear that our daughters would have died..." the King sighed.

"After all, those two ended escaping our Kingdom looking for a person only talked about in legends..." the Queen said.

"Wait! You two ran away from home?!" I asked.

"W-Well, we brought bodyguards, so we thought it was fine..." Rose muttered.

"It's not?" Aqua wondered.

"Of course its not!" Lucifer roared angrily. "The more I learn about you and your family the more I feel like even I am a better parent. And you two, stop being such useless parents and reprimand your daughters for once! Without disciple you will only raise good-for-nothing freeloaders! It's fine to love your children! I love mine very much, but it is also important to teach them disciple and responsibilities."

"Y-Yes, we understand..." the Queen nodded. "We are sorry..."

"It's our bad, our bad..." the King nodded. "We will try to correct them from now on."

The reason why the guards weren't barking back at us for disrespecting the rulers was because they knew we were super strong, and saved everyone's lives, also after we explained we were all almost like Gods, it was easy to even reprimand rulers with ease.

"Rose, Aqua, although you brought heroes to save our kingdom, you've done something very bad, so you're grounded!" the King declared.

"ЕЕЕН?!"

The princesses were shocked that the reward they received by bringing the heroes was getting

grounded.

Well, serves them right for being liars too!