The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

Klaus snapped his fingers, reducing the remains of Aya Middlestone to ash. She had caused enough damage, and now it was Klaus’s turn to correct some of those mistakes.

From the memories he had extracted from Aya, he could tell she had wreaked significant havoc.

Klaus saw how she became an assassin and who had recruited her. She had been in college studying to become a surgical doctor when the apocalypse descended.

She awakened a darkness-related talent and an Assassin Class, just like her daughters. However, she never had the privilege of moving through the shadows as they did.

Nevertheless, after a certain woman discovered her talent, she approached and recruited Aya to join the Dark Order, where she adopted the code name Lady Death.

What followed was her rigorous training and testing phase until she became a fully-fledged assassin for the Dark Order. She was ruthless, showing no regard for others’ feelings. She killed without question, and for years, that was her life. Until…

Thirty-four years ago, she became pregnant and gave birth to Nuna and Luna, two beautiful twin daughters.

Then her savagery extended even further. After discovering that her daughters possessed a peculiar set of talents and classes, she decided to do whatever was necessary to control them, placing a hex on them.

Where she obtained it from, however, remained a mystery. Klaus could never see the face of the person, or rather, Aya had never seen the face of her secret master and lover.

Klaus tried to cross-reference their meetings to track down who had been financing her campaign to rise through the ranks and take over the Dark Order.

Yes… That was Aya’s ambition. She was aiming for the top position. She had already secured some allies and was even planning to break through to the Transcended stage, where her secret lover promised to grant her the power needed to ascend quickly and become an Ascendant.

It had been smooth sailing for her until Klaus’s name appeared on her desk.

“So, there were four Sovereigns, thirty-four Great Sages, 240 Sages, and 500 Saint assassins in the Northern Union,” Klaus muttered.

“I knew the data from their safe houses wasn’t reliable.”

The last time he raided their safe house and accessed their systems, he had only uncovered the tip of the iceberg. However, this knowledge was further enriched by Cynthia Ross who had a relationship with someone in the dark order years back.

Now that Klaus had access to Aya’s memories, he fully understood the kind of woman his mother-in-law had been.

“Damn, Mother-in-law was a wild one back in the day,” Klaus said with a grin, already imagining how he would use this information to tease her.

“That being said, there are now only three Sovereigns, 24 Great Sages, 170 Sages, and 430 Saints left to clear the Northern Union of the Dark Order.

Now, this is something I can work with,” Klaus said.

He had the identities and addresses of every remaining assassin in the Dark Order within the Northern Union. If he intended to eradicate them, he would need to kill them all, and Klaus was not one to back down from a fight.

“First, I need to get my affairs in order over the next few days and then scout these people to make sure they aren’t aware that something bad has happened.

If her memories are accurate—and they are—it would be another two weeks before Aya issued the order she had been planning.”

In her memories, Klaus saw that she was preparing to issue a kill order for his friends, which, of course, extended to Nadia, the fashion designer Klaus was fond of. He thanked his lucky stars that he had reached Aya when he did.

Although Anna and the others would be safe because they were leaving with him, Nadia would have undoubtedly been killed if that order had been issued.

‘Such savagery…’

“I have seven weeks before it’s time to head to the academy. I can finish this within the next three weeks so I can spend as much time as I want with Mom before leaving,” Klaus said with a smile as he leaned back in his chair. Your next chapter awaits on empire

A few hours later, Luna and Nuna returned, literally holding ice creams as Klaus had instructed them to. When they appeared, they looked at Klaus, seemingly waiting to hear something important from him.

“It’s done. She is dead now,” Klaus said, causing the two women to sigh, tears rolling down their cheeks. After a while, they calmed down.

“Thank you, Klaus,” Nuna said, dropping to her knees. Luna followed.

“You two are just being dramatic. I only did what I did for the information; you shouldn’t bow to me like I’m some god,” Klaus said, lifting them up.

“Still, thank you for breaking the seal and setting us free… We will forever be in your debt,” Luna, the younger, added.

“Well, you can repay the debt by going out there and living a good life for yourselves. You deserve it,” Klaus said with a laugh, taking the ice cream meant for him and starting to eat.

“By the way, where will you two be going?” he asked.

The twins exchanged puzzled glances, and for a moment, they didn’t know how to respond. It wasn’t their fault though — throughout their lives, everything had been about training, killing, and finding ways to escape their mother’s tyranny.

They had never had the chance to truly live. It was as if their entire existence had been intended only to serve as weapons for their mother.

“We don’t know where to go…” Nuna replied with a dazed expression. “Can we stay with you until we figure something out?”

“I don’t have any problem with that. You can stay as long as you want,” Klaus replied.

He knew that once he left for the academy with his sister and friends, Ohema would return home, and Miriam would enter seclusion to prepare for her breakthrough.

This would mean his mother would be lonely for a few months. However, if Nuna and Luna stayed with them, at least they would keep her company.

“Then we’ll stay there for a while,” Luna said with a cheerful smile. Klaus smiled back and resumed eating his ice cream. A few minutes later, Nuna spoke up.

“So, what’s next? Now that you’ve gotten what you came for, what is your next move?”

“I have the names of all the assassins and even a few influential people involved with the Dark Order. So, a week from today, I’ll start visiting them one by one,” Klaus answered.

“And you plan on doing it alone?” Luna asked after hearing his response.

“Of course. They’re just a few bugs; no need to stress too much about it,” Klaus said confidently.

“Can we join you? I know we said we wouldn’t work for you or anyone after helping you get to our mom, but since we don’t have anything to do now, we can help you take them out once and for all,” Nuna offered, and Luna nodded in agreement.

“Why not? The more, the merrier,” Klaus said with a smile, knowing full well they wouldn’t take no for an answer at this point.

This would also simplify things for him. Besides them, Miriam would likely want to join, and even Cynthia Ross would probably insist on being involved.

‘I guess we are in the endgame now,’ he thought.