The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

Klaus moved closer until he was right in front of Miriam. He crouched down and sat beside her, touching her arm.

He replayed the look he saw in Miriam’s eyes for a few seconds, but at every turn he took, he arrived at the same conclusion… She knew she would die, and she didn’t hesitate. That made Klaus look at her in a new light.

“Why did you do it, knowing you would die?” Klaus went straight to the point, not leaving room for doubt. He knew she had seen something and acted on it, but he wanted to hear her motivation.

Miriam looked at him and smiled. She may be old, but she still had her good looks. She waved her hand, and fractured mirrors appeared. On each display was a memory.

In the first memory, Klaus saw Miriam’s childhood. She was an unruly child back then and would often sneak out to play outside despite the strict rules imposed by her father.

The next memory showed her guilt-tripping her sister into taking her to a sword competition, where she lost anyway, and how she manipulated her sister into buying her ice cream afterwards.

The following memory was when her sister was knocked down by a car, and instead of helping, she froze in place, watching her sister die.

Klaus could see the emotions tied to this memory, and from that moment onward, all her memories were filled with bitterness.

Everything was bitter.

From the time she was abandoned to survive in a zombie-infested world at the age of 14 to how she had to fight for her life every single day just to stay alive.

Back then, she wanted only one thing—to visit her sister’s grave, say goodbye, and then end her own life. But even that was denied by her family.

So, for years, she fought zombies and monsters alike, all in the hope that one day she would be strong enough to visit her sister’s grave. It was a strange way of holding on, but she used it as her motivation to keep growing.

However, when she met Klaus, everything changed.

The love she had been denied her entire life was now being showered on her through him. From the memories, Klaus could tell that Miriam had grown attached to his mother, mainly because of how she treated her—like her own daughter.

Klaus saw how she became friends with Anna and the others. He saw how she became happy when she finally gave her heart to him. He saw how she accepted all his women and became friends with them.

Then, the true reason revealed itself when he saw her have something like a dream or a vision of Nadia dying during her tribulation.

Klaus saw Miriam remain in seclusion for a whole month, not doing anything. She was just waiting for Nadia to come out of seclusion so she could accompany her during her tribulation.

“I don’t know how, but when I had this dream, I immediately knew how it could be prevented, and so I did… What I didn’t expect, however, was how much my sisters loved me. Because of them, though I should be dead by now, I am still here… for now,” Miriam said with a sigh.

Klaus didn’t immediately say anything. He just stayed there for a full minute before standing up…

“Let’s start. I’ll have to create a new soul for you, and for that to work, you’ll need to give me the remainder of your soul,” Klaus said.

It would be a waste if he chooses to dive further into her motivation when he could just save her and talk about that later…

Perhaps over some hot midnight sex.

Miriam looked at him and chuckled. “You think I’ll let you hurt yourself? You’ll definitely be losing something big by doing this… I won’t allow it.”

“You don’t have a choice. If you die, I’ll lose my sanity, and a lot of beauties currently waiting for me will be very sad… So no matter what, you’re not dying today,” Klaus said as he grabbed her hand.

“Plus, I have a picture of you I plan on framing and hanging on my wall… I can’t tease you if you are dead, so I’m saving you whether you like it or not. And it’s not like I’ll get hurt doing this.”

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Miriam looked at him and sighed. “Klaus, are you sure this won’t hurt you?” she asked.

“I’ll be fine. The worst that can happen is me losing a level or two,” Klaus replied before taking her other arm.

“From today onwards, your soul is mine,” Klaus said before kissing her. Miriam smiled through the kiss, locking in deeper, making a mental note of how Klaus couldn’t hold himself back, and kissed an old lady.

She also planned to tease her with this…

A few seconds into the kiss, Klaus’s seventh core, which had become a sovereign core, lit up, and then *boom*—it exploded, flooding Miriam’s soul world with potent life energy. Soon, the shattered world was erased, leaving only Klaus and Miriam in a dark, empty space.

He pulled back from the kiss and touched Miriam’s forehead. In the next moment, she merged with his body. Klaus quickly sat in a lotus posture and began chanting strange, arcane words.

His sixth core followed suit, exploding and releasing its potent energy into the soul world that was beginning to take shape.

On the outside, Klaus’s face was pale, but not too pale. He was still hugging Miriam, who remained old, but Lulu, a soul cultivator, could see she was beginning to recover.

“Whatever Klaus is doing seems to be working… Sister Miriam is recovering,” she said, making everyone smile upon hearing that.

“Can you see what he’s doing?” Lucy asked. She was a bookworm, but she also had a habit of knowing something about everyone.

She had studied her sister and friends, so she knew Lulu was, in fact, the only one who could tell what was happening.

“I can’t see, but I can tell by how fast Klaus is losing his cultivation base that he’s doing something right,” Lulu said.

The ladies nodded. Klaus had entered Miriam’s soul world 15 minutes ago, but he had already lost two levels. However, Miriam was also recovering, albeit slowly, so whatever he was doing was clearly working.

“These bastards…” Daniel blurted out, staring at his phone screen.

“What is it?” Kilian asked.

“It’s the Legacies and their allies… They just released more photos of what happened and are calling Klaus a coward who chose to hide when his girlfriend was attacked. It seems they planned this well, considering they’ve already started evacuating Union City.”

“So they’re setting a trap for Klaus in case he comes for revenge,” Danny said.

“Yes. Since they used the Overlords not stepping in to stop Klaus when he killed the mercenaries in Union City as an excuse, they think they’re invincible,” Kilian said, clenching his fist.

They were all angry at what had happened, but they were powerless to do anything. They could only wait for Klaus to decide what would happen next.

Ten hours later, Klaus had dropped two more levels, meaning he had sacrificed four sovereign cores. This puzzled everyone.

If he was meant to exchange his cultivation base for her soul, shouldn’t he have regressed back to the Master Stage or perhaps the Grandmaster Stage by now?

But he had only lost a few levels, meaning a single level for Klaus was equivalent to a full cultivation base for someone else.

Monstrous…

Twelve hours later, after the fifth core was sacrificed, Miriam opened her eyes, bringing with her some changes that caught everyone off guard.

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